First of all, I want to make it clear here that the object of discussion is the master who is "the first in close combat", not the master who is "the first in comprehensive strength".
The so-called melee combat is to fight with bare hands, or fight with weapons, without considering mana or magic weapons, just like when we look at the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Water Margin, we discuss which general is more fierce, only consider weapon fighting, and even do not consider hidden weapons, archery, and flying stones.
Therefore, immortals such as Guanyin Bodhisattva, Buddha Rulai, Taishang Laojun, Maitreya Buddha and other immortals are not considered. After all, even if these gods do their hands, they use mana and magic weapons, and they don't know how to fight in close combat.
When it comes to a certain status, the great immortals actually don't bother to do it themselves, and at most they have protectors who can fight in close combat.
For example, Guanyin Bodhisattva, the protector of the Dharma is Hui'an Walker (that is, Mucha, the second son of Li Tianwang); After Rulai received Dapeng, Dapeng became his protector. Later, Guanyin Bodhisattva went to visit the person who learned the scriptures, and met Zhu Bajie halfway, that is, the Hui'an walker came out to fight with Zhu Bajie.
Judging from Sun Wukong's havoc in the Heavenly Palace, basically all the melee masters have fought with Sun Wukong. It's just that some people fought with Sun Wukong, and the author described it in detail, such as Giant Spirit God, Nezha, Wang Lingguan, etc.; And some people fought with Sun Wukong, and the author only brought it in one sentence, such as the Four Heavenly Kings and the Twenty-Eight Constellations.
So, among the great gods who fought against Sun Wukong, who was the number one melee master in Heavenly Court?
There are many candidates, such as the Twenty-Eight Constellations, the Nine Yao Xingjun, the Four Heavenly Kings, Nezha, Wang Lingguan, Mucha, etc. However, it is necessary to screen out some people first, because they obviously lost to Sun Wukong.
For example, the Twenty-Eight Constellations, the Nine Yao Star Monarchs, and the Four Heavenly Kings, the author has said that they were defeated by Sun Wukong and were afraid.
The twenty-seven members of the Pleiades received the will, went out of the gate of heaven, and each recited a mantra to alarm the stars. Where did he take refuge? He turned out to be a god general who was scared when Sun Dasheng was making trouble in the Heavenly Palace, and he flashed in the mountain stream and was hidden by the water and clouds, so he never saw him.
That is, he went to the ear and took out the wishful stick, the wind was disguised, the bowl was thick, and it was still held in his hand, regardless of whether it was good or bad, but it was a big chaos in the heavenly palace, and the nine stars were closed, and the four heavenly kings were invisible.
(The great sage) opened the iron rod, a pretense, the thickness of the bowl, the length of the two zhang, threw away the rack, and the fight will come out. Jiuyao Star dared to resist and retreated for a while.
This great sage and Hui'an fought for fifty or sixty times, Hui'an's arms were sore, and he couldn't meet the enemy.
Therefore, there is no need to discuss the Four Heavenly Kings, the Nine Stars, the Twenty-Eight Constellations, and the Wooden Fork, they lost completely.
The Djinn God also lost, and it was a shameful loss.
Cut off the head. The monkey king is not busy, and he welcomes the golden hoop stick...... The giant spirit god couldn't resist the enemy, and was chopped by the monkey king, and hurriedly separated the axe frame, and with a sound of "knocking", he beat the axe handle into two, and retreated in a hurry to escape from the defeat.
Erlang God also has to be screened out, although he did not lose to Sun Wukong, but he is not a Heavenly Court Immortal, he can only be regarded as an Immortal who takes the initiative to stay away from Heavenly Court.
Because the relationship between Erlang God and the Jade Emperor is not very good, he does not go to court on weekdays, does not do things, but "listens to the tune and does not listen to the announcement". In other words, only in the event of an emergency, or a special event, the Jade Emperor sends someone to deliver the holy decree to Erlang God, and Erlang God will come to help. And after helping, Erlang God would not go to see the Jade Emperor, and went directly back to his own Guanjiang estuary.
As a result, there were only two candidates left, and they were also two people with higher status in Heavenly Court. One is Nezha, the son of King Li Tian, the great god of the Three Altars Sea Society; One is the head of the five hundred spirit officials, the first protector of the Heavenly Court, the spirit king.
Let's talk about Wang Lingguan first
In some marketing accounts or conspiracy theory articles, Wang Lingguan is often regarded as "Heavenly Court Security", "a random bodyguard by the Jade Emperor's side", and "a person who watches the gate". This statement is not objective, it belongs to "belittling Wang Lingguan and further belittling Sun Wukong".
Lingguan is the most worshiped protector god in Taoism. Generally speaking, the spirit officer is an immortal with high combat effectiveness, similar to the Buddhist protector Veda.
Taoism has 500 Lingguan (generally, not only 500), and Wang Lingguan is the head of the 500 Lingguan, which shows that he is a master among the masters.
Wang Lingguan, the Taoist Thunder Department, the Fire Department, his statue is often placed at the Taoist Mountain Gate, in charge of the Dharma protection, supervision, picket.
In fact, Wang Lingguan's status is extremely high, and his position in the Heavenly Court is that of the Great Lingguan of the Heavens. Wang Lingguan's full name is "the first general of the congenital heart to protect the road 35 train Wang Tianjun Wei Ling manifestation Tianzun", in addition to the position of the great spiritual official of the capital, Wang Lingguan is also "Yushu Huofu Heavenly General", "Lei Gong of the 35th Train of the Thunder Department".
From these titles alone, it can be seen that Wang Lingguan is not simple.
In the Ming Dynasty, Wang Lingguan's status was extremely high, because the emperor attached great importance to it, so Wang Lingguan directly entered the list of immortals sacrificed by the state. His title of "Yushu Huofu Heavenly General" was sealed by Zhu Zhanji of Ming Xuanzong. Ming Taizu Zhu Di also attached great importance to Wang Lingguan, and he specially built a temple in Beijing to worship Wang Lingguan and his teacher Sa Shoujian. Zhu Di's marching military flag was even painted with a statue of Wang Lingguan, and every time he marched and fought, he carried the statue of Wang Lingguan as a protective god.
Based on these, Wang Lingguan became the military god of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, it is not objective enough to say that Wang Lingguan is a bodyguard, a security guard, and a gatekeeper.
It can be said that Wang Lingguan is one of the representatives of the highest combat power of the Heavenly Court, and the author used Wang Lingguan to fight Sun Wukong, hoping to use Wang Lingguan to show the high combat power of Sun Wukong.
However, although Wang Lingguan is very powerful, he is still not Sun Wukong's opponent, or barely Wukong's opponent. When Wukong escaped from the gossip furnace and fought godless along the way, it was Wang Lingguan who stopped Sun Wukong.
This time, the Monkey King is not divided between top and bottom, so that the iron rod fights the enemy in the east and west, and there is no god to stop it. Only hit into the Tongming Palace, outside the Lingxiao Palace. Fortunately, there is the envoy of the Holy True Monarch, Wang Lingguan, who is in charge of the palace. When he saw the great sage, he stepped forward with a golden whip and said, "Where are you going!" Don't be rampant here! The great sage couldn't help but say, and he raised his stick and struck. The spirit officer whipped up to greet him.
In fact, Wang Lingguan can't beat Sun Wukong, so he can only support it. Therefore, later, Yousheng Zhenjun transferred the thirty-six generals of the Lei Department (note that the Lei generals are all fighting generals and have very high combat effectiveness), and everyone joined forces to block Sun Wukong.
The two of them fought in one place, the victory or defeat was not divided, and he had already blessed the Holy True Monarch, and sent the general Zuo to the Lei Mansion, and transferred thirty-six Lei generals to come together, and surrounded the great sage in the heart, each fighting fiercely.
Afterwards, when You Yi Lingguan and Yi Shengzhen went to the West Heaven to announce the will of the Jade Emperor and asked the Buddha for help, they talked about Wang Lingguan's embarrassment.
The Holy Revelation said: "...... He jumped out of the gossip furnace again, repelled Tianding, and went straight into the Tongming Palace, outside the Lingxiao Palace; was blocked by the envoy Wang Lingguan of the Holy True Monarch, and transferred thirty-six thunder generals, trapping him in the heart, and finally he could not get close. The matter is urgent, therefore, the Jade Emperor specially invited Rulai to rescue the driver. ”
The Buddha also said that Wukong fought against everyone and had the upper hand.
Rulai said: "That guy is a demon monkey born in Huaguo Mountain, and the crime is monstrous and indescribable. The gods of heaven will not be able to subdue, although Erlang is captured. Lao Jun exercised with fire, and he couldn't be hurt. When I went, I was in the middle of the thunder generals, showing off his might and showing off his spirit, but I stopped him and asked him where he came from...... But Fang quit and returned. ”
Since Sun Wukong can "show off his martial arts and show off his spirit", it is obvious that he has the upper hand and is very relaxed. It won't be long before Goku will be able to defeat everyone. This point corresponds to what the Second Holy House said, "The matter is urgent".
Therefore, the truth of the battle between Wang Lingguan and Sun Wukong is:
Wang Lingguan couldn't beat Sun Wukong alone, so he could only fight hard, and afterwards the thirty-six generals of the Lei Department came to help, but they could only barely trap Sun Wukong, and their thirty-seven masters couldn't even get close to Sun Wukong. It's just that Journey to the West is a Ming Dynasty novel after all, and the author may have to defend Wang Lingguan, so he didn't write it so directly.
Let's talk about Nezha
In fact, the first time Nezha fought with Sun Wukong, he was defeated by Sun Wukong. However, as far as Nezha is concerned, although he is defeated, he is still glorious, because Wukong is cheating, and it is not considered to defeat Nezha by pure force.
The third prince and Wukong each fought for thirty rounds. The prince's six weapons have been transformed into thousands; Sun Wukong's golden hoop stick has become thousands of thousands. It looks like a raindrop meteor in mid-air, and there is no difference between victory and defeat. It turned out that Wukong's hands were quick, and in that chaos, he plucked a hairless hair and shouted, "Change!" "He changed into his true appearance, holding a stick in his hand, playing Nezha; His real body, however, rushed to the back of Nezha's head and hit him with a stick on his left arm. Nezha was making a dharma, heard the sound of the wind on the stick, and when he was dodging urgently, he couldn't be caught off guard, and he was caught by him, and fled in pain; After collecting the law, he put six weapons back to his body, and returned defeated.
Therefore, in terms of pure force, Nezha and Sun Wukong are tied. It's just that Wukong was more witty and defeated Nezha with his clone.
Many years later, Wukong protected Tang Seng to learn scriptures, and Qingniu was in trouble, and Wukong had to go to heaven for help. However, among the many gods and generals in the Heavenly Court, Wukong thinks that it is okay, and it is Li Jing and Nezha.
The walker lowered his head and thought secretly: "There will be more generals in the sky than the old grandson, and there will be fewer people like the old grandson." When I wanted to make trouble in the Heavenly Palace, the Jade Emperor sent 100,000 heavenly soldiers to spread a net, and no one dared to compete with me...... Only teach Tota Li Tianwang and Prince Nezha, he still has a few demon subduing weapons, and the nether realm has a battle with that strange sight to see how it goes. If he can be captured, it is the luck of the old grandson; If not, then make another district. ”
It can be seen that in Sun Wukong's impression, there are not many immortals in Heaven who can fight, and Li Jing and Nezha have a few demon subduing weapons. This can be seen from the side, Wukong admits that Nezha's father and son have ability, so they have an impression. Wang Lingguan was not, Wukong didn't expect him.
Of course, Nezha's experience is enough to show that he is very strong, especially after he worships Buddha as his father.
The Buddha saw it and knew that it was the soul of Nezha, that is, the green lotus root was the bone, the lotus leaf was the clothes, and the mantra of resurrection was moved, and Nezha was killed. Using divine power, the law descended the demons of the ninety-six caves, and the magic power was vast, and later he wanted to kill the king of heaven and avenge the bone-removing revenge.
Li Jing is not Nezha's opponent, so he asked for help from the Buddha. The Buddha gave him a pagoda for this reason, so that when Nezha saw the pagoda, it was like seeing the Buddha, and he would not kill Li Jing.
In addition, in other people's impressions, Nezha is also very powerful.
The walker said: "Known. However, King Li and the crown prince were defeated and lost their weapons, so they came to ask you to rescue and rescue. Xingjun said: "Then what is the great god of the Three Altars Sea Society, when he was born, he had descended ninety-six caves of demons, and his magical powers were vast, if he couldn't, how could the little god dare to look at it?" ”
Therefore, it can be seen from this: Nezha overpowered Wang Lingguan and is regarded as the number one melee master in Heavenly Court.