Scorpion Demoness

Scorpion Demoness (Chinese: 蝎子精, pinyin: xiē zǐ jīng) is an antagonist from the 16th-century Chinese classic novel Journey to the West. Her true form is a scorpion with the size of a pipa. When Tang Sanzang (唐三藏) and his disciples are about to leave the Women's Kingdom (西梁女国), scorpion demoness suddenly appears and abducts Sanzang to her cave. She tries to seduce and persuade Sanzang to marry her, but fails and is killed by the Sun Deity of Mao (昴日星官) in the end.

Biography
Tang Sanzang and his disciples arrives at the Women's Kingdom. The Queen of Women's Kingdom (西梁女国女王) learns from her official that Sanzang is the oath brother of Tang Empire's emperor and decides to marry him even though she haven't met him yet. Sanzang and his disciples are afraid of being grounded by the queen after hearing the proposal. They make the plan to accept it first and escape when Sanzang and the queen send the disciples out of the kingdom. They are about to leave the kingdom according to their plan, but the scorpion demoness suddenly appears from the roadside and takes Sanzang away by making a whirlwind. Back to her home, which is a cave called Pipa Cave in Venom Mountain (毒敌山琵琶洞), scorpion demoness comforts Sanzang with food and persuades him to become her husband. Fearing of being murdered by the demoness, Sanzang talks with her, accepts the momo (a type of steamed roll) she passed to him and passes another one to her in return. Sanzang's disciple Sun Wukong (孙悟空) has arrived for a while and transformed into a bee to monitor on his master. As scorpion demoness and Sanzang's conversation appears more and more playful, Wukong starts worrying that his master could succumb to the attractive demoness. As a result, Wukong shows his true form to stop their conversation and orders the demoness to release his master. Scorpion demoness, irritated by the interruption, uses her magic power to breathe out smokes from her mouth and prevents Sun Wukong from seeing her. She calls her servants to shut Sanzang away, and then brings out a trident to fight with Wukong. They fight out of the cave, where Zhu Bajie (猪八戒) joins Wukong to fight against scorpion demoness. The three of them fight for a long time and neither of them can beat their opponent. Suddenly, the demoness uses her poisonous tail to sting on Wukong's head. Unable to avoid the sting, Wukong gets severe headache from it and escapes with Bajie.

Scorpion demoness then gets back to her cave and asks her servants to bring out Sanzang so that she can make love with him. She appears to be extremely charming in front of Sanzang, and takes him by hand to the bridal suite she prepared for their marriage. There she entices Sanzang with all types of methods. She takes off clothes to show her breathtaking beauty and teases Sanzang with seductive language. Despite of huge temptation from the gorgerous demoness, Sanzang rejects to make love with her. The struggle goes on till the middle of the night, when scorpion demoness is finally angered by Sanzang's stubbornness. Even though she deeply loves him, the demoness orders her servants to tie Sanzang with rope and then sleeps by herself. The next day, Sun Wukong comes back and learns that his master didn't lose his chastity. He then destroys the gate of Pipa Cave with Bajie and start to fight against the demoness again. The demoness uses her poisonous tail once more and stings on Bajie's lip this time. Bajie escapes with great pain, and Wukong, who is still a little bit frightened by the demoness, follows Bajie to run away. At this moment, Guanyin Bodhisattva (观音菩萨) appears and tells disciples to find the Sun Deity of Mao (昴日星官) to subdue the demoness. Sun Wukong brings Sun Deity of Mao from Heaven's Palace to Pipa Cave and destroys the inner door of the cave with Bajie. The demoness, who is serving Sanzang with vegetarian food after untying him, comes out to fight with the disciples again. The Sun Deity of Mao then shows his true form, a giant rooster, and crows at scorpion demoness. The demoness immediately reverts to her true form under the crow, which is a scorpion with size of a pipa. The Sun Deity crows again, and the demoness' whole body finally crumbles in death.

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