Journey to the West: From the Five Thunder Arts to the True Lord of the Thunder Department

In many novels of this type recently, the protagonist takes on the form of a demon and becomes a master of immortal gods. Isn't that too natural? Monkey is apprenticed to Fangcun Mountain. Are there demon brothers in Fangcun Mountain? Throughout Journey to the West, you have seen several goblins who are not villains but are people who serve under the powerful gods and immortals in the sky. The three demons of tiger, sheep and deer are so eager to seek the Dharma and Tao, but they don't even follow the orthodox one. A wild demon with no roots and genes is always apprenticed to this deity or that emperor. Don't you think it's outrageous?

First of all, there are not so many conspiracies and tricks in the original work of Journey to the West. Sun Wukong's apprenticeship to Bodhi is purely a matter of chance. There is no big boss calculation or the like. To be able to live forever, you can only practice martial arts. If you want magical powers, you have to practice magical powers. Of course, some innate magical powers are innate Also, Journey to the West is a classical cultivation of immortality, which is different from modern fantasy cultivation. In classical cultivation of immortality, as long as a person practices ascension by himself, he will be at least a middle-level figure in the heaven. In the eyes of some people, ascension can only be at the bottom and be treated as an ordinary heavenly soldier. In classical cultivation of immortality, No one who relies on his own cultivation to ascend can only be at the bottom, as an ordinary heavenly soldier. The setting logic of the setting logic in modern fantasy cultivation is that of the bottom. In Journey to the West, status and personal strength are not bound. You have high strength and high status, but your high status does not mean that your personal strength must be high There is also the point of transforming monsters. In classical cultivation of immortality, monsters transform into shapes, which is just more. If you have a human body, if you have no magical powers and no martial arts, you will not be much stronger than ordinary people. The strongest monsters will always be monsters with magical powers and martial arts. The transformation is very strong. This is the setting logic of modern fantasy cultivation. In modern fantasy cultivation, monsters must reach a certain level of cultivation before they can transform. Therefore, the monsters are very powerful. Even if they are enlightened by a big boss, they have a minimum standard of strength, which is different from classical cultivation

Do you still dare to prevent Monk Tang from studying in the West?

When Lei Bu meets Sun Wukong, he has to call him Saint

Master Wen is not Lei Zu! Leizu is at least the Innate Demon God, possibly the Chaos Demon God. Wen Taishi is in charge of the Lei Department of Heavenly Court, but he cannot be called Lei Zu. I hope the author can read more.

Since I am a fan of the original work of Journey to the West, let me say a few more words. The classical gods and demons novels of the Ming and Qing Dynasties have never said that status is equal to combat power, and they are not modern online novels. For example, the status of Northern Emperor Zhenwu, which is touted by many people, is indeed high. However, in Journey to the West, which was written around the same time as Journey to the West, Emperor Zhenwu was beaten by one of the thirty-six thunder generals. In Journey to the West, there are many such situations, such as the famous Taishang Laojun who fell upside down. In addition, martial arts and supernatural powers are discussed separately in classical novels. In Journey to the West, many monsters that can fight with Sun Wukong for a long time are all Sun Wukong who only fights for martial arts. For example, the author writes at the beginning about the Nine Spirits Yuansheng. Block, the Seven Bamboo Lions also competed with Sun Wukong in martial arts at the beginning. This time it was not a tie like the one often used in the original work. The original work clearly stated that Sun Wukong was defeated, and then Sun Wukong backhand used the supernatural power of his external incarnation to directly kill the Seven Bamboo Lions.

I was put off by the first chapter. The introduction talks about two hundred years of cultivation. Only after reading it did I realize that the protagonist simply took over and had no cultivation experience.

Now when I write about Journey to the West, nine out of ten books are all about Ancient Times, opening my mouth, Hongmeng Zi Qi, playing chess and measuring calamities, the saints of heaven and so on, and the remaining one is also mixed with the title of god. Honghuang correctly remembered that it came from "Buddha is the Tao". The earliest extant version of "Fengshen" is the Ming Dynasty Jin Changshu Zaiyang engraved version, which was written around the Wanli period of Longqing. The earliest extant Shidetang version of "Journey to the West" was written around the Jiajing period. To put it bluntly, the brats from the Great Desolate World are the ones who probably don't even know what I'm talking about. If we want to classify the three religions and the nine streams, the brats who can't figure out the Ancient Gods Journey to the West are the brats at the bottom, and then there are the conspiracy theory patients who believe in Wu Xianyun, the Zhangkou Tang Monk's biological father, and so on.

It was the Five Thunder Method that killed the tiger, deer and sheep. Once the Five Thunder Method is used, it will go directly to heaven to hear and alarm the Jade Emperor. In other words, it is a petition. Do you think it is an ordinary petition for rain? Ordinary Rain Dragon King can do it, but this time all the members of the Jiutian Yingyuan Mansion were dispatched, just because the three demons were jealous of others. The reason for the rain was just that the people came to pray for rain. It can be seen that they have done a lot of work in praying for rain with the Five Thunder Method. Both the Jade Emperor and the Lei Mansion were used by them. The most direct proof is that Taibai Jinxing personally came down to earth to rescue the enslaved monks, and also taught them the spell to summon Sun Wukong, for fear that Sun Wukong would miss it.

What makes me most uncomfortable is that we kept talking back and forth. In the first four chapters, the protagonists, Hu and Lu, Lou Guan Zhenren and Marshal Xin, the five main characters who teach the Dharma, accounted for 80% of their opinions on the same thing.