"Yaoji, what's the background of this monkey?" Qin Shou asked.
Yaoji immediately leaned in and said, "Your Majesty, this is one of the Four Great Demon Kings of Huaguo Mountain, the Tongbi Monkey, Batong. This monkey is quite formidable, and no demon around dares to provoke him. You see, we..."
Upon hearing this, Qin Shou suddenly snapped to attention, realizing it was a Tongbi Monkey—no wonder it was so fierce!
Qin Shou remembered that in "Journey to the West," Sun Wukong had four generals under him, including two Red-Butt Horse Monkeys, Generals Maliu and Er Yuan, and two Tongbi Monkeys, Generals Bao and Batong.
The original text didn't describe the two monkeys in detail, but to be among Sun Wukong's four great generals, they naturally possessed considerable strength.
Besides, when the real and fake Monkey Kings were being distinguished, Tathagata once pointed to the Six-Eared Macaque and said: