Eternal Night

Chapter 522 Containing Civilization
If someone else had fallen into Wu Pifu's predicament, they would probably have been worn down and died, or desperately tried to find the pattern within it.

Unless someone like Chu Minghao can forcefully break through the impasse with super violence, directly covering the entire area with wide-area attacks and shattering everything, perhaps only Wu Pifu can truly break through everything with brute force.

There's only one reason... real damage!
The more Wu Pifu used the advanced "Commoner" title, the more he understood the true value of this real damage.

This was not the kind of damage that ignored all defenses as he originally thought; that was merely breaking through defenses. This true damage was based on a different mechanism that he did not yet understand. Anything hit by the true damage would be directly annihilated according to a certain ratio. From the time he upgraded from the title of "commoner" to now, even Lost Contamination would not be spared if it was hit by him within five steps.

So after repeatedly confirming the true effects of the "commoner" title, Wu Pifu became even more certain of one thing... all he needed to do was act recklessly.

As long as it's an enemy, regardless of the circumstances—whether it's a physical body, a gigantic form, contaminated, a mental illusion, or a bizarre set of rules—he just needs to charge in.

No matter what you are, once you get hit by him, you will inevitably be weakened and damaged. The parts destroyed by true damage cannot be healed, and the immortality attribute is also ineffective against the parts destroyed by true damage. So he just needs to rush in, and the final result will be either that he is killed or that the opponent's weird thing is destroyed by him. There will never be any other exceptions.

The same applies now. He doesn't know if what he sees before him is an illusion, a real parallel world, or a time reversal. In any case, he just needs to rush in and kill all the enemies. In the end, he will eventually bring out the mastermind behind the scenes.

Wu Pifu stood amidst mountains of corpses and seas of blood, his bio-armor rapidly wriggling, constantly healing various minor injuries.

Countless superhumans surrounded Wu Pifu, and it was impossible to break through his defenses from five steps away. However, when Wu Pifu rushed closer and engaged in battle with them, he inevitably suffered various superhuman attacks due to the sheer number of enemies.

Fortunately, the Bio-Armor itself has strong defensive capabilities, and his own physical defense is also extremely strong. Most of the damage is not enough to break through his defenses, and the few attacks that can break through his defenses are almost negligible. Although he looks exaggerated, he actually only has a few minor injuries.

On the opposite side, he had almost completely wiped out the enemies covering the entire mountain, leaving only less than five individuals. These individuals were all extremely powerful, the strongest among the superhumans covering the entire mountain, but at this moment, all five individuals were severely injured and on the verge of death, barely managing to stand.

With all the enemies on the mountainside wiped out, the space became extremely unstable. Apart from where Wu Pifu and the five remaining individuals stood, the space further away was distorted and blurred.

Clearly, Wu Pifu's idea was correct. Regardless of whether this space was an illusion, a parallel world created by the core of the lost contaminant, or a fragment of past time, its essence was an attack on him. Since it was an attack, it must have projected power. He didn't need to think about the mechanism, solve the puzzle, or anything else. He just needed to break it. The real damage accumulated time and time again, enough to completely deplete the power it projected.

And judging from the current situation, this is indeed the case.

Just as Wu Pifu was looking at the distant part of this space, the largest of the five remaining individuals stood up.

This was a humanoid creature, but it was about twenty meters tall, with muscles all over its body, wearing armor that shone with electricity, and its appearance was very similar to the legendary Titan. It struggled to stand up, shouting in a strange tone, and at the same time raised its arms high, and lightning struck its arms. Just as it was about to throw the lightning at Wu Pifu, suddenly its legs exploded, and its whole body rolled on the ground.

Wu Pifu had appeared beside him without him noticing. With a series of swift movements, he easily shattered the giant's legs. As the giant fell, Wu Pifu lightly swung his Heroic Spirit Shattering Blade, instantly slicing the giant into pieces, which then vanished into nothingness.

The remaining four individuals struggled to their feet, but they showed neither fear nor emotion. They simply unleashed their extraordinary abilities to attack Wu Pifu, but they couldn't even break through its defenses beyond five steps.

These individuals, and the countless lives that Wu Pifu had just slaughtered, were not real lives, but rather puppets or projections devoid of any consciousness. Even when facing an invincible enemy, they possessed not a shred of emotion. Therefore, Wu Pifu killed them without hesitation, without feeling the slightest ripple in his heart.

Four blades flashed, and the four remaining individuals were also torn apart and vanished. Then, the entire world became distorted and hazy, and everything began to dissipate.

Wu Pifu's eyes flashed with light, and he saw boundless darkness, and in the center of that darkness, a void.

The void looked like a cocoon or a beating heart, as if something was about to be born from it, but he couldn't see it clearly.

"Negative psychological backlash rate: 90%!"

Just as this void seemed about to wriggle again, Wu Pifu directly activated the Negative Backflow of Mind, and activated it to 90% in one go. Then, the void in his vision underwent a huge change.

In the center of the void was a faint golden light, surrounded by a vast amount of indescribable things, layer upon layer, encompassing it at the very center. At the same time, countless tiny, blood vessel-like things were embedded in this golden light, continuously sucking its existence from it!
When 90% of the negative emotions surge within him, Wu Pifu can already perceive existence, which is a deeper essence of life than the physical body and consciousness. It is the core substance that constitutes the soul, similar to flesh and blood to the body. Once existence is completely drained, the soul will be utterly lost.

The existence of this golden light was almost gone, but the remaining existence was extremely stubborn. No matter how many indescribable things sucked at it, it was difficult to completely drain it. Even so, the last remaining existence was pitifully small, not even enough to maintain the structure of the soul's essence.

Just then, among the countless indescribable things sucking the golden soul, one of them "raised its head" and faced Wu Pifu. Then it split open, and a radiance was about to spread out, enveloping Wu Pifu.

A vast amount of indescribable matter enveloped the golden soul, then vanished into this void; there were at least thousands of such things.

If every indescribable creature could lure Wu Pifu into that radiant light, and he were to kill them all, the golden soul would likely have been completely drained, its core reduced from the Rank of the Lost and Corrupted to the Rank of the Rare. Wu Pifu didn't know what those beings were, but he certainly felt a threat emanating from the gradually diminishing presence of the golden soul… a tremendous threat!

So, just before this indescribable thing was about to banish him to the next radiant space, his eyes narrowed, and he directly used one of his trump cards.

"Super Brain World!"

In an instant, a black and white world appeared in this pure black world. The indescribable thing that was emitting light also stopped. Everything seemed to be frozen. Only Wu Pifu could still move. And what he did was simple: rush forward and hand over the knife...

With a series of swift, sweeping slashes, a large portion of the indescribable entity enveloping the golden soul was cut away, each piece beginning to vanish into nothingness. However, at the same time, Wu Pifu keenly noticed that the remaining indescribable entity had begun to slowly move...

This is simply incredible.

The superbrain's mechanism is not to actually stop time, but to accelerate its own speed with incredible power, putting itself into bullet time. There is no way to break it, because it is a blessing on itself, not something like a restriction or a supernatural domain.

But now, these indescribable things are actually moving faster and faster in the Superbrain World.

(Oh no...)
Wu Pifu could only push his speed to the limit, trying to kill these indescribable things as quickly as possible within the duration of the Super Brain World.

One cut, one cut, one cut...

After more than nine-tenths of the indescribable entities on the golden soul had been destroyed, the remaining indescribable entities were now moving at a speed almost as fast as Wu Pifu. At the same time, at least a dozen indescribable entities abandoned their sucking of the golden soul and instead split open, directing their light at Wu Pifu. Moreover, this light no longer possessed the parallel world feel of before; it was now filled with a terrifyingly malicious distortion and a pollution and erosion that Wu Pifu could not comprehend at all…

Just as more than ten orbs of light were about to hit him, the golden soul that was wrapped in layers suddenly erupted. Its form was like liquid, but it instantly grew a head, face and body. With a horizontal sweep of one arm, it wrapped the surging, indescribable thing in its arm. All ten orbs of light shot onto its arm, and the golden arm was immediately torn apart and fell into the light.

At the same time, a message appeared in Wu Pifu's mind.

"...The true beings of this era, hurry! I can't hold out much longer. Slay them! Your attacks carry enough power to annihilate them, hurry!"

The golden soul's movements, as well as the information in its mind, completely ignored the bullet time of the Super Brain World!
This was the first time Wu Pifu had seen a non-superbrain being move freely within the Superbrain World since he learned about it.

However, he didn't have time to think much at this moment. He simply raised his knife and stepped forward, coordinating with the golden soul's arm to cut down the remaining indescribable things one by one.

When the last indescribable thing was completely destroyed, the golden soul shone brightly, spreading outwards from it to all the surrounding darkness, dispelling all darkness. In Wu Pifu's eyes, only this golden radiance illuminating all directions remained.

As the sun set, Wu Pifu saw a vegetable field before him, with a stream running alongside it and a beautiful white-walled, tiled house standing nearby.

"A very ordinary scene, right?"

A voice came from beside Wu Pifu. He turned his head and saw a handsome young man standing there with a smile, holding a large pile of vegetables in his hands.

“My hometown… After my parents passed away, I could only return once a year to pay my respects, and the place fell into disrepair… Until many, many years later, when the Great Cataclysm had destroyed my civilization, I suddenly missed this place so much that I rebuilt it in my soul…”

The valiant young man put down the vegetables he was holding, patted the dirt off his hands, and reached out to Wu Pifu, saying, "Leader of the Containment Civilization, Per, how shall I address you, the true leader of the new era's civilization?"

Wu Pifu initially wanted to clasp his hands in a fist salute, but upon seeing the other party's outstretched palm, he hesitated for a moment before reaching out and grasping the other party's palm, saying, "Gaia human, Wu Pifu... Also, I am not the leader of my civilization."

Per paused for a moment, then smiled wryly, "It seems the Ultimate True Civilization Project is still ongoing, but did they really foresee the outcome?"

Wu Pifu looked puzzled, and Per smiled and said, "I know you have many questions. Fortunately, you arrived in time. I still have enough energy left to finish our conversation, and I even have enough to send you to the core of my civilization... if my civilization still exists."

"I think this is the original intention of your civilization in sending you here, isn't it?"

(End of this chapter)