Chapter 287: After Flipping the Table, the Coldest Revenge!

The Rift tears open, the Star Sea reappears!

A golden light, a light of Silent Extinction, almost simultaneously burst out brazenly from that constantly healing dimensional Rift!

Sun Wukong's figure, the instant he returned to reality, had already shifted into his peak combat stance!

His blood, every drop roared and burned!

That war‑will, suppressed for too long, pure to the extreme, erupted like a volcano that had accumulated billions of years!

"Hongjun!"

A wild roar shook the surrounding stars, making them tremble!

The tip of the Golden Cudgel had long Suǒdìng the figure ahead,

The Equal Heaven Dao power gathered on the staff's shaft almost crushed this void into collapse!

Talk about Dao?

Debate the sutras?

That's all bullshit!

Now, having flipped the table, we should use the most primal, also the most effective way, to decide who holds the truth!

Sun Wukong thought that what followed would be an endless, deathless ultimate blood war, fighting until the Universe's farthest wastelands turned to dust!

He is ready!

He longs for this battle!

However.

Hongjun's reaction, however, completely defied his expectations.

That former Heavenly Dao ruler simply floated silently in the cold Star Sea.

He did not turn back.

Nor did he emit any aura of combat.

He just stood there, like a solitary tombstone.

That face, once the embodiment of the Heavenly Dao, devoid of sorrow or joy, now held only two extreme emotions.

One is a pure madness, having lost everything, now without any restraint.

The other is a cold Deathly Silence, treating the entire Universe as a burial offering.

He didn't even glance at Sun Wukong.

As if this monkey, ready at any moment to crush him into mush, was, in his eyes, no different from a star or a speck of dust.

This total disregard intensified the murderous aura on Sun Wukong's brow.

Yet an extremely ominous premonition inexplicably leapt from the deepest part of his heart!

Something's off!

What is this old thing trying to do?!

The instant Sun Wukong's vigilance peaked,

Hongjun moved.

He slowly spread his arms.

That gesture didn't seem aimed at unleashing any earth‑shattering divine skill.

It resembled… embracing this vast, boundless, cold Multiverse.

Then,

A tone devoid of any emotion, yet imbued with supreme law's authority, clearly issued from his mouth.

The voice was not loud, yet the moment it was spoken, through some incomprehensible channel,

it spread to every corner of the Star Sea, imprinting upon the foundational laws of every world!

"Order..."

"Upright!"

This is not an attack!

This is not a divine skill!

This damn thing is a command!

It is a system command, a compulsory execution order that he, once the Heavenly Dao ruler, issued to the Universe's underlying operating system!

The instant the command was issued,

the ominous premonition in Sun Wukong's mind exploded!

He jerked his head up, Fiery Golden Eyes scanning into the depths of the Star Sea!

The next second!

He saw a scene that would be unforgettable for his life and ignite his fury to the peak!

In that distant star region, once brimming with Vitality and vigor,

One after another, the universes he once regarded as full of infinite "variables" and possibilities… fell into disaster!

Sun Wukong even still had a recollection of one of those worlds.

The Living Beings there had just learned how to harness the power of stars to construct miraculous creations spanning the Star System,

their civilization was in its most dazzling ascendant phase!

But at this moment!

An invisible, irresistible, extremely cold power descended!

That universe's timeline was forcibly shifted!

It fast‑forwarded at a speed of billions, even trillions of times, in a mad rush!

That civilization, which moments ago was brimming with miracles, instantly reached its end.

The stars' energy was exhausted.

The great Creation, eroded by the passage of time, turned into cold wreckage.

The wise Living Beings, in fast‑forwarded time, reproduced, aged, and died generation after generation.

Their history, their culture, their loves and hatreds, all their "variables",

were compressed in this terrifying fast‑forward into a meaningless, fleeting slide!

No explosion!

No wail!

Not even a trace of pain!

That Universe was like a videotape whose fast‑forward button had been pressed.

From birth to prosperity, then decline, finally… silently, it returned to Heat Death.

It turned into a cold speck of… Universe dust that no one would care about.

One.

Ten.

Hundred.

Ten thousand!

Hundred million!

The entire Multiverse, all those that do not fit Hongjun's "Absolute Order" blueprint,

the universes full of "possibility", all at the same moment began this silent "self‑destruction"!

"No!!!"

Sun Wukong's eyes bulged as if about to split!

He understood!

Hongjun, that madman!

He flipped the table, but not to fight himself!

He intends to use this coldest, most ruthless method to take revenge!

To avenge the Cosmic Pan‑Consciousness that "betrayed" him!

To avenge the "variable" that caused him to lose everything!

"Stop, old Sun…!!!"

Sun Wukong let out a gut‑wrenching roar and lunged at the nearest newly‑born world being fast‑forwarded!

In that world, life had just been born.

In the azure ocean, the most primitive cells were dividing; they should have had billions of years to evolve and create their own "miracles"!

But now, their time left is less than an instant!

"Stop it, damn it!!!"

Sun Wukong drove the power of his Equal Heaven Dao to the extreme!

The Golden Cudgel crashed down with a boom!

That force, capable of shattering a vast world, did not strike the world itself,

but instead tried, in the most brutal way, to forcibly "freeze" that world's time flow!

However!

The cudgel fell, but hit nothing!

Sun Wukong's law‑shaking power was like striking air!

Like a punch into water!

He could not stop the execution of that "Upright" command!

It was not an energy attack; it was a law rooted in the deepest layer of the Universe!

Unless he could replace Hongjun and become the new "Order" itself, he could not interfere at all!

Helplessly watching.

He could only watch helplessly!

Watching that azure planet, its oceans dried up in an instant, continents drifted in an instant, then turned into desert in an instant!

Watching those newly‑born lives, before they could even perceive the world,

they, together with the whole world, were swept clean by the torrent of time, becoming void!

Powerless!

Unprecedented powerlessness!

This feeling, more stifling than being crushed by Wǔxíng Shān for five hundred years, made him feel suffocated! angry!

Sun Wukong's whole body trembled, not because of Fear Heart Demon, but because of the boundless, almost self‑consuming raging fury!

He slowly turned his head.

His blood‑red gaze, like two poisoned daggers, pierced steadfastly at the figure that always faced away from him.

Hongjun.

He no longer looked at the worlds he had erased with his own hand.

He simply stood quietly, feeling the almost explosive anger emanating from Sun Wukong.

Then, he slowly turned away.

On that Deathly Silence face, finally, a twisted sense of revenge flickered!

He looked at Sun Wukong with a gaze like an ant frantically struggling in a trap.

The meaning in that gaze could not be clearer.

You wanted variables, didn't you?

You think the process of life is more important than the result, don't you?

Fine.

I will make all "variables" disappear from the root!

I will reduce all "processes" to meaningless moments!

This is your "Freedom"!

This is the answer you wanted!