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If you will teach me in the fulness of your grace, I will be eternally grateful to you." Thought the Master to himself: "There is real intelligence in this ape's head, to have made him understand me so well." Then he replied: "Sun Wu Kung, it shall be granted you! I will speak freely with you. Come quite close to me, and then I will show you the way to eternal life."
Mu Kung or Tung Wang Kung, the God of the Immortals, was also called I Chün Ming and Yü Huang Chün, the Prince Yü Huang. The primitive vapour congealed, remained inactive for a time, and then produced living beings, beginning with the formation of Mu Kung, the purest substance of the Eastern Air, and sovereign of the active male principle yang and of all the countries of the East.
The Master heard the noise and came out of the gate, dragging his cane behind him. "Why are you making such a noise?" he called out to them harshly. Said they: "Sun Wu Kung has turned himself into a pine-tree, and this made us laugh." "Sun Wu Kung, come here!" said the Master. "Now just tell me what tricks you are up to? Why do you have to turn yourself into a pine-tree?
Then he shall die without illness." From this day on I will suffer no impertinences from you!" With that he cleared a way for himself out of the Nether World by means of his rod, and the ten Princes of the Dead did not venture to stay him, but only complained of him afterward to the Lord of the Heavens. When Sun Wu Kung had left the city he slipped and fell to the ground.
Toward the end of her reign there was among the feudatory princes Kung Kung, whose functions were the administration of punishment. The pillars of Heaven were broken and the corners of the earth gave way. Hereupon Nü Kua melted stones of the five colours to repair the heavens, and cut off the feet of the tortoise to set upright the four extremities of the earth.
We only saw him come and go amid clouds and mist." Sun Wu Kung said: "Wait, and I will see to him!" With that he turned a somersault and disappeared without a trace. In the furthest North rises a high mountain, upon whose slope is a cave above which is the inscription: "The Cave of the Kidneys." Before the door little devils were dancing.
Of course we were not permitted to enter the Chee Kung Tong Hall, however much we desired to cross its mysterious threshold. The door was well guarded, and Chinamen passing in had to give assurance that they were entitled to the privilege. On the night when the detective from Police Headquarters accompanied us we made an attempt to enter a Chinese gambling house.
A severe engagement followed, in which the allies were beaten, the only battle gained by the Chinese. At the end of a year another expedition with twenty thousand men went with the ambassadors, the forts were all taken, and the officials went to Tien-tsin. The force marched on Pekin; and the emperor fled, leaving his brother Prince Kung to meet the embassy.
Then the Master again murmured a secret incantation into his ear, by means of which he gained the power to transform himself seventy-two times. And when no more than a few days had passed Sun Wu Kung had learned the art. One day the Master was walking before the cave in the company of his disciples. He called Sun Wu Kung up to him and asked: "What progress have you made with your art?
During the whole regency of the Empress Dowager only two men have occupied the position of President of the Grand Council Prince Kung and Prince Ching. While the former was degraded many times and had his honours all taken from him, the latter "has kept himself on top of a rolling log for thirty years" without losing any of the honours which were originally conferred upon him.
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