Monkey Brother's Doubts and Epiphany

After seeing that Son Goku had gone completely blank and made no further moves, Cheng Tian planted the long-handled pestle into the ground and let out a long breath.

His troublemaking plan had achieved preliminary success.

The Erlang Shen Template Cheng Tian currently had loaded came from the Dungeon World of Black Myth: Wukong. Its timeline was set five hundred years after the completion of the Journey to the West, and Son Goku of that timeline was already dead.

As a game that, in some sense, inherited the spiritual core of Asura, Black Myth deconstructed and reshaped Journey to the West from a darker perspective, revealing that the gods and Buddhas filling the heavens were no different in essence from the man-eating demons. After fully realizing this, Sun Dasheng decisively abandoned immortality and divine rank, ultimately drawing the joint extermination campaign of the Heavenly Court and Lingshan.

But in a sense, the only one capable of killing the Great Sage was the Great Sage himself. His death was real, yet his feigned death was real as well. The fallen Great Sage had split into the Six Roots, which were scattered among different great demons.

As a stone monkey born of heaven and earth, even mere parts of his body were enough to greatly increase a demon's power.

Of course, that was not the important part. The important part was what Erlang Shen, who had been both enemy and friend to the Great Sage, had quietly preserved after the campaign against him.

Cheng Tian had been the type to clear the game and unlock every achievement the moment he got it, and he had his own understanding of the entire work as well.

Black Myth: Wukong had two endings. In one, players did not challenge Erlang Shen of Mount Mei, and