Eternal Night

Chapter 536 Magic Potions...Mind Civilization

Wu Pifu's sudden outburst caused the war to break down completely.

He knew that Wu Pifu was very strong. Because of the characteristics of the Magic Potion Extraordinary System, any Magic Potion Extraordinary user whose strength reached a certain level immediately knew how powerful Wu Pifu was.

That's a universe that stretches as far as the eye can see!

After a long silence, the knight said gruffly to Wu Pifu, "We really don't need to fight. In fact, even war is just a continuation of politics, don't you think?"

Wu Pifu asked, "What is that?"

The knight immediately perked up and said eagerly, "That's a long story. The so-called continuation of politics leads to war, and the reason behind it is..."

Wu Pifu pointed behind the knight and asked, "What's that?"

The knight turned around and saw shadows flickering in the thick fog. The shadows looked like huge tentacles waving, each tentacle blotting out the sky, and there seemed to be some kind of terrifying inhuman roar coming from within.

The knight remained silent for a long, long time before bowing his head slightly and saying, "That is... my homeland."

Wu Pifu nodded, assumed a boxing stance, and said, "To avoid killing the wrong person, let me ask you first: have you figured out how to solve the current social problems?"

The knight fell silent again, then laughed, a laugh filled with rage, his voice seemingly forced out from between his teeth: "Very well, stranger, we've been quite polite to you. You've entered our world without permission, killed our people, threatened us true gods, and even tried to destroy our world... Then let's fight!"

Wu Pifu nodded without replying and immediately threw a straight punch at the knight.

The two were at least fifty meters apart. With a single punch, he was already close in the blink of an eye. The punch was as fast as lightning, with the sound of wind and thunder. The knight was covered in heavy knight's armor, so his face could not be seen. Facing Wu Pifu's fierce punch, he simply raised the knight's lance in his hand and slashed horizontally. Wu Pifu's punch hit nothing at all.

The knight had already arrived at least several hundred meters behind Wu Pifu, raising his lance high into the sky and shouting, "Mortal, you know nothing of the realm of the gods!"

Wu Pifu turned around, clenched his fist, and without even taking out the Heroic Spirit Shattered Blade, he said indifferently, "Just a mere Ascended Body, yet you have the nerve to rant here? Come on, let me see what you've got."

The knight paused for a moment, then roared furiously, "Arrogance!!"

As he spoke, the knight's lance slashed downwards, and Wu Pifu's eyes immediately saw a kaleidoscope-like visual effect. Everything around him began to crumble inch by inch, and the force of the shattering spread rapidly, then permeated Wu Pifu's entire body, making him seem as if he himself was about to break apart.

But for some unknown reason, just as his body was about to crack open, a series of cracking sounds erupted all over his body. All the cracks stopped at the surface of his skin, and a burst of sparks flashed. No matter how much the surrounding area shattered, Wu Pifu remained completely still, without a single scratch on his body.

"You..." The knight roared, and then a faint spear pierced through Wu Pifu's heart. However, it got stuck when it hit the inner wall of the heart, unable to penetrate even a millimeter. The spear tip was even bent and couldn't even make a white dot.

Wu Pifu simply stood there with a strange expression, and then countless spear tips appeared all over his body, from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet, from every blood vessel in his skin to every internal organ, from inside his eyeballs to inside his brain. Countless spear tips pierced out at the same time, but they were all jammed when they touched his flesh, organs, and bones.

"……Why……"

Wu Pifu ignored it completely, reached out and clapped his hands down. An invisible wave burst forth, all the spear tips disappeared, and the knight's armor developed numerous cracks. He was sent flying backward. Although the surrounding space continued to shatter, it did not harm Wu Pifu at all.

After striking with his palm, Wu Pifu did not immediately pursue. He reached out again with a puzzled look and touched a spatial rift with his finger. In an instant, a bloodstain appeared on his finger, the flesh and blood neatly separated, the bloodstain small and deep enough to see the bone.

"How strange." Wu Pifu looked at the fallen knight in the distance and said, "This is not an illusion, but my consciousness tells me not to believe it. As long as I don't believe it, I won't be affected in the slightest."

The knight remained silent, simply rising to his feet. He did not attack again, but instead pierced his own chest with his lance. A brilliant light burst forth from his chest, burning his body to ashes. The light then expanded, transforming into a "door."

It was actually just a ball of light, but upon seeing it, Wu Pifu immediately recognized it as a "door," representing the concept of a door. Then, a knight, shimmering with light, stepped out of the door unharmed. He was completely unharmed, still holding his lance, and riding a mighty lion...

Wu Pifu's eyes lit up, and in a flash, it transformed into a gigantic maw that could devour the world. With a snap, the giant lion was reduced to half its original size. The knight leaped into the air with a stomp of his foot, his speed and power far exceeding that of before. In the same howl, he rushed to Wu Pifu's face and thrust his spear straight at his forehead.

This thrust displayed immense power, its speed and strength no less than Wu Pifu's. A massive sonic boom even erupted from the spear tip, and a trail of air followed the spear before exploding. Just inches from Wu Pifu's forehead, the knight's lance seemed to ionize, its speed exceeding a critical point. Yet, all of this began to surpass Wu Pifu's speed and strength, remaining completely still before his two outstretched fingers. Wu Pifu effortlessly gripped the spear with two fingers, using less force than lifting a small stone. This seemingly insignificant force held the knight's lance firmly, preventing it from advancing even an inch.

The scene was extremely bizarre. Behind the knight, terrifying power fluctuations had begun to evaporate matter, and he was as dazzling as a star. Plasma began to flash, and even space itself was distorted. But behind Wu Pifu, everything was calm and peaceful, and he couldn't even be forced to move his feet an inch.

In order to try all this, Wu Pifu even loosened his grip, letting the spear pierce his forehead. Within five steps, he should no longer possess strong defensive characteristics, but when the spear pierced him, there wasn't even a single white mark on his forehead.

"No...it's not false, but..."

Wu Pifu murmured, puzzled and confused, but since he couldn't figure it out, he didn't bother to think about it anymore and raised his hand to press down with a palm.

This palm strike seemed effortless... well, it really was effortless. He didn't even circulate any qi or blood; it was just a light flick of the wrist. But as the palm strike landed, before it even reached him, the knight's body was about to shatter, and even the "door" was about to break open.

"stop!!"

Four roars were heard, and a sun, a cluster of stars, a grave, and a vehicle appeared in the thick fog, but only the sound could be heard, not the person.

Wu Pifu stopped, not actually bringing his hand down, but not because of the four voices, but because at that moment, the voice of the main brain came into his mind.

"Judging... Judgment complete. Information collected, spacetime structure confirmed, high-risk exploration mission three completed. Please obtain information about the whereabouts of the Containment Foundation from the Five Gods. Judgment in progress again... Judgment complete. Killing the Five Gods may cause the clues to be interrupted."

"Side quests are obtained by collecting detailed information about the Mind Civilization, experiencing the beginning and end of the Mind Civilization's loss, and receiving points based on the completion rate. If the completion rate exceeds 90%, additional rewards will be obtained, including but not limited to Mind Civilization's extraordinary cultivation methods, Mind Civilization's superior fantasy items, the source of the Mind Civilization's loss, and the coordinates of the Mind Civilization's lost world. The higher the completion rate, the more rewards you will receive, and you can obtain multiple rewards."

Wu Pifu cursed out loud, "No way, the damn source of loss is a reward too?! Mainframe, that's enough!!"

The mastermind naturally couldn't respond.

Seeing that Wu Pifu stopped attacking, the four voices disappeared, and the knight crumbled inch by inch. The "door" shrank by half. Finally, a trembling old man walked out of the door, panting as he walked. He looked extremely old.

Wu Pifu stared intently at the old man, noticing that he was panting heavily after coming out and eventually collapsed to the ground. Only then did he ask, "Alright, I'll give you a chance. Tell me everything, convince me, don't hide anything, don't deceive. I'm willing to give you this opportunity for peaceful dialogue. Don't let this opportunity slip away from you."

The old man smiled bitterly. He pointed at the door, which shrank again, and then a boy with mechanical modifications, a headless woman, a bald man covered in burns, and a middle-aged man whose body was mostly rotting all walked out. At this point, the door shattered, leaving only these five old, weak, sick, and disabled people.

"As expected, it didn't work... I tried my best, but I still couldn't defeat them. No, I still couldn't even inflict the slightest damage. As expected... our supernatural abilities have flaws." The old man said to the other four with a bitter smile.

The other four were either unable to speak, unable to show any expression, or had faces full of despair.

The headless woman spoke in an unknown way: "Why does an existence like you exist? Is your consciousness... truly something that life can bear?"

Wu Pifu did not answer, but just looked at the five people.

The five men also fell silent. After a moment, the one who was rotting like a corpse, with bones showing, finally spoke up: "Now that things have come to this, what's the point of hiding anything?"

"Potion Civilization, this is just a false name used to conceal the fatal flaw in our extraordinary path. The original name of our civilization should be... Mind Civilization."

"A civilization that was once incredibly prosperous, but unknowingly stepped into the abyss from the very beginning..."

Just then, the tentacles in the distant mist multiplied, blotting out the sky, and rolled towards the sun atop the thick fog. As they approached the sun, the tentacles grew larger and larger, until finally…

The tentacles extinguished the sun.

(End of this chapter)