Chapter 362: then translation of title

No!

Come back to me!

Sun Wukong's pupils contracted into the most dangerous needle‑points in that instant!

He wanted to stop it, wanted to roar, wanted to seize back that disobedient iron rod!

But everything happened too fast!

He had just exhausted his lifetime Dao Fruit; his body now weighed as much as a mountain, making even moving a finger extremely difficult!

He could only watch helplessly!

Watching that gray‑white stream of light bearing all his hopes, like an arrow released from the bow,

charging forward without hesitation toward the black gate imprisoning his master's Dao Heart!

Getting closer!

Even closer!

Sun Wukong's heartbeat seemed to stop at that moment.

Countless possibilities flashed through his mind.

The gate opened, his master's Dao Heart surged out, and he fought desperately to protect his master and carve a path through the encirclement.

The gate opened, and even more terrifying enemies rushed out; he fought side by side with his master, with no regrets even in death.

But he never imagined……

At the instant that gray‑white stream of light was about to strike the gate.

At the very center of that massive gate, within the deepest darkness, a recess silently appeared.

A keyhole perfectly matching the shape and size of the gray‑white iron rod!

The next second.

Crack!

A soft sound.

It was not an impact sound, but an exceptionally clear, pleasant … the sound of perfect fit!

The gray‑white iron rod, like a bolt of lightning spanning the ages, slipped into the prepared recess with perfect precision, without a gap!

Perfect fit!

It was as if this iron rod was born to belong here!

Success!

Sun Wukong's heart leapt to his throat!

In his bloodshot eyes burst a light never seen before!

It's done!

Master's plan succeeded!

This iron rod, which absorbed all of Hongjun's old scoundrel's Fixed Number Dao, truly is the key to opening this gate of Negation!

He could almost imagine that, in the next moment, the prison that had confined his master for eons would burst open with a roar!

He had even prepared to burn his last life at the moment his master's Dao Heart escaped, carving a bloody path for his master!

Come on!

Open!

Open it for me!

Sun Wukong roared wildly in his heart, awaiting that earth‑shaking boom.

However…

One breath.

Two breaths.

Three breaths.

In his expectation, the sound of Shipitian's startled gate opening did not sound.

That massive gate remained firmly upright, unmoving.

The entire bloody battlefield fell into an eerie deathly silence.

What's going on?

The ecstasy on Sun Wukong's face froze.

A sinister premonition, like the most biting cold current, surged from the soles of his feet straight to the crown of his head!

Did he get it wrong?

No!

Impossible!

How could the master's calculation possibly be wrong?!

At the moment his mind was shaken and he desperately denied that terrible thought.

Anomaly!

Suddenly arose!

Hum——!!!

A humming, more massive and grand than any before, erupted violently from the iron rod inserted into the recess!

That was not the sound of something being opened.

That feeling… was more like…

A terrifying entity that had starved for eons had finally found the… food it had dreamed of!

Boom—!!!

Before Sun Wukong could even react.

A surge of order power, vast and majestic beyond imagination, like a golden heavenly river bursting from an opened floodgate,

It surged out wildly and without reservation from that gray-white Tiěbàng!

That power was so pure, so supremely exalted!

It did not attack anyone.

Its target, from the very beginning, was only one!

That was this——Prison!

The golden order torrent, at the moment it surged out, flashed along the keyhole and spread like lightning to every corner of the entire dark gate!

Next came the countless gray chains of the Negation law!

Sizzle—!!!

It was like pouring boiling oil into ice water!

When the golden order power touched the gray chains, all the chains violently trembled!

They frenziedly absorbed this tremendous power, and their very color began an astonishing transformation!

The ashen gray representing Negation and Ending was fading at a visible speed!

Taking its place was a radiant gold filled with sanctity, dignity, inviolability, and eternal immortality…

Just a few breaths' time!

Those countless chains that originally symbolized Negation, under the support and reconstruction of the order power,

turned into gleaming golden chains, tens of thousands of zhang in length, entwined with runes, indestructible… the supreme law divine chains!

The Prison was not opened!

Quite the opposite!

It was……reinforced!

It was reinforced to an unprecedented degree, a terrifying level that would make any being despair!

Sun Wukong was completely dumbfounded.

He stared blankly at the unbelievable sight before him, his mind a complete Blank.

He felt his blood run cold throughout his body at that moment.

What key?

What unlock?

He got it wrong.

From the very start, he was completely mistaken!

Master's scheme was never meant for him to unlock!

This iron staff that absorbed Hongjun's Dao……it……it damn well isn't a key at all!

It is an "energy replenishment device"!

A super power bank used to charge this ultimate Prison!

And he!

He, Sun Wukong!

This self-proclaimed "clever monkey" who thought he had fathomed Heaven's secrets and grasped Master's profound meaning!

Just now, with his own hands!

He delivered this power bank into the Prison's "charging port"!

Not only did he fail to open the Prison and rescue Master,

but rather…

but rather, with his own hands, he reinforced the Prison that imprisoned Master to a degree that even he felt suffocated and hopeless without end!

"Pfft—!"

A mouthful of golden Divine Blood spurted violently from Sun Wukong's mouth!

That was not an injury, but his Dao Heart was utterly torn apart by this tremendous blow and regret in that instant!

He is done.

He is completely done.

Not only did he lose, but in the most foolish, ridiculous, and unforgivable way, he became the enemy's perfect accomplice!

"Ha…"

"Hahahaha… hahahahahahaha!"

At the moment Sun Wukong, from this tremendous blow, lost his Dao Heart and his Divine Soul began to scatter.

An ear-piercing, wildly arrogant laugh filled with endless mockery and derision burst forth from nearby!

It was that stitched-together monster!

It too reacted, having just recovered from its astonishment.

It gazed upon the golden, radiant, sacred and majestic Prison before it, now fortified a billionfold stronger than before.

It also looked at Sun Wukong, whose face was ashen, spiritless, as if all his vitality had been drained.

On its countless twisted faces, it simultaneously revealed a Smile of utter madness and delight.

"Idiot!"

"You complete idiot!!"

Its voice brimmed with undisguised elation and pride, like poisoned steel needles viciously stabbing into Sun Wukong's already wounded heart.

Do you really think you can, with just yourself, comprehend the master's layout?

Do you really think your ridiculous master could scheme against the great master?

Hahaha! I'm dying of laughter! Really dying of laughter!

This 'key', from the very beginning, was deliberately left by the master for Hongjun! For the purpose of,

Just to wait for a fool like you, at the most crucial moment, to personally send it back!

We were still worrying about how to trick you into returning this most crucial 'key'!

Never expected, never expected! You actually… just delivered yourself to the door!

Thank you, you monkey!

To thank you for helping us with such a big favor……

The Stitching Monster's massive body shuddered violently, and the black spear formed from countless resentments reappeared in its hand.

It aimed the spear tip at Sun Wukong, whose Dao Heart had collapsed and who now had no strength to resist.

Let me… personally send you on your way!

Let you also become part of this perfect prison, to forever accompany your venerable master!

Kieh kieh kieh kieh……

As the words fell, the spear condensed with endless malice was about to howl forth.

However, just at this moment.

Precisely at the moment when the Stitching Monster was most triumphant and Sun Wukong most desperate!

Boom——!!!!

A terrifying roar without any warning suddenly came from atop the golden gate that had just been reinforced to the extreme!

An energy recoil, a hundred times more terrifying than the Stitching Monster's previous strike, surged forth like a beam of Creator God's light!

Its target was not Sun Wukong.

But rather, it went straight and fiercely booming toward the Stitching Monster standing before the gate, which was about to deliver the final blow to Sun Wukong!