Although Rulai's mana is boundless, it was not easy for him to suppress Sun Wukong back then.
In the seventh chapter of the original work, the Jade Emperor Xuan Rulai suppressed Sun Wukong, and when Rulai arrived in Heaven, he encountered Sun Wukong and the thirty-six Lei generals fighting fiercely. These thirty-six thunder generals are not idle people, each of them is a master among the masters of the Heavenly Court Praetorian Guard, and the strength of the thirty-six people joining forces is not inferior to that of 100,000 heavenly generals.
However, in the face of Sun Wukong's powerful combat power, they could barely resist for a while at first, but as the battle continued, their physical strength declined rapidly, and they were killed by Sun Wukong and retreated.
Seeing that Sun Wukong was so powerful, Rulai, who had planned to suppress it directly, immediately changed his mind and decided to outwit.
He first asked the Thunder generals to retreat, and then talked to Sun Wukong with a pleasant face, inquired about his origins, and asked him about his appeals, so as to divert Sun Wukong's attention and dissolve his sharpness. After gaining Sun Wukong's trust, he took the opportunity to propose a bet with him, as long as Sun Wukong could fly out of his palm, he would persuade the Jade Emperor to abdicate and let Xian go;
Sun Wukong saw that he couldn't fly and didn't lose anything with his palm, so he readily agreed. As you know, he did not fly out of Rulai's palm, and Rulai did not fulfill his promise to let him go to the lower realm, but took advantage of his unpreparedness to turn his hand over and pressed it under the Five Elements Mountain, and finally surrendered Sun Wukong.
We know that Sun Wukong's powerful combat power is largely dependent on the golden hoop stick, if there is no golden hoop stick, his combat power will plummet, not to mention that he is not the opponent of the immortals in the heavenly court, even if a monster with high mana on the way to learn the scriptures can beat him without temper.
Therefore, after Rulai pressed Sun Wukong under the Five Elements Mountain, in order to prevent him from making trouble in the Heavenly Palace again, it was supposed that he should take away his golden hoop stick, but in fact, he did not do it.
So, after Rulai pressed Sun Wukong under the Five Elements Mountain, why didn't he take away his golden hoop stick?
Before answering this question, we might as well take a look at what Sun Wukong said to Zhu Bajie after he got out of the Five Elements Mountain.
In the nineteenth chapter of the original work, Sun Wukong, who had already escaped from the Five Elements Mountain, escorted Tang Seng to Gao Laozhuang to learn the scriptures, and was invited by Gao Taigong to surrender to Zhu Bajie. The two sides confronted each other in Yunzhan Cave, and Sun Wukong, in order to show off his strength, surrendered his troops without a fight, and took the initiative to stretch his head and let Zhu Bajie rake it with a nine-tooth nail.
Zhu Bajie was not frightened, and tried his best to build it, but the result surprised him greatly, "I pounced, drilled the flames of palladium, and never built some scalps."
Seeing Zhu Bajie's puzzled look, Sun Wukong explained proudly: "You don't know. Lao Sun because of the trouble in the Heavenly Palace...... I was taken by the Taishang Laojun, put it in the gossip furnace, refined the divine fire, and refined it into a fiery eye, copper head and iron arm. ”
It is not difficult to know from Sun Wukong's words that Taishang Laojun did not tell the truth to the Jade Emperor back then, and the torture of the heavenly court could not hurt Sun Wukong, just because Sun Wukong had strong mana, not that he had the body of King Kong. Sun Wukong's King Kong body was precisely thrown into the gossip furnace and was trained by Taishang Laojun himself.
Why did Taishang Lao lie to the Jade Emperor? And why did he help Sun Wukong to train into the body of King Kong? The truth is probably that he was the behind-the-scenes supporter of Sun Wukong's havoc in the Heavenly Palace, and used Sun Wukong to make the Heavenly Court restless, so as to achieve the purpose of weakening the authority of the Jade Emperor and enhancing the prestige of the Dao Ancestor.
Since Taishang Laojun is a behind-the-scenes supporter of Sun Wukong, and the golden hoop stick is forged by Taishang Laojun himself, then how could Taishang Laojun let Rulai take away Sun Wukong's golden hoop stick? Rulai had to give up this plan in order to avoid conflict with Taishang Laojun. What do you think?