Sun Wukong's words had a shocking impact. Not only was Transcendence Bloom shaken to the core, but even Sha Wujing, who was beside them, stepped forward to grab Sun Wukong's shoulders and asked urgently, "Eldest brother, are you telling the truth?" Long before in the Patrolling Celestial World, with the help of the little monkey, Sha Wujing had restored his memories and found Sun Wukong, at which time Sun Wukong had told him everything about what happened after Sha Wujing went missing in the Pangu Realm.
Unlike Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujing did not blame Sanzang's death on Sun Wukong; after weeping bitterly, he did not express much else. Sha Wujing often appeared to be rather naive, but Sun Wukong knew that this was where Sha Wujing's true wisdom lay—he was clever in ways rarely shown. During the fourteen years of the journey to the Western Paradise, Sun Wukong had only occasionally witnessed Sha Wujing's intelligence.
