Duan then gives both the fish and pig puppets to Sanzang and offers her golden ringed weapon as an engagement band, but he rejects her again. When the pig demon appears Monkey King easily subdues it, allowing Duan to turn it into a puppet. Monkey King tells Sanzang to use a dancer to bait the demon. After Sanzang refuses her advances again, she destroys his book of nursery rhymes and he leaves.Īfter days of traveling, Sanzang finally discovers a cave under a lotus garden, where Monkey King was trapped in for 500 years. Duan views Sanzang's concern for her injuries as a romantic attraction. The pig demon reappears and injures Duan but is chased off by a trio of rivaling demon-hunters. After Sanzang rejects her again, she has him imprisoned. It is later revealed to be a plot orchestrated by Duan to trick Sanzang into having sex with her. That night, he is captured by a gang that had also subdued Duan. Sanzang's master advises him to tame the Monkey King demon Sun Wukong (trapped by Buddha) to subdue the pig demon. She expresses her feelings, but Sanzang flees, not wishing to deal with romantic love in his quest for nirvana. Duan then develops a strong limerence towards Sanzang after being impressed by his selfless ideals. She captures the demon in her magic bag to turn it into a puppet, but it bursts out of the bag and transforms into a huge boar, collapsing the building. Duan bursts into the restaurant and destroys all the corpses, and attacks the pig demon. Sanzang sees through the illusion and recognizes them as reanimated corpses of the victims, as well as the demon's nine-toothed rake. Sanzang comes to the same restaurant, this time apparently filled with people. His master reaffirms his humanist philosophy and sends Sanzang off again to find 'enlightenment.'Ī couple enters an empty restaurant but the chef reveals himself to be a pig demon and kills them. Disillusioned, Sanzang meets his master and bemoans his lack of capabilities compared to more aggressive demon-hunters. Sanzang tells to Duan that his master taught him a more humane approach and to use nursery rhymes to coax goodness out of demons, a tactic Duan scoffs at. Another demon hunter, Duan, captures and turns the demon into a puppet. Sanzang then opens a book of nursery rhymes and begins singing to the demon. Sanzang frees himself and, along with the survivors, manages to beach the creature, which turns into a man. The demon reemerges and kills many of the villagers. The villagers ignore him and, at the priest's provocation, string him up. Sanzang, a self-proclaimed demon hunter, appears to warn the villagers that the animal is not the true demon. A Taoist priest kills a giant manta ray and insists that it is the demon. The story takes place before Tang Sanzang got his disciples and embarked on the Journey to the West.Ī riverside village is terrorized by a mysterious aquatic creature.

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