Monkey King (Original)

The **Monkey King, Sun Wukong**, also known as the **Great Sage**, is one of the many reincarnations or "Faces" of the Heavenly Demon.

## Personality

The Monkey King was noted to have a reckless, free spirited and selfish personality and was noted to do whatever he pleased regardless of what others thought. Personality wise, he was similar to that of his shedding, Shedding.

However, Its been stated by his "Shedding" that the original personality of the Monkey King is known to be exceptionally manipulative and greedy, with his antics having been stated to have been the cause of his imprisonment within the Mountain of Penance. His own Shedding himself stated that his actual main body was exceptionally greedy and would likely stop at nothing to get what he wants once he becomes fixated in something.

## History

Originally, the being that would become the Monkey King was considered a irregularity among Transcendent and divine beings. Originally, he was Monkey born from stone that eventually evolved into a Yokai and then into a transcendent after gaining skills and enlightenment. He would then cause chaos and trouble for other Gods, Demons and other transcendents as he traveled and went wherever he pleased, before he was eventually sealed away by them in the Five Mountains of Penance.

While trapped in the Mountains, the Monkey King would spend his time training within his prison until eventually successfully creating the 72 Bian Arts and breaking free from his prison and evolve into a true God.

It would eventually be revealed that the Monkey King himself was a reincarnation or "face" of the Heavenly Demon.

After sometime, the Monkey King would meet the Bull Demon King and the other Demon King and be adopted as their youngest brother and gain the title, "**Great Sage**".

## Abilities

As one of the many faces of the Heavenly Demon, the Monkey King is known to be immensely powerful and shares many of the same authorities, Powers and abilities as the Heavenly Demon. The Monkey King himself is known to be within the Emperor Level of Gods, making him immensely powerful to the point that he could easily wage war against several Godly and Demonic Societies and actually win singlehandedly.

As stated by his older adoptive siblings, despite him being considered the youngest, the Monkey King was easily much stronger than his five older siblings despite their above average power and was only matched by their eldest brother the Bull Demon King.

### Arts

The Monkey King was known to have been an accomplished Martial Artist, Alchemist and Magician and was stated to have combined multiple techniques, martial arts, magic, spells and alchemy, into a single technique. Effectively creating his own unique technique called the **Bian Arts** while he was trapped in the Mountain of Penance by the Gods.

* **Heavenly Bracket: 72 Bian Arts:** As the Monkey King, the original user and creator of the *72 Bian*, the Heavenly Demon was stated to have mastered each and everyone one of its techniques to the point that he could impart them into his servants and other Rankers to empower them. The Monkey King himself was noted to have mastered and developed the Arts to an extreme level of power during his time trapped within the Mountain of Penance while imprisoned within his Palace. As seen where both Shanon, a former *Semi-Ranker* of Red Dragon and Hanryeong, the Former *Saber God* of Cheonghwado, where impressed by the training marks left behind by him in the palace that indicated his growth.

### Shedding

The Monkey King showcased the ability to create a exuviae or Shedding of himself, essentially the ability to create a clone of himself. After escaping the Five Mountains of Penance and the Monkey King's Palace, the Monkey King created and left behind one of his exuviae's in the mountain.

This Exuviae was noted to be immensely powerful and was noted by Cha Yeon-woo to have power surpassing the strength of regular transcendents like Urd despite only being a shedding of himself. The Exuviae of himself was shown to have access to all of the originals abilities.

The Monkey King created a shedding of himself to remain within the Monkey King's Palace for him