Accompanied by a pig transmigrated from a general who assaulted a heavenly being and the man who freed him, the monk Xuanzang, the alternately titular endeavor requires 14 years to complete, and results in the retrieval of Buddhist scriptures from India for return to China.
The title character's downfall occurs at the end of this work when a mountain is deposited on top of him, resulting in his having to wait 500 years to be freed. That character's favorite weapon is an iron bar that can expand or shrink on command, and the attempt to destroy him in a furnace results in his obtaining crystal eyes with X-ray vision. Accompanied by a pig transmigrated from a general who assaulted a heavenly being and the man who freed him, the monk Xuanzang, the alternately titular endeavor requires 14 years to complete, and results in the retrieval of Buddhist scriptures from India for return to China. For ten points, identify this comic novel by Wu Cheng-en, frequently known by the name of its primate protagonist, Sun Wukong.
The title character's downfall occurs at the end of this work when a mountain is deposited on top of him, resulting in his having to wait 500 years to be freed.
Record of a {Journey to the West} or {Monkey} or {Hsi-yu chi}