公孙胜天闲星 · 4
Leaf 4 of the marsh · 入云龙 Dragon in the Clouds
Gongsun Sheng 公孙胜
In Water Margin 水滸傳 (c. 1400) · rank 4 of the 108 Stars · nicknamed 入云龙 “Dragon in the Clouds”
A Taoist of the Luo school who lent the mountain its weather, then gave it back.
The great deeds 大事記
- ch. 15
He Joins the Seven Stars
七星聚義He walks into the birthday heist and back out of it, returning to his mountains and his fasting.
- ch. 53
Raising the Luo-School Storm
鬥法破高廉The army has no answer to Gaotang's sorcery until he brings the Luo school's storm.
- ch. 59
The Greater Black Wind
芒碭山降魔He answers Fan Rui's black wind with a greater one, and takes the sorcerer as a disciple.
- ch. 110
The Farewell Bow to His Master
歸山不見After Fang La he bows to his master and is never seen again.
結局 The ending
He asked to be released years before the end, went back to his master, and was not on the roll-call of the dead or the decorated. The roster's only man who read the ending in advance and left the room.
The book itself: how it ends, and who was left — The ending