After becoming the Monkey King, Brother Monkey enjoyed his life in Huaguo Mountain. One day, he cried. It turned out that he was extremely sad when he thought that Lord Yama controlled his life and death, and that after his death, he would no longer be able to enjoy a good life.
Under the guidance of Tongbei Monkey, Sun Wukong began his journey to seek immortality and visit the Tao. In the end, Sun Wukong worshiped Subhuti as his teacher in the Xianyue Sanxing Cave of Lingtai Fangcun Mountain and learned the skills.
For more than ten years since he went up the mountain, Sun Wukong has actually been doing odd jobs, and it has only been a few days since he really learned his skills. What skills did Sun Wukong learn? No more, no more, just three.
The first is the great Heavenly Immortal Art.
When fighting against the black bear monster who stole the cassock, Sun Wukong said personally, "It is really difficult to teach the great immortal skills without the foundation... three years without leakage, you can become an immortal body, which is not like the suffering of ordinary people." .
That is to say, the "Great Immortal Technique" taught to Sun Wukong by Patriarch Subhuti is the foundation for Sun Wukong to become an immortal. Of course, at this point Sun Wukong has not jumped out of the Five Elements, let alone become an immortal. It wasn't until he canceled the book of life and death and was named Bima Wen by the Jade Emperor that he became immortal and became Taiyi Immortal.
The second is seventy-two changes.
After learning the secret of becoming an immortal, another three years passed. Patriarch Subhuti said that cultivation alone is not enough. You need to avoid three disasters, namely, thunder, fire and wind. There is a disaster every five hundred years. If you cannot avoid it, you will die.
For this reason, Sun Wukong has to learn skills to avoid three disasters. The Patriarch told him that there are two types, one is the Tiangang number, which can change in thirty-six ways; and the evil number, which can change in seventy-two ways.
It is very clear here that Tiangang and Disha both represent quantity and do not represent strength at all. Sun Wukong was greedy for more, so he learned the seventy-two changes of the earth evil number.
The third is the somersault cloud.
After learning the seventy-two transformations, the Patriarch asked Wukong to try flying. As a result, Sun Wukong performed a series of somersaults. He jumped only five or six feet high, stepped on the clouds and flew for a meal, and could only travel three or four miles back and forth. What is this called Tengyun? At most it’s called climbing the clouds.
Based on this, the ancestor taught Wukong somersault clouds and formulas. A single somersault can fly hundreds of thousands of miles, and the speed is extremely fast. You can travel to three mountains, five mountains, five lakes and four seas in one day.
Afterwards, Sun Wukong was driven away by the Patriarch for showing off his skills.
After studying with Patriarch Subhuti for more than ten years, he actually learned these three skills, and it didn’t take long. Most of the time, Sun Wukong followed his senior brothers to learn language and politeness, and listened to his master’s lectures on scriptures and Taoism. , when they are free, they sweep the floor and hoe the garden, plant flowers and trees, chop wood and carry water, etc.
However, when Sun Wukong rebelled against the Heavenly Palace and fought against the gods, his abilities were far more than these three.
Judging from the content behind the original work, Sun Wukong also has many skills.
For example, external incarnation. Even if you can use vellus hair to create many Sun Wukongs, these clones can also use the golden cudgel and have the same ability. Sun Wukong relied on this ability to defeat Nezha, the Five Heavenly Kings and others. On the way to learn the scriptures, Sun Wukong also used it many times, but sometimes the number was not large.
There are also laws of heaven and earth. Just to make himself very big. When fighting Erlang Shen, Sun Wukong once made himself bigger. Later, for the plantain fan, Sun Wukong fought against the Bull Demon King. Because the Bull Demon King showed his true form, Sun Wukong also used the magic of heaven and earth to become powerful. Thousands of feet high.
There are also three heads and six arms. Dissatisfied that Bi Ma Wen Guan was too young, Sun Wukong went to heaven instead. Li Jing led an army to conquer Huaguo Mountain. The giant spirit god was defeated, and Nezha went to fight Wukong. Nezha later used the magical power of three heads and six arms, and Sun Wukong also transformed into three heads and six arms. At the same time, he used vellus hair to transform his outer body, and he actually hit Nezha's arm.
Later, Sun Wukong also used three heads and six arms several times. When he was making a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace, he fought outside the Lingxiao Palace and was surrounded by the Lei tribe generals. He used his three heads and six arms.
When dealing with the yellow-robed monster, the yellow-robed monster believed that there were many little monsters and thought that Sun Wukong would not be able to defeat them all. As a result, Sun Wukong also used three heads and six arms. Suddenly, all the monsters were killed.
Sun Wukong can also avoid fire and avoid water. For example, one thing that is easily misunderstood by readers is that Sun Wukong is afraid of Red Boy’s Samadhi True Fire.
In fact, Sun Wukong's fire avoidance technique in the original work can perfectly avoid the fire of Red Boy, including the fire of the banana fan. What Sun Wukong is really afraid of is smoke.
As for the water avoidance technique, Sun Wukong has also demonstrated it several times. For example, Sun Wukong went to the East China Sea and the West Sea several times, just to practice the secret of avoiding water. Why is Sun Wukong not good at underwater kung fu? Because you need to twist the water-avoiding technique at the same time, or change into the shape of a fish or a crab. But in this way, he would not be able to fully use the Golden Cudgel to show his strength.
There is also the body-fixing technique. When the Seven Fairies went to pick flat peaches, they were immobilized by Sun Wukong. He himself went to the flat peach party and ate flat peaches, drank royal wine, and stole elixirs.
There is also invisibility. One time, Sun Wukong went to Hua Zhai, but the old man refused to give it and chased him away. Sun Wukong refused to leave, so the old man hit Sun Wukong on the head with a cane. Wukong was unharmed, and the old man was so frightened that he quickly closed the door. At this time, Sun Wukong used the invisible method to get a bowl full of rice.
In addition to these, Sun Wukong also has many skills: shrinking the earth, beheading and regenerating, pushing mountains and moving mountains, catching the wind, moving mountains and shrinking the ground, blowing the wind, escape, Samadhi fire, The spirit can leave the body, move stars and change buckets, turn rivers and seas upside down, spray clouds and mist, call for wind and rain, sprinkle wine to form rain, gather to form shapes and disperse to form qi, tie grass dragons to carry people and fly, draw the ground to make a prison, etc.
By the way, when he was teaching his skills in Yuhua Continent, because the little princes were mortals and couldn't hold their weapons, Sun Wukong blew a breath of immortal energy on them. As a result, the three princes were able to hold weapons.
Also, in Chenjiazhuang, when Zhu Bajie transformed into a child, it was Sun Wukong’s help that made Zhu Bajie become a normal child.
Including the Golden Cudgel, Sun Wukong can not only use it, but also can make the Golden Cudgel ever-changing.
It can be said that Sun Wukong has too many skills. Who did he learn these skills from? In fact, he realized these all by himself.
Wukong said: "This is a magic trick he did, so why is it so difficult! I know everything now, and I can do it all. You all can close your eyes, don't be afraid!"
It can be seen that these skills are all understood by Sun Wukong himself. In Journey to the West, perhaps only Sun Wukong can do this. Therefore, it is appropriate to say that Sun Wukong is a martial arts wizard.