Journey to the West: From the Start, I Became a Disciple of Patriarch Bodhi

This is the floor she stepped on.

Arguing based on reason

It's too abstract. My assessment of this book and its author is simply: a jack of all trades, master of none. I wanted to use a semi-vernacular style to differentiate myself from the traditional cultivation model of monster-slaying and leveling up in modern times, but my writing skills and research were insufficient, so all I could produce was a hodgepodge.

The first few chapters were practically poisonous. In Journey to the West, it's said that mortals can't carry heavy loads, which was said by Sun Wukong. What he really meant was to tell Tang Sanzang that there were people watching him all the way, so he shouldn't even think about cheating. In reality, did the monsters eat people by carrying them back one by one...?

1. There's no clear division of realms, making it unclear and confusing. Skipping around in the middle makes it impossible to finish. 2. The beginning is relatively uneventful, the middle is filled with busywork (helping others), and the later parts are pure meddling like a rotten axe handle, ending in utter garbage.

I see that the protagonist already has a white deer as a mount, and he may also recruit the guardian deity Bull Demon King later. I wonder if the author had the vision to do it all. They could have simply added several trials to Tang Sanzang's journey to the West, replacing the trials that Guanyin cleverly created in the original story.

The first three chapters contain three poisons: first, planting flowers in clay on a withered tree is called grafting a withered tree; second, the protagonist, with his mortal body, wins a game of chess against the Bodhi Patriarch; and third, cultivating the Dao requires severing karma, tracing back to the ancestor Yan Emperor, and establishing a separate branch in the family tree to settle the…

They haven't even succeeded in cultivating immortality yet, and they're already treating ordinary people like a completely different species, studying them 😄. Others don't want to cultivate immortality and value family, but they're still gossiping about them, saying they're immature. (What's the difference between this and those who say things like, "This job is so great, why did you quit?" / "This guy (girl) is so great, why did you break up?" / And so on?!)

Anyone who can survive the first chapter is a superhuman.

The writing style is good, with a classic cultivation fantasy feel, but the plot is bland, too bland. Throughout the entire story, the child begged the patriarch to teach him. Master: Come closer and whisper in my ear. Years later, the patriarch asked: "Child, have you mastered it yet?" Tong'er: I understand, I understand. Patriarch: Come closer, there's xxx here. Child: Teach me