Eternal Night

Chapter 457: Destruction before establishment, failure before success

The saint is coming to the city, six months later...

Wu Xianxian stood on the open ground with his upper body naked, his arms stretched out, his head tilted back and his eyes closed. He seemed motionless, but if others looked at him at this time, they would find that there seemed to be some visual distortion on the surface of his body. If one had to describe it, it would be like looking at a burning fire, and the air would feel twisted due to the high temperature of the fire.

The surface of his skin was trembling slightly at a speed invisible to the naked eye of ordinary people, and this trembling had rhythmic changes.

Wu Xianxiao was using his skin to sense the airflow in the air. He could sense even the weakest airflow clearly. The trembling of his skin surface just happened to respond to the surge of these airflows. Every inch of his skin all over his body produced different airflow branches, thus creating this visual effect.

Gradually, the sense of distortion in the eyes of others became stronger and stronger. The airflow on Wu Xianxiao's body was even strong enough to be visible to the naked eye. Then, as he opened his eyes and stretched out his arms and retracted them, a storm suddenly arose in the open space. The strong wind even blew up the dust on the ground. For a moment, sand and stones were flying. Everyone else closed their eyes involuntarily. After waiting for a few seconds, the storm gradually stopped. When they looked at Wu Xianxiao again, they found that the dust under his feet had gathered into a circular pattern, shaped like two fish entangled. It looked mysterious, with a peculiar philosophical charm in it.

As Wu Xianxiao opened his eyes, the people watching breathed a sigh of relief. Samara immediately asked excitedly, "Has the saint mastered the air domain?"

Wu Xianxiao shook his head and said, "I am a human, not a god. How can I know this realm or that realm? This is martial arts, the power of the physical body."

Samara just smiled, but she was a little unconvinced.

Wu Xianxiao was too lazy to explain, he just silently recalled everything that had just been shown.

In six months, the God of Natural Purity became the deity of the city-state. Although he was a totem god, with Wu Xianxiao around, it didn't matter whether there was a god or not. No matter whether it was the wild gods attacking from the surrounding areas or the gods from other city-states, they were all crushed directly. In less than a month, the six surrounding city-states, including the Sheep-Headed God, were gathered together, the cities were destroyed, the temples were demolished, the statues of the gods were toppled, and the seven city-states became one, all becoming the divine domain of the God of Natural Purity.

With five months left, Samara cleaned up the priests, magicians, and military nobles of the old city-states, while integrating the military forces and people's livelihood of the seven city-states. Then, based on the speed of conquering one city-state every month, he expanded a large circle of territory. Up to now, a total of twelve city-states have been integrated into one, with a population of more than 600,000, a huge area, and extremely strong power. This is already the embryonic form of a principality.

Wu Xianxiao also ate and drank non-stop during these six months, and especially as the city-state's power grew, the quality of his food also improved greatly.

The city-state gods cannot eat it, as it has been contaminated by faith, and its flesh and blood contains too much of the poison of faith. Even many wild gods cannot eat it, also because of the poison of faith. But apart from that, the large number of wild spiritual creatures in the territory are good things. These spiritual creatures have not been poisoned by faith, and most of them are magical beasts, spirit beasts, and the like. Their flesh and blood are no less than the three hundred year old wild boar monster he killed in the Northern Song Dynasty. These are really good things.

In addition to wild spiritual creatures, there are also various precious herbs growing in the wilderness of this world. Hundreds of years old herbs are everywhere. Although most of them are different from the herbs on Earth, after tasting them, Wu Xianxun quickly found a large number of precious treasures from them, and also identified their medicinal properties. He used the precious herbs of this world and the flesh and blood of spiritual creatures to boil them. The effect of one pot is far better than ten times the mass of simple flesh and blood.

In just three months, all the hidden injuries on Wu Xianxiao's body had healed. Then, the body fed back to his spirit. His mental exhaustion and hidden injuries were curbed, and he began to slowly heal.

In the next three months, Wu Xianxiao's body began to continue to grow. His height grew to nearly two meters in three months. All his teeth fell out, and then new teeth grew in a few days. His teeth were neat and full, and each one seemed to be emitting light. There were more than forty teeth in total, which was already an extraordinary appearance.

At the same time, after the hidden injury was completely healed, as time passed, Wu Xianxiao himself felt that the potential of his qi and blood was growing by leaps and bounds, and each day was stronger than the previous day, with a profound foundation, not like that of an ordinary person.

The Level 5 Nightmare he encountered this time was a modified body created by the combination of many roots. He was dragged into the Lost Lands by it. This was certainly a great danger and a desperate situation, but it was also a great opportunity, giving him the chance to break and then rebuild, to fail and then succeed.

The entire Lost Lands are an isolated space that is separated from the pollution of the outside world. The extraordinary is pollution. Even the national martial arts system and the human immortal martial arts system also have pollution characteristics. In fact, since Wu Xianxiao arrived at Jianshenbuhuai, he has vaguely felt a mysterious attraction, as if the feeling came from the distant other side, which made his national martial arts and human immortal martial arts slightly affected. This is why in the outside world, he never carried out the last physical transformation of national martial arts after Jianshenbuhuai. He always felt that something was wrong.

But after arriving in the Lost Lands, this feeling completely disappeared. This was his great opportunity, so when he was here, he could finally take the last step after the national martial arts reached the state of being indestructible...completely cleansing his body and evolving it to the limit of the national martial arts system!!
Wu Xianxiao came to the dining table next to the open space and picked up a pot of hot herbal meat porridge on the table. He lifted the pot and gulped it all down. Then a lot of steam rose from his body. After dozens of seconds, his swollen belly slowly calmed down. Then he said, "In the future, you don't need to eat so much at every meal. The people sent out to search for spiritual objects and various precious herbs can be withdrawn. Just keep eating one-tenth of the current amount."

Samara naturally agreed, and Beelzebub at the table asked: "How much difference is there in your strength now compared to your strength in the outside world?"

Wu Xianxiao calculated in his mind and said, "Putting aside the title and the like, the difference in physical body alone is about two to three times. The pinnacle of the national martial arts system, breaking through the void and reaching the indestructible state of seeing the gods, is the last major qualitative change. The root of this qualitative change is not only the control of the physical body and strength, but also the last refinement and evolution of the physical body. Now, the nutrition and energy that each of my cells can accommodate, and the power that can burst out are much stronger than before the refinement. In essence, my physical body is equivalent to evolving once more, and national martial arts and human immortal martial arts are indeed deeply connected. The refinement of my physical body has also greatly improved the progress of human immortal martial arts. It's a pity that I don't have a main brain, so I can't see the changes in my physical body now, but I'm sure that the strength of my physical body alone is two to three times stronger than before entering here."

The three little animals were naturally amazed.

They had followed Wu Xianxiao for a long time, so they naturally knew what he meant. If the physical body became two to three times stronger, then the strength would at least increase five times. Now he really had a physical body like a demon beast. After Wu Xianxiao finished drinking the meat porridge, he sat on the chair next to him. While he was comprehending the test just now, he said, "And as the physical body is cleansed, some incredible powers also appear, such as the wind flow and visual distortion you just saw. With a strong enough physical body, my control and sensitivity to strength are still improving. Even the direction of the breeze can be controlled by muscle vibration... I have seen an old movie before. When the warriors in the movie performed a set of Tai Chi, the fallen leaves formed a Tai Chi diagram under their feet. Not only can I do it, I can even control the dust to do this scene."

"And my previous thoughts were correct. Breaking the void and seeing the indestructible gods are not the pinnacle of Chinese martial arts. No, that's not right..."

Wu Xianxiao fell into deep thought. There was no noise from the people around him. They all waited quietly. After dozens of seconds, he said, "The extraordinary system of national martial arts was originally focused on training the physical body. It is an extraordinary way to maximize the development of the physical body in a low-pollution environment. To put it in a more popular way, it is an extraordinary system in an extremely low-magic environment. Its pinnacle design is indeed to break through the void and see the indestructible realm of gods. As pollution increases, the degree of magic continues to increase, and the development of national martial arts has been stopped. The human immortal martial arts came into being..."

"Human Immortal Martial Arts is the advanced form of Chinese Martial Arts. The two have the same origin, but they were created in different environments. When it came to the high-magic environment, Chinese Martial Arts could no longer keep up with the battlefield under drastic changes in the environment, so its development was stopped after reaching the level of seeing the gods and being indestructible. Human Immortal Martial Arts then appeared and replaced the role of Chinese Martial Arts. Then Human Immortal Martial Arts continued to develop, but Chinese Martial Arts became extinct... So it's not that Chinese Martial Arts can only reach the level of seeing the gods and being indestructible, but that the development of the subsequent realms has been stopped. Above seeing the gods and being indestructible, Chinese Martial Arts still has a higher level of realm!"

The first time Wu Xianxiao vaguely felt all this was when he was facing the final product. He was blessed with Chu Minghao's title of Red Wolf. The power of the title directly improved his strength across levels, especially his martial arts level jumped by two levels. The strength control he displayed at that time was at a level above the indestructible god.

Beelzebub said, "Now we can confirm that national martial arts and human immortal martial arts are probably an evolutionary process of the real world falling down. When this real world first fell, the pollution was very weak, so national martial arts were developed, and then it continued to fall down step by step, and finally evolved into human immortal martial arts. This is in line with the current model of the dream world, falling from reality to illusion. The deeper you fall, the stronger the extraordinary power becomes, but the less realistic it becomes."

Wu Xianxiao shook his head and said, "Not only that, I have a feeling that the Human Immortal Martial Arts is incomplete... No, that's not right. The Human Immortal Martial Arts is indeed a complete set of extraordinary paths, and its upper limit is extremely high. I can't see the end now, but there is another set of extraordinary path skills that focus on the spiritual consciousness level created by this real world. The Human Immortal Martial Arts must be combined with this set of spiritual consciousness level skills to reach a certain pinnacle. And now I am still missing this set of spiritual consciousness level extraordinary skills. If this continues, the progress of the Human Immortal Martial Arts will stagnate."

But there is no way to think about it. Extraordinary skills are extremely rare, and the more powerful the skills are, the more so. Those skills that are easy to obtain either have great negative effects or are pitifully weak. For example, the skills like Nurturing Equipment, Nightmare Suppression, and Nurturing Yin are completely incomprehensible.

If Wu Xianxiao wanted to explore all this by himself, he could only try his luck in the infinite dream world, or find the real-world roots of the creation of Chinese martial arts and the extraordinary path of human immortal martial arts, or the lost roots, and then obtain this set of extraordinary skills at the spiritual consciousness level. However, this is incredibly difficult, and he even has to face the roots directly or lose the roots.

Beelzebub said, "Then you can only rely on the main brain. Who knows, when the main brain issues a related task, you will obtain this extraordinary spiritual consciousness technique?"

Wu Xianxiao could only nod. This was the most likely way he could think of to obtain this set of skills.

Beelzebub sighed, "Speaking of which, I always feel that the main brain of you Gaian humans is too magical. Although I have lost almost all of my past memories, from the dream world model that I know so far and the previous real worlds, it seems that exploring the dream world is very difficult. Each real world can only passively fall from the real world, and in the process of falling, it comes into contact with the dream world and other roots. However, the main brain of you Gaian humans can actually stand in the real world while exploring many derivative dream worlds, and even come into contact with other roots while still in the real world. Don't you have a mission to track down the lost roots?"

Wu Xianxiao nodded. He did have a mission to track down and capture the Lost Root, and that Lost Root was some kind of ring that caused the changes in the dream world of Castlevania.

Beelzebub said, "This is also the most incredible thing for me. According to the few memories I have recovered, as well as the dream world and roots I have come into contact with along the way, the real world should not have any extraordinary power at all. It can only passively fall down, and in the process of falling, it reacts with pollution, which can give birth to the extraordinary system belonging to this real world. However, you Gaian humans can obtain extraordinary power while still in the real world by relying on the main brain, and you have obtained extraordinary power derived from many different real worlds. For example, your national martial arts and human immortal martial arts are not from the real world of Gaia, and the same is true for other people... Don't you think this is incredible?"

Wu Xianxiao nodded again.

This is indeed his biggest question now... What exactly is the main brain? Why does it have the ability to penetrate the dream world?
Or are they, the Gaian humans, the most special? Is this fall into the real world the most special?
Both of them were puzzled, but neither of them continued to dwell on the issue. It was Wu Xianxiao's nature that she would put aside things she couldn't figure out for the time being, while Beelzebub relied on the existence of her original body. As long as time went on, she would be able to recover more memories, and any questions she had would be answered in the future.

When the two stopped discussing, Samara said to Wu Xianxiao: "Saint, I came back from the front line this time because someone sent by the kingdom contacted me."

"kingdom?"

Wu Xianxiao said: "Are they on high alert? Because we are developing too rapidly?"

"No." Samara said seriously, "I thought so at first, but it's not the case. The people from the kingdom contacted us not to suppress our development, but... to ask for help!"

"The three kingdoms have been attacked by the remnants of the Seven Towers and are in imminent danger!"

(End of this chapter)