Nonsense | Black Myth: Wukong Chapter 3 Ending Cinematic with Chinese Lyrics & English Translation 

Some additional context to help add some layers to the meaning of this ending cinematic. 1. Jin Chan Zi (the Golden Cicada) is a disciple of Ru Lai Fo or the Tathagata Buddha who is the current form of the Gautama Buddha. Meanwhile, Yellowbrow is the disciple of Mi Le Fo or the Maitreya Buddha who is the future form of Buddha. Thus Yellowbrow and Jin Chan Zi are both considered students of Buddha. 2. Yellowbrow takes the form of a giant softshell turtle which in Chinese can be called a 王八 (wang ba). This term is also a common curse word that shares a similar meaning to bastard. 3. Jin Chan Zi will eventually get punished by Buddha for dozing off during mass as his punishment will be to reenter the cycle of incarnation ten times. On his tenth incarnation, he takes the form of Tang Seng, a monk in Tang Dynasty who will complete the Journey to the West and bring the teachings of his master Buddha to China. 4. The debate between Jin Chan Zi and Yellowbrow stems mainly from their view on how to deal with desires on the path to enlightenment. Yellowbrow believes in the fulfillment of one’s desires as it follows the human nature of never ending greed, which he tried to prove in his transformation to this wealth giving and health giving softshell turtle deity. Yet Jin Chan Zi argues that the whole experiment is flawed because Yellowbrow set up the entire experiment in a way that makes his desired outcome the only outcome. You can see this from the pulling of the man’s collar as the spark that set off the final disaster was not organic but rather created by Yellowbrow. 5. Jin Chan Zi’s argument against the fulfillment of one’s desire goes beyond human nature, and instead focuses on his senior disciple’s, Yellowbrow’s, constant desire to win as the pursuit of being always correct defeats the purpose of Buddhism debates and clouds the Yellowbrow’s path towards true enlightenment. 6. The song is sang in the Peking Opera style and given a choir effect with multiple background singers to add depth.

I listen to the lyric a few times, I believer the the first 4 lines is 三界 (three realms) 四洲 (four continents) 无所求 (no desire/want) 不可救 (cannot be safe) This is the viewpoint of the Yellowbrow, having desire/want is normal, and he can save you. He emphasize that in his last comment in the video. "If don't care about win or lose, talking about cause and effect is pointless".

Can't watch this or read comments cause still at almost the start of game lol. Thank you ST for all your coverage! I'm not sure if the coverage on Wukong/Journey will continue when done with game(which you might be), but I want to thank you for doing what you have. I have enjoyed it greatly.

Your lyric translation is really really great! This translation, in my opinion, already exceeds the official lyric translation. Hope to see the videos of the next three chapters.

Can I ask you something? How the villager killing the soft-shelled turtle deity proving yellow brow point that fulfilling one desire can bring enlightment?

Btw, Nonsense's lyric is about Yellow Brow's ideology. He is against Buddhist ideology. He is a fake buddha, and tricked some ppl to follow his guide, then named them Bukong, Buneng, Bubai, Bujing, which referring to Jinchanzi's 4 followers Wukong, Wuneng(bajie), Wubai, Wujing.

So is Jin Chan Zi = Tang Seng?

Question, who is the old man with the gourd?

Neither is completely right, but neither is completely wrong either.

For some reason, the most surprising slide during the scenes of debauchery was the one picture of the dead villagers (3:24). I wonder if this was the aftermath right after they killed the turtle, where their greed caused them to turn on one another or attracted bandits that massacred them and looted what they took.