Chapter 401: Lone City's Beacon Fire

Dream Pure Land — as soon as it forms, it becomes like an out-of-control black hole.

It is utterly irrational.

It directly draws all the "malice" and "despair" aimed at that ultimate gate behind it, like pumping water, wildly, entirely toward itself!

That negative energy torrent, which had been like a black tide continuously surging toward the golden gate, now traced a stiff angle in the air.

Their target has changed!

The myriad black chains forged from pure Negation power seemed like hungry wolves that had caught a whiff of fresher flesh.

They trembled with excitement.

They emitted piercing wails that made even Línghún freeze.

The next second.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

Myriad chains reversed direction, turning into a black rain that blanketed the entire Heaven!

Their target pointed straight at the Lone City that had just been born, still shimmering with dreamlike radiance!

They slammed down fiercely!

There was no earth-shattering boom.

No roar of collapsing laws.

At the moment the first chain pierced the city wall,

What rang out was……

A clear sound, like shattering glazed tile.

A child deep in sleep saw the colorful candy sky in his dream shatter.

Immediately after.

It was the second sound, the third sound, the ten-millionth sound!

Innumerable sweet, magnificent, or warm beautiful dreams shattered at once!

Where the chains pierced the Dream Realm radiance that made up the city walls, the light quickly dimmed.

Like the healthiest flesh injected with the most vicious corrosive poison.

Patch after patch of shocking gray "necrosis" spread wildly across the illusory city wall!

"Mm!"

At the core of the Dream Pure Land, Yao's Divine Soul let out a stifled groan she could not hold back.

Her complexion turned deathly pale as paper in an instant.

Utterly bloodless.

Each impact did not act upon matter,

but directly pierced her Línghún's Primordial Source!

It felt as if billions of steel needles, tempered with the world's most vicious curses, were repeatedly stabbing her Divine Soul at once!

Excruciating pain!

Indescribable excruciating pain!

At the same time.

Inside the Pure Land City,

The countless Living Beings of myriad civilizations aboard the Dream Ark, through the semi-transparent Dream Realm city wall, beheld the apocalyptic horror outside.

Myriad black chains fell like a violent rain.

The city they were in was gradually being dyed gray, the color of death.

Panic, like a plague, began to spread within the city.

"What is that thing!"

"Will we die?"

"Goddess… can Goddess Yao hold it back?"

Anxious thoughts began to coalesce into a chaotic dark current, striking at the city's foundations.

Yao endured the excruciating pain of her Línghún being torn apart.

She knew she must not falter now!

If she fell, the city would instantly crumble!

"No need to panic!"

A calm, resolute divine thought, like warm sunlight, instantly washed over every corner of the city.

It dispelled all the panic that was beginning to grow.

"I am here!"

"This city… shall not fall!"

That voice, carrying an indisputable absolute will, forcibly steadied the hearts and minds of all Living Beings.

They gazed at the slender Divine Soul figure outside, which, despite the onslaught of myriad black chains, remained standing firm.

That figure was clearly trembling violently.

Yet it was like a pillar propping up heaven and earth!

The hearts of all Living Beings settled.

They chose to believe, choosing to entrust everything to this goddess who protected them.

In the shadows.

The will of the supreme Original Mistake let out a cold, soft "eh".

It discovered that pure physical destruction was too inefficient.

The city forged together from 'hope' and Sun Wukong's Primordial Source power was far sturdier than imagined.

Thus, it changed its strategy.

The frantically attacking black chains suddenly slowed their movements.

They no longer struck violently.

Instead, they clung to the city walls like the most venomous snakes, cold and sinister.

Immediately afterward.

Wave after wave of low, tempting and malicious whispers came from the chains, seeping directly into the minds of every living being in the city.

"Give up......"

"Resistance is the root of suffering."

"Have you seen your goddess? She is suffering, and all of this is because of your burdensome existence."

"Your 'hope' is her 'burden'."

"As long as you abandon hope, she can be freed, and you too can attain eternal peace......"

These venomous whispers were like precise scalpels, dissecting the softest, most fragile part of every living being's heart.

Some weak-willed living beings began to waver in their gaze.

Yeah......

Is our existence causing trouble for the goddess?

Yao immediately sensed this more insidious attack!

It aims to undermine her foundation from within!

"Wake up, all of you!"

Yao's divine sense turned into a thunderclap that exploded.

She no longer remained passive in defense.

Instead, she actively mobilized all living beings in the city toward the most primal, pure longing for 'rebirth'!

It is the power of a seed breaking through the soil!

It is the power of an infant's first cry!

It is the power of a phoenix reborn from fire!

"Tell me with your will!"

"Do you want to keep living!"

"Want!"

The cries of hundreds of millions of living beings converged into a torrent!

"Do you want to see a tomorrow without oppression, without despair!"

"Want!"

The shouting shook heaven and earth!

"Then sing!"

Yao's voice carried an exalted fighting spirit!

"Turn your longing, your hope, your shouts into song!"

"Let those scum hiding in the gutters hear what it truly means to be 'alive'!"

Boom!

An exalted battle song to the utmost extreme erupted from the 【Dream Pure Land】!

That song, clashing with those venomous whispers on the soul level, unfolded into the fiercest confrontation!

……

At the same time.

Above a lifeless, silent wasteland world.

Sun Wukong hovered, expressionless.

He had just, through his link with Yao, clearly sensed everything that the lone city was enduring.

He sensed Yao's pain.

He sensed the enemy's treachery.

The killing intent in his chest had grown so intense that even he felt a shudder.

Before him, the withered monk cloaked in a Tathagata's skin wore a compassionate smile.

"Sir, do you feel it?"

"The city forged from lies is wailing."

"Your struggle will only bring more pain."

"Let go, follow me, and return to that eternal......"

The monk's words had not yet finished.

Sun Wukong moved.

He simply raised the Chaos Dao Iron in his hand.

Then he brought it down.

There was no heaven-shaking divine light.

No aura that could rend the universe.

That strike was plain and unadorned, like a country villager splitting firewood.

Pfft.

A soft sound.

That peerless apostle, spreading the "Gospel of End".

Together with his compassionate smile.

Blasted into sky-filling fragments.

Not even the tiniest speck of dust remained.

Sun Wukong slowly retracted his Tiěbàng, his gaze not lingering even a second where the apostle had vanished.

He lifted his head, that pair of Chaos Realm eyes seeming to pierce through endless spacetime, seeing the black chains frenziedly writhing on the walls of the 【Dream Pure Land】.

The killing intent in his gaze almost solidified into icy frost.

……

Wanshen Fenchang.

Seeing that verbal inducement failed again.

That supreme will finally lost all patience.

It, was enraged!

"Truly... a boring trick!"

An icy-cold to the extreme roar echoed through the void.

The next second!

All the black chains stuck on the walls, spread across the battlefield, countless in number, rose into the sky at once!

In the air, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, they frenziedly gathered, merged, compressed!

Just the time of a single breath!

A massive, indescribable black siege hammer, seemingly able to pierce the entire Universe in a single strike, coalesced into form!

The hammerhead is composed purely of "Negation" and "End"!

Its aura made the entire 【Dream Pure- Land】 emit a lament of being unable to bear the burden!

It aimed at that illusory lone city.

Aimed at the figure still stubbornly resisting.

Launched, the first wave since the war began, capable of destroying everything...

An annihilating total assault!