Thread:Looperreallyreallysucks/@comment-37247467-20181111143412/@comment-37247467-20181122175924

Oh, that's Sun Wukong, the story's protagonist. Yes, he is a villain. In the early chapters, he's a protagonist villain, who fought agaisnt many of the force of good on Heaven. In this portion of story, he's an anti-hero, who commits some morally questionable acts to protect his master Xuanzang, the human monk. And the desert thing is actually the Flame Mountain. When Wukong was still a protagonist villain in the early chapters, he was once imprisoned within Taishang Laojun's furnace, and when he escaped it he kicked it away, made a few fire bricks dropped down to Earth, thus created the Flame Mountain.