Let's talk about the topic of "Journey to the West", Sun Wukong has a lot of magical powers, not only seventy-two changes and somersault clouds, but also many powerful magical powers.
If you don't read the original book, you might ignore it!
In the third episode of the original work, the old monkey of Huaguo Mountain asked Sun Wukong if he could go to the water, and Sun Wukong said:
Since I heard the Word, I have had seventy-two kinds of transformations; The somersault cloud has great magical powers; Good can hide and escape, and start the law; There is a way to heaven and a door to the earth; There is no shadow of the sun and the moon, and there is no obstacle to entering the golden stone; Water cannot be drowned, fire cannot be burned. Can't you go? ”
This passage alone reveals several magical powers that Sun Wukong will have.
Seventy-two changes and somersault clouds are very familiar, but there are relatively few in-depth knowledge of what he can and can't change.
There are also two supernatural powers, and even fewer people know about them, which will be discussed later in this article.
The "good ability to stealth and escape" in the above dialogue are the two spells commonly used by Sun Wukong, namely the stealth method and the escape technique.
The stealth method is easier to understand, that is, if you recite a mantra, others will not be able to see you.
In the fifth chapter of the original work, Wukong disrupted the Pan Tao Society, and was afraid of being discovered after stealing Laojun's elixir, so "he ran out of the Tushi Palace, did not follow the old road, and escaped from the West Heavenly Gate with a stealth method." That is, according to the cloud head, back to the Huaguo Mountain boundary. ”
This is the stealth method.
"Escape" is also a type of stealth method, but it requires the help of external objects. For example, earth escape, water escape, etc.
Water escape is the spell that Wukong uses the most, such as going to the Dragon Palace of the East China Sea to borrow a golden hoop stick, and fighting monsters underwater. It's just that Wukong's water escape technique has a big flaw, that is, he must recite the trick of avoiding water, or turn into a fish and shrimp.
In other words, Goku can't use his full strength in the water, which is why he rarely fights underwater.
The twenty-eighth battle of the quicksand river, Wukong and Bajie chased the sand monk to fight, the sand monk was only the enemy of the two and hid in the quicksand river, Bajie shouted and chased quickly, Wukong said:
Brother Xian, I don't dare to say anything about this. is involved in the water, and the old grandson is not very familiar. If you go empty, you have to twist the trick and recite the 'water avoidance mantra' before you can go;Otherwise, I will have to change what kind of fish, shrimp, crabs, turtles, etc., and I will get it. ”
There is also the forty-ninth time, Tang Seng was caught by the King of Inspiration into the Tongtian River, and Wukong said to Bajie and Sha Seng again: "Don't hide it from the virtuous brother ......."I can't go to what is in the water. That is, when I go to the sea and the river, I have to twist the trick of avoiding water, or change the ...... of fish and crabs; If you twist the trick like that, you can't pick up the iron rod, you can't use the magic power, and you can't beat the monster. ”
After talking about the stealth method, let's talk about the "starting method" in the above sentence, which refers to the use of spells to summon wind, clouds, thunder, lightning, etc.
In the forty-fourth Che Chi Kingdom, Wukong, Bajie, and Sha Seng used this spell in order to steal the offerings of the Sanqing Palace.
The great sage, twisting the trick, reciting a mantra, took a breath on the earth, and blew it out, and it was a gust of wind, which rolled straight into the Sanqing Palace, and blew down some of his vases and candlesticks, and the merits hanging on the four walls, and then the lights were gone, and the Taoist priests were terrified. ”
Spells such as summoning clouds, thunder, and lightning, Wukong should be able to do it, but he doesn't use it.
When these spells are needed, Wukong only needs to summon the Thunder Male Lightning Mother and the Dragon King to help, and no matter how bad it is, he can go to the Heavenly Court to borrow a magic weapon.
There is also the "method of receiving", that is, the "method of summoning", which uses spells to attract gods and ghosts.
Everywhere Wukong goes, he likes to call out the local land and mountain gods, and this is the method of summoning. There is a cold knowledge here, the land god belongs to a kind of ghost fairy in Journey to the West.
The immobilization technique is also a kind of receptive method, and it will make people lose their ability to act through chanting. In the fifth episode, the Seven Fairies were given a week by Wukong to be freed.
Good sage, twisting the trick, chanting the incantation, and saying to the fairies: Stay! Live! Live! This turned out to be a fixation method, and the seven-clothed fairies, one by one, were standing under the peach tree, with white eyes. ”
In addition to the supernatural powers mentioned in the above dialogue, Goku also has a doppelganger technique, which has two uses, one is to divide into multiple puppets, and the other is to go out of the body.
In the twenty-fourth episode, when the four masters and apprentices were making trouble in Wuzhuangguan, Sun Wukong asked Bajie to find a few trees, bit his fingers, smeared the blood on the willow trees, and then recited a spell to make the four trees look like the four of their masters and apprentices.
This is a type of puppet clone.
As for out-of-body spirits, Goku uses them very frequently.
In the forty-fifth round of the Che Chi Guo Fighting Method, Huli Daxian used the token to summon the Thunder Gong Electric Mother and the Dragon King to spread the clouds and rain, and Wukong used the Divine Soul Out of the Body:
Good sage, pluck out a hair, blow the fairy breath, and call change! turned into a fake walker and stood under Tang Seng. His true body came out of the primordial god and rushed to ...... in mid-air”
"Law Elephant Heaven and Earth" is also a very powerful divine power of Sun Wukong, this magic power is mainly used for fighting, which can make his law body ten thousand feet high, which is equivalent to strengthening himself ten thousand times.
Sun Wukong used the Dharma Elephant Heaven and Earth when he fought with Erlang God in Huaguo Mountain and the Bull Demon King in the Flame Mountain.
In the sixty-first episode, when Sun Wukong was fighting with the Bull Demon King, he shouted: "He looks ten thousand feet tall, his head is like Mount Tai, his eyes are like the sun and the moon, his mouth is like a pool of blood, and his teeth are like ...... door."”
In addition to spells, Sun Wukong can also heal. In Zhu Ziguo, he used the "hanging silk pulse diagnosis" to help the king of Zhu Ziguo take the pulse, and then prescribed medicine to cure the king's illness.
Sun Wukong's most powerful supernatural power has to count seventy-two changes, so what can be changed?
There are many things that can be changed by seventy-two changes, such as animals, insects, flowers, trees, and utensils. Goku often likes to turn into flying insects to listen to news, and will also use sleepy bugs to make the other person sleepy, and even turn into a small bed bug into other people's stomachs.
Many people may have a misunderstanding of Seventy-Two Changes, thinking that he is a combat skill, but in fact he is just a life-saving skill.
In the second chapter of the original work, when Wukong asked the Bodhi Patriarch to teach the seventy-two changes, he said this: "Master Wanwang has mercy, and he does not dare to be ungrateful in the end to pass on and avoid the three calamities." ”
It can be seen that the seventy-two changes are only used to avoid the three calamities, and their main role is to save lives.
However, Wukong is very smart and has evolved his life-saving skills into combat skills, "I don't know that this monkey king has 84,000 hairy feathers on his body since he became a Taoist, and he can change his roots and adapt to his will." ”
Of course, although the seventy-two changes are very powerful, there are also obvious flaws. Goku has exposed himself to youkai many times because of these flaws.
In the seventy-fifth round, it turns out that the walker has seventy-two changes, if he changes into birds, animals, flowers, trees, utensils, insects, etc., he even rolls away; But when you change your character, you just change your head and face, but you can't change your body.
In the Lion Camel Ridge, Wukong turned into a little drill wind and wanted to coax the three demons, but because of the defects of the seventy-two changes, he was exposed.
The demons grabbed Wukong, and after picking off his clothes, "sure enough, he was covered in yellow hair, two red strands, and a tail."
and the time of the battle with Erlang God, Wukong became a land temple, because the tail could not be changed, it could only be turned into a flagpole and inserted next to it, which made people look nondescript.
These are the defects of the seventy-two changes!
Finally, let's talk about the somersault cloud, although the somersault cloud can do a somersault for 108,000 miles, but it can't be a mortal fetus.
This is also one of the reasons why Wukong didn't use somersaults to go to the western sky.