Baigujing

**Baigujing** is a legendary monster featured in the Chinese epic, "Journey to the West". She was Yanluo Wang's mistress and one of his generals up until her death under the hands of Bikou. Later on, it was revealed the she was the Alpha Gashadokuro.

## 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 a beautiful woman with a voloptuous body, pale skin, and long pure-white hair that reached her heels. She had no eyes and in her hollow eye sockets were ghostly white flames, which extinguished upon her death. She was an infamous shapeshifter who had used her skills to trick Sanzang under the forms of a young girl, a crone, and an old man.

Her true form was that of a giant skeletal daimon much like other gashadokuro and was as high as, if not even higher, than the Shanghai Tower.

## Personality

Baigujing was one of the most dangerous opponents Sun Wukong had to face, not because of her strength but because of her cunningness based solely in the fact her planned death became the reason for Sanzang to banish Wukong from the group and her name alone was a taboo among the group later on.

She was a sadistic trickster who enjoyed taunting her victims, tormenting them with mind tricks and psychological tortures until they broke. She didn't have much respect to anyone, the gods, the demons, or even her fellow Alpha Daemon, which showed her arrogant self as she believed she was greater than all of them and implied to be the reason why she abandoned the rest of the gashadokuro in Japan and left for China thousands of years ago.

Despite this, she had proven to be a genuinely intelligent and business-savvy person, as upon taking over as one of the Khaos Brigade's CEOs on Earth, she quickly became one of the most well-known entrepreneurs of the modern era, even dubbed one of the most successful business women in the world despite her "lack of experience".

She also hated to be the scapegoat for others, humans, daemon, and monsters alike. According to her, she was the one who killed the human king of the Yun Hai Xi Kingdom where she once ruled when she discovered he was kidnapping children to practice witchcraft while pretending it was her doings.

However, she was also an extremely vengeful person who would stop at nothing and won't have any hesitation sacrificing even her allies if it means she got her vengeance. During her encounter with Bikou, she was blinded by her hatred toward his ancestor Sun Wukong and flying into a rageful state and required Gozu and Mezu to restrain her before she was tricked by Team D×D.

## History

### Early Life

Baigujing was the Alpha Gashadokuro, a race of skeletal daemon created by the demons of the Underworld to wreak havoc on Earth and bring destruction upon mankind. For reasons unknown, she abandoned the rest of the gashadokuro and left Japan, coming to ancient China and became one of the Monster Kings of the region.

At some point, she came to the Yun Hai Xi Kingdom and had been terrorizing the land for thousands of years, killing countless humans to increase her power and elevate herself upon the ranks in an attempt to free herself from the chains bounding her to the reincarnation system of Metempsychosis.

### Journey to the West

Upon learning that Sanzang had arrived at the Yun Hai Xi Kingdom, Baigujing disguised herself as a village girl and offered him and his disciples poisonous fruits. However, Sun Wukong used his powers and detected her true identity, and hit her with his staff, seemingly killing her. Having survived the attack, she left a fake 'corpse' and dug underground to recover. Meanwhile Sanzang, thinking Wukong went out of line and committed a murder, cited a subduing spell to punish him.

She returned a second time disguised as an elderly woman and lied to the group that the village girl from earlier was her daughter. Sun Wukong sees through her disguise once again and seemingly kills her - Baigujing once again leaves a fake corpse and retreats. The group is angered at Sun Wukong and Xuanzang, mistakenly believing that Sun once again wantonly committed a murder, cited subduing spell once more before forgiving him. Xuanzang warned that Sun would be excommunicated from Xuanzang's party should he commit murder third time.

She returns a third time as an elderly man who lies about having a daughter and wife that the group believed are her avatars that Wukong previously hit, and taunts Wukong into attacking her by using his powers, and only he could hear her. Having a short-temper, he finally beats her with his staff and kills the demon, revealing that she was just a skeleton spirit.

Sun Wukong shows this to Xuanzang, who initially believes him, but Zhu Bajie convinces Xuanzang that Sun Wukong transformed the corpse into a skeleton to evade the Band-tightening spell. Thus, Xuanzang is angry at Sun Wukong for his reckless slaying and scolds him, and sends him away. Hurt by his master's words, Sun Wukong leaves and returns to the Water Curtain Cave. In his absence, Xuanzang gets caught by another monster - Yellow Robe Demon that Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing cannot defeat, and Bajie is forced to apologize to Sun Wukong and invite him back to save Xuanzang.

### Chinese Underworld

When she was killed, her soul became adrift within the Realm of the Dead before landing in Diyu - The Chinese Underworld, she used her skills to seduce Yanluo Wang and became his mistress and one of his generals, though a hidden one as they couldn't dare to let anyone beside Yanluo Wang's private court knew of her existence yet, as news about Sun Wukong's newest defeat was still a hot gossip among the gods and immortals alike.

Sometimes in the 10th-century, she relinquished her title as the Alpha Gashadokuro to one of her most powerful younger siblings.

### Recent Events

After Yanluo Wang joined the Alliance of Hell, an all-god faction within the Khaos Brigade, in the 18th-century, she followed her lover and became the CEO of one of the Khaos Brigade's mortal companies. She took on countless human aliases over the years, with her latest one being **Bai Jing Jing** (白晶晶) - a half-Japanese, half-Chinese entrepreneur who was considered one of the most successful business women in the world.

## Equipment

**Heibai Wuchang** (黒白無常, *Kuroshiro Mujō*): Baigujing was the former wielder of the pair of demonic swords which the souls of the original Heibai Wuchang were sealed inside. Due to her immense demonic power as the Alpha Gashadokuro, it became one of the most powerful demonic weapons in the world, rivalling that of Yuuto Kiba's Gram - The strongest demonic sword. It was taken by Arthur after she was defeated and the spirits of the original Heibai Wuchang were released.

## Trivia

* According to her, the reason she came to China was "purely based on [her] diet".
* Although she is the Alpha of one of Japan's most notorious youkai, no name of her is ever recorded in Japanese records.
* 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.