In journey to the West, there are only three people who understand the seventy-two changes.
The first is Sun Wukong, the second is the Erlang god Yang Jian, and the third is the Bull Demon King.
Why does the Bull Demon King also change seventy-two?
In the Journey to the West, those who understand the seventy-two changes of this kind of magic are not small, and the background is not small.
Sun Wukong can be said to be a model of grassroots counterattack, starting with a stone, and finally self-proclaiming qi tian da saint, making a big fuss in the heavenly palace, no one can stop it. His master, Bodhidharma, could sit on an equal footing with the Buddha.
Erlang Shen was a related household and a nephew of the Jade Emperor. The strength of the Erlang God is comparable to that of Sun Wukong, and in the original work, they performed seventy-two changes to fight each other, which was so wonderful that no one could help each other.
What is the background of the Bull Demon King? Very mysterious, maybe not simple!
In the original Journey to the West, his body is shrouded in a layer of fog, which makes people unable to see clearly.
The Bull Demon King also understands the seventy-two changes. In the story of the Road Block Flame Mountain, he once turned into the Eight Precepts of the Pig and retrieved the banana fan from Sun Wukong's hand. Even if Sun Wukong had the golden eye of fire that saw through the illusion, he couldn't even notice it!
The strength of the Bull Demon King is also extraordinary, and he can fight with Sun Wukong for more than a hundred rounds, and he has not yet seen defeat. Moreover, it can also be said to stop and stop, and get out of his body to go to the feast of the Ten Thousand Saints Dragon King in Bibotan. This kind of dashing style of talking about fighting and stopping is not something that everyone can have. After all, his opponent at this time is Sun Wukong.
And the final ability to subdue the Bull Demon King was also the result of the joint efforts of Sun Wukong's brothers, the Four Great Kongs of the Buddha Gate, and Li Jing Tianbing of the Heavenly Court. The strength of the Bull Demon King's body can be said to be appalling.
The bull demon king's family power is also quite strong.
The Cow Demon King's wife is the Iron Fan Princess. The Bull Devil King once introduced his wife: "My mountain wife has been practicing since childhood, and she is also a virtuous fairy." It can be seen that the Iron Fan Princess was cultivated into an immortal by mortals. As a fairy and known as a "princess", it can be seen that the iron fan princess was also the daughter of a country.
The younger brother of the Bull Demon King is Ruyi Zhenxian, who owns the property of his daughter's kingdom and is in charge of the fertility cause of a country.
The son of the Bull Demon King is the Red Child Cow Holy Child, and his Samadhi True Fire spell has made Sun Wukong look disgraced. Later, he became the fortune-scattering boy of Guanyin Bodhisattva and entered the establishment. Very few yokai can have such good treatment. Many people suspect that this is a means of co-opting by Guanyin Bodhisattva.
Even princess Jade Face, the little concubine of the Bull Demon King, is also the daughter of the Long Live Fox King.
What is the background of the Bull Demon King? Maybe it has something to do with the Buddha.
The background of the Bull Demon King is not explicitly stated in the original Journey to the West. It only said that his true appearance was that of a great white bull.
To uncover the mysterious background of the Bull Demon King, you can only look for it outside the original book. After all, the author's writing of the book is not unfounded.
And the bull demon king's true appearance, the "Great White Bull", is the key to uncovering the secret.
The cow has a very high status in Buddhism and is one of the incarnations of the Buddha.
One of the eighty incarnations of the Buddha is the "Cow King."
The Lotus Sutra says that the Buddha "walked peacefully, like a cow king." ”
The Yogi Treatise calls the Buddha "the king of cattle among men."
The mention of the Great White Bull in the Lotus Sutra refers to the Use of the Great White Bull as a metaphor for the Supreme Mind Method of Buddhism, the Mahayana Dharma.
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Wu Cheng'en, the author of Journey to the West, wrote Journey to the West with reference to a lot of Buddhist materials, and his accumulation of Buddhist knowledge is very deep.
The original appearance of the Bull Demon King is the Great White Bull, which means that the Bull Demon King is most likely the embodiment of the Buddha.
Therefore, the Bull Demon King understands the seventy-two changes, the family is powerful, a divine power is still better than Sun Wukong, and the Immortal Buddha also gives face... After all, it is the incarnation of the Buddha, and the realization of these are small things.