Saturday night, inside a residential complex in the Magic City.

First-grade elementary school student Tang Tian, having finally finished her homework, poked her head out of the bedroom and asked earnestly: “Dad, I finished my homework. Can I play games for a while?”

Tang Ming said: “Yes, just play for two hours.”

He took his daughter’s phone out of the drawer and walked to the children’s room. He originally wanted to search for a cute animal-raising game from Wings of Dream for his daughter to play. As a result, as soon as he opened “Mobile Games Home,” he saw the splash screen advertisement: “New Game Journey to the West Officially Open for Download.”

Journey to the West? What kind of game was this?

Out of curiosity, Tang Ming clicked the advertisement and went in.

On the homepage, the introduction read: Journey to the West is a strategy-combat mobile game suitable for all ages, with rich and interesting level designs. Chapter One: Havoc in Heaven is available for free download and trial.

There were many game illustrations on the homepage, and the art style was quite unique.

Free trial, a game suitable for all ages?

Curiously, Tang Ming downloaded Journey to the West and said: “Tiantian, there’s a new game online today. How about Dad plays it together with you?”

Tang Tian nodded like a pounding garlic pestle: “Okay!”

The father and daughter sat by the edge of the bed to download and install the game.

The moment the game started, the breathtaking animation instantly made the little girl widen her eyes: “Dad, how come a monkey popped out of the rock?”

Tang Ming was also very surprised. Rubbing his chin, he said: “This game’s setting is very novel.”

He found that the game’s art style was indeed “suitable for all ages.” Not to mention his daughter liked it, even he himself was drawn in. The protagonist of the game was a monkey, lively and bouncing around, quite cute.

The first level required controlling the monkey to climb a mountain. Tang Ming said: “Let’s play Simple Difficulty first. Here, I’ll give you the phone, you try and see if you can clear the level.”

Tang Tian took the phone from her father’s hand and controlled the monkey to jump all the way up. With steps acting as footholds, jumping up wasn’t difficult.

After finding the Water Curtain Cave, the little girl said excitedly: “Dad, we’re going to become the Monkey King!”

Tang Ming smiled: “So awesome.”

The subsequent plot animations had little Tang Tian watching with immense relish.

She earnestly held the phone, controlling Sun Wukong to walk through the densely fogged Mount Lingtai Fangcun, find Patriarch Bodhi to take him as a master and learn the arts, and master the Somersault Cloud and the 72 Transformations.

Tang Tian had an incredibly joyful time playing with the 72 Transformations.

“Sun Wukong turned into a tree!”
“He can even turn into a fish!”
“Dad, Sun Wukong is so handsome!”

The cartoons she watched growing up were all robots and aliens. This was her first time seeing a monkey as the protagonist, and one that could transform back and forth at that; it was simply too interesting.

Tang Tian played the game so much she couldn’t stop.

Before they knew it, two hours had passed. Tang Ming was surprised to find that while accompanying his daughter to play, he actually didn’t feel bored at all?

For the vast majority of games played by children, adults couldn’t get into them. But this Journey to the West seemed to possess a unique polish. The opening appeared “childish,” but as long as you passed the first level, you would discover that the core gameplay of the game was actually very rich. It didn’t even lose out to 3A single-player masterpieces priced at hundreds of dollars!

Even he, as a father, couldn’t help but want to play…

At 10:00 PM, Tang Ming reminded her: “Tiantian, it’s time to sleep.”

Reluctantly, Tang Tian closed the game and asked: “Dad, can I continue playing Journey to the West tomorrow?”

Tang Ming said: “You can play after finishing your homework.”

Tang Tian continued to ask: “Then can I post to my Moments? This game is too fun, I want to share it with the kids in our class.”

Tang Ming smiled and said: “Of course you can, good things should be shared with friends.”

The little girl immediately took a screenshot and posted it to her Moments: “Recommending a game to everyone, Journey to the West, it’s too fun, you must come play oh!”

After posting to her Moments, she handed the phone to her dad and went to sleep happily.

Tang Ming closed his daughter’s room door and returned to the master bedroom…

He reopened the game to play it himself!

Watching his daughter play just now, his hands had gotten somewhat itchy. Now that his daughter was asleep, he immediately adjusted the difficulty to “Challenge Mode” to continue playing further.

Not gonna lie, he also wanted to know Sun Wukong’s subsequent plotline.

Level Three: Bull Demon King.

The animation narrated that after Sun Wukong took a master, due to his naughty nature and ignorance of the rules, he jumped up and down causing trouble everywhere every day, so Patriarch Bodhi expelled him from the sect.

Sun Wukong returned to Mount Huaguo, and a guy called the “Bull Demon King” came to his door to provoke him.

System: Main Quest Updated—[Defeat the Bull Demon King]
System: Obtained temporary weapon “Wooden Stick”, temporary skill “Basic Attack”

Tang Ming rapidly roused his spirits and began dueling the boss one-on-one.

Less than 10 seconds after the battle started, he was insta-killed by the boss.

This Bull Demon King boss was truly not easy to fight!

Every 15 seconds, he would summon a group of underlings to besiege Sun Wukong. The player needed to quickly reposition and seize the time to eliminate those little bulls. Otherwise, the little bulls would continuously stack a “health-loss buff” on Sun Wukong, and reaching five stacks meant certain death.

At the same time, the Bull Demon King’s own skills were also very strong. The frequently released “Brute Force Charge” would have him crashing all around the arena. The charge directions were random without any pattern, testing the player’s reaction speed. At the instant the Bull Demon King crashed over, if the player couldn’t dodge, it was an instant kill!

Additionally, the “Mixed Iron Cudgel” in the Bull Demon King’s hands dealt massive damage with its sweeping fan-shaped attacks. Taking one strike from his cudgel would wipe out half your health; two strikes and you were directly dead.

Tang Ming was swept to death by him several times in a row, and couldn’t help but say: “Is Challenge Difficulty this perverted?!”

Watching his daughter play the first two levels just now, it was super simple, and even kids could quickly get the hang of it. But after he switched to “Challenge Difficulty”… it simply didn’t feel like the same game?

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At the same time, Brother Liu was also dueling the Bull Demon King.

For the first level’s mountain climbing, he had spent nearly an hour just to reach the Water Curtain Cave. For the second level’s maze, not only did he get lost everywhere, there were also many weird and bizarre contraptions that required using his brain to unlock.

Coupled with playing with the 72 Transformations at the mountaintop so excitedly that he forgot the time…

Thus, at 10:00 PM, he was still fighting the Bull Demon King.

And right now, many streamers were stumped by this Bull Demon King boss.

More and more summoned small mobs that couldn’t be cleared fast enough; random charges where being slow to react by even a second meant an instant kill; sweeping attacks that were insanely fast with massive damage!

Players needed to keep their eyes peeled in all directions and their ears listening to everything. Under the premise of making zero mistakes, they also had to find the right time to use the broken wooden stick provided by the system to hit the Bull Demon King.

This was way too hard!

After being tortured to death by the Bull Demon King several times, Brother Liu began to study the combat techniques.

He complained: “Fam, this boss releases skills way too frequently. You must be highly focused; only with zero mistakes is it possible to clear the level.”

“Our Sun Wukong’s Somersault Cloud skill is disabled during boss fights. This is also normal, otherwise, the player could just directly fly away, what would be the point of fighting. 72 Transformations…”

He glanced at the bottom right corner and suddenly his eyes lit up: “Right, 72 Transformations isn’t disabled!”

72 Transformations—this skill of Sun Wukong’s had a cooldown time of 30 seconds and a duration of 10 seconds. At crucial moments, could he utilize this skill to dodge the Bull Demon King’s attacks and charges?

Thinking of this, Brother Liu restarted the boss fight.

The instant the Bull Demon King ferociously charged toward him, Brother Liu immediately pressed the 72 Transformations in the bottom right corner—transforming into a little bee and flying high into the air.

The Bull Demon King’s skill actually missed completely.

Brother Liu: “Holy crap! Even this works?!”

The next moment, the Bull Demon King was seen suddenly raising his head and swinging his cudgel into the high air, directly knocking him down. Covered in dirt and dust, Brother Liu got up and said: “Continue, I know the technique now.”

“We can jump onto his shoulders to beat him, right? This old bull has a massive body and clumsy movements, his weapon definitely can’t reach his own shoulders, right?”

“Or transform into a small animal and burrow directly under his legs?”

After discovering this technique, Brother Liu started timing the “72 Transformations” skill cooldown. Sometimes going into the sky, sometimes burrowing into the ground, he continuously transformed to deal with the Bull Demon King…

As long as he dodged the Bull Demon King’s charges and sweeping attacks, and promptly dealt with the summoned mobs, the health could be ground down bit by bit.

Not gonna lie, this method of fighting a boss was absolutely unique in the gaming world!

It was too fun.

The more Brother Liu played, the happier he became, and the viewers in the stream also watched with great excitement.

[Fly to the top of his head and beat him!]
[Burrowed under his elbow, that was close ah]
[6666, Sun Wukong is truly so agile]
[Watching this makes me want to play too…]
[I’ve already downloaded it, I’m going to try playing Challenge Difficulty too!]

The pacing of this battle against the Bull Demon King was immensely fast. Brother Liu’s nerves were tense, and with the high-intensity operations, his fingers were almost aching from pressing. And the viewers in the stream also felt a long-lost hot-blooded passion.

This boss fight design was truly unprecedented.

Players could transform into various forms to confront the boss. Sometimes flying onto the boss’s shoulders, sometimes burrowing under the boss’s feet—it was fresh, stimulating, and highly entertaining!

The playstyle wasn’t the fixed routine patterns of other games, but required improvising according to the situation.

Based on the boss’s skills, one had to rapidly reposition and transform. Every player could research a playstyle suitable for themselves. The playability of the 72 Transformations skill had countless combination methods.

Such a highly free boss fight was truly too pleasant a surprise!

At first, when everyone saw that the game’s protagonist was a monkey, their first reaction was “a game made for children.” But seeing the streamer play up to now, everyone finally realized… they were wrong.

This monkey was extremely awesome!

Currently only having two skills and zero equipment, he could already use the “72 Transformations” to kite the boss. He would be even stronger in the later stages, right?

Everyone was filled with expectations for this “parachuted” monkey protagonist.

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Brother Liu spent an hour and finally defeated the Bull Demon King. The time had already reached 11:00 PM. It had been a long time since he played a game with such immersion.

Games produced by Yangfan Studio truly possessed a strange magic.

The plot animation began playing.

After Sun Wukong’s great battle with the Bull Demon King, he felt his weapon wasn’t handy enough and wanted to find a more formidable magical treasure to act as a weapon. Mount Huaguo was located by the sea, and was just neighbors with the “Dragon King of the East Sea”. Hearing that the Dragon Palace had many treasures, Sun Wukong wanted to take a walk to his neighbor’s house and see.

Episode Four: Dragon Palace

Brother Liu said: “Episode Four, there’s a new level again, let’s go look at the Dragon Palace!”

As soon as he walked into the Dragon Palace, the scene animation began playing on the screen.

The camera rapidly glided through the Dragon Palace. Every time a new dungeon was opened, there would be transition animations to give players an initial impression of the entire scene; this was also one of the features of Journey to the West.

The viewers gasped in admiration at the beauty of the underwater Dragon Palace.

Some people hurriedly started taking screenshots. This image quality was more than enough to be used as a phone screen saver!

Many praises appeared in the barrage chat.

[The underwater Dragon Palace is too beautiful, right!]
[So much coral ah!]
[The NPCs in the Dragon Palace all look so cute]
[I see many crabs holding pitchforks walking back and forth, are they patrolling?]
[Hahaha, these crabs all walk sideways!]
[There are also some fishes holding spears?]

The scene transition ended, and the player arrived at the Dragon Palace entrance.

System: Main Quest Updated—[Explore the East Sea Dragon Palace, find the Dragon King of the East Sea]
System: There are patrolling shrimp soldiers and crab generals within the Dragon Palace, please be careful to dodge them.

Brother Liu said: “Looks like it’s a maze with small mobs, we have to carefully dodge these patrol mobs.”

He walked forward a few steps and came to a three-way intersection. One crab was patrolling from left to right, one from right to left, and there was another one ahead walking in the player’s direction.

Brother Liu immediately dodged to hide.

After the three of them converged at the intersection, they paused for 1 second, and then split up, walking towards the three directions again.

For these maze patrol mobs, as long as one timed their patrol intervals correctly, one could utilize the moment their “backs were turned” to rapidly pass through the patrol intersection.

Brother Liu found the right timing and rapidly walked through the triangular intersection.

However, having just taken two steps, a crab nearby suddenly turned its head and happened to discover him. Immediately following that, two crabs nearby also rapidly closed in to surround Sun Wukong.

Brother Liu couldn’t help but curse loudly: “Holy crap, linked mobs!”

Aggro linking—this was a very common design in online games. After a player attracted the attention of one mob, nearby mobs would link up and come over together to beat you up.

This kind of squad that appeared “in swarms” was very difficult to deal with.

All three crabs were melee mobs with immensely high critical hits. Fighting 1v3, Brother Liu’s health dropped like a waterfall. He finally managed to eliminate them with great difficulty, and his own health bar was flashing red.

Brother Liu: “We have to look for things that replenish health.”

Walking a distance forward, he found a treasure chest. The appearance of this chest was very special; it looked like a seashell shape, flashing with a soft light at the bottom of the sea.

After opening it, a system prompt popped up on the screen.

System: Obtained [Coral Grass] × 2
Description: A Dragon Palace specialty, consuming it can restore 20% health.

Brother Liu felt a burst of joy in his heart: “There are treasure chests in this Dragon Palace that can restore health. Let’s hoard some more health recovery items and get through it slowly. There should be quite a lot of linked mobs, they aren’t easy to deal with!”

Brother Liu looked for treasure chests and fought mobs all the way.

He discovered that the designs of the mobs in this Dragon Palace were also very interesting.

The crab squads walked sideways, held pitchforks, and excelled at melee attacks.

The catfish squads swam fast, excelled at ranged attacks, and would continuously bounce water balls at you. They would even cooperate with each other, throwing water balls at the player from different directions, which was extremely annoying.

The turtle squads had very weak attacks but immensely strong defensive capabilities. Yet you couldn’t just not kill them, because they would keep yelling “Help!” and “Someone broke into the Dragon Palace!”, calling all the nearby mobs over!

Brother Liu tried using the 72 Transformations skill. Transforming into a crab and mingling among the patrolling squads allowed him to smoothly deceive these mobs.

[Transforming into a crab and having to learn how to walk sideways like them, dying of laughter]
[If you walked straight, the crabs would quickly realize you’re a spy!]
[Can Sun Wukong transform into everything he has seen?]
[It’s a pity this skill’s cooldown time is too long, otherwise you could just blend your way through the whole thing]

In the Dragon Palace, the cooldown time for the 72 Transformations skill was indeed very long.

Therefore, only in places where mobs were dense was Brother Liu willing to activate this skill to hide for a bit. Usually, he just faced them head-on and directly pushed his way through.

Not remembering how many mobs he killed or how much health-restoring coral grass he ate, an hour later, he finally found the place where the Dragon King of the East Sea was located.

Plot animation triggered.

Sun Wukong stated his intentions, saying he came to find a handy weapon, and asked the Dragon King to bring out his treasures. The Dragon King of the East Sea had his subordinates fetch them, but as a result, after changing one piece after another, Sun Wukong was dissatisfied with all of them.

Sun Wukong told him to bring out the best treasure.

A subordinate suggested: “Our East Sea’s Sea-Calming Divine Needle weighs thirteen thousand five hundred catties; this demon monkey definitely can’t lift it! We can just use this excuse to send him away.”

The Dragon King thought about it: Right ah, we do have a treasure, it’s a pity you can’t lift it.

Thus, the Dragon King took Sun Wukong to find the Sea-Calming Divine Needle.

The people of the Dragon Palace were all watching a good show, thinking Sun Wukong would back down in the face of difficulty.

Who would have thought, Sun Wukong climbed up and down the giant pillar in front of them, while laughing “hahaha” and saying fondly: “Good stuff, this Sea-Calming Divine Needle will belong to my, Old Sun’s, from now on!”

The Dragon King was greatly alarmed: “No way! This is my treasure!”

Sun Wukong’s voice was extremely punch-inviting: “You say, this is your treasure? If you call out to it, does it answer?”

The Dragon King: “…”

Sun Wukong laughed: “When I call it, it answers!”

Saying that, he spoke to that giant Sea-Calming Divine Needle: Transform, transform, transform!

The originally dozen-meter-thick Sea-Calming Divine Needle actually continued to shrink continuously according to his commands, even turning into the shape of a cudgel, which Sun Wukong grabbed excitedly in his hands.

With the Sea-Calming Divine Needle taken away, the entire East Sea shook violently like an earthquake!

The Dragon King of the East Sea was scared half to death and hurriedly tried to stop him. Sun Wukong, however, ignored the Dragon King’s terror and brandished the cudgel, swinging it left and right, finding this weapon very handy.

Sun Wukong transformed the Sea-Calming Divine Needle to the size of an embroidery needle and stuffed it into his ear. He continued saying: “Your Dragon Palace has plenty of treasures, lend Old Sun a few more pieces to use; I’ll return them to you after I’m done!”

The Dragon King suffered unspeakably, and called his three brothers over as well.

Ultimately, the few of them conspired together and decided to bring out some treasures first to send this mischievous monkey away, and then report him to the Heavenly Court, letting the Jade Emperor handle it!

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Dragon Palace dungeon ended.

System: Obtained bound weapon [As-You-Will Golden Cudgel], Sun Wukong’s Attack Power +500%
System: Obtained equipment [Lotus-Root Cloud-Stepping Shoes], Sun Wukong’s Movement Speed +200%
System: Obtained equipment [Chainmail Golden Armor], Sun Wukong’s Defense +200%
System: Obtained equipment [Phoenix-Wing Purple Gold Crown], Sun Wukong’s Agility Attribute +10

Watching this row of system messages, Brother Liu was beyond excited: “Holy crap, this trip to the Dragon Palace wasn’t made in vain ah! A full set of equipment directly completed.”

The viewers in the barrage chat were also very happy. Doing the Dragon Palace on Challenge Difficulty took an hour. Not only was the process full of thrills and amusement, the final harvest was also quite rich.

[One trip to the Dragon Palace, built a fortune ah!]
[Hahaha, our Monkey Brother instantly got wealthy]
[Wearing the full body equipment, he’s much more handsome]
[It’s over, it’s over, I realize I’ve fallen in love with this monkey!]
[I love hearing the monkey retort the Dragon King just now]
[Dragon King: Don’t take away my treasure! Wukong: Nonsense, if it wasn’t a treasure I wouldn’t even want it~]
[Wukong: You call it, does it answer? When I call it, it answers!]
[Hahaha, Sun Wukong’s infuriating people skill is already maxed out]
[We are the Monkey King who fears neither heaven nor earth!]

The Dragon Palace dungeon was extremely crucial. Coming away from this trip, not to mention having a full set of body equipment, with the Golden Cudgel in hand, Sun Wukong’s attack power instantly took off!

He returned to Mount Huaguo, and the Bull Demon King came to provoke him again. Sun Wukong said Mount Huaguo belonged to everyone and there was no need to fight back and forth every day. Thus, both sides shook hands, made peace, and became sworn brothers.

A group of bulls and a group of monkeys held a banquet in the Water Curtain Cave, eating a massive meal.

Sun Wukong got drunk, and in his daze, his soul left his body.

The players saw familiar black and white silhouettes appear beside the monkey.

[Holy crap, the people from the Ghost Realm are here?]
[It’s over, it’s over, could my Monkey Brother have died?]
[Black and White Impermanence came to reap his soul…]
[Is our Wukong going to die an early death at such a young age?]

The vast majority of the viewers in Brother Liu’s stream had played the Underworld and Ghost Realm, so they were extremely familiar with the Ghost Realm and knew what the appearance of Black and White Impermanence meant.

Everyone was very worried. If Sun Wukong just died like this, how could the game continue?

Who would have expected that after Sun Wukong arrived in the Underworld…

To hell with your life, death, and reincarnation; I refuse to accept it, let’s just directly start fighting!

Holding the Golden Cudgel, he fiercely slaughtered his way into the Palace of Yama.

【Episode Five: The Book of Life and Death】

This was a 1 vs Many high-difficulty boss fight, another tier harder than fighting the Bull Demon King.

Brother Liu repeatedly restarted, grinding all the way until the early hours of the morning.

No, he couldn’t let the monkey just die like this!

He had to clear the level before he could sleep.

The viewers in the stream also had their hearts suspended, watching the streamer control Sun Wukong to bravely charge into the Palace of Yama.

Under the buffs of the As-You-Will Golden Cudgel, one critical hit from Sun Wukong could deal over ten thousand damage; it was incredibly exhilarating.

Single-handedly taking on the Ten Generations of Underworld Kings and turning the Underworld upside down.

After defeating the bosses, Sun Wukong called someone to bring the Book of Life and Death over, saying: “Bring Old Sun a brush!”

Someone trembling with fear handed over a brush.

Sun Wukong bit the pen shaft, flipped through for a moment, and found his name. Then, with a stroke of his brush, he directly crossed his name off the Book of Life and Death, laughing loudly as he said: “From now on, my, Old Sun’s, lifespan is no longer under your jurisdiction!”

And conveniently crossed off the names of all the monkeys as well.

The Kings of Yama: “…”

The barrage chat in the stream was spammed full of snow-like bullet comments.

[Awesome ah my Monkey Brother!]
[He directly turned the Ghost Realm upside down and altered the Book of Life and Death…]
[The mischievous monkey is truly lawless and defies the heavens! I like it~]
[Not bad, a protagonist with such a personality is absolutely unique]
[Dragon Palace collapsing, Ghost Realm collapsing, is it the Heaven Realm’s turn next?]
[That Jade Emperor who said ‘nothing to fear’ at the very beginning is going to get slapped in the face, right?]
[Dying of laughter, I thought the monkey was going to die, didn’t expect him to slaughter his way into the Ghost Realm and alter the Book of Life and Death]
[Too slick my Monkey Brother, from now on you are my Brother!]

The animation for this plot segment in the Underworld was done extremely hot-bloodedly. During the 1 vs Many boss challenge, Sun Wukong critically hit every time, and the player’s operations were also smooth and exhilarating.

Those players who originally felt “a monkey as the protagonist is boring” all expressed: Their faces were swollen from the slaps.

This monkey was way too handsome!

This was the most miraculous and awesome monkey in the whole world!

At the same time, many players who only downloaded the game after 8:00 PM and were playing Simple Mode or Normal Mode had also fought their way to this level of altering the Book of Life and Death.

The players were universally dumbfounded by Sun Wukong’s showy operations.

—Wreaking havoc in the Ghost Realm, altering the Book of Life and Death, even this works?

In the early morning.

A topic #SunWukongIsTooStrong# parachuted to the number one spot on the trending searches list.

As it turned out, after trying out Journey to the West, a gaming blogger gave extremely high praises to the protagonist Sun Wukong, drawing countless players’ agreement in the comment section.

“The protagonist this time truly has a lot of personality.”
“Is Sun Wukong setting the rhythm to single-handedly turn the Three Realms upside down?”
“He took the Dragon Palace’s Sea-Calming Divine Needle, and even altered the Ghost Realm’s Book of Life and Death!”
“I used to play Ghost Realm and was tortured hovering between life and death by the Ten Kings of Yama. As a result, Sun Wukong can actually walk sideways in the Ghost Realm? Isn’t this combat power Awesome Plus?”
“This game is toxic, my 5-year-old nephew is also playing it obsessively.”
“Not gonna lie, the little girl at my neighbor’s house is also playing.”
“I just took a peek; it’s frantically spreading in the elementary school students’ group chats, they’re all hyping up Monkey Brother.”
“Our Monkey Brother’s charm consumes both young and old ah!”

Xie Yunfan was just preparing to go to sleep.

Before sleeping, he habitually refreshed the backend.

Because he had spent money to buy Mobile Games Home’s “splash screen advertisement” on the day of the parachute drop, the traffic-directing effect was very good. The current downloads on Mobile Games Home had already surpassed 1.5 million. Coupled with the 1.5 million from Yangfan Studio’s official website…

In other words, the game download volume on the day of the parachute drop was 3 million.

This had already exceeded the first-day download volume of Soul of Music back then!

After all, the first chapter of Journey to the West was free, so many players would hold a “try it out” attitude to download this game. Whether they could retain these players later on was the key.

This parachute drop didn’t result in broken legs; instead, it was pushed onto the hot searches by the players’ organic discussions.

In the early hours of the morning, it even sent the name “Sun Wukong” onto the hot searches!

This was also the first time the three characters “Sun Wukong” met the public of the alternate world.

The Great Sage’s charm had already begun to capture the players’ hearts.

Thoroughly satisfied, Xie Yunfan turned off his computer.

Don’t rush, the awesomeness of our Great Sage has currently only been shown by less than a tenth.

The wonderfulness of the story of Journey to the West had only just begun.