Journey to the West: You Think This Is Enough to Test Me?
西游：你就用这个考验本君？
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Having read so many cultivation novels, they're becoming increasingly bland. Honestly, what resources do immortals really need? Especially classical immortals, who receive countless gifts and opportunities. At most, they maintain social connections, sharing their unique talents, like the Pill Appraisal Conference, casually inviting fellow immortals to boast, or attending peach tasting parties.
Where did the resources come from?
From the Great Celestial Venerable and the Queen Mother down to the lesser gods and immortals, everyone is greedy. Where do the resources come from? Even if the resources are automatically refreshed, it can't stop this kind of greed!
Ascended
In Journey to the West, there were two ascension to immortality: Sha Wujing and Zhu Bajie. Both became officials after their ascension.
A more realistic version of fairy tales
However, please note before watching that the Jade Emperor and Queen Mother are also greedy, but their greed is not obvious. It is their subordinates who offer them these resources voluntarily, and they themselves do not care about these resources that are useless to them. The Heavenly Court's rules are inflexible and rigid, while humans are flexible.
I suspect the author doesn't even know what "returning to the elixir" means.
If Heaven is also based on connections, then it's not Heaven; it's demonic. Order, command, justice—only a machine without emotions can function. The effect will be determined by the cause.
The Heavenly Court in Journey to the West, which emphasizes human relationships and social dynamics, is terrifying.
Nonsense introduction: The heavenly soldiers and generals are just a bunch of auxiliary police officers who have shed their yin essence. The ascension of any so-called ascendant is fabricated; if you haven't actually ascended, don't write nonsense.
Those who can ascend to heaven are destined for official positions. Look at all the Taoist patriarchs; none of them ascended to become soldiers. Even those who didn't ascend and died along the way can find a job in the underworld, some even becoming local city gods. The heavenly soldiers and generals seem to belong to the same system as the Yellow Turban warriors and mountain gate protectors. They are all enlightened beings.
I think adding the Third Princess would better expand the plot; even gods can't be heartless and emotionless, right? If you add her, I'll definitely subscribe to the whole thing.