Mortal Cultivation to Immortality: the Monkey King's Cultivation to Immortality

"Mortal Cultivation of Immortality: The Monkey King" uses amazing creativity to inject the survival wisdom of "Mortal Cultivation of Immortality" into the mythical body of "Journey to the West", creating a stunning chemical reaction. The novel opens with Gao Neng: a modern researcher of immortal culture, whose soul has been transformed into the newly seduced Sun Wukong. He has neither the monstrous magic power of the Monkey King nor the halo of the protagonist. He only has a brain that is well versed in the "Han Lao Mo" survival philosophy - cautious, suspicious, good at planning, and firmly believes that "cultivating immortals is not a competition, but a struggle for life." As a result, we saw a completely different opening of Journey to the West: Facing the seduction of the underworld, he relied on the loopholes in the graduate student's death register to obtain a "temporary household registration" for himself; facing the doubts of Huaguo Mountain, he used his words and limited force to deal with it; facing the Hongmen Banquet in the Dragon Palace, he relied on the principle of leverage and scientific testing to get through. The author skillfully welds the cultivation system, resource calculation, and formation talismans of the "Mortal Style" with the magic weapons, cause and effect, and power games of the original Journey to the West. Every "break" of the protagonist Lin Dingsheng is the "deconstruction" and "utilization" of the rules of classical mythology by modern rational thinking. The reading experience is full of the pleasure of intellectual games. This book is by no means a simple stitching of settings. Its core is a profound reconstruction of the narrative of mythical heroes. When the core of Wukong who "battles heaven and earth" is replaced by a mortal cultivator who "lives and develops", all the familiar plots slip into unknown and fascinating directions. Hidden dangers in the book of life and death, recruitment in heaven, secrets of the dragon clan... The foreshadowing is layered layer by layer, full of tension. It makes Xianxia and Journey to the West fans ecstatic at the same time. It is also a wonderful experience about "what is to cultivate immortality" and "how to survive".