Chosen Evolution: I can load the protagonist template

Chapter 803 Monkey King's Doubts and Sudden Enlightenment
When Cheng Tian saw that Sun Wukong was stunned and made no further moves, he also slammed the long handle to the ground and let out a long sigh.

His plan to cause trouble has been initially successful.

The Erlang Shen template that Cheng Tian is currently using comes from the "Black Myth: Wukong" dungeon world, and the timeline he is in is the post-Journey to the West period, that is, five hundred years after the completion of the journey to the West. In this timeline, Sun Wukong is already in a state after his death.

As a game that inherits the core spirit of "Dou Zhan Shen" in a certain sense, Black Myth deconstructs and reshapes Journey to the West from a darker perspective, making the gods and Buddhas in the sky essentially no different from those man-eating demons. After fully understanding this, Sun Wukong also decisively gave up immortality and status, and finally faced a joint siege by the Heavenly Court and Mount Ling.

But in a sense, only the Great Sage himself could kill him. His physical death was real, and so was his feigned death. The dead Great Sage split into six entities, which were then distributed among different great demons.

As a born stone monkey, the parts of its body alone are enough to greatly increase the monster's strength.

Of course, that's not the point. The point is what Erlang Shen, who was both an enemy and a friend, quietly preserved after the battle against the Great Sage.

Cheng Tian was one of those who completed the game and achieved all the achievements as soon as he got his hands on it, and he also had his own understanding of the entire work.

Black Myth: Wukong has two endings. One is where he doesn't win over Erlang Shen of Meishan and is reincarnated after the final ending, wearing the golden headband again. The other is the true ending where he wins over Erlang Shen of Meishan but doesn't wear the golden headband.

Clearly, the items carried by Erlang Shen determine the ending the player can reach.

However, in Cheng Tian's view, rather than saying that Erlang Shen took away the "desire for opinion" from the six senses, he was more inclined to believe that Erlang Shen preserved all the memories of dissatisfaction and doubt that Sun Wukong had accumulated throughout the entire journey to the West.

The basis for this is that after defeating Erlang Shen for the first time and completing the cutscene, the player's sixth skill point is still blank.

It was precisely these special memories that allowed Sun Wukong to rediscover the truth about the gods and Buddhas of that world, and to decisively give up immortality and status, once again becoming an enemy of both the Heavenly Court and Mount Ling as the Great Sage.

The Erlang Shen template that Cheng Tian loaded is the original supporting character template of Erlang Shen in the hidden map "Meishan" of the game, waiting for the chosen one to arrive. In other words...

These memories are preserved in Cheng Tian's third eye.

Then Cheng Tian chose to directly connect via Bluetooth and shared this memory with Sun Wukong in "Journey to the West: The Legend of the Monkey King".

It can only be said that Erlang Shen's original body in the Heavenly Court was absolutely right. The things that his alternate dimension avatar was about to do were big enough to shatter the heavens!
At first glance, it seems that Cheng Tian only showed Monkey Brother a memory related to the otherworldly counterpart, but he didn't know what kind of chain reaction it would trigger, but he was looking forward to it.

However, Cheng Tian was unaware that at the same time he forcibly shared this memory with Monkey King, his initial talent "Game Master" also underwent a change, indicating that the "S" talent level and some descriptions were fluctuating. However, he was currently focused on Monkey King and had not yet noticed it.

The synchronization of memories seemed to last a long time, yet it also seemed to have only taken a moment; Monkey King's fiery eyes had already regained their clarity.

But the next second, Cheng Tian felt his collar being gripped tightly by a furry monkey hand!
His features were incredibly distorted, yet he was clearly suppressing his anger, making his monkey-like face look extremely distorted. It was almost pressed against Cheng Tian, ​​and then he squeezed out a sentence with great difficulty through his teeth.

"Yang Jian! What did you show me?!"

"...A memory belonging to your alternate dimension counterpart, Great Sage."

"What alternate dimension?! I don't understand! I'm just asking you, is this something you made up to fool me, Old Sun?!"

"If the Great Sage believes these are all fabrications, then why is he so angry?"

Cheng Tian's words left Da Sheng speechless. He immediately released his grip on Cheng Tian's collar, scratching his head in frustration and rage. Rationally, Da Sheng didn't believe the memories Cheng Tian had transmitted, but his instincts told him that the voice and the images were all "his" own, containing not only his past experiences but also a future he hadn't yet witnessed, and the truth about the so-called gods and Buddhas.

Right now, all he could think about was rushing straight to the Heavenly Court and smashing down the plaque of the Lingxiao Palace with his staff, but the last bit of reason he had left, and his master who was not far away, prevented him from doing so immediately.

Meanwhile, Erlang Shen, who had been paying close attention to the situation in Chechi Kingdom because of Cheng Tian's special incarnation, developed a great deal of curiosity.

He was curious about what Cheng Tian had done to make Sun Wukong, who had been suppressed for five hundred years and whose spirit had been worn down, twist into this state.

Yes, Cheng Tian only shared memories with Sun Wukong, so no one else knew what the Monkey King had been fed.

At this moment, Cheng Tian flicked his collar, drew a straight line on the ground with the blade, and then drew several branches at one end.

"Look, Great Sage."

Cheng Tian's voice attracted the irritable Monkey King.

"If this straight line is the main timeline of the entire world, then this point is the branch."

"Back then, the Great Sage stormed the Lingxiao Palace, which led to the formation of 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals to attack the Buddha's Five Finger Mountain, and up to the present timeline of the Great Sage protecting Tang Sanzang on his journey to the West."

However, if the Great Sage hadn't chosen to oppose the Heavenly Court and instead maintained his status as a recipient of imperial amnesty, then the Great Sage would very likely still be holding a position in the Heavenly Court. Perhaps the story of Tang Sanzang's journey to the West to obtain the scriptures would still have happened, but at that time, Tang Sanzang's eldest disciple wouldn't be the Great Sage. This is another timeline.

As Cheng Tian explained simply and directly, the Great Sage, whose attention had been slightly diverted, nodded subconsciously, understood Cheng Tian's explanation, and immediately applied it to other situations.

"So, the memories you showed me are from an even earlier ancient timeline, from the time of gods and Buddhas, where anomalies occurred, resulting in another timeline of me, Old Sun?"

"exactly."

Cheng Tian nodded.

However, after receiving Cheng Tian's affirmative answer, Monkey King scratched his head again.

If these memories were created by the gods and Buddhas of this world, then what awaits the Heavenly Court and Mount Ling will surely be the Ruyi Jingu Bang, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven!
But this is another world, and there's no use in it for him to be anxious here.

Suddenly, Monkey King froze, then stiffly turned his head, his gaze falling on Cheng Tian, ​​who had a half-smile on his face.

"I say, since you have my memories from that world, do you have a way to get me to that world?!"

Upon hearing Monkey King utter those words, Cheng, who had been playing the role of Erlang Shen, finally broke into a genuinely radiant crescent-shaped smile.

"Well, that depends on whether you, Great Sage, can deliver."

(End of this chapter)