Chapter 103: What Is Equal to Heaven? My Dao!

This cudgel swing, bearing Sun Wukong's blazing Primordial Source's supreme battle will, is about to strike down!

The entire world shivers beneath this pure War Dao!

At the apex of the Tree of Life, the original demon god's indifferent face, for the first time, displayed solemnity.

She can feel that this cudgel is enough to

completely pierce her world along with the demon god's corpse that serves as its cornerstone!

However.

Just as the Golden Cudgel's whoosh, already tearing the space, is about to touch the Tree of Life!

A plain yet deafening voice, like Chaos Divine Thunder,

Boom— echoes in Sun Wukong's sea of consciousness!

"Disciple!"

"It is Master!"

Sun Wukong's action, already fully dominated by battle will, suddenly freezes!

The tip of the Golden Cudgel halted less than three inches from the tree!

The raging gusts blew the tree's branches wildly, yet could not advance another inch!

"Forget destruction!"

The Bodhi Patriarch's voice, devoid of any emotion, yet contains supreme truth.

"Think, why do you fight!"

Why fight?

Sun Wukong was stunned.

His eyes, burning with pure golden flame, showed a hint of bewilderment.

He chewed on the Master's words, and the blood‑red madness in his eyes miraculously faded bit by bit.

Replacing it was an unprecedented clarity!

Indeed.

I, Lao Sun, why do I fight?

To smash this damned place?

To kill the monster before me?

No.

This is only the surface.

He closed his eyes.

Allowing the ubiquitous law of Creation to again become ten‑million divine chains, re‑ensnaring and binding him!

He did not resist.

Instead, he sank all his mind and spirit deep within himself, to seek the most fundamental answer!

Why do I fight?

In his mind, scene after scene flashed rapidly.

It was before Mount Huaguo's Water Curtain Cave, the group of monkeys and monkey‑sons who bowed and worshipped him.

He fights for the Freedom of the "King"!

It was beneath Wǔxíng Shān, suppressed for five hundred years, battered by wind and rain, yet never bowing.

He fights for the dignity of "unbending"!

It was on the Xi Xing Lu, for that nagging yet timely intervening mortal Master.

He fights for the promise of "guarding"!

It was for Princess Peacock, that reckless, self‑sacrificing resolve!

It was for the Master, that unparalleled domineering, bearing the weight of Three Realms deities behind him!

Even more for…

For that day, when he struck Lingxiao, his cudgel pointing at the heavens' immortals and Buddhas, he roared the line—

"The emperor's turn to rule, next year at my house!"

Why?

For Freedom? For Unbending? For Guarding?

All of them!

And also none of them!

Sun Wukong roared madly in his heart, questioning himself!

What is the true root of all this?!

Suddenly.

He understood.

He saw the truth!

All of this stems from a thought deep in his very bones!

A thought that, since the day he leapt out of the stone, has been etched into his Soul!

That is—

Why?!

Why must I, from birth, be bound by your restraints?!

Why must I obey the rules you set?!

By what right do you, sitting on your lofty throne, get to command my fate?!

By what right does this heaven press down on me?!

By what right does this earth confine me?!

My Dao!

This heaven—I will define it!

This earth—I will measure it!

This sky above my head—forever, damn it, will be decided by me alone!

Boom——

A brand-new, utterly distinct Dao rhythm burst forth explosively from the deepest part of his Original Spirit!

That is no longer mere 'power'!

Nor is it overbearing 'destruction'!

It is a kind of unruly defiance!

A kind of wild unrestraint!

A kind that dares to raise its middle finger at every fixed rule of heaven and earth and loudly shout 'No'……

【Way of the Equal Heaven】!

This—this is Sun Wukong's Dao!

This—this is the true meaning of the four characters 'Great Sage Equal to Heaven'!

To stand equal with Heaven!

Not to destroy Heaven and annihilate Earth!

"Hahahahaha!"

Sun Wukong flung his eyes open, looked up to the sky, and laughed wildly!

In his laughter lay the exhilaration of great enlightenment!

He roared, voice shaking the soul, at this perfect world and at the lofty Primordial Devil God above!

"Your Dao is 'Creation'!"

"My Dao is 'Equal Heaven'!"

The moment his words fell.

He no longer struggled, nor did he destroy.

Instead, he performed an act that the Primordial Devil God, as well as Bodhi and Yao far away, could not comprehend!

He actually took that newly comprehended 'Equal Heaven Dao rhythm' of his own,

and poured it, unreservedly, into the earth beneath his feet!

He poured it into the madly binding law‑chains that were sucking his power!

"You……are you mad?!"

The Primordial Devil God uttered a voice of disbelief.

She had never seen such a mad act!

To inject one's own 'Dao' into a world built from other 'Daos'?

That is nothing less than striking stone with an egg—self‑destruction!

It would only be instantly assimilated and devoured clean by her 'Creation Great Dao'!

However.

The next second.

An eerily strange thing happened!

"Hum——"

The whole world shuddered violently!

Immediately after.

On that originally pristine, immaculate land, pure white lotuses,

suddenly, at the edges of their petals, took on a streak of defiant gold!

The gentle, auspicious divine birds and beasts conjured by the laws of creation,

suddenly sparked a flicker of fire called 'rebellion' in their eyes! They no longer lowered their heads to feed,

but raised their heads, curiously, even with a hint of provocation, gazing toward the sky!

The Saint warriors who had been rushing forward to attack Sun Wukong froze in their movements!

The holy light swords in their hands flickered uncertainly.

For the first time, confusion appeared in their eyes!

"We……why do we fight?"

"We……were we born merely to be created and then to fight?"

"We……cannot we have our own will?"

One after another, the Saint warriors ceased attacking and began to voice soul‑born questions!

The most terrifying change came from the law‑chains binding Sun Wukong!

At the moment they touched the 'Equal Heaven Dao rhythm,' they not only failed to assimilate it,

but instead seemed to have found their true 'king'!

They were no longer icy bonds, but began to writhe and transform wildly!

"Roar——"

The dragon roars that shatter the Divine Soul echoed across Heaven!

Those hundreds to thousands of law chains had all come to life,

transforming into countless snarling, clawed, unruly golden divine dragons!

They coiled around Sun Wukong's true form of the demon ape,

no longer as imprisonment, but becoming the most splendid, most domineering armor!

The Primordial Demon God's expression finally changed!

From indifference, to solemnity, and now to… sheer terror!

She discovered.

She had lost absolute control over this world!

Everything she "Creation"ed is being infected by Sun Wukong's "Dao", being changed! being subverted!

This world is no longer her world!

It has become Sun Wukong's "Mount Huaguo"!

"This… this is impossible!"

The Primordial Demon God let out a sharp roar, his voice filled with disbelief!

Sun Wukong slowly lifted his head.

The "Chain Dragon" on his body emitted wave after wave of dragon roars, as if cheering for him.

He looked at the face twisted by shock, grinned, revealing his ashen white fangs.

"Nothing is impossible."

"My Dao is Irrational!"

He slowly raised a finger, pointed lightly at the Primordial Demon God.

"Now, it's my turn."

"Since you love Creation so much."

"Then I, Old Sun, will teach you."

"What is called…"

"All beings are equal!"