There he learned the art of 72 transformations and how to perform a 108,000-league cloud somersault. Unfortunately, one day Subodhi caught him showing off in front of his fellow students by turning himself into a pine-tree, and the patriarch expelled him from his hermitage, predicting that "he was sure to get in trouble some day."
而孫悟空果然秉性聰慧，得傳七十二般變化，並十萬八千里觔斗雲，自此上天下地、撥雲排海，無所不能。可惜他炫耀的本性未改，在眾師兄面前賣弄神通，變作松樹，菩提法師見狀，知道此猴日後必定「惹禍行兇」，於是逐他出門。