Chapter 225: An Old Foe Reappears, the Voice of Ji!

Sun Wukong's voice made the newly born Three Realms feel a chill.

It was not murderous intent.

Nor was it anger.

It was instead the most instinctive solemnity when facing the unknown, a terror beyond comprehension.

He had not the slightest hesitation.

Divine thought Suǒdìng the void that was "withering", and with a single step his figure already crossed billions of star rivers.

Yao followed closely behind.

When they arrived, the scene before them made Yao, who was accustomed to the birth and death of the Chaos Realm, feel her heart flutter.

There was nothing here.

It was not the Deathly Silence that Hongjun fills with order.

Nor was it the barren wasteland of the Lost Dao Graveyard, teeming with resentful thoughts.

It was a pure, absolute "Blank".

As if it were the primordial state before creation.

All laws, all matter, all energy, even the Concept of "time", were erased here.

Here, there is only "nothing".

Sun Wukong's Fiery Golden Eyes lost their effect here.

He could see neither the past nor the future.

All cause and effect were severed.

And at the center of this absolute "Blank", a figure stood silently.

It was a familiar dark silhouette.

He simply stood there, radiating endless Silent Extinction light.

That radiance, moving at a speed barely perceptible to the naked eye yet undeniably real, was devouring the boundaries of the Chaos Realm.

Turning all "being" into "nothing".

Sun Wukong's heart sank to the bottom of a valley.

It was him!

The fellow he had thought had long fled!

The figure seemed to sense Sun Wukong's arrival and slowly turned.

It was still that indistinct face, as if composed of myriad shadows.

But that aura, that cold that regarded all things as an endpoint.

Sun Wukong would never admit mistake!

"Ji!"

Sun Wukong squeezed the word out as if from between his teeth.

The figure named "Ji" showed no emotional fluctuation; its voice, like ancient unmelting ice, rang in this absolute "nothing".

"Great Sage Equal to Heaven."

"You ultimately still came."

The Golden Cudgel in Sun Wukong's hand emitted a faint tremor.

He said nothing; the Golden Cudgel pointed toward the expanding Blank area, its sound cold enough to freeze Divine Soul.

"All this you have done?"

He watched with his own eyes the world he had created, those Living Beings whose hope had just ignited, silently "disappear".

This feeling made Sun Wukong angrier than even Hongjun's use of Heavenly Dao thunder to blast them to death!

Ji did not deny.

His demeanor was so calm it seemed he was stating a simple fact.

"All things return to one, back to the primordial."

"This is my Master's long-cherished wish, and also the ultimate truth of the Universe."

He extended a finger, pointing to the Deathly Silence star region he had erased, the place where Sun Wukong once saw life sprout.

"What you see is not destruction."

In Ji's voice was a strange tranquility.

"The world has shed the entanglement of 'variables', laid down the burden of 'existence', and moved toward true, eternal tranquility."

Yao, listening to these words, felt a chill rise from deep within her heart.

She clearly sensed that the "Ji" before her was entirely a different being from the one she faced last time!

Last time, his Silent Extinction Path, though strong, still left traces.

But now…

His Dao was almost able to stand toe-to-toe with the new Heavenly Dao Sun Wukong forged with one hand!

How could this be possible!

How long has it only been!

Sun Wukong let out a cold snort in his heart.

Silent Extinction? Tranquility?

In his view, this was merely another form of "prison"!

A confinement more thorough and more hopeless than Hongjun's order Prison!

Because the imprisoned Living Beings, unaware even that they were imprisoned, willingly "slept" away!

"Fallacious reasoning!"

Sun Wukong roared angrily, and the will of the Way of the Equal Heaven thundered forth,

A black‑gold light tried, within this Blank, to reignite the flame of Existence!

However, at that moment!

A sudden anomaly erupted!

The few seeds within his body, the Void Seed belonging to Master Bodhi Patriarch,

unexpectedly at this instant, with the Silence Extinction Power radiating from Ji's body, generated a faint, almost intangible…

Resonance!

Sun Wukong's movement suddenly stiffened!

He clearly felt that those Dao Seeds, at this moment, not only failed to reject Ji's power.

On the contrary, they exuded a…

breath of common origin!

This sudden unease, like a poisonous needle, pierced his Dao Heart fiercely!

How could Master's Dao resonate with this ghostly thing that erases everything?!