The "Journey to the West" you think is a story about learning from scriptures, but the "Journey to the West" I tell is an epic of human nature.
Behind the eighty-one difficulties are eighty-one carefully planned games; behind the ninety-nine return to truth are ninety-nine unknown secrets.
Under the Flame Mountain, why is it that even Sun Wukong can't resist Red Boy's Samadhi True Fire? Because the fire originated from the alchemy furnace of Tushita Palace and from a forbidden love between immortals and mortals. Where does Princess Iron Fan's banana fan come from? That's not a magic weapon, it's a token of love from the Supreme Lord, and it's a pawn in the Queen Mother's power game.
In the daughter's country, is Tang Seng really unmoved? What kind of helplessness is hidden in that sentence "if there is an afterlife"? Why does the king of the daughter country never marry? What she was waiting for was not her brother Yudi, but the answer promised by her aunt and queen.
Why are the golden horns and silver horns so easily conquered on Pingding Mountain? Because they are the sons of Taishang Laojun, who were ordered to go down to earth to perform a play to test Sun Wukong's strength and cooperate with the plan of Buddhism spreading to the east.
Why can the three demons of the Green Lion, the White Elephant, and the Dapeng dominate the Shituoling Mountains? Because behind them stand Manjushri, Samantabhadra, and Tathagata—Buddhism needs evil people to show the compassion of Bodhisattvas.
