Eternal Night

Chapter 649: He never returned!
Wu Pifu struck out with a palm, hitting the side of the bloated monster's body and blasting it to the ridge, breaking the ridge in the process. At the same moment, the monster's spikes also pierced Wu Pifu's body, knocking him to the foot of the mountain and creating a mushroom cloud.

From the fractured ridge, a bloated, writhing monster pushed aside the rocks and emerged once more.

Through fighting and healing, and for some other reason, this once majestic and awe-inspiring celestial body has now completely transformed into a chaotic monster. Numerous heads proliferate like tumors, and countless limbs intertwine and grow haphazardly, making it a disgusting monster that is no longer recognizable as human.

But the further it strayed from human form, the stronger the monster became. It pushed aside the rocks and roared, "You are not Him! You are too weak, you ant! If I were here in my true form, I could crush you with a single finger!"

On the other side, Wu Pifu also blasted a large chunk of rocks and soil out, and roared, "If I were at my peak, I could kill you with a single sneeze. You weakling, you're not even one ten-thousandth as strong as those four powerful enemies I faced before. What are you yelling about? Come on, prepare to die!"

Both sides were enraged and charged forward, exchanging blows.

It was a twisted, multiplying mass of flesh and a humanoid slime monster, both enraged and fiercely competing, each unwilling to yield an inch. However, each was weakened for various reasons. When they clashed, what appeared earth-shattering to outsiders was, in their eyes, as ridiculous as two scoundrels wielding bricks against each other.

They clashed again. This time, Wu Pifu used the title of Great Mighty Heavenly Dragon and sent Jia Baoyu flying out of the Taishan area with a single move, landing on a plain. However, Jia Baoyu, who was rolling on the ground, did not suddenly jump up this time. Instead, he lay on the ground and looked up at the sky with his head held high.

The crimson dragon still looked down at the earth, constantly spewing out lightning, but its body was indeed gradually beginning to dim.

"...How laughable, how laughable! The rules of heaven are nothing more than the human heart. The will of heaven is the human heart. The so-called heaven, earth, and man are actually all just man, man, man... How laughable, how laughable..."

Jia Baoyu stared blankly at the sky. At that moment, a figure came rushing in from afar, it was still that dead-fish-eyed boy carrying a big knife, charging and slashing.

Jia Baoyu chuckled, flipped himself up, and his twisted, tangled arms materialized into a multitude of swords, spears, and clubs. At the same time, he roared, "You're not that monkey after all, hehe, now I know your origins. You're not from the Zhenwu lineage at all; you're the manifestation of that monkey's six senses, aren't you!?"

Wu Pifu was taken aback at first, then became even angrier, and roared, "I'm a human, a pure-blooded human! Go to hell, you monkey, monkey, monkey!"

In the past, he wouldn't have been so enraged, but now he was particularly sensitive about whether he was human or not. Being called a monkey or something like that naturally made him even angrier, and he raised his big knife and slashed wildly at Jia Baoyu.

Jia Baoyu, of course, was equally ruthless, brandishing all sorts of weapons to retaliate. They unleashed a flurry of attacks, turning the plain into something resembling the surface of a lunar crater.

"You may not admit it, but I know that you must be one of His six roots. That's right, at the pinnacle of the ultimate transcendent body, even the Root Source is nothing to him. How could he have disappeared so easily? The six roots, the six roots... Let me guess, you are Er Ting Nu, right? You've been so angry, angry, angry..."

During the exchange, Jia Baoyu kept talking, which only confused Wu Pifu more and more, making him even angrier.

"I..."

Jia Baoyu, despite being struck by Wu Pifu's palm, stubbornly refused to back down, all his heads still laughing incessantly: "You really have the same temperament... But you're not Him, just one of the six senses, so why are you so arrogant? So haughty? You don't even respect me, a heavenly general, so who do you respect? A Golden Immortal? A Divine General? Or even a higher Great Luo Immortal? No, no, no, given your arrogant nature, I'm afraid only that one person would make you wary..."

Wu Pifu felt aggrieved. He felt that the non-human in front of him was implying something, and was mocking him as a monkey. He didn't care about anything else and put his maximum effort into every move, just relentlessly attacking.

Unexpectedly, Jia Baoyu was merely on the defensive, letting Wu Pifu launch his attacks while he kept muttering something under his breath.

"Innate talent only exists in theory. We all cultivate the true spirit, either following the path of heavenly soldiers, generals, and gods, or the path of true immortals, gods, and golden immortals, ultimately converging at the Great Luo realm to attain the origin. But even the origin cannot be condensed into the six senses: sight (joy), hearing (anger), smell (love), taste (thought), body (sorrow), and thought (desire). The six senses are actually derived from heaven and earth..."

Wu Pifu beheaded Jia Baoyu with a single stroke, severing multiple heads at once. However, this body, which contained countless souls and spiritual essences, kept sprouting new heads. But each time these heads grew back, their appearance became increasingly distorted, just like a human figure being replicated. Each replication had a slight difference from the previous one, but after many times, it looked terrifying, directly demonstrating the uncanny valley effect.

Jia Baoyu continued, "When you drank with me, you said I was kind-hearted and took good care of him under the Five Elements Mountain. Now that the Heavenly Court is about to undergo a major upheaval, you can't worry about my safety and have found me a good place to go. But I know I'm just an ordinary person, what good place could I possibly go? With you by my side, it would be good for me to follow you and try my luck..."

Wu Pifu slashed several more times, then unleashed a powerful Dragon Subduing Palm strike from the air, shattering a third of the monster's body.

"...But in the end, you struck me so hard I was nearly dead, and I lost consciousness. When I awoke, you had already shattered your seven emotions and six desires, your three souls and seven spirits, leaving only your last spiritual essence bound on the Execution Platform. You were brutally skinned alive right before my eyes. And that's not all; even your last remaining spiritual essence was scattered into the Eight Trigrams Furnace of the Douluo Continent and refined into Nine-Turn Pills. Do you know that? Because of that one blow from you, they actually rewarded me with a Nine-Turn Pill, a Nine-Turn Pill refined from your spiritual essence!!"

Jia Baoyu's voice had become distorted, consisting only of strange sounds like roars and murmurs. His appearance was also severely distorted, and even his power began to twist and become bizarre. Despite being extraordinary energy, the effects it produced were random and abstract. Wu Pifu felt a chill in his heart, but he was not afraid. Relying on his title of "commoner," he continued to slash and bombard Jia Baoyu relentlessly.

"Didn't you say you were going to storm the Heavenly Palace? Didn't you say you were going to overthrow these man-eating heavenly rules? Didn't you say you were defiant? Why, in the end, were you suppressed too? Why did you become an ant crushed by the heavens? You... you're that monkey!!"

"I've given up, what else can I do? Kill myself in front of the Lingxiao Palace? I've searched for your six senses, just like your good brothers, but I can't find them at all, I just can't find them..."

Suddenly, Jia Baoyu's bloated monster body sprouted dozens of arms, enveloping Wu Pifu. No matter how Wu Pifu slashed wildly with his broadsword, the arms were constantly being destroyed, but they also kept regenerating.

“You are still too weak, Great Sage! I can see that you have more than just the extraordinary abilities of the True Martial lineage. You have other extraordinary abilities at your disposal, but they are too few and too weak. Last time you achieved the ultimate sublimation, it was formed by condensing eighty-one extraordinary abilities. But you yourself said that you didn’t actually need so many extraordinary abilities. Many of the extraordinary pathways were just for show. If you carefully selected and cultivated thirty-six strong extraordinary pathways, or twelve extremely strong extraordinary pathways, or even six top-level extraordinary pathways to the extreme, you could achieve the ultimate sublimation! Too many extraordinary pathways have made the backlash come too quickly and too fiercely. You have no time left.”

"Remember, find the other five, and this time don't be greedy. Be careful and hide carefully, and slowly select the best. The True Martial lineage is indeed extremely powerful, and can be considered a top-level extraordinary path. Cultivate it to the top, and then find the other five extremely powerful extraordinary paths, and cultivate them all to the top!"

"Furthermore, the whereabouts of those great gods from the early days of Heaven contain a great secret. I have already deciphered some of the mysteries of the fragments of the Sky-Mending Stone that you gave me. You can follow these mysteries to find Nuwa's legacy. Only by finding these great secrets and the whereabouts of those great gods can we overthrow Heaven!"

"I have been searching for the secrets of the Buddhist realm for a long time and have finally learned some clues. The first thing to do is to find the twelve destined secrets. It is said that two of them have been opened and the other ten are still there. Great Sage, you may want to search for them in those lost worlds."

"Be careful of that bald-headed monk and the lame Taoist. Although they are heavenly soldiers, they are skilled at hiding. The Great Sage has not yet cultivated his true spirit. If they insist on hiding, it will be troublesome to find them."

"And...and...no, that's all. It's just that when I was about to die, I actually feared the annihilation of body and soul. I was just playing dumb, and in the end, I really became a pig. Hahahaha..."

Just then, Jia Baoyu's monstrous body clasped all its arms together, suppressing Wu Pifu tightly. Although the suppression only lasted for a moment, his monstrous body suddenly transformed into a stream of light and shrank inward. The massive body finally turned into a crystal-clear gem and was thrown into Wu Pifu's sea of ​​consciousness.

"Great Sage, where do you intend to go?"

"Tread on the South Sky and shatter the Sky!"

"What if I never come back?"

"It will never come back!"

Suddenly, a sound echoed in Wu Pifu's mind. He ignored it and just swung his sword forward. But when he swung his sword, there was nothing in front of him. The terrifying and ferocious non-human monster had vanished into thin air. Only in his sea of ​​consciousness, between the tiger pack and endless negativity, was there a precious jade, which was emitting a soft light.

"...The Great Sage, Sun Wukong?"

Wu Pifu murmured.

When the name Sun Wukong appeared, the blood-red azure dragon, which had been devoid of consciousness, suddenly turned its head sharply, and a vast divine thought emanated from its eyes, enveloping Wu Pifu.

However, this divine thought came from afar, and seemed to be intermittent, unable to truly descend upon this realm.

Wu Pifu simply stood still, remained silent, then laughed heartily and raised his sword to the sky.

The next second, he soared into the air and rushed straight towards the blood-red azure dragon and the vast divine sense.

Cut the sky!

(End of this chapter)