Chapter 1 19 Journey to the West
« Where are you from? » the Patriarch asked. « You must tell me your name and address before you can becomemy pupil. »
« I come from the Water Curtain Cave in the Flowers and Fruit Mountain in the land of Aolai in the EasternContinent of Superior Body, » replied the Monkey King.
« Throw him out, » the Patriarch roared. « He’s a liar and a cheat,age of conan power leveling, and even if he tried cultivating his conduct hewould get nowhere. »
The Monkey King desperately kept hitting his head on the ground and said, « Your disciple spoke the truth. Ipromise I wasn’t lying. »
The Patriarch asked, « If you were speaking the truth, why did you say that you came from the EasternContinent of Superior Body? Between here and the Eastern Continent there are two seas and the SouthernJambu Continent, so how could you possibly have come here from there? »
The Monkey King, still kowtowing, replied, « I sailed across seas and oceans, crossed frontiers and wanderedthrough many countries for over ten years before I arrived here. »
« So you came here by stages, » the Patriarch remarked. « What is your surname? »
« I’m not surly, » the Monkey King replied. « If people call me names it doesn’t bother me, and if they hit me Idon’t get angry. I’m just polite to them and that’s that. I’ve never been surly. »
« I didn’t ask if you were surly. I wanted to know the surname you inherited from your parents. »
« I didn’t have any parents, » the Monkey King replied.
« If you had no parents, did you grow on a tree? »
« I grew not on a tree but in a stone, » the Monkey King replied. « All I remember is that there was a magicstone on the top of the Flower and Fruit Mountain,cheap aoc gold, and that one year the stone split open and I was born. »Concealing his delight at searing this, the Patriarch remarked, « In other words, you were born of Heaven andEarth. Walk around for a moment and let me have a look at you. » The Monkey King leapt to his feet andshambled round a couple of times.
The Patriarch smiled and said, « Though you have rather a base sort of body, you look like one of the rhesusmonkeys that eat pine seeds, and I ought to give you a surname that fits your appearance and call you Hu(‘Macaque’). The elements that make up the character Hu are ‘animal,’ ‘old’ and ‘moon’. What is old is ancient,and the moon embodies the Negative principle, and what is ancient and Negative cannot be transformed. But Ithink I would do much better to call you Sun (‘Monkey’). Apart from the ‘animal’ element, the character Sunhas one part implying male and one part suggesting a baby, which fits in with my basic theories aboutchildren. Your surname will be Sun. »
When the Monkey King heard this he kowtowed with delight and said, « Great! Great! Now I have a surname.I am eternally grateful to you for your mercy and compassion, master. I beg you to give me a personal nameto go with my new surname, then it will be much easier to address me. »
« There are twelve words within my sect, » said the Patriarch, « which I give as names. You belong to the tenthgeneration of my disciples. »
Mots-clefs : age of conan power, cheap aoc gold