Journey to the West: Life Simulation of Sun Wukong

In the energy impact of super-light speed, the Blue Planet lost its sun, followed immediately by an energy burst born from the sun's explosion, vaporizing the atmosphere and annihilating all life forms.

The humans on the Blue Planet, before they could react, had perished.

However, in the moment just before the destruction of the Blue Planet, a young man on the planet had already foreseen its doom.

This young man, named Thousand Lights Ming, possessed a mind far stronger than ordinary people.

Why?

This involves something incredible.

Because more than three hundred years ago, his ancestor Qianli Xing was said to have entered a mysterious realm and participated in a game, which resulted in his mental capacity becoming extraordinary.

After coming back, Qianli Xing abandoned his life as a wandering hero and took a wife, living honestly, and had a healthy baby boy, whose lineage passed the torch from generation to generation.

Whether or not Qianli Xing really entered the divine secret realm, his descendants grew to possess increasingly powerful spiritual energy after reaching adulthood, such that by the generation of Thousand Lights Ming, they were able to manipulate the spiritual energy of Two-Dimensional Space and levitate a leaf through the air.

In the moment just before the destruction of the Blue Planet.

Thousand Lights Ming was fortunate, as he was the only person to know of the Blue Planet's final day.

Thousand Lights Ming was unfortunate, because he was the sole person aware of the Blue Planet's doom.

Relying on an obscure premonition, Thousand Lights Ming was fortunate to learn of the impending disaster, but unfortunately, he had no means to stop it, as his strength was only enough to lift a large rock as tall as a man.

His family had practiced martial arts for generations, but a solar explosion was something...

It's better to find a quiet place and wait for death.

Yet, when Thousand Lights Ming opened his eyes again, he wasn't headed for the legendary heaven or hell, but he met an entity that seemed to come from a higher dimension.

Vague, chaotic, an unseen true visage.

"Who are you?" Thousand Lights Ming's spirit trembled.

"Primordial Heavenly King." The vast voice, traversing the galaxies, deeply shook Thousand Lights Ming's spirit.

"I am omniscient and omnipotent, capable of anything," said the Primordial Heavenly King, "If you can answer my one question, not only can I reverse time, revive your star system and all its deceased beings, but I can also give you the power to prevent the war between the two supercivilizations that threatens your star system."

"War?" Thousand Lights Ming did not understand.

"The attack that befell your star came from the Black Infinite, a side that devours all civilizations, forcing everyone to join the Infinite, to share a single thought, a single ideology," the Primordial Heavenly King explained, "The other side comes from the Taixu Illusory Realm's Great Harmony."

"The Taixu Illusory Realm advocates for all spirits; Great Harmony is their vanguard army, seeking universal harmony among all civilizations, allowing competition, even war, striving for a genuine flourishing of all ideas." C*at.c%h the fo*rma*tt^ed v+e@r&s%i^o%n at M*|$V!|LE-M+_PYR$.

"One wants to enforce a single thought, where everything serves this ideology; while the other wants all beings to unify under one idea, where beings are free to think about various useful, useless philosophies, and, if possible, even overthrow this ideology to establish a more profound one."

Thousand Lights Ming didn't care about these; right now, he only had one thing on his mind:

That was to exact revenge for his homeland!

"Do you want power?" The Primordial Heavenly King seemingly saw through Thousand Lights Ming's thoughts and straightforwardly asked, "Then I shall pose my question—what is the meaning of your life?"

The meaning of life?

Thousand Lights Ming was suddenly ecstatic, "If I can answer this question, can you indeed revive the Blue Planet and all its creatures, even give me the power to avenge them?"

"Yes," the Primordial Heavenly King confirmed, "So, what is your answer?"

Thousand Lights Ming began to think, the ecstasy on his face disappeared—

The more hope he had previously, the more despair he now possessed.

He wasn't fit to be a savior!

Because as he reflected on his life, aside from learning the family martial arts, most of his time was spent like everyone else, drifting along, going to school, coming home from school, until graduation, then working, returning home from work.

Could he say that such a life had meaning?

He had heard plenty of inspirational talks.

But he could not face the Primordial Heavenly King and say it, for he deeply understood that he was thoroughly useless, his life devoid of meaning!

Even if time could be reversed and he could start over, besides the few lottery numbers he remembered, which might be useful, the fact that he was useless wouldn't change.

Thousand Lights Ming suddenly cried.

Not because he couldn't become the hero to save the world, but because he had realized that his entire life had nothing worth looking back on.

The busy life of the past had kept him from contemplating this question, but now that he thought about it, he felt his existence seemed merely to cope.

To cope with his parents, cope with his teachers, cope with his classmates···

To cope with his wife, cope with his colleagues, cope with his boss···

Just to get by—

He remembered he once had dreams, but now they were forgotten; he couldn't recall them, nor did he want to think about them.

What meaning could there be in such an ordinary life?

None.

Numb.

I'm exhausted.

Perish!

Primordial Heavenly King was not surprised; all of Thousand Lights Ming's reactions were within his expectations.

"Can't answer, can you?" Primordial Heavenly King asked.

"Mm."

Thousand Lights Ming responded weakly.

"Then, I can offer you a second choice."

"What do you want me to do?" Thousand Lights Ming asked, understanding that the other party, whether out of curiosity or because he wanted to see his emotional expressions as an ant or to perform some experiment, would not easily annihilate him.

Perhaps, all the thoughts in his mind were crystal clear to the other party, but that probably also represented his value.

"Transform into light and conquer the stars and oceans!"

As Primordial Heavenly King raised his hand, numerous lights converged around Thousand Lights Ming, continuously merging into him, causing unimaginable changes to his body.

His body enlarged, his spirit strengthened, and at a moment of extreme limit, he instantly shattered, transforming into a mercury-like body that enveloped all the radiance on him.

His eyes shone like stars, his face firm as crystal, his mouth always with a faint tranquil smile, a sight that would bring peace to the heart of any living being.

Thousand Lights Ming, true to his name, had really become one of the brightest lights in the universe, capable of illuminating the dark abyss of space!

Primordial Heavenly King had already disappeared. Thousand Lights Ming looked at his now tall silver-white body and then looked up, as though he saw the other side of the starry sea, where millions of fiercely battling warships and Flying Boats were.

The energy cannons of the warships surged!

The Flying Boats emitted Spiritual Energy!

The perfect fusion of science fiction and Taoist fantasy, the collaboration of interstellar warriors and cultivators, unfolding a massive and boundless opera.

The Infinite Black—

In the gaze of Thousand Lights Ming, this civilization resembled the Dark Forest theory he once encountered on the Blue Planet.

The so-called Dark Forest posits that in the universe, all civilizations are enemies; once exposed, one would be attacked and destroyed by others.

Firmly believe that others are demons, and others are the eternal hell!

Of course, the Infinite Black was not exactly like this, but to Thousand Lights Ming, it seemed no different. The method of elimination it adopted was merely more polite: disintegrating other civilizations, integrating into the infinite world, adopting its culture, and becoming part of the infinite civilization.

If people cannot understand each other, then turn them all into "me"!

This is the simplest way!

Meanwhile, Great Harmony of the Red—

Believed that different races could communicate, trust each other, and even develop their unique characteristics under a unified ideology without the necessity of complete cultural uniformity.

The thoughts of all beings can have selfish intents!

However, in the Infinite Black, the thoughts of all beings are for the development of the infinite world. Such a world would necessarily be more efficient, but the individual's own thoughts seemed like the product of brainwashing, losing themselves and abandoning their true hearts.

Or rather, their true hearts had been replaced by the infinite.

Because, within the infinite world, there was a path that all beings could walk, but at the cost of giving up their own thoughts, adopting the spirit of "the Infinite Way," and ultimately devoting everything to the infinite.

The so-called Infinite Way is a highly refined method of brainwashing, attracting people to willingly join it.

"I, can resist the temptation."

Thousand Lights Ming muttered to himself, "Because you destroyed my homeland, so I don't care how wonderful the Infinite Way is, whatever it takes, I am going to destroy you, Infinite Black!"

He did not care about the Primordial Heavenly King's words of conquering the universe; the only thing he now thought of was to radiate light towards the Infinite Black and destroy everything about it!

His current form of life was no longer carbon-based, but light-based.

Consider digital life as an example to analyze the current state of Thousand Lights Ming: Artificial Intelligence, through complex logical reasoning and matrix evolution, can even develop self-consciousness and evolve into digital life.

But even digital life, which possesses life, is fundamentally just a combination of binary data, that is, the zeros and ones generating self-consciousness after extensive calculations and matrix alignments.

This resembles the workings of Thousand Lights Ming's current light form.

Light possesses both wave and particle properties.

The wave-particle duality is a major characteristic of light. If we liken the wave nature of light to 0 and its particle nature to 1, then a beam of light, in its interplay of wave and particle properties, would experience combinations of 0 and 1, similar to how Artificial Intelligence operates.

Light can record, transform any information, and evolve self-consciousness, and eventually evolve into a life form!

Thousand Lights Ming already possessed self-consciousness, hence this evolution process was merely about transforming his body into a light form – and this was just a small experiment by Primordial Heavenly King.

Thousand Lights Ming was also a pawn of Primordial Heavenly King!

Why do this?

Because, with the emergence of the Taixu Illusory Realm, Primordial Heavenly King could no longer see the future; he needed someone to explore the path.

"Infinite Black, I, the survivor of the Blue Planet civilization!"

"Here I come!"