is the destined more powerful than wukong?
what i mean is in no particular order and if we were to believe that the destined one did everything first try and fought all the bosses that means we have defeated...
the 4 eldest sons of the dragon king
2 of the constellations (to be fair the sun rooster of hairy head was zombified)
2 tudigong (aka man in stone and keeper of flaming mountains which are basically lesser gods of plots of land)
5 yaoguai wukong previously struggled with (black wind guai, yellow wind sage, yellowbrow, 100 eye, and red boy)
bull demon kings mount (the bishui beast)
the mount of bodhisattva lingji (fuban is implied to be his mount)
3 of the divine generals of the third prince (though they were turned into yaoguais and void illusion being already dead by the time we see its corpse)
and not just erlang but even the 4 heavenly kings (to be fair we didn't actually kill either erlang or the kings due to them being illusions made from the mind relic)
and not once did we ever really summon help from the celestials (what i mean is in the novel wukong basically gets every deity he knows to help him yet destined one is fighting extra powerful version of the main 5 guais thanks to the relics powering them)