Eternal Night

Chapter 546 A Single Strike and Escape, Still in Danger
(PS: First of all, I want to apologize to everyone. I saw some friends mentioning the recent update schedule issue. It's true, it's difficult to maintain a fixed update schedule right now. The effects of my depression haven't completely disappeared. My sleep duration is still inconsistent, with varying lengths of sleep and periods of wakefulness. This makes it difficult for me to update at a fixed time. However, I will adjust quickly and should be fully recovered by the end of this week at the latest. Please understand.)
This is insane...

Wu Pifu knew.

When the tentacles stretched out from the wormhole, he knew it was crazy.

Even before it was upon him, his sense of danger and martial arts intuition were already off the charts. The tentacle in front of him was not just for show; it truly possessed the power to shatter stars!
This thing... is something beyond the limits of mortal imagination; it is a god, a demon, a natural disaster, terror itself...

However, Wu Pifu was also very certain that the three things in front of him were incomplete, and might not even have shown one percent of their true strength. Otherwise, according to the information he obtained in the Lost Lands, the Transcendent, Sublimation, and Origin levels could only be fought across one level. When they were above one level, they would be absolutely crushing and impossible to resist.

Just like when he was corrupted and eroded by lust, one of the seven deadly sins, in the Lost Lands, even with his strength, resistance to corruption, and self-recovery, he was almost killed by lust. But the tentacle he is facing now does not have a similar status and does not exhibit the infinite loop and perfect closed loop that the Root should possess.

This is why Wu Pifu decided to stay and strike once more before running away.

He was not entirely powerless to resist, but he was unwilling to give up, so at this moment he raised his sword to the sky.

From among those stars, tentacles as large as stars were pushing through the atmosphere and falling straight down on Wu Pifu. Endless flames accompanied by hurricanes powerful enough to tear the earth apart caused the world to boil. Wu Pifu was like a speck of dust in this chaotic world, and even with his strength, he was somewhat unable to stabilize himself.

Then, the tentacles pressed down, seemingly slowly, but that was from the perspective of a planet. From the perspective of an individual life form, the boundless darkness pressed down from above like a wall, arriving in front of them in the blink of an eye. The earth shattered, and Wu Pifu was about to be crushed into minced meat.

"Super Brain World!"

At this critical moment of life and death, when the tentacle was only five meters away from him, Wu Pifu directly activated his Super Brain World, then raised his knife and charged forward, slashing at the giant tentacle wall with the first strike.

The moment they made contact, a power beyond Wu Pifu's comprehension arose out of thin air. At this moment, the Heroic Spirit Shattered Blade had only touched the surface of this giant tentacle wall, but the effect of Kratos's title had already been activated. This power was so immense that even Wu Pifu felt unfamiliar with it.

In adjectives, it's almost like having the power to move mountains and fill seas, to capture stars and seize the moon.

However, this power was not Wu Pifu's own power, nor was it under his control. As soon as it appeared, his skin began to crack inch by inch, his capillaries almost all burst open, his muscles ruptured, and his bones shattered. But in a state of 90% negative mental backlash, he healed all these injuries in the blink of an eye.

Destruction, healing, destruction, healing...

In this super bullet-time state of the super brain world, Wu Pifu would shatter and heal every few milliseconds, and his entire form began to become somewhat uncontrollable. However, this terrifying power, capable of shattering stars, was finally directed by him towards the giant tentacle wall in front of him...

As the colossal stellar tentacles descended from the sky, the entire world fell silent. Then, an unimaginably massive shockwave exploded from the planet's surface, shattering the earth and creating visible cracks. These cracks widened, and countless streams of magma erupted thousands of meters into the sky, tearing the entire planet apart. The colossal stellar tentacles continued to crush downwards, ultimately shattering the entire planet into burning fragments and dust that still lingered in the universe.

This terrifying attack was of unimaginable power, shaking and impacting even the stars surrounding the doomsday planet, causing them to drift and move in different directions from other star systems.

After shattering the star with its strike, the colossal tentacle stood motionless in outer space for at least ten seconds. Then, at a certain point on the tentacle, a crack with a dark metallic sheen began to appear. At first, this crack was insignificant, like a tiny scratch the thickness of a hair on a human body. But as time passed, the crack began to expand rapidly at an unbelievable speed, from a single point to a line, from a line to a whole area…

The cracks, shimmering with a dark metallic sheen, spread across a large area of ​​the tentacle's surface. This area alone was larger than a star. Finally, when the dark metallic sheen stopped expanding, this area of ​​the giant tentacle, now imbued with the light of a star, began to crumble, annihilate, and dissipate. In the end, a third of the mass of this tentacle, larger than a star, completely vanished...

On the other side, in the dense fog world of five old, weak, sick and disabled people, the other-dimensional space of the Golden Tree Bonsai first appeared, enveloping Huang Rong and the three small animals. Then, five seconds later, an amorphous mass of flesh and blood also appeared.

The five elderly, weak, sick, and disabled people only glanced at the mass of flesh and blood, and immediately lowered their heads in horror, refusing to look, hear, or think. In that one glance, they almost lost their physical form. This thing... was terrifyingly sinister.

This mass of flesh was writhing, trying dozens of times to transform from an amorphous mass into a human form, but a terrifying and immense force kept destroying it. It transformed again and again, only to be destroyed again and again, until after hundreds of attempts, this terrifying force gradually subsided. Finally, the amorphous mass of flesh began to gradually transform into a human form.

"...What is this thing...?"

The five elderly, weak, sick, and disabled people didn't dare to move an inch, and one of them murmured softly.

"Human..." The blurry humanoid form that had transformed from a mass of flesh spoke, "Are you blind? Of course I am human, a pure-blooded human!"

The five elderly, weak, sick, and disabled didn't dare to refute, each still looking down at the ground. The mass of flesh writhed and healed for at least several tens of seconds before barely taking on the form of Wu Pifu. However, his appearance was truly miserable; his body was a bloody mess, not an inch of his skin was intact, and many were broken. One ear was missing, one eyeball had exploded, a patch of scalp was gone, three fingers were missing, and one leg was lame…

In short, aside from the fact that he's not dead, his image is as terrible as it gets.

However, Wu Pifu remained standing, holding half of the Broken Heroic Spirit Blade in his hand, and was laughing heartily, his laughter extremely unrestrained.

"Root-level memory flashback obtained, in judgment... Judgment complete. Citizen Wu Pifu is currently unable to accept this memory flashback information. Please continue to improve your life essence. Once you reach the perfect level, you will be able to accept this memory flashback. You can currently read the main brain's compiled version to obtain overall information about the illusory worldview."

"Destroyed 0.13 percent of the essence of the lost root 'Beginning of All Things', gaining points... Judgment in progress... Judgment complete, gaining 1.03 billion points. The main brain extracts 1 billion to compensate for the consumption of citizen Wu Pifu pulled back from the root closed loop."

"Lost World Exploration Mission Completion Rate... 92%!"

"Should we draw from the Gaia Human Civilization Overall Essence Reward Pool?"

The main AI's voice rang in Wu Pifu's mind. When Wu Pifu heard "1.03 billion", his heart skipped a beat. But when he heard that the main AI had extracted 1 billion, he almost couldn't help but draw his sword. He managed to hold back until the very end.

However, he did not immediately draw the sword. Instead, he staggered toward the other dimension where Huang Rong was. When he got close, he held the Broken Spirit Sword upside down and barked like a dog while spinning around three times.

At this moment, the five elderly, weak, sick and disabled people were secretly observing this terrifying existence. Watching him turn upside down and bark like a dog, the five looked at each other, their faces full of question marks.

"...a very peculiar ritual."

"So, are all the terrifying things in the outside world based on this kind of ritual?"

"Indeed, it's really strange..."

While Wu Pifu was utterly bewildered, the alternate dimension vanished. Huang Rong rushed towards Wu Pifu, crying, but upon getting close, she dared not touch his mangled body. She could only sob, "Brother Pifu, are you alright? What do we do? We can't find any medicinal herbs here, and the Nine-Flower Jade Dew Pills my father made are still in my home world... what do we do..."

Wu Pifu breathed a sigh of relief and sat down on the ground. He said, "Don't worry, it's just a minor injury. As long as I survive the worst backlash and don't die, my pure-blooded human body will be fine. At most, I can heal myself after returning to my world."

Huang Rong choked on her breath before scolding, "What time is it? Brother Ant is still joking around here, what pure-blooded human..."

Wu Pifu shook his head and didn't continue. He simply said to Huang Rong, "Alright, Rong'er, you can tell me the next steps in cultivating internal energy now. I have enough points to spend."

Huang Rong looked around in surprise, then glanced at the five elderly, weak, sick, and disabled people before whispering to Wu Pifu, "Shall we talk here? Brother Pifu, why don't we find a place where we can rest and get treatment, and settle everything down before we talk?"

"No, right here, and we need to hurry, that tentacle hasn't given up on us yet..."

Wu Pifu looked up at the sky. His intuition told him that the danger was not far away, and the root of spiritual civilization had not let them go!

Although this is the outermost layer of the three worldviews, the so-called outer layer of mysticism, according to the information Wu Pifu already knows, the outerer the layer, the less power the three origins can display. But it is the origin... He now has no doubt about the power of the origin, and it is indeed a terrifying power that he cannot resist at present!
Huang Rong hesitated for a moment, but still slowly told Wu Pifu what had happened.

As Wu Pifu listened to the cultivation method of internal energy, he whispered, "Main computer, activate the essence reward pool to draw... You've already taken a billion points from me, don't go too far, understand?"

"...Activate the Essence Reward Pool for drawing..."

"Judgment in progress... Judgment complete. Congratulations to citizen Wu Pifu..."

"You've won..."

(End of this chapter)