Baigujing

**Baigujing**, also known as the **White Bone Spirit**, was Yanluo Wang's concubine and was featured in the Chinese novel, "Journey to the West", as one of Sun Wukong's most adversaries. She was the Alpha Gashadokuro and acted as the Alliance of Hell's ambassador to the *youkai*.

## Overview

**White Bone Demoness** (白骨精), also known as **Baigujing** or **Lady Baigujing**, is one of the major antagonists of the 16th-century Chinese classic novel *Journey to the West* by the late Wu Cheng'en, and its multiple adaptations. She is a skeleton demoness who desired to eat the flesh of Sanzang.

Despite appearing in only one occasion in the original novel, Baigujing is one of the most popular *Journey to the West* villains and is considered to be one of Sun Wukong's archenemies, bar the Bull King, Princess Iron Fan, the Red Boy, and the Six Eared Macaque.

## Appearance

Baigujing appeared as an exceptionally alluring woman with a voluptuous figure, marble-like pale skin, and pure-white hair reaching her ankles. She had no eyes, instead filling her hollowed eye sockets were white flames that went out when she was killed, and her lower face was hidden by a veil, behind it was the lower jaw of a human skull.

She was described as wearing an outfit straight out of a *xianxia*-esque works, such as movies, novels, or *donghua*, albeit an extremely revealing one. The top of her attire had her full breasts fully exposed with her nipples only covered by small ribbons, while her bottom was sheer, showing off her long legs. She went barefoot, with silver anklets attached to silver bells that ring whenever she moved.

Her true form was that of a giant skeletal creature roughly the same height, if not even higher than the Shanghai Tower, with spirits of ghostly white flames hovering by her side and acted as her minions in combat. Dripping from her eye sockets and jaw was a viscous black blood that disintegrated anything it touched, as well as transforming any human into new gashadokuro.

## Personality

Baigujing was considered by Sun Wukong to be among the most dangerous opponents he had to face in his legendary journey, not because of her strength, but because of her cunning and devious nature. She was a master manipulator whose demonic charisma allowed her to wrap others around her fingers like marionettes, with centuries-worth of experience in planning, which allowed her to always be several steps ahead of her opponents.

While it might be seen as cowardly by other monsters and daemon, she had no problems surrendering or even dying if it meant she could avenge herself in the future or destroy her enemies alongside her. This is most shown through her encounter with Sun Wukong's group, as while it did have *some* impact in the novel, in reality, her actions had created a crack within their group's faith in each other and her name was still considered a taboo in their presence to this day.

She was a sadistic trickster who enjoyed taunting her victims before killing them, tormenting them with mind tricks and psychological tortures until they broke. She didn't have much respect for anyone but the demons, not to the gods nor to her fellow Alphas, as she truly believed herself to be greater than the rest of them, no exceptions.

At her core, she was cruel, ruthless, and vengeful, and would stop at nothing and would have no hesitation sacrificing even her allies for her revenge. During her encounter with Bikou, she was blinded by her hatred toward his adopted grandfather, Sun Wukong, and flew into a rageful state that led to her eventual demise by Magnus' spell array.

Although she was a natural-born leader, an ingrained talent in all Alpha Daemon, she didn't like the position of a leader that much, stating that it was "annoying" having to take care of others' business, even if it didn't have anything to do with her. According to her, this was the reason behind her decision to leave Japan and the gashadokuro for China, where she'd have to care for no one but herself.

## History

### Early Years

Baigujing, much like other Alpha Daemon, were created by the original demons since antediluvian times and spent the majority of her "youth" in the Underworld, causing destruction and mayhem everywhere she went and acted as the leader of the gashadokuro within the demons' armies. However, due to the ever-shifting nature of the Underworld, it was unclear just how old Baigujing truly was, only that she was "older than all the planets in the Solar System", i.e. over 4 billions years old.

However, when drifts between the Underworld and the mortal world began to appear after the Earth had been formed, she and many other daemon immigrated to the new planet, seeking to invade it and turn it into their new home. However, defending the planet were their creators - The primordial gods - who held back the incoming waves of daemon so Earth could develop without any demonic interference.

Eventually, however, after their descendants took over, the defense became severely lacking and small incursions appeared all across Earth, with Baigujing being one of the daemon arriving on Earth at this point. She and the gashadokuro first resided in Japan alongside other daemon, eventually becoming adopted in the land's mythology as a race of *youkai*, she later abandoned her progenies/creations and moved to China all by herself, hiding herself away from her responsibilities as possible.

### Journey to the West

Upon learning that Tang Sanzang and his disciples had arrived at her territory, Baigujing hatched a plan to kidnap and devour him whole as he was the last incarnation of the Golden Cicada (金蝉子), a former disciple of the Buddha who was banished to the mortal world and suffered for ten incarnations for his disrespectful nature.

She disguised herself as a village girl and offered him and his disciples poisonous fruits. Due to her strong powers, only Sun Wukong could detect that she was a daimon and he attacked her with his staff, but she managed to escape and leave behind a false corpse. Sun Wukong tried to explain to everyone what she was but they didn't believe him, thinking she was innocent and buried the false corpse.

She returned a second time disguised as an elderly woman. She lied to the group, causing them to believe that the village girl from earlier was her daughter. Sun Wukong saw through her disguise once again and attacked her, but once more she escaped. The group was angry at Sun Wukong and continued to not believe him. She returned a third time as an elderly man who lied about having a daughter and wife. The group immediately felt guilty as they believed they were the two women Sun Wukong had slain. Feeling cocky, she secretly taunted Sun Wukong into attacking her by speaking directly into his mind.

Having a short-temper, he finally beat her with his staff and killed the daimon, revealing that she was just a skeleton daimon. Sun Wukong showed this to Tang Sanzang, who initially believed him, but Zhu Bajie convinced Tang Sanzang that Sun Wukong transformed the corpse into a skeleton to escape punishment.

Tang Sanzang was angry at Sun Wukong for his reckless slaying and cut their ties, sending him away. Hurt by his master's words, Sun Wukong left and returned to Mount Huaguo. In his absence, Tang Sanzang got caught by the Yellow Robe Demon who neither Zhu Bajie or Sha Wujing could defeat, and Zhu Bajie was then forced to ask for Sun Wukong's help to save Tang Sanzang and to continue their journey to Tianzhu.

### Yanluo's Mistress

When she was defeated, her demonic essence and consciousness became adrift before coming to the Chinese Underworld, where she used her skills to seduce Yanluo Wang and become his secret concubine. Accross the thousands of years she spent with him, she slowly corrupted him with her demonic power and turned him into her puppet.

Through him, she had Diyu secretly supported the Qlippoth Faction and Khaos Brigade, and later on, the Alliance of Hell. She also took on a human alias of **Bai Jing Jing** (白晶晶), a half-Chinese entrepreneur considered to be one of the most influential business women in the world.

## Equipment

**Heibai Wuchang** (黒白無常, *Kuroshiro Mujō*): Baigujing was the wielder of the twin demonic blades created by the faerie blacksmiths, Gan Jiang and Mo Ye, with the spirits of their namesakes sealed within the swords and acted as their source of power. After she was defeated, the swords were shattered by Alec and the original Heibai Wuchang were released from their imprisonment.

## Trivia

* Despite appearing in only one occasion in the original novel, Baigujing is one of the most popular "Journey to the West" villains and is considered to be one of Sun Wukong's archenemies, bar the Bull King, Princess Iron Fan, the Red Boy, and the Six Eared Macaque.