Chapter 231: Equal Heaven Breaks the Realm, Void Backlash, the End's Lock!

That roar, suppressed to the extreme, was like the first heartbeat before Pangu created Heaven and Earth!

"Die!!!"

At the instant Yao's divine thought surged into the Sea of Consciousness, Sun Wukong's Primordial Source, which was about to be completely erased, exploded with a boom!

It was not a destructive explosion!

It was a breaking followed by establishment, a rebirth!

Within his semi‑transparent body, endless black‑gold Dao Rhythm surged like an erupting volcano, instantly rolling back!

The Silence Extinction Power that had been frantically eroding him, trying to "erase" him, at this moment seemed to have met a natural enemy!

They were forcibly suppressed, bound, and even… began to be reverse‑devoured by that unreasonable Way of the Equal Heaven!

Sun Wukong's body, at a speed hundreds of times faster than his disappearance, frantically reshaped itself!

Chaos Realm energy was seized and transformed into his new sinews and bones.

Flesh and blood were sprouting!

Bones were being reforged!

Each bone bore an indelible rune of defiance.

Golden monkey hair, like spring bamboo shoots after rain, burst through every inch of skin, bearing unmatched dominance and Vitality!

His gaze swept across and saw Yao in the distance, her aura waning, nearly falling from the sky,

In those Fiery Golden Eyes, newly ignited with dazzling golden light, a strand of bone‑piercing pain flashed.

But that pain instantly turned into a fury that could scorch the Nine Heavens!

He locked onto the coordinate that Yao had exchanged her life for!

That sole "existence" within absolute "nothingness"!

That barely perceptible ripple representing the Source of Extinction!

"Rend!"

Two words squeezed out from Sun Wukong's teeth.

"You made old Sun… easy to find!"

His voice was hoarse, yet carried a murderous intent capable of freezing the Chaos Realm!

All the reborn power throughout his body, all the retaliating Dao Rhythm, all his guilt and gratitude toward Yao,

All the sky‑splitting rage that had been toyed with, at this moment, were poured entirely into the Golden Cudgel in his hand!

Buzz—!

The Golden Cudgel did not enlarge; instead it contracted sharply, all its divine might restrained, turning into the plainest Tiěbàng form.

Yet its tip gathered an extreme, all‑piercing cold gleam!

In the next instant, Sun Wukong's figure vanished from where he stood.

He thrust the Golden Cudgel from his hand with force!

This strike made no sound of wind or thunder.

This strike lacked any earth‑shaking momentum.

It was silent, as if piercing a tuft of cotton, yet what it contained was Sun Wukong's entire will at that moment!

A will named "Existence"!

A resolve to pierce a hole through this illusory "End"!

And at the moment the Golden Cudgel was thrust, within this Chaos Realm, the ever‑still voice finally sounded.

But this time, that voice no longer held any lofty indifference.

In its place was unmistakable astonishment, and a hint… of anger provoked by ants!

"You…!"

"How could you possibly!!!"

Ji's voice showed a violent emotional fluctuation for the first time!

Before his words finished, the tip of the Golden Cudgel had already precisely pierced that faint ripple!

Crack—!

A crisp sound, like shattered crystal, rang in this Deathly Silence Chaos Realm.

The sound was faint, yet it seemed to proclaim the end of a myth!

Centered on that ripple, visible black fissures spread wildly like a spider's web!

That "Blank" domain that devoured and erased everything, this invincible path representing the "End", shattered in response under that single strike!

As the domain fractured, a figure was finally forced to manifest from "nothing" into "existence"!

It was Ji!

He was no longer a vague shadow, no longer a mere Concept.

He now had a physical form.

A figure clad in a black Sēngpáo, whose face resembled the Bodhi Patriarch by seventy percent, yet was exceedingly pale and icy.

His appearance made Sun Wukong's golden eyes contract instantly.

It wasn't because of his appearance.

But because, at this moment, Ji's body was entwined with nine massive black chains!

These chains, of unknown origin and material, extended from the Void,

Deeply embedding into Ji's body, piercing his limbs and marrow, even locking his celestial spirit!

He appeared as a prisoner confined for countless epochs.

Yet Sun Wukong's Fiery Golden Eyes detected something amiss!

These chains aren't imprisoning him at all!

On the chains, there is no seal's law; instead, streams of power older than the Chaos Realm flow,

Power deeper than Silent Extinction continuously pours into his body.

This isn't imprisonment!

This is clearly a kind of 'support'!

These chains are like IV tubes, sustaining the Silence's 'existence'!

Once the chains break, this Silence that has just manifested a physical form will likely instantly revert to the Void!

This discovery made Sun Wukong's heart shudder violently.

At the same moment, the revealed true form of Silence, whose eyes resembled those of the Bodhi Patriarch but held only pure Deathly Silence, burst forth with terrifying killing intent!

The aura of Annihilation of All Things emanating from him was thousands, even tens of thousands of times stronger than when he was in the domain!

He seemed to be the endpoint of all things in the world, the grave of all existence!

"Damned worm!"

"You... have desecrated 'the End'!"

Silence's voice carried unprecedented fury.

Being forced to reveal his true form by what he saw as a 'tool' was an unbearable disgrace for him!

Boundless Silence Extinction Power erupted from him, forming a black giant hand that lunged toward Sun Wukong's head!

Wherever that palm passed, even light was devoured, and all laws were erased.

This grasp aimed to erase Sun Wukong together with his Way of the Equal Heaven from this Chaos Realm, leaving not a trace!

At Sun Wukong's brow, the Master's Void Seed trembled violently once more.

But this time, it was neither longing nor resonance.

Rather, it was an instinctive... repulsion and loathing toward those black chains!

Sun Wukong instantly understood what!

The Master's Dao despises not Silence!

but these chains!

It is these unknown things that sustain Silence's existence!

In the flash of lightning, facing that black hand of Silent Extinction capable of annihilating everything, Sun Wukong cracked his mouth open, revealing a grim smile.

He twisted his body sharply, the Golden Cudgel in his hand tracing a strange arc, avoiding Silence's true form.

Then he poured all his strength into it once again!

"Give me, Old Sun... open!!!"

A furious roar echoed through the Chaos Realm!

The Golden Cudgel in his hand, carrying an unstoppable momentum, smashed fiercely into one of the black chains entwined around Silence's...

Black chains!