Who should the learning team be at the beginning?

(The blacksmith talks about Journey to the West, back to the 37th)

In other words, Guanyin took the Buddha's letters and went to the East to find someone to learn from. How was Guanyin? Naturally, I drove away in Xiangyun.

Strangely, Guanyin didn't come to the east directly from the west, but it was half cloudy and half foggy. On the way, she stopped four times and met four people respectively. The first time was Friar Sand. The second time is Pig Bajie; The third time is the little white dragon; Finally, the Monkey King.

First of all, we should rule out Xiaobailong, because Xiaobailong was not among the places that escorted Tang Priest at first, and Xiaobailong met Guanyin on his way to death. Why do you say that? Because Guanyin didn't go to the Jade Emperor when he promised Friar Sand and Bajie. When he saved Xiaobailong, he went to heaven to ask the Jade Emperor to forgive Xiaobai.

We'll talk about the story of Little White Dragon later.

In other words, there were only three disciples in the Buddhist scriptures at first. It can also be explained by the Tathagata giving Guanyin three laps, and there are only three disciples.

So why did Guanyin see Friar Sand, Pig Bajie and the Monkey King first?

And these three people are the disciples who will protect Tang Priest's scriptures in the future. Is this a coincidence?

Some people may say, isn't this nonsense? Of course, this is no coincidence. Guanyin saw them just to subdue them and make them disciples of Tang Priest!

Then I want to ask you, why are there only three of them? Let's take a look at the magical demons that Tang Priest encountered before the Buddhist scripture team was formally established, that is, before Tang Priest accepted his last apprentice, Friar Sand.

After the Tang Priest received the Monkey King, he went to Kannonji to show off his cassock, which provoked black wind mountain's black bear spirit. And this black wind mountain black bear essence is definitely a powerful demon.

Let's look at the Monkey King's first battle with Black Bear Essence. The original text describes that "the battle has been won for a long time, regardless of the outcome." The Monkey King was lazy with the black bear for the second time, but it was still a draw. the Monkey King himself admitted that he could only draw with him.

Original: ... Sanzang asked, "How are you better than him?" "I'm not a bully," Monkey said. "I'm just tied up."

The Monkey King is a proud man. He always boasts of his ability to make trouble in heaven. He has to admit that he can't win the black bear essence, which shows that the black bear essence is really powerful.

Finally Guanyin came forward to subdue the black bear essence.

The question is, shouldn't there be as many apprentices as possible after the black bear essence is produced? Pig Bajie is obviously not as good as a black bear. Why only accept pig eight quit and not accept black bear essence?

After seeing Pig Bajie, he met a magical demon, Huang Fengguai, in Huang Fengling.

Look at the records of the Monkey King and Huang Fengguai, the original text: ... The old demon (Huang Fengguai) fought with the Great Sage for 30 rounds, regardless of victory or defeat.

Then Huang Fengguai blew a kamikaze, and the Monkey King had no strength at all.

Some people may say that Huang Fengguai can't beat the Monkey King without the "Sanwei Shenfeng".

Joke, there must be a golden hoop in the Monkey King? Ability to be in two places at the same time. Guanyin has three life-saving hairs?

No one else is allowed. Huang Fengguai also has his own killer?

Well, to say the least, even if Huang Fengguai didn't have the "three flavors of divine wind", the Monkey King still couldn't beat Huang Fengguai, and it was a draw, which was also admitted by the Monkey King himself.

Original text: ... Pig said, "Brother, how is that demon's martial arts?" "I've seen it, too," Monkey said. "The fork is very neat, and I'm even with you. But it's just wind evil, and it's hard to beat him. "

It can be seen that Huang Fengguai's "Sanwei Shenfeng" is even worse than the black bear essence, and it is also unacceptable to become a monk. Finally, it was snatched away by Ji Ling Bodhisattva, and the last quota fell on Friar Sand.

So have you noticed that these two miraculous monsters who were kicked out of the Buddhist scriptures team were taken away by Buddhism? In other words, the black bear essence and Huang Fengguai are both Buddhists.

That is to say, in fact, in the beginning, the Tathagata planned to use his own two people, namely, Black Bear Essence and Huang Fengguai, to protect Tang Priest's scriptures. The Monkey King is of course essential, it was hand-picked by the Jade Emperor!

In other words, at first, the team should be composed of Tang Priest, the Monkey King, Black Bear Essence and Huang Fengguai.

Then why did it change?

I remember saying it before. Tathagata began to learn Buddhist scriptures before the Monkey King served his sentence 500 years ago. The best evidence is that the sand monk ate nine Buddhist scriptures.

In other words, the Tathagata is carrying the jade emperor behind his back and wants to avoid the jade emperor and engage in Buddhist scriptures. Will the Jade Emperor allow the Tathagata to fool around? Therefore, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand were sent by the Jade Emperor to stop the Buddhist scriptures.

Black bear essence and Huang Fengguai escorted the Buddhist scriptures and escaped Pig Bajie and Friar Sand. In fact, there are far more than nine groups of people designated by the Tathagata, but although nine groups of people arrived at the Liusha River by luck, they could not escape the fate of being killed by Friar Sand using the special environment of the Liusha River.

But because of the means, neither Pig nor Friar Sand can do it, so they have to go back to their original places and wait for a new monk.

This is why all the black bear spirits know that the Monkey King is Bi Marvin, because the black bear spirits should be one of the people escorting Buddhist scriptures and also the insider of Buddhist scriptures.

This is why when Huang Fengguai saw that the Tang Priest brought back by his people was a monk, because he should be a monk.

Maybe someone will question it again. Isn't it said that learning from the scriptures is approved by heaven? Why does this mean that heaven prevents learning from the scriptures?

However, as I said before, the act of learning from the scriptures is the act of expanding your sphere of influence by Tathagata. It is understandable that the Jade Emperor supports you to strongly contain the old gentleman on the throne, because he wants to confront the old gentleman.

But it doesn't mean that the jade emperor allows you to do whatever you want. What if you become the second old gentleman?

So, what the Jade Emperor means is that you can learn from Buddhism, but my people must join us, and I will supervise and direct the whole process. So you have to use my people. But you dare to go against my wishes, even before the Monkey King served his sentence. Well, I still need your Tathagata. I won't do anything to you for a while, but I have to give you some punishment. You don't want to put the Monkey King as the leader, do you? Now I'll arrange two more people to replace the black bear essence and Huang Fengguai.

After Tathagata failed many times, he had to compromise, let Guanyin meet those people designated by the jade emperor and apologize to the jade emperor in disguise. The two resources, Black Bear Essence and Huang Fengguai, cannot be wasted, so we treat them as a dilemma in the 81 ST difficulty!

But the Tathagata was still unwilling and made three circles to restrain the three jade emperors.

Guanyin found that Friar Sand and Pig Bajie lacked everything except the Monkey King, so they took it for themselves and left it alone! In addition, as Tathagata said, if you don't listen, you can use it again. If they listen, I won't have to. There's nothing wrong with it.

As for why Guanyin used the imprisonment spell to circle the black bear essence, we will talk about it later.