Who Is Thousand-Mile Eye (Qianli Yan)?
Heaven's far-seeing guardian
Qianliyan (Thousand-Mile Eye)
Thousand-Mile Eye is a god who can see things far away. In Journey to the West he is one of two officers serving the Jade Emperor, appearing as a pair with Wind-Following Ear.
When the stone monkey is born and golden light shoots from its eyes, he opens the Southern Gate of Heaven on the Jade Emperor's orders and looks down on the world below. He discovers that the light comes from a stone monkey born from a magic stone on the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit, in the land of Aolai on the Eastern Continent, and reports back.
The pair of Thousand-Mile Eye and Wind-Following Ear is also known as the attendants of Mazu, the sea goddess worshipped in China and Taiwan.
Episodes featuring this character2
NEWEpisode 1
The Monkey Born of Stone Learns to CryBirth of Sun Wukong (Water Curtain Cave)
A monkey born from a magic stone on Flower-Fruit Mountain finds the Water-Curtain Cave hidden behind a waterfall and becomes the Handsome Monkey King. Five hundred years later, at a feast, the king sees that his childhood friend has grown old. Afraid of the death that comes for everyone, he weeps. Then, refusing to let the end take his friends, he sets out alone across the sea on a small raft.
19 pages
NEWEpisode 3
There's Just One Way to Never DieThe Ruyi Jingu Bang and the Book of Life and Death
Wukong wants a weapon that can protect his friends, so he storms the Dragon Palace beneath the Eastern Sea. There, an iron pillar on the seabed becomes the Ruyi Staff, which grows and shrinks at his command. That same night, after drinking with his new sworn brothers, his soul is dragged to the Underworld, and he wipes his own name and his friends' names from the Ledger of Death.
19 pages