"Journey to the West" is a Chinese classic novel and one of the Four Great Classical Novels in Chinese literature, fully named "Journey to the West of the Tang Dynasty". It tells the story of the monk Xuanzang from the Tang Dynasty leading his three disciples Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing through eighty-one difficulties to obtain Buddhist scriptures in India. The novel mainly depicts Sun Wukong and his comrades' adventures on their journey, their battles against demons and monsters, as well as their understanding and cultivation of Buddhism.

In people's impression, the leader of the Heavenly Court Group is the Jade Emperor, and the leader of the Underground Court Group is naturally the King of Hell. However, this is not the case in the original Journey to the West. In the novel, Sun Wukong's riot in the Underground Court is a famous plot, describing a thrilling adventure of Sun Wukong and his comrades in the Underworld.

According to the novel, Sun Wukong decided to go to the Underground Court to find the King of Hell to rescue his own soul. On the way, he encountered the Ten Kings of the Underworld. The Ten Kings believed that Sun Wukong had come to cause trouble, so they sent their men to fight him, but Sun Wukong defeated them one by one with his own skills. Finally, Sun Wukong arrived at the King of Hell's palace and had a fierce dialogue and contest with him.

In his dialogue with the King of Hell, Sun Wukong claimed to be the "Great Sage, Equal to Heaven", boasting of his invincibility. The King of Hell, however, believed that Sun Wukong was a demon and monster and refused to release the soul of Tang Monk. So Sun Wukong began to riot in the Underground Court, breaking through various ghosts and officials of the Underworld, and finally came to the Wheel of Samsara, breaking the mechanism and releasing the imprisoned Tang Monk.

The plot of Sun Wukong's riot in the Underground Court is full of humor and excitement, showing Sun Wukong's heroism and understanding, deeply attracting readers. This plot has also become one of the most representative parts of "Journey to the West".

In the novel "Journey to the West", the supreme leader of the Underground Court is not the King of Hell, but the King of Yama. The King of Yama is the ruler of the Underworld, who commands various departments in the Underworld, controls the Book of Life and Death and the trials in the Underworld, and decides the destiny and reincarnation of the dead souls in the human world.

In the novel, the King of Yama is described as an elderly man with a skinny body, pale face, and a vivid gaze. Sitting on a high throne, he holds a judge's pen in his hand, with Black and White Wraiths and the Ten Kings of Hell standing on both sides of him, listening to the complaints and defenses of the ghosts who come to the Underworld, and deciding their fate, life and death, and destination based on their good and evil.

The King of Yama is also described as a very fair and strict official. He judges the fate of the dead souls according to their behavior and good and evil in the human world, in order to maintain justice and order in the Underworld. Therefore, in the Underworld, the words of the King of Yama have supreme authority, and no ghost dares to disobey his judgment.

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