Chapter 156: Stalemate, Seeking a Way to Break It!

Sun Wukong withdrew the Golden Cudgel.

His Fiery Golden Eyes stared intently at the golden Dao Seed before him, wrapped in black energy.

He fell into a prolonged silence.

This was not his first encounter with a thorny enemy.

But, this was the first time.

He felt a pure, unsolvable sensation.

That "End" force was like a wall constructed from the universe's ultimate truth.

It does not fight you.

It simply exists there.

Then, it tells you.

This path is impassable.

Force a breakthrough?

Sun Wukong had just tried that.

As a result, his power capable of shattering the Multiverse was devoured, leaving not even a sound.

He had a premonition.

If he truly, disregarding consequences, burned the Primordial Source of the Equal Heaven Dao Rhythm to force a hard clash.

The final outcome might not be opening this seal.

But would also drag his master's Dao Seed along.

It would be completely dragged by this terrifying "End" force into eternal Silent Extinction.

That was certainly not the result he wanted to see.

"Wukong, are you alright?"

Yao, standing nearby, saw Sun Wukong cease, her face still bearing a pale, lingering tremor of fear.

She stepped forward cautiously.

She gazed at that black energy radiating an extreme death aura.

A resolute flash crossed Yao's eyes.

She could not always stay behind Sun Wukong, watching him fight alone.

Buzz—!

A soft, multicolored light blossomed on Yao's body.

That was her Illusory Dream Way.

She attempted, using her most adept power of analysis and simulation,

to decipher the essence of this "End" force.

However!

Her Dao Rhythm had just touched the edge of that black energy.

Yao's complexion changed abruptly!

"Pfft!"

She opened her mouth and spewed a stream of golden blood formed from pure Dao Rhythm!

Her entire aura instantly withered away!

"My Dao…"

Yao's eyes filled with terror!

She was horrified to discover!

That her Illusory Dream Way, which should have been ever‑changing, virtual and real at will,

the moment it contacted the "End" force,

seemed to have been infused with a single drop of the deadliest toxin!

A thread of black breath representing "death" and "termination",

streamed along the link between her and the Dao Rhythm,

crazily eroding toward her very source!

As if it would turn her "dream" into eternal Deathly Silence!

"Come back!"

Sun Wukong barked low!

He seized Yao's wrist in one grab!

The unrivaled Equal Heaven Dao Rhythm surged instantly!

Transforming into a black‑gold flame!

To incinerate the black aura that had invaded Yao's body.

Forcibly, to scorch it away completely!

After doing all that,

Sun Wukong looked at Yao's paper‑white face.

His brows furrowed even tighter.

"Don't touch it."

His voice carried a hint of unquestionable command.

And also a faint, barely perceptible hint of concern.

"This thing is really weird."

Yao, panting, nodded.

She looked at Sun Wukong, her eyes filled with worry.

Even her Illusory Dream Dao cannot be parsed.

Even just touching it once will cause contamination.

Then, how should Sun Wukong break this desperate seal?

Sun Wukong did not speak again.

He comforted Yao with a word.

Then he once again turned his gaze toward that Dao Seed.

Since a forceful attack won't work.

And a clever approach also has no way to begin.

So then.

There must be a key he hasn't discovered.

Sun Wukong began to carefully observe the surrounding environment.

Behind him.

It is that Element Sea formed by countless Furious Laws.

Flames, thunder, darkness, light…

Various forces that clash and devour each other.

Here, it forms an endless destructive storm.

And before him.

It is that absolute Deathly Silence void guarded by the power of End.

One movement, one stillness.

One Furious, one Deathly Silence.

Formed a balance that is exceptionally clear yet exceptionally strange.

Sun Wukong suddenly felt a stir in his heart.

He abruptly lifted his head!

Again, he looked toward the Furious Element Sea!

He finally noticed a hint of something wrong!

This Element Sea, although Furious.

But!

Its all power, as if blocked by an invisible dam!

No matter how those law torrents capable of tearing the Universe impact.

They cannot cross that boundary even a step!

And that invisible dam.

The source of its power.

Is precisely the black power of End before him!

Sun Wukong instantly understood!

This End lock.

It not only sealed the Master's Dao Seed.

It is more like a "filter".

A "guardian"!

It isolates all external Furious and chaotic laws!

For the Master's Dao Seed.

It created an absolutely pure and tranquil space for growth!

This discovery made Sun Wukong's heart leap!

He again extended his divine sense cautiously.

This time.

He did not pay attention to that cold End power.

But he focused all his attention on that golden Dao Seed guarded at the core!

Gradually.

Sun Wukong felt a wonderful resonance.

He felt.

The Master's Void Seed is not passively guarded.

It itself also emits a weak yet extremely tenacious power.

That power.

And with the external cold End power.

Formed an exceptionally subtle balance!

Like the yin and yang of Taiji!

Void represents the final destination of all things.

And End represents the process of all things heading toward that destination!

One is "the End".

One is "the road to the End"!

They have always been one!

Sun Wukong recalled the Master's Void Great Dao.

Master once said.

His Dao is not simply destruction and annihilation.

Rather, after all things have reached the end,

what arrives is ultimate peace and liberation.

It is a higher-level "new birth"!

If the power of "Termination" represents the ultimate "End".

Then!

The Master's Void Seed represents the "new birth" after the End!

This is fundamentally not a seal!

This is a "question" that the Master left for him!

A test!

Master is telling him this way.

To truly understand the truth of Void.

One must first understand what "Termination" is!

Having grasped this point.

Sun Wukong only felt a sudden clarity before his eyes!

All his inner restlessness and impatience vanished in that instant!

Even the corner of his mouth curled into a confident, arrogant smile!

"So that's it…"

"Master, Master…"

"You old man, you really gave me, old Sun, a huge problem!"

Sun Wukong let out a long sigh.

He now knows what to do.

Since it cannot be forcibly broken from the outside.

Then.

He will use his own Equal Heaven Dao.

To understand, to comprehend!

Even… to harness this "Termination" power!

He must use the Master's left "key".

To open this "lock" left by the Master!

Just as Sun Wukong prepared to sit cross‑legged.

He began to calm his mind and contemplate the mysteries of Termination and Void.

An anomaly!

It happened again!

Without any warning!

Sun Wukong suddenly lifted his head!

His eyes, burning with golden flames,

instantly narrowed into a dangerous thin line!

He looked toward the distant far end of that raging elemental sea.

There.

A darkness deeper and more heart‑pounding than the power of "Termination".

It is, like a tide,

silently.

toward the direction where they are.

quietly approaching!

That dark wave.

is completely different from the pure, icy cold of the "Termination" power.

It carries a greedy, hungry, and utmost malice toward all Living Beings!

As if it were a terrifying entity that has slept for billions of years.

Awakened by their recent battle!

"A guest has arrived."

Sun Wukong slowly straightened his body.

He once again clenched the Golden Cudgel in his hand.

The smile on his face had completely vanished.

Replaced.

It is that familiar, bone‑deep, overwhelming battle intent!

And, bone-chillingly cold, a chilling killing intent!