Journey to the West: the Record of the Second Mortal's Journey to the West

My name is Chen Yi, I record affairs in Honglu Temple, and I am from the eighth rank. In the autumn of the thirteenth year of Zhenguan, the emperor asked in the court who would like to follow Master Xuanzang on his journey to the west. All civil and military officials in the court were pretending to be dead. My boss pushed me out. From that day on, I became the second mortal in the pilgrimage team. The first one is Tang Seng. Not long after, two followers were eaten by monsters in Shuangcha Ridge. I survived. Later, my horse was swallowed by a white dragon in Yingchou Stream, and I changed from cavalry to infantry. Later, Guanyin Bodhisattva looked into my eyes and said: You will not die. She didn't say that my horse would be eaten, she didn't say that I would have to carry a load and walk thousands of miles, and she didn't say that I would have to hide in the fire shelter at night in the burning camp to make up for the two months of travel diary. Wukong asked me if I was afraid. I said I was afraid. He was right to be afraid. I helped Monkey King sew a tiger skin skirt, and the stitches were crooked. I asked for clues about the monster, and he praised me for "good question." I wrote an article called "The Monkey King Conquers the Demons", which he carried in his skirt and showed it to the Buddha in the West. Along the way, I have no golden cudgel, no nine-toothed palladium, and no magic power. But I have a pen. I wrote down the roads I walked, the people I met, the dead horses, and the living monsters. This is the record of my journey westward. The second mortal.