Origins of the One King
Island School , Wu , Evan - 14
I t has been 500 years , 500 years too long that I have been away from my freedom and mischief . I do not remember anything anymore at this point . It was originally hate and anger towards the gods and the heavens , but now it is just plain emptiness , all my hate and anger has transformed into a bottomless void . I don ’ t even know how much I hate them at this point .
I should have been the king of them all , with all the gods and the heavens under my feet . How dare they treat me as if I was some low-class warrior ? I have defeated everyone in Heaven that was in my path towards godhood , the 10,000 Celestial Warriors , the 28 Constellations of the Stars , the Four Kings of Heaven and even the Lotus Prince Nezha . None of them even stood a slight chance against me . What could they have done against my Golden Jingu Bang staff , my 72 transformations and my army of Monkey Kings . I ’ m immortal and near-omnipotent , and they still think that I do not classify as a deity ? I will get my revenge on that wretched Jade Emperor when I escape from this seal .
But what is the point ? I will never be able to get my revenge . Because no matter how strong my powers are , no matter how powerful I am , I am still sealed here under the hands of Siddhartha Gautama . No one can stand up to the Buddha , no matter your strength , agility or intelligence , everyone and everything are nothing in comparison to the Buddha . There is no way for me to escape his grasp . I have tried everything . I ’ m going to be here forever in this cramped and dense space until the end of time . I will do anything for a second chance at seeing the outside world again .
That was when an outsider knocked on my mountain seal and spoke to me about some gibberish . I ignored the person for most of the time , because that is what I did to other outsiders who claimed that they would grant me “ specialities ” by obeying their orders . I don ’ t believe in such trash that putrid mortals say . Then the outsider said something that really caught my senses .
“ Do you want to have another chance at life ?”, the unknown person said to me . She changed her tone . I can recognise who the person was now .
That voice was definitely the goddess Bodhisattva Guanyin . She was one of the few people that worked under the Buddha ’ s foot . Why is she here ? But I will find out the answer to that another time . What she said ‘ Do you want to have another chance at life ?’, I thought about everything that has happened in my lifetime up till this moment in time . The monkeys that I have met with since my conception from a magic stone of the Elements themselves , the scavenging of my Jingu Bang staff in the deep waters of the ocean , the erasure of my name in the Book of Life and Death , the battle between what Heaven ’ s forces and I , and my imprisonment under Siddhartha Gautama . This was my first and only chance that I am able to get out of this bottomless pit and make my return as the rightful king of the universe after I am done with whatever Bodhisattva Guanyin wants from me .
“ Yes ”, I responded to the goddess on the other side of the wall . “ I will break the seal that the Buddha has placed on you 500 years ago and grant you your freedom , on two conditions ”, she spoke .
I winced when she said ‘ two conditions ’. I should have known that not even a piece of paper that mortals use as money comes for free in this world , let alone my freedom from this everlasting hell .
“ The first condition is that , you will have to follow a pilgrim on a pilgrimage . A pilgrim is a person that is religious and a pilgrimage is like a holiday to enjoy religion . As his disciple and guardian , you will have to protect him in his journey to discover another world outside China . The second condition is that , you will