Chapter 356: Dream Ferrying, Bypassing Reality!

Sun Wukong felt as if, in an instant, he had lost all his weight.

He was no longer the one who could pierce the heavens with a staff and shatter the Milky Way with a kick—the Great Sage Equal to Heaven.

He had become a feather.

A speck of dust.

A shadow, about to be blown away by the wind, illusory and ephemeral.

His body was undergoing "becoming lighter."

His existence was undergoing "fading."

He seemed to have fallen into a warm ocean made of countless light, shadow, and color.

Here there was no up or down, no left or right, no time, no space.

There was only pure, warm, engrossing "dream."

This was Yao's Dao.

A gentle world that speaks no principle yet embraces all principles.

However!

When Sun Wukong lowered his gaze to what he held in his arms.

That warmth, enough to make him sink into it, was instantly replaced by bone‑chilling cold!

Yao in his arms had already become nearly translucent!

Like a exquisite ice sculpture about to melt in the sunlight!

He could even see, through her delicate form, the violent, chaotic spacetime turbulence behind him!

Her existence was vanishing at a visible, breakneck speed!

Burning the Primordial Source!

This is the price of burning the Primordial Source!

Using the "reality" of his own existence to exchange for a brief, "unreal" dream!

"Ahhhhhhh——!"

Sun Wukong's heart felt as if an invisible giant hand had clenched it tightly and then kneaded it wildly!

Pain!

It hurt so much he was almost driven mad!

He wanted to roar, to howl, to smash this heaven, this earth, this universe into utter ruin!

But he clenched his teeth so hard he dared not make a sound!

He was afraid!

He feared disturbing the silly girl in his arms who was burning herself out for him!

Sun Wukong's hands, rough and stained with endless slaughter, were now trembling slightly.

He carefully held Yao tighter in his embrace.

He feared that if he loosened his grip, she would vanish like a wisp of blue smoke!

Streams of pure, golden Source Power of the Way of the Equal Heaven surged wildly into Yao's body, as if heedless of his own life!

He wanted to use his own power to replenish the life she was losing!

He wanted to use his own Dao to stabilize her divine soul, which was on the verge of scattering!

Yet his power was like pouring into a bottomless abyss.

It could only barely slow her dissipation, but could not stop it at all!

At this moment, the fearless monkey Sun Wukong felt, for the first time, what it meant to be powerless!

What it meant to have a heart cut like by a knife!

Just then, through the seven‑colored halo of the Dream Realm, he looked outward.

The berserk Zeroers had completely descended into chaos!

In its core system, the two energy red dots that had once blazed like suns simply vanished into thin air!

Cannot be found!

Cannot be locked onto!

Cannot be attacked!

For a cold program that recognizes only "0" and "1", only "existence" and "non‑existence", this is a fundamental logical collapse!

"Scanning……Error!"

"Target……Lost!"

"Execution……Indiscriminate……Purification……"

The cold mechanical sound became intermittent, filled with irritation and confusion.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

That metal giant, tens of thousands of feet tall, was like a child throwing a tantrum over a missing toy.

On the spot, it wildly swung its fists, firing beam after beam of gray purification light capable of erasing stars!

Over and over, it scrubbed every inch of the space around it!

Trying to ferret out the "BUG" that had toyed with it!

Yet it was all in vain!

Sun Wukong, at this moment, simply held Yao, hovering silently before it!

The distance between them was even less than a hundred meters!

He could even clearly see each icy line on the Zeroers' metal hull!

But the Zeroers, however, paid him no heed!

It was as if he were merely a clump of air!

Because they are no longer on the same 'channel'.

Sun Wukong and Yao are now in a fissure dimension between reality and illusion!

A 'Dream Realm' that belongs solely to Yao!

Here, they are 'unreal'.

And all the Zeroers' attacks are effective only against the 'real'.

"Great Sage..."

At that moment, a voice, weak to the point of being almost inaudible, echoed in Sun Wukong's Divine Soul.

Sun Wukong's body shuddered, and he hastily lowered his head.

Only Yao, struggling, opened her eyes—those once beautiful eyes now dim and lusterless.

She gave Sun Wukong a weak smile.

That smile broke Sun Wukong's heart.

She raised her hand, now almost transparent, trembling, and pointed toward the front, to the ruins' core that the Zeroers guarded with a death grip.

"Quick..."

"I... I can't hold on... much longer..."

Each word seemed to have exhausted all of her strength.

Sun Wukong's eye sockets instantly turned red!

He nodded heavily, without uttering a word.

Because he feared that if he opened his mouth, the choking sorrow in his throat would erupt completely.

He hesitated no more!

He held in his arms the girl who had paved his way with her life.

Sun Wukong, moved!

He did not turn into golden light, nor did he rend space.

He simply walked step by step toward that Deathly Silence‑shrouded ruin ahead.

His steps were steady.

Each step felt as if he were treading upon the pulse of the Universe.

Thus, holding Yao, he walked slowly past the side of the raging, myriad‑zhang metal giant.

It was as if a mortal had passed through a colossal phantom that does not exist in this world.

This scene was eerie to the extreme!

Also, it was perilous to the extreme!

This was a walk upon the blade's edge!

This was a crossing of the Abyss by ferry.

Yao is that ferry, burning herself, the sole vessel.

And Sun Wukong is the sole passenger aboard.

They are bypassing the turbulent river named 'Real'!

They are bypassing the deadly reef named 'Zeroers'!

They are about to reach the victorious far shore!

One step.

Two steps.

Three steps.

Sun Wukong's heart leapt to his throat!

He could feel Yao's breath in his arms growing ever weaker.

The seven‑colored dream halo enveloping them was also growing ever thinner.

Soon!

Almost there!

Sun Wukong stared fixedly at the blackened ruin's edge ahead.

That is the endpoint!

At last!

At the moment Sun Wukong took his final step!

His feet set foot upon the void‑laden earth of the ruin's core region.

Success!

They have arrived!

However!

Just as his feet touched the ground, at the same instant!

Hiss—

A soft sound.

That layer, enveloping them, the seven‑colored dream light that had burned away everything of Yao.

It was like a candle whose oil has been burnt out.

Suddenly, it went out!

Pfft!

Yao's body shuddered violently!

A mouthful of bright red essence blood, carrying the Primordial Source's aura, spilled from her pale lips!

Her eyes, which had been stubbornly holding on while gazing at Sun Wukong, finally lost all their luster at this moment.

Her eyelids slowly drooped.

She completely fainted!

"Yao!!!"

Sun Wukong's heart clenched violently!

He held Yao, whose body was gradually turning icy and rigid, and let out an anguished, despairing howl!

A surge of killing intent, unprecedented and capable of utterly incinerating the entire universe, erupted!

It burst forth explosively from his body!

He abruptly lifted his head!

Those eyes, already completely filled with blood-red madness, stared fixedly at the deepest part of this wasteland!

No matter what damned thing is hidden back there!

No matter who plotted against his master, against him, and caused Yao to become like this!

He will drag that person out!

Then, bit by bit, grind him into the most insignificant speck of cosmic dust!

However!

When Sun Wukong's gaze pierced the endless darkness and void, and he made out the scene deep within the ruins,

His killing intent, capable of burning heaven and earth, strangely solidified at this moment!

In its place came an indescribable, utter bewilderment!

And stupor!

His whole body froze there.

It was as if he had seen something infinitely more absurd and fantastical than his own birth from a stone!

Those pupils, burning with mad fire, contracted at this moment into the most dangerous needle‑points!

He gazed at the edge of that wasteland; the sight there left his mind completely blank.

How…

How is that possible?!