As the travelers continue westward, the monkey king Sun Wukong steals rice from an elderly villager\'s kitchen.
A free audiobook is available on YouTube\'s Imagin8 Press channel and also on www.imagin8press.com..
It is presented in Simplified Chinese characters and pinyin, and includes an English version and glossary.
The Story is written using the 1200 Word Vocabulary of HSK4 plus several hundred words introduced in previous books in the series.
Over the course of the book Tangseng and his companions face the 81 tribulations that Tangseng had to endure to attain Buddhahood. and returned seventeen years later with priceless knowledge and spiritual texts.
That novel was inspired by an actual journey by the Buddhist monk Tangseng, who traveled from Chang\'an westward to India in 629 A.
D.
It is based on the epic 16th century novel of the same name by Wu Chen\'en.
This is the 17th book in the best-selling The Journey to the West series of stories for students learning to read Chinese.
Helpless and out of options, Sun Wukong must journey to Thunderclap Mountain and beg the Buddha himself for help.
These small crimes trigger a violent confrontation with a monster who uses a strange and powerful weapon to disarm and defeat the disciples.
Then the pig-man Zhu Bajie takes three silk vests from a seemingly abandoned tower.
As the travelers continue westward, the monkey king Sun Wukong steals rice from an elderly villager\'s kitchen