Eternal Night

Chapter 738 Demonic World VS Soul Manifestation
Wu Pifu knew that since Xu Shilan and Amadei died, he had been venturing into the dream world alone, and his negative emotions had repeatedly exceeded his capacity. Although he was lucky enough to survive, it had ultimately left behind hidden dangers.

The hidden danger is that he has become more pure.

Life is complex, especially intellectual life. Every person has multiple facets. There can be no purely bad or purely good people, even if we judge by actions rather than intentions. Unless a person transcends the realm of humanity, becoming either a demon or a saint, but then they are no longer considered human.

Wu Pifu only truly discovered this problem when he teamed up with Xu Shilan and Amadeus again.

He has gradually become so pure that he is no longer human.

But how?

So Wu Pifu set some limitations for himself. First, he should not be so pure and should try to be as leisurely and playful as other ordinary people, and occasionally make mistakes. Second, he should kill non-humans. The so-called killing evil is good, and killing non-humans is human. It's a very simple logic, right?
The thing before me, a monster called Nine-Headed Serpent, is... utterly inhuman!

The physical body is, the mind is, and actions are also!

Super Brain World!

Wu Pifu swung his knife down, aiming directly at the central connection point of the nine snake heads. However, in the Super Brain World state, as he charged down with his knife, mist rose from the bodies of the nine infants. This mist quickly condensed into snake and human shapes, each about half a meter in size. Most importantly, these human and snake-shaped monsters formed from mist could actually move within the Super Brain World!?

Although these fog monsters moved much slower than Wu Pifu, almost like they were in slow motion to him, they were indeed quite different from the other monsters he had encountered before.

So far, apart from other superbrain users, only the Origin can follow and accelerate in the superbrain world state, but its acceleration is just a beat slower than these fog monsters in front of it.

Wu Pifu was shocked, but he didn't have time to think. He drew his sword and went closer. With a series of slashes, the mist monsters were immediately cut down. As long as they were within five steps, the mist was completely annihilated. However, the mist monsters that were broken apart beyond five steps turned back into mist and returned to the Nine-Headed Serpent's body. Then, in an instant, they reappeared and condensed into a new shape.

The closer Wu Pifu got, the more mist monsters it produced. Eventually, they swarmed together in a dense mass, causing Wu Pifu to simply ignore them and charge forward with his sword. Regardless of the mist monsters' attempts to block or attack, he would slash straight down from the center of the condensing mist, as countless claws, teeth, palms, hands, feet, and tails came at him.

However, Wu Pifu had already condensed a thick layer of Armament Haki on his body. In addition, his Iron Refining Record had now refined four innate metals, and he now had copper skin and iron bones, silver muscles and golden internal organs. This had greatly improved his physical qualities, body toughness and strength. Otherwise, when he fought against a cloud of mist just now, the backlash from Kratos' title would not have just caused cracks and bleeding on the surface of his skin. If it were anyone else, their body would have been turned into mincemeat.

And this doesn't even include his mastery of the power of traditional Chinese martial arts, the vast blood and qi of the Immortal Martial Arts, and the passive enhancement of his physical body through Immortal Martial Arts internal energy...

With a series of passive and active physical strength stacked together, no matter how turbulent these mist monsters were, they couldn't even break through his defenses when they slapped against him. Even blocking them was futile. Within a five-step radius, they were truly annihilated upon contact and killed upon collision.

"This move...is interesting...but you don't know that those with the Heavenly Heart can...what..."

The Nine-Headed Serpent's shrill voice came intermittently. It seemed to have some method to overclock its sense of time, but the acceleration effect was far inferior to that of the super brain. Therefore, the voice it transmitted was intermittent and was not transmitted through air vibration, but directly through thought. Then, just as it was halfway through speaking, Wu Pifu slashed at the center point where its nine heads and neck were connected.

At the point where the Death-Defying Blade made contact with the Nine-Headed Serpent's body, water and fire appeared together, merging into one and transforming into lightning. Wu Pifu slashed down with his blade, and this lightning also exploded on his body. With just one explosion, the Armament Haki on his body shattered instantly, and his body flashed with gold, silver, copper, and iron colors, along with the mixed strength, blood, and internal energy. However, all of this was shattered by the water, fire, and lightning. Both of his arms were blown to pieces, almost leaving only the arm bones.

The most terrifying thing was that this lightning was neither electricity nor flash nor light; it was like water and fire. After exploding through flesh and blood, it lingered like a maggot clinging to bone, almost constantly flickering on his bones.

Even so, Wu Pifu's arms remained as firm as steel. With a single slash, he fiercely struck the Nine-Headed Serpent's body. At the same time, the title of Lord Kui also took effect, unleashing a tremendous burst of power. With the added force of ten times the normal strength, he cleaved the five-to-six-thousand-meter-long body of the Nine-Headed Serpent, forcing it to lie flat on the seabed. The entire seabed even began to sink and crack...

(……ten times?)

Wu Pifu flipped and landed, standing in mid-air. He had entered a state of 30% negative mental backlash. The flesh and blood in his arms began to surge, and his body was recovering at an extremely fast speed. Although he was still repeatedly damaged by the water, fire, and lightning attached to his body, he recovered as much as he was damaged. Gradually, the flesh and blood in his arms began to slowly heal between destruction and recovery.

"You must be very weak?" Wu Pifu asked expressionlessly.

The Nine-Headed Serpent, which had been cleaved in two and whose upper body was almost shattered, was rapidly healing its water and fire body. The super-speedy little monsters that had turned into mist were also merging into its water and fire body.

By the time Wu Pifu asked the question, He had fully healed, but was still lying on the sea surface in a daze.

"...Mortal, are you a seed of ultimate cultivation?"

The Nine-Headed Serpent flipped itself up, its nine snake heads slithering and staring at Wu Pifu. Its pupils revealed immense covetousness and fear. This expression was very human-like, and Wu Pifu could even tell that the fear was not directed at him, but at the identity of the Extreme Path Seed.

Wu Pifu remained silent, gripping his death-defying blade as he prepared to charge forward again. Jiuying, however, shook his nine heads simultaneously, saying, "Wait! Since you are a seed of the ultimate path, I cannot kill you silently. State your name. You deserve to be remembered by me. Even dozens or hundreds of epochs later, I can still savor the taste of killing you."

Wu Pifu was somewhat speechless, but then, realizing that the Nine-Headed Serpent was not human, he understood. So he stood still in mid-air, clasped his hands, and said, "Then listen carefully... An ant shakes a tree and defies the heavens, eternal nights are covered in frost to prove a lone star. A tiger roars across a thousand mountains and burns the desolate land, a commoner's rage slays the long darkness!"

"Wu Pifu, I've met you!"

Nine-Headed Serpent's nine heads all nodded: "Bitter Realm, Poetic Title? That's right. The Extreme Path Seed has no taboos until the very last moment. There is no extraordinary path you dare not learn, no place you dare not go, and no person you dare not provoke... So, listen up, mortal Wu Pifu."

"I am Jiuying, the Great Demon King of Water and Fire Calamities, under the command of the Supreme Azure Dragon Great Sage of the Eastern Azure Dragon. If you manage to enter the Realm of Death, remember to mention my name!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the nine snake heads opened their mouths at the same time and spewed out endless water and fire that engulfed Wu Pifu.

This fire is no ordinary fire; it ignites when it encounters water, stone, or air, surging and billowing, spreading for thousands of miles with a single burst.

This water is no ordinary water; it drowns when it encounters other water, rocks, or air. It is also turbulent and surging, rolling and submerging everything on the fire.

Surprisingly, the water and fire did not clash; instead, they complemented each other, churning and intertwining to unleash bursts of water, fire, and lightning. The entire sea instantly transformed into a swamp of water, fire, and lightning, with everything burning, drowning, and shattering. In Wu Pifu's eyes, everything before him resembled the surface of a star, with water, fire, and lightning surging forth and annihilating everything in sight. In an instant, the entire sea turned into rising steam.

However, Wu Pifu, relying on his reputation as a commoner, was not afraid and charged straight at Jiuying with his broadsword. But before he could get close, a series of water, fire and lightning struck him. With a series of crackling explosions, he was unharmed and rushed closer to within a thousand meters of Jiuying. Just as he was about to raise his sword to slash forward, Wu Pifu felt an unbearable heat.

As it rushed several hundred meters closer, the intense heat had transformed into a scorching, hellish temperature, and Wu Pifu's entire body began to gradually turn into carbon.

Nine-Headed Serpent stood still, its nine snake heads calm: "A seed of the ultimate path, indeed. Unfathomable. If you were an ascended being, I would turn and flee immediately. But you are but a mere mortal. So what if you have some skills? You can ignore my defenses at close range, right? You can ignore my attacks from a distance, right? But can you ignore 'nature' which has no hostility? Demonizing heaven and earth is the Great Dao. Wherever I stand, there are natural disasters of water and fire. I am the natural disaster!"

Wu Pifu stopped. He felt the terrifying heat intensify the closer he got to Jiuying. He felt he might be reduced to ashes before even touching Jiuying. This heat wasn't Jiuying's attack, but a naturally occurring temperature... But this was strange. Back when he fought the four Roots in the Silver Core, the torrents spewed from the Silver Core's black hole should also be considered natural energy, but because the explosion was aimed at him, he remained unharmed five steps away. Now, however, this heat was caused by Jiuying, rendering his "commoner's" defense of five steps ineffective...

Is it a demon invading heaven and earth?
Nine-Headed Serpent continued speaking: "My true form is indeed very weak. To be honest, I can only use about one-tenth or one-twelfth of my full strength. But this is a qualitative change, a difference in dimensions. Do you really think that mortals and ascended beings are only one level apart, so you can match them? No... Unless you encounter a Gift-type ascended being, and one whose strength is suppressed by the world level, even a Gift-type ascended being, once it unleashes its full power, can still control the natural power of a place, can still... can..."

The nine snake heads of the Nine-Headed Serpent spoke in a tangled mess, and the pupils of all nine snake heads were dilated.

As Wu Pifu stood still, his Conqueror's Haki surged and erupted, and the next second, a void of starry sky appeared.

This illusory starry sky seemed both real and unreal, but once it was unleashed, Wu Pifu's charred skin instantly healed. Layers of charred material clumped off his skin, and new skin quickly appeared. However, this did not mean that the high temperature disappeared; rather, the high temperature was judged as an attack by the title of "commoner," and its effects were weakened multiple times beyond five steps, so it could no longer cause him any harm.

"……impossible!"

For the first time, Jiuying showed shock and bewilderment, filled with confusion, which even increased Wu Pifu's bewilderment index by more than 50,000.

"What the hell are you? This thing... is your true soul?! Who the hell has a true soul like this?! You monster!"

Nine-Headed Serpent roared.

Wu Pifu gripped his broadsword and continued charging towards Jiuying, shouting as he went, "Shut up, you non-human! I'm a pure-blooded human!"

Jiuying paid no attention to any of this. He didn't even glance at Wu Pifu again. His huge body turned around and fled at an extremely fast speed, rushing straight towards the unified consciousness of the Mountain and Sea Realm above the sky.

Right behind him, Wu Pifu charged forward with his knife. The closer he got, the more the water and fire body of the Nine-Headed Serpent began to disintegrate, turning back into mist. With a single close-range strike from Wu Pifu, one-tenth of its body was annihilated, never to be reborn.

Seeing this, Wu Pifu was overjoyed and raised his knife to strike, while the nine snake heads of Jiuying cried out strangely.

One person and one monster... or two monsters chasing and fleeing, in an instant they rushed to a height of ten thousand meters.

(End of this chapter)