Instead of being executed, he was burned in a furnace where the pills of immortality were refined, which led to his acquiring golden crystal eyes.
He was born from a stone egg, and his bronze head and iron shoulders made him impossible to kill.  Instead of being executed, he was burned in a furnace where the pills of immortality were refined, which led to his acquiring golden crystal eyes. Finally, he was imprisoned for five centuries beneath the Mountain of Five Fingers, from which he was freed by a wandering monk.  His anger was provoked when he was offered the position of stablekeeper, after he had claimed a much higher office in defiance of Yu Huang Da Di, or the Great Emperor of Jade.  FTP, name this creature, who accompanies Tripitaka in a novel by Wu Ch'eng-en, and gives his name to Arthur Waley's translation of Journey to the West.
He was born from a stone egg, and his bronze head and iron shoulders made him impossible to kill.  
Monkey (accept the Monkey King or Sun Wukong before "Arthur Waley")