Eternal Night

Chapter 502 A Pervasive Sense of Loss and a Goal

Wu Pifu walks amidst a multitude of echoes of souls.

This is the past of a scattered soul, a fragment of the past, both real and fantastical. It is a phenomenon caused by the pollution of the soul. Of course, not all soul pollution can evoke a soul echo. Either the soul is powerful enough and the pollution is deep enough, or a large number of countless souls are polluted at the same time.

Here, both are available.

In the echo of the soul, Wu Pifu saw the human and dragon that had crossed over from another realm. Their strength was extremely powerful, and both were sublimated beings.

They should never have been, and could never have been, killed by missiles. Either of those two is enough to destroy the world!

However, they died from the missile, which was actually hijacked by the pollutant when it attacked them; it was the pollutant that killed them.

This source of pollution is based on the soul, clinging to the two like maggots to the bone. This source of pollution will not cease until the two are completely corrupted.

However, after this person and the dragon arrived in this world, even though they were destroyed by the source of pollution through missiles, only the dragon was truly dead. The person's spirit and consciousness disappeared with the last strength the dragon possessed before its death, and this result led to all the subsequent changes in this world.

The essence of the White Salt Plague is physical death, with the spirit and consciousness, wrapped in the soul, separating from the body. Then, as time passes, the source of pollution gradually strips the spirit and consciousness from the soul, while the soul is completely polluted by the source of pollution, turning into something incomprehensible. This is the true nature of the White Salt Plague.

The mechanical life form that came to talk to Wu Pifu earlier did not understand the deeper inner workings of the soul; in other words, he confused mental consciousness with the soul.

In his understanding, as long as consciousness is separated from the body, the white salt plague is purified, and consciousness is returned to the body, then humanity will be resurrected and returned to life. But in reality, this is not the case... because their souls have actually been stripped away by the source of pollution during this process. Like the original androids, they are information fragments without souls.

This is why, when the aliens arrived and delivered mechanical lifeforms, these remaining consciousnesses invaded the mechanical lifeform network and assimilated with the mechanical lifeforms. Even then, their thoughts remained chaotic and their intellect insufficient. Instead, they became special mechanical lifeforms that subconsciously yearned for adulthood.

The reason is that they have lost their souls!

The souls of all humanity in the world were corrupted and distorted, turning into something indescribable. Only fragments of consciousness remained, whether they were mechanical life forms or primordial androids.

The only exception... is the human on the dragon's head who crossed over from another world. His soul has been lurking and hiding, and has not been found by the source of pollution. This is the fact that Wu Pifu can confirm at present.

Although he is not yet certain what the source of the pollution is, there is no doubt that even if it is not the Lost Pollution, it is definitely closely related to it, because once someone is contaminated by this source, all traces of its existence will disappear completely, not even in the echoes of the soul.

Wu Pifu had seen these countless echoes of souls, but he could not remember the appearance or existence of any of them. All the lives killed by the White Salt Plague would disappear without a trace, and then turn into some kind of supernatural, terrifying thing that he could not see, perceive, or understand... just like the thing that last appeared in the sixth level of the Primordial Demon Prison.

And that is what disappointment is!

This source of lost pollution is different from the root pollution or any other pollution. It only targets the crossover, or the individual who should have been lost. It only affects all of humanity in this world. Once it has completely polluted the crossover individual, it will disappear.

This is the answer Wu Pifu arrived at after so many echoes of the soul.

Therefore, it's not just Wu Pifu who's looking for this cross-dimensional being, but also the Lost Pollution.

As he broke through another echo of souls, Wu Pifu let out a heavy breath, suppressing the horrific scene he had just witnessed.

That was another attempt by the people of this world to continue human civilization. In this attempt, they tried to use the compatibility of the spiritual consciousness of twins to integrate a soul into the body of twins, creating two souls in one body. They used the time difference to overcome the loss of the soul. During this period, they used the world's powerful scientific power to create artificial bodies, clones, and so on, and then restored the original souls to their original positions.

However, the result was the creation of a large number of monsters, including terrifying monsters with deformed bodies, terrifying monsters involving mental consciousness, and indescribable monsters at the level of the soul.

The soul echo Wu Pifu had just been in was a giant laboratory filled with all sorts of bizarre and terrifying monsters. Because they were twins, one had already mutated and disappeared, while the other was perhaps still intact. The result was the scene Wu Pifu witnessed... A relatively intact human was embedded in the body of a giant, deformed monster. This human was crying and struggling, merging with the deformed monster. The torment and pain it suffered was unimaginable. It was almost consciously watching itself decay, mutate, and ultimately transform into twin monsters...

Wu Pifu has witnessed at least a dozen similar horrific scenes along his journey. They all depict the painful struggles of humanity in this world as they try to save themselves. Countless experiments have extinguished humanity, but in the end, even the experimenters themselves are mutated and lost. In the end, humanity in this world has nothing left.

It's not like what that mechanical lifeform said, that there are still humans remaining among the mechanical lifeforms. In fact, all humans in this world have been wiped out...

All!

Finally, the island's surface appeared before Wu Pifu. He had finally broken free from the countless echoes of souls and arrived on Easter Island. But this did not mean he had overcome all those countless obstacles; rather, the real challenge was only just beginning!
Right in front of him, a deformed monster more than three meters tall swayed toward him.

The monster had many grotesque limbs, and its head had disappeared. Its entire body looked like a round shape with many limbs, but in the very center of this body was a still-delicate human face. This face was crying softly and wailing incessantly, as if it was suffering unimaginable pain.

"...Is anyone there? Is anyone still there? Kill me, please, kill me..."

The face kept shouting and crying; its eyes were gone, and its mouth was full of entrails. The sound it made was grotesque and disgusting.

Wu Pifu put down the three pendants and the golden tree, drew his sword, and stepped forward to confront the swaying monster.

Beelzebub said from behind him, “These aren’t ordinary monsters! These are monsters reconstructed from the echoes of souls by those corrupted souls. They’re preventing you from getting close to the core! And inside that core might be…”

"I know."

Without saying a word, Wu Pifu stepped forward with his knife and approached the monster. The monster's limbs lashed out at Wu Pifu in turn, and the human face on its chest suddenly split open in a ferocious manner, its mouth turning into sharp teeth that tore at Wu Pifu.

With a single slash, the monster howled and turned to ashes. Faintly, Wu Pifu seemed to hear a faint "thank you"...

As he traveled inland from the sea, various monsters kept appearing from the mist. These ferocious monsters all came from the echoes of souls he had seen before. They were all mutated by the White Salt Plague, or were experimental monsters created by humans in their attempt to save themselves. They varied in size and were either ferocious or terrifying. At first, there was only one, then two, then ten. When Wu Pifu arrived at a huge, collapsed temple in the center of the island, the entire temple was filled with countless monsters, including a giant dragon that was only a skeleton. It was a hundred meters long and its body was covered with fleshy tumors, each of which was a screaming human head.

An indescribable soul contamination covered these monsters.

These soul-polluted entities cannot be seen by any means. Only Wu Pifu's martial arts intuition can vaguely detect them. Moreover, even Wu Pifu, if he comes into contact with these soul-polluted entities for too long, will have his physical body and spirit distorted. When he came to this collapsed temple from the edge of the island, not a single part of his skin was intact. It was all the distorted flesh and blood from the recent battle, which he had cut off.

Meanwhile, in his sea of ​​consciousness, a large number of distorted consciousnesses were floating in the ocean of negativity. These ferocious distorted consciousnesses attempted to break through the sea of ​​consciousness and enter his self, but unfortunately, they were suppressed by the fragments of the world he had devoured, the Angel of Power, and so on, so they caused him the least harm.

"This is the true core, the pure and flawless place that the mechanical lifeform spoke of... Is there any problem? The pollution at the soul level is an irreversible erosion, even for you!" Beelzebub said anxiously.

Wu Pifu did not rush towards the dense horde of monsters in front of him immediately. He simply took out the magical conch shell and the Whispering Skull at the same time.

I don't know if it was just my imagination, but the conch shell seemed to tremble slightly. It wasn't out of fear of the whispering skull, but rather something here that terrified the conch shell.

“Mysterious Conch, is there any way I can restore my soul from this pollution?” Wu Pifu asked.

After saying that, he was about to continue using the Whispering Skull, but who knew that the Conch Shell would immediately say with great eagerness, "Mother!"

After saying that, the conch shell remained motionless.

"Mother?"

Wu Pifu paused for a moment, then thoughtfully placed the magical conch shell and the whispering skull into her personal space. She then opened her dimensional space ring and sent the three pendants and the golden tree inside. Before Beelzebub was sent in, she hurriedly said, "Be careful, Wu Pifu, besides the soul corruption, there's also something else inside..."

"I know……"

Wu Pifu gazed at the collapsed temple, where a glimmer of gold could be seen.

"The culprit behind the world's destruction is also my target..."

"Physical body!"

The next second, Wu Pifu charged straight at the countless monsters with his knife.

(End of this chapter)