Journey to the West: Life Simulation of Sun Wukong

Time flies, and the years pass swiftly.

In the blink of an eye, another half year had passed.

Meng Yunfeng had healed from his injuries long ago, but accumulating the energy needed to advance to the fetal breathing stage still required a lot of time, especially since there were no natural treasures here, making his accumulation process extremely slow.

Although the Two-Dimensional Space was full of Spiritual Energy, without reaching the fetal breathing stage, one could not actively draw it in; how then could he gather it?

He could only slowly accumulate.

Su Jie, on the other hand, found it much easier because he possessed mysterious breathing techniques, visualization methods bestowed by Immortals, and the Three Lives Three Teachings Fist. He taught the children daily, worked in the fields with the villagers, and in the evening, he led the villagers in meetings to discuss various popular tales, explaining the reasons why they were oppressed and had become refugees.

"Do you know why you have become refugees?"

"Because we cannot afford the taxes." Someone tentatively spoke, hoping for Su Jie's affirmation.

"No."

Su Jie shook his head and instead asked, "How many people do you think there are in the whole of Kun Country?"

The man scratched his head, unable to specify a number, only saying, "Very many, my mother once told me there are as many people as there are stars in the sky."

This part of the Cultivation World is not a planet-like world, but a Semi-Dimension evolving toward a dimensional world; once it successfully evovles into a dimension, it becomes a divine kingdom, which is round in heaven and square on earth.

Therefore, the stars in the sky are no longer various visible celestial bodies but are essences of stars, conglomerations formed by various energies condensing.

The energy they release invisibly affects the entire surface of the Cultivation World, providing almost endless energy.

Using the number of stars to compare to the number of people in the Cultivation World isn't inappropriate and furthermore, there is a legend in the Cultivation World that some people become stars and return to the sky after death.

However, changing the narrative slightly, this legend suggests that after death, the soul returns to divine will and resides with god.

Going to heaven and descending to hell in this dimensional world essentially mean the same thing.

The good, who believe in divine will, have their souls easily refined after death, experiencing no pain; the evil, due to their brutal nature, need a more intensive purification to be absorbed properly.

And the best way to purify souls is by burning them.

The fires of hell … Extremely ironic.

To divine will, there is no distinction between good and evil. There is only the quality of "crops," but in the end, all will be peeled, chopped, and then put into the mouth.

And those "peels" are the impurities of the soul, carrying some memories.

Such memories, floating in the Cultivation World, are received by ordinary people sensitive in spirit, who then dream of these scenarios during sleep. After awakening, through distortion of facts, the legend of the good ascending to heaven and the evil descending to hell is formed.

The more thoroughly Su Jie understood this, the more he rejected divine will, and even wished he could annihilate all presence of divine will!

Indeed, divine will sustains all living beings.

Humans should also be grateful for the nurturing kindness of heaven and earth, respect heaven and earth, but if divine will only regards beings as crops, then this nurturing kindness is a joke, no wonder people want to annihilate heaven.

Heaven fundamentally did not regard humans as human beings.

Beings with wisdom and soul should not be crops!

"You are right, the people of Kun Country are countless like the stars in the sky, shimmering uncertainly," Su Jie sighed slightly, then said, "So, have you ever considered, if every person in Kun Country gives you a grain of rice, and this rice won't spoil, how long could you eat it?"

The man thought about it, realizing he couldn't fathom just how large that number was, and he could only guess: "Probably, me, my son, my son's son, my grandson's grandson, many generations, would not be able to finish it."

The others joined in the noise, claiming it would last a hundred generations or even a thousand generations, exaggerating as much as they could!

However, these people were still conservative.

"You might not believe this, but in reality, if every person in Kun Country gave you one grain of rice, you wouldn't be able to finish it even if you did nothing else for ten thousand generations and lived a hundred years each generation," Su Jie exaggerated to demonstrate this to the people. This chapter was uploaded by the team at M|VLEMPYR.

Since Su Jie was the village chief and likely an Immortal, they believed him unconditionally.

And although they were simple folks, when they calmed down, they would think about it, realizing that each person in Kun Country contributing one grain of rice could indeed sustain one person for hundreds, if not thousands of generations.

"So, have you ever thought about why you need to pay so much grain tax? Sixty, seventy, even eighty percent of your harvest."

Suddenly, a fury rose from the depth of their hearts.

"Yes! If everyone paid one grain of rice, it could support a person for ten thousand generations. Even if the royal court has many people to support, it's definitely not more than the number of us farmers. Three tenths would be more than enough, so why pay six tenths?"

"I think every household only needs to pay two tenths," someone added.

"Nonsense! One bowl is enough!"

Su Jie raised his hand, signaling for quiet. "A kingdom can't be without reserves, one bowl is too little. Three tenths are too much— one tenth would be enough to sustain all the officials in Kun Country and fill the reserves."

"But why do they ask you to pay more than sixty percent in grain tax?"

Dog Two cursed, "They just want us dead!"

Su Jie nodded, "Exactly, they want you dead, but killing you directly would tarnish their face, so they increase the grain tax to make your lives unsustainable, forcing you to sell yourselves to the gentry, lose your lands and thus your homes."