Chapter 148: Battle 'God'! Opposing 'Defiance' to 'Faith'!

Golden Cudgel, its momentum undiminished!

That black-golden staff shadow that rips apart everything, wrapped in Sun Wukong's overbearing, peerless will.

Straight on, it smashes down toward the Creator God's divine form, constructed from faith, straight onto his head!

Facing this, it is enough to split the entire idealistic universe in two—a terrifying blow.

The Creator God's ten-thousand-zhang divine form, however, remained completely unmoving.

In his eyes, which contain the birth and death of the universe, for the first time, a hint of solemnity flashed.

He figured it out.

This monkey before him, his whole body emanating rebellion and defiance.

His Dao, in essence, is the exact opposite extreme to mine.

His power is brutal, crude, and pays no heed to any principle.

I, however, am the embodiment of all principles in this world.

Using brute force alone cannot truly defeat me.

Likewise, I cannot utterly obliterate him with brute force.

This battle, from the very start, was never a contest of strength.

But a war of the Dao!

It is the ultimate clash of defiance and faith!

Having figured this out.

The Creator God abandoned all physical defenses.

He allowed that staff, capable of destroying heaven and earth, to smash toward his own head.

At the same time, his grand Dao Sound, which echoes throughout the universe, resounds again!

This time, his voice contained no anger.

Only that icy, extreme divine majesty!

【I say…】

【You shall kneel!!!】

Hum——!!!

The word is spoken!

The law follows!

A will, terrifying, vastly greater than before's sky-covering giant hand—hundreds of millions of times greater!

It descended in an instant!

This will is not an energy attack.

Nor is it a divine soul oppression.

But a kind of absolute command originating from the world's root!

It is the thought, arising from the depths of their souls, to kneel and worship, held by the countless living beings of this universe when facing the Creator God!

It is the absolute obedience imprinted in their true spirits, generation after generation!

Now, this immense belief, capable of warping reality and defining truth!

It has transformed into an intangible shackle!

It tightly clasps onto Sun Wukong's body!

To forcibly bend his spine, which has never bent!

Break!

To forcibly make his knees, which have never knelt, kneel!

Kneel!

Huh?!

Sun Wukong's descending golden cudgel suddenly stalled in mid‑air!

He felt it!

A terrifying force that cannot be countered by strength, acting upon his very self!

This force is not pressing upon his physical body.

But directly acting upon the concept of his existence!

It seems as if the whole world is letting out an angry roar at him!

——Kneel!

——What gives you the right not to kneel?!

——Before the great Creator God, all living beings must kneel!

——This is truth!

——This is heavenly law!

——This is the world's supreme, sole principle!

Heh……hehe……

Sun Wukong's teeth clenched, making a clicking sound!

His bones, harder than chaos-forged divine iron, at this moment emitted a groan of being overburdened!

Thud!

His left knee suddenly bent!

It slammed heavily onto the ground of the temple, constructed from belief!

The entire temple shook violently for a moment!

The once‑indestructible floor was smashed by him, leaving a bottomless pit!

"Sun Wukong!"

From afar, Yao saw the scene and let out a startled cry!

Her face was filled with disbelief!

This!

How could this be?!

This monkey, unafraid of Heaven or Earth, even the old‑era Supreme Prison Warden and Pantheon Lord were slain by a single blow!

This Great Sage Equal to Heaven who treats the myriad gods and Buddhas like pigs and dogs!

Incredibly…

Incredibly, forced by someone to kneel on one knee?!

Yao had never seen Sun Wukong in such a disheveled state!

The malice emanating from the whole world was simply too immense!

So massive that she, a mere onlooker, felt a suffocating despair!

"You want… old Sun… to kneel?!"

Sun Wukong knelt on one knee, yet his head remained held high!

He stared fixedly at the aloof, expressionless Creator God!

Blue veins on his forehead erupted like raging dragons!

His legs trembled violently!

The will to "kneel" pressed on his back like billions of ancient divine mountains!

It sought to crush him completely!

To flatten him into a puddle of mud!

But!

His other knee was like the Buzhou Mountain rooted in Deep Chaos!

No matter how that force washed or crushed!

He would not bend an iota, life or death!

"Old Sun… was born… not to bow to Heaven and Earth!"

He forced each word, one by one, through his teeth!

Each character seemed to drain all his strength!

"Disrespect… Gods and Buddhas!!!"

The final two words he roared upward!

Boom—!!!

A more ferocious, wilder black‑golden Dao Rhythm burst explosively from his body!

That was Unyielding to the utmost degree!

Why?!

Why must Living Beings revere Heaven and Earth?!

Why must Mortals kneel before Gods and Buddhas?!

Why do you, perched above, define Principle?!

Why must old Sun kneel to you?!

You!!!

What kind of thing are you?!

Sun Wukong let out a roar that shook the entire conscious Universe!

"Roar—!!!"

Within that roar!

He made a move that surprised both Yao and the Creator God!

He surprisingly stopped resisting the "kneel" will acting upon him!

Instead, he voluntarily released his own pure‑to‑the‑extreme Unyielding Dao Rhythm!

He unleashed it completely, without reservation!

That solidified Unyielding will turned into a black‑gold torrent flowing upstream!

But!

Its target was not the towering Creator God!

It bypassed him!

Like the sharpest spear!

It pierced deep into his massive divine body!

It struck the core that was the source of all his power!

That seed, originally belonging to the Bodhi Patriarch's…

Void Seed!!!

The Creator God's pupils contracted sharply!

He tried to stop!

But it was already too late!

Sun Wukong's will, truly, is too fast!

Too resolute!

Too irrational!

At that Dao, the black‑golden torrent of will, the instant it touched the Void Seed!

Sun Wukong, in his own heart, exhausted his lifelong strength, and let out a heart‑rending, soul‑splitting roar!

Master!!!

Disciple, I'm coming to see you!!!

Could it be!

You will just watch, eyes wide open!

Your 'Dao'!

By this kind of counterfeit that doesn't even have a 'self'!

So, to defile?!