Chapter 139: Here... No Dao?

He plunged headfirst into the fissure.

Along with it, the Way of the Equal Heaven inside him, already merged with him, suddenly slowed its rotation speed by half!

Yao, who was behind, let out an uncontainable gasp!

"What... what is this place?!"

Her voice was filled with thick disbelief.

Sun Wukong also stopped.

He hovered within this unfamiliar space.

Even he felt a hint of novelty at the scene before his eyes.

Here.

There is no spiritual energy.

There are no immortal mountains.

And no auspicious clouds.

In its place is an endless Cold City made of metal and light!

Countless massive steel constructs, mountain-like, silently sail along predetermined tracks made of light.

They are gigantic.

Their shapes are myriad and bizarre.

Yet without exception, they all exude an extremely cold, desolate aura.

They are like lifeless steel behemoths.

Sun Wukong's eyebrows twitched slightly.

He discovered a more serious problem.

Here, there is not only no spiritual energy.

He cannot even sense the existence of Dao.

Not a trace at all.

Whether it's his Master's Void.

Or the Pantheon Lord's Order.

Or his own Equal Heaven.

Here, they all seem to become rootless duckweed.

The foundation of this world is a pure "physical rule" that he can understand but cannot control.

Cold, precise.

Like a massive machine set with a program.

"Brother Monkey, your power..."

Yao also sensed something amiss.

She looked at Sun Wukong.

Her absolutely beautiful face was filled with startled doubt.

She clearly saw.

Sun Wukong's black‑golden Dao Rhythm, which even a mere hint leaking out on ordinary days could crush millennia.

At this moment, it seemed to be tightly bound by an invisible shackle.

Its operation is incomparably obscure!

As if it were completely out of place with this entire world!

Sun Wukong said nothing.

He slowly raised his right hand.

Then he held his fingers together like a sword.

He casually fashioned an incredibly simple Ignite Fire Technique.

In the Three Realms, his single thought could summon Solar True Fire that incinerates the Eight Desolations.

But here,

His fingertip

only made a "puff" sound.

A tiny, candle‑like spark emerged.

Then,

it extinguished.

Even in the air, not a hint of temperature rise could be felt.

Yao was completely stunned.

Is this still that Great Sage Equal to Heaven who could shatter a universe with a single punch?

This is simply…

"Interesting."

Just as Yao's heart raced with fear,

Sun Wukong suddenly let out a low laugh.

There was not a hint of panic in that laugh.

Instead, it was filled with a long‑missed excitement and soaring battle spirit!

This feeling, tightly constrained by the "rules".

It made him recall, a long, long time ago.

That time.

He was still just a tiny stone monkey that had just leapt out of a rock.

Heaven and Earth, to him.

Were an incomparably huge cage!

"How nostalgic…"

Sun Wukong moved his wrist a bit, and a series of crackling bone pops rang out.

And, at this moment!

A mutation suddenly erupted!

Buzz—

A piercing, genderless, cold electronic Alert sound.

Without any warning, it resonated through every corner of this Steel Universe!

【Alert! Detected an unparseable Logical Paradox entity!】

【Alert! Detected a High-Dimensional Universe BUG invasion!】

【Alert! Threat level: Highest!】

The next second!

Those countless steel giants sailing.

That Cold City spread across the entire Universe.

At the same time, billions of scarlet, blood‑red dangerous lights flared up!

These lights were like a single emotionless eye.

From all directions, up and down, every angle, they firmly Suǒdìng Sun Wukong and Yao completely!

A grand, cold will devoid of any emotion.

Slowly descended upon this space.

That will had no anger.

No curiosity.

There was.

Only absolute rationality, like a machine executing a program.

It rendered the final judgment on Sun Wukong and Yao.

【Target identified: Unknown Variable.】

【Execute command: Clear.】

**Chapter 140: Logical Paradox and Dimensional Cannon**

Clear.

The words of that Cold Will's judgment had just fallen.

The entire dead, oppressive Steel Universe was like a war machine suddenly activated!

The Universe's "Immune System" activated!

Rumble—

The nearest massive planet to Sun Wukong and Yao, entirely composed of an unknown metal.

Its surface's city‑like complex structures began to rapidly reassemble.

Its incredibly hard metal shell resembled a blooming Death Flower.

Layer by layer, it peeled open!

Revealing the massive cannon mouth hidden inside the planet, which made one's scalp tingle!

The cannon mouth was pitch black.

So deep it seemed able to swallow all light.

At the cannon's center, a point of dazzling white light was wildly coalescing at a geometrically multiplied speed!

Yao only glanced at it from afar.

She felt her Illusory Dream path was about to be torn apart directly by that pure destructive energy!

Her complexion instantly turned deathly pale!

"Brother Monkey! Hurry up!"

Yao let out a scream of sheer terror.

"This thing is not something we can hard‑resist!"

She could clearly feel!

The energy coalesced in the cannon mouth, once it erupts.

It could erase an entire star system from the physical realm!

Turning it into the most basic particles!

However.

Facing this world‑ending blow that could make any deity tremble,

Sun Wukong, however, still stood in place.

He even looked at that snarling Huge Cannon with lingering interest.

There was not the slightest fear on his face.

He could feel.

That wasn't a law-based attack.

That was a pure, extreme physical strike using energy itself!

He really wanted to give it a try.

His very flesh, which not even the Pantheon Lord's Order Dao could erode.

Could he possibly endure this all‑out strike from an entirely different civilization?

【Dimensional Cannon, calibration complete.】

【Target, locked.】

That cold will echoed once more.

【Fire!】

No sound.

No earth‑shattering explosion.

A pillar of light that the naked eye could not even describe.

At the instant the word 'fire' was spoken.

It crossed the distance of space and time.

It slammed directly into Sun Wukong's body!

Where the light pillar passed,

Space itself was like a sheet of paper clutched tightly by an invisible hand.

It was forcibly flattened!

From solid three dimensions,

It became a flat two‑dimensional plane!

Yao, one second before the light pillar struck Sun Wukong,

She was shoved far away by a gentle force.

She stared, eyes wide, at the vast starry universe before her.

Along with the countless steel cities within it.

They all seemed to have turned into a still, abstract painting.

And at the very center of that painting,

That figure that once stood tall between heaven and earth.

It too became flattened.

Like a comical cutout drawn on paper.

Yao's heart stopped.

Was it over?

That very being—the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, who could even blast the former sovereign to pieces—

Just like that, he was struck by a baffling beam of light.

Was he killed?

However!

The next second!

Yao, her eyes brimming with despair, suddenly widened!

What did she see?!

At the center of that vast 'universe painting',

the flattened Sun Wukong, pressed into a paper‑thin figure,

one of his fingers

actually…

twitched!

He, using pure physical strength,

barely withstood this higher‑dimensional 'dimensional reduction' strike!

【Alert! Target cannot be cleared!】

【Alert! Analyzing paradox characteristics…】

【Analysis failed! Analysis failed!】

That will, which had always been as still as an ancient well,

its voice showed, for the first time, signs of data corruption!

"Is that all you've got?"

A voice thick with disappointment.

It came from that eerie two‑dimensional space.

"It's nowhere near as strong as the old Tathagata's slap."

The words hadn't even left his lips.

Sun Wukong suddenly strained!

"Crack—"

A sound like shattering glass, clear and crisp.

That forcibly flattened two‑dimensional universe scroll

Instantly, it was covered in spider‑web‑like black cracks!

Then, it shattered with a roar!

Space restored to its original state!

Sun Wukong, completely unscathed, walked out.

He patted the utterly nonexistent dust on his body.

The disappointed expression on his face deepened.

【... Threat level, re‑evaluate.】

【Evaluation result: incomprehensible.】

【Activate backup protocol.】

That cold will seemed completely enraged.

【Execute command: Concept Deletion.】

Buzz!

The Universe's underlying rules, at this moment, began a frenzied self‑rewrite!

A brand‑new Absolute Command was forcibly written!

【Definition: 'Sun Wukong' is a non‑existent thing.】

It will, the concept of 'Sun Wukong'.

From all timelines.

All causal chains.

From the most fundamental level of existence.

Erase it directly!