We have all heard of Sun Wukong's prestige in mythological stories, and his ability to make trouble in the heavenly palace is terrifying, but later he encountered demons and monsters in the process of going to the West Heaven to learn scriptures. Their reaction was very strange, it stands to reason that these monsters should be terrified when they encounter Monkey King, but they laugh at Sun Wukong. There are several reasons for this, the first is that these monsters do not have the concept of Sun Wukong's power, and the second is that Sun Wukong has taken care of it.
First, the performance of monsters
We can see from several scenes in Journey to the West, for example, when Sun Wukong was fighting against the black bear spirit, he was telling the black bear spirit about his heroic deeds of making trouble in the heavenly palace. But the black bear spirit didn't care, and said wildly that Sun Wukong was just a little Bi Ma Wen and had no great skills. Another manifestation is that when Sun Wukong was fighting against Red Boy, Sun Wukong and Red Boy's father, the Bull Demon King, were good brothers, and he should have heard of Sun Wukong's prestige from the Bull Demon King, but Red Boy still sneered at Sun Wukong.
Second, think about the reason
But on the contrary, we see that the attitude of all the immortals in the heavenly court towards Sun Wukong is very respectful and polite, so why is there such a contrast?I think there are three reasons, the first point is that Sun Wukong's havoc in the Heavenly Palace was originally in the territory of the Heavenly Court, so the gods at that time had palpitations and did not dare to provoke him. The second point is that Sun Wukong made trouble in the Heavenly Palace and ended up with the Buddha pressing him on the Five Fingers Mountain, and in general, it was a failure, so the monsters looked down on him. The third point is that these monsters often catch Sun Wukong's ** or apprentices, so that Sun Wukong does not dare to act rashly.