When I was very young, I really liked *The Investiture of the Gods*, but I didn't study it too deeply. In middle school, I kept pondering about it—how some gods are male or female is confusing. A typical case: Peacock Great Bright King. Everyone knows that Feng and Huang had two children: Golden-Winged Great Peng and Peacock Great Bright King. Everyone is very familiar with Golden-Winged Great Peng; in *Journey to the West*, the third of the three in Lion Camel Ridge, Da Peng, is Golden-Winged Great Peng. Also, the Great Peng in the Living Buddha Jigong is the same. Here's the contradiction: in *Journey to the West*, Sun Wukong and Erlang Shen together still were no match for Da Peng, and the Eighteen Arhats couldn't defeat Da Peng either. But in *Jigong*, Jigong is an Arhat, right? So normally, Jigong shouldn't be able to defeat Da Peng, yet I saw that the Da Peng in Living Buddha Jigong couldn't beat Jigong!
Then there's the peacock. Back then, he swallowed the Buddha, and Buddha came out of his belly, which makes Buddha the peacock's child. Logically, Great Peng is the Buddha's uncle. The peacock is female, right? Also, just now I saw that the Peacock in Zhuzi Kingdom at Falling Phoenix Slope had two children resting, which shows it's female. Then in *The Investiture of the Gods*, when Yin Jiao came to Sanshan Pass, guarding Sanshan Pass was Kong Xuan. When Kong Xuan saw that the prince was coming, he handed command over to Yin Jiao. Damn! Kong Xuan is Peacock Great Bright King; Kong Xuan is male—a contradiction!
These two issues had me tangled up for a long time. Phew!
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Investiture of the Gods is a masterpiece, Sun Wukong is Yuan Hong, the leader of the Seven Monsters of Meishan.
A thousand readers have a thousand Hamlets, and a thousand authors have a thousand Peacock Great Kings.
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