Talk:Sanzang Coming to the West (US)/@comment-25344672-20180531225617/@comment-26359208-20180601011017

Actually only the Gold Needle and Silver Needle are canon, poor Medusa has to be the (made up) Bronze Needle lol.

Gold and Silver Needle (or Golden and Silver Horned Kings) are disciples/apprentice of the Daode Tianzun. Basically they stole the divine tools (Purple Gold Red Gourd  and Suet Jade Flask), using those tools' power to announce themselves lord of the Flat Peak Mountain, and cause trouble. Canonically they got away scott free anyway because Daode Tianzun took them back before Sun Wukong can kill them.