Chapter 199: Sever the Heavenly Dao's Chains, Hear the Bodhi Heart!

Sun Wukong stared fixedly at that gray massive tombstone.

His palm strained from exerting too much force.

It emitted a grating sound that made teeth ache.

Nine black Heavenly Dao Chains were like nine bloodsucking parasites.

They dug deep into his master's Dao Seed.

On that golden seed.

He could even see the indentations squeezed out.

That was his master's anguish.

It was also Sun Wukong's shame.

"Old bastard Hongjun, you really are something."

Sun Wukong's voice was squeezed out from between his teeth.

Carrying a vicious aura that could freeze space.

He stepped forward abruptly.

The earth beneath his feet shattered into a deep pit.

Black-gold Equal Heaven Dao Rhythm wildly coiled around the Golden Cudgel.

Those Dao Rhymes seemed to be roaring.

As if they were yearning.

Yearning to utterly shatter this so-called order.

"First strike!"

"Smash this damned fate for me!"

Sun Wukong let out a furious roar.

His waist twisted into a terrifying arc.

The strength of his whole body traveled along his spine to both arms.

The Golden Cudgel turned into a streak of black lightning.

Carrying the force of ten thousand jun.

He slammed it heavily onto the first chain.

On it were carved two nauseating characters.

Fate.

Boom—!

A visible shockwave burst outward in a ring.

The entire Lost Dao graveyard trembled.

Even the ancient bones buried in the soil.

Were shaken to powder by that shock.

On the chain.

Countless golden runes lit up.

Those were the rules set by the Heavenly Dao.

They were resisting.

They were mocking Sun Wukong's overreach.

"You're laughing your ass off!"

Sun Wukong's face turned ferocious.

The veins at the corners of his eyes throbbed with anger.

The muscles on his arms bulged like old tree roots.

Add another three parts of strength!

Crack!

A clear cracking sound rang throughout the void.

That black chain symbolizing "Fate".

Under this strike.

Finally reached its limit.

It shattered like ice into countless fragments.

At the same time.

In the distant, untouchable Purple Cloud Palace.

A figure had been sitting on a futon, eyes closed, cultivating.

Suddenly opened his eyes.

Those were eyes devoid of any emotion.

Hollow.

Desolate.

Filled with an indifference that loomed over all beings.

His brow furrowed slightly.

In this world under his control.

The variable that had already been sentenced to death.

He actually tried to overturn his chessboard.

You beast!

Hongjun's voice had no ripples.

Yet it caused the surrounding Chaos aura to instantly solidify.

In the Lost Dao graveyard.

As the chains shattered.

Sun Wukong felt a buzz in his head.

A gentle voice sounded deep in his sea of consciousness.

"Wukong, you've come."

Sun Wukong's eye sockets instantly turned red.

That voice.

He had waited too long.

That was the Bodhi Patriarch's voice.

Without any pressure.

Like a cool breeze sweeping through the mountains.

"Master, I'll take you away!"

Sun Wukong panted heavily.

His heart raced wildly.

That was the joy of having survived a calamity.

And also the ecstasy of regaining what was lost.

"Wukong, listen carefully."

That voice carried an inexplicable sense of power.

It instantly steadied Sun Wukong's restless heart.

"If heaven's decree destines you to be only a pawn."

"Then you jump out of the chessboard."

"Destroy it as well."

Sun Wukong grinned.

Revealing a mouthful of stark white teeth.

He hehehed with laughter.

He laughed until tears came to the corners of his eyes.

"I know!"

"It's just a broken chessboard, isn't it?"

"I'll smash it, that's it!"

He suddenly turned around.

He once again raised the iron staff in his hand.

This time.

His gaze changed.

No longer that simple fury.

But a coldness that sees through life and death.

"Second staff!"

"Smash obedience for me!"

The Golden Cudgel swung out again.

Space collapsed in large swaths beneath the staff's shadow.

The chain inscribed with 'Obedience'.

Not even a chance to resist.

It was struck by a blow imbued with the will of Equal Heaven.

It was completely smashed into ashes.

"Third staff!"

"Smash this damned Silent Extinction!"

Sun Wukong grew wilder the more he fought.

His inner mana surged like boiling lava.

It surged frenziedly through the meridians.

Every inch of flesh trembled.

Every bone roared.

Boom—

Another earth-shattering explosion rang out.

The chain representing 'Silent Extinction' snapped instantly.

The master's voice echoed again in his mind.

"The way of the teacher returns to nothingness."

"That is so that all things may attain true liberation."

Not like this Heavenly Dao.

For the so-called peace, go and forcibly erase all variables.

A difference of one character.

A small mistake leads to a great error.

Sun Wukong understood.

He had never understood why Master was called Bodhi.

Now he understands.

Bodhi is awakening.

Emptiness is freedom.

This is the true Dao that Master passed on to him!

I understand!

I'm not fighting to destroy!

I'm fighting so that all living beings in this world can live properly!

Sun Wukong laughed wildly to the heavens.

The black-gold Dao Rhythm around him began to undergo a qualitative change.

Within the originally violent power,

Actually, a vast inclusiveness that embraces all things has arisen.

That is indomitability.

It is also great love.

The Equal Heaven Path and Master's will of emptiness.

At this moment they completely merged into one.

That feeling.

Like a wanderer who has drifted for ten thousand years.

Finally returned home.

Found the root.

My power hasn't reached its limit yet!

Sun Wukong roared.

His body rose a bit higher again.

The Golden Cudgel in his hand.

At this moment it felt as heavy as a thousand worlds.

He looked at the remaining chains.

His eyes were full of contempt.

Break them all, damn it!

He turned into a streak of black-gold light.

Flashing wildly around that huge tombstone.

Each flash,

Each flash shattered a Heavenly Dao Chain.

Karma!

Shatter!

Reincarnation!

Shatter!

Sun Wukong had already gone berserk from killing.

He completely disregarded the strain on his body.

Even as golden blood began to seep from his pores.

He also had no intention of stopping.

Yao watched from afar.

She was so anxious she kept stamping her feet.

She wanted to go help.

But that level of collision

Was absolutely beyond her ability to intervene.

Just as Sun Wukong smashed toward the last chain,

An abrupt anomaly occurred.

The originally dark sky,

Suddenly split open a huge rift.

An indescribable oppressive feeling

Poured down from that rift.

It transcended this realm,

transcended life and death,

and even transcended the power of law.

It was Hongjun's will.

It descended.

「Have you made enough trouble? 」

One could not tell if that voice was male or female.

One could not tell whether it was old or young.

Yet it weighed so heavily that Sun Wukong's legs suddenly sank.

The ground beneath his feet.

It instantly collapsed by several hundred meters.

All the tombstones turned to dust at that moment.

This pressure.

It was too great.

So great that the surrounding time fell into stagnation.

Sun Wukong gritted his teeth.

The thick tendons on his neck were like steel cables.

Because he exerted too much force.

His gums were bleeding.

「You damn old man! 」

「You finally can't hold back, huh? 」

Sun Wukong withstood that pressure which could crush a Great Luo Golden Immortal into pulp.

He straightened his body inch by inch.

The Golden Cudgel in his hand.

It was emitting a shrill buzzing.

That was the trembling upon meeting his fated enemy.

Furthermore, it was an eager excitement to try.

In the void.

An immeasurably huge hand.

Slowly stretched out from the rift.

That hand.

Transparent.

Pure.

Completely formed from the ultimate Heavenly Dao Order.

It had no markings.

No finger gaps.

Yet it gave the feeling of controlling the life and death of all things.

Its falling speed was not fast.

Yet it blocked off all of Sun Wukong's retreat routes.

At this moment.

No matter where he tried to hide.

He would eventually be crushed by that hand.

Just like crushing an annoying fly.

「Wukong, be careful! 」

Yao shouted in terror.

Her voice carried a crying tone.

The fear that hand brought her.

It even made her unable to move a finger.

That came from the deepest part of the soul.

That kind of instinct absolutely suppressed by a superior being.

Sun Wukong didn't even glance at that hand.

His gaze.

Firmly fixed on the last chain.

Engraved upon it.

Order.

This is Hongjun's lifeline.

This is his foundation.

「My own caution, you don't need to manage it! 」

Sun Wukong gave a hehe laugh.

Laughing with unbounded abandon.

He actually gave up all his defenses.

Even the black gold Dao Rhythm used to protect his body.

All were completely withdrawn at once.

He put all his strength.

All the will.

Even one's own Divine Soul.

All in this instant.

Poured into the Golden Cudgel.

"Gather for me!"

Sun Wukong roared.

The Golden Cudgel shone to its limit at that moment.

Its originally black‑gold shaft.

Unexpectedly turned into an almost transparent white.

That is the Color after ultimate sublimation.

That is power that transcends the rules.

"You want to crush me?"

"I'll strike your hand first!"

Sun Wukong stamped his foot violently.

His whole being was like a projectile that defied Heaven.

Towards that massive hand that blocked the sky and sun.

He charged straight forward.

"Hongjun!"

"My Master's Dao, when did it become up to you, that dead old man, to define it?"

"The order you speak of."

"In my eyes, Old Sun."

"It's just a pile of rotten stinky dog crap!"

Sun Wukong's eyes spewed golden light several zhang long.

His face twisted so much it no longer resembled a monkey.

Only those eyes.

Shone astonishingly.

"Give me—break!"

Golden Cudgel.

Carrying his grievances of tens of thousands of years.

Carrying the Master's unyielding heart.

Ruthlessly.

Collided with that Heavenly Dao giant hand.

At that moment.

The world fell silent.

All the sounds.

All the lights and shadows.

All the laws.

Seemed to be under this collision.

Completely vanished.

What remained.

Only that roar, wildly arrogant to the extreme.

In this Lost Dao Graveyard.

For ages.

Unbroken.