Journey to the West: Subduing the Eight Wastelands

Immortals are supposed to be carefree and unrestrained, yet they fear the decrees of a mortal king. What's the point of cultivating immortality then? Just have the king issue a decree granting the protagonist instant immortality!

The Confucian concept of righteousness is very mysterious. It has no specific techniques, unlike Taoist magic that can be used in actual combat. I understand it as an aura, within which demons and monsters lose their fighting power. For example, in *Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio*, ghosts never harm scholars with righteousness, so demons avoid them from afar.

In the era of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, immortals were called celestial beings. And in Journey to the West, a demon even devoured an entire country. I don't understand why some people think immortals are inferior to the emperor of a country. Have they been reading too many novels about destiny and fate?

How to describe this book? In two words, it's a rip-off. The Taiyi Golden Immortals are too weak, the Sages are too weak, and the Human King's decree is too strong.

If a human king can cleave a saint in two, and an army can kill a Taiyi Immortal, then tell me, if the ruler of a country in the human realm is this powerful, how awesome must the Jade Emperor, the ruler of the Three Realms, be?

This is ridiculous! The protagonist, an outsider, has this kind of luck!

It's going too far to portray Nuwa as a demon saint in Journey to the West.

I've been writing for ages, but I still don't understand what the author is trying to say. 🙂

It feels like a martial arts film to me; there's practically no magic, just a bunch of people wielding swords and knives, hacking and slashing. Thumbs down.

And as it turns out, those who write about the prehistoric era will eventually fail.