For seven years inside the cave, Zhunti—under the alias of Patriarch Subhuti—secretly taught Sun Wukong the Great Way of Immortality, the Seventy-Two Earthly Transformations, and the Somersault Cloud.
True to being born from a divine stone that mended the heavens and as one of the four mixed-world monkeys, Sun Wukong possessed extraordinary talent and comprehension. In just seven years, starting from nothing, he achieved the realm of a Taiyi Heavenly Immortal and mastered both the Seventy-Two Earthly Transformations and the Somersault Cloud.
Seeing that the monkey had mastered these divine abilities, Zhunti knew it was time for him to undergo some tempering.
Chapter 163