Chapter 266: Yao's Boldness, the Dreamscape Battlefield

The Tear of the End hovered in midair.

That huge pupil no longer shed the tears of Deathly Silence.

Taking its place was a newly awakened, surging fury!

It was resisting!

By using its own existence, it opposed the mysterious sovereign who had twisted it into a specimen!

"Trash!"

Deep in the Star Sea, that sovereign's roar shook countless stars into trembling!

"Even a piece of trash that can't control its own self dares to defy this throne!"

"You think this is over? Monkey!"

That resentful voice firmly locked onto Sun Wukong.

"You awakened the will of that trash, yet you also gave me reason to devour them completely!"

Before the words even fell!

A will darker and more overbearing than before descended from the depths of the Star Sea!

That will turned into countless invisible tendrils, viciously piercing into the Tear of the End and the primordial source of myriad newborn worlds!

"Ah——!"

A shrill scream, born of the world's will, echoed across the Star Sea!

The worlds that had just regained vitality began to wither at a visible pace!

Even the fury in the Tear of the End's pupil began to be overwhelmed by deeper despair!

That sovereign was forcibly draining their power!

He would use the cruelest means to tell all rebels what defying him entails!

Sun Wukong's teeth ground together with a creaking sound.

He could shatter those worlds, but he could not shatter that invisible will.

The opponent hid too deeply.

Like a poisonous snake lurking in the endless deep sea, extending only its fangs.

Meanwhile, inside the Zi Xiao Gong.

Hóngjūn Dàozǔ's deductions spun into frenzy once again.

The image in his eyes clearly showed the upcoming course.

Sun Wukong would surely exhaust himself to protect those worlds.

In the end, he and those worlds would be dragged down and devoured together by the Star Sea Sovereign.

Fixed Number!

This is an unchangeable Fixed Number!

Hongjun's face once again surfaced that icy chill of controlling everything.

However, at this crucial moment.

A gentle hand lightly rested on Sun Wukong's arm, which tightly gripped the Golden Cudgel.

It was Yao.

"Wukong, don't let him lead you by the nose."

Yao's voice carried a newly born, resolute strength.

Sun Wukong startled, turned to look at her.

"This old monkey knows!"

"But these guys only came back to life because of this old monkey!"

"I can't watch them die again!"

His voice brimmed with fury and reluctance.

"I understand."

Yao's gaze was clear as water.

She beheld the stalemate before her, the myriad worlds struggling in pain, and the triumphantly laughing will deep in the Star Sea.

She also saw, hidden even deeper like a spider's web, monitoring everything—Hongjun's Order Grand Dao.

She suddenly spoke, uttering a sentence that left Sun Wukong stunned.

"We cannot fight on his battlefield."

Sun Wukong furrowed his brow.

"What do you mean?"

"His strength lies in hiding in the dark, using his accumulated years to pollute and drain us."

Yao's gaze swept across that expanse of the Star Sea.

"While Hongjun's strength lies in his 【Order】 Grand Dao, which can deduce all things, perceive cause and effect, and keep him forever invincible."

"It seems we're fighting one person, but actually we're playing a game devised by two top-tier old fogies, with rules they set."

Sun Wukong fell silent.

He doesn't not understand; his path is simply to charge forward fighting!

But Yao's words were like a bucket of cold water, cooling his furious fighting spirit a bit.

"So what do you suggest we do?"

Yao's lips curled slightly.

In that smile lay a hint of unprecedented confidence… and slyness.

It's very simple.

Since we can't fight on their battlefield...

Then we'll drag them all into our battlefield!

Sun Wukong's Fiery Golden Eyes suddenly blazed!

You mean...

Yao did not answer directly.

She extended her slender jade finger, pointing far at the starry sky being polluted.

Wukong, look.

Whether it's Hongjun's 【Order】 or that ruler's 【Pollution】, they both need a foundation.

That is 'reality'.

All their Dao and laws must be built upon a truly existing material world, with stable causality and fixed logic.

But if...

Yao's voice became somewhat ethereal, yet filled with astonishing power.

If we create a battlefield.

One... a battlefield between 'reality' and 'illusion'?

Boom!

This sentence, like the first thunderclap in the Chaos Realm, exploded in Sun Wukong's mind!

He instantly understood Yao's meaning!

What a bold, what a crazy idea!

In this battlefield.

In Yao's eyes, brilliant, dreamlike light shone.

Her Illusory Dream Great Dao, at this moment, in an unprecedented posture, began to run wildly!

Everything is uncertain.

A stone could turn into a butterfly in the next second.

A river might possibly flow upward into the sky.

Here, all logic will become chaotic! All causality will be utterly shattered!

She looked at Sun Wukong, her eyes full of brilliance.

Wukong, tell me.

In such a place, is Hongjun's deduction still useful?

Sun Wukong grinned and laughed.

That smile was arrogant to the extreme!

Useless!

His damn trick isn't worth shit!

In a place where even 'one plus one equals two' could be overturned at any moment, his proud 【Order】 is just a huge joke!

He fully understood!

This is the true Dimensional Reduction Strike!

Aren't you able to calculate?

I'll smash your abacus right away!

You won't even recognize the most basic numbers—see how you calculate then!

Hahaha!

Sun Wukong burst into loud laughter, the pent-up frustration and anger in his heart swept away!

Good! Good! Good!

Not bad is the one I, Old Sun, have taken a liking to... uh, not bad is a comrade of mine, Old Sun!

Just do it like that!

Yao's cheeks flushed slightly, then immediately returned to calm.

She took a deep breath, and the aura around her began to undergo an earth-shaking change.

She is no longer the weak woman needing protection.

At this moment, she seemed to embody the source of all Dream Realm and Illusion!

Well then, let's begin.

She closed her eyes.

Taking her own Dao as the core!

Hundreds of millions of dreamlike light ribbons, from within her body, madly extended in all directions!

This is not an attack!

This is a kind of... coverage!

A rewriting of rules!

The ruler of the depths of the Star Sea immediately sensed something amiss.

Huh? What is this?

Trivial tricks! Before my absolute pollution, any illusion is futile!

He increased his power, intending to pollute Yao together with those light ribbons.

However, his polluting power, upon contacting those dreamlike light ribbons, vanished like a mud ox into the sea, disappearing without a trace!

Those light bands seemed not to belong to this "real" dimension!

His power was simply untouchable!

"How could this be!"

In the Sovereign's voice, for the first time, a hint of surprise appeared!

And on the other side.

Inside the Zixiao Palace.

Hóngjūn Dàozǔ suddenly widened his eyes!

The deduction picture before his eyes, those billions of clear and visible causal lines, at this moment, seemed to have been plunged into countless red-hot branding irons!

They began to twist wildly, boil, and even… snap!

"Pfft!"

Another mouthful of Primordial Source blood spurted out!

On Hongjun's face, for the first time, the emotion named "terror" surfaced!

His 【Order】 Dao was failing!

He was losing control of the battlefield!

He had become a… blind man!

"No——!"

Hongjun let out an unwilling roar, trying to forcibly stabilize causality.

But it was all in vain!

What Yao created was a world fundamentally opposite to his 【Order】!

In just a few breaths!

A dreamscape domain, huge beyond imagination and splendid to the extreme, was fully formed!

It was like a huge, multicolored bubble, enveloping Sun Wukong, enveloping Yao,

enveloping those tens of thousands of worlds, even that "Tear of the Apocalypse," all inside!

Immediately after!

An irresistible suction, originating from the "Illusion" dimension, erupted violently!

The Star Sea Sovereign's projection here, used to contaminate all things,

together with his corrupt powers, had no time to react and was forcibly dragged into this dreamscape battlefield!

"No! What the hell kind of place is this!"

The Sovereign's terrified roar echoed in the dreamscape battlefield.

Here, he discovered his power was becoming extremely unstable.

With a thought, he tried to create a deathly swamp.

The result, right where he stood, a gorgeous patch of singing sunflowers bloomed!

His logic was being forcibly twisted by the rules of this world!

Sun Wukong shouldered his Golden Cudgel, curiously surveying the surroundings.

As he stepped down, the starry sky beneath his feet instantly rippled like water.

He felt an unprecedented freedom!

Here, his 【Equal Heaven】 Dao, that will of "unyielding" and "struggle," seemed to receive infinite amplification!

Because "dreams" are inherently the most unyielding to reality's constraints!

Sun Wukong grinned, pointing his Golden Cudgel at the ever-shifting mass, the terrified will projection.

And Yao, floating at the center of this dreamscape world.

She opened her eyes; those beautiful eyes now seemed to contain millions of possibilities.

Her cold, majestic voice rang throughout the dreamscape battlefield.

It also clearly transmitted to the outside, into the Zixiao Palace, into the ears of every being.

"Welcome to……"

"My world."

"Here, there is no Heavenly Dao, no Order, and no lofty Sovereign."

"The only rule is……"

"No rules!"