Chapter 380

Sun Wukong's words, like a stubborn stone thrown into the deep pool of Deathly Silence.

The ripples had just begun to spread when they were completely smoothed over by an invisible force.

Inside the huge rift torn open by itself, that indescribable "thing" finally, completely, squeezed out!

It had no feet, yet it "stood" upon this land paved with the corpses of gods and demons.

It had no fixed form.

Sometimes, it was a mass composed of countless cold, precise geometric shapes, frenziedly twisting and proliferating.

Sometimes, it turned into billions of faces of pain, despair, numbness, and emptiness, voicelessly howling, coalescing into a huge, flowing mask.

The next second, it became a pure, absolute "Blank" capable of devouring all light and divine sense.

Merely its existence caused the spacetime laws of this ancient battlefield to undergo a terrifying disruption.

In the distance, the corpses of demon gods repeatedly shifted between "existence" and "nothing," sometimes turning into a puddle of pus, sometimes reassembling into a heap of gibberish.

The space around it, like cheap glass, was riddled with cracks.

The concept of time completely failed here.

Yao merely glanced at it and felt her Illusory Dream Dao, as if it were about to be utterly torn apart by an absolute, "true" "Error."

Every strand of Dream Realm power within her screamed for her to flee!

This was a fundamental, irresistible crushing!

Sun Wukong's Chaos Realm eyes locked onto that monster.

His Dao Heart was unprecedentedly heavy.

He could feel that his newly born, capable of scorning all things Chaos Dao, before this monster, actually… seemed somewhat laughable.

Like a primary school student who just learned addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, yet dared to comprehend a paradoxical equation containing the ultimate secrets of the universe.

Just then.

A voice, not through air, not through divine sense, but directly resonated in the deepest part of Sun Wukong and Yao's souls.

That voice carried no emotion, calm as a pool of Dead Water.

"Hello."

Those two simple words made Sun Wukong's Monkey Heart twitch violently!

He felt an extreme Fear Heart Demon stemming from the very instinct of life!

"I am the 'Original Mistake'."

That existence, in a tone stating facts, slowly gave a self-introduction.

"It is the first, and only, mistake the universe made at its birth."

It was not howling, not showing off, nor threatening.

It was merely speaking.

Like a rigorous scholar expounding an indisputable axiom.

"I do not intend to destroy."

The voice of the "Original Mistake" continued to reverberate in their souls.

"Destruction itself is merely a kind of 'change,' a manifestation of error."

"My purpose is 'correction'."

"In my view, 'existence' itself is an error. Life, emotion, thought, change… all of these,"

"are merely derivatives of error, redundant, painful bugs constantly sprouting on this precise instrument of the universe."

"And I will let everything return to the unique 'correct' 'nothing' before creation."

Its voice was calm and icy, yet it harbored a terrifying logic capable of overturning every worldview!

It was not intent on killing people.

It merely believed that "living" itself is wrong!

What it sought to do was to "correct" all living things back to a state of "never having existed."

This is terrifyingly a million times more fearsome than mere destruction!

Having spoken, the ever-shifting mass of "Error" seemed to "look" toward Sun Wukong.

On its indescribable "face," there appeared an emotion Sun Wukong had never imagined.

It was a kind of… "appreciation" emotion.

"And you, Sun Wukong."

"You are the most beautiful Error born in this erroneous world."

Those words made Sun Wukong's fur all over his body nearly explode!

What is this? Praise?

No! This is more nauseating than any insult!

"You don't need to stare at me like that."

The "Original Mistake" seemed to "see through" Sun Wukong's thoughts.

"I am not mocking you."

"Your existence, your struggle, that Unyielding heart of yours that defies Heaven, Earth, and any Fixed Number, have taken the concept of 'Error' to its extreme."

"You have shown me that 'Error' can also be so splendid."

"It even once made me doubt whether 'correctness' is truly that important."

Its tone suddenly shifted.

"Just like… your Master, Bodhi."

Master!

These two words were like a thunderclap, viciously striking Sun Wukong's heart!

He snapped his head up, and from his chaos eyes burst a terrifying light!

"Original Mistake" paid no heed to Sun Wukong's almost overflowing killing intent, continuing in that calm tone,

revealing a truth so shocking it could shake the Three Realms!

"Many people think that after he found me, he wanted to seal me."

"Wrong."

"He, he wanted to 'correct' me."

"He discovered that I am the 'Original Mistake' of this universe's birth. He did not choose to flee,

nor did he choose destruction; instead, he tried to use his 'Emptiness' 'Inclusivity' Great Dao to accommodate, understand, and even... reform this 'error' of mine."

"He naively believed that 'existence' could contain 'emptiness'."

"He wanted to teach me what life is, what emotion is, what... meaning is."

In the voice of the Original Mistake, there was a faint, almost inaudible, sigh-like fluctuation.

"But he failed."

"He overestimated the power of 'existence' and underestimated the purity of 'nothing'."

"He was like a fool trying to dilute the entire ocean with a cup of water."

"In the end, he lacked the ability to correct me; instead, he was contaminated by my 'true nature' and assimilated by my 'absolute correctness'."

"His Dao, his arts, his supernatural powers, his everything, lost all meaning before me."

"In the end, only this stubborn, insensate Dao Heart remained, refusing to admit it was an 'error', imprisoned here by me, tormented day and night."

Boom!!!!!!

Sun Wukong's mind went completely blank!

The whole world seemed to have lost its sound!

He had always thought that Master had been defeated! Defeated by this ultimate black hand with greater power, then imprisoned!

But now he knows!

Wrong!

All of it is wrong!

Master was not defeated!

Master...... took the initiative!

He did it to correct the universe's most fundamental error!

He did it to save this world filled with pain and struggle!

He chose to feed the demon with his own body!

He wanted to use his own "Dao" to reform this ultimate monster that even denies "existence" itself!

How naive!

And yet...... how great!

A wave of indescribable, heart-rending pain fiercely gripped Sun Wukong's heart!

He would rather Master had been defeated!

He also could not accept that Master walked this no-return path, bearing the tragic resolve of "If I do not enter hell, who will?"

"So, his path is wrong."

"The voice of the Original Mistake was like a precise scalpel, splitting Sun Wukong's wound, then ruthlessly stirring it."

"'Inclusivity, understanding, salvation... these are all superfluous, meaningless emotions.'"

"'A world filled with pain, filled with struggle, filled with endless rebirth, ought not to exist.'"

"'True mercy is termination.'"

"'Let everything return to the eternal, tranquil 'nothing'.'"

He said.

That indescribable mass of a monster slowly extended a "hand" toward Sun Wukong.

That hand was formed from countless shattered stars and twisted laws.

"And you, you are different."

Its voice, for the first time, carried a sense akin to "temptation."

"You used my power to reforge yourself."

"Your {Chaos Monkey Heart} fused {Order}, {Negation}, and {Variable}."

"You are closer to truth than that naive Bodhi."

"In your very bones, you are the same as me."

"We both want to end this erroneous world."

"Only, you wish to overthrow it with 'Variable', while I wish to correct it with 'Negation'."

"But our goal is the same."

The hand composed of stars and laws halted before Sun Wukong.

Like an invitation from the deepest depths of hell.

"Join me."

"Sun Wukong."

"Abandon those boring bonds of emotion that belong to 'existence'."

"Together we will bring to this suffering‑filled universe the final, and also the most perfect, peace."

From now on, you are 'Error' itself.

And I will grant you the authority to 'correct' everything!