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Sun Wukong Forcefully Crossing Out His Name from the Book of Life and Death

🐉 Chinese MythologyFengdu Ghost City, Chongqing, ChinaSun Wukong • King Yanluo • Ten Kings of Hell

After achieving great spiritual power and immortality through Taoist practices, Sun Wukong is mistakenly dragged to the underworld by two soul-catchers. Enraged by this bureaucratic error, he rampages through the realm of the dead and reaches the Hall of the Ten Kings. There, he forces the lords of hell to produce the Book of Life and Death, where he strikes out his own name and those of his...