Speaking of Xuan Ming achieving sainthood, they resolved the crisis at Water Curtain Cave and captured the Nine-Headed Worm.
The Nine-Headed Worm was thrown directly to Wukong for handling. Wukong recited an incantation that tormented the Nine-Headed Worm half to death until he forced its true form out, and then he stopped. Wukong asked, "Would you care to serve as my mount?"
The Nine-Headed Worm cursed, "Pah! The enmity of killing my father is irreconcilable!"
Wukong gave a peculiar smile and said, "Clearly, it was I who spared your life last time, yet you had your parents come trouble me and then your father was killed by someone else. Yet you blame me? Heh, you truly are stubborn! Back then, I, Old Sun, suffered greatly under this Tightening-Crown Spell, completely subdued by that bald monk without any temper left!"
Upon hearing Wukong's words, the Nine-Headed Worm was about to curse loudly, but before he could start, he heard Wukong recite the incantation.