Chapter 355

That voice was very soft.

Yet it was like a bolt, more powerful than that gray ripple, a thunderclap.

Viciously, it split onto Sun Wukong's heart!

His raging, heaven‑blazing inferno, ready to burn everything, at this moment, eerily, stalled for an instant.

Sun Wukong froze.

He slowly turned his head.

Those blood‑red eyes reflected an absolutely beautiful face.

Yao.

Her complexion was deathly pale, without a trace of blood, her body trembling slightly.

But her dream‑like, illusory beautiful eyes shone astonishingly bright!

Inside them, the previous fear and helplessness were gone.

In their place was a kind of resolve Sun Wukong had never seen before—decisive!

A resolve capable of burning up stars and destroying eternity!

"You…"

Sun Wukong was about to speak, telling him to retreat behind him.

Yao, however, gently shook her head; her gaze passed over Sun Wukong's shoulder and quietly fell upon that Zeroer, who was madly "purifying" everything.

She looked at that violent lump of iron and analyzed in a tone so calm it was almost cruel.

"Great Sage."

"Look at it."

"It has been corrupted by the power of 'Absolute Malice,' becoming stronger and more unreasonable."

"But its core, its underlying logic, remains Hongjun, that Cosmic Pan‑Consciousness that endowed it with…"

"【Order】."

Yao's voice was utterly clear.

"Its every attack, every defense, its very existence, is founded upon the 'real' laws of physics."

"It can format matter, erase energy, purify space."

"Because everything it does is based on the concept of 'existence'."

"It is the ultimate predator in the 'real' world!"

Sun Wukong listened, brows furrowed, still not grasping what Yao meant to say.

He already knew all of this!

Now the problem is, how do we destroy this iron lump that can't be smashed or bypassed!

Yao seemed to see through his anxiety.

She slowly turned her head; her eyes, burning with resolve, met Sun Wukong's blood‑red pupils.

Then, word by word, she uttered that crazy idea, clear as crystal, capable of overturning the battle!

"So…"

"As long as we become 'unreal'…"

"It… will not be able to see us!"

Upon saying that!

A boom exploded in Sun Wukong's mind!

He instantly understood Yao's idea!

Unreal!

Depart from the real world!

Enter a state, between existence and nothingness, that is dreamlike!

For a program of that iron lump that acknowledges only "real" physics…

A target that fundamentally does not exist in the "real" world—how can it lock on?

How can it attack?!

This is simply a genius idea!

Cutting off the firewood from under the pot!

From the root, render all the enemy's attacks completely ineffective!

However!

The next second!

Sun Wukong's eyes, which had just lit up, were instantly overtaken by endless fury!

"Not possible!"

He almost roared, bellowing those two words!

His voice, from extreme fury, became hoarse, even carrying a barely perceptible tremor!

"Absolutely not!"

Sun Wukong seized Yao's icy little hand in one grip, the force astonishing!

He stared fixedly at Yao, his blood‑red eyes filled with bloodshot veins, as if he wanted to devour her!

"What are you trying to do?! Do you want to burn the source of your Illusory Dream?!"

"Do you know how great the cost to you would be!"

"Your source has already been damaged! When you saved those worlds, you already injured the foundation!"

You, right now, if you dare to use the Source Power again, you will die! You will be completely annihilated! Do you understand?

He was like a provoked, wounded wild beast, roaring madly!

He could not accept it!

Absolutely unable to accept it!

He would rather die here, being thoroughly formatted by that iron lump!

He would absolutely not allow Yao to suffer even the slightest harm for his sake!

That was his final, bottom‑line pride as the Great Sage Equal to Heaven!

Faced with Sun Wukong's heavens‑overflowing fury, Yao showed not a trace of fear.

She simply, quietly, watched him.

Gazing at this man who stood tall and unbending, who at this moment, out of concern for himself, revealed that clumsy, overbearing concern.

The corner of her mouth slowly curved into an absolutely beautiful, heart‑moving smile.

That smile was like the gentlest spring breeze, instantly soothing all of Sun Wukong's irritability and fury.

She gently broke free of Sun Wukong's hand, then reached out with both hands to cradle his face, which was etched with slaughter and arrogance.

"Great Sage……"

She said softly.

"You forgot……"

"My Dao is the Illusory Dream."

Her voice carried a kind of magic that put people at ease.

"Dreams are the extension of thoughts."

"As long as there is still one person in this world who remembers me,"

"As long as your heart still holds even a trace of my shadow……"

"As long as even a thread of thought remains……"

"Then the dream will never be extinguished."

"And I will never truly die."

She smiled, cutting off all of Sun Wukong's words he wanted to rebut.

In that smile lay endless tenderness, endless longing.

But deep within that smile was a kind of steel‑like resolve that even Sun Wukong could not shake!

She had already made her decision!

For him.

She was willing to burn away everything she had!

"Yao……"

Sun Wukong looked at her, his throat dry, unable to utter a single word.

His monkey heart, which feared neither heaven nor earth and was unyielding through the ages, was at this moment ruthlessly gripped by an emotion called 'heartache'.

However, Yao was no longer prepared to give him any chance to oppose!

A flash of resolute light passed through her eyes!

Her hands, lightning‑fast, formed before her chest an incredibly complex yet supremely sacred seal!

This time!

She no longer went on to weave anything like a dream‑net that would cover the universe!

Nor did she go on to create anything like an ark to safeguard civilization!

She poured all of her power, all of her will, all of her……love!

All of it, wildly contracting inward!

Contracted to the extreme!

Hum——!

A cluster, radiating a seven‑colored halo, like the purest glazed glass, crystal clear and translucent, the Dream Realm's Primordial Source!

From the center of her brow, it slowly emerged!

That halo of light was so pure, so beautiful.

It was the very foundation of Yao's Illusory Dream Dao!

It was her proof of existence in this world!

Yao gazed at that cluster of Primordial Source linked to her divine soul, and a deep reluctance flickered in her eyes.

But that reluctance appeared only for an instant.

It was immediately replaced by a deeper, more fervent resolve!

She lifted her head and gave Sun Wukong a deep look.

As if she wanted to engrave his likeness forever into the deepest part of her divine soul!

Then!

She let out a clear, ringing cry that echoed through the divine soul!

"Burn!"

One word!

Like the most ancient divine decree!

Boom——!

That cluster, representing the ultimate of the Illusory Dream Dao, a seven‑colored glazed Primordial Source, exploded with a thunderous roar at that soft cry!

It started burning!

There was no earth-shattering huge sound!

There was no world-destroying energy!

That clump of the original source simply burned quietly, releasing hundreds of millions of rays of brilliant, seven-colored rosy light!

A force that cannot be described in words, pure to the extreme, the power of thought!

In an instant, it erupted!

It did not attack anyone!

Nor did it defend against any attack!

It merely, gently yet overwhelmingly domineering, wrapped the figures of Sun Wukong and Yao completely!

At the moment when enveloped by that seven-colored rosy light, Sun Wukong felt that his body and his very existence were undergoing a change in an incomprehensible way!

His Dao body, indestructible through eons and vajra indestructible, seemed to be gradually becoming 'transparent'!

His power, capable of shaking the universe, seemed to be gradually being emptied!

He felt that he was breaking free from this 'real' world!

He was becoming an entity that existed only within thought, an illusory shadow!

And just then!

That Zeroer, which had been crazily 'erasing' the entire ruins in indiscriminate purification mode, its massive metallic body suddenly jerked!

In its core detection system!

Those two, representing extreme danger and the highest energy response, were glaring red dots!

At this moment!

Without any warning!

Strangely…

Disappeared!

Not destroyed!

Not formatted!

Nor was it teleported away!

They simply vanished from its detection panel, into thin air!

It seemed as if they…

It seemed as if they… had never existed!