He embarks on his most famous adventure after being imprisoned for 500 years under a mountain by the Buddha, before being rescued by Xuanzang, whom he accompanies to retrieve sacred texts from India.
This character first becomes the leader of his clan by discovering a cave behind a waterfall, which became his home. At one point, he frees the priests who are enslaved in the Cart Slow kingdom. Because they were all too light, this character rejected all the weapons in armory of the King of the East Sea for the Jingu Bang. In one of his escapades, he is locked in a flaming cauldron, but escapes and defeats Er (*) Lang with a weapon that once supported the sea. After crashing a party, he attains immortality by eating the Heavenly Peaches. He embarks on his most famous adventure after being imprisoned for 500 years under a mountain by the Buddha, before being rescued by Xuanzang, whom he accompanies to retrieve sacred texts from India. For 10 points, name this primate character from Journey to the West.
This character first becomes the leader of his clan by discovering a cave behind a waterfall, which became his home.
Sun Wukong [accept Monkey King; accept Songokou]