Chapter 354: Indiscriminate Purification! Violent Iron Lump!

That icy mechanical tone, for the first time, carried a hint, as if from the Abyss, of madness and ferocity!

Activate……

Final contingency……

No difference……

Purification mode!!!

That tone, like tolling the bell of the apocalypse!

The mischievous smile on Sun Wukong's face froze instantly!

His heart gave a sudden 'thump'!

Not good!

That iron lump seemed to have found the simplest, crudest 'optimal solution' to resolve the logical conflict in its mind!

Since it can't tell who is the enemy to kill and who is the protected zone to guard……

Then damn it, just destroy everything in its sight!

Now it's gone off the rails!

Hum——

It gave Sun Wukong no time to react!

Centering on the berserk Zeroer, an indescribable gray energy ripple burst forth!

It was neither light nor shockwave!

It was like an eraser wiping away a scroll!

It was also like a stone tossed into a calm lake, sending out ripples of death!

That gray ripple, like a tsunami sweeping the universe, spread wildly in all directions!

Its speed was unimaginably fast!

Wherever it passed, the immense black debris floating in the void instantly lost all 'form'!

They didn't explode or shatter; they were directly 'formatted'!

From three-dimensional substance, they became an absolute two-dimensional void!

Even the violent, surging Chaos Turbulence at the edge of this wreckage was instantly smoothed by an invisible hand upon contact with the gray ripple!

All chaos and violence were instantly forced back to 'zero'!

Damn!

Sun Wukong's face changed instantly!

This iron lump, when it goes berserk, is ten thousand times harder to deal with than its previous rule‑following form!

He hesitated not, grabbing Yao's waist, a flash of golden light beneath his feet, and shot backward like a teleport!

At the same time!

The gray‑white iron staff in his hand let out an angry dragon's roar!

He swung it back without looking, and instantly layer upon layer of brilliant golden barriers, forged from the Source Power of the Way of the Equal Heaven, rose behind him!

In an attempt to block the spread of that gray ripple!

However!

What happened next made Sun Wukong's blood‑red pupils shrink to the most dangerous pinpoints!

That seemingly indestructible golden barrier was as fragile as foam in sunlight before the gray ripple!

Sizzle——

There was no violent collision!

Nor any burst of energy!

The gray ripple merely brushed lightly over the golden barrier!

Then the barrier, imbued with Sun Wukong's unyielding will, vanished outright from his perception!

As if it had never existed!

What?!

A tremendous wave surged in Sun Wukong's heart!

This power……

This power carried a hint of the deeply familiar, loathsome quality of 'Negation'!

He hastily glanced at his arm, where the gray rust spot had ceased spreading!

Exactly the same!

The power within that gray ripple shared the exact same source as that rust spot and the emissary of Absolute Malice!

Sun Wukong understood it instantly!

After the Zeroer was corrupted, though its mind was completely shattered, its power became stronger and stranger than before!

Its attack was no longer merely the 'Formatting' authority of the Heavenly Dao's collective consciousness!

But it was mixed with the power of 'Negation' from Absolute Malice!

These two powers strangely fused together!

Forming a terrifying weapon specifically designed to counter his kind of Dao, which embodies 'variables' and 'existence'!

Damn it!

Sun Wukong cursed low, only able to keep retreating backward with Yao!

That gray ripple clung like a shadow, its speed unabated, continually squeezing their living space!

He simply could not approach that wreckage by a single step!

A trace of ruthlessness flashed in Sun Wukong's eyes!

If head-on won't work, then go around!

His figure suddenly bent, turning into a golden stream of light, trying to bypass the Zeroers and charge straight into the depths of the ruins from another direction!

However!

At the moment he moved!

The Zeroers, which should have been at the center of the ripples, their colossal figure towering ten thousand zhang high,

actually, like an instantaneous shift, without any sign, appeared right in front of him!

It just stood there, silently blocking Sun Wukong's inevitable path!

Its millions of cannons once again glowed with scarlet light!

"Get out of the way!"

Sun Wukong roared angrily and smashed his staff forward!

The Zeroers did not dodge or evade, throwing a punch just as fierce!

Boom——!

The violent forces collided, causing the entire spacetime to shudder violently!

Sun Wukong's figure was forcibly pushed back!

The Zeroers merely swayed, then again released that damned gray ripple centered on itself!

Sun Wukong tried again!

From above!

From below!

From any angle he could think of, he attempted to break through!

But each time!

That mad Zeroers' figure always appeared like a ghost, precisely and instantly teleporting to his front, firmly blocking his way!

The battle fell into a complete stalemate!

Sun Wukong could not break through by force!

He simply could not go around it!

He was completely blocked outside by that mad 'gatekeeper'!

"Damn it! Damn it!"

Sun Wukong's heart burned with anxiety like a raging fire!

He turned his head and glanced at the depths of the ruins, constantly being 'cleansed' by the gray ripples.

He could sense his master's Dao Heart aura still present, yet it was being slowly worn away!

Every minute spent here,

the master's Dao Heart faces an extra point of danger of being completely worn away!

He can't wait any longer!

Absolutely, he cannot wait any longer!

"Iron lump……"

Sun Wukong's blood-red eyes stared fixedly at the blocking Zeroers, his voice ice-cold, as if drifting up from the Nine Nether Hell!

"This is you forcing me!"

His aura began to rise wildly in a desperate manner!

A frantic will, unwilling to spare any cost, even burning his own Dao Fruit, erupted explosively within him!

Since reasoning won't work!

Since going around is impossible!

Then I, old man, will meet you head‑on today!

Let's see whose is harder—your 'purification' or my staff!

However!

Just as Sun Wukong prepared to break through at all costs!

A soft yet resolutely cool little hand suddenly grabbed his wrist!

Sun Wukong froze.

He turned his head and saw a pale yet resolutely beautiful face.

Yao, who had somehow come out from behind him,

Her dream‑like beautiful eyes gazed quietly at him.

In that gaze there was no fear, no retreat.

Only endless pity and trust.

She looked at Sun Wukong, her bright eyes slightly curved like a pair of lovely crescent moons.

Then she spoke in a voice so gentle it seemed afraid to disturb this deathly silence, yet perfectly clear.

"Great Sage."

"Let me come."