Round 14: Tossup 3

This character laughingly dismisses complaints about two of his attendants who demand a bribe and suggests that they receive a golden bowl. The Little Moon King blocks this character’s land with a wall of bronze in a dreamy novel that climaxes in the Tower of Myriad Mirrors. An (10[1])elderly turtle dumps his passengers in a river for failing to relay a question to this character, fulfilling their required “81st calamity.” (10[1])An unruly opponent urinates on this character’s (10[1])enlarged (10[1]-5[1])finger (10[5])when he (10[1])mistakenly (10[4])thinks (10[2])that he has won a (10[1])bet (10[2])to jump out of this (10[1])character’s palm. (10[1])The protagonists (10[1])receive blank accounts of this character in a 16th-century novel in which (10[1])this character places Five Phases Mountain on a rebel who gorged on the peaches of immortality. For 10 points, what figure’s teachings are sought by Tripitaka in The Journey to the West? ■END■ (10[1])

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