"A treasure offered on one's doorstep—an opportunity a macaque would surely never pass up!"
"I, for one, believe it's not that the macaque refused, but that the two Bodhisattvas from the Western Direction were too foolish. They must have let the macaque discover something!"
"Had one of us from the celestial Court taken action, could this wild macaque have possibly escaped the palm of our hands?"
"..."
Atop the Ninth celestial Palace, having heard about what Clairvoyance and Clairaudient had just discovered, the deities of the celestial Court were dismissive and even found Buddhism's naivety laughable.
Sun Wukong, after all, was merely a monkey whose Transformation did not span more than hundreds of years.
For the Demon Race, such a period could only be considered as minimal exposure to society, and even with a bit more caution, it was hardly anything significant.
