Chapter 341: The Most Dangerous Place

Sun Wukong's Original Spirit sank once again into the "Heart Study".

He needed to calm down.

He needed to calm down completely.

A warning from the riffraff outside the "Seal", 【suggest……formatting】,

Like a poisoned steel needle, it was driven deep into his Divine Soul, making him so irritable he wanted to smash the whole Universe!

He had the power to overturn the board, but couldn't find where the player was hiding.

This frustration made him suffer a hundred million times more than when he was pressed under Wǔxíng Shān for five hundred years!

He paced irritably back and forth in the Study, the wooden floor beneath his feet creaking "creak" as if it might collapse at any moment.

We must find him!

We must drag him out of that hiding hole!

Sun Wukong forced himself to stay calm, frantically sorting through all the clues in his mind.

Master's warning left in the tea, the Dao Rhythm said: "Killing the apostles is useless; its root lies outside the 'Seal'."

Yao saw in the deepest part of the Dream Realm a terrifying vision: a towering giant shadow bound tightly by countless black chains.

And the other ends of those chains were connected to the Ultimate Seal left by Master, guarding the newborn Universe.

And that high-and-mighty riffraff left behind those words: "Variables……have been contaminated."

He was referring to the gray "rust spot" on his arm that kept expanding.

All the arrows and clues ultimately pointed to the same thing.

That mysterious thing—the "Seal"!

Damn it, where the hell is the 'Seal'?!

What is it?

Is it a magical treasure?

Or a formation?

Or is it a prison that Master hid away, imprisoning the ultimate secret of the Universe?

Sun Wukong's Fiery Golden Eyes flashed with golden light, his divine thought stirring up a storm in his Sea of Consciousness.

The ruins of Purple Azure Palace? Impossible—he had already turned that place upside down.

The Source of Ten Thousand Paths? That cunning riffraff, how could he possibly hide his lair in such an obvious spot?

He went through every possible place in his mind, then rejected them all one by one.

That riffraff was more devious than Hongjun, more troublesome than Silence.

Its lair must be in a place that nobody expected, that everybody overlooked, the most inconspicuous corner!

The most unexpected place……

The most inconspicuous……

Sun Wukong's brows were knotted into a dead knot.

His gaze irritably swept over the rows of bookshelves in the Study.

On them were the failed universe models that Master had painstakingly deduced over billions of years, filling an entire bookshelf.

Sword Dao Universe, Painting Dao Universe, Logic Universe, Magic Universe……

Each bamboo slip represented a civilization that once shone brightly but ultimately headed for destruction.

Defective products.

All of them were defective products.

Besides proving Master's loneliness and how hard-won his own existence was, what use are they?

Sun Wukong's gaze swept over each bamboo slip, carrying a hint of impatience he himself didn't even notice.

Suddenly.

His steps stopped abruptly without warning.

His eyes, burning with golden flames, Suǒdìng firmly—Suǒdìng firmly—onto a certain corner of the bookshelf.

There lay quietly a bamboo slip.

That bamboo slip was no different from the others.

What was recorded on it, however, was a name etched deep into his heart.

【Blue Star Federation】!

It was the first world corrupted by "Absolute Malice", before his eyes shifting from a "gray civilization" full of infinite possibilities to a land of "Deathly Silence" graves.

It was the failed experiment he personally sealed away layer by layer using Hongjun's "Order" divine chains, isolating it from the world.

Gazing at that bamboo slip, Sun Wukong's breath came to a complete halt at that moment.

Past scenes, like the sharpest blades, viciously stabbed into his memory.

That world's stillness.

That world's emptiness.

In the very end, that world revealed to him, its creator, the ultimate "Negation".

He had always thought it was a tragedy deliberately crafted by enemies to strike at his Dao Heart.

He had always thought sealing that place was just sweeping trash into a bin—out of sight, out of mind.

But……

What if it wasn't……

A mad thought, like a black lightning bolt tearing through the eternal night, fiercely split his chaotic thoughts!

In an instant, every hair on his body stood on end!

A chill originating from the deepest part of the Línghún, mixed with unparalleled excitement, made his whole body tremble violently!

The most dangerous place is the safest place!

This saying is a principle understood by every ordinary mortal in the world!

That bastard!

That player hiding behind the scenes!

He polluted the Blue Star Federation, perhaps not merely to strike at himself!

Not just to destroy a 'variable' in his eyes!

Moreover, it was to……cover up!

Using a world's death and silence, using a Prison of 'order' personally forged by Sun Wukong himself, to conceal his true purpose!

He hid that damned 'lock' in the first crime scene he created!

Hidden beneath the ruins that everyone thought had ended, with the dust settled!

How ruthless!

What a darkness under the lamp!

What a scheme that toyed with Sun Wukong in the palm of its hand, a heaven-shaking conspiracy!

"Damn!"

The moment he understood all this, Sun Wukong could no longer suppress his inner fury!

His Original Spirit, like a golden nuclear bomb, exploded with a bang, bursting out of the 'Heart Study'!

The outside Star Sea.

Yao stood worriedly beside his fleshly body, suddenly feeling an unprecedented will, fierce as a star's explosion, surging back with a bang!

Sun Wukong violently opened his eyes!

In those golden eyes, there was no longer the previous bewilderment and irritability, only the madness and fervor of having found prey, about to launch a bloody, exhilarating hunt!

"Wukong?"

Yao was startled by the terrifying light in his eyes.

Sun Wukong, however, had no time to explain.

He sprang to his feet and grabbed Yao's wrist in one grip.

The force was so great it seemed to crush her bones.

The next second, he raised his other hand, fingers curled into claws, and fiercely tore at the void before him!

"Rrip!"

A huge, ferocious spatial rift was violently torn open by him in the most brutal way!

On the other side of the rift, it was no longer the brilliant Star Sea, but a region of stars bound by countless gray divine chains, exuding an aura of decay and Deathly Silence, a forgotten star region!

This is the Prison where the Blue Star Federation is held!

"Go!"

Sun Wukong turned his head, his blazing eyes fixed firmly on Yao.

His voice was hoarse, yet carried an undeniable resolve!

"We're returning to Blue Star!"

Yao was completely bewildered by his sudden action.

Return to Blue Star?

Return to the place that has been completely polluted by Absolute Malice, turned into a graveyard of the Universe?

What to do there?

Go to die?

However, when her gaze met Sun Wukong's eyes, which seemed able to burn through anything.

All her doubts and fears vanished in an instant.

She saw no recklessness or madness in those eyes.

She saw only an absolute confidence and resolve that dispelled all mist and pierced the ultimate truth!

She knew, he had found it!

He had found the one point that could overturn the whole board, the sole breakthrough!

"Good!"

Yao didn't ask another word.

She nodded heavily, then gripped Sun Wukong's scorching palm with her other hand.

Sun Wukong grinned, revealing a mouthful of stark white teeth.

Sun Wukong hesitated no longer, pulling Yao along, and in a single step stepped into the chaotic rift leading to death and conclusion!