| “ | Protagonists always appear in dramatic moments | ” |
— To Athena, Chapter 156 | ||
Son Ohgong 《The Great Sage, Heaven's Equal》is a top High-Ranker from the Heavenly Realm. A being who dared to claim to be on the same level as the heavens, and was recognized for it.
He is a being that has achieved numerous legends inside the Tower, he is also the holder of many top records ⎯ Victorious Fighting Buddha.
Description[]
White hair, fair skin, a mischievous expression and glint in his eyes. He appeared to be a well-built kid with long, white-flowing hair cut to waist length. He had golden eyes, always holding a large staff.
Son OhGong slept a lot. When bored, he would sleep for a few months or even a few years at a time. This was also true for his main body. Surprisingly, even while sleeping like that, he would still get stronger.
Personality[]
Persona[]
Despite being one of the top-ranked among the top 10, he wasn't very intelligent. He's smarter than anyone when it comes to fighting but dumber than anyone in everything else. That's why when the time came to choose a master for the Clock Movement, YuWon was chosen, not Son OhGong.[1]
Straightforward[]
OhGong's simplicity was one of the best YuWon had known. He always wore his emotions on his sleeve.
Battle-Crazed Madman[]
Son OhGong was an unusually peculiar character among the Rankers that YuWon knew. He was sometimes even considered a pervert. He enjoyed fighting almost as much as eating[2].
Fighting, getting hit, what was enjoyable about it?
Asura and Son OhGong were very similar in that aspect. The two of them fought almost every day. Son OhGong usually came out as the winner, but Asura wasn't far behind.
When it came to combat, Asura was also a genius equal to Son OhGong. Two people who loved to fight. It was exhausting to be caught between them.[3]
Fearless[]
Son OhGong was not afraid to die. No, in the first place, he believed in his body as immortal. An undying body.
Using that advantage as a key to cheat, Son OhGong's fighting style, although seemingly ignorant, was the most efficient way to make the most of that advantage. This is the reason why he lost an arm in the fight against the Outer Gods despite being one of the strongest their.
Foresightedness[]
Originally, OhGong had a similar personality to Diablo. He loved to fight, enjoyed it, and hated to lose. But there was definitely a difference.
Yuwon taught him that the fight should be seen in the long run. Don't just focus on defeating the enemy in front of you. The true victory is much further than what we have in front of us.
The long, long battle against the Outer Gods. OhGong had won and lost many of those battles. He lost allies and suffered defeats. Instead of simply enjoying the fight and winning, he began to think about how he could ensure that everyone survived. It was in that fight that OhGong learned a lesson about the greater good.[4]
History[]
The great guild, Heavenly Realm. The one that was fighting a solo war against them was Son OhGong. The nickname of “Great Sage, Heaven’s Equal” was derived from this.
OhGong was truly powerful. Not only did he invade the Celestial Realm alone and cause a commotion. Regarding the battle between OhGong and the Celestial Realm, the Classification Office said the following.
A battle between a giant guild called the Celestial Realm and a lone Son OhGong. Ninety-nine out of a hundred times, the Celestial Realm would win, but one out of a hundred times, Son OhGong would win.
OhGong's problem was that he relied on that one out of a hundred times, so he rushed in, but his power was overwhelming.
In reality, the Celestial Realm had tried to kill him. But no spear, no sword, no blazing flame could sever Son OhGong's breath of life. In the end, the Celestial Realm chose to seal him away forever.
Son OhGong was an immortal existence. At least, there wasn’t anything inside the Tower that could kill him. So, in the end, the Heavenly Realms that were fighting him had decided to seal him away.
However, there were only a few people even in the Heavenly Realm who knew of The Great Sage’s whereabouts.
Son OhGong's body was currently trapped in the Five Elements Mountain. And it was the Celestial Realm, also known as the Guild of the Sky, one of the world's largest guilds, who guarded and imprisoned him. He was the one who broke even the Eight Trigrams (palgwaro) and came out. However, even he couldn't escape from the rocks of this Mountain of the Five Elements.
With Son OhGong, one of the Highest Rankers of the Highest Rankers, incarcerated, they were bound to be on high alert.
Tower Legends[]
Son OhGong, a current top High Ranker who was also known as “The Great Sage, Heaven’s Equal” had a record of crushing a Ranker as a player. OhGong’s value as a player peaked when that incident became publicly known.
There was a tale of the Great Sage Son OhGong enduring over 40 days inside an Eight Trigram Crucible. However, that was a test given to OhGong when he was nearing the top of the Tower.
“Great Sage, Heaven’s Equal,” Son OhGong, had defeated the Chimera Creator on the 50th Floor, and he was the one who had become a High-Ranker only a few years after becoming a Ranker.
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Five Elemental Mountain Seal[]
Among all the people who were going to return to the past, the reason why YuWon emerged as a more likely candidate than Son OhGong. One of the reasons is that Son OhGong was trapped in the Five Elements Mountain.
Even if he could use the Clock Movement to travel back in time, he would still be trapped in the Five Elements Mountain, and everything would be lost.
Original Future[]
In the original timeline, Son OhGong broke the Jade Emperor's neck and bathed in his blood. At this moment, Son OhGong's ranking was 12th. This was the reason Son OhGong's ranking skyrocketed like crazy was because he made the Celestial Realm a mess and defeated the Jade Emperor.[5]
Second Celestial War[]
| “ | We've been fighting ever since. So many times. We've been fighting too. Just like you. | ” |
— To Kim Yuwon, Chapter 235 | ||
Kim Yuwon had prepared to save Ohgong from the Five Elementals Mountain. He had first freed the Bull Demon King from the Celestial Prison and gathered the Monkey King's alter egos. After such thorough planning, they had finally released Ohgong from his thousand-year seal. However, this Ohgong was different.
To Kim Yuwon, the Son OhGong in front of him was the Son OhGong he knew. Not the Son OhGong of this timeline, but the Son OhGong who lived at the same time and in the same world as him.[6]
Clearly, only one person could use the Clock Movement to go back. So they debated who to send back. Odin, Chronos, Asura, Vishnu, and many other rulers gathered to discuss the candidates, narrowing down the field to three. And it was Yuwon who was sent back.
However, sending Kim Yuwon alone bothered everyone, so they also sent Son Ohgong to the past to help him in his struggles. At the cost of Mimir losing his eyes, the Monkey King also regressed.
After using the Clock Movement to go back in time. He repeated to himself that he was going to go back and fight alone. He was the only one who knew about the Outer Gods, and he felt like he had to bear this heavy burden alone.
But it turned out it wasn't like that. It was actually a shared burden. Thinking that way, it felt like he was in a group again. His shoulders felt a little lighter. It was incredible how much things could change just by knowing that someone, somewhere, was fighting the same battle as you.
It was as if OhGong was the only color in a black-and-white world. He wondered if it would be like seeing people on a deserted island for the first time.
Kim Yuwon's Monologue[]
"The combative bastard picked a fight with me hundreds of times. And within those countless fights, I only managed to beat him a few times. There were a few reasons for that. From the 'Ruyi Jingu', the staff capable of extending infinitely - to the 'Flying Nimbus', the first cloud to ever come into existence, capable of raining down thunder and reaching the ends of space with its speed. And even the 'Infinite Arcane Power' he had gained by eating all the Peaches of Immortality in the Heavenly Peach Garden, a treasure of the Heavenly Realm. But the biggest reason why he was so tricky to face . . . "
Hargaan's Monologue[]
"He's the most talented fighter in the history of Rankers, having become a Ranker in less than 100 years since he started climbing the Tower."
Skills[]
“The Great Sage” couldn’t be considered a lone entity. Being the wielder of the power of immortality and cloning techniques, he was someone not even the major guild ‘Heavenly Realm’ could kill.
However, Son OhGong only had a handful of skills. Of course, he was able to use those few abilities with almost 100% skill. in terms of total power, OhGong was probably among the top three in this Tower.
| Skill | Rank | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Clone/Alter Ego | ? |
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| Set Skills | ||
| Monkey Eyes | F | Eyes that once belonged to a monkey on Mount Huaguo.
When activated; it increases your vision and fortifies your five senses. |
| Cinder Eyes | A | Evolution of Monkey Eyes.
Monkey's eyes that synchronized with demon fire. You are now able to tell good from evil, truth from lies, and gained strong resistance to fire. Effects:
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| Golden Cinder Eyes | S | Evolution of Cinder Eyes
Way of obtaining: He was sentenced to death by Heavenly Realm, by burning in the Eight Trigrams. But ended up not dying and instead obtaining Golden Cinder Eyes after he managed to control the fire of the furnace His eyes that could see through truth were one of the representative skills with [Thousand-Mile Eye] that could see long-distance. |
Items[]
| Skill | Rank | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Flying Nimbus (筋斗雲, Kintōun) | ? | Jīndǒuyún (Geundum)
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| Ruyi Bang | ~S | A long staff with a round tip that could extend infinitely. It could also enlarge itself to what extent the user deems it. It is also the signature item of Son Ohgong as a High Ranker.
A staff that could extend and shorten at will. He could increase in size at a moment's notice and strike his opponents from a distance, or adjust the length of the staff to the distance between them to keep the fight in his favor. Not only was Son OhGong strong, but the weight of the weapon itself was considerable. Way of obtaining: Taken from one of the 18 pillars of the Dragon King's Palace. It belonged to a Dragon King who used to measure the depth of the sea. |
Relationship[]
Kim Yuwon[]
They had met around the time Yuwon became a Ranker of the Tower. He and Yuwon shared an antagonistic friendship.[8] After some time, it had become natural. Not friends but not enemies either. YuWon, who had never built a team before, started to move alongside someone else.
Yuwon called him cute with words, but they used to greet each other and talk whenever they met face to face. Son OhGong was the only person he could call a friend, even though he always traveled alone.[9]
When the calm sky had started to shake with the advent of the Outer Gods, YuWon and Son OhGong's relationship deepened. After that, they simply fought, and fought again. It really was easier for them to get closer when the both of them fought together rather than fought each other.
Bull Demon King[]
The love of the Great Sage, Heaven's Equal for his older brother was famous in the Celestial Realm. It was he who ventured alone into the Celestial Realm and fought recklessly to save his brother.[10]
Trivia[]
- He liked dumplings.[11]
- He could arguably be called the most talented High Ranker aside from YuWon.