Chapter 32: The Emperor and His Ministers Deliberate; The Three Corpses Discourse
Miro Palace, Tongming Hall.
After the morning court at the Lingxiao Treasure Hall had dispersed, the Jade Emperor returned to his usual place of rest.
He changed into a moon-white robe and reclined casually on a couch, carefully perusing a scroll in his hand.
King Luo stood solemnly beside him, waiting for the Jade Emperor to finish reading the scroll before respectfully bowing and saying, "Your servant thanks Your Majesty!"
"No need to thank me, it was your position rightfully due," the Jade Emperor said. "It is my failure that allowed you to be suppressed for so many years."
"Your Majesty, your servant deserves death!" King Luo quickly prostrated on the ground. "It is my inadequacy as a servant that has led to this, how can I blame Your Majesty? Moreover, this has also been a form of tempering for me."
"Rise, a dignified Lord of the Netherworld need not kneel like this," the Jade Emperor said with a light laugh, before pointing to the scroll in his hand, "Is this everything?"
"Reporting to Your Majesty, after much investigation, I have found ten years unaccounted for," King Luo said as he got up. "Sun Wukong spent over three hundred years wandering carefree at Fruit Mountain, then crossed the sea in search of immortality, traveling about Southern Continent for eight or nine years, and then over the Western Sea to Western Bull Demon Continent—there are traces of his movements during all these times.
However, not long after he reached the Western Bull Demon Continent, he disappeared without a trace, and ten years later, he suddenly returned to Fruit Mountain,
By this time he had not only acquired the title of Sun Wukong, but he had also become a Daluo Golden Immortal, and his strength was so formidable that even if the six top Demon Kings—Ox Demon King, Jiao Demon King, Peng Demon King, Lion Camel King, Macaque King, Yuantu King—joined forces, they could not rival him."