Journey to the West: Life Simulation of Sun Wukong

After absorbing that five-hundred-year-old soul ring, Wu Youyou's soul power reached level fifteen directly, and that Blue Silver Grass also brought her an External Soul Bone—the Blue Silver Ribbon.

The transparent blue ribbon wrapped around Wu Youyou's shoulders, bypassing the armpits and looping around her back, granting her the ability to fly at low altitude, and the stronger the wind, the faster she flew.

The consumption of soul power was very small.

And her first soul skill is called: Spring Breeze Revives Again.

When the soul ring is activated to release the skill, a large area of Blue Silver Grass will grow on the ground, sprouting strands of Blue Silver Ribbon that can wrap and trap enemies.

Once this skill is released, unless all the Blue Silver Grass is destroyed instantly, it will spring back to life, and this soul skill consumes very little soul power from Wu Youyou.

Perhaps because Wu Youyou resonated with the sacrificial Blue Silver Grass, the soul skill's Blue Silver Ribbon can actively absorb energy from the heavens and earth for restoration, thus saving a large amount of her soul power consumption.

Moreover, after obtaining the soul ring, Wu Youyou's Blue Silver Grass became even more peculiar, perhaps because the first soul ring and martial spirit share the same root, it can better bring evolution to her martial spirit.

"Great, I've become a spirit master!" Wu Youyou was very happy and grateful to Sun Ming.

After Sun Ming and Dugu Yan took Wu Youyou away from the unnamed forest to the next inhabited town, Wu Youyou borrowed a pen and paper from Sun Ming and wrote a letter with the crooked words she learned during this period, then drew a picture of a [little girl holding Blue Silver Grass, with a yellow soul ring on the Blue Silver Grass], and asked Sun Ming to help send it back to Holy Spirit Village, to Jack the village chief.

She wanted to make old Jack happy.

Sun Ming found a postman and handed over Wu Youyou's letter, then took her to the local Martial Soul Hall for registration and received a gold soul coin as a subsidy.

"Youyou, remember, even if you hear others say that the Martial Soul Hall is offering subsidies to win people's hearts, or that this money actually comes from the two great empires, don't be swayed." Sun Ming explained, "Without the Martial Soul Hall, the two great empires wouldn't give this money at all, and no matter what, this money is a timely help for commoner spirit masters like us, so don't feel at ease about it in the future."

"Mm, I understand." Wu Youyou nodded earnestly; the killer of her parents was caught and brought to justice with the help of the Martial Soul Hall.

In the blink of an eye, seven days had passed.

The letter Wu Youyou wrote finally reached Jack's hands in Holy Spirit Village. Looking at the crooked characters and the drawing, old Jack was delighted.

"From awakening martial spirit to now, in just three months, Youyou has actually become a spirit master... If I'd known, I would have let my grandson follow along."

After storing the letter carefully, old Jack headed to the smithy.

Tang Hao changed his mind, and Nuoding Academy's school opening is tomorrow, so old Jack is prepared to take Tang San to Nuoding Academy for enrollment.

On the way, old Jack also described to Tang San that Wu Youyou had already become a spirit master.

Tang San listened in astonishment.

Becoming a spirit master in three months?

Is this possible?

With the initial fusion of internal strength and soul power equated, Tang San naturally understood the difficulty of soul power cultivation—it had taken him three years from the age of three to reach the first rank in spirit master cultivation, level ten, that is, Innate Full Spirit Power.

Wu Youyou, with zero innate soul power, actually reached level ten in three months of cultivation, and after acquiring a soul ring, reached level fifteen...

Could there be a cultivation technique similar to the Xuan Tian Gong he practiced in this world?

Only after he arrived in Nuoding City and met a master did he bow down in reverence, thinking that Wu Youyou might have a way to conceal soul power.

"Xiao San, if the village chief of Holy Spirit Village didn't deceive you, then I must tell you that Wu Youyou, becoming a level fifteen spirit master in three months, surely also has Innate Full Spirit Power, only that her soul power is restrained and hidden, and she definitely has twin martial spirits. The Blue Silver Grass martial spirit can never be Innate Full Spirit Power—I researched over a hundred Blue Silver Grass martial spirit owners; they all possess waste martial spirits."

Yu Xiaogang spoke eloquently, fearing Tang San would change his mind, striving to prove his theory, "Wu Youyou's other martial spirit must be extremely strong."

"And a first soul ring of five hundred years?"

"Ha!"

"This is certainly exaggerated; the absorption age limit for the first soul ring is four hundred and twenty-three years. This precise number comes from my research on thousands of spirit masters!"

"Either the person who took her away had a naive understanding of spirit beast age, exaggerating it; or Wu Youyou exaggerated the age to make the old village chief a bit happier."

Upon hearing the number "four hundred and twenty-three," Tang San's eyes lit up: to be able to state the first soul ring age so precisely, he definitely possessed profound theoretical knowledge.

Indeed, hiding in plain sight!

A few days later, Tang San followed Yu Xiaogang to Soul Hunting Forest to hunt spirit beasts, absorbing a four-hundred-year-old Mandala Snake, experiencing that kind of pain firsthand, and becoming even more convinced of Yu Xiaogang's theory.

He absorbed over four hundred years with such pain—how could Wu Youyou possibly absorb a five-hundred-year-old soul ring? It seemed that the level fifteen soul power was likely exaggerated.

However, during Tang San's classroom studies, he also heard various teachers mention that Heart Ape's theory contradicts Yu Xiaogang's theory in many ways.

Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang, who feared that Tang San would be influenced by Heart Ape's theory and thus refute his research achievements, or worse, leave him. Yu Xiaogang disdainfully said, "Heart Ape merely organized various theories and has an undeserved reputation... From now on, you don't need to attend classes; just study with me. The information I have is exclusive and includes data from the Martial Soul Hall's main hall, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and even my own intensive research over the years."

"Just like your first spirit ring, you absorbed an animal-type spirit beast's ring and obtained such a powerful spirit ability. Isn't that the best proof?"

Tang San was convinced. More importantly, he felt a sense of care from Yu Xiaogang that Tang Hao could not give him.

This alone made him unconditionally believe in Yu Xiaogang's theory.

Moreover, he was now a Soul Master, and most of the teachers at Nuoding Academy couldn't defeat him. Attending classes indeed didn't teach him anything useful.

"Xiao Wu, why don't you also take my teacher as your master?" Tang San said to Xiao Wu. "The knowledge in class isn't as useful as the teacher's."

"I don't want to, anyway, my Soul Power is improving quickly."

Xiao Wu usually didn't pay attention in class and just slept, yet her Soul Power growth rate wasn't any slower than Tang San's.

Therefore, Tang San didn't insist.

However, Xiao Wu had some disdain toward Yu Xiaogang, probably because, despite sleeping in class, she still heard a bit of Heart Ape's theory and was sure it contained extremely useful knowledge, some of which even as a rabbit from the Xingdou Great Forest, she had to refer to.

It's just that she wasn't sure how to cultivate with the Blue Silver Grass martial spirit...

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Sun Ming, Dugu Yan, and Wu Youyou continued their journey. The closer they got to the center of the Tiandou Empire, the more prosperous life for the people was, but beyond the central area, as they moved toward the borders, there were more hills, and refugees and hungry people began to appear.

This time, Sun Ming couldn't place them bit by bit into the various villages and towns as he did in the Xingluo Empire.

After all, going to the Xingluo Empire meant heading toward the center of Xingluo City, with the sea on the other side, no mountains, and fewer refugees. In contrast, the other side of Tiandou City had fewer plains and basins and more hills and forests. As one went further, the living conditions worsened.

Therefore, Sun Ming led this group of refugees to find relatively peaceful land, cleared areas, built houses, and established new villages.

He also called upon skilled individuals among the refugees, providing them with various tools or allowing them to release their corresponding martial spirits to provide labor and skills for the village's construction.

In this way, two years passed, and in this uninhabited area, a village town with a population of ten thousand was established.

The villagers were grateful to Sun Ming for creating a haven for them and teaching them various skills, allowing them to live a meaningful life again... Upon learning that Sun Ming was Heart Ape Master, they named the place Xin City.

After Sun Ming and the others left, the Martial Soul Hall quickly sent people over, establishing a Martial Soul Hall, awakening martial spirits for local children of appropriate age each year.

Moreover, because this city was a refuge built by Heart Ape Master for Tiandou's refugees over two years, the Martial Soul City would annually send people to inspect the branch hall's hall master and related personnel to prevent them from embarrassing the Martial Soul Hall.

During these two years, Sun Ming's Soul Power had already increased to level ninety, Dugu Yan reached level seventy, and Wu Youyou reached level twenty. P#art+ of a s!e!r$ie^s hos&t#e#d@ by My Vir^tual Libra*ry E@[email protected]#r.e (MV&*LE.MP$&YR%)&.$

As for spirit rings, Sun Ming and Dugu Yan were not needing them, but Wu Youyou needed one to break through to the next level.

Therefore, after traveling to the seaside, the three of them headed towards the forest and unknowingly arrived at the extreme north.

In this perpetually wintery area, Sun Ming immediately discovered a tree-like Blue Silver Grass growing in the snowy ground near the forest.

"Is this Blue Silver Grass?"

Gazing at the "little pine tree" two meters high, covered in ice crystals, and bearing needle leaves, Dugu Yan was astounded, "There's actually a tree-like form of grass."

Sun Ming raised his hand and patted, shaking off the ice and snow on the "tree," revealing its blue needle leaves. The branches, unlike the rough black bark of pine trees, were spiraled and black, smooth to the touch.

"In this cold climate, Blue Silver Grass must change its life form to survive here, turning into needle leaves, preventing the blade from being so broad that it gets frostbitten."

Sun Ming plucked a needle-like blue leaf and pointed to the surrounding "little pine trees," which ranged from ten centimeters to fifty centimeters in height, "This whole area is composed of this form of Blue Silver Grass, with needle-thin leaves and cells whose moisture inside doesn't freeze easily, preventing cell rupture."

"The one here is nine hundred seventy-two years old. Youyou, if you cultivate with it for a month, it might break through the millennium limit."

"Let's stay here for a month."

Upon saying this, the Water Ape, Fire Monkey, and Vajra Ape leaped out of Sun Ming's spirit rings, adeptly constructing an ice house without Sun Ming needing to say much.

The ice house was spacious, with three separate bedrooms, along with a large living room, kitchen, and restroom.

Despite the cold outside, the ice house was warm, and with a layer of animal skin and quilts, it was very cozy inside.