Chapter 327: A Call for Help in the Dream

On the ruins of Zi Xiao Gong, deathly silence reigned.

Sun Wukong's figure was like a petrified statue, motionless.

His gaze, fixed firmly, was nailed onto that mass, wrapped around the Tathagata's remnant soul, the black cocoon.

That cocoon was, in a way, at a speed visible to the naked eye, slowly throbbing.

Each throb emitted a stream that made Sun Wukong's divine soul feel a stabbing pain, icy, absolute nothing.

Kill!

A thought, like a volcano suppressed for hundreds of millions of years, exploded in his mind with a boom!

Just one strike!

Just strike down with this one!

Then I could smash that damned old bald donkey, together with that nauseating, repulsive aura on him, to annihilate body and soul, leaving not a trace.

The Golden Cudgel, in his palm, emitted a blood-thirsty hum.

However.

But Sun Wukong's arm, about to lift, froze stiff in Mid-Air.

In his mind appeared the line left by his Master, written in blood, bearing endless fatigue and despair.

"I have already seen it."

"I……lost."

Lost.

Even the methods of his Master, who could move heaven and earth, were defeated.

Even if I strike down and shatter this Tathagata, this neither-human-nor-ghost thing, what good would it do?

This "Absolute Malice" neither increases nor decreases, neither born nor perishes.

Smashing one Tathagata, it will only go seek the next, Zhang comes, Wang comes.

Basically, it cannot solve the problem.

Stirring the grass alarms the snake.

It might even startle the true terror behind it!

The monstrous killing intent in Sun Wukong's eyes receded like a tide.

Taking its place was an icy, extreme calculation.

He wants to see.

He wants to see it with his own eyes.

This thing, attached to the body of that failed Tathagata, what exactly does it intend to do!

What exactly is its purpose!

Sun Wukong's figure retreated silently and without a trace.

Like a ghost, it merged into this fragment of the ruined remains.

Yet his heart sank little by little.

Heavier than when he was once pressed under Wǔxíng Shān.

He raised his arm, looking at that patch, like a bone-eating maggot, the gray rust stain.

The Source Power of the Way of the Equal Heaven flowing through this place would be mercilessly siphoned away bit by bit.

This proves it.

His Dao, the force he prided himself on, that defied heaven and earth.

Before this ghostly thing, not only does he gain no advantage.

Moreover, it might even be corroded in return!

Head-on confrontation is a dead end.

Must find a new method.

A method that can bypass this damned "Negation" rule!

A method that, without directly contacting it, can still affect it!

In his mind, he frantically pondered.

What thing is unreasonable?

What thing does not follow the rules?

What thing, even blurs the boundary between existence and non-existence?

Suddenly!

A graceful figure flashed through his mind!

Those eyes, like dreamlike starlight, clear.

Yao!

Sun Wukong's eyes lit up sharply!

That's it!

Yao's Way of the Illusory Dream!

It is a way not based on reality, not following logic, purely constructed from "thought" and illusion!

In reality, "Absolute Malice" can negate everything.

But in a dream!

In Yao's dream!

There, the sky, the earth, the wind, the rain!

All the rules are up to her to decide!

Perhaps

Perhaps, this is the only way to break the deadlock!

Sun Wukong no longer had the slightest hesitation!

He suddenly tore open the space before him!

He stepped inside!

……

Outside the Dream Ark.

Yao, with a worried expression, gazed at the patch of the Blue Star Federation ruins that Sun Wukong had temporarily sealed with the Order Divine Chain.

She could feel that the despair-inducing Deathly Silence aura had not dissipated.

It was like a black hole.

It was slowly and firmly devouring the seal that Sun Wukong had laid.

Just then.

The space around her suddenly twisted.

Sun Wukong's figure stepped out from within!

"Wukong!"

Yao hurried forward, but when she saw Sun Wukong's face, her heart leapt to her throat!

"Your complexion..."

Sun Wukong waved his hand, his expression unprecedentedly solemn.

He had no nonsense.

He directly conveyed what he had seen and heard in the Zi Xiao Gong ruins, as well as his discovery about "Absolute Malice" in the Heart's Study.

Transforming into a strand of the purest divine thought, it entered Yao's mind.

In an instant!

Yao's body suddenly shuddered violently!

That face, already slightly pale from worry.

At this moment, with a "swish", all color drained from her face!

Turning deathly pale as paper!

"Original Error, the reversal of all things..."

"Negation...... the meaning of everything..."

Yao's red lips unconsciously repeated these few words.

Those eyes, originally as bright as stars, lost all their luster in an instant!

Replacing them was a kind of emptiness and...... Deathly Silence, like the Blue Star Federation.

An immense fear as faith utterly collapsed!

Sun Wukong looked at her like that, his heart aching.

But he knew, now was not the time for comfort!

He grabbed Yao's shoulders in one motion, his golden pupils like two blazing suns, staring fixedly at her!

"Yao! Look at me!"

He shouted in a low voice!

"I have found a method that might work!"

Yao's scattered gaze gradually focused.

She looked at Sun Wukong, his eyes burning with an unextinguishable fire, her lips trembling slightly.

"What...... method?"

Sun Wukong, word by word, laid out his plan in full!

"I want you to use your Illusory Dream Path!"

"To take that Blue Star Federation, completely corrupted by 'Absolute Malice'!"

"Drag the whole thing into your dream!"

Boom!

These words were like a bolt of heavenly thunder from the Nine Heavens, striking hard into Yao's mind!

She was completely stunned by Sun Wukong's crazy, beyond crazy idea!

She suddenly broke free from Sun Wukong's hand, stepping back repeatedly, looking at him with the eyes of someone viewing a madman!

"You...... you're crazy?!"

Yao's voice changed tone, carrying a hint of undisguised sharpness and terror!

You want to drag that... that polluted world into my dream?

That thing can even corrode your Way of the Equal Heaven!

How could my Dream Realm possibly withstand it!

She pointed at the grey rust spot on Sun Wukong's arm that emitted an ominous aura and screamed hysterically!

Once it enters my dream, my Path and my Divine Soul will be instantly devoured, leaving not even a trace!

By then, we will truly have no hope left!

Exactly!

Sun Wukong, not only, did not refute.

Instead, his eyes blazing, he stepped forward!

That domineering, irrational aura rose again from his body!

"In reality, if we touch it even a little, we'll be corroded!"

"Because the 'rules' of reality are being rewritten by it, bit by bit!"

"But in your dream!"

Sun Wukong's voice suddenly rose, like a great bell and loud lute, shaking Yao's eardrums with a buzzing!

"The rules are up to you to set!"

"Life or death, real or illusion, right or wrong!"

"It all depends on a single thought of yours!"

"On your home turf, its set of 'negation' rules won't work!"

"We can, in the dream, find and awaken their true method!"

"Even, we can reverse it, analyze it, study it, and find its true weakness!"

"And we don't have to worry about being infected by it!"

Sun Wukong stared fixedly at Yao's eyes.

In that gaze, there was no coercion, no demand.

Only a weighty, unreserved... trust!

He will stake this only breakthrough hope.

Stake him, stake the countless worlds behind him that have just been reborn, all their future.

All of it, bet on her!

Yao, locking eyes with him.

She saw in his eyes that quality, sufficient to bear the whole world on his shoulders, the weight and resolve.

She fell silent.

She slowly turned around.

Her gaze swept over what was behind her.

That vessel, carrying tens of thousands of civilization's sparks, the 'Dream Ark'.

In those worlds, some are erupting with unprecedented technological waves.

Some are composing vast, epic chapters.

Some have just rebuilt homes from the ruins of destruction, children playing freely on the grass...

Freedom.

Rebirth.

Hope.

These are things they fought desperately to win back.

Are we really going to just watch all this be dragged bit by bit back into the abyss of deathly silence by that cold 'Absolute Malice'?

No.

Absolutely not!

Yao, slowly turned her head back.

In her beautiful eyes, all fear and hesitation have already vanished.

Only remains a kind of... resolve, like Sun Wukong's!

She looked at Sun Wukong.

Looking at this monkey that forever stands in front of her.

She gritted her teeth!

She nodded heavily!

"Good!"

"I'll give it a try!"