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Sun Wukong Surviving 49 Days in Laozi's Eight Trigrams Furnace and Gaining Fiery Golden Eyes

🐉 Chinese MythologyMount Lao, Shandong, ChinaSun Wukong ‱ Laozi (Lord Lao) ‱ Jade Emperor

After consuming the Peaches of Immortality and Laozi's Golden Pills, Sun Wukong is sentenced to be refined in the Eight Trigrams Furnace to extract the elixirs and destroy his indestructible body. However, the clever Monkey King survives the forty-nine-day ordeal by hiding in the wind-protected corner of the vessel. He emerges with increased strength and the Fiery Golden Eyes, a mystical...