Chapter 270: The Shattered Chessboard, the Mad Dao Ancestor

Dodge.

Master's voice was icy as frost, yet hinted at a barely perceptible anxiety.

Sun Wukong had no time to think; instinct overrode all thought.

His body tensed to the limit in an instant.

His legs kicked out, shattering the void, and he was forcibly shifted sideways by tens of thousands of zhang.

The massive iron chain wrapped in deathly aura brushed past his nose.

Boom—

The chain struck empty air, yet did not stop.

Instead, it carried enough kinetic energy to shatter laws, directly ripping apart a stretch of the star river ahead.

The once brilliant star system, under that terrifying corrosive force, couldn't even utter a cry before instantly turning to dust.

Sun Wukong hovered in the void, a bead of cold sweat forming on his brow.

The Golden Cudgel in his hand trembled slightly, emitting a low hum—it was the cudgel feeling fear.

He slowly raised his head, gazing at the horrific stitched-together monster.

That thing, indeed, was not simple.

Inside lay not only Hongjun's karma, but also a destructive aura from the deep chaos he had never seen before.

Had Master not shouted a warning just then, that blow would have landed true—even as the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, he'd likely have been flayed.

"Hey, you dodged?"

"Too bad—this flavor, you must be dying to try it."

Countless human faces on the monster opened their mouths at once, voices overlapping like myriad demons wailing.

Its pair of cloudy eyes locked onto Sun Wukong, as if eyeing a long-coveted prey.

Sun Wukong brushed away the stellar dust on his face, and the hostility in his eyes only intensified.

He hoisted the Golden Cudgel onto his shoulder, the corner of his mouth curling into a feral arc.

"Want to eat me?"

"You rotten heap of meat—aren't you afraid of breaking your teeth?"

"Since you dare to strike Old Monkey, today you'll stay here as fertilizer!"

Before his words faded, Sun Wukong erupted upward.

He held back no probing moves; his opening strike was full power.

Golden light surged like a bursting flood, instantly engulfing the entire ruined battlefield.

His form turned into a golden bolt of lightning, slamming hard into the stitched monster.

The Golden Cudgel, bearing the full might of the Equal Heaven Path, came crashing down!

Boom—

This strike was not merely a release of power.

It also transmuted all the rage in Sun Wukong's heart into substantive destruction.

The monster's defense, before the Golden Cudgel, was as fragile as tissue paper.

As the golden staff fell, the iron chain snapped.

Vast chunks of flesh mixed with purple death-energy exploded in the air.

Yet the monster seemed to feel no pain.

Instead, it emitted an even more piercing cackle; the torn flesh writhed in the air, rapidly regrowing and fusing.

"Useless..."

"Here, nothing can harm me."

"The more you resist, the more excited I become."

The monster's voice grew twisted and mad.

Its thousands of arms waved simultaneously, rending the void with black fissures,

countless twisted rule-blades protruded from the gaps, blocking all of Sun Wukong's retreat.

This was a pure attack, existing solely for destruction.

It was stripping away the "existence" around Sun Wukong.

Whatever space the blades sliced—matter, energy, even the concept of time—began to be erased.

This was Hongjun's means of cleansing the gate; now the monster wielded it, its power astonishingly great.

Sun Wukong furrowed his brows.

He felt his power being incessantly gnawed by this rule.

His Equal Heaven Path, facing this unreasonable causal erasure, even showed a hint of sluggishness.

Is this the power of the Fixed Number?

Even if he smashed it, that detestable logic still lingered!

Sun Wukong snorted coldly.

Crimson light blazed in his eyes; his Fiery Golden Eyes seemed ready to spit fire.

"You want to play rules with Old Monkey?"

"Then today I'll smash your rules!"

The nine Void Dao Seeds within him erupted fully at this moment!

He no longer defended or dodged.

Instead, he poured all his Equal Heaven will into the Golden Cudgel.

The golden staff's shadow danced wildly in the void, pulling out one heart‑pounding trajectory after another.

Each strike contained the power to break every shackle!

Boom boom boom boom—!

The continuous collision sounds were like furious thunder exploding.

Those rule‑blades, under his frenzied attack, actually began to crumble inch by inch!

Even the surrounding star system that kept shattering was, under this round of his powerful output, actually frozen solid in place!

This was no longer simple melee combat.

This was a collision of two utterly different Daos, the most primal and brutal kind!

……

At the far end of the distant Star Sea lay the Zi Xiao Gong.

Hongjun the Dao Ancestor was staring fixedly at the screen.

His usual eternally unchanging old face was now twisted beyond recognition by anger.

He never imagined that Sun Wukong could be this ferocious!

The monster he had unleashed was an ultimate weapon forged from the Zi Xiao Gong's deepest reserves, fused with the grudges of countless ages.

But now?

Yet in front of that monkey, he was being beaten down!

"Trash!"

"All a bunch of trash!"

Hongjun swept his sleeve, and the jade table inside the Zi Xiao Gong instantly turned to ash.

A flicker of hysterical madness flashed in his eyes.

"Since this monkey loves destruction so much……"

"Since these rules can no longer bind him……"

"Then this game should end!"

He rose abruptly, and strange black patterns began to appear around his body.

That was him burning his own Heavenly Dao primordial source!

As the lord of Heavenly Dao of this universe, he ought not to do this.

But now he doesn't care.

What he wants to do is not to repair the game board, but to overturn the whole board and bury the pieces together!

"Issue the order!"

Hongjun's voice pierced the endless void, exploding directly in the minds of all remaining Heavenly Dao emissaries.

That voice was no longer cold, but carried a deathly silence that would destroy everything.

"Activate the 'Apocalypse Plan'."

"Revoke all Heavenly Dao authority, and reduce the foundations of this Star Sea to zero!"

"I will make all the myriad realms return utterly to deathly silence!"

As soon as he spoke, the very laws of heaven and earth across the entire Star Sea underwent an unprecedented upheaval.

In the Star Sea, the living beings that had still been resisting suddenly felt a despair rising from their very souls.

Because they discovered that the air they relied on to live, their spiritual power, and even the memories of their existence, were beginning to dissipate at breakneck speed.

The starry sky was collapsing.

Countless worlds vanished silently, as if erased by an eraser, into the void.

The entire multiverse began to collapse!

This was not a fight against Sun Wukong; it was a world‑ending catastrophe!

Sun Wukong stood amid the ruins, feeling the surrounding laws wildly crumble, and his face finally sank.

He felt it.

That frenzied malice coming from the direction of the Zi Xiao Gong.

That was Hongjun destroying himself, dragging the whole universe down with him as a burial sacrifice!

"Madman……"

"This old Daoist priest, what a madman!"

Yao's voice trembled in Sun Wukong's ear.

She watched the world crumbling around her, and waves of helplessness welled up in her heart.

She could feel that this rate of collapse could not be concealed even by her Illusory Dream Dao.

If Hongjun continues, this sea of chaos will truly become a dead land with nothing left!

Sun Wukong drew a deep breath, suppressing the irritation in his heart.

He lifted his head; his Fiery Golden Eyes seemed to pierce the void's barrier, locking onto the distant Zi Xiao Gong.

"Old dog."

"You think destroying this board means you'll win?"

"You've greatly underestimated this old monkey."

He slowly tightened his grip on the Golden Cudgel.

The golden light on his body gradually retracted, replaced by a purer, deeper power belonging to 【the Void】.

Since you want to destroy this world.

Then I'll reshape that destroyed world and show it to you!

Sun Wukong's feet were deeply rooted in the void.

Behind him, a huge phantom faintly appeared.

That phantom's face cannot be seen, yet it possesses a suffocating compassion and arrogance.

That is his Master's Dao!

That is the power capable of accommodating all failures, using it as a foundation to create countless possibilities!

"Yao."

"Stand firm."

"Next this strike, I, Old Monkey Sun, will pierce this heaven, change my way of life!"

After the words fell, Sun Wukong leapt up violently.

This leap, he is no longer charging towards that monster.

but towards the core of this collapsing multiverse.

He will use his Equal Heaven Path to re-inscribe the collapsed laws!

Boom!

The moment golden light exploded.

The entire Star Sea was frozen in an instant.

The sky-filling collapse scene, under that arrogant Equal Heaven power, miraculously stabilized.

But this hasn't ended.

Because in the deepest part of the Star Sea, under the gaze of that which is called 'Primordial',

A vaster will, belonging to the underlying layer of this universe, was actually awakened by Sun Wukong's action!

Something that transcends Hongjun, transcends Chaos, even transcends 'Order', is slowly opening its emotionless eyes.

It looks at Sun Wukong.

As if looking at a virus that shouldn't appear, preparing to launch the final cleansing.

This is the true disaster.

This is Hongjun that old dog, risking his life to open——the destruction program!

Sun Wukong looks at those slowly opening giant eyes, yet not only does he not retreat, but he madly laughs and raises the Golden Cudgel.

"Big guy!"

"You finally deigned to show yourself?"

"Come on!"

"Today, I, Old Monkey Sun, will see what filthy things are hidden above the Heavenly Dao!"

Just then, a nauseating bloody smell drifted out from behind those giant eyes.

An extremely indifferent voice, making all the strong present feel their scalps tingle instantly, echoed in this shattered Star Sea.

"Failed conception."

"Should be abolished."

That is...... the Zeroers' voice!

The monster previously encountered in the scrap disposal site, at this moment, has descended in its true form!

A battle concerning the life-and-death of the multiverse, at this moment, truly has opened its curtains!