Chapter 65: Using their own scheme against him

His words still echoed across the empty street, carrying an indisputable overbearing aura.

Sun Wukong's figure had already vanished at the end of the street, as if he had never appeared.

Bone City fell into a silence even more eerie than before.

All living beings, whether saints or common folk,

were as if immobilized by a freezing spell, utterly motionless.

Their brains had completely crashed.

What just happened?

That monkey from the Primordial, with a single strike wiped out the City Lord's guard,

seized Lady Gu Ji's throat, publicly humiliating her, and looted valuables,

and left words telling the City Lord, Bone Lord, to wash his neck clean and wait?

This…

This is no longer madness.

This is treating the ancient order of the Chaos Realm as a child's play!

Countless gazes instinctively turned toward the city's center,

the white bone divine hall carved from a single colossal demon god skull.

They were waiting.

waiting for the one who has ruled this land for countless ages,

the mercurial Bone Lord, to unleash his thunderous wrath capable of scorching heaven and boiling sea!

However.

One breath.

Ten breaths.

The time of an incense stick passed.

The white bone divine hall remained utterly still.

As if that earth-shaking humiliation had never occurred.

The City Lord… endured it?

This thought, like a plague, spread wildly in the hearts of all living beings.

That exalted Bone Lord, who views saints as ants,

actually chose silence toward such a brazen fool who slapped him in public?

When the crowd looked again toward the direction Sun Wukong vanished, their gazes had completely changed.

It was no longer a gaze at a madman or ruffian.

but a fear of beholding something beyond comprehension, an ineffable terror!

"Pfft."

A soft sound broke this suffocating atmosphere.

It was Gu Ji.

She struggled, crawling up point by point from the icy, filthy ground.

That black gauze, once nearly transparent and alluring,

now was dust‑stained, torn in several places, and disheveled.

On her flawless jade‑like neck, five vicious fingerprints,

remained clearly visible, like the most glaring flaw on a peerless work of art.

She rose to her feet, ignoring the surrounding gazes of awe, pity, or schadenfreude.

She merely stared fixedly at the direction Sun Wukong had gone,

within those ruby‑like soul flames surged boundless resentment and… a deeper fear.

She had been defeated.

Defeated utterly.

From the moment the opponent struck, she had not even a shred of chance to resist.

It was a pure power crush!

She slowly turned her head again, gazing at the silent white bone divine hall.

My lord, why did you not intervene?

Why did you watch helplessly as I was so humiliated?

Why… did you acquiesce to all this?

She did not understand.

Nor did she dare to ask.

In the end, Gu Ji said nothing, merely silently tidying her torn garments,

her form flickered and she vanished like a ghost into the street's shadows.

As if she were merely going to do a trivial little thing.

……

Meanwhile.

Far, countless billions of li from Bone City, in the Chaos Void,

a belt of debris from shattered stars drifted silently.

Here the laws are chaotic, the Chaos Qi rages, a perilous zone most living beings would detour around.

"Whoosh!"

"A streak of golden light suddenly halted."

"Sun Wukong revealed his form, steadily landing on a massive meteorite comparable to a mountain."

"He vigilantly scanned his surroundings, confirming no trace of pursuit, then sat cross-legged."

"Hey."

"He grinned, and his divine sense stirred."

"An extraordinarily complex and exquisitely precise miniature star chart,"

"it emerged from his Original Spirit, hovering before him."

"It is precisely the one he 'snatched' from Bone Maiden."

"Let this old monkey see, you bastards, what the hell are you up to?"

"Sun Wukong put away his careless demeanor, his expression becoming focused."

"This star chart is indeed genuine."

"The Chaos Realm coordinates marked on it are precise to an astonishing degree."

"Countless routes crisscross, marking various perilous lands, secret realms, and the territories of powers."

"Its value, as Bone Maiden said, is priceless."

"Among them, a route marked in red light stands out particularly."

"This route, exactly as marked on the star chart,"

"The 'Void' Daoist, that is, the possible trajectory of the Bodhi Patriarch."

"Furthermore, several places where the 'Void' might have stayed, and the duration, are also marked."

"It's too clear."

"So clear, it's as if someone deliberately drew the road, waiting for him to look."

"Sun Wukong's cold smile grew thicker."

"You're trying to fool this old monkey?"

"His eyes instantly blazed with brilliant golden light!"

"Fiery Golden Eyes, operating at full power!"

"Unlike in the primordial era, deep within his golden pupils now,"

"a strange dark red glow slowly flows."

"This is the manifestation of holy power and evil thoughts perfectly fused after he absorbed his own evil corpse!"

"Light and dark, good and evil, protection and destruction……"

"All of this has achieved perfect balance in this pair of eyes!"

"Swish!"

"The entire world instantly changed appearance in his eyes."

"The star chart that looked utterly normal now reveals its truest aspect."

"In Sun Wukong's vision, that red route,"

"and its ultimate destination is certainly not a peaceful place."

"There, strands darker than Chaos itself, almost substantive, entwine!"

"That is…… the Karma Death Thread!"

"Each thread represents a certain deadly fate!"

"Moreover, around that area, the flow of time shows a bizarre distortion and rupture."

"Countless tiny, invisible-to-the-naked-eye time traps,"

"like hidden snares in grass, densely distributed in every corner."

"Once stepped into, lightly one is exiled to an unknown time node, forever sunk."

"Severely, one will be ravaged by violent temporal torrents,"

"in an instant erasing all traces of existence from past to present!"

"How could this be the trace of a master!"

"This is fundamentally a carefully laid hunting ground!"

"A huge trap, shocking to behold, specially designed to hunt and kill Saint-level and other powerful living beings…… a death trap!"

"That Bone Maiden, and the Bone Lord behind her, indeed harbor ill intent!"

"They gave this star chart just to lure me into this deadly land!"

"Interesting, interesting……"

"Sun Wukong didn't get angry but laughed, his face filled with bloodthirsty excitement."

"However, just as he was about to crush this deceptive star chart,"

"His gaze suddenly focused."

"Wait!"

"He again focused his gaze, fused with light and dark power, onto that deathly path."

"This time, he examined it more carefully."

"Following the trap-laden route, he traced it inch by inch forward."

"Finally!"

"At an inconspicuous spatial node somewhere along the route,"

"He detected a trace, extremely faint, so faint it was almost dissipating, but unmistakable!"

It was a … tranquil, natural, effortless, yet all‑encompassing "Dao" flavor!

It is Master!

It is Master Bodhi's aura!

Although it's only a whiff, Sun Wukong is absolutely certain!

He instantly understood everything.

Master indeed passed through this path!

And the enemy, precisely because they sensed the Master's trail,

therefore set up this Heaven‑and‑Earth net at the road's end!

They are lying in wait!

Waiting for Master to walk into the snare, or… waiting for their own disciple to go to his death!

"Hey…"

Sun Wukong slowly withdrew his gaze, and on his monkey face a brilliant Smile shone to the utmost.

Not only did he not feel anger at the trap, he instead felt a heartfelt exhilaration!

Great!

Excellent!

Finally, Sun Wukong is not fighting alone!

Master is also cutting it up ahead with relish!

He sprang up from the meteor and reintegrated the star map into his Original Spirit.

He didn't even consider taking a detour.

"Using this child's trick against Sun Wukong?"

In Sun Wukong's eyes burned an unprecedented, raging battle will!

"You all really look down on people!"

He twisted his neck, and his bones cracked with a series of crackling pops.

The next second.

Boom!!!

The massive meteor beneath his feet exploded instantly!

Sun Wukong's form turned into a golden streak moving more than ten times faster than before,

like an arrow released from its bow, without the slightest hesitation,

straight toward that death hunting ground riddled with causality death lines and time traps, blasting forward!

The wildly arrogant, unbridled voice echoed among the shattered stars.

"I'll see which blind bastard it is!"

"How dare they scheme against my Master!"