Chapter 300: King vs King! Annihilate the Chess Player!

The gray storm that was sweeping across the entire multiverse, carrying out "purification" on countless worlds, suddenly came to a complete halt.

It just came to a standstill in the void, without any warning.

Like a doomsday scroll paused mid‑frame, it was eerily beyond strange.

"What's going on?"

Yao's heart clenched tight; watching the destructive flood that had stopped advancing, she felt no relief—only a deeper, more ominous foreboding.

Hongjun……has he given up?

Impossible!

For a being as obsessive as him, how could he possibly abandon his own Dao so easily!

Just as she stood there doubtful and uneasy, an even more terrifying scene unfolded.

Whoosh—!

The stationary gray storms, the endless power of 【Order】, like an army that had received the supreme command, actually began to reverse direction!

No longer expanding outward, they instead rushed like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, frantically converging from every corner of the universe toward a single point, contracting and condensing!

The entire multiverse let out a groan of unbearable strain at that moment!

The light of countless galaxies was forcibly squeezed and dimmed by that contracting force!

It was as if the whole universe were being clenched in an invisible giant hand!

And that converging focal point, the ultimate destination toward which all forces were directed……

Was none other than Sun Wukong!

"Old Taoist, have you finally been driven to desperation……"

Sun Wukong not only showed no trace of tension, he pulled the Golden Cudgel from the ground and casually hoisted it onto his shoulder.

His Fiery Golden Eyes sharpened instantly in that moment!

He sensed an unprecedented, extreme danger!

But so what?

Hiding behind the scenes, scheming and exploiting loopholes in the law—that's what's truly frustrating!

Now Hongjun has finally torn off that disguise and wants to fight for real!

This is exactly to his liking!

Rumble—!

The whole universe trembled!

This was no longer a cold, emotionless erasure by law.

Yao could clearly sense that within that infinite contracting force lay an emotion!

An emotion she had never felt from Hongjun before—pure and blazing to the utmost!

Fury!

Venomous hatred!

And… a trace of madness driven to desperation!

"What… what is he going to do?"

Yao's voice trembled.

Sun Wukong grinned, baring his stark‑white teeth, and his very blood ignited, burning fiercely at that moment!

"He's figured it out."

"I can't kill all the 'viruses' I, Old Sun, have planted."

"Then… I'll just destroy this sole 'virus source'—me!"

Exactly!

This is Hongjun's final—and most insane—decision!

Chess player!

As long as the chess player dies, the pieces on the board, no matter how they jump about, will ultimately lose all meaning,

eventually falling into heat death, into the eternal silence he desires!

Hum—!

An unprecedented, terrifying pressure—enough to make the entire multiverse shudder—came crushing in on Sun Wukong from all directions!

Space collapsed inch by inch around him!

Time froze solid beneath his feet!

Every fundamental particle that makes up the world screamed under that pressure, as if it would at any moment be ground into primal nothingness!

On the ruins of the Zi Xiao Gong.

The figure of Hongjun, formed of pure law, began to undergo a violent transformation as it was infused with infinite power!

His illusory body rapidly solidified!

No longer a mere aggregation of law, he was now burning!

He was burning the 【Order】 Dao Fruit he had accumulated over countless eons!

He was burning the Primordial Source of his status as Lord of the Heavenly Dao!

He was transmuting everything he was into the purest, most primal, most irrational… power!

He would step onto the battlefield himself!

He would do so as an individual, sparing no cost, wielding absolute power,

to utterly erase Sun Wukong, the sole "chess player," from existence, causality, time—every level!

At that moment, Sun Wukong felt as if the entire universe had fixed its gaze on him!

That pressure, that malice, are billions of times more terrifying than any attack we have faced before!

Because this time, it is no longer the Heavenly Dao that seeks to erase a "variable".

Instead, Hongjun, as an individual driven to the brink and acting independently, will spare no cost to kill the one he despises most in his life!

Order, Fixed Number, Heavenly Dao…

These identities he once took pride in and were also his shackles have, at this moment, been completely abandoned by him!

He is no longer the lofty arbiter.

He will personally go down!

A cold, venomous message brimming with endless killing intent crossed time and space, ignored all defenses, and was directly imprinted onto Sun Wukong's Original Spirit!

"Monkey…"

That voice was no longer the previously flat, mechanical tone.

It now carried a hint of hoarseness, a hint of madness, a hint of… hysterical hatred!

"This Dao conflict…"

"You have no right to continue playing!"

"Now…"

"It is a private, endless, unending battle between you and me!"

"Ha ha… hahahaha!"

Hearing this personally charged declaration of war, Sun Wukong not only did not grow solemn, but looked to the heavens and burst into a wild laugh!

His laughter shook the universe, filled with boundless arrogance and exhilaration!

"Now that's more like it!"

He stamped his foot hard; golden flames surged skyward, forcing aside the terrifying pressure around him and forcibly carving out a domain of his own!

"Hiding behind as a shrinking turtle, what kind of Heavenly Dao ruler is that?"

"Now this is a bit interesting!"

He took the Golden Cudgel off his shoulder, twirled it into a staff flourish, and pointed it far toward the center where power gathered, toward the figure undergoing a frenzied metamorphosis.

"Enough talk!"

"A fight is the greatest respect one can give a warrior!"

"Come!"

Boom!!!

As if to answer Sun Wukong's provocation.

The endless power of Order finally completed its ultimate condensation!

All the gray light converged completely!

A brand‑new figure appeared atop the ruins of the Zi Xiao Gong, at the far end of Sun Wukong's sight.

It was an elder clad in a gray Dao robe, with an ancient, crude face, and eyes hollow as two black holes.

He looked unremarkable.

Yet the instant he appeared, the entire Multiverse froze.

All sounds, all light, all flowing laws all halted completely at that moment.

He is Hongjun.

A Hongjun who abandoned his Heavenly Dao identity, burned his own Dao Fruit, existing solely to destroy Sun Wukong!

Hongjun slowly lifted his eyelids.

Those hollow eyes, for the first time, in a true sense, directed all attention,

All the power, all the killing intent, were firmly Suǒdìng onto Sun Wukong alone!

King versus King!

At this moment, the entire Universe became the stage for the duel of the two of them!

There is no longer any dispute between "variables" and Fixed Numbers.

Only, you die! I live!

Hongjun's figure stepped out from the ruins of the Zi Xiao Gong.

That step crossed endless time and space.

In the next instant, he was already before Sun Wukong, no more than a hundred zhang away!

He looked at Sun Wukong, and on his eternally unchanged face, for the first time, a terribly rigid yet extremely ferocious curve appeared.

That was not a smile.

It was a cruel delight of a prey finally having nowhere to escape!

He slowly raised his hand; in his palm was the ultimate condensation of the Universe's Order power, a annihilating divine light capable of reducing everything to "nothing"!

A voice clearer and more venomous than any before squeezed out of his mouth, word by word.

"I…"

"Will personally take you…"

"and tear you apart!"