Journey to the West

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Arrival 10, the eighty-first ordeal

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In the middle of rough waters the travelers and their horse stand on the back of a great turtle.
Illustration from Master Li Zhuowu’s Commentary on Journey to the West, Ming woodblock, 1620sOriginal

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Guanyin laid out the register and counted. The ordeals behind them were written there, and there were eighty.

The number to be filled was eighty-one, so it was one short. She sent somebody after the four carrying scriptures east.

The last ordeal did not come from a mountain. It came from a river. And it was not a demon.

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