Journey to the West: Life Simulation of Sun Wukong

Bibi Dong's expression darkened, then she smiled and said, "You are indeed perceptive. Due to your Martial Spirit, there have been some issues in your cultivation. If resolved, you could break through to level ninety-nine."

Seeing the Pope smile, Chrysanthemum Douluo secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

The safest way after hearing this secret is to kill him.

Serving such a figure is like serving a tiger... Luckily, the Pope wasn't too angered.

However, Sun Ming is a bit daring; thinking about it, he's still young, only eight years old... Yes, just eight. Naturally, he says whatever he sees; it's understandable.

Dugu Bo narrowed his eyes.

Ninety-eight levels?

This Pope isn't easy to deal with. However, if contesting, it's not impossible to win, and given his poison release capability, most in Martial Soul City would perish.

It seems unlikely they would be foolish enough to trouble him.

"Does Sun Ming have a way to resolve it?"

"Yes." Sun Ming nodded, "But may I first browse the library of Martial Soul Hall?"

"Of course." The Pope nodded, instructing Chrysanthemum Douluo to lead them there and arrange suitable accommodations for the three, clearly indicating Sun Ming would be staying for a while.

After arranging accommodations for the three, Dugu Bo left, as the Ice-Fire Lake required his supervision, and given the current situation, if Martial Soul Hall were to harm the two, he certainly could not be careless.

Moreover, Sun Ming has five bodyguards; protecting Yan Yan is effortless.

"Xiao Ming, I'll take my leave first. You go ahead; if there's any issue, just look for this old Chrysanthemum. He owes me," said Dugu Bo.

"Hmph!" Chrysanthemum Douluo snorted coldly, saying nothing, as he couldn't presently defeat Dugu Bo—he had to endure.

After Dugu Bo left, Sun Ming didn't head straight to the library. Instead, he spent over ten days touring the entire Martial Soul City with Dugu Yan. Then he visited the vicinity of Pontiff Hall, interacting with many elders, sect hierarchs, and most soul masters, getting to know them and inquiring about their Martial Spirits, Soul Power levels, and soul ring combinations.

Since Sun Ming was specially permitted by the Pope, these elders, sect hierarchs, and low-level soul masters spoke without reserve, and after understanding their information, Sun Ming explored their bodies and checked the status of their Martial Spirits, guiding them in the most suitable Soul Power operation methods as rewards.

This allowed Sun Ming to receive their permission to record them as cases in the books he planned to write in the future.

Later, Bibi Dong summoned these elders, sect hierarchs, and lower-level soul masters to inquire about the Soul Power operation methods taught by Sun Ming, exclaiming, "With this, your cultivation speed is comparable to those with Innate Full Spirit Power, though your ages are a bit advanced."

The elders and sect hierarchs didn't mind this point, at least this Soul Power operation method could be passed onto the next generation, couldn't it?

A month later, Sun Ming perused all the books in the library, began filling in gaps in his previous publications of "Soul Beast Forest Survival Guide", "Martial Soul Strengthening Theory", "Martial Soul and Soul Power Cultivation Theory", "Martial Soul Fusion Theory", and "Medical Discourse", noting the sources of reference materials, providing Martial Soul Hall with a credit.

Bibi Dong was extremely satisfied after reviewing them, instructing her subordinates to publish and sell them.

In no time, Martial Soul Hall won the hearts of the majority of civilian soul masters, hoping to join Martial Soul Hall to learn more knowledge to become stronger themselves, and to the prosperity of their families.

Later, Sun Ming drew from the knowledge regarding soul bones in the library written by various titled Douluos, pulled out the soul bones of the Diamond Ape tribe for Soul Power resonance experiments, and applied to Bibi Dong for soul bones for experimentation. Note: Check M_VLEMPY_R for any corrections.

Considering the soul bones, Bibi Dong did not make an immediate decision, but Sun Ming proposed using his own soul bones as collateral, then swapping them back upon research completion.

Bibi Dong agreed.

Thus, another month passed, and Sun Ming wrote a book titled "Soul Bone Armorization Theory", stating that even if soul bones weren't derived from the same soul beast, they could still be armorized. As long as one soul bone could connect the rest and use one's own Soul Power and Martial Spirit to permeate, linking the whole body soul bones using the corresponding Soul Power route, armorization was certain!

However, although this book was also published, most soul masters could only look on in despair.

Having even one soul bone is considered a great blessing; how could they hope for six?

Furthermore, the armorization efficiency is highest with soul bones from the same soul beast.

However, on the last page of the book, Master Vajra proposed a hypothesis—

Human Body Soul Bones!

Based on the numerous soul beast generated soul bone records in Martial Soul Hall, Vajra speculated human beings should also be able to generate soul bones, and by tempering all two hundred and six bones in the body using Soul Power in a specific manner, all can become human body soul bones.

And because they are naturally produced by the body, far superior to soul beasts, more matching to one's physique and Martial Spirit, even their age increase along with one's cultivation, as they are one's own bones.

However, Vajra did not write out the specific tempering methods as he hadn't fully developed them yet, stating he planned to conduct his own experiments first, and if successful, potentially outstanding soul masters wouldn't have to worry about soul bones.

This news surprised the majority of soul masters.

Humans can generate soul bones?

No one doubted Vajra's theory, as his previously published five books benefited nearly all soul masters; formerly, they didn't know Soul Power could be refined through specific operation methods, did they?

Perhaps the human body could truly generate soul bones!

But this was just post-dinner chit-chat. After all, it would take decades to wait for Sasori to research human bones turning into soul bones; their generation wouldn't have the opportunity.

Afterward, yet another month passed, and Sun Ming published another book titled "Martial Soul Evolution Theory," based on the investigation of many civilian and noble martial souls by the Martial Soul Hall, discussing how martial souls evolve due to human psyche.

There are even numerous case studies inside!

For example, in a village near a vein within the Shinra Empire, the villagers' martial souls are pickaxes. But according to Martial Soul Hall's data, their martial souls were hoes a thousand years ago.

Because they moved next to the vein and lived by mining, to mine better, the arm of the hoe martial soul grew shorter and thinner, and the area it cultivated became narrower and sharper.

This was due to environmental influence, survival needs, but more so because the people there wished for a better life, and under such strong intent, the martial soul evolved in form.

In other words, even without being soul masters, martial souls can still evolve according to the survival conditions in different environments and the desire for a better life.

This process requires a stable environment and over ten generations of legacy, taking at least a thousand years!

For soul masters, however, the addition of soul rings can greatly reduce this time.

Once these details were publicized, many soul masters went to such villages themselves to inquire, discovering that indeed, as Sasori's theory suggested, various martial souls changed form over a millennium of stability.

In the end, Sasori proposed another hypothesis, which is to hypnotize a person to believe that their martial soul was always powerful, and it might evolve from a useless martial soul to one that can produce Innate Full Spirit Power.

Yet no one attempted it.

The required time is too long, arduous without gain, better to opt for mutated and exceptional soul masters.

Regarding mutations, "Martial Soul Evolution Theory" categorized them into another form, summarizing several causes for mutations:

First, complementary martial souls from both parents give the offspring a chance to combine the two martial souls, causing mutations.

Second, if the martial souls of both parents counter each other, even if one devours the other after inheritance, the resulting mutation is likely powerful but accompanied by some defect.

However, in extremely special cases, the opposing martial souls remain unaffected by each other, leading to the birth of dual martial souls.

Third, environmental influence.

Under unique environments, martial souls may mutate during awakening due to the influence.

Fourth, strong will during martial soul awakening can cause mutations because martial souls reflect one's blood and soul, and excessive emotional intensity leads to instability at the moment of birth, making mutation likely.

However, such mutations typically tend toward becoming worse.

Fifth, inbreeding, which largely causes martial soul mutations. Although it mostly leads to beneficial mutations, the offspring themselves may have reduced fertility due to inbreeding, shorter lifespans, dementia, and other issues.

More importantly, these mutations can't stably transmit genetically.

After reading "Martial Soul Evolution Theory," Bibi Dong asked Sun Ming, "I have dual martial souls, but both are the same kind of beast martial soul; is it because they counter each other?"

"I've heard the Pope has the martial souls Death Spider Emperor and Soul-Devouring Spider Emperor?" Sun Ming asked.

"Yes."

"Then they are indeed countering each other; although both are spiders, they are mighty emperors among spiders, how could they ever coexist?" Sun Ming said, "Even if one were male and the other female, the female would devour the male."

Bibi Dong's eyes turned cold.

The female devours the male?

Could this kid possibly have guessed something?

No!

Hardly possible!

"Why do you say that?" Bibi Dong asked.

"Have you observed ordinary spiders, Pope?" Sun Ming asked.

"Practically not."

Ever since she joined the Martial Soul Hall, Bibi Dong hadn't seen ordinary spiders, although she had encountered many spider-type soul beasts since her two martial souls predetermined that her early rings would have to be spider-type soul beasts.

"Ordinary spiders, after breeding, the female spider devours the male spider to provide substantial nutrition for the next generation. In most cases, male spiders can't escape the fate of being captured and devoured by female spiders after mating." Sun Ming explained.

"Is that so?" Bibi Dong pondered, could her fate have already been decided the moment she awakened a spider-type martial soul?

That would be rather tragic!

"No wonder spider-type soul beasts are primarily viewed by soul masters as terrifying, frightening, and ferocious." Bibi Dong chuckled, "Even some venomous-hearted women are sometimes called black widows."