Ruyi Jingu Bang
This weapon was the magical staff wielded
by Sun Wukong, the Monkey King from the Chinese
legend called the Journey to the West.
Sun Wukong, was a magical monkey.
He can talk, he walks on two legs, had an
innate talent for martial arts and he could
use strands of his hair to make clones of
himself.
He was born magically, on top of a mountain
called Flower Fruit Mountain which is apparently
a tourist spot nowadays, because of the monkey
king.
So, on Flower Fruit Mountain, there was a
big stone, a magical stone.
The magical stone just suddenly burst open
and out came a stone egg.
As you can deduct, the monkey came from the
egg.
The monkey befriended animals from the mountain
and joined with a group of monkeys.
It was with these group of monkeys that he
managed to snag the title King and called
himself the Handsome Monkey King.
Anyway, to make his long story simple, I'll
summarise.
He caused mischief to a level that the gods
were getting concerned.
So they invited him to heaven to monitor and
restrain his mischief.
They gave him a job, thinking he'd be greatful
being given some duties by the gods.
But of course not.
Though he only did started rebelling when
he wasn't invited to one of the banquet the
gods had.
That's when he started doing whatever he wanted.
He stole a peach of immortality, a longevity
pill and even some wine from the Jade Emperor.
Then more stuff happened, he wrecked havoc.
He fought, he got caught, he escaped, he fought
again, then finally got imprisoned by buddha
with his huge palm.
Buddha pushed the monkey down to earth, change
the composition of his palm turning it into
a mountain and imprisoned the monkey under
it.
He was stuck there for five centuries.
That was when he joined a monk for the journey
to the west and during that journey was where
he found his staff.
He was given the staff by the Dragon King
of the East Sea.
Apparently the staff was just a rod the dragon
king used to measure the sea level.
It glowed when Sun Wukong came near as if
he was actually the owner.
its interesting because the staff only listened
to Sun Wukong.
The staff was able to change its size according
to however Sun Wukong wants it to be.
Either thicker or thinner and even shorter
or longer.
When not in use, Sun Wukong likes to shrink
it down to the size of a needle and keeps
it tucked behind his ear.
To every one else its just a heavy peace of
rod.
Which weighed around 8 tonnes.
