Chapter 346: The shattered prison, the fading stars!

No sound.

No light.

No earth-shattering explosion.

When Sun Wukong's ultimate staff, which fused his lifetime Dao Fruit, came crashing down,

The entire multiverse, all timelines, all causality, all laws,

at that instant, a rift of indescribable, incomprehensible "Nothing" appeared!

It was as if a precision instrument running at high speed had its power forcibly pulled out.

Everything came to a halt.

Immediately after,

the living prison formed from the Blue Star Federation civilization's "Heart-Dead," the colossal statue imprisoning Bodhi's Dao Heart,

starting from its most fundamental concept of existence, it was silently and completely erased!

It was not shattered.

nor collapsed.

but vanished.

As if it had never existed in this universe at all.

The billions of "Living Dead" trapped in eternal stillness that made up the statue and chains, their bodies,

also, under that unreasonable, tyrannical force of "Negation," had no chance to turn to dust, but directly became nothing.

Clean and clean.

Nothing remained.

Boom!

The prison shattered!

That heart, bound by billions of ferocious chains for endless ages yet still beating strongly, was finally fully exposed in the cold void!

It emitted a faint yet incredibly tenacious halo of life.

That halo was the warmest, most dazzling light Sun Wukong had ever seen in his life!

"Master!"

In Sun Wukong's eyes, boundless joy erupted instantly!

He succeeded!

He really smashed that damned prison!

His heart, which had almost burst from regret and anger, was now filled with immense joy and excitement!

Without thinking, he reached out, like a child who finally found the way home, stumbling toward the heart slowly descending, he lunged forward!

He wanted to catch him!

He wanted to catch it, his only kin in this world!

However!

Just as his fingertips were about to touch that warm halo,

an anomaly suddenly arose!

Those black chains that should have been erased along with the prison but still clung tightly to the heart jerked backward!

They hadn't broken at all!

This force was so sudden, so malicious!

"You think you can leave?!"

Sun Wukong's eyes nearly burst!

He watched helplessly as those damned chains dragged his master's Dao Heart toward a suddenly torn rift leading to unknown depths, vanishing into it like lightning!

Beyond that rift lay a darkness deeper and more terrifying than absolute nothingness!

"Leave something for Old Monkey!!"

Sun Wukong let out a heart-rending roar, madly charging toward the rift about to close!

He cannot!

He absolutely cannot watch his master disappear before his eyes again!

But!

Just as he was about to rush into the rift,

a pure, extreme, ice-cold force of "Negation," like the strongest wall, slammed brutally onto his divine soul!

Get lost!

This force seemed to be saying to him,

You don't belong here!

Your very existence is an error!

Pfft!

Sun Wukong's divine soul, as if struck by an invisible giant hammer, was sent flying backward in a sorry state!

He could only watch helplessly, desperately, as the faintly glowing heart drifted farther and farther away from him!

About to be completely devoured by that endless darkness!

"No——!"

Just as Sun Wukong's divine soul was about to be utterly corroded and eroded by that "Negation" force!

A gentle, dream-like radiant power timely enveloped him.

It's Yao!

She used her own Illusory Dream Great Dao that heeds no Principle, forcibly opening an illusory barrier between Sun Wukong and that Negation force!

"Wukong!"

Yao's voice, filled with unprecedented fear and trembling!

"What lies beyond that rift…… what lies beyond that…… is ten thousand times more terrifying than anything I've ever seen in my dreams!"

Just a distant glance made her feel her Illusory Dream Great Dao was about to be directly negated by that pure malice!

That is not a place any living being can set foot on!

That is…… the grave of all things!

Sun Wukong couldn't hear anything!

His eyes bloodshot, he stared fixedly, fixedly, at his Master's heart about to vanish into darkness!

Despair, like an icy tide, completely engulfed him.

And just as his Master's Dao Heart was about to be completely dragged into darkness, the final moment!

It, as if using all its strength.

Suddenly, violently, it throbbed once!

Buzz——!

An extremely faint yet intimately familiar gentle thought, carrying the unique aura of Bodhi Patriarch, spanned the temporal-spatial barrier and pierced that terrifying Negation force.

With uncanny precision, it transmitted into Sun Wukong's mind!

That was not any language.

Nor was it any image.

That was a kind of feeling.

A feeling that cannot be described in words, cannot be caught by divine sense, the purest feeling!

That was a kind of…… feeling of absolute stillness before the birth of the Universe, before the emergence of all things, when time and space were not yet formed.

The beginning of all things, the first cause.

Primordial singularity!

The next second.

That pitch-black rift closed completely.

The starry sky returned to Deathly Silence.

It was as if nothing had ever happened.

"Pff——"

Sun Wukong could no longer hold back, violently spitting out a mouthful of gleaming Dao Heart essence-blood!

Defeated.

He exerted all his strength, unleashing his strongest and most resolute strike ever.

He shattered the Prison.

But…… he failed to rescue his Master!

Instead, it let the hidden scoundrel, clutching his Master's heart, retreat to a deeper, darker, unreachable lair!

Ultimate fury!

Ultimate helplessness!

Ultimate humiliation!

Like billions of steel needles, viciously piercing every inch of his Divine Soul!

He lost.

He lost utterly, crushed completely.

"Wukong……"

Yao looked at his lost and devastated state, her heart aching beyond words, wanting to step forward to comfort him, yet not knowing what to say.

Sun Wukong slowly raised his hand.

He wiped away the golden blood trace at the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand.

On his face, the previous frenzy was gone.

Nor was there any despair at this moment.

That raging fury also receded like a tide, vanishing without a trace.

In its place came.

It was a bone-chilling calm.

And a killing intent so icy it could freeze this entire Universe!

He turned his head, looking at Yao, her face full of worry; in his blood-red eyes, it was as if two volcanoes about to erupt were silently burning.

He spoke each word clearly, his voice hoarse:

"He can't escape!"

Sun Wukong's mouth curled into a ferocious, bloodthirsty arc.

"Master, you gave this old monkey a marker."

"Even if I have to turn this entire Universe inside out!"

"This old monkey……"

"I will surely drag him out alive from that dog hole!"