Chapter 234

The pitch-black finger composed purely of the concept of "termination" lightly pointed at Yao.

The action was very slow.

It was so slow that Sun Wukong could see clearly the flow of each strand of Extinction Law on the finger.

But Sun Wukong could not muster any thought of dodging.

Because he knew the finger was not pointing at Yao's physical body, nor at her Divine Soul.

It was pointing at Yao's very "existence".

"No!!!"

Sun Wukong's eyes were about to burst, and a furious roar shook the Chaos Realm into turmoil.

Without a second thought, his Golden Cudgel instantly swelled to billions of zhang, turning into a heaven‑supporting pillar that he slammed hard between Yao and the black finger.

But it was useless.

That black finger seemed not to exist in this dimension.

It pierced straight through the Golden Cudgel imbued with the Way of the Equal Heaven, as if passing through a shadow of nothingness.

Then it touched Yao's brow.

There was no earth‑shaking explosion.

No thunderous crash of breaking laws.

Everything was eerily silent.

Yao's body, starting from the brow where the finger touched, was becoming visible‑transparent at a speed discernible to the naked eye.

It was not dissipation, nor turning to ash.

But rather being "erased".

Like a figure on a painting being rubbed out bit by bit by an invisible hand with an eraser.

Even the traces of existence are being negated!

"Stop, Old Monkey!"

Sun Wukong went mad, the black‑gold Way of the Equal Heaven surging like a breached‑dam flood, recklessly rushing into Yao's body to try to oppose the erasing force.

But the instant his Dao Rhythm touched that "termination" force, it was like a red‑hot iron lump dropped into an endless abyss,

not even a ripple could rise before it was completely devoured and assimilated.

He watched helplessly as Yao's brows, eyes, nose bridge, lips… gradually turned illusory.

That feeling of helplessness was more desperate than being pressed under Wǔxíng Shān for five hundred years, or facing Hongjun's Heavenly Dao judgment.

"Hahahaha..."

The kneeling Ji let out a sickly, satisfied cackle.

"Do you see it, Sun Wukong?"

"This is 'termination'! This is true compassion!"

"All clamor, all struggle, all pain will return to eternal tranquility under the might of the Master!"

Before his words faded, Ji's body suddenly turned into a mass of thick black smoke.

Within that smoke lay the entirety of his cultivated Silent Extinction Path.

He laughed wildly, hurling that mass of black smoke toward the towering phantom of the demon god.

"Disciple respectfully greets the Master!"

"Returning completely!"

Hum——!

As Ji's Silent Extinction Path merged, the vague demon‑god phantom began to solidify at an astonishing speed.

The folds of his black Sēngpáo became clearly visible.

His face, identical to that of the Bodhi Patriarch, grew ever more distinct in its features.

With each increment of solidification, vast swaths of the Chaos Realm's laws collapsed.

The newborn stars at the edge of Sun Wukong's new world, which represented "variables",

instantly lost all their light, then vanished silently like burst bubbles.

The entire Chaos Realm was contracting toward the 'One', sliding toward 'termination'!

What shocked Sun Wukong even more was that the Way of the Equal Heaven within him was being drawn by an irresistible immense gravity.

It was as if an infinite‑power pump were frantically sucking out his Primordial Source energy!

His Path flowed uncontrollably toward that primal demon‑god.

No!

That is not a pull!

Sun Wukong's Fiery Golden Eyes locked onto the demon god, and he felt a throb rising from deep within his bloodline.

It was an resonance so ancient it could not be traced.

It seemed Sun Wukong was born to be a part of that demon god.

It seemed his existence was meant to return to this source at this very moment.

"No……Never!"

Sun Wukong ground his steel teeth to pieces, and golden blood trickled from the corner of his mouth.

He exerted all his will to resist the sense of belonging that sprang from his bloodline.

I, the Old Monkey, am the Great Sage Equal to Heaven!

I am the Beautiful Monkey King of the Water Curtain Cave on Mount Huaguo!

I am the sole disciple of Master Bodhi!

It is absolutely not part of any damned thing!

But no matter how he resisted, that resonance grew stronger and stronger, and the power within his body drained away faster and faster!

Just at the moment when he was about to be unable to hold on.

A faint yet resolute thought suddenly rang out in his sea of consciousness.

It was Yao!

Her body had become more than half transparent, leaving only a vague outline, as if it could completely vanish at any moment.

But her Illusory Dream Path, at the very moment of being erased, caught a glimpse of a heavenly secret!

"Sun Wukong..."

"Its power…… is the "End"…… is the "One"……"

"It has only result…… no process……"

"Its Dao…… lacks…… the "Variable"!"

Yao's voice was fragmented, yet like a bolt of lightning, it instantly split the fog in Sun Wukong's mind!

Lacking the "Variable"?

At the instant Sun Wukong attained enlightenment, the Void Seed on his forehead belonging to Master Bodhi erupted with a burst of golden light ten zhang high!

Master's familiar and firm voice, as if crossing countless ages, suddenly boomed in his mind!

"Sun Wukong!"

"Master's Void is the "Beginning", it is one gives rise to two, two gives rise to three, three gives rise to all things, the infinite "Possibility"!"

"And its Extinction is the "End", it is the absolute "Fixed Number" that returns all things to one and obliterates everything!"

"It rejects the "Variable" of Chaos, even fears the "Variable"! Because any uncontrollable factor is a desecration of its "Absolute End"!"

"Your Dao! Your "Unyielding"! Your very existence! You are the greatest "Variable" in this Chaos!"

"Go!"

Master's voice suddenly rose, filled with unprecedented power and anticipation.

"Let him have a taste! What is a true "Variable"!"

Boom!!!!

Sun Wukong's mind, as if a hundred suns had exploded!

He understood!

He completely understood!

My old self Sun's Dao is its nemesis!

My old self Sun's existence is its greatest flaw!

To oppose it, one cannot use defense, cannot use resistance!

Only the Dao that will comply with its "All Things Return to One"!

To oppose it, one must use the utmost "Variable" to contaminate its pure "Fixed Number"!

An indescribable joy and enlightenment erupted from the deepest depths of Sun Wukong's heart!

He suddenly raised his head; his Fiery Golden Eyes, nearly crushed, again shot forth divine light piercing the Chaos!

He burst into wild laughter, his laughter filled with arrogance, filled with madness, and even more filled with utter contempt!

"Hahahahaha!"

"So that's how it is! So that's how it is!"

"A coward afraid of "living"! A weakling who dares not face the "unexpected"!"

"With just you, you dare call yourself the "End"?"

In Ji's shocked and horrified gaze, Sun Wukong performed an act that no one could comprehend.

He actually actively withdrew all the Dao Rhythm protecting Yao!

He actually gave up all resistance!

He allowed that immense pulling force to madly draw out his Dao Primordial Source!

But he did not let these powers flow toward the demon god.

Instead, with supreme will, he gathered all that had been drawn out and condensed to the extreme of the Way of the Equal Heaven into his palm!

That was a black-golden light sphere.

It throbbed madly, each pulse releasing billions of different possibilities, billions of different changes!

That was the ultimate embodiment of the "Variable"!

It was the essence of Sun Wukong's lifelong will of "Unyielding" and "Struggle"!

"I, your father, am the greatest "Variable" in Heaven and Earth!"

Sun Wukong split a grim smile at the primordial demon god about to solidify completely, baring a mouth full of fangs.

"Take a blow from my old self Sun… no!"

He paused, a flicker of teasing and madness flashing in his eyes.

"It is to consume my old self Sun's Dao!"

The moment his words fell, he placed the Variable Sphere in his palm that contained all his Dao,

like a hurled stone, he actively and fiercely smashed it into the primordial demon god's chest!

At this moment, time seemed to stand still.

Ji's frenzied expression instantly froze, replaced by incredulous shock and terror.

He wanted to stop it.

He wanted to howl.

But he could do nothing.

He could only watch helplessly as that black‑gold stream, the ultimate embodiment of "Variable",

unimpeded, it entered the chest of the Primordial Demon God that embodied the absolute "Fixed Number".

Chaos Realm fell into an unprecedented Deathly Silence.

One breath later.

That ancient, unmoving, indifferent Primordial Demon God's phantom, which had remained unchanged since its emergence, trembled violently for the first time…!

On his face, which was identical to Bodhi Patriarch's, and in those hollow, indifferent eyes,

for the first time an emotion called "Chaos" and "Pain" surfaced.

He slowly, stiffly lowered his head.

He looked at his chest, at the black‑gold light that was wildly spreading, contaminating his eternally silent Primordial Source.

The next moment.

A soundless roar erupted from his mouth.

The roar had no sound, yet it was more terrifying than any sound.

It detonated directly on the level of Concept!

The entire Chaos Realm, together with the new world that Sun Wukong had painstakingly created,

its laws and foundations, under this soundless roar, began to crumble inch by inch!