Eternal Night

Chapter 634 You don't need to know the plot...

(PS: This is a bonus chapter for yesterday's patron. I was probably busy with some things when I was away these past few days, so I wrote slowly. Although my mind was full of inspiration, my hands couldn't keep up. I finally finished typing it.)

Thank you to the patron "Food-grade Salted Fish" for the generous donation; an extra chapter is added as a token of appreciation. Thank you again for your support.
Wu Pifu carried a ten-foot-long, black bear and a large, white-browed worm with piercing eyes as he stepped into the Rongguo Mansion.

Everyone around was stunned.

Wu Pifu didn't descend from the sky; instead, he swaggered in through the city gate. He was just a twelve or thirteen-year-old kid, carrying two enormous beasts as he walked alone through the streets. Most importantly, these two beasts, which looked like kings of the deep mountains, were alive!
This is even more terrifying than something falling from the sky, isn't it?
At least when you fall from the sky, everyone knows you're not human. But you, a toddler who looks like a human, carrying two kings of beasts and rampaging through the city, that's not just a question of whether you're human or not, okay?
Wu Pifu, however, was unaware of this, or perhaps he did it on purpose. Otherwise, if he used his collective super-brain ability, let alone lifting two ferocious beasts, he could even carry the emperor on the road without anyone saying a word.

But he deliberately caused a sensation because he wanted to see if he could lure out the bald-headed monk and the lame Taoist.

These two characters, who were kept hidden in the original text, are very likely related to the Heavenly Court.

It's not that these two characters are from the Heavenly Court, but rather that they are likely, like Wang Wudi, dream world figures who have pledged allegiance to the Heavenly Court.

According to Wu Pifu's understanding of the Heavenly Court, the entire Heavenly Court headquarters must be in a dormant state, but its operating mechanism has a procedure to accommodate outsiders who defect. Wang Wudi defected to the Heavenly Court in this way, and this is certainly not an isolated case. Wu Pifu just wanted to try to see if he could attract these monks and Taoists. If he could attract them and capture them, he could gain a better understanding of the Heavenly Court and Wang Wudi.

This naturally terrified ordinary people around the world...

Wu Pifu ignored everything and returned to the Rongguo Mansion as if it were his own home, naturally eliciting screams from everyone along the way. He dragged the two exhausted beasts to Lin Daiyu's courtyard, and as soon as he entered, he heard Lin Daiyu's maid, Zijuan, shouting loudly, "Miss, Miss, say something! Don't scare me..."

Wu Pifu threw the two ferocious beasts to the ground and ignored them, walking straight into the room. There he saw Zijuan crying and pulling at Lin Daiyu, while Lin Daiyu had a calm, eerie, and crazy faint smile on her face. No matter how much Zijuan pulled, Lin Daiyu stood still and did not move. Zijuan was too anxious to notice that she had not even moved Lin Daiyu by a centimeter.

Wu Pifu could see clearly that Lin Daiyu's body was moving slightly. Every time Zijuan pulled, her body would move slightly to dissipate the force. This control had reached the level of internal strength.

"Very good, as expected, I have trapped you directly on the battlefield. You cannot escape unless you win. I was only gone for a short day, and you have already reached the Dark Force level. Very good!" Wu Pifu exclaimed in admiration.

Regardless, he always praised and admired Lin Daiyu for her diligence.

Suddenly, Zijuan felt a lightness in her hand. Lin Daiyu, who had been motionless like a puppet, had disappeared from her sight. The next instant, Lin Daiyu had already snuggled into Wu Pifu's arms. The action seemed like an intimate embrace, but her palms, one above and one below, struck Wu Pifu's throat and groin respectively. The movements were clean and swift, without the slightest hesitation. Her palms slashed straight down, and combined with Lin Daiyu's beautiful face, which resembled a flower reflected in water, and her figure, which resembled a willow swaying in the breeze, these two palms were like swallows in the spring breeze, arriving with perfect precision. There was even a touch of beauty in the movements... the beauty of death.

But Wu Pifu didn't move at all, just stood there and let Lin Daiyu cut his throat and groin. In the blink of an eye, Lin Daiyu's fingers snapped back, but she didn't even flinch. She turned around and kicked Wu Pifu in the heart.

At this moment, Wu Pifu made his move again, pointing a finger at the sole of Lin Daiyu's foot. With a soft thud, Lin Daiyu fell back to the edge of the bed.

"Not bad, your strength has reached the standard of hidden strength, and your movements are also skillful and agile, but you have two problems."

Wu Pifu stepped forward, took Lin Daiyu's fingers, and gently patted them. Her fingers recovered, and the wound healed.

Zijuan's mouth was agape; she had absolutely no idea what she was seeing.

The usually gentle and delicate Miss Lin suddenly exuded a terrifying aura that kept strangers at bay, while Wu Ge'er, who should have been a scholar, spoke like a master instructor... What's going on?

Lin Daiyu's eyes remained silent, and she showed no emotion even when her fingers were bent backwards.

After healing Lin Daiyu's finger, Wu Pifu looked at her and said, "The first problem is that your physique is too weak. Although you have activated your internal energy, you have not used it to refine and maintain your body. Your body is weak and sickly, which is consuming your lifespan. But this is not a problem. I have found a lot of rare herbs, and there is a bear and a tiger outside, which will be perfect for you to nourish yourself."

Upon hearing this, Zijuan immediately ran towards the courtyard. She screamed as soon as she stepped out of the room and then fainted.

Lin Daiyu remained expressionless, her eyes showing no emotion whatsoever. Wu Pifu ignored her and continued, "The second problem is more troublesome. I want you to become a person with a perfect physical body. The previous points are not important, but being human is very important. If you become inhuman, then I will be in trouble. Therefore, you cannot shield yourself from pain by destroying your own personality."

As he spoke, Wu Pifu tapped Lin Daiyu's forehead and temples several times with his fingers. After that, his super brain ability was activated and put into use.

In just a few seconds, Lin Daiyu's eyes flickered, and then tears welled up. As soon as the tears came out, she immediately opened her mouth and made a single sound, "ah ah ah," before she suddenly started wailing. Although it was wailing, it was full of force and had none of the demeanor of "Sister Lin."

Wu Pifu nodded repeatedly, saying, "Good, very good, that's how it should be. Only humans can feel pain and happiness. You're feeling pain now, so you're still missing happiness..."

As they spoke, Wu Pifu pointed again, using the super brain to extract Lin Daiyu's clearest and warmest memories of her mother, and played them back in her mind repeatedly. After playing at least dozens of fragments several times, Lin Daiyu gradually stopped crying, but her eyes were dull, and she looked resigned to her fate.

Upon seeing this, Wu Pifu frowned and said, "Why are you so resigned to your fate? I told you, only humans can feel pain and happiness. Pain is what makes you remember and resist, and happiness is what makes you remember and protect. Without these two things, what kind of person are you? Remember these two things, and then rely on your strength to become stronger, break through all difficulties and obstacles, and protect the happiness that belongs to you!!"

As he spoke, Wu Pifu even employed a sonic attack technique from martial arts, his voice carrying a certain rhythm, reminiscent of the lion's roar in Buddhism. How could Lin Daiyu bear this? She shuddered, her previously suppressed personality consciousness, suppressed by extreme pain, began to recover, and at the same time, the gradually forgotten face of her mother was once again firmly remembered, a hint of determination appearing in her eyes.

However, having "died" too many times before, his eyes still held some fear, and he dared not look Wu Pifu in the eye, only lowering his head to avoid her gaze.

Wu Pifu sighed. He knew he had been too hasty. After all, they had only been training her for a day. Although she had died countless times, Lin Daiyu had finally killed the Buddha Yaksha.

Just then, Lin Daiyu's stomach suddenly made a thunderous sound, and she immediately blushed and hugged her stomach tightly.

After all, she was just an eleven or twelve-year-old girl. Wu Pifu laughed and turned to walk out the door, saying as she walked, "Come on, let's go eat. You haven't eaten or drunk anything for a day and a night, and you've also activated your internal energy. Your body is actually quite depleted. Fortunately, you've already become an internal energy martial artist, so it's a good time to replenish it."

Lin Daiyu lowered her head, unwilling to follow, but she was so hungry that she hadn't felt it before because she had shut down her personality. Now she felt like she could even bite the table off, so she could only obediently follow behind Wu Pifu.

Meanwhile, the whole of Kyoto was talking about the strange tiger and bear incident.

It is truly an unprecedented and bizarre event that a child who is not yet an adult is parading around the bustling city with two wild animals, a bear and a tiger, both of which are alive.

Although some people who had never seen it with their own eyes thought it was a hoax or a magic trick, those who did see it couldn't help but describe it vividly.

Meanwhile, in the very heart of the capital city, in the imperial palace, the emperor, the supreme ruler of the country, was listening to the Imperial Guards recount this extraordinary tale.

The emperor appeared to be in his fifties, with a stern and imposing face. After hearing the description, he remained noncommittal for a moment, simply dismissing the Imperial Guards before asking without raising his head, "Is this true?"

Beside the emperor was an old eunuch who bowed and said, "Your Majesty, it is true. The spies of the Rongguo Mansion have also sent back this information. They said that it was captured by Wu Pifu, the son of Lin Ruhai, the Salt Commissioner. He is only twelve or thirteen years old, but he is incredibly strong, far surpassing the ancient evil Lai. He can lift a bear and a tiger with one hand. Although we do not know how good he is in the battlefield, judging from this description, he is probably even stronger than Li Yuanba in the Tang Dynasty."

The emperor was moved. He knew that the old eunuch would never dare to deceive the army. He was overjoyed, especially since the country had faced many troubles and foreign enemies this year. If there were truly such a rare and valiant general on the battlefield, it would be a blessing for the nation. However…

"Lin Ruhai's biological son... Wu Pifu? Uh, something seems off?"

The emperor felt something was amiss, but he was too lazy to think about it further and preferred to see for himself whether it was true or not.

He immediately said, "Then let's see it with our own eyes. It's still early today, let's issue the decree."

The old eunuch immediately bowed, accepted the order, and left.

On the other side, Lin Daiyu suppressed her nausea and discomfort, eating tiger and bear meat in large mouthfuls. Following Wu Pifu's instructions, she directly chewed and swallowed the tiger and bear bones that Wu Pifu had softened by his internal energy. In between, she also ate large mouthfuls of ginseng and lingzhi that Wu Pifu had conjured up. If Zijuan saw this, she would probably faint from fright again.

"Very good. Eating and drinking are the first essentials of life. You must eat and drink a lot in the future so that you can maintain and strengthen your physique!" Wu Pifu exclaimed loudly, while flipping the pot with both hands and pouring the offal and flesh that he had cooked quickly with his internal energy into Lin Daiyu's large bowl.

While eating, Lin Daiyu asked, "The scene I experienced doesn't seem unreal. Did you experience it, Angkor?"

Wu Pifu said impatiently, "Just call me Wu Pifu, or just call me brother. What do you mean by 'brother'? You still have the 'er' sound in it. I don't like it. Besides, you don't need to know the plot, and you won't in the future either. You don't need to know so much. For any enemy, any predicament, any hardship or desperate situation, knowing too much will only make you lose your courage. You only need to know one thing: where your enemies are and how to kill them. It's that simple."

Lin Daiyu blushed and quickly lowered her head to drink her soup, while saying in a soft voice, "Brother... Brother Wu, if you only know how to fight and kill and don't understand anything else, wouldn't you just become a reckless man?"

Wu Pifu scoffed, "The weak are the brutes, the strong are the saviors! When you can clear out 100,000 iron cavalry in an hour or half an hour just by fighting and killing, you'll realize that the so-called plot is useless and only wastes your time clearing monsters!"

Lin Daiyu felt that something was off about what he was saying, but at that moment her mind was foggy and she was only focused on eating and drinking.

Unexpectedly, Wu Pifu suddenly said something that made her freeze in place.

“Take your father, Lin Ruhai, for example. Even if he knows that those salt merchants want to kill him, want to kill you, and that your mother might have been killed by them, he knows all of this, but what can he do? Before long, he will die too, and then you will truly be an orphan.”

There was a snap.

The large bowl that Lin Daiyu was holding was crushed by her.

(End of this chapter)