Nine times nine — eighty-one ordeals endured, sacred scripture secured.
Every hardship on the road to the West, met and overcome.

金蝉遭贬

Golden Cicada demoted from heaven

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出胎几杀

Nearly killed at birth

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满月抛江

Cast into the river as an infant

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寻亲报冤

Seeking parents to avenge a wrong

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出城逢虎

Encountering tigers leaving the city

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折从落坑

Falling into a pit

双叉岭上

Ordeal at Double-Fork Ridge

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两界山头

Releasing Wukong at the Mountain of Two Frontiers

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陡涧换马

Horse exchanged at the steep ravine

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夜被火烧

Burned by fire in the night

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失却袈裟

Loss of the kasaya robe

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收降八戒

Subduing Bajie

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黄风怪阻

Blocked by the Yellow Wind Monster

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请求灵吉

Seeking Lingji's aid to defeat the demon

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流沙难渡

Difficulty crossing the Flowing-Sand River

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收得沙僧

Subduing Wujing

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四圣显化

Tested by the manifestation of four saints

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五庄观中

Ordeal at Five Villages Abbey

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难活人参

Trouble reviving the ginseng fruit tree

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贬退心猿

Wukong banished for the first time

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黑松林失散

Separated in the Black Pine Forest

宝象国捎书

Delivering a letter in Precious-Image Kingdom

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金銮殿变虎

Sanzang transformed into a tiger in the throne hall

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平顶山逢魔

Encountering demons at Level-Top Mountain

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莲花洞高悬

Hung up inside Lotus Flower Cave

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乌鸡国救主

Rescuing the rightful king of Black Rooster Kingdom

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被魔化身

Demon impersonates the king

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号山逢怪

Encountering Red Boy at Roaring Mountain

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风摄圣僧

Sanzang seized by Red Boy's false wind

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心猿遭害

Wukong injured by Red Boy's Samadhi Fire

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请圣降妖

Summoning Guanyin to subdue Red Boy

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黑河沉没

Sanzang submerged in the Black River

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搬运车迟

Ordeal in Cart-Slow Kingdom

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大赌输赢

The great wager of life-and-death contests

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祛道兴僧

Expelling the false Daoists and restoring monks

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路逢大水

Road blocked by the Heaven-Reaching River

身落天河

Pilgrims fall into the river

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鱼篮现身

Guanyin appears as a fisherwoman to lure out the demon

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兜山遇怪

Encountering the One-Horned Ox Demon

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普天神难伏

Even all the heavenly gods cannot subdue the demon

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问佛根源

Asking about the demon's origins

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吃水遭毒

Poisoned by drinking from the Child-and-Mother River

西梁国留婚

Detained for marriage in the Women's Kingdom

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琵琶洞受苦

Sanzang suffers captivity in the Cave of the Lute

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再贬心猿

Wukong banished a second time after killing bandits

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难辨猕猴

Difficulty distinguishing Wukong from his impersonator

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路阻火焰山

Road blocked by the Flaming Mountain

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求取芭蕉扇

Seeking the Plantain Fan to quench the flames

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收缚魔王

Capturing and binding the Bull Demon King

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赛城扫塔

Sweeping the demon-haunted pagoda in Jisai Kingdom

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取宝救僧

Retrieving the tower treasure to free the monks

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棘林吟咏

Trapped reciting poetry in the Thorn Ridge

小雷音遇难

Disaster at the false Small Thunderclap Temple

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诸天神遭困

Heavenly gods trapped by Yellow-Eyebrow King

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稀柿衕秽阻

Road blocked by a filth-filled Persimmon Lane

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朱紫国行医

Wukong practices medicine to heal the king

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拯救疲癃

Rescuing the ailing king

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降妖取后

Subduing the demon and recovering the queen

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七情迷没

Lost and bewitched by the seven spider demons

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多目遭伤

Bajie and Wujing injured by the hundred-eyed demon

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路阻狮驼

Road blocked at Lion-Camel Ridge

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怪分三色

Three different-colored archdemons terrorise the pass

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城里遇灾

Disaster inside the city overrun by demons

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请佛收魔

Asking the Buddha himself to subdue the archdemons

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比丘救子

Rescuing children from the demon king in Bhiksu Kingdom

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辨认真邪

Distinguishing the true king from the demon usurper

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松林救怪

Encountering the Rat Demon in the pine forest

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僧房卧病

Sanzang falls gravely ill in a monk's room

无底洞遭困

Sanzang trapped in the Bottomless Cave

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灭法国难行

Difficulty traveling through Destroy-Dharma Kingdom

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隐雾山遇魔

Encountering the Leopard Spirit at Hidden-Mist Mountain

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凤仙郡求雨

Praying to end the drought in Phoenix-Immortal Prefecture

失落兵器

Weapons stolen by the lion demon

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会庆钉钯

Recovering Bajie's rake at the reunion festival

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竹节山遭难

Disaster at Bamboo-Knot Mountain

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玄英洞受苦

Sanzang suffers captivity in Xuanying Cave

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赶捉犀牛

Chasing and capturing the three rhinoceros demon kings

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天竺招婚

Forced into a false betrothal in India

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铜台府监禁

Imprisoned in Bronze Estrade Prefecture

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凌云渡脱胎

Sanzang sheds his mortal body at Cloud-Transcending Ferry

白鼋淬水

White Turtle submerges mid-crossing, soaking the scriptures

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