Chapter 446

Some people read books very quickly. In the next two days, many people finished reading "Journey to the West" one after another. Just finishing it wasn't enough; they were also commenting crazily on the internet.

For a time.

"Journey to the West" continued to boil on the internet, and its popularity climbed step by step!

"I thought I just opened a Xianxia web novel, but it turned out to be a contemporary classic! With this, does the teacher dare to say I didn't study hard and slacked off to read novels?"

"A book comparable to Investiture of the Gods has appeared. After the prehistoric world, it appeared in the Journey to the West world!"

"I didn't expect that one day, I would fall in love with a monkey!"

"Sun Sun Wukong is really too handsome, somersault clouds, seventy-two transformations, and a big stick, I really want to give birth to a monkey for my husband."

"This is Xu Mingyue's best work, an absolute peak work! In the four-person group of scripture seekers, to a greater or lesser extent, one can find one's own shadow: rebellious like Sun Wukong, slick like Zhu Bajie, suffering like Sha Monk, persistent like Tang Seng... A person's life is concentrated in this book."

"From the Great Sage Equal to Heaven to the Fighting Victorious Buddha, it is actually a process of a person recognizing social reality and compromising!"

"Journey to the West is amazing! Xu Mingyue is terrifying!"

"The Emperor of Rolling lives up to his name. This time he rolled out a classic-level novel, who else is there?"

"..."

On the internet, readers were posting comments.

Like on Earth, among the protagonists in "Journey to the West," the person most liked by the vast majority of people is Sun Sun Wukong.

This character has too much charm, making it hard not to love him.

Of course, there were also discussions about other characters, but they were praise and criticism.

"Tang Seng is too much of a 'holy mother' (self-righteous). Knowing they are robbers, he still advised his eldest disciple to hold back. Could it be that the lives of those who died in the hands of those robbers are not lives?"

"He really, I cried to death, when there's trouble he's a 'good disciple,' when there's no trouble he's a 'you splashy monkey'."

"The prototype of Tang Seng should be the famous high monk Master Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty, right? His disciple had an affair with Princess Gaoyang and was then killed by Taizong."

"Anyway, I don't like the Tang Seng in the book."

"He also has some advantages. As a mortal, on the road full of demons, he insisted on going to the West to seek scriptures. This firm heart is very rare!"

"..."

Compared to Tang Seng, Zhu Zhu Bajie's treatment was much better.

Although this pig is gluttonous and lazy, wanting to return to Gao Village at every turn, he vividly demonstrated in the book what a "pig teammate" is, impossible to carry.

But there really aren't many people who hate him.

People all yearn to live like Sun Sun Wukong, but unknowingly, they have lived like Zhu Zhu Bajie.

Greedy for money.

Lustful.

Lazy.

Homesick.

Slick.

In the four-person group of scripture seekers, it is "Zhu Zhu Bajie" who is the most human.

As for Sha Monk, very few people discussed him.

Everyone's deepest impression of him, besides honestly carrying the luggage, is only those few sentences:

"Master, it's not good, Master has been caught by a monster!"

"Master, it's not good, Master and Second Senior Brother have been caught by a monster!"

"..."

His presence is low enough.

And the presence of the White Dragon Horse is even lower, appearing in the book pitifully infrequently.

Of course, there are also many fans who like goddess immortals and female demons.

To sum up, what they like are beauties!

Such as Guanyin Bodhisattva, Chang'e, Jade Rabbit Demon, Queen of the Daughter Kingdom, Scorpion Demon, Spider Demon, etc.

The female demons make people have wild thoughts, and many people wish they could become the eldest disciple Sun Sun Wukong and give them a "serious" stick.

Some people also interpreted Journey to the West on a deeper level:

"The background of the entire Journey to the West is actually mapping the feudal dynasty. For example, the Heavenly Court is the imperial court in feudal times, and Sun Sun Wukong is the person who rebelled."

"Why was Sun Sun Wukong so powerful when he caused chaos in the Heavenly Court? But he was so weak later? Because he was 'grinding foreign work' (slacking off), he knew that most of those monsters were sent by the Buddha to test them, and there was not much danger."

"The entire Journey to the West is a trap! Laid out by the big shots of both Buddhism and Daoism!"

"Those monsters with backgrounds are all safe and sound, just like the 'connected people' and various second and third generations today, while the monsters without backgrounds are all beaten to death, just like the ordinary us. It's really ironic! You tell me this novel is really just telling a myth and Xianxia story?"

"The demons and ghosts on the road to the West to seek scriptures are just people's inner demons. Why are there seven spider demons? Because it represents people's seven emotions and six desires. The real and fake Monkey King is just a person having two hearts, which is equivalent to us humans all having two hearts, hidden evil."

"Why was this difficulty of the Daughter Kingdom given to Tang Seng? I think this is the most difficult difficulty in Journey to the West. Since ancient times, the 'love barrier' is the hardest to pass. If you want to achieve the right result, you only have to let go of love. Isn't this the same as our life, most people are trapped by love?"

"Is there a possibility? The real Sun Sun Wukong has been killed by the Six-Eared Macaque, and then the Six-Eared Macaque replaced him to seek the Western scriptures. Anyway, except for a few people, no one can recognize it!"

"..."

Various interpretations made the fans who had finished reading the novel suspect that they had read a fake book.

Even the author Xu Mingyue herself joined in the fun. They wrote a short blog post titled "Journey to the West Written Backwards, Everything is Sad" on Weibo.

Writing Journey to the West backwards.

This is actually a trend that once emerged in the Middle Kingdom on Earth.

"The Buddha Tathagata wanted to compete with the Daoist sect and sent Tang Seng and his disciples to take the Mahayana Buddhist scriptures to the East to preach. Along the way, they killed demons and eliminated monsters, making countless contributions. But when they were about to reach the Great Tang of the East, the Jinghe Dragon King was convicted for protecting the aquatic tribe, and the White Dragon Horse was punished and imprisoned in the Eagle Sorrow Stream for saving him.

Sha Monk and Zhu Zhu Bajie lived in seclusion in the Flowing Sand River and Gao Village one after another, while Sun Sun Wukong was pressed under the Five Finger Mountain for five hundred years because he was accused of killing too much.

Tang Seng, with his mortal body, walked to Chang'an and insisted on completing the task of preaching, dying alone.

Five hundred years later, Sun Sun Wukong came out from under the Five Finger Mountain, caused chaos in the Heavenly Court, and fought his way to the Lingxiao Palace. The Jade Emperor and the Buddha Tathagata conspired to invite Sun Sun Wukong's junior brothers from back then, Zhu Zhu Bajie and Sha Monk. Sun Sun Wukong was unwilling to make things difficult for his own people before the battle, abolished his own magic power, lived in seclusion in the Flower and Fruit Mountain, and finally turned into a stone, no longer asking about the affairs of the world."

Countless people exclaimed after reading it, saying that this is the most real life.

At the same time, they were even more impressed by the twins, not expecting that this novel could be played like this, and it could even be written backwards.

Regardless, the quality of "Journey to the West" was unanimously recognized and praised by people.

Even many big shots in the literary scene posted articles praising it endlessly.

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"It is indeed a hall-level work! It is the fortune of the literary scene of the Middle Kingdom!"

"I have witnessed history!"

"With Xu Mingyue's "Journey to the West" out, there is no suspense for this year's Yunxiao Award!"

"The Yunxiao Award is just an embellishment for "Journey to the West," its future is far more than that."

"..."

In recent days, the popularity of "Journey to the West" has remained high, and few people noticed that on the August music chart, "Map of Mountains and Rivers" had been dominating the number one spot and was never surpassed by "My Favorite" again.

And when the midnight bell rang tonight, it meant that August had ended, and the battle for the August music chart was officially over!

First place: "Map of Mountains and Rivers"

Second place: "My Favorite"

There was only a difference of more than two million downloads between the two.

But winning is winning, and losing is losing!

— Author's Notes —

ps: The plot of "The World's Number One" will start soon.