In the journey to the west world, everyone has a big dream, that is, immortality.
Sun Wukong has the dream of immortality. Why did he worship Bodhidharma as his teacher? It is to learn the art of immortality.
In order to realize this dream, Sun Wukong experienced hardships that ordinary people could not bear, and paid efforts that ordinary people could not do.
Not to mention how hard it is to worship under the Bodhi Ancestor and practice spells like a daily ascetic monk, the long and arduous journey of Sun Wukong alone to find the Bodhi Ancestor is enough to make ordinary people prohibitive.
How hard was Sun Wukong's journey to find a teacher?
The second time in the original work, Bodhi Ancestor asked Sun Wukong where he came from, and Sun Wukong replied to Dongsheng Shenzhou, but he did not expect bodhi ancestor to be displeased: "Since you are honest, how do you say Dongsheng Shenzhou?" How did you get this to me, across two major seas, a southern Ganbu continent? ”
Sun Wukong prostrated his head and said, "The disciple crossed the ocean and landed on the boundary to travel to the square, and it took more than ten years before he visited here." ”
In order to find famous teachers to learn the art, Sun Wukong actually passed through the three major continents and crossed the two major continents, from dongsheng shenzhou to nan zhanbu continent, and from southern ganbu continent to west niuhezhou, which lasted for more than ten years.
A thin monkey, in this long journey, experienced how much hardship and danger, you can imagine.
It can be said that Sun Wukong's journey to learn art from his master is even more difficult than that of the Tang monk Xitian, after all, he does not have the company and protection of three powerful brothers around him.
In fact, in the Journey to the West world, there are many ways to obtain immortality, and it is not necessary to learn the art of immortality, but it can also be achieved by eating immortal fruits.
The most famous fairy fruit in the western world is not the peach and ginseng fruit. However, the peach grows in the heavenly garden, and ordinary people can't even see it, let alone eat it, but the ginseng fruit grows in the mortal world.
Ginseng fruit has a strong longevity effect, according to the land lord, this treasure blooms in three thousand years, bears fruit in three thousand years, and matures in three thousand years. Ten thousand years short, only thirty knots. Whoever has a fate, smells it, and lives for three hundred and sixty years; if he eats one, he lives for forty-seven thousand years."
We know that ginseng fruit is the treasure of Zhen Yuanzi's zhenguan, which grew up in the Wuzhuang temple of Wanshou Mountain in West Niuhezhou, but what is strange is that the monsters who are eager for immortality in the journey to the west never dare to sneak into the Wuzhuang temple to steal ginseng fruit, and they prefer to choose a way of adventure.
This way is to catch tang monks. Although Tang Monk meat is said to have the effect of immortality, as you know, Tang Monk has three powerful bodyguards around him - Sun Wukong, the Eight Precepts of pigs and the Sand Monk, especially Sun Wukong, who is as evil as a vendetta, and all the monsters who have no background and covet Tang Monk's meat will often be killed by him.
So, why would the demons risk catching Tang Monks than steal ginseng fruits?
The reason is actually very simple, from the words of Shou Xinggong, you can see the clues.
In the twenty-sixth time of the original work, Sun Wukong knocked down the ginseng fruit tree and asked Fulu Shou Sanxing for help, but Shou Xinggong and others criticized him: "You monkey, you don't know people at all." That Zhen Yuanzi is the ancestor of the Earth Immortals, and I am the Sect of Immortals; although you have obtained the Heavenly Immortals, you are still too yi to scatter the numbers, and you have not entered the True Stream, how can you get rid of his hands? ”
In the eyes of Shou Xinggong, Zhen Yuanzi's cultivation was so high and his mana was so strong that even Sun Wukong, the Great Saint of Qi Tian, who was making a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace, was far away, and since this was the case, he was even farther above the demons.
The monsters capture Tang Monk and fight against Sun Wukong, and there is still a possibility of escaping by chance; and stealing ginseng fruit and opposing Zhen Yuanzi, even if they escape to the end of the world, they cannot escape Zhen Yuanzi's boundless mana.
Of course, the demons would rather risk catching Tang Monk than steal ginseng fruit.