King of Spiritual Touch

The King of Spiritual Touch (in Chinese: 靈感大王) an antagonist in the classic novel Journey to the West. He is a golfish from the Bodhisattva Guanyin's lotus pond at Mount Putuo, but then became a demon based in Heaven Reaching River (通天河).

Past
The King of Spiritual Touch is once a golfish lives in the Bodhisattva Guanyin's lotus pond, listened to her reciting the scriptures every day, and then learned to achieve a humanoid form. He also turned a lotus flower that is yet blooming in the lake into his weapon, a Nine Petals Bronze Hammer (九瓣銅錘), and then swam followed the tide to the Heaven Reaching River, took over the Great White Turtle's home, and terrorized the people living near the river, demands that they sacrifice a boy and a girl to him every year or he will cause flooding.

Journey to the West
The King of Spiritual Touch first appeared when he was going to eat one boy and one girl like he did every year. However, the two kids turned out to be Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie in disguise, to save the real kids. He was no match for Sun Wukong and was forced to retreat back to his underwater lair. However, a female assistant of him revealed that eating Xuanzang, Wukong and Bajie's master, would grant him immortality. Listened to her, the demon king quickly used a trick of freezing the facade of the river to capture Xuanzang.

He next appeared when Wukong, Bajie and Sha Wujing, knew about his plot to capture their master, and fought them. However, he was no match for them and had to retreat back into his cave once again. He closed the cave's gate, filled it with rocks following his female assistant's words again, make Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing unable to find the demon king nor Xuanzang. Because of this, Wukong then resorted to the help of the Bodhisattva Guanyin, who used a fish basket to trap the demon, forced him to revert back into his true form of a goldfish, and bring him back to the pond.