"Your Majesty, your face..."
Sun Wushuang pointed at his face, and Wukong blinked, forming a Dharma Decree in front of him that created a water mirror for him to look into.
He had not intended to look, but when he did, Wukong nearly jumped up. His body was covered in black soot, all from the furnace explosion earlier. Being busy with alchemy, he hadn't bothered to look in a mirror. Now, he looked like he had just crawled out of a coal pile, as disheveled as one could be!
"Let's pretend you didn't see anything today, and none of you are to mention this outside, or I won't be nice," he warned.
With those words, Wukong turned his head towards the iron plank bridge at the entrance of the Cave Heaven, leaping into the waterway that led to the Eastern Sea. He swam in the sea, cleaning the grime off his body, then headed towards the seashore closest to Flower-Fruit Mountain and entered Jiao Demon King's dwelling through another waterway.
