On the way to the scriptures, although Sun Wukong often went around the world to ask for help from the immortals, it was only his "learning to be smart", and there were very few monsters that could really threaten him, but the Bull Demon King was one of them.
How strong is the Bull Demon King's strength? It can be said that it is not inferior to Sun Wukong. Both of them mastered the seventy-two changes, and the Flame Mountain was difficult, and they fought many times, but almost every time they were indistinguishable.
We know that the Bull Demon King has an outstanding son named Niu Shengbao, also known as the Red Child, who is the Demon King of the Mountain Fire Cloud Cave. Like the Bull Demon King, the Red Child also possesses powerful mana and has defeated Sun Wukong.
In the original Fire Cloud Cave, the red child coveted the meat of Tang monks and clashed with the sutra collection team. When Sun Wukong learned that the Red Child was the son of the Bull Demon King, he immediately put up his old qualifications and treated the Red Child as a naughty three-year-old child, only to be burned up and down by the Red Child.
So some people are curious, since Sun Wukong and the Bull Demon King are equally strong, and the Red Child has defeated Sun Wukong, can he defeat the Bull Demon King?
The answer seems to be very obvious, since the red child can defeat Sun Wukong, it means that his strength is stronger than Sun Wukong, naturally stronger than the Bull Demon King, of course, he can defeat the Bull Demon King.
However, if you read the original book carefully, you will find that things are not so simple, the red child did defeat Sun Wukong, but it does not mean that his strength is stronger than Sun Wukong.
According to the forty-first time in the original book, Sun Wukong vs. Red Child, the first twenty rounds, almost completely suppressed the Red Child, the book reads, "A horizontal golden hoop stick, a straight pointed gun." Spitting fog covers the three realms, and spray clouds shine in all directions. One day the murderous roar, the sun, moon and stars do not see the light... The demon and sun da jihad were twenty together, regardless of victory or defeat. But the Eight Commandments were next to them, and it was clear to see: although the goblins were not defeated, they only had the strength to defend, and they had no ability to attack and kill."
Sun Wukong an iron rod weighs ten thousand pounds, and the strength is infinite, the endurance is amazing, the red child is a small man, in the face of Sun Wukong's more and more rapid attack, if he is powerless to fight back, just passive defense, how long can he persist?
As soon as pig eight precepts saw that the red child had been killed one after another, he immediately understood: This monster is dying, and Brother Monkey casually sells a flaw, coaxes the monster to drill over, and can knock him down with a stick.
It can be said that when the two sides fought to the twenty rounds, the red child was already in a state of defeat in the zero realm, and when Sun Wukong wanted to knock him down, it all depended on his mood.
But if this is the case, why is it Sun Wukong who is finally defeated?
Some people must think of the Samadhi True Fire, but the Samadhi True Fire is only the direct cause, the key to the problem is, why would a red child who was killed in a hurry have the opportunity to spray the Samadhi True Fire? It has a lot to do with the Eight Precepts of the Pig.
According to the forty-first time in the original work, seeing that the red child is about to be defeated by Sun Wukong, the eight precepts of the pig are not good, if the monkey brother knocks the red child down with a stick, won't I lose my credit? So "shake the spirit, hold up the nine-tooth palladium, in the air, look at the goblin split head to build."
Although the Eight Precepts of the Pig are fighting for merit, after all, they are helping Sun Wukong, why did it cause Sun Wukong to be defeated by the Samadhi True Fire? Because he coldly rushed up, disrupted the rhythm of Sun Wukong, so that the red child could take the opportunity to escape, and then used the Samadhi True Fire to attack Sun Wukong, which defeated Sun Wukong.
If the Eight Precepts of the Pig did not fight for merit, Sun Wukong could continue to maintain the rhythm of the battle, and the red child had no chance to escape, let alone use the Samadhi True Fire to deal with Sun Wukong, he would inevitably be defeated by Sun Wukong.
Therefore, the red child actually can't beat Sun Wukong at all, and his strength is naturally inferior to Sun Wukong. As mentioned before, the Bull Demon King and Sun Wukong are equal in strength, and the Red Child naturally cannot defeat the Bull Demon King.