Because Tang monk meat has the effect of immortality, Tang monks have become the object of coveting by all demons on the way to learn the scriptures, and almost all the demons catch Tang monks for the purpose of coveting Tang monk meat.
Of course, among the many demons who caught Tang Monk, there was also a special case, he was the Nine Spirit Yuansheng.
The Nine Spirits Yuansheng was Taiyi's mount to save the suffering Tianzun, and the reason why he captured Tang Monk was not because he coveted Tang Monk's flesh, but to avenge his grandson Huang Shijing.
Huang Shijing is the demon king of Hukou Cave in Baotou Mountain, North Of Yuhua Prefecture, who stole the weapons of Sun Wukong and the other three brothers of the division, resulting in the cave house being smashed by the three brothers of the division. Huang Shijing knew that he was not the opponent of the three brothers of the Master, so he asked the Nine Spirit Yuansheng for help.
The Nine Spirits Yuansheng made a move, the Nine Mouth Grappling Technique, and successively captured the entire sutra collection team, including Tang Monk.
Although the purpose of the Nine Spirits Yuansheng in capturing Tang Monk was to avenge the Yellow Lion Essence, there was no contradiction between giving revenge to the Yellow Lion Essence and eating Tang Monk's flesh, on the contrary, eating Tang Monk was a greater revenge, but he never had any thought of eating Tang Monk.
Why didn't the Nine Spirits Yuansheng eat Tang Monk? Because his cultivation was extremely high, he had already reached the realm of transcendent holiness, and there was no need to eat Tang monk meat at all.
In addition to the Nine Spirits Yuansheng, there was another special case among the demons on the way to the scriptures, and this special case was even more special than the Nine Spirits Yuansheng, because this demon not only did not eat the meat of the Tang monks, but also did not catch the Tang monks.
He is Sun Wukong's big brother Bull Demon King. The Bull Demon King can be said to have no desire for Tang Monk's meat, and he doesn't even want to have any intersection with the Sutra Collection Team, if it weren't for Sun Wukong's forced borrowing of the Banana Fan, which caused his dissatisfaction, he might not even meet with the Sutra Collection Team.
The Nine Spirit Yuansheng did not eat Tang Monk meat because he had already entered the Sacred Sect and there was no need to eat Tang Monk meat, so why did the Bull Demon King, as a demon monster, have no interest in Tang Monk meat?
Opinions vary.
Some people think that the tang monk meat has the effect of immortality is a lie, it was deliberately made up by Rulai to create disaster for the team to learn the scriptures, and the Bull Demon King knows this lie and naturally will not be interested in the tang monk meat.
Some people also believe that the Bull Demon King has a prominent background and masters other immortal elixirs that prolong life, and he can't look at Tang Monk meat at all.
These views can not be found in the original information. The reason why the Bull Demon King is not interested in Tang Monk meat is that we can see the hint from the words of The Bodhi Ancestor.
In those years, Grandmaster Bodhi taught Sun Wukong the art of immortality, saying, "Since you have mastered the Dharma, you will attain the root cause, and you have already focused on the divine body, but you are only guarding against the interests of the three plagues." ”
What are the three plagues? In layman's terms, it is a natural disaster against the immortals. In order to maintain the stability of the order of the Three Realms, every five hundred years, the heavens will descend to test the cultivation of immortality, and only by escaping every heavenly calamity can they truly immortalize, otherwise they will still fall into reincarnation.
How can I escape the apocalypse? Practice powerful spells. In the Journey to the West world, there is a spell specifically used to avoid the heavenly calamity, which is the seventy-two changes, so bodhi ancestors taught Sun Wukong seventy-two changes.
But what does all this have to do with the Fact that the Bull Demon King doesn't eat Tang Monk's meat? We know that the Bull Demon King also mastered the Seventy-Two Changes, so the question is, did the Bull Demon King learn the Seventy-Two Changes in order to avoid the Heavenly Disaster?
This possibility is entirely there.
Why did the Bull Demon King want to hide from the Heavenly Disaster? The truth is likely that he also learned the art of immortality.
Since the Bull Demon King had already learned the Art of Immortality, he could rely on the Magic Immortal Technique, and of course he would not be interested in Tang Monk Meat. What do you think?