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Ah, okay, let’s talk about the adaptation of "Journey to the West" today.

Whether the adaptation of Black Myth is good or not, I believe that anyone who has seen it knows a lot about it, no matter whether they have played the game or not, or what the plot and writing are like.

What is most important is whether his setting and definition of the characters are consistent with the original work and which version of the original work they are consistent with.

If the black myth group defines him as the Yuan Dynasty drama Xuanzang's Journey to the West, including other versions of "Journey to the West", in which Sun Wukong has different images and can do all kinds of evil, then he should pay tribute to these versions of Sun Wukong.

The Sun Wukong in the story can be called the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, the Walking Stick, or the Monkey Walker, but he cannot be called the Great Sage Equaling Heaven Sun Wukong.

Because there is only one Great Sage Equaling Heaven, Sun Wukong, and only the Sun Wukong in Wu Chengen's "Journey to the West" and the 86 version of "Journey to the West" is called the Great Sage Equaling Heaven.

Whether in modern times or after the Ming Dynasty, people's recognition of the image of Sun Wukong and this character are all based on Wu Chengen's "Journey to the West".

In so many previous versions of "Journey to the West", whether it is Sun Wukong, Tang Monk, or Bajie, White Dragon Horse, or Sha Seng, each of them has a different character image.

In some versions, the journey to the West team does not even consist of these four people. Sometimes it is just Tang Seng and the Monkey King, and sometimes there are three or four people.

Each version is different, so let me briefly talk about several adapted versions of Journey to the West.

I picked two novel versions and two animation versions. Although the novel version is not as popular as "The Legend of Sun Wukong", it also led to the development of the conspiracy theory "Journey to the West".

But one continues the style of conspiracy theory, and the other continues the style of the 86 version of "Journey to the West", a style that guides people to develop towards truth, goodness and beauty.

Then there are two anime versions that are relatively popular, one is the Journey to the West in 10 Bad Jokes, and the other is the Lucky Star which is a spoof of Journey to the West.

Let me talk about the novel version first. I read the two novels a long time ago, about 15 or so.

I can't quite remember the names of the two books, but I still remember the general plot. First, let me talk about the first book. This was my first exposure to the conspiracy theory version of "Journey to the West". At that time, I only thought that the early part was pretty good.

Although the content is rather ridiculous, it is similar to a revenge story in the early stages, but it starts to become nonsense in the middle and late stages.

Let me tell you about the general plot flow of the first novel. The first book continues the conspiracy theory style and begins with the true and false Monkey King.

Then the story developed that the real Monkey King was beaten to death by the Six-Eared Macaque, and then the Six-Eared Macaque went on the journey to obtain the scriptures on behalf of the Monkey King. This is a common statement in conspiracy theories.

Then the setting in this novel is that the real Monkey King still had a remnant soul left at that time, and then it possessed the body of a monkey or a human.

Then, with the help of Bodhi Patriarch or some other god, he found some rare treasures and integrated them into his body. Finally, he returned to the Flower-Fruit Mountain, practiced for several years, and finally came back to life.

However, his strength was relatively weak at that time, and he did not seek revenge immediately. Instead, he practiced in Huaguo Mountain for a while.

Then he found the Dragon King, monsters, and gods he knew in the past and took a lot of elixirs and equipment from them. In the end, he managed to restore his previous cultivation level.

Then this book also uses the ancient system when it comes to the conspiracy theory version of Journey to the West. That is to say, the "Journey to the West" in it is what a group of ancient ghosts often call the Great Catastrophe of Journey to the West, and those saints are behind the scenes controlling it.

After the Great Sage recovered to his peak, he immediately went to seek revenge on the Six-Eared Macaque.

Because according to the setting, at that time, the real Monkey King was weakened by the Five Finger Mountain and had not recovered to his heyday. In addition, he had other people helping him behind the scenes, so he was beaten to death by the Six-Eared Macaque.

Then this time when it returned to its heyday, the Six-Eared Macaque was killed by Sun Wukong when there was no one else to help him. However, what happened after Sun Wukong killed the Six-Eared Macaque had nothing to do with "Journey to the West" at all.

After Sun Wukong killed the Six-Eared Macaque, the situation developed into Sun Wukong tying up Tang Monk, Bajie, and Sha Monk and bringing them back to the Flower-Fruit Mountain, and then inviting various demon kings such as the Bull Demon King to come.

Then he cooked Tang Seng and distributed it to everyone in order to lure out the gods and Buddhas.

Bajie and Sha Seng did not kill him because of their old friendship, but they locked him up, and their friendship as brothers ended.

The White Dragon Horse’s presence was not strong at the time, and I can’t remember what the outcome was.

Then the story of Tang Monk being boiled in water naturally came out, and at this time the conspiracy theory began, that the Buddhist sect was calculating, and that it was Sun Wukong, and the Heavenly Court was also studying, and then Sun Wukong got angry, and led the Flower-Fruit Mountain and various demon kings to fight against the Heavenly Court and Buddhism.

In the early stage it is a revenge story, and the three-way battle is fun to watch, but from the middle to late stages it gradually becomes unbelievable.

First, there was the mid-term war. Because there were fewer things to do on the Heavenly Court side and they had the ancient system, they turned Journey to the West into a place that respected Buddhism and suppressed Taoism.

Heaven was already at a disadvantage in this situation, so it did not participate in the war at that time. It only joined the war at a later stage.

In the middle stage, it is a fight with Buddhism, and then the fight is over. As a result, the monkey characterization here is similar to that in Black Myth.

He has no bottom line in doing things, and not only did he fight with Buddhism in the middle stage, he also brought in Guanyin.

It was the one you imagined. After searching for Guanyin, he went on to search for other women, and finally hooked up with the White Bone Demon. I can't remember what happened to the White Bone Demon at that time, but she was still alive.

Then he colluded with Sun Wukong and rebelled against Heaven, thinking that his death was plotted by Heaven.

Then in the middle period, Buddhism was defeated step by step, and Zhunti came out to suppress Sun Wukong, but was stopped by Hongjun.

It is not accurate to say that it was Hongjun, because the setting here also follows a conspiracy theory, that is, Sun Wukong was left behind by Nuwa when she repaired the sky, so at this time it was Nuwa who came down with Hongjun's order, and stopped Jie Yin and Zhunti, which was considered to be a protection for Sun Wukong.

And from here on, the book becomes completely abstract.

From Nuwa and Hou Tu to the Jade Rabbit and the white bones.

Either the relationship is unclear, or the body is clear.

To be honest, it's not like I spent money to read this book at the time. I didn't even want to read it after I saw it, let alone the later part.

I thought at the time that I had spent all my money and had read more than 600 chapters, so I gave up now. I regretted it, but I didn't expect that I would regret it even more when I read more than 900 chapters. Damn it, the more I read, the more abstract it became.

Conspiracy theories abound, with Nuwa protecting Sun Wukong not out of guilt as previously stated, but to use Sun Wukong to help her become a higher saint.

Then after defeating Buddhism, he fought the underworld. After defeating the underworld, he fought the Heaven. After defeating the Heaven, he fought the saints. After defeating the saints, he fought Hongjun. After defeating Hongjun, he fought the Heaven. After defeating the Heaven, he fought the Great Dao. It was endless.

Then from the beginning to the end, whether someone was good to Sun Wukong or not, they all wanted to use him. It was as if no one could have a good relationship from the beginning to the end.

The demon kings gathered in the Flower-Fruit Mountain followed Sun Wukong in rebellion in order to obtain the resources of the Heavenly Palace and the resources of the saints.

Then from beginning to end you can't see a single bit of truth, goodness, and beauty in this book.

It is very abstract. In the early stage it can be regarded as a revenge story. In the middle stage it starts to include Guanyin, White Bones, Jade Rabbit, Chang'e, Nuwa, and leg guards. It becomes more and more abstract as time goes on.

Then the most crucial thing is the setting here. The Monkey King is not a time traveler. He does not have the soul of a modern person who has traveled through time.

He just followed the original setting and then took the route of conspiracy theory, that the real and fake Monkey King was the one who was beaten to death and it was the Great Sage.

I just want to ask you whether this adaptation is outrageous?

This was the first Journey to the West novel with conspiracy theories that I read. Before that, I had read the feminine version, the immortal cultivation version, the daily life version, and the battle version. I had read everything, but the only thing I hadn't read was the conspiracy theory version.

Until later I wanted to change my taste, and I read this for the first time, and then I was shocked by it, what the hell is this?

This obligation is very against our will, but at that time, because I didn't understand conspiracy theories, I thought it was just the author being crazy. Later I found out that there are actually people who specialize in conspiracy theories about "Journey to the West".

At the time I was wondering if these people were crazy, but then I thought, everyone has their own interpretation, and there are always some psychopaths who don’t know what they are interpreting, so let them be.

I didn't expect that there are still people doing this today, and even treating it as a kind of positive value to be exported. I am really impressed.

This book was my first exposure to conspiracy theories about Journey to the West, and I never read it again after that. Even when I later learned about a book called The Legend of Sun Wukong, my opinion of that thing was, whoever wants to read it can do so, I won’t read it.

Then this book was also the first time I felt that I had wasted all that money, what a piece of crap.

This one is also a novel rewritten in the direction of conspiracy theory, but it incorporates primitive mythology. The following one is written with the themes of truth, goodness and beauty, and also incorporates certain primitive mythology, but not much.

The following book is not a pure Journey to the West, as it involves time travelers.

It's basically about a man who got hit by a car or struck to death, anyway he died, and then traveled to the world of Journey to the West and turned into a turtle.

Originally he didn't know about the world of Journey to the West, he just simply felt that he had turned into a turtle and was very sad.

Then one day, when the protagonist crawled to the side of the road, he suddenly saw humans. Seeing that they were wearing ancient costumes, he thought they were filming a movie.

As a result, I heard from them that there were gods descending in Dongsheng Shenzhou and Aolai Kingdom.

The protagonist suddenly remembered his death and realized that he was no longer in the world of Journey to the West. Then the turtle began to eavesdrop on human conversations and finally heard the key words.

It is said that there is a Flower-Fruit Mountain, which is the ancestor of the ten continents and the origin of the three islands.

There is a fairy stone on it, which has been born and nurtured by the earth since the creation of the world, absorbing spiritual essences and emitting essences.

After hearing a lot of blah blah, the protagonist was shocked. He thought, wow, he has traveled to the Journey to the West and Monkey King is not born yet. He quickly goes to curry favor with him.

The world of Journey to the West is dangerous if you say it is not dangerous, but it is also dangerous if you say it is not dangerous.

Because the theme is 81 difficulties, there are many monsters on the journey to obtain the scriptures. However, from the few words we hear from others, we can tell that they are still living a stable life.

On the way to obtain the scriptures, many countries lived relatively comfortably before the pilgrims arrived, except for the area around the Flaming Mountain, which suffered for 500 years.

So the protagonist was thinking at the time, although he might not necessarily take part in the journey to obtain the scriptures, what if one day when he was strolling around, he happened to stray onto the journey to obtain the scriptures, and was killed by the aftermath of someone else's battle nearby?

So you have to quickly cling to the thigh, quickly cling to Brother Huo's thigh, and then the protagonist will go through untold hardships, climbing all the way and listening all the way.

After spending an unknown amount of time, he finally managed to reach the Flower-Fruit Mountain, and then went to the largest main peak. After going through untold hardships, he finally walked to the side of Monkey King.

Then he settled down next to Monkey King. His daily tasks were to eat, drink, defecate, urinate, sleep, and take care of Monkey King's stone.