樊瑞地默星 · 61
Leaf 61 of the marsh · 混世魔王 World-Confusing Demon King
Fan Rui 樊瑞
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 61 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 混世魔王 “World-Confusing Demon King”
The sorcerer who boasted he would swallow Liangshan, and stayed as its storm.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 59
A Black Wind Over Mangdang
芒碭山稱聖He raises a black wind over Mangdang mountain and boasts he will swallow Liangshan whole.
- ch. 60
The Sorcerer Kneels for a Teacher
公孫勝降法Gongsun Sheng answers his storm with a greater one, and the sorcerer kneels for a teacher.
- ch. 120
Into the Mountains as a Student
隨朱武學道He outlived the campaigns and went into the mountains again, this time as a student of the Dao.
結局 The ending
He survived, then went off to learn the Dao. The self-styled sorcerer of Mangdang mountain had been out-conned by Wu Yong in a single afternoon, hired by the man who did it, and finally left the profession to nobody.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending