Sun Ku Kong paused his story with sadness in his eyes but continued after a deep breath . As I was saying , I was crowned king . Just a few days after being king , I went to meet with the Monkey Kings of the different provinces . Being the strongest , and they wanted me dethroned and killed . I escaped , but their soldiers were waiting for me and attacked me from all directions . They broke mountains , cut down trees and dug the ground to stop me from reaching my kingdom . I fought the enemy soldiers with courage , but a huge tree somehow fell on me and I became stuck up there with no way to escape . So I held on , until the soldiers forgot about me . It has been 500 years since I have been beneath the mountain . Stuck and holding on !”.
Tangsheng looked at him and asked , “ Do you want to come with me to India ?” That ’ s how on the 31st December 1987 , Tangsheng and Sun wu Kong set off for Nalanda . On the tenth day of the travelling , they reached a path after crossing the Everest . A strange creature with a pig face and the body of human stumbled from a cave begging for food . Sun Wu Kong realized that it was his old friend Zhu Ba Jie . He called out to him , “ My dear friend what are you doing here ?” Tangsheng , witnessing this conversation was also remembering the pig man from the stories of his great-grandfather .
Zhu Ba Jie was happy to see his old friend Sun and replied to his question with tears in his eyes . When your enemies couldn ’ t find you , they shifted their sight to me and captured me to know your whereabouts . They tortured me for years before handing me to Head Swipe for the final kill ; who set me free instead . I am hiding from your enemies for more than 400 years . Sun told him , “ No need to hide ”. Then Sun told him about Tangsheng ' s desire of becoming a monk . Sun ' s thought of serving in the Buddha temple and Tangsheng ' s desire of becoming monk impressed Zhu , and he became the third traveler .
On the way to Nalanda all three travelers received mixed responses from the villagers , they were detained by border security , survived cold storms , and heavy snow falls . They fought with Himalayan wolves . They walked through icy paths and through dark caves ; all this to reach the Buddhist temples of Nalanda on the 31 st March 1988 . All of them broke into tears . They forgot the restless days as the songs of the monks chanting sounded like words of the mother . With great dedication , Tangsheng became a Buddhist monk who travels the world to spread Buddhism . Sun Wu Kong and Zhu Ba Jie will spend their immortal lives in serving Buddha and the monks in Nalanda .