Journey to the West: Life Simulation of Sun Wukong

"It's you!"

Reminded by Su Jie, the lady in the pavilion finally remembered who Su Jie was, and laughed, "You must have just finished your college entrance exam. With your abilities, you should be able to get into Ming Lun."

"It was just good luck."

Su Jie was modest. During the summer training class period, he would probably come here every day in the latter half, so he had some acquaintance with the lady in the pavilion.

He hadn't expected that she had still forgotten him.

However, Su Jie felt it was only natural. It had been a year since he had last come here, and he wasn't considered a regular, so it was very normal for others not to remember him.

After taking the wristband that the lady handed over and saying "Thank you," Su Jie walked into the Bird's Nest building.

The place had changed a bit since a year ago. The internal space had slightly enlarged, said to be due to the use of building materials from Primordial Star, which were thinner and much more durable.

The number of contestants coming here to compete had increased, and so had the audience.

Su Jie arrived on the seventh floor.

This was the competition venue for those with a vitality over 1 but under 2.

The staffer who received Su Jie was still Ms. Bai Jie, because her vitality had also reached 1, thus she was also on this seventh floor.

The moment Bai Jie saw Wang Chao, she remembered who he was.

The young genius, not seen for a year, his sharpness somewhat contained, but his eyes still shone like stars—she remembered them vividly.

"Long time no see," said Bai Jie with a smile, coming over.

"Sister Bai Jie, I didn't expect you to remember me," Su Jie expressed in surprise.

Bai Jie laughed and said, "We are not ordinary people after all. The improvement in vitality enhances us in every aspect, so naturally that includes memory. Besides, you are a genius. When you were boxing, I was the one who received you. After such a long time spent together, even a year apart won't make me forget."

"You flatter me! Genius is too grand a title for me." Su Jie was humble.

"Too much modesty is hypocrisy," Bai Jie chuckled lightly, "If you're not a genius, then there are no geniuses in this world."

Su Jie said, "Then Jiang Wuxing is also a genius."

Mentioning Jiang Wuxing, Bai Jie's expression darkened as she said, "He is not. If his family wasn't the Jiang Corporation, with vast resources, help from hypnotists, and instruction from martial masters, he would not have reached 0.9 so quickly."

"Moreover, the Jiang Corporation is also keen on cultivating an unbeatable mindset for Jiang Wuxing, secretly buying off many people."

"Too bad, you shattered that for them."

"To this day, he hasn't regained his confidence, and he says that only by defeating you again can he recover that unbeatable mindset."

By the end, Bai Jie's face bore a hint of mockery.

Su Jie remained non-committal.

Regain face to recover that unbeatable mindset?

Such a mentality seemed too narrow.

When he first started boxing, he didn't even know how many times he would lose in a single day, but after each defeat, he just summed up the experience and didn't dwell on the failure.

Yet, Jiang Wuxing insisted on regaining face?

Such a mindset did not belong to a true strongman.

The path to being unbeatable could indeed lead to an indomitable spirit, but the true strength requires mastery, and there will always be higher peaks to scale. Without a good mindset, constant winning becomes more dangerous.

After all, it's like climbing a high mountain: the higher you climb, the worse the fall if you slip.

Even if you don't fall, others have ways to hollow out the mountain, turning it into a precarious castle in the air.

"But in this year, Jiang Wuxing hasn't troubled me?" asked Su Jie.

Bai Jie couldn't help but laugh, "You think this is decades ago? In today's society, if he dared to cause trouble, that would be digging his own grave. The reputation and stock price of the Jiang Corporation would plummet."

"However, with the Jiang Corporation's strength, digging up your family's information is very easy. After all, in this era of big data, privacy is almost non-existent."

"But so what if they found out? Until they find a way to deal with you, that information is just a few worthless papers."

"After all, they can't pin a groundless charge on you."

"The higher the cultivation of the mind, the more upright and honest one is, and won't resort to underhanded tactics, unless one reaches a certain level of 'self-deception', even deceiving their own mind."

"Clearly, the Jiang Corporation has not reached such a state, not to mention Jiang Wudao of the Jiang Corporation is currently in the Stable Realm and aiming to break through to the Embryonic Breathing Realm, so he can hardly afford to engage in such petty tricks."

Su Jie nodded slightly in agreement.

In this era, you can't just use force whenever you want, especially for large corporations that have to think twice before taking any action.

Just as the Jiang Corporation, in order to acquire his sister, had used legal means, business competition, leading his sister step by step into a trap, binding her down with debt issues.

The Jiang Corporation hoped Su Chen would contribute to them forever and planned to deepen the bond through family by having Jiang Wudao pursue her, rather than using strong-arm tactics.

Perhaps it was low, but Su Jie couldn't really say the Jiang Corporation didn't play by the rules.

"Is Jiang Wuxing still practicing his punches here?" Su Jie asked.

"Of course," Bai Jie's eyebrows curved, and her mouth parted into a grin, "For a guy like him, there are dedicated teachers for academic subjects, no need to attend school. It's the right path to come here and hone oneself through punching."

"After all, cultivating the spirit and increasing vitality, one might even fly to the heavens and plumb the depths of the seas in the future. How could young lads like him have the patience to sit down and study?"

"In the past year, his vitality has reached 1.2, an increase of 0.3."

Su Jie laughed and said, "It seems that defeating him back then was a big blow to him. With the wealth of Jiang Corporation, it isn't an issue to bring over all sorts of Spirit Energy-infused exotic fruits and flowers from Primordial Star, but his vitality has only increased by 0.3, which clearly indicates his spiritual cultivation hasn't improved much."

Bai Jie shrugged and said, "According to Ming Lun's research, as long as one's spiritual cultivation improves, before reaching the Stable Realm, the vitality gained from products like Taiji Rice and Essence of Moon Spirit is already enough for people to cultivate to 10."

"The only problem is that a person's spiritual cultivation isn't enough to digest most of the nutrients in Taiji Rice, and ultimately that energy will dissipate into the second dimension."

"And the second dimension is the space surrounding Earth. Once the Spiritual Energy is diluted there, it's as good as gone, and the Embryonic Breathing Realm can't absorb much of it."

"Then there's Jiang Wuxing, whom Jiang Mingxin of Jiang Corporation hopes to raise into another Jiang Wudao, but it's quite clear that a twelve or thirteen-year-old kid, whose worldview may not even be fully formed, is letting him practice punching here. It's very easy for his spirit to fall into an egocentric trap."

"This age is precisely the time for second-year middle school syndrome."

Su Jie nodded vehemently. When he was twelve or thirteen, he would imagine himself as a superhero, as Ultraman, just like his classmates at school.

Thankfully, he had a complete childhood.

Although those memories are somewhat cringeworthy, Su Jie wouldn't deny them, after all, they are part of his growing up, a part of what makes him the person he is now.

"By the way, what's your vitality level now?" Bai Jie asked nonchalantly.

"1.5," Su Jie replied.

"1.5?!" Bai Jie clicked her tongue, her pupils shrank slightly, and it took her a while to continue, "If you were a bit older, big sister might even throw herself at you."

Su Jie gave an embarrassed smile, "Sister Bai Jie is kidding."

Bai Jie pouted, "Alright, I won't tease you anymore. With your talent, you wouldn't even look at me."

Then, Bai Jie took Su Jie to the window to register.

And Su Jie began his first bout on the fighting stage after his vitality had reached above 1, against an opponent whose vitality was also at 1.5.

In fact, although the Bird's Nest competition venue only has eight floors, the opponents matched against each other won't have a vitality gap larger than 0.1 to ensure fairness.

Therefore, under no circumstances would Su Jie encounter Jiang Wuxing in the match.

After all, Jiang Wuxing's vitality was only at 1.2, a gap of 0.3 compared to Su Jie's, which was simply too vast; stepping onto the stage would mean getting instantly knocked out.

Ming Lun wouldn't arrange it like that.

On the stage, Su Jie was as ferocious as thunder, with the sound of thunder faintly surrounding him. His bones and muscles moved with crisp snaps, and when he landed a punch on his opponent, it induced a numbing feeling.

For a skilled fighter, this slight numbness could be fatal.

Less than three minutes passed, and Su Jie's opponent was down and couldn't get up.

There were no significant injuries on his body, but he had been stunned and knocked out.

"Not bad, eh? Thunder technique?" Bai Jie said in surprise, "A year ago, you had a hint of Eight Extremes Fist in your hand. Now you've actually cultivated the thunder technique."

"Instructor Zhao Xinglong taught me the Eight Extremes Thunder Fist," Su Jie explained as he stepped down from the platform, "I've been using it since last year, just that back then I couldn't produce the roaring sounds."

"Eight Extremes Thunder Fist! You can say you've got the true transmission!" Bai Jie clicked her tongue and said cheerfully, "Su Jie, little brother, big sister is liking you more and more."

"Sister Bai Jie, please don't joke," Su Jie said, keeping his distance. Notefromtheeditor:AlwayscheckMV2LEMPYRforcorrections.

It wasn't because he shunned the company of women, but because he preferred to keep himself to himself.

Moreover, Bai Jie's personality was somewhat free-spirited and didn't quite mesh with him.

"All right, no more jokes. I'm already married, a wife of someone else," Bai Jie showed Su Jie her wedding ring on her left ring finger, dispelling any awkwardness Su Jie might have felt.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Jiang Wuxing had just come down from the 1.2 level stage and spotted Su Jie, immediately clenching his fists.

"Su Jie!"

With a roar, he strode over furiously, stopping abruptly about ten centimeters from Su Jie.

Outside the arena, one is not to engage in fighting, or it would be considered brawling!

He was furious but understood the rules.

"Hello."

Confronted with Jiang Wuxing's wrathful eyes, Su Jie slightly lowered his head, looking at the one-meter-six Jiang Wuxing, feeling a strange sense of amusement inside.

Bai Jie stepped aside, leaving them to stare each other down.

Jiang Wuxing said, "You beat me last time; I must defeat you to regain my honor!"

Su Jie laughed and said, "I'm afraid that won't be possible."

Jiang Wuxing's eyes widened as he cursed, "Are you scared!?"

Su Jie shook his head and pointed at himself, "My vitality is now at 1.5; you're at 1.2. We can't be matched together, and even if we were, you wouldn't be able to beat me."