Ming Dynasty novels, especially those that came after the Wanli Period, had developed a kind of 'banishment myth' narrative form. Due to the widespread adoption by bookstore owners and other editors, such a kind of narrative form had become a model of cultivation biography as seen in The Lakeside Tales (Shuihu Zhuan), The Journey to the West (Xiyou Ji) and some twenty other novels. In terms of religious literary interpretation, one finds that: popular novels such as The Lakeside Tales do not, in the dominant narrative structure, directly manifest their religious ideology; accounts of religious sages, such as Deng Zhimo's Iron Tree Records (ITeshu .Ii), is the dominant narrative and meaning structure. However, regardless of their original creative intent, the religious ideology in Daoist banishment myths -- such as the last catastrophe, crime and punishment, redemption -- penetrated popular culture through the novels' narrative. The formation of the Lakeside stories, from the Song through the Jin, Yuan and Ming periods, made use of banishment myths. Likewise, stories of the Journey to the West followed the same process, which was popularized by book dealers and editors and gave birth to the religious practice biography. Novels of this kind, whether- full-length or medium-length, adopted the banishment type of practice biography, which is not, as Andrew H Plaks suggested, only a narrative frame but a perfect combination of narrative structure and meaning structure. What the novel narrative deals with here is the problem of organizing properly the gathering together and breaking apart of collective personalities. With an abundance of given protagonists (e.g., Lu Zhishen in Lu Shihui), arranging this process needs a transcendent narrative viewpoint, and the banishment myth proved to be sufficiently suited to solve the problem. Consequently, the Song Jiang and the Mysterious Woman of the Nine Heavens (Jiutian Xuannu) or the Heavenly Book; Xuanzang and Guanyin... each, in their own way, by acting in behalf of Heaven or assisting Heaven by procuring scriptures, expresses the need to spread the mystical religious message. For the banished One, punishment and suffering, walking on top of the mountain ridge and journeying to obtain scriptures, are all essentially 'tests', and for the purification of mind-nature (xinxing). The religious ideology reflected in this kind of novel about spiritual cultivation had been pointed out quite obviously in remarks on them during their times. This is the reason why the Xiyouji was also called the Xiyou Zhengdao (Witness to the Way in the Journey to the West), and the Shuihuzhuan, the Zhongyi Shuihu (Loyalty and Righteously in the Lake Side). Through the narrative techniques of disclosure and concealment, the novel foretells the inevitable outcome of story and the fate of the characters... Religious literature has absorbed a rich mythological content and can, through symbols, talk about human nature metaphorically. As leisure reading, the novels employ subversive monstrous characters to reflect on what is normal and what is not. This is the moving force behind the enduring quality of these fantastic novels. In game playing, it created the archetypal characters and cultural and psychological structure in Chinese narrative.