"Journey to the West" is broad and profound, many details in it are worth recalling, this article let's talk about the old man of the Bull Demon King: Long live the Fox King. In the original work, the author did not use much ink on him, but there was still some material to dig deeper, such as his death.
Cow
Mention of the Viva Fox King may not be very familiar to everyone, but when it comes to the two characters associated with him, everyone will not be unfamiliar, one is his only daughter Jade Face Fox, it is estimated that friends who have seen the 86 version of Journey to the West will have an impression, she can be called a beautiful woman, when peers rank the beauty in Journey to the West, her rank will not fall out of the top three. Everyone has a heart for beauty, so the impression of her is quite deep.
The other is his son-in-law, the Great Bull Demon King, who is Sun Wukong's brother-in-law, the eldest of the Seven Saints, and the biggest demon king found so far, and the Bull Demon King has a wide range of friends, otherwise Sun Wukong, who is far away in Dongsheng Yingzhou, would not have heard of him in West Niuhe Prefecture.
In fact, the Viva Fox King is also a very great demon king, first of all, he is very rich, how much money is there? After his death, his daughter Jade Faced Fox inherited the family property, which was millions of dollars, and even the Bull Demon King coveted it, and was even willing to enter the family. And according to the jade-faced fox's own account, all the uses of the iron fan princess are also from the jade-faced fox.
Jade-faced fox
Secondly, the power is huge, he controls the Moyun Cave of Jilei Mountain and a large piece of land nearby, this Jilei Mountain is beautiful scenery, full of immortality, and it is an excellent place for cultivation, but he has been in this place for so long, and there has been no flaw, so it can be seen that he still has power. You must know that this is the West Niuhe Prefecture, Rulai's territory, Rulai will not tolerate such a powerful demon king organization here, but it has not touched him, which shows that he has strength.
Finally, and most importantly, the Viva Fox King peeked into the sky, according to scientific records, foxes are divided into many species, such as blue foxes, red foxes, silver and black foxes, etc., but their lifespan is at most about 14 years. But the long live fox king's name is to live ten thousand years or close to long live. This is problematic.
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Some friends may say that he is of course the demon king who lives longer, but he can't say that it is not easy to live for a long time in journey to the West, for example, even If Sun Wukong, who has practiced the Great Heavenly Immortal Technique, was still captured and entered the underground mansion at the age of 342, his qualifications are excellent, people are born of heaven and earth, will it be better than a fox? In addition, life stars, who are known for their longevity, also need to "cultivate refining, refining qi, storing spirits, reconciling dragons and tigers, catching obstacles and filling in the gaps, I don't know how much work it takes." And a fox can live for ten thousand years, what does that mean?
This means that the Viva Fox King has cracked the secret of immortality and can already live forever, why do you say so? Because there are two ways to live forever in the western world, one is to eat peaches, ginseng fruits and other life-prolonging things. One is to cultivate perverted exercises, which can not only "seize the creation of heaven and earth, invade the mysteries of the sun and moon" but also avoid the catastrophe of heaven and earth, because eternal life is against the Heavenly Dao, so it will inevitably be punished by the Heavenly Dao.
Living as a fox with a lifespan of less than 20 years to 10,000 years is enough to show that his cultivation method satisfies the above two points. However, although the Viva Fox King was able to avoid the punishment of heaven and earth, he could not escape the pursuit of the soul of the Underground Palace, they did not allow such a practice to exist in the world, nor would they allow such a figure to interfere with the order of the Three Realms, because the energy between heaven and earth was conserved, if the practice spread and everyone did not die, then the immortals of the Eight Classics of Zheng'er would not be able to absorb the energy of heaven and earth and could not live forever, so the long live fox king must die.
Therefore, the death of the Long Live Fox King is not a natural disaster but a man-made disaster. And the reason why the Bull Devil King was willing to enter the Jade Face Fox Family, I am afraid that what he coveted was not the wealth of the Wanguan Family, because with the strength of the old cow, he let go of the family robbery house, and how much money he wanted could have, so he entered the Jade Face Fox Family in order to obtain the secret of immortality.