Learn Chinese with Amazing Night EP2: The 81st Obstacle

Upon reaching the gates of the Great Thunderclap Temple,

They could then achieve true enlightenment.

Eighty-one tribulations, one short of the goal,

What can we do about this?

There are no more monsters now,

We've been stuck here for more than a day or two.

We've tried every method we could think of.

Let's pick someone to be the monster.

Why aren't you two laughing?

I dropped my keys in the River of Flowing Sands.

Which of us three wasn't a monster before?

You two are still monsters now.

If I remember correctly,

You seemed to have eaten people before.

Which of us hasn't eaten people before?

But I'm very disciplined with my diet now.

Give me freedom!

Excellent!

When Master returns,

We will subdue you.

The eighty-one tribulations will be solved,

Then we can obtain the true scriptures.

Why didn't we think of this earlier?

Then you all will have achieved perfect merit.

What do I get?

You will get...

It doesn't hurt at all when I hit people.

Point.

Then wouldn't I have volunteered for nothing?

Then wouldn't I have...

Suffered in vain?

How could Brother Sand suffer in vain?

Think about it,

All those we met before,

Are now living well in heaven,

As mounts.

But I also went through eighty tribulations,

Why am I a mount in the end?

Because you are kind.

Just say he's the monster.

If we must choose from the three of us,

Why can't this person be...?

Of course, it can't be Senior Brother.

Then why can't it be Second Senior Brother?

I ask you,

Why can't it be you?

Isn't it because you contributed the least?

What contributions have you two made?

It was all me.

Six-eared Macaque.

And the Spiderweb Cave,

My seven old aunties count as one tribulation!

You don't even have your own exclusive background music.

Wait, you two have that, right?

Senior Brother,

Senior Brother has so much background music!

It's him, it's him, it's him!

This is Nezha's.

That's Master's.

Speaking of Flowing Sands River,

Why do I have to be with two animals?

Then do I still need to imitate?

You are a pig,

What monkey are you imitating?

Let me do it instead.

You are a monkey.

We monkeys are all like this when we're happy.

I refuse!

You don't even have a name,

If you're not the monster, who is?

I have a name, okay?

That's a Dharma name,

Monk Sand.

A monk is a 'he Shang'.

Then do you two have names?

I'm finished!

I don't even have a name!

Don't see us off!

We'll send you dreams when we go up.

The folks here are too enthusiastic!

This is their wish list.

After we achieve true enlightenment,

We'll make all their wishes come true.

Do you know who I am?

Is he speaking so arrogantly now?

No, Master, let me tell you the truth.

Brother Sand is the monster.

I am you...

They conspired to complete the eighty-one tribulations,

By making me a monster to capture you.

How many times have I said it?

We absolutely must not fight amongst ourselves.

There are no more monsters, Master!

What do you mean, no more monsters?

Just now, those villagers were saying,

Look, there's a monster here!

I'm sorry.

I think we shouldn't rush.

We can wait for these small animals,

We wait for them to cultivate into spirits,

Wouldn't that solve it?

How long did it take you to cultivate into a spirit?

Five hundred years for me.

One thousand two hundred years for me.

Thirty thousand years for me.

Thirty thousand minus thirty-seven,

I still have to live.

I think the eighty-one tribulations,

May not be a rigid rule.

It is a rigid rule!

Can it make me spend my entire life,

Unable to obtain the true scriptures?

They can.

I'm speaking up for you, can't you tell?

This is only eighty tribulations for you,

But for us,

This isn't the first time we've come for the scriptures.

This is the ninth time we've come for the scriptures.

Every time we fail to complete the eighty-one tribulations,

We have to wait for your reincarnation.

The first time we came for the scriptures,

You were initially...

You were initially Xuanzang of the Eastern Han Dynasty,

Later Xuanzang of the Three Kingdoms,

Xuanzang of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Meaning, I, Xuanzang of the Sui Dynasty,

Cannot bring the true scriptures back to the Great Sui Dynasty this time either?

Throughout these years, dynasties changed,

The capital is sometimes in Henan,

We've just finished learning Henan dialect,

I just hope the capital of the next dynasty,

Will definitely not be set in Wenzhou.

But we can't let Wujing be the monster either.

I said,

We should try not to fight amongst ourselves.

Absolutely no internal strife!

Bring me my purple-gold cassock!

Wukong,

Go beg for food.

We few will eat first.

After eating, I will go to meet the Buddha.

Why must it be eighty-one tribulations?

Why wouldn't eighty tribulations suffice?

Don't fight too much.

Doesn't it look like I'm going to cook you?

You seem to have made a big decision.

I haven't fulfilled the wishes of the common people yet.

The kind are ridden over, you know.

Master's cassock is missing!

Quick, search in Wujing's bag!

How could you steal Master's cassock?

How could you steal the Moonlight Box?

How could you steal the shuriken?

Stealing the cassock has very serious consequences!

Think about the fate of the Black Bear Spirit!

He was probably framed too.

Caught red-handed, yet still trying to deny it!

Die, cassock-stealing monster!

This rule is inherently unfair.

Nine lifetimes, and still couldn't gather eighty-one tribulations.

He wants to challenge the rules.

He doesn't know the consequences of doing so, does he?

I know.

Five hundred years ago,

There was also a person who wanted to challenge the rules.

He was born not of mortal flesh and blood,

Defeated the shrimp soldiers and crab generals,

But in the end,

He still failed.

He was...

I cannot be like him.

Is there no other way?

I'll be the monster,

You subdue me.

You three go up first,

I'll go up and find you in the next life.

Looking at the current formation,

It still seems like I'm the monster.

How can I not go crazy?

It's too difficult.

Even another round may not succeed.

I...

Live only a few decades in this world,

And you?

May you live ten thousand, ten thousand, ten thousand times ten thousand years!

If we don't obtain the true scriptures,

Otherwise, this life will also be in vain.

I cannot hurt you!

Lay down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha instantly!

Never forget the master-disciple bond of nine lives,

Amidst hardship, remember the brotherhood of the three.

Having endured the test of this eighty-first tribulation,

Be conferred as...

Became a Buddha.

White Dragon Horse,

White Dragon Horse, hooves facing west, west,

Carrying Sui Xuanzang,

Trotting with the disciples.

He became a Buddha,

He...

Became a Buddha.

Only you could come up with such an idea.

What can be done?

You said about the quota for becoming a Buddha up there,

He's not as amazing as you,

Nor as handsome.

With his contributions, it's hard for him to become a Buddha.

To save the world in one lifetime, or to save one person in ten lifetimes,

Master believes it's the same.

Master,

He won't really take action in the end.

Because Wujing is...

Kind.

A kind person shouldn't be ridden over.

Wukong,

Nine reincarnations and still haven't obtained the true scriptures.

It seems Master's cultivation is still insufficient.

I want to go out and experience things myself.

Then what about us?

I'll go back to Mount Wuzhi.

Then I'll go...

Then I'll go flirt with Chang'e.

Then I'll go...

Then I'll go to the Women's Kingdom.

Ahead, we've arrived at the River of Flowing Sands again.

Why did I say 'again'?

There won't be monsters here, will there?

No boats pass over the sands of the Ganges,

Fearing neither gods nor heaven.

This poet is...