Journey to the West
Alt Names: | บันทึกตำนานอัศดงคต Batıya Yolculuk 西行纪 Tây Du Ký Westbound Westbound Discipline Xīxíng Jì |
Author: | Zheng Jian He |
Artist: | Deng Zhihui |
Genres: | Action Adventure Fantasy Shounen Supernatural |
Type: | Manhua (Chinese) |
Status: | Ongoing |
Description: | The original journey to the west to retrieve the Sutra was a conspiracy plotted by the Heavens! Just after a few decades, the Sutra has vanished. The Heavens search for the Sutra with plans to use it with corrupted intentions. In order for the Sutra to not fall into the hands of Heaven, the journey to the west will begin once again. |
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Gonna miss this comment section.
In the original story only Buddha was more powerful than Wukong, but Guanyin was much better-connected than Wukong. Everytime Wukong went to ask her for help it was for information on the weakness of a foe that Wukong had trouble dealing with due to a specific skill the foe had, or to request a (literal) deus ex machina to solve a problem. Most of the time Wukong could simply have nuked the countryside to take care of the problem himself but is prevented from doing so.
Xi You Ji was a commentary on the way government worked in the Yuan-Ming era. Wukong represented the many Bandit Kings that the Yuan government in its decline and later the unstable early Ming's house of Zhu were forced to enfeoff or buy out some other way to incorporate them into the imperial order. It should be mentioned here that Zhu Yuanzhang himself was one such bandit king originally and that the Yuan dynasty did enfeoff him in an effort to stop his rebellion. It's just that he instead used the opportunity to attack other rebels and imcorporate their armies into his before again turning his sights on the Yuan. "Only the Buddha could stop him," was a lament commonly heard in the populace when referring to such warlords, even in the early 20th century. Xi You Ji simply turned this lament into a literal story event.
When Wukong left for the Journey, he represented the imperial inspectors who toured the country rooting out corruption. These inspectors, like Wukong, held power to militarily neutralize corrupt officials but, like how Wukong in full power would have decimated the very people he's meant to protect, the inspectors were discouraged from utilizing their full authority because it would just destabilize the regions they were cleaning up. Instead, inspectors would identify the patrons of local corrupt officials (monster A), report to their superior in the capital (Guanyin), who would then contact said patron (god/immortal and obtain that patron's help withdrawing his protege from office (turning monster A back to pet A).
If you look closely, most of the monsters in Xi You Ji end up that way. Monster A does bad things, Wukong goes to Guanyin, is told monster A used to be pet A belonging to immortal B, then go to immortal B to ask him to provide a magic device to turn monster A back to pet A or go pick up said pet himself.
The special exception to this was the Bull Demon King, who represented a still-active bandit king. That's why he's so memorable in the lore (earning himself the right to marry off his daughter to Earth's - no, the Universe's - mightiest hero) and doesn't have a patron deity to turn him back into the white bull but instead turned himself back. So one of the ex-warlord-cum-inspector's first jobs was to convince a fellow warlord to join the Empire. He failed in this task and the BDK was sent off to Heaven in his white bull form, probably to be executed.
ok the wife is dead but at least he didn't get cucked so there's that
Dumb piggy.
It has been repeatedly implied throughout this story during the multiple flashbacks. Well even in the original story Guan Yin was obviously more powerful than Wu Kong since he kept asking her for help, but she never really took direct action herself, preferring to lend him OP asf items or to help call for heavenly reinforcements. Source: what I remember from voraciously reading the original novel
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
Puny human.
Yeah, i am pretty sure she is living it up with the brother.
shieettt. GuanYin kill Wukong?. I thought only Buddha is more powerful than him?
how much do you wana bet the pig guys wife was in on it the whole time? shes probably part of the little brothers harem or some shit.
We now got Buddha himself in this bitch! I gets better & better with each chapter.
I see, my bad for jumping to conclusions then,
he can use his ultimate attack "Zyklon B shower!"
The guy who asked the original question was referring to the little kid who Guanyin said was supposed to be dead somewhere, not Guanyin him/herself. Thus my response since the guy who then answered that post gave a Wiki link about Guanyin.
No. Avalokiteśvara (which Guanyin is a Chinese representation of AFAIK) has many well-known manifestations, including "Thousand-Armed, Thousand-Eyed" one
time traveling spirit child Hitler to the rescue
Do you mean Shancai?
Sure seems like it.
Gautama Buddha himself?
This article would tell you who it is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanyin
Who is the little kid? A reincarnated Wukong? Must be someone from the original team since they thought he was dead.
JTTW-13 has been fixed.
Everyone who has already read the chapter should reread JTTW-13 due to missing pages + duplication error!
Good eyes you have there, indeed she seems to have an extreme case of vagina dentata.