Chapter 152: My Old Self's Future / Blank Pages / You Can't Write It

「Library Librarian」 that, without a trace of emotion, thought fluctuation, in Sun Wukong and Yao's sea of consciousness, slowly undulated.

Yao, hearing this, her hands and feet turned ice-cold.

Turning a living person into a book that records their entire life?

Then, forever sealed, placed upon this icy, deathly silent bookshelf?

What a terrifying and malicious idea!

However.

Sun Wukong's reaction, however, far exceeded her expectations.

Facing such a curse that could be called the most vicious.

Sun Wukong merely picked his ears.

Then, with a gaze like looking at an idiot, he stared at that figure composed of text.

He let out a snicker.

My old self's future?

Ha!

Even I, old Sun myself, don't know what I'll do next.

You?

Sun Wukong extended a finger, pointing at the other party.

The contempt on his face almost spilled over.

On what grounds, to record?

Facing Sun Wukong, near‑insulting, question.

"Library Librarian" still showed no emotional fluctuation.

In its logic, there seems to be no concept of "anger" at all.

【Everything has cause and effect.】

【With cause and effect, one can deduce.】

【In my eyes, your past determines your present.】

【Your present has also long been destined to determine your future.】

【So……】

【Your future has already been written.】

Its thought fluctuation remained as calm as water.

It seemed to be expounding an unshakable cosmic axiom.

To prove its words,

That "Library Wukong Librarian" slowly raised its arm, composed of countless symbols.

It, facing the void before it, gave a light pull!

Hum——

The void rippled like water.

A massive tome, so heavy as to be unimaginable, was thus pulled out of thin air from that nonexistent "bookshelf"!

The book's entire body displayed an overbearing black‑gold hue!

Its cover seemed to be made from the hide of the most unruly chaos demon monkey!

Upon it was written in a kind of cosmic source script that Sun Wukong couldn't read but could instantly understand the meaning of.

Inscribed with a line of vigorous, dragon‑phoenix style large characters——

【Great Sage Equal to Heaven·Sun Wukong】!

Upon seeing this book,

Yao's pupils contracted sharply!

While Sun Wukong narrowed his golden eyes.

A hint of dangerous cold light flashed past.

"Library Librarian" paid no heed to their reactions.

It extended another hand.

Using two fingers made of text, it gently pinched the book's first page.

Then.

Slowly opened it.

Immediately after.

It, with that emotionless, flat voice, began to "chant" in their seas of consciousness.

【Year One of Chaos, Dongsheng Shenzhou, Aolai Kingdom, Mount Huaguo. A divine stone, nurturing an immortal embryo, absorbing the essence of sun and moon, transformed into a stone monkey……】

It read very slowly.

Each character was extremely clear.

It began by recounting how Sun Wukong was born in Mount Huaguo, how he crossed the seas, took a master and learned arts.

It continued until his havoc in the Heavenly Palace, being pressed under the Five Elements Mountain.

Then how he escorted Tang Seng westward, enduring the eighty‑one tribulations.

Finally!

Even he, how to break free from destiny, shatter the Chaos Realm.

And just now, the experience of shattering the "Creator God" with a single swing of the Golden Cudgel in that "Idealist Universe"!

Exactly, word for word!

Not a single fraction out of place!

All of it was recited!

Even clearer than Sun Wukong himself remembered! Even more detailed!

Yao, standing aside, felt a chill run through her whole body, as if falling into an ice cave!

Too terrifying!

The feeling that everything about oneself is seen by others, crystal clear and unmistakable!

The sense of being completely exposed, with no secrets at all!

It is truly too terrifying!

This is no longer a simple battle!

This is a Dimensional Reduction Strike carried out on the "information" level!

Finally.

"Library Wukong Librarian" finished reciting Sun Wukong's experience in the Idealist Universe.

It slowly closed that heavy black‑gold book.

【Did you see that?】

Its mental wave swept toward Sun Wukong.

【Every one of your choices, every battle, is within my calculations.】

【Therefore, your ending has long been predetermined.】

【You will find all the Dao Seeds.】

【Then, in your Master's endless, unreturnable loneliness…】

【Become the new Void.】

【This is your destiny.】

【Cannot be altered.】

【Cannot be defied.】

Silence.

The entire Library Universe once again fell into that maddening silence.

Yao, nervously, looked at Sun Wukong.

She was very worried.

Worried that Sun Wukong's Dao Heart might be shaken by the opponent's soul‑cutting words.

After all.

Anyone who learns that their whole life is merely a book with an already written ending.

Would probably collapse.

However.

Sun Wukong's reaction once again exceeded everyone's expectations.

After hearing the already "pre‑written" tragic ending of his own...

He, far from being shaken at all,

instead…

He burst into loud laughter!

「Hahahahahaha! 」

「Hahahahahahahahahaha!!! 」

The laughter was so wildly arrogant!

It was so unrestrained!

It was so filled with ultimate contempt for that so‑called "destiny"!

The laughter echoed in this soundless Universe.

Even though there was no sound.

But the domineering will embedded in that laughter made the surrounding book planets begin to tremble wildly out of control!

「Destiny? 」

Sun Wukong finally stopped laughing.

He lifted his head, and fierce flames burned in his golden eyes!

「I, Old Sun! 」

「Born! 」

「The most skeptical! 」

「It's this damn thing!!! 」

He thrust his Golden Cudgel forward, pointing far away at the Library Librarian holding that book!

The arrogance on his face reached its peak!

「You broken book! 」

「What it records is nothing but the path Old Sun has already walked! 」

「But! 」

「Old Sun, where shall I go next! 」

"What, how to go!"

Sun Wukong, each word a beat, his voice like an ancient thunderclap!

"You!"

"Write!"

"No!"

"Out!"

"Come!!!"

【Absurd.】

The Library Librarian's thought waves, for the first time, showed a faint, extremely subtle emotional fluctuation.

It seemed to be an emotion called "displeasure".

【Since you don't believe.】

【Then, I will let you see with your own eyes...】

【Your already predetermined, desperate future!】

Saying.

It, once again, extended that hand made of characters.

With unparalleled confidence.

Towards the next page of the book Great Sage Equal to Heaven·Sun Wukong!

It turned the page!

It will use iron‑like facts to completely crush the monkey before it, that laughable, Unyielding will!

However!

The next second!

The Library Librarian's page‑turning motion suddenly froze!

Its face, composed of countless character glyphs, became blurred.

For the first time!

It showed a violent fluctuation named "terror"!

It discovered!

No matter how hard it exerted itself!

Regardless of how it tried to drive its supreme computational power that can deduce the birth and death of the Universe!

That book that recorded Sun Wukong's entire life...

Indeed!

It actually couldn't be opened!!!

That thin, next page.

At this moment, however, it seemed heavier than an entire Chaos Realm Universe!

"How?"

Sun Wukong grinned, showing a mouth full of bright white teeth.

"Can't turn the page?"

【No... impossible...】

The Library Wukong Librarian's cold thoughts, for the first time, fell into unprecedented chaos!

【This is absolutely impossible!】

【Why...】

【Why can't I deduce your future!!!】

【Why, the pages behind...】

【It's a Blank!!!】

It couldn't understand!

It will never understand!

Sun Wukong, that great path named Equal Heaven!

Its core is Unyielding!

Its essence is "variable"!

He himself is this Library Universe that pursues "omniscience" and "predestination"!

The only one!

Also the most lethal!

Nemesis!!!