Although Patriarch Bodhi lives in seclusion in Lingtai Fangcun Mountain and rarely interacts with the outside world, because of his high mana, he still attracts many immortal cultivators from the Three Realms to come to apprentice, so how many disciples does Patriarch Bodhi have?
In the first episode of the original book, Sun Wukong traveled all over the world to find famous teachers to learn art, came to Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, and met a woodcutter who was chopping wood. When he saw that the woodcutter was extraordinary, he thought he was an immortal, but the woodcutter told him that he was not an immortal, but that there was an old immortal nearby, who was the Bodhi Patriarch.
Then, the woodcutter introduced the Bodhi Patriarch to Sun Wukong and said: "There are countless apprentices of the patriarch, and there are still thirty or forty people practicing from him. You follow that path, and go seven or eight miles south, and you will be his house. ”
Under the guidance of the woodcutter, Sun Wukong successfully found the three-star cave of the oblique moon of the Bodhi Patriarch's dojo, and worshiped under the Bodhi Patriarch as he wished.
Patriarch Bodhi learned that Sun Wukong did not have a name at that time, so he decided to give him a name. He told Sun Wukong that there are twelve characters in his door, and Sun Wukong is his tenth generation disciple, and he is a "Wu" in terms of seniority, so he named Sun Wukong Sun Wukong.
Since Sun Wukong is the tenth generation disciple of the Bodhi Patriarch, it can be seen that the Bodhi Patriarch has taught ten generations of disciples, and the woodcutter said before that there are still thirty or forty people under the Bodhi Patriarch to follow him to practice, and these thirty or forty people are probably disciples of the same generation, so it can be seen that there are thirty or forty disciples of the Bodhi Patriarch's generation, and a total of three or four hundred disciples have been taught.
A great god can accept three or four hundred immortal cultivation enthusiasts as apprentices, and it can be regarded as a peach and plum all over the world, but what is strange is that the success rate of these three or four hundred disciples seems to be very low, and only Sun Wukong is famous in the Three Realms.
Speaking of which, everyone must be very curious, there are many disciples of Bodhi Patriarch, why is Sun Wukong the only one who is famous?
Some people believe that most of the other disciples of the Bodhi Patriarch are mediocre in talent, and their mana cultivation is far inferior to that of Sun Wukong, so they naturally cannot be famous in the Three Realms.
But in fact, according to the plot of the original book, Sun Wukong is certainly the best among the disciples of Bodhi Patriarch, but if his mana far exceeds that of all his brothers, I am afraid it is not true. You must know that after he learned somersault clouds, he was ridiculed by the senior brothers for being able to send documents and hand over reports, which shows that somersault clouds are nothing more than Erer in the eyes of the senior brothers, and their strength is also evident.
The real reason why only Sun Wukong is famous among the disciples of Bodhi Patriarch is that we can see the clues from what he said to Sun Wukong when he accepted Sun Wukong as a disciple.
In the first episode of the original work, when the Bodhi Patriarch named Sun Wukong, he mentioned that there were twelve characters under his door, and Sun Wukong asked which twelve words they were, and the Bodhi Patriarch said: "Naiguang, Da, Zhi, Hui, True, Ru, Sex, Hai, Ying, Wu, Yuan, Jue twelve characters." ”
From the words of Patriarch Bodhi, it is not difficult for us to find that his fifth-generation disciples are the Ruzi generation, and we know that Rulai is also the Ruzi generation, so he is likely to be the fifth-generation disciple of the Bodhi Patriarch.
However, when he summoned the gods of Lingshan to plan the great cause of learning scriptures, he said that Xiniu Hezhou was supremely true, that is, there was no heavenly saint-level god in Xiniu Hezhou, which was tantamount to declaring that he did not know the Bodhi Patriarch.
Because Patriarch Bodhi is a low-key person who doesn't like to be disturbed by the outside world, if he claims that there is a truth in Xiniu Hezhou, the people of the Three Realms will inevitably go to Xiniu Hezhou to look for it, and Patriarch Bodhi's hermitage will be known to the Three Realms if he arrives.
It is not difficult to understand why only Sun Wukong is famous among the disciples of Bodhi Patriarch, because other disciples who are famous in the Three Realms, such as Rulai, in order to avoid the master being disturbed by the outside world, will not advertise themselves as disciples of Bodhi Patriarch at all, so it creates an illusion that other disciples of Bodhi Patriarch are unknown. What do you think?