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02 The Golden-Hooped Rod

The monkeys cried, ‘Who knows how much wine our king drank — he has slept until this very hour!’ Wukong told them all that had passed in the Hall of Senluo, how he had struck the names from the registers. The monkeys were overjoyed, and kowtowed to him in gratitude. Word of how Wukong had wrecked the Hall of Senluo spread swiftly through the far hills and the near ridges, and the demon kings of every cave came one after another to offer congratulations. From then on Wukong’s fame was greater still.