Ruyi Jingu Bang
Ruyi Jingu Bang is the magic staff of Sun Wukong, the Monkey King of the great Chinese novel Journey to the West, and it is counted among the most famous weapons in all of Asian literature. The staff began as the great pillar of the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace, a golden-banded rod weighing thirteen thousand five hundred catties, which no one could lift until the Monkey King took it up and found it shrank and grew at his will, from a needle kept in his ear to a pillar that could reach the clouds. With it Sun Wukong defied the heavenly host, fought the armies of the Jade Emperor, and later escorte