Eternal Night

Chapter 755 A Surge of Attacks
(PS: Only one update today, but it's quite long.)
Wu Pifu steered the ship forward without any hesitation, while everyone on board was already numb.

Just like the World Government, it all happened too fast. They didn't even have time to react. From being captured and brought onto this ship, to one admiral, six admirals, the admiral's cloak, the fall of the sublimated Marshal of the Nation, to the World Government actually issuing a great evacuation order.

Everyone felt like they were witnessing history, and it was the kind of history that suddenly caused the world to collapse.

Right now, Wu Pifu is heading to a Celestial Dragon noble territory. Judging from his appearance, it's definitely not a trip for sightseeing or a friendly visit. Even though Mei and the crew on the ship haven't had much contact with Wu Pifu, they know that this man is absolutely lawless, truly lawless, the kind who doesn't even care about the heavens.

He'll probably only do one thing when he gets to the Celestial Dragons' territory... kill every Celestial Dragon he encounters, along with all their lackeys who aid and abet them.

There have been assassinations, murders, and even massacres of Celestial Dragons in the history of this world, but those all occurred in the early days of the Grand Line. The later the Grand Line was established, the rarer such incidents became, and attacking or killing Celestial Dragons even became a taboo in the world of mountains and seas.

This taboo is not just a taboo at the human level; it is also observed by both sublimated beings and other races.

It can be said that killing Celestial Dragons, Celestial Dragon nobles, and Celestial Dragon families is no less than the collapse of the heavens and the earth for the world of Shan Hai. It is a major event, just like Wu Pi Fu killing the six sublimated human beings, which is enough to change the history of this world.

Wu Pifu was naturally carefree, but everyone on the ship was already terrified and didn't know what to do.

As they drew ever closer to the territory, the crimson of the blood sacrifice becoming visible even to the naked eye, a young man suddenly emerged from among the many naval soldiers on the ship. He boldly charged towards Wu Pifu.

Those around him were already in a daze, and at this moment, no one could stop him. They all thought he was a spy from the World Government, planning to assassinate Wu Pifu to stop him from doing such a treasonous thing. But unexpectedly, he ran to Wu Pifu's side, slid down to his knees, and said urgently, "Sir, please protect me! I am a Revolutionary Army spy in the World Government. I will guide you to contact the Revolutionary Army!"

The surrounding naval soldiers were stunned for a moment, and then some of them immediately flew into a rage, their killing intent bursting forth. But when they saw Wu Pifu again, all their killing intent and thoughts were extinguished as if by snow, and they all lowered their heads, not daring to look at him again.

Wu Pifu, sensing the young man's emotions, naturally knew that what he said was true. He asked curiously, "What is the Revolutionary Army? Is it an organization that overthrows the Celestial Dragons and the World Government?"

The young man lowered his head and said, "Not only that, our Revolutionary Army has even loftier ideals... Please, sir, stop attacking the Celestial Dragons and nobles for now. If you could talk to the leaders or cadres of our Revolutionary Army, you would probably learn many secrets."

At this moment, the first mate was extremely anxious and said to Wu Pifu, "Sir, please don't believe him. The Revolutionary Army is the number one terrorist organization designated by the World Government. They are not human. They use civilians as human shields. Countless civilians have died at their hands. Moreover, they not only want to overthrow the World Government, but also want to destroy the world. Even the Heavenly Dao has designated the Revolutionary Army as sinners!"

Even Mei said urgently, "If you want a Devil Fruit, or if you want to achieve something else, you must never get involved with the Revolutionary Army. They are sinners who have exiled themselves from the world!"

Hearing this, Wu Pifu became interested. He looked at the young man and said, "I can meet with the leaders or cadres of the revolutionary army, but don't stop me from doing anything now."

The young man was about to speak, but when he saw Wu Pifu's eyes, he immediately lowered his head and dared not look at him or speak again.

Wu Pifu nodded in satisfaction. He stood up, patted the ship, and released his inner force to envelop it. He turned to the other naval soldiers and said, "I've protected him. Don't attack him, or you'll face the consequences."

After saying that, he didn't care about anything else and rushed down to a square below.

This is the center of a Celestial Dragon noble's territory, which covers approximately 500,000 square kilometers. Everything in this territory belongs to this Celestial Dragon noble. This includes not only the land itself, but also all the derived powers, politics, military affairs, and even the right to life of all humans living on this land.

Even in the Celestial Dragons' noble territories, there is a law that any non-Celestial Dragon or non-Celestial Being who enters their territory belongs to the owner of the land!
In other words, legally speaking, even if a World Government general-level officer enters, as long as he is not a chosen one or a Celestial Dragon, he will immediately become a slave of the Celestial Dragon nobles, and his life and property will belong to them.

At this very moment, at the very heart of this territory, atop a pyramid-shaped structure resembling the Chinese character "品" (pin), a group of guards clad in ornate armor and armed with melee weapons are wreaking havoc. Men, women, children, and the elderly are being carried directly to the top of the pyramid via conveyor belts behind it, where their major arteries are slit, leaving them to struggle and fall off the pyramid, their blood flowing through the concave channels that permeate the entire structure.

The pyramids look somewhat like the Mayan pyramids that Wu Pifu knew, except that the pyramids are covered with a large number of inscriptions. When a person was killed on the platform at the top of the pyramid, the blood gushing from their carotid artery would splatter on the ground. This blood would flow down along the grooves of the carved inscriptions, making the entire pyramid look blood red and constantly writhing. The entire pyramid seemed to have become a living thing, which was quite terrifying.

Meanwhile, the blood adhering to the surface of the pyramids is constantly being evaporated, turning into blood mist that floats into the sky. This is why the blood mist can be seen rising into the sky from afar.

Wu Pifu fell from the sky. Without even saying a word, he simply raised his hand and pressed down, instantly turning the guards on the pyramid into dust. Then, from top to bottom, as if an invisible giant hand had swept over them, all those who had been slaughtered, suppressed, and guarded the slaves exploded and died at that moment.

There were a large number of government soldiers guarding the area around the pyramid. When Wu Pifu suddenly descended, a series of people exploded and died. They were all stunned, and then almost instinctively began to draw their guns and fire at Wu Pifu. A barrage of old-fashioned gunpowder bullets came from below, tens of thousands of bullets, dozens of which were coated with Armament Haki. In the blink of an eye, Wu Pifu was enveloped in a rain of bullets.

But how could all of this possibly break through Wu Pifu's defenses?

Not to mention breaking through his defenses, it couldn't even penetrate the invisible air wall compressed to within ten meters of his body. Instead, it was all embedded ten meters away from his body surface, compressed into iron discs, which then fell to the ground with a clanging sound.

Wu Pifu did not attack immediately. He scanned the situation with his emotional perception and then gestured with his hand, saying, "The first time, I can take it as an instinctive attack. But from now on, I will kill anyone who continues to attack me, except for non-humans. I will also kill all those who continue to attack me, the lackeys of the Celestial Dragons, and those who aid and abet evil. I will only warn you once."

As he spoke, Wu Pifu fell directly from the sky. At the same time, hundreds of colonels and two generals rushed over from the guard team, wielding various weapons and sweeping with domineering aura. One of the middle-aged men in the uniform of a lieutenant general even unleashed his Conqueror's Haki. In an instant, the ground where Wu Pifu stood was pressed down by this overwhelming aura.

Faced with this scene, Wu Pifu's expression didn't change at all. He didn't even draw his death-defying sword. Only when the hundreds of officers rushed close did he extend his palm, then transform it into a claw, and deliver his fist to meet the fastest Conqueror's Haki...

With a tearing sound, the lieutenant general, his face filled with astonishment, was ripped into pieces. Then, Wu Pifu continued forward with a claw, piercing through the flesh and tearing apart another lieutenant general, who was also filled with terror and trying to retreat, through the chest. The claw continued its momentum, tearing apart everything within a thousand meters. In the eyes of the surrounding ordinary soldiers, a bloody storm swept by. In the blink of an eye, the hundreds of officers who had rushed out had been turned into a sky full of flesh and blood, each piece no bigger than a fingernail, scattered within a thousand-meter radius.

"Ah...ah!!"

Some soldiers were so scared they wet themselves on the spot. These low-ranking officers, such as privates or sergeants, stared wide-eyed, mouths agape, drooling, their faces filled with disbelief. Then, some immediately dropped their weapons and tried to run away.

"Oh!"

Just then, gunshots rang out behind the soldiers. A group of people in sophisticated exoskeleton armor escorted two young men and women in spacesuits and large, transparent helmets as they approached. The man in the spacesuit shouted, "Attack! You lowly people! If I weren't so kind, I would have sacrificed you all long ago. Now, fight to the death!?"

Another young woman in a spacesuit also shouted shrilly, "That's right! We gave you your lives! Now get to them!"

As they spoke, the two Celestial Dragons each picked up a pistol and pulled the trigger on the World Government soldiers. In an instant, at least a dozen people were wounded or killed by them, and they remained completely unscrupulous. There wasn't even a trace of cruelty on their faces... That's right, they didn't even consider these indiscriminate killings to be cruel.

Purely inhuman!
Wu Pifu walked towards the two Celestial Dragons without saying a word. The soldiers were clearly angry but dared not speak out. Although they dared not raise their guns at the Celestial Dragons, they did not continue to attack when Wu Pifu approached. They merely pretended to raise their weapons or shout, but none of them actually attacked. Instead, they tacitly made way for Wu Pifu to walk towards the two Celestial Dragons.

At first, the two Celestial Dragons didn't think anything of it, but soon they noticed that the exoskeletons of their guards were charging, and Wu Pifu seemed to be getting closer and closer. The two began to panic, and the male Celestial Dragon shouted, "How dare you defy your superiors?! Do you know who we are?"

The female Celestial Dragon also shouted, "Quickly, kill him! I want to collect his skull! Kill him now!"

Without a word, Wu Pifu drew his death-defying sword, turned around, and in the blink of an eye, he was in front of the two Celestial Dragons. The hundreds of guards equipped with high-tech exoskeleton armor froze on the spot. The next second, they tore apart, turning into a pile of metal flesh and blood on the ground. The splattered blood even exploded all over the two Celestial Dragons.

But even at this point, these two Celestial Dragons showed no fear whatsoever, aside from their expressions of disgust and slight panic.

The male Celestial Dragon pointed his small pistol at Wu Pifu's head and said, "You really have some nerve, daring to defile a Celestial Dragon's clothes!?"

The female Celestial Dragon frantically ripped at the pieces of flesh and blood on her body, screaming as she did so, "Disgusting! Kill him already!"

Wu Pifu was about to kill the two bastards with one blow, but after thinking about it, he actually sheathed his sword and stood still. The two Celestial Dragons had an "I knew it" look in their eyes and were about to shout even louder, while the government soldiers around them who were staring intently at this side all lowered their heads, their eyes showing despair and gloom.

The next second, Wu Pifu pointed a finger at each of the two Celestial Dragons. At first, nothing happened, but a second or two later, the two Celestial Dragons' expressions suddenly changed. They felt pain, itching, and numbness all over their bodies, and the pain was penetrating from their skin into their flesh and blood, and from their flesh into their bone marrow. The two of them immediately screamed and rolled on the ground, each trying to scratch their skin and flesh, but because they were wearing spacesuits, they couldn't scratch themselves for a while.

The pain caused them to lose their voices immediately, emitting sounds like those of demons. After a few seconds, the voices became completely hoarse, then turned into sounds that were enough to make one shudder just by listening to them. After ten seconds, their voices were reduced to hissing sounds, and blood began to gush from their five orifices. However, they did not die immediately, but were experiencing a pain that was more terrifying than death.

After doing all this, Wu Pifu did not leave immediately. Instead, he looked up at the sky and saw the Heavenly Dao aura that had reappeared. He smiled coldly and suddenly appeared in a flash among a group of slaves waiting to be sacrificed. In the slaves' terrified gazes, he reached out and picked up an old man wearing patched clothes but with fair skin.

"Aren't they your children? You just watch your own children die while you hide among the slaves?" Wu Pifu asked.

The old man's face was contorted, but he dared not move. He just yelled at the top of his lungs, "I'm going to die, are you just going to stand by and watch?!"

The next second, more than a dozen projections appeared around Wu Pifu. Among them, he even saw the projections of the Thunder Giant and the Three-Legged Raven. In addition to humans, there were other alien races among the projections. However, without a doubt, the original bodies of these more than a dozen projections were all sublimated beings!

Wu Pifu merely sneered and raised his hand to kill the Celestial Dragon nobleman.

Unexpectedly, a tall and imposing goblin reappeared from the projection.

"Young friend, I didn't expect to see you again so soon."

"It is a goblin," the goblin said in a deep voice.

Wu Pifu's hand paused slightly, and without turning his head, he said, "You... are you going to stop me too?"

"I'm ashamed..."

The valiant goblin gave a bitter smile, but said solemnly, "I was just about to stop you, young friend. With this palm strike, we are now enemies, not friends. There is no room for reconciliation. Even for the sake of the common people, we must kill you without hesitation!"

A three-eyed giant beside him said in a gruff voice, "Not only you, but your civilization, the true civilization of this era, must be completely wiped out!"

Wu Pifu chuckled, then looked the Celestial Dragon nobleman—who was clearly an ordinary person—upon closer inspection. He asked in bewilderment, "I'm really curious. Having seen so many dream worlds and learned about so many civilizations, I've never seen an ordinary person so high and mighty, and yet, after such perverse actions, there's still a sublime being with absolute extraordinary power standing up for him and cleaning up his messes. What's the reason for that?"

The dozen or so projections all seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and the goblin said with a smile, "We will take care of it for you, young friend..."

"Snapped!"

Wu Pifu crushed the Celestial Dragon Noble in his hand. In an instant, the aura of the Heavenly Dao in the sky surged and raged. Amidst the mingling of rage and ecstasy, a pitch-black aura descended from the top of the sky and swept over the area, seemingly engulfing the entire world.

As darkness descended, Wu Pifu's voice finally rang out, reaching the ears of the dozen or so projections.

My answer was... so what!?

Wu Pifu tossed aside the pieces of corpse in his hand, and solemnly clasped his hands in a fist salute to the dozen or so projections, saying, "So what!? Come on then. Whether it's me or the Gaia human civilization, I'm waiting, and humanity is waiting too. Come on, and as I said before, if you're not convinced, come and fight!"

"Wu Pifu greets you all!"

(End of this chapter)