Chapter 3: Evil spirits invade the Righteousness Law, and they forget their minds.

Huang Paoguai turned into a handsome man and went to Baoxiang to visit King Yuezhang, turning Tang Bei into a tiger. Bai Longma turned into Gong E, raised a knife to plot against Huang Paoguai, and was hit in the back leg. Eight quit to go back to Gao Lao Zhuang, Bai Longma advised him to find Wukong. Realizing that he refused, Bajie came down from the mountain and cursed, and was caught back by the monkeys.

Chapter 31: Pig Eight Rings dared the Monkey King with righteousness, and Monkey wise down nine monsters.

Pig goaded Wukong to come with him now. Wukong turned into a princess and wept bitterly, swallowing the nine monsters' Neidan relic, showing his true image, and clubbing the monsters all the way without a trace. Wukong went to heaven to visit, and the star god recited a spell to take back the Kuimu Wolf who had come down to earth to do mischief privately. Wukong brought the princess back to China and restored the Tang Priest to his original state.

the thirty-second time: Pingdingshan Gongcao sent a message, and the Lotus Cave Mumu met with disaster.

after walking to a mountain, Wukong heard that there was a demon, and the master encouraged Pig to patrol the mountain. Bajie tried to sleep and lie, but Wukong, who was turned into a bug, heard about it and exposed his lies to his face. Bajie had to explore again. King Yinjiao, one of the two demons, led many demon caves to patrol and catch Pig.

Chapter 33: The truth of the heretics, the gods help the true heart.

King Yinjiao turned into a Taoist priest with a broken leg lying on the road. The Tang Priest asked Wukong to carry him on his back. The demon sent three mountains to hold Wukong down and took Tang Priest and Friar Sand to the cave. Land, mountain gods, etc. moved away the mountains and freed Wukong. Wukong became an old Taoist priest, and with the help of Prince Yi, he exchanged fake gourds for real gourds that monsters pretend to be people.

The 34th time: The Devil cleverly calculated the sleepy ape, and the Great Sage Teng Na cheated the baby.

Wukong became an old demon and went into the cave, but the eight-legged monk who was hanged got wind of it. King Yinjiao and Wukong fought. Wukong threw a golden rope from the old demon to bind his opponent. King Yinjiao recited the rope-loosening curse to get rid of it, but tied Wukong with a rope instead. Wukong turned out a steel file and broke the rope to get away. He became a little demon and stole the golden rope. King Yinjiao installed Wukong with a gourd. Wukong tricked the devil into opening the gourd, took the opportunity to escape, and then sneaked into the hole to steal the gourd.

the thirty-fifth time: outsiders bully the righteous, and the ape gets the treasure to ward off the evil spirits.

King Yinjiao was put into a gourd by Wukong and instantly turned into water. King Jinjiao defeated Wukong with fan+fan fire. Wukong got into the cave and stole the clean bottle and fan. Putting the old demon in a clean bottle, the old gentleman said that he was entrusted by Guanyin to turn the boy into two demons to test the Tang Priest and his disciples. The second boy came back to life.

Chapter 36: The ape is lying on all sides, breaking through the side door to see the moon.

When I came to a broken temple, four people were enjoying the moon in the courtyard. The Tang Priest was homesick, and Wukong took the moon as a metaphor, pointing out that "it is easy to see the Buddha and return to the old field", and Tang Priest realized it and was full of joy. Bajie and Friar Sand watched the moon, and each gained something from Buddhism.

Extended information:

Based on the historical event of "Tang Priest's Learning from the Scriptures", this novel profoundly depicts the social reality at that time through the author's artistic processing. The book mainly describes the story that the Monkey King met Tang Priest, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand after he was born and caused havoc in the Heavenly Palace. He went west to learn Buddhist scriptures, conquered demons all the way, experienced eighty-one difficult, and finally arrived in the Western Heaven to meet the Tathagata Buddha, and finally the five saints came true.

The Journey to the West presents the dual totalitarianism of the secular world and the spiritual world-imperial power and divine power. The subject of existence is firmly shackled in both material and spiritual life, succumbing to the dual domination of political power and religion, and collectively unconsciously prostrate at the feet of the emperor and Buddha in psychological structure.

The Journey to the West's texts exude an innate smell of national servility. Even the "hero" as a rebel idol finally had to bow down to the "magic" of the Buddha, which symbolizes the form of high above the rule.

The Journey to the West's curiosity is in harmony with the characters' thoughts and personalities. The Monkey King's generous and optimistic comedy character; Funny but simple and simple image of pig eight quit. Their humorous and interesting conversations add a lot of color to the article. Characters' personalities are often vividly expressed through funny dialogues, which is another great feature of The Journey to the West's curiosity.

The combination of divinity, humanity and naturalness in the description of characters is also an important reason for The Journey to the West's curiosity. The so-called divinity refers to the fantasy of the image; The so-called humanity refers to the sociality of the image; The so-called naturalness refers to the animal attributes. The Journey to the West shows a deified animal world, and at the same time, it melts into the content of social life.

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