Among those in the Three Realms, many demons and immortals thought that Sun Wukong was merely a lucky one, serendipitously chosen to be the candidate for the Journey to the West.
If they were in his place, being schemed and shaped collectively, they could have achieved as much as Sun Wukong, even surpassing him.
However, they never considered that surviving those schemes and becoming stronger was actually Sun Wukong's own skill, a manifestation of his own strength accumulation.
Without sufficient strength and foundation, who could endure it?
The heavenly deities capture, the swords chop, axes carve, and heavenly thunder strikes.
Sun Wukong had withstood it all.
Inside the Alchemy Furnace, he survived forty-nine days of fatal heat, which he used as an opportunity to develop his Eyes of Golden Flame and fused the Immortal Pills he consumed, transforming into an Immortal Body.
Eventually, he overturned the furnace and escaped.