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 fa shu 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".

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.

Wei Zheng

The minister of Tang. He also is a hero character from the historical novel Book of Tang.

=Yuchi Gong

One of the founding generals. But in this story, he died eaten by the demons attacking Li Shimin.

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