Chapter 42: The Great Sage worships Nanhai diligently, and Guanyin binds the red child in charity.

Wukong transformed into the Bull Demon King and was questioned by Red Boy. He somersaulted into the South China Sea and asked Guanyin to subdue Red Boy.

Chapter 43: The black river demon captures the monk, and the Western dragon captures the turtle.

The monster in the Blackwater River turned into a boatman and photographed Tang Monk and Bajie on the boat to the bottom of the water. Sand Monk dived and fought with the monster, but could not win. Wukong blamed the Dragon King. The Dragon King ordered Prince Moang to go and subdue him.

Chapter 44: Half of the body's fortune meets the strength of the chariot, and the heart is right and the evil is passing through the spine.

Travel to Chechi Country. The king promoted Taoism and destroyed Buddhism, and the monks were punished with hard labor. Wukong oversaw the work of the Taoist priests and let the monks go. He also woke up Bajie and Sha Seng. He blew up the Taoist priests' meeting, knocked down the statues in the temple, and turned them into offerings for Sanqing to eat.

Chapter 45: The Great Sage of Sanqing Temple left his name, and the Monkey King of Chechi State showed his Dharma.

The Taoist priests regarded the three people as the descending Sanqing and prayed for the water. The three of them gave away their urine and returned through the clouds. The three immortals reported to the king that Wukong and others killed the Taoist priest and pretended to be Sanqing. The king ordered Tang Monk and others to have a bet with the three immortals to pray for rain. The Great Immortal Hu Li first came to the altar to perform tricks, summoning the gods of wind, cloud, fog and the Dragon King of the Four Seas. However, Wukong used his magic power to block it, and no rain fell. When Wukong ascended the altar, there was a strong wind and thunder, and a heavy rain poured down.

Chapter 46: Heretics use force to deceive the Dharma. The ape in the heart manifests his holiness and destroys all evil spirits.

Hu Li and Tang Seng each sat meditating on a high platform. Hu Li turned into a bedbug and bit Tang Monk, and Wujia turned into a centipede and bit the Tiger Li Immortal, causing him to fall; he gambled on guessing what was in the cabinet, beheaded, disemboweled, and bathed in oil, etc.: Due to Wukong's trick, all three immortals lost.

Chapter 47: The holy monk blocks the water flowing into the sky at night, and the golden wood saves the child.

Tongtian River is eight hundred miles ahead. The four of them stayed overnight at an old man's house in a village by the river. They heard that there was a king named Lugan here, who was used to giving sweet rain, but he had to eat a pair of virgins every year. This year it was his turn to eat his own daughter and his younger brother's son. Wukong turned into a boy and Bajie turned into a girl, waiting for the demon in the temple.

Chapter 48: The devil makes the cold wind drift with heavy snow, and the monk thinks of worshiping Buddha while walking on the ice.

The monster was lifted up by Bajie and built two fish scales with a rake, and escaped back to the water palace. Monsters freeze the surface of the river. Lure Tang Monk to cross the river on the ice and make him fall into the water. It was hidden in the stone box behind the palace. Bajie, Sha Seng, Baima and Wukong gather together and return to the village.

Extended information:

The name of the river in "Journey to the West" is named after the black water of the river. Tang Monk was captured by the monster Little Dragon here, and was later rescued with the help of Mo Ang, the Dragon King of the West Sea. See Chapter 43 of Journey to the West.

Tongtian River is a large river that Tang Monk and his disciples passed by in "Journey to the West". This is one of the eighty-one difficulties for Tang Monk and his disciples. See the forty-seventh and forty-eighth of "Journey to the West" and forty-nine chapters. Tang Monk encountered obstacles in crossing the Tianhe River and stayed overnight in Chenjia Village. He happened to meet the King of Inspiration to offer sacrifices. Sun Wukong fought with him to reach the Tianhe River and saved the boy and girl. Later, he got the help of the old turtle to cross the Tongtian River.

This novel is based on the historical event of "Tang Monk's Study for Buddhist Scriptures". Through the author's artistic processing, it profoundly depicts the social reality at that time. The whole book mainly describes that after Sun Wukong was born and caused havoc in the Heavenly Palace, he met Tang Monk, Zhu Bajie and Sha Monk, traveled to the west to obtain scriptures, and conquered demons along the way. After experiencing ninety-nine and eighty-one hardships, he finally reached the Western Heaven and met the Tathagata Buddha. The story of the saint’s coming true.

After all the hardships, the four masters and disciples finally came to the Holy Land of Lingshan and paid homage to the Buddha. However, because they did not send any personal information to Ananda and Kayapa, they only obtained the Wordless Sutra.

Venerable Bai Xiong of the Randen Ancient Buddhist Sect reminded Monk Tang and his disciples to return to Leiyin Temple and perform human affairs with the purple gold bowl presented by the King of Tang Dynasty. Only then did he obtain the thirty-five true scriptures, five thousand and four Volume 18, Return to the East. Unexpectedly, one of the ninety-nine and eighty-one tribulations was still missing. In the Tongtian River, the old turtle threw four people into the river and wetted the scriptures.

Tang Sanzang sent the Buddhist scriptures back to Chang'an, and his true body returned to Lingshan. Tripitaka was named the Sandalwood Buddha of Merit, Sun Wukong was named the Fighting Victory Buddha, Zhu Bajie was named the Messenger of the Pure Altar, Sha Monk was named the Golden Arhat, and White Dragon Horse was named the Eight Heavenly Dragons. Sun Wukong became a Zhengguo, and the golden hoop naturally fell off. From then on, the Five Saints came true and they enjoyed the ultimate happiness.

The content of "Journey to the West" is the most complex among Chinese classical novels. It combines the thoughts and content of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. It not only allows the immortals of Buddhism and Taoism to perform at the same time, but also injects the human emotions of real society into the world of gods and Buddhas. Sometimes it also inserts a few Confucian sentences. The wise sayings make it seem both solemn and humorous, and the wit and wit make the book win the love of readers of all cultural levels.

After "Journey to the West", there was a climax of writing novels about gods and demons in the Ming Dynasty. There are Zhu Xingzuo's "The Biography of the Twenty-Four Arhats Who Got the Way", Deng Zhimo's "The Story of the Iron Tree", "The Story of the Flying Sword", "The Story of the Cursed Date", Xu Zhonglin's "The Romance of the Gods", etc.

"Journey to the West" also had a profound impact on Chinese opera. The Qing Dynasty palace drama "The Treasure Raft" is a Western game with ten volumes and 240 episodes. "Journey to the West" not only had sequels and imitations, but also had an impact on later novels, operas, scrolls, and folk customs. There are lyrics from "Journey to the West" in the books of the Qing Dynasty, which shows its great influence.

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