Interesting note with how they named Sun Wukong.
Ku Taisei's kanji is probably (空大聖),
Ku is probably a shortening of Goku (悟空) and Taisei is the shortening of his sobriquet, 齊天大聖 or Great Sage, Equal to Heaven.
I know it's been years but sennnin 仙人 just refers to immortals/hermits with special powers. There are different levels of sennin. Earthly immortals or chisen 地仙 are lower ranked than heavenly immortals or tensen 天仙. The specifics about how they differ vary across different stories of the xianxia...
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought that. I only skimmed the official release's previous volumes cause I already read the fan versions earlier, but trying to raw dog it just doesn't cut it.
The chapters leading up to it have been officially published by seven seas in vol 20. I just read chapter 84 to remind myself about the plot, but I don't know if they were high on drugs when they translated/proofread it but the flow and phrasing were so bad I can't believe it made it to print.
In a way, you could say he got the skill only because he had demonstrated selfless virtue in the first place. He had proven that he was the type of person who could be selfless, so he's deserving of that skill.
I wanted to check out the JP raws to see if that's what they had (I don't know what source LHTranslation usually uses) but it was paywalled. Though, in a way, it's kinda cool like how western fiction sometimes have latin as the magical language, so east asian fiction using a form of Chinese for...
Finally, we're covering Sakura's backstory. I don't remember the van kidnap part from the live-action show, so the adaptation probably chose to leave it out. It's cool that we're finally seeing more development from her.
btw the furigana for Kokuryuu is Heiron because that's the japanified pronunciation of the Chinese 黑龙, which means 'black dragon'. I think the names are supposed to be pronounced the furigana way while the kanji is there as an explanation.
We're finally at the climax of the live action adaptation! I liked the show quite a bit and I would love to see where the story goes beyond what the show has adapted.