Eternal Night

Chapter 734 Insightful Reflections and Understanding: What exactly did you do?!
(PS: I've been too busy these past few days, looking for a place to take my parents and packing, so I'll probably only be able to update twice a day. I'll try to update three times tomorrow.)
Wu Pifu withdrew his Conqueror's Haki manifestation with satisfaction.

This is the name he gave to this move.

Now that we know that the essence of Conqueror's Haki is to manifest the true spirit of the soul, and that the more enlightened one is, the more of it can be manifested.

This is practically a martial arts technique tailor-made for him, isn't it?

Is he not enlightened enough?
Needless to say, he immediately got to work, and sure enough, he pushed his Conqueror's Haki to a level he himself could not have imagined!
It wasn't just about intimidating all things in heaven and earth, nor was it simply about being entangled with Conqueror's Haki. It was about truly manifesting a corner of his soul's essence, even if it was just a tiny, insignificant corner, one in countless billions. But he knew just how exaggerated his soul's essence was. The iteration of countless personalities, even if each personality left only a tiny, insignificant bit in his true spirit, was enough to turn his true spirit into a terrifying monster.

Even now, when Wu Pifu withdrew his Conqueror's Haki, he still felt like he was in a dream. It was just too easy and too smooth. This dream world trip was the same – smooth, comfortable, and leisurely, making him feel like he was dreaming.

Don't think that it's just a breakthrough in Conqueror's Haki; this breakthrough is a qualitative change!

With this breakthrough in Conqueror's Haki, Wu Pifu has finally embarked on the path to becoming a sublimated form!
Before this journey through the dream world began, Wu Pifu had been thinking about the issue of the Ascended Body, because the enemies he faced were getting stronger and stronger, especially after the battle with the Root. If one did not reach the Ascended Body, one could not even see the Root. There was a dimensional gap between them. No matter how strong you were as a mortal, you were as weak as an ant when facing the Root.

However, so far, Wu Pifu only knows that the sublimation body needs to achieve self-perfection, the perfection of the extraordinary system, etc., but he knows nothing about how to do it in detail, or how to sublimate after achieving perfection. Not only him, but human civilization is also completely unaware of this.

Everyone is taking it one step at a time, exploring as they go. Currently, humanity's understanding of the entire dream world is still too limited, as is its understanding of extraordinary power. There are far too many unknowns that need to be solved.

Wu Pifu had fought against both the Ascended Body and the Root, and he did have some understanding of both, but it was very little, mostly just superficial. He had no idea how to achieve the relationship between the mortal, the Ascended Body, and the Root.

Until this chance encounter, thanks to the opportunity to become stronger through Baghdad's Conqueror's Haki, Wu Pifu also pushed his Conqueror's Haki to the limit he could reach, and then... he discovered the important opportunity for mortals to reach the Ascended Body!
world!!
Whether it's comprehending the universe, influencing the universe, or being inspired by the universe, the most important step in going from a mortal to an elevated being is to obtain a share of the world through one's own perfection!

Before you grasp the meaning, everything is shrouded in mystery, leaving everyone puzzled. But once you do grasp it, it becomes clear that there's nothing mysterious about it.

Energy, or rather, size.

No matter how perfect you try to be, you are still just a mortal, just like an ant is still an ant no matter how perfect it is.

If it's merely about personal perfection, the perfection of an extraordinary system, or even setting aside the extraordinary and focusing solely on personal perfection, such perfection is not uncommon in the vast history of various civilizations; in fact, it's quite common. For example, there are countless individuals who reached the pinnacle of a particular path, technique, or profession, and then surpassed those limits to create even greater glories.

But have these characters achieved any spiritual transcendence?

Even with the addition of the variable of extraordinary means, could these characters be elevated even further?

No, no, no!

Based on what Wu Pifu knew, the number of sublimated forms of past civilizations, including those ancient civilizations, was limited, ranging from a few to several hundred, and certainly not several thousand or tens of thousands.

Even the legendary Guanyin Bodhisattva, also known as the Eternal Mother, has incredibly precious sub-bodied beings under her command. Wu Pifu's killing of a golden Arhat would likely be a devastating blow to the Eternal Mother's power.

What is the reason? Why are there so few sublimated bodies?
Now Wu Pifu understands that to go from a mortal to an elevated being, one's own perfection is only the beginning. One's own perfection carries the perfection of the extraordinary path of cycles. This is actually a kind of perfect closed loop, just like the Time and Space Spirit civilization's achievement of its own time and space closed loop from the time and space level, only the means are different.

Reaching this stage doesn't actually mean the true sublimation has begun. The real sublimation process involves expanding one's own perfection to the point of perceiving, influencing, and inspiring the world. Regardless of the form, the goal is to make the surrounding world a "part" of oneself, whether it's expanding one's domain, expanding one's own size, or controlling nature, thereby significantly increasing one's own size and creating a qualitative change.

If your size is one when you are a mortal, and you can exert a power of five to ten depending on your level of perfection, then after sublimation your size will be ten, twenty, or fifty, and you can exert a power of five hundred, one thousand, or five thousand!
At the same time, Wu Pifu also understood why the Ultimate Ascension Body was so powerful, enough to rival the Root and even easily kill weaker Roots. The reason was that at the moment of ascension, the Ultimate Ascension Body's size was much larger than that of other mortals, and it achieved much more self-perfection. If the size expansion of an ordinary Ascension Body was tens of times, then the size expansion of the Ultimate Ascension Body was probably hundreds or thousands of times. The quantitative change led to the qualitative change, and an insurmountable gap appeared between the Ultimate Ascension Body and the ordinary Ascension Body!

"The more perfect a being is before sublimation, and the more self-perfecting loops it can achieve, the greater its expansion during sublimation. At the same time, the environment during sublimation is also a very important factor. The more expansive and realistic the environment, the greater the size that can be formed during sublimation, and the less likely there will be any aftereffects. This is an important standard for perfect sublimation. Sublimation is the most important qualitative change for a life, without exception. Its importance even surpasses that of the sublimated body going to its origin!"

On the Gou Dan ship, Wu Pifu kept talking to those around him about his insights from this experience.

Everyone around them carefully noted down the information, which they would then relay to the unified human government when they returned to the Land of Redemption.

This is the most important information for all mankind, without exception. So far, only Wu Pifu has reached this level and has these insights. In comparison, Chu Minghao may be stronger, but his transcendent realm and the depth of his understanding are not as good as Wu Pifu's.

As Wu Pifu pondered, he said, "The more perfect conditions achieved during sublimation, the more powerful the sublimated body will be. The difference between strong and weak bodies is at least ten times or more. Another very important factor is that the stronger a body is before sublimation, the greater the qualitative change and the larger its size will be after sublimation. This is actually why the Extreme Path Seed is so powerful after sublimating into the Extreme Path Sublimated Body. Because the Extreme Path Seed can have more perfect extraordinary paths than other life forms to achieve more perfect closed loops within itself."

Everyone listened intently, trying to memorize the information. Suddenly, Chu Yuyan asked, "So what is the definition and function of perfection? This kind of sublimation is essentially the evolution of life, like an embryo developing into life within an egg and then breaking out of the shell. So what is the definition and function of this perfection? If we can figure this out, then perhaps we can use technological means to achieve mass production." Everyone listening was excited, and they continued to look at Wu Pifu.

Wu Pifu thought for a moment and said, "Perfection here is about anchoring oneself! Life is really too insignificant compared to the world. In the process of sublimation, life perceives and influences the world. In essence, this is an act of spreading oneself out. In this process, your essence is opened to the whole world. You perceive the world, and the world is actually assimilating you. If your anchor is not enough, or if your perfection is not enough, then you will merge into the world. At that time, you will be omnipresent..."

At this point, Wu Pifu suddenly recalled a scene from a 21st-century movie in his memory. The movie was called Lucy, in which the female protagonist had her brain forcibly developed due to a new type of drug, which gave her all sorts of incredible powers. In the end, she even transcended time and space, but this also caused her physical body to continuously collapse and eventually disperse into the world, becoming so-called omnipresent.

However, from Wu Pifu's current perspective, the female protagonist in Lucy is actually a failure. She had an incredible opportunity, but because she was not perfect enough, she could not anchor her own existence. So, in the process of comprehending the world, she was assimilated by the world. Although she claimed to be omnipresent and became "God", her life as "her" was actually gone. This is actually a failure in the process of sublimation.

At this point, both Wu Pifu and the others had a real basic concept of the sublimation body. Although there were still many questions that were unclear, they were no longer as confused as before, without even a basic concept.

Chu Yuyan said excitedly, "This is truly a great discovery! Mr. Wu's contribution to human civilization is immense... With this, we have avoided many detours and saved countless lives. Even putting that aside, this Ocean Dream World alone has significantly strengthened the foundation of our human civilization!"

Wu Pifu was confused, so Xu Shilan said from the side, "You don't know yet, do you? During the time you've been comprehending this, the port has been completed, and the Night Watchers who have spread out have brought back their first harvest. They started trading with the first ship they acquired in this world. Even if it's not as fast as we can by changing the ocean currents, they sold more than ten million points worth of goods to the Land of Redemption in just the first week. After communicating with the mainframe, the government set a 30% points trade tax, and we can get an exclusive subsidy of 2% of the tax rate for any points transaction conducted from the Ocean Dream World. As long as this Dream World remains stable for a long time, you can get hundreds of millions of points from the subsidies alone in a year!"

Wu Pifu did the math: the tax rate for ten million points is three million points, which is extremely high. His team would only receive two percent of those three million points, which is a mere sixty thousand points...

Seeing Wu Pifu's expression, Chu Yuyan smiled and said, "Mr. Wu, don't underestimate this 2% exclusive subsidy. 60,000 points is only enough for ten days or half a month. Moreover, the Ocean Dream World is still under exploration. If it is fully developed, the trading volume will explode. Even the natives of this world will raise various extraordinary shellfish or other extraordinary creatures on a large scale. The subsidy for each superhuman is at least tens of millions. This is what I mean by increasing humanity's foundation. Do you know? The trading volume of the Ocean Dream World alone probably exceeds the points earned by all the Night Watchers from completing missions in the past!"

"so much?"

Although Wu Pifu was surprised, he realized that he had gained another source of points. Moreover, if he could earn more than ten million points every month, he would never lack points. He could use them to materialize the people in the Lost Lands, travel back and forth to Huang Rong's dream world, or save the fake parallel world where his parents lived.

For a moment, everything was joyous, and Wu Pifu was naturally happy as well. Then, as if he had thought of something, he asked Xu Shilan, "Haven't you heard from Zhihe Mi yet? Haven't they come looking for you?"

Xu Shilan and Chu Yuyan were both stunned. Xu Shilan said, "What you said is too shocking. If they really came to find me, I would probably be scared to death... No, you really think they came?"

Wu Pifu nodded affirmatively and said, "They will definitely come. These two children will definitely want to see me."

Chu Yuyan laughed and said from the side, "The possibility of them coming to us is not as high as the possibility of them doing something big. If they really come, the most likely thing they will do is to cause some big events and do some big things."

Besides Xu Shilan and Chu Yuyan, there were some other night watchmen on the ship. Two of the young men listened nonchalantly, but when the topic of the big event came up, one of the young men with a gloomy expression glanced at the other with a smile.

Just as Wu Pifu was preparing to return to Gaia Port for a good rest, his expression suddenly changed, and he jumped onto the mast to look into the distance.

The others were all taken aback and looked up at the vast sea.

Wu Pifu's expression suddenly changed drastically, and the others, after watching for more than ten seconds, also suddenly changed drastically.

Because far beyond that vast ocean, on the horizon, endless rolling mist was actually encroaching into the sea from the horizon, and it was definitely not natural mist. As the mist moved, it seemed to be some kind of enormous living creature that filled the entire world.

"Zhi, what have you done?!" Wu Pifu roared in anguish. He immediately addressed the crowd below the mast, "Return to Gaia Port immediately! Have all the Night Watchers scattered throughout the Ocean Dream World return, or simply leave this world and go back to the Land of Redemption! Zhi is going to destroy this world!"

The gloomy young man looked horrified, and he abruptly turned his head to look at the young man with the bright smile again.

The smiling youth looked bewildered and surprised until the gloomy youth looked at him and questioned him with his eyes.

He chuckled awkwardly and forced a smile, "Of course, I did it..."

"Let's test him. If he really is our father, then he will be like a giant, standing tall and strong, bearing everything on his broad shoulders, standing in front of us and everyone else, won't he?"

The gloomy young man stared at the brightly smiling young man for a long while before looking at Wu Pifu on the mast with a complicated gaze.

Father...?

(End of this chapter)