This is an interpretation of the "foreign beast of Sanglin," imported from Chinese classics and long dormant within natural histories. In this version, Houki is not a human-sized anomaly like Japanese yokai that "frighten people on dark roads" or "settle in homes to bring wealth," but is positioned as a "mythological-scale raging god (symbol of natural disasters)" that brings destruction on a national scale. Its thick, hard skin repels all physical attacks; its charges can flatten forests into plains; and it summons torrential rains when immersed in water. In ancient China, the uncontrollable fury of nature itself (such as floods and beast plagues) manifested in the form of a "gigantic boar." The legend of its extermination by Hou Yi functions as a mythological device narrating the victory of civilization—humanity's hero subjugating overwhelming natural violence through "culture (archery)" and bringing it completely under human control by "eating it (making it an offering)." In Japan, such continental-scale monsters were difficult to localize and were merely filed away as "bizarre foreign beasts." However, when modern entertainment unearthed its attributes of being "hard, gigantic, and possessing near-invincible charging power" to reinterpret it as a motif for the ultimate enemy character, the "despair and awe toward overwhelming violence" held by ancient Chinese toward Houki was inadvertently shared as genuine terror by modern people. It is a highly dramatic case in the history of yokai reception, where a monster with a severed lineage reclaimed its original intimidation through the power of pop culture.