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servant and so are my monkeys what can we do for you? “ I am going to the school of the wise and I do not
anyone with me you are free and so are your monkeys” replied Xuanzang. He left without listening to the
monkey king. He again came to the Sea, sitting next to the Sea was a boat. He climbed up the boat and
rowed, the Sea looked endless he rowed and eventually got tired, he was starving luckily there were
mangoes in the boat he ate them and went to sleep. He woke up and noticed he wasn’t on Sea and he was
tied up and some giants were carrying him. He heard deep voices and he was thrown on to the ground he
was untied and in front of me there was a big giant sitting in front of him. “We are tired of eating
cucumbers now you have come and we can taste meat it has been such a long time since I tasted the flesh of
humans and drank the warm blood of humans”said the giant. “Please have mercy oh king”said Xuanzang.
“Fetch my knife and bring the friar and pig tonight I shall have a feast”said the king. Xuanzang saw a young
man and a thin pig. The giant raised his knife and was going to strike when his head fell behind him the
monkey king was holding a big knife angrily. “No one harms my master understand?”the monkey was
saying. The giants that had bought Xuanzang in fell to their knee and said please spare us. “We’ll spare you
but you must promise us you will never lay a finger on any being” said Xuanzang and with that he left. He
left the cave of the giant than came the ocean the monkey king had a flying boat with that they flew to the
next island. The Island of the lava king. They were walking when suddenly the ground began to shake and a
creature who didn’t have any flesh whose skin was pure fire. He looked down and bowed to their
astonishment. The monkey was preparing to attack. “I am your servant for your holy steps of wisdom have
walked on my land of fire all my sins have gone for I have seen with my eyes the one Buddha has chosen. It
is you who I shall give my heart the sacred red dragon to you as I know it shall be safe with you” said the
creature “who are you? And what are you saying me the chosen one?” said Xuanzang. “Yes. Long ago
when Buddha was alive he had known my father the than Lava king. He had given my dad the sacred red
dragon and told him to give it to the chosen one whose footsteps will wake me and I am the Lava King”said
the lava king. They reached to the school in India. The monk there looked at Xuanzang and told him he
could study in the school because he had killed the lava king but the lava king was standing right next to
them. “What are you saying the lava king is alive master”said Xuanzang. “Killing does not mean to kill the
body it means to to kill the soul of badness. You have killed badness in the lava king and the thus fulfilled
the requirement”said the priest.
Xuanzang left the school after many year he taught the children of China an when he was about to die he
hid in a cave with the sacred red dragon and was never seen again. It is said he is still protecting the red
dragon.