"Hey, you unscrupulous evil dragon, where are you going? The Great Sage Equalling Heaven is here! If you refuse to surrender, I will give you a taste of my cudgel."

(Illustration: Sun Wukong smashes a train)

In the past, whenever Sun Wukong shouted like this, whether during the Havoc in Heaven or on his way to the Western Paradise, the enemy is bound to give some response, either speaking, laughing, fighting or surrending; but now this black monster turns a bind eye to him and continues its own way…

Irritated, Sun Wukong swings his golden-banded cudgel and wants to strike it. Lord Lao Zi holds back him at once, explaining:

"Great Sage, perhaps you don't know it isn't a black evil dragon, it is…"

Suddenly, a shining silver ball whizzes towards Wukong's head. Thanks to Monkey's quick reaction, he leaps aside and dodges it. That silver ball shots into clouds with a long tail behind it.

Sun Wukong is fumed, about to run after it to revenge when a sizable golden arrow flies towards his chest, as if the arrow would strike out all his inner organs. However, Wukong has a narrow escape by jumping around. The arrow flies away with a long firing tail.

Flustered and exasperated, Sun Wukong stares at Lao Zi and jump onto the somersault cloud to pursue the golden arrow, determined to square accounts with Lao Zi with the evidence he is pursuing. He chases up the arrow and stretches out to grasp its tail. Unfortunately, he is nearly burned, because the arrow has an extremely high temperature. Sun Wukong returns to Lao Zi and plucks his Eight Trigrams Gown, criticizing him with staring eyes:

"You old guy, we are walking together. Why do you shot at me from hiding and play tricks on me?"

Lao Zi is asked without rhyme and reason: "Great Sage, what are you talking about? What are the tricks?"

Sun Wukong rebukes in anger: "If it's not from you, where do they come from?"

Lord Lao Zi explains in a hurry: "You have misjudged me. I live in the thirty-three Heaven, fully occupied with tendering elixir. How can I have the time to hit you by underhand means?"

"You are a liar." Wukong says in a huff, "I have fire eyes with golden pupils and have been stricken by your Golden Noose. Don't you think I know all your tricks? If the silver ball, golden arrow and black dragon aren't your gadgets, what are they?"

Relived with those words, Lord Lao Zi says with smiles on his face: "You are wrong this time, Great Sage. You haven't descended to the world for thousands of years. You can't imagine how big are the changes made during those years. The silver ball is a satellite, golden arrow a rocket, and the black gigantic dragon a train. They are not tendered out of my elixir refinery but invented by people in the recent two hundred years."

Wukong is astonished: "Really? Humans only have naked eyes. How can they produce those powerful things?"

"They have made rapid progress in recent hundreds years. Even I am surprised at them sometimes. So I suggest you take this opportunity to have a good look and don't mistake the scientific technology, innovation and invention as demons and evils, and beat them."