Journey to the West: Life Simulation of Sun Wukong

"Now, I need to reaffirm my position,"

Ao Tian stood ex nihilo, his formidable aura pressing directly against Sun Shisheng and the others.

He had swelled with pride!

Among Sun Shisheng and his companions, the strongest was Ziwang. Although his strength and abilities were not at the level of Ziwang, Ao Tian felt that he had regained his Heavenly Honor status and was enough to crush these few people.

Therefore, he wanted to declare his dominance!

He dared not return to the Dimension of the Dragon, but the potential of Taixu Illusory Realm was boundless. Surpassing the Dimension of the Dragon was only a matter of time, and he naturally intended to seize it.

He felt that he could be called the Phoenix Head.

Wang Chao looked at Sun Shisheng speechlessly, "Sun, I told you, we need to be extra cautious with this guy. Look, now that he feels his power has increased, he wants to turn over and become the master."

Li Hansha nodded in agreement, "I think he can be refined into an elixir."

"Audacious!"

"I am a Heavenly Honor!"

Ao Tian saw that these people did not take him seriously and were chatting indifferently, as if they did not place him, a Heavenly Honor, in their eyes, which was truly detestable.

"I had intended to spare your lives to take control of this Taixu Illusory Realm more quickly, but since you are so unaware of what's good for you, don't blame me for not showing you mercy."

"At least, I quite like the name Ao Tian..."

"Ah—"

Suddenly, Ao Tian clutched his head, feeling his spirit shatter. The energy inside his body surged, transforming into a dragon form, rolling in the void, but its destructive power was minimal.

This was because the energy inside was colliding everywhere, making it impossible for him to exert any strength, so he could only rely on the power of his physical body to rampage.

He lashed out with his tail at Li Hansha.

Smack!

Li Hansha caught it easily and used it as leverage to swing the entire dragon around, tossing it after seven or eight turns.

Boom!

Ao Tian hit an invisible wall, suspended in the void, utterly weakened.

"Do you realize your mistake?"

Sun Shisheng stopped chanting the spell, his eyes deep and distant like stars.

"What have you done to me?" Ao Tian asked weakly, reverting to human form, his hands clutching his head. He touched the restraint, trying to tear it off, but he was utterly unable to do so.

"What is this? A beast-controlling ring?"

Sun Shisheng spoke in a calm tone, "Tightening Spell."

"Humph! Don't think that this can bind me! I am not that foolish monkey from your mythical stories!"

Ao Tian snorted coldly, his right hand holding a knife surrounded by thunder as he swung it at his own neck.

Smack!

His head fell off.

"A ruthless one indeed," Chan Yinsha sighed.

Soon after, Ao Tian grew another head, and then—

"Ah!"

Sun Shisheng chanted the spell again, turning Ao Tian back to his original form. He was in unbearable pain, and there was still a golden semi-circle hoop on his head, emitting golden light.

"Do you realize your mistake?"

Three minutes later, Sun Shisheng stopped chanting the spell and asked again.

"I realize my mistake! I realize my mistake!"

"The young dragon realizes his mistake!"

Ao Tian knelt down submissively, showing his submission to Sun Shisheng.

He just didn't understand why he couldn't feel the Tightening Spell connecting with his soul. It merely existed on his head. Why then, after it regrew, could he still not get rid of this Tightening Spell?

He couldn't comprehend it.

"This is a Tightening Spell locked onto your spirit. As long as your heart harbors evil thoughts and you do not achieve enlightenment, you will never be able to take it off," Sun Shisheng kindly explained, seemingly aware of Ao Tian's thoughts.

Ao Tian grew even more reverent.

A bondage on the spirit... This was almost like a conceptual setup. Could the person before him, appearing forgetful, actually have reached reincarnation?

Unimaginable.

He was wholeheartedly convinced and dared not harbor any thoughts of resistance anymore.

Wang Chao sneered, "Sun, you can't just let him off so easily. Recite it a hundred and eighty times more, see if he ever dares to be so arrogant again."

Ao Tian hastened to kneel and bow repeatedly.

"I dare not!"

"Absolutely dare not!"

"Do not recite! Do not recite!"

The pain was such that every part of his body, every cell, his spirit, and his energy, seemed on the verge of collapse – not the sort that leads to death, but as if a moment was stretched into eternity.

One second of pain was equivalent to a year!

Just those three minutes, he felt as if he had endured 180 years of suffering!

For the heavenly fate, 180 years was no more than the blink of an eye, but for Ao Tian, a separate being with a wealth of emotions from the dragon realm, those 180 years were torment.

He didn't want to experience it again!

Not even for a second!

"Presumably, you have recognized your mistake, so I will spare you this time," Sun Shisheng, playing the good cop, gestured for Ao Tian to patrol the Taixu Illusory Realm and recover his spirit.

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As he roamed the illusory realm, he couldn't help feeling a trace of resentment, but recalling the pain immediately dispelled such thoughts.

"I'd better just behave myself, otherwise if the principal recites the Tightening Spell again, I really would be in agony begging for life or death."

However, patrolling the illusory realm also had its benefits for Ao Tian.

That was, he could enter any Illusory Realm, even take the place of so-called protagonists, live their lives, and enjoy their human experiences.

This was a pleasure of the spirit, allowing Ao Tian to relax both body and mind...

...

"That Ao Tian truly lives up to being a dragon, already broadening his heart to enjoy," Wang Chao despicably commented. If it weren't for this guy being a manifestation of heavenly fate, serving to lure other heavenly fates to them, he would have knocked him out, even if Sun stood in his way, just for being such an unambitious creature.

Is this what heavenly fate is?

Ha!

Li Hansha commented, "Heavenly fate is heartless, but once it possesses emotions, it becomes incredibly rich. There is a logic of opposites at play here, making it a subject worth studying."

Chan Yinsha inquired, "Sun, keeping him around, you probably have the same thought as Li Hansha mentioned, right?"

"Pretty much," Sun Shisheng nodded. "Such a handy tool is hard to come by. Since he's here, we must thoroughly study his value. As long as we understand him completely, dealing with the actual heavenly fate of the Dragon Realm in the future will also be easier."

Tang Zichen cared about Ao Tian's strength: "As he represents heavenly fate, he has enough energy to recover quickly. But after you fashioned a physical body for him, he shouldn't have advanced so quickly. It must be the heavenly fate from the Realm of Thunder that cheated for him."

Sun Shisheng said, "After all, he is heavenly fate, and under the influence of my Tightening Spell, the heavenly fate of the Realm of Thunder treats him as the first truly intelligent life born within it. Who else would it cherish if not him?"

Chan Yinsha's eyes lit up: "Could we possibly?"

"Theoretically, yes," Sun Shisheng said.

"What about practically?" Li Hansha grew interested.

"Practically, because we are not beings of heavenly fate like Ao Tian, we cannot be assisted by heavenly fate to absorb, meaning, even if heavenly fate feeds us, we can't digest," Sun Shisheng slowly explained. "Ao Tian can advance because his essence has already reached a higher level, being an energy body who lacks only energy.

But our cultivation, even if our spirits are ready, still requires time for our physical bodies to improve; it can't happen overnight, unless we also evolve into energy beings like Ao Tian."