Chapter 158: Silent Annihilation Descends, Origin Showdown!

Facing it, Sun Wukong's staff — enough to shatter the Milky Way.

That dark silhouette finally had a reaction.

He slowly withdrew his hand reaching for the Dao Seed.

Then.

He turned around.

In his indistinct face.

Two points, like black holes, deep light, slowly glowed.

Those were his eyes.

He just quietly watched that staff hurtling toward him.

He did not dodge.

Nor did he defend.

Hum—!

Just as the Golden Cudgel was about to strike his body.

An invisible ripple.

It spread from his body.

Wherever that ripple passed.

Time, space, law……

Everything seemed to have been hit by a pause button!

Sun Wukong's wildly violent strike.

It stopped dead, less than three inches from his face!

It could not advance even an inch!

What?!

A huge wave surged in Sun Wukong's heart!

How is this possible?!

This strike of his contains the primordial will of his Equal Heaven Dao!

It is the unyielding defiance of heaven and earth, disdain for gods and buddhas!

How could it be blocked so easily?!

"Great Sage Equal to Heaven."

Just as Sun Wukong was shocked.

That dark silhouette spoke.

His voice was very low.

It carried a sense of emptiness that could devour all light and heat.

"I have long heard your great name."

Sun Wukong suddenly gathered his strength!

The Golden Cudgel instantly returned to his hand.

He stared fixedly at the mysterious person before him.

He snorted coldly.

"Who are you, again?"

"You dare to hide your head and show your tail before this old monkey!"

That dark silhouette seemed not to mind Sun Wukong's provocation.

He spoke in that waveless voice.

"You may call me…"

"Ji."

"I am the sole heir of the Primordial Demon God."

Primordial Demon God?!

The moment those four words rang out.

Sun Wukong, Yao behind him.

Her face instantly turned deathly pale!

Her eyes filled with unprecedented fear and shock!

Impossible!

This is absolutely impossible!

"The Primordial Demon God wasn't it already utterly fallen before the dawn of the previous epoch, before heaven and earth were split?"

"How could there still be an heir alive in the world?"

Yao's voice trembled!

That was a tremor stemming from the very source of life!

Primordial Demon God!

That is an existence even older than the Chaotic Demon God!

They were the first living beings born from the void!

Legend says.

They are the natural enemies of all order and law!

Their existence itself.

It is, to, pull everything, back, again, to that, original, Chaos Realm and Void!

They are, the Universe's, scavengers!

They are, the terminators of all things!

This fellow who calls himself "Ji".

He actually is, that kind of, heir of a forbidden existence!

The appearance of "Ji".

It seems, to confirm, his identity.

The surrounding Element Sea, which originally, due to Sun Wukong's Dao Rhythm, was boiling.

At the instant his words fell.

It actually, completely, settled down.

The flames no longer burn.

The thunder no longer roars.

Darkness and light both, have lost, their original, color.

All the Furious Law.

All seem, as if, they have met a king.

Before him, the proud head meekly bowed.

This is, what a terrifying, power!

Ji did not pay attention to Yao's shock.

His gaze, once again, passed over Sun Wukong.

It landed on that Dao Seed, guarded by the power of "End".

In his deep, profound eyes.

For the first time, a feeling named "Obsession" appeared.

"I have come for it."

Ji's voice remains flat.

Yet it carries an undeniable resolve.

Sun Wukong, upon hearing.

The murderous intent in his heart grew stronger!

"Hmph!"

"I, old Sun, no matter what demon god or ghost god you are!"

"This thing is my master's!"

"No one, also, dare to touch!"

"Is that so?"

Ji, slowly, shook his head.

He, looking at Sun Wukong, said in a factual tone.

"You have misunderstood."

"I am not, intending to awaken it."

"But rather, to completely erase it."

Annihilation?!

These two words are like two of the sharpest daggers!

Ruthlessly, ruthlessly, ruthlessly, it pierced Sun Wukong's heart!

"You, what did you say?!"

Sun Wukong, word by word, forced these words out between his teeth.

The black‑gold Dao Rhythm on his body, which originally surged skyward, at this moment actually began to wildly coil back!

All condensed into his body!

His figure did not enlarge.

But the void around him began, unable to bear his utmost restrained fury, to emit an overburdened moan!

"I, old Sun, say it again."

"What do you intend to do with it?"

Sun Wukong's voice was very calm.

So calm that Yao beside felt an inexplicable flutter in her heart.

She knows.

This is, the most terrifying, calm before the storm!

Ji seems completely oblivious to Sun Wukong's impending cataclysmic fury.

He still used that ancient, still‑as‑a‑well voice to explain.

"This Dao Seed is the final key to opening the 'Return to Unity' path."

"The Bodhi Patriarch's 【Void】 Great Dao is the Great Dao closest to the 'Primordial'."

"Only by completely erasing it."

"Let its Primordial Source return to the purest 'Nothing'."

"Only then can it trigger that final torrent."

"Flush this Multiverse, filled with Error and suffering, completely clean."

Listening to Silence's explanation.

Sun Wukong's calm on his face vanished.

In its place was an extreme mockery.

"Ha…"

"Hahahahahaha!"

Sun Wukong burst into a wild laugh!

Within that laughter were endless anger and contempt!

"Another one!"

"Another self‑righteous madman!"

"Pantheon Lord wants to use his laughable order to imprison everything!"

"Rulai Buddha wants to use his hypocritical compassion to enslave all beings!"

"Now, here comes you, the neither‑human‑nor‑ghost fellow!"

"Wants to damn well destroy everything!"

Sun Wukong, with the Golden Cudgel, pointed from afar at Silence.

Golden flames erupted in his eyes!

"You guys, are you all sick!"

"Always like to stand on a self‑righteous high ground!"

"Deciding for others what is right and what is wrong!"

"Deciding others' destinies for them!"

A indescribable chill rose in Sun Wukong's heart.

Pantheon Lord's order at least still retained existence.

And what this fellow before him pursues.

is a thorough "Void" more terrifying than death!

It is an ultimate annihilation that erases everything from the Concept.

Silence, facing Sun Wukong's scolding.

Only tilted his head slightly.

Seemed a bit puzzled.

"Pain, struggle, reincarnation—these are not the true meaning of life."

"My Master, the primal Demon God, seeks true liberation."

"Let all life, all cause and effect, all love and hatred, return to the eternal tranquility before birth."

"That is the ultimate compassion of all things."

"Compassion?"

Sun Wukong seemed to have heard the funniest joke under Heaven.

"Kill everything!"

"And call that compassion?!"

"Lao Sun, today I have truly broadened my horizons!"

Sun Wukong no longer wasted words with him.

He was very clear.

Himself and this fellow before him.

are mortal enemies that cannot coexist from the root of the Dao.

One exists to guard the final hope.

The other exists to extinguish that final hope!

Fundamentally, there is no possibility of any Harmony.

"Stop pulling this nonsense with Lao Sun!"

Sun Wukong slammed the Golden Cudgel heavily into the void!

The entire World Embryo shivered from it!

"Today!"

"Lao Sun is here!"

"You!"

"Don't even think of moving a single hair!"

Silence watched Sun Wukong's unyielding fighting spirit.

In those deep eyes, a faint ripple appeared for the first time.

It was not admiration.

Nor was it solemnity.

But a feeling akin to "pity".

"Great Sage Equal to Heaven."

"Your Unyielding is indeed very powerful."

"It can even let you break the shackles of destiny."

"But…"

"You don't understand."

"What you fight against, what you protect, is just a bigger, more tragic Prison, that's all."

"Silent Extinction is the only way out."

"Get the fuck out!"

Sun Wukong roared once!

I'm too lazy to listen to his nonsense any longer!

He transformed entirely into a streak of black‑gold light!

Enveloped with a sky‑rending murderous intent!

He surged again toward "Silence"!

But this time.

"Silence" no longer stands passively.

He watched Sun Wukong charging toward him.

He slowly raised his right hand.

"Since you are unwilling to actively embrace liberation."

"Then."

"Then let me grant you eternal…"

"Peaceful sleep."

The moment the words fell.

A breath of Silent Extinction aura, more terrifying and purer than the power of "The End"!

From his palm.

It erupted with a thunderous blast!