Journey to the West: Good Deeds Rewarded, Yellow Wind Monster

Huang Xiao was a yellow-furred marten. After rescuing a mortal monk on his journey west to worship Buddha, he moved Tathagata to descend to the mortal realm and test his character at a mountain temple.

Because he had never stolen the lamp oil before the Buddha, he was given a superior cultivation art and a Buddhist treasure, a Glazed Lamp. After shedding his animal form, he gained intelligence.

Zhuang Zhou dreams of a butterfly; a butterfly dreams of Zhuang Zhou.

Huang Xiao is both a modern man who transmigrated into Journey to the West and the Yellow Wind Monster, who knows the story inside out.

Thinking of the superior Prajna art Tathagata had taught him and looking at the Eight-Treasure Glazed Lamp bestowed by the Buddha, Huang Xiao mused:

“In this world… doing good deeds really does pay off…”