Eventually, through the teamwork of Taoist and Buddhist forces, including the efforts from some of the greatest deities, and then finally by the Bodhisattva of mercy, Guanyin, Sun Wukong is captured. After several failed attempts at execution, Sun Wukong is locked into Laozi's eight-way trigram Crucible, for 49 days, in-order to be distilled-down into an elixir (so that Laozi could regain his pills of longevity) by samadhi fires. The fire of the cubicle was so hot, it could burn down beings of unspeakable power, beings so powerful, they rival Buddha himself.