It took most of one day.
, riding west without his monkey, on the road Wukong had warned him about, came to a broad cold river and a cave, and was taken — cleanly, quickly, by a demon that had been waiting for exactly a beautiful monk on exactly this stretch, precisely as Wukong had said would happen, in almost exactly the words Wukong had used. and fought and failed and were driven off, and stood on the bank looking at a cave they could not open, with a master inside it and no monkey to open it.
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