Fan Casting Monkey King

by Wu Cheng'en

Story added by martinbing on June 11, 2021

Tang Sanzang finally reaches the borderlands of India, and chapters 87–99 present magical adventures in a somewhat more mundane setting. At length, after a pilgrimage said to have taken fourteen years (the text actually only provides evidence for nine of those years, but presumably there was room to add additional episodes) they arrive at the half-real, half-legendary destination of Vulture Peak, where, in a scene simultaneously mystical and comic, Tang Sanzang receives the scriptures from the living Buddha. Chapter 100, the final chapter, quickly describes the return journey to the Tang Empire, and the aftermath in which each traveller...read more

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Fan Casting Immortal Zhenyuan(Zhenyuan Daxian)

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Description of Immortal Zhenyuan (Zhenyuan Daxian):

before the separation of Heaven and Earth. The fruit of the tree is known as “Grass-returning Cinnabar” or “manfruit.” The tree produces only 30 fruits every 9,000 years and is shaped like an infant less than three days old. Just by smelling the fruit, a person can extend his lifespan by 360 years; a person who eats the fruit can live an additional 47,000 years. Zhenyuan was away when the protagonists arrived at his temple on their journey