This Journey to the West Is Terrifying
这个西游好可怕
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 1.2M Words
- Genre
- Xianxia
- Subgenre
- Mythic Cultivation
- Updated
- 3y ago
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The idea of gods eating mortals doesn't stand up to scrutiny. What is there about mortals that would make them worth eating? Was the author particularly smelly, or was their poetry even worse? For gods, abstaining from grains is a minor matter; they probably have more energy from the fruit they grow themselves than humans do, and even demons have more energy than humans.
Let me clarify beforehand that I'm not referring to this book. Actually, I dislike the darker versions of Journey to the West, like the plot of *The God of War*. What kind of characters are they portraying the gods and Buddhas as? Humans are treated like food, kept by them. And those demons who devoured countless people are portrayed as saviors of humanity. Pah!
There's absolutely no sense of identification with the protagonist. The feeling of empathy he evokes is purely because he's transmigrated into a monster. If he were a powerful deity with the cheat code of increasing magical power simply by slaying demons, I think he'd definitely be far more ruthless than these gods and Buddhas.
The story features a deadly poison, a mortal protagonist, a saintly figure, and a forced protagonist halo granting unexpected opportunities. It has a dark background, a long time span, and all the supporting characters are idiots. With this kind of background and timeline, even pigs would be old enough to survive.
Around chapter 14, highly poisonous, Shennong is dead, please be careful. You just used your treasure to save a stranger, and now you want to risk your life to help him save someone else? This isn't your father, do you have to be so risky?
Speaking of depicting Journey to the West as a world where cannibalism is rampant, some thoughts suddenly popped into my head: Spiritual energy is actually transformed from spiritual essence. Spiritual essence comes from the human soul, which is condensed into spiritual essence and then transformed into spiritual energy through some method.
The protagonist's origins are described as demonic, but the style doesn't resemble demonic at all. It's truly baffling and incongruous. Why insist on a demonic origin? Why not just write about a human cultivating the Tao? If that's not possible, even a plant spirit's birth would have sufficed.
The main character is a saint, a pushover; everyone, just give up, this is toxic.
I took a quick look, and frankly, it's just a fast-paced fantasy novel with a web novel setting, wrapped in the skin of Journey to the West. This kind of trashy writing that almost completely abandons the original setting of Journey to the West feels like it's polluting people. Things are different now.
Why do gods have to eat humans? Demons seem more powerful than humans, and shouldn't they taste better? If it's truly a dark world, shouldn't it be demons eating humans, and then gods eating demons?