Eternal Night

Chapter 545 Raising the Sword Towards the Stars!

In the memory flashbacks that Wu Pifu received, a detailed description was given of what the so-called "miniature garden" world of the spiritual civilization actually was.

The extraordinary path unique to spiritual civilization is actually the manifestation of the mind, and magic potions are merely one of its applications.

When this civilization fell from the absolute reality into nothingness, they discovered that they were different from all previous civilizations, and the biggest difference lay in the pollution of their spiritual manifestation.

This pollution did not originate from the roots at the bottom of the dream world, but came directly from the source of pollution itself. It was pollution that had accumulated and existed since ancient times. At that time, the spiritual civilization was still in the absolute real world, so theoretically it was almost impossible for this to happen. This is also why the spiritual civilization believed that its civilization was extremely special after learning all this.

This pollution initially showed no abnormalities; on the contrary, it brought powerful supernatural abilities to the Mind Civilization. In the beginning, the Mind Civilization's mental manifestations possessed extremely strong plasticity. The Magic Potion Supernatural Path was its result. By combining the supernatural characteristics manifested by the mind, it allowed itself to evolve and sublimate step by step from the physical body to the spirit. At its most powerful and prosperous time, the Magic Potion Path developed nearly thirty different sequences.

Aside from lacking a source, when the spiritual civilizations of that time explored a dream world of immense value, they could even dispatch more than a hundred Ascended Beings!
However, pollution is both its strength and its weakness. As spiritual civilization declines into nothingness, the influence of pollution at its root becomes increasingly apparent, and the specific manifestation of this pollution is... nothingness!
The disappearance mentioned in the memory flashback is just the most insignificant manifestation of it.

When an individual with a civilized mind, whether extraordinary or ordinary, has too few acquaintances and develops a sense of world-weariness, he will mysteriously disappear when no one is around. This disappearance will not cause any damage to the surroundings or create any disasters, so it is the least harmful form of nothingness.

Initially, it was a disappearance by chance, then it became a collective disappearance, such as in remote villages, backward towns, or deserted corners. Even if someone still remembers you, suddenly at some point, everyone in the village vanishes, the backward town is deserted, you go to the toilet and then everyone is gone, or you enter a shopping mall and the moment you turn around, hundreds or thousands of people behind you disappear...

No one knows the mechanism of the void, and the higher-ups of the spiritual civilization are completely unable to understand this pollution result that is so different from other civilizations.

Other civilizations all experienced the loss of civilizations because a large number of their ordinary people died, which reduced the actual amount of civilization's output to zero, and eventually the civilization was exhausted.

However, the decline of spiritual civilization is manifested directly in a large number of ordinary people, which alone makes it vastly different from other civilizations.

As this nihilistic phenomenon intensified, the higher echelons of the spiritual civilization—the extraordinary individuals, scientists, researchers, scholars… all those with ability, intelligence, and power—began an urgent discussion. They conducted countless experiments, countless demonstrations, and countless deductions to investigate its cause, ultimately arriving at an inconceivable answer…

They are spiritually civilized, and all of them are extraordinary!
Ordinary people who do not exhibit extraordinary abilities actually possess extraordinary power. The evidence for this is that they can retrieve magical potions from their sea of ​​consciousness. However, retrieving magical potions also indirectly damages the integrity of their mental image, resulting in a huge defect in their mental consciousness and making it easier for their thoughts and ideas to fall into nothingness.

Based on their research and deductions, they ultimately arrived at a conclusion that they could not accept.

Due to the unique nature of spiritual civilization, every individual within it, including ordinary people, is actually a potential superhuman. Furthermore, because of their extraordinary characteristics at the spiritual level, their minds are extremely prone to resonance. Once the phenomenon of nihilism spreads on a large scale, when a certain critical point is reached, if a certain proportion of individuals simultaneously generate concepts involving "nihilism," "non-existence," "we are false," etc., then spiritual civilization is very likely to disappear in an instant!

The phenomenon of an entire civilization "disappearing into the shadows"!

and so……

Wu Pifu snapped out of his memory reverie and raised his fist to smash it at the Klein bottle monster before him. At the same time, the Klein bottle monster unleashed a piercing scream on a mental level. In an instant, the distance between it and Wu Pifu seemed to stretch to thousands, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of meters, but…

"Super Brain World!"

In an instant, the world turned black and white. At this moment, the Klein bottle was in an uncertain state, as if it had transformed into dozens of clones, seemingly a few meters away from Wu Pifu, yet also hundreds of meters, thousands of meters, or even hundreds of thousands of meters away. And what Wu Pifu did was quite simple...

beat!
He also drew his Heroic Spirit Shattering Blade, wielding fists, palms, and claws, slashing and hacking, no matter where the monster was, this brute only cared about killing, ignoring everything else, charging forward with his blade, hacking and slashing wildly, catching up with the Klein Bottle Monster's clone, destroying it, and then chasing after the Klein Bottle Monster even further away...

The blade flashed, and energy burst forth, turning the entire sky into a turbulent torrent. In the blink of an eye, the spatial changes caused by the Klein bottle vanished, and its location seemed to appear in dozens of places simultaneously. However, as its main body shattered, it eventually collapsed into a solid entity located at the spot where Wu Pifu had last raised his blade.

The knife slashed down, cutting through in one stroke.

The entire Klein bottle monster split into dozens of pieces, each of which was rapidly disintegrating and dissipating.

Then, in that moment of rapid disintegration and dissipation, a mass of fleshy growth condensed again from the Klein bottle, and its shape instantly transformed into the face of the young man from before.

At this moment, more than half of the Klein bottle behind him had dissipated, but the young man's face showed no pain, struggle, or fear, leaving only a sense of peace and relief.

"...It's all wrong, everything is wrong..."

"...Stranger, please tell those five guards of the tombstone..."

"...Wrong, everything is wrong, there is no future, no survivors, we, we are all just deceiving ourselves..."

Then, Wu Pifu witnessed a scene that made him frown. The dissipating remains of the Klein bottle monster vanished right before his eyes, without a trace, without any reaction. It simply disappeared with a "plop"—no, not even a "plop"—completely vanishing right in front of him, utterly and utterly gone. This left Wu Pifu utterly bewildered. Even if it had been killed by his true damage, there would have been a process of complete annihilation. But this Klein bottle monster, with about a third of its remains remaining, simply disappeared. This was definitely not the effect of his true damage!
Wu Pifu waited for a few seconds, but the expected memory flashback did not occur. Instead, the mainframe's voice rang out.

"Judgment in progress... Judgment complete. Key defeated, obtained extremely important lost information, and gained 6 million points."

"...The coordinates of the sandbox have been marked, in progress...in progress...in progress..."

Meanwhile, in the pre-apocalyptic world, at the top of the enormous pyramid, the ever-changing chunks of flesh, the amorphous fog, and the countless golden spheres all underwent changes simultaneously. Countless human heads and faces emerged on the surface of the flesh, the amorphous fog formed screaming human figures, and within the countless golden spheres, the birth, aging, sickness, and death of human beings evolved...

"Under investigation... Source unknown, investigation process blocked..."

"Blocking... Blocking... Blocking..."

"...Blocking failed, judgment complete..."

"With the loss of information within the sandbox, the possibility of it becoming nothingness is 99.9999%..."

"According to the final defense agreement, we are now extracting the divine garden, the doomsday closed loop, and the intellect of all cyclical individuals within the mystical outer realms..."

"Intelligence extraction complete, injected into the three sources. Current intelligence recovery level in the three sources is... 0.32%..."

"Eliminate the threat!"

On the other side, Wu Pifu listened in astonishment to the voice of the main brain in his mind. This judgment had looped at least ten times. It was really weird. This was the first time he had ever seen the main brain's judgment freeze.
"Uh...Master, why don't you restart it? I have experience; when the computer freezes or blue screens, the best solution is to restart," Wu Pifu said after thinking for a moment.

Then, the mainframe's voice finally returned from the judgment.

"...Judgment complete. The coordinates of the triple loop illusory world have been obtained. The illusory world view has been recorded."

"Judgment in progress... Judgment complete. Citizen Wu Pifu, please select your next action."

"Continue exploring, the mortality rate is 99.9999%..."

"Abandon exploration. You will immediately penetrate the illusory worldview. Subsequent rewards will be significantly reduced..."

Just then, Wu Pifu saw a large patch of thick fog suddenly appear in the distant sky. This fog formed a ring, from which countless golden spheres flickered, turning the ring into a wormhole visible to the naked eye. Then, from that wormhole, a giant tentacle, larger than a mountain peak and even comparable to a planet, extended out and crushed down on Wu Pifu with the force of shattering a planet.

At this critical moment, Wu Pifu glanced at the exploration progress bar at the corner of his eye. Just after killing that Klein bottle monster, the exploration progress had suddenly soared to 73%!
Wu Pifu's lips moved rapidly as he spoke at lightning speed: "Master, to draw from the premium card pool, I mean, how much exploration points are needed to obtain the rewards?"

"Judgment in progress... Judgment complete. Exploration level needs to reach the critical point of 90%."

Wu Pifu paused for a moment, then a ferocious smile appeared on his face. He immediately said, "Mastermind, send Huang Rong and Qiu Qiu out first, then send me out in five seconds... Don't let me down at this time. If I die, you'll suffer a huge loss. I'm at least in the top three in terms of importance in the entire human civilization, right?!"

Mainframe: "...Judgment complete. Confirming penetration of the void worldview in five seconds."

Wu Pifu stood still, watching the enormous tentacle that fell from above, larger than a mountain, almost comparable to a star, and powerful enough to shatter an entire planet.

Qi and blood, vital energy, domineering aura...

not enough!
The rate of negative emotional backlash is 50%, 60%, 70%...90%!

"...You're ten times older than me, right?"

Wu Pifu murmured.

Facing the colossal stellar tentacles, a human as small as a speck of dust raised a greatsword...

(End of this chapter)