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Well, I did a little research and I think some lmk fans will be interested to know about the three demons from season 4, what they were like in the novel "Journey to the West" (especially for those who haven't read the novel) and compare what they are like we were shown in the series

And let's start with the novel! (a small warning: I have not read the novel 🥲 so all the information I will write here is taken from the Internet)

Soooo Azure Lion, Yellow Toothed Elephant and Golden Winged Great Peng, a trio of powerful Demon Kings infesting the Lion Camel Ridge. The former two dwell in the Lion Camel Cave, the other rules over a nearby city

The Lion Camel Mountain of Journey to the West to exist like a nightmare in the original work. The seventy-fifth chapter of the original book describes a terrifying and terrifying Lion Camel Mountain, even Taibaijinxing specially came to persuade the master and the apprentice to take a detour and not step into this demonic realm

( @fansids answer to anon's question about them):

(I think it’s clear after that, those guys were so bloodthirsty, dangerous and powerful /// and yes, the information that they ate people really surprised me p.s. and yes, you don’t need to write to me, lol they are demons, what did you expect? I was just very surprised by the description of this cave and the mountain of bones)

What happened in the chapters with Wukong and his friends there, I will not tell, but if you are interested, you can read a short description here

But we have gathered here not to discuss the plot of the novel, but to hear interesting things about these characters (which most likely will not be mentioned in the series). And we start with the Golden Winged Great Peng:

The Peng (a mythological giant bird, which is this case doubles as a Garuda)

The Thousand Ri Travelling Peng is a villainous bird demon

The Peng can fly so fast he can catch up with Sun Wukong's cloud leap in just two wingbeats.

The Peng, son of the Phoenix, brother of Mahamayuri, adopted uncle of Buddha himself. Yet he runs off to become a demon because Paradise is boring (wow, he has great connections in the family of )

The Peng devoured all the citizens of the Lion-Camel Kingdom, and then set himself up as king, recruiting demons to be his subjects

All three are pets of Buddhist deities. The Peng, in particular, is the adopted uncle of Buddha, and he uses this to do whatever he wants

In the novel Peng is actually the strongest of the three

And here will be the difference between the series and the novel. If in the TV series Azure Lion played the main role in their trio (spoiler: he became the strongest at the end of episode 10), then in the novel Peng is the strongest. And I was very surprised by this fact, because Azure Lion interested me so much that I could not think that there was something different in the novel

And now also some facts about the other members:

The Elephant and the Peng. The former has a spear, the latter has a ji with a beautifully painted shaft

The White Elephant is a man-eating monster whose trunk can make people faint by sucking out their soul

The Lion actually shows up earlier as the impostor king of Wuji

The Lion wields one, which is supposedly an Absurdly Sharp Blade

All three are pets of Buddhist deities. The Peng, in particular, is the adopted uncle of Buddha, and he uses this to do whatever he wants

Unlike other demons, these three guys work together against their foe Wukong

I think that these are really interesting facts that we will soon hear about in the series, since the plot about them has already been slightly changed. I was enthralled when I read it all, and all night I couldn't stop thinking about how different they are in the series and in the novel. And even if you tell me that it is not appropriate to compare the book and the TV series, I still like to do it and watch how the directors of LMK slightly change the history of the original characters from the novel))

Here is a little more detailed information about each of them:

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