Highlights of The Journey to the West in Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon

Hello, in the novel The Journey to the West, why don't Tang Priest just refuse to believe that Bai is a monster? The Journey to the West is an excellent work, which has been loved by several generations. The story in Journey to the West can be described as ups and downs, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false. The magic weapon and spell of monsters are extremely strong. It is impossible for Tang Priest to go to the Western Heaven to learn Buddhist scriptures by himself, because it is said that eating Tang Priest's meat can lead to immortality, so Bai, Spider Essence and Snake Essence all want to eat Tang Priest's meat to live forever. Moreover, Tang Priest doesn't know martial arts, and monks never kill anything, so their hearts are full of good thoughts. He would rather not kill Bai than kill Bai by mistake.

The Tang Priest is just an ordinary monk, unlike the Monkey King, Pig and Friar Sand, who have many skills, so they lack the ability to distinguish right from wrong. When Tang Priest met Bai, he was deceived by Bai's trick, so when the Monkey King exposed Bai as a monster, Tang Priest refused to believe him. Here, I think the first reason is that Bai's acting skills are too good. Bai pretended to be an injured ordinary person on the way to learn from the scriptures, captured the kindness of Tang Priest and had great sympathy for him.

Different from the monsters before, Bai didn't reveal his monster identity from the beginning, so how could Tang Priest suspect that this unarmed old man was compared with those monsters who looked weird in the past? The Monkey King saw that the old man was a monster, and the monster would rather give up his first life than show himself. At this point, I have to admire Bai, he has reached this point. Tang Priest was convinced that no matter what the Monkey King said, he would never believe that Bai was a monster.

Finally, the Tang Priest angered the Monkey King because he was wrong about the Monkey King, and Bai Gujing almost ate him. This should be a little inspiration for the Tang Priest to learn from the scriptures. Therefore, The Journey to the West arranged for Tang Priest to refuse to believe that Bai was a monster. This difficulty has ulterior motives, which tells us that we must be kind-hearted, but at the same time we must be alert.