Journey to the West: Life Simulation of Sun Wukong

"When it comes to viewing life forms, one must be objective," said Li Liang once again. "Take the Liang Long, for example, even though it was killed by a tyrannosaurus and became their food, in terms of storing energy and possessing a robust physique, it was far superior to the tyrannosaurus."

"And as humans, in our future growth, the growth of the individual, whether we rely on physical survival or solely on intellectual survival, we will need to consume a large amount of energy."

"Therefore, in the evolutionary path we choose for ourselves in the future, it is inevitable that we will need to enhance our ability to store energy."

"And the key thing I want to teach you," Li Liang continued, "is to understand your own bodies through studying biology... Hmm, this has a bit to do with medicine."

Zhang Manman asked, "Biological medicine, are we not studying traditional Chinese medicine?"

Li Liang glanced at her, smiled faintly, and sighed helplessly: "Traditional Chinese medicine, with its diagnosis methods of inspection, listening, questioning, and pulse-taking, requires experience. Moreover, most of the knowledge in traditional Chinese medicine is written in classical Chinese, intermixed with the theory of Yin Yang and the Five Elements, possessing its own system."

"Hmm~ Let me think, what analogy to use. Right, this system is like some kind of encrypted language, and the various medicinal materials have names that are not entirely the same as those in modern times. If you wish to study it, I suggest you take separate courses to study the theory of Yin Yang and the Five Elements, and it would be best if you also understood the doctrines of Taoism."

"I am here to teach you biology, so I will not teach you about Taoism and such," Li Liang said.

The students didn't mind this.

In fact, a teacher like Li Liang who gave them such advice was already considered a good teacher.

In the following lesson, Su Jie and others watched the tyrannosaurus devour the Liang Long until both were satisfied and left. Only then did everyone snap back to reality.

Honestly, aside from practicing martial arts, they rarely concentrated like this.

Especially Su Jie, who felt as though he had returned to his days of watching documentaries on the Science Channel. The monotonous tearing of the tyrannosaurus, though mundane, was captivating. Thе mоst up‑tо‑dаtе vеrsiоn is оn М4VLЕМР4YR.

Li Liang said, "Alright, let us go and take a closer look at the carcass of the Liang Long."

With that, Li Liang jumped off the cliff and headed towards the carcass of the Liang Long, but his voice still echoed in the ears of Su Jie and the others: "If you want to see it firsthand, figure out your own way down. I'm not going to help you."

Zhang Manman turned to Su Jie: "This cliff is at least seventy meters high."

Li Liang's vitality was 10, and with his martial arts skills, he could temporarily negate gravity, and his body had undergone further transformations. Even if he jumped down without any tricks, at most his feet would hurt for half an hour.

But the others couldn't do the same.

Though Li Liang didn't specify what would happen if they didn't go, none of them wanted to just stand idly on the cliff, waiting for the lesson to end.

That would be too foolish.

If there was a chance to see a dinosaur's carcass up close, who would want to stand on the cliff?

Su Jie asked, "Does anyone have a rope?"

Chen Tian Yuzi grimaced: "Who would bring that to class."

"Didn't bring it."

"Perhaps we can tie our clothes together to make a rope."

"That's a good idea, we all know some techniques, as long as we are careful, it shouldn't break."

"I'm only wearing one shirt," said a student.

The students voiced their thoughts, unfortunately, among all the students present, almost each wore just one shirt. With just the boys, it would be lucky if the total length exceeded ten meters.

And the girls were supposed to bare their arms?

Clearly not possible.

Zhang Manman said, "I certainly don't want to stand here wearing only a 'swimsuit'."

Chen Tian Yuzi exclaimed, "You're wearing a swimsuit?"

Zhang Manman looked at this Japanese girl wordlessly, shrugged her shoulders, and said, "It's just a metaphor, after all, isn't it all just underwear?"

Su Jie thought for a moment, then said, "Since the teacher asked us to go down, there must be a way. We just need to think carefully... Let's look around and see if there is anything unique about the plants here. I haven't seen these plants before."

"Or rather, I haven't seen most of the plants here."

The students laughed, but still followed the instructions of Su Jie, the class president, and went into the forest behind them to search. The first student who went to check tapped a tree and then easily pulled off a piece of its bark.

This bark was very soft, yet extremely durable, and could be manipulated like a rope when rubbed.

Moreover, this type of tree was plentiful nearby.

The students quickly realized this, started peeling bark, and twisting it into ropes, while Su Jie examined the trees. The bark was white, containing a high amount of fiber, with each strand being straight, and the leaves looked like palm-shaped maple leaves.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

He tapped on the trunk of a tree that had been stripped of its bark and found a layer of mucus seemingly secreted because of the stripping.

Looking at the peeled bark, the surface also had a similar resinous solid, indicating that the bark of this tree continually grew and didn't wilt due to being stripped.

If Teacher Li Liang always taught like this, then these trees were surely stripped of their bark many times.

In ten minutes, everyone had already tied a rope around a hundred meters long, knotting it securely around six nearby trees before throwing it down.

Su Jie and Zhang Manman were the last to descend, tasked with watching over the rope to prevent it from suddenly loosening.

Only after everyone had descended to the base of the cliff did Su Jie and Zhang Manman slowly climb down, the green of the vegetation almost covering more than half of everyone's bodies.

However, everyone had good vision and remembered the direction, quickly making their way across the grassland to find where Liang Long's body lay.

Li Liang looked back at everyone and smiled, "Not bad, you are much smarter than the last batch of students. It took that group nearly half an hour to get here."

"Alright, enough talk. Next, I will dissect this Liang Long. Although its organs were eaten by those two tyrant dragons, there's not much to study about the internals, no different from a normal lizard, just bigger. What I want to discuss is the skeletal structure of this Liang Long."

"You might wonder why focus on the skeleton?"

Su Jie said, "Although we are able to move because of our nerves and muscles, without a skeleton, our flesh would just be a lump of mud; similarly, having only a skeleton without nerves and muscles, the skeletal structure couldn't possibly move on its own."

"Exactly, for any organism, every part of the body is vitally important."

Li Liang took out a small knife from his white coat and, with the skill of a surgeon, followed the muscles of the Liang Long, removing its skin and flesh, leaving behind a skeleton that didn't stick to any flesh.

Zhang Manman leaned close to Su Jie's ear and whispered, "This technique is definitely the result of practice."

Su Jie nodded, "Dissection techniques can also be applied to martial arts, since at our stage, the body needs muscles and a skeletal framework to move, and vertebrates largely share these common features."

After Li Liang had finished dissecting the skeleton of the Liang Long, he began to explain, "This is the skeleton of the Liang Long, its bones are massive and very sturdy, otherwise they could not bear its own weight."

Looking at the skeleton of the Liang Long, that curving spine has a natural beauty to it.

The spine is the foundation for vertebrates to stand.

In martial arts, the human spine is known as the 'Dragon Spine'. With a bad spine, even the strongest skills cannot be utilized effectively."

However, compared to other vertebrates, primates, and humans lack a tail.

A tail, in animals like cattle, sheep, horses, and deer, is mainly used to swat away insects; for monkeys, it helps maintain balance; for lizards and snakes, it aids in movement.

But for humans, a tail is not important.

Humans do not need a tail for balance, nor to swat away insects. It is an organ that has been phased out, but it's undeniable, if humans had tails, their balance would be much better."

"Each bone of this Liang Long is very hard. If it were the Stone Age, they could be used to make weapons," Li Liang gave an example, "Of course, the main components of bones are inorganic substances like calcium and phosphorus, which if exposed to the air for too long, will oxidize and become brittle."

Su Jie listened attentively, because Li Liang's explanations were very interesting, especially with the practical dissection adding vividness to the lesson.

Especially regarding the importance of the spine, Li Liang used the metaphor of a sea god's stabilizing needle.

The spine, besides the brain, has the highest concentration of neurons.

It is said in ancient martial arts that embracing the core and refining energy must involve contacting the spine, thereby integrating energy uniformly, solidifying it into a point like that at the initial split of the Primordial Chaos.

However, later on, the mood changed drastically.

The cuts of Liang Long meat, not contaminated by the saliva of the tyrant dragons, were actually arranged by Li Liang for an outdoor wild cookout!

Not a bit of the Liang Long meat was wasted.

But cleaning the flesh was extremely troublesome, requiring skill to force out the blood through strength, causing many students to get red splashes on themselves or on others, a somewhat fierce sight.

After the cookout ended, Li Liang checked the time and said, "Alright, class is over. You can head back on your own, you know the way, right? I won't accompany you."

Having said that, Li Liang quickly left, moving as if dancing on the grass, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

Zhang Manman said, "The next class is a math class, three kilometers away."

Su Jie immediately stood up and said to the others, "Let's leave quickly so we don't arrive late."

The others also realized the seriousness of the situation.

Five minutes, three kilometers.

For Su Jie and Zhang Manman, it might not be much, but for others, it was quite a challenge, and they still had to climb seventy to eighty meters up the rope first.

They had to speed up!

Under Su Jie's direction, the classmates climbed up the rough hemp rope one by one, returned to the top of the cliff, and then, following the map displayed by Ming Lun's mark, rushed towards the location of the math class.

Zhang Manman and Su Jie were the last to climb up.

Zhang Manman said, "No wonder there's a rumor that students who come out of the inner courtyard are among the strongest. This kind of effort required just to rush to class... the outside world simply couldn't manage it."

Following closely behind Zhang Manman, Chen Tian Yuzi said, "This is simply devilish training!"

Su Jie, however, had a different opinion—