Saint (manhua)
Saint (Dàshèng wáng, The Great Saint King) is the manhua of Hong Kong comics artist Khoo Fuk Lung. This manhua is about the life of Sun Wukong, the monkey god from novel Xi You Ji of novelist Wu Cheng'en.
Summary
This story is about the journey to the West (India) to get the Great like the original novel is. Khoo Fuk Lung uses the success of photoshop to create a wonderful manhua
Characters
Xuanzang's Group
Sun Wukong (the Great Saint King)
The main character. He is a child of the Heaven and the Earth born from a divine rock. In the first chapters Yu Huang Da Di orders the Lei Shen to eliminate him. Though with his children and the thunder hammer, Lei Shen can't kill Sun. After that, he says "The Heaven bears him, we can't kill him" and return to the Heaven. Growing, Sun leads the monkeys and monsters in Huāguǒ-shān (Chinese: 花果山；mountain of flowers and fruit) and sets camp in Shuǐlián-dòng (water-curtain cave or waterfall cave). After seeing an old monkey dead, he travels to the fairy island to learn skills and magic from Grandmaster Xū Pú Tí. Then he leaves his master because of the trouble he made to him, and set rebels to the Heaven. While fighting the Sanyan Zhanshen (Three-Eyed Wargod, who later is Er Lang Shen), he rescued 108 demons. Because of that, he angers Yu Huang Da Di and provokes the great Buddha, he is punished to be confined in Mount Wu Xing. He stole Pangu's qi-bian ate the ate empress Xi Wangmu's "Peaches of Immortality".
Yun Yu
The name 'Yun Yu means "Cloud and Rain".
The pretty demoness Sun rescued from Lei Yin Temple. She makes friends with Wukong. When Wukong is confined in Mount Wu Xing, she follows the order of Ru Lai to get his heart back. Found it, she finds Sun and give him it.
Xiao Bao
An insect demon. Friend of Wukong from his first day with his Grandmaster.
Xuanzang Sanzang (Great Tang's Saint Monk)
Zhu Bajie (Zhu the great Sage)
Gao Ruolan
Zhu's fiancee. Er Lang helps him to make her love him.
Sha Wujing (Sandking Sha Baonan)
The White Horse
Heavens
Er Lang Shen (Three-Eyed Wargod)
Buddhist
Da Chan (The Great Buddha)
Also Ru Lai. The extreme master of Lei Yin Temple.
Xiao Chan (Guan Yin)
A beautiful buddhist nun who helps Xuanzang's group many times.
Tang Dynasty
Li Shimin (Tang Taizong)
The great emperor of Tang Dynasty.
The minister of Tang. He also is a hero character from the historical novel Book of Tang.
One of the founding generals. But in this story, he died eaten by the demons attacking Li Shimin.
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