Eternal Night

Chapter 760 The Ancestor of Devil Fruits
(PS: I've been having so much fun these past few days... I need to get back to reality...)
"Judge...judge...judge..."

Wu Pifu was not far from the World Government headquarters, and surprisingly, he received a message from the mainframe.

You see, ever since he landed in this Mountain and Sea Realm, his communication with the main brain has been completely cut off. Not only can he not use any of the main brain's judgments, but the attributes of all his items and his own attributes cannot be displayed. Although these attributes are definitely still there, he is really not used to the main brain's attribute judgments.

At this moment, Wu Pifu received the voice of the outdated 1950s radio from the mainframe and remained speechless for a long time.

"I'm telling you, Mastermind, just say what you want to say, even if you're going to make the judgment," Wu Pifu muttered.

"...Upon completion...the release...of...a...special...chance...mission...for...killing...one...super...level...Great World...Ascension...body...one million points will be awarded. Points will be accumulated in the reward pool, and the reward pool will be drawn based on the final achievement. The highest reward pool that can be drawn is the final hidden reward pool."

The mainframe's voice was initially halting, but it became clearer and clearer as it progressed. After listening, Wu Pifu finally showed a satisfied expression.

"Well done, Mastermind! You finally did something decent!"

Wu Pifu was very satisfied and nodded repeatedly: "See? What a concise and clear task! Who to kill, where to kill, how many to kill—as soon as these are released, I know exactly what to do. Every time it's so convoluted, I've wanted to curse so many times!"

Mastermind: “…”

Wu Pifu waited a while longer, but the mainframe remained silent. Without saying anything more, Wu Pifu continued on his way with the Celestial Dragon box.

Before long, he saw a bright and glorious sky ahead, with dozens of orbs of light illuminating almost the entire space in a dazzling array of colors, and the sky and the earth were somewhat distorted and unclear.

This is truly the result of the sublimated body naturally rendering the world, because in terms of size, the sublimated body is indeed no longer an ordinary thing.

"So many inhuman heads... Now we can really have a good slaughter."

Wu Pifu muttered to himself, then flew forward without caring about anything else.

Although he could see the radiance of the sublimated body in the distance, it was still a long way to fly there. The speed of more than 20,000 meters per second was already very fast for most dream worlds, but although the Mountain and Sea Realm was not as exaggerated as the universe, it still took him days to travel from one large place to another. According to this calculation, the surface area of ​​the entire Mountain and Sea Realm was dozens or hundreds of times larger than that of Earth.

No...maybe even bigger.

Because so far he has only been operating in the Grand Line and has not yet truly entered the continent of the Mountain and Sea Realm, the size of the entire Mountain and Sea Realm is still unknown.

"...It seems I really need to become an ascended being as soon as possible, but..."

Wu Pifu carefully recalled his conversation with the goddess Daiyu. Although it sounded like Lin Daiyu's voice and he felt a sense of familiarity, and all the suggestions she made seemed to be for his benefit, even taking into account the universe of the Absolute Truth Layer, he felt a strange resistance for some reason... He couldn't explain why, but it was just his instinctive intuition that something was wrong and not quite right.

"Forget it, I'll just stick to my own pace, accumulate points, find a suitable extraordinary path for me, especially one that can benefit my companions, then perfect myself, and find faster-than-light methods that can be used in outer space... You have to eat one bite at a time, and walk one step at a time. Also... I feel like I shouldn't add anything like killing all non-humans. If I encounter one, I'll kill it. If I don't encounter one, it's impossible to find them all one by one. If I do, am I still being myself?"

Wu Pifu pondered silently. He had been thinking about all sorts of things on his mind as he flew. At the same time, he wondered how long he had been unconscious in the Mountain and Sea Realm and how many days he had stayed there. He wondered if the one-year agreement with Huang Rong had been fulfilled. Then he thought about how the main brain had suddenly made a sound. Did it mean that the Heavenly Dao of the Mountain and Sea Realm had been weakened? That was why the main brain was able to break through the Heavenly Dao's barrier?

Or……

Chu Minghao and Liang Min followed the path of the attack sublimation to the Land of Redemption?
If that's the case, then things get interesting. It seems there's no origin within the Mountain and Sea Realm, so when Chu Minghao and Liang Min, no... even just Chu Minghao alone, could almost sweep across this world.

only……

Wu Pifu looked up at the sky, his eyes still showing caution.

The Heavenly Dao of the Mountain and Sea Realm has always been mysterious and unpredictable, giving him a very contradictory and disharmonious feeling. Behind the layers of veils, he doesn't know what the Mountain and Sea Realm really is. Chu Minghao's strength is unable to overcome the root of the problem, but the Heavenly Dao of the Mountain and Sea Realm can even resist the root of the problem...

"...In short, let's just charge in!"

Wu Pifu stopped thinking about it and focused his attention on the next battle, putting aside all his distracting thoughts.

He had already planned how to fight the numerous Ascended beings next.

In terms of speed, unless he activates his super brain, his wide-range movement speed is far inferior to that of the Ascended. However, he is not afraid that these Ascended will escape. This situation is completely different from when he fought against three Ascended before. Either the Ascended will kill him, or he will kill all the Celestial Dragons he brought and flatten the entire World Government headquarters. If it comes to that, the veil will inevitably be torn apart.

Therefore, there is no issue of escaping in this battle. He doesn't need to dodge at all beyond five steps, nor is he afraid of the Ascended Beings kiting him. They can either kill him within five steps or just watch him kill the Celestial Dragons without saying a word.

As for within five steps, you could kill him if you wanted to, but you'd also have to be prepared to be killed by him, not to mention...

Wu Pifu took out a cracked crystal from his personal space, glanced at it a few times, and then put it back into his personal space... This trump card is fully charged and is just waiting for the most suitable time to use it!
As he flew closer, the Radiant Orbs in the distance naturally noticed him. However, they all seemed to be waiting for his arrival, and none of the Radiant Orbs made any rash moves. Wu Pifu naturally saw this scene. At first, he was a little puzzled, but as he got closer, the aura of the Heavenly Dao became stronger, and he finally sensed something.

The aura of Heaven was no longer the contradictory feeling of rage and ecstasy it once was; instead, it became lofty, indifferent, and supremely indifferent, viewing all things as ants.

Compared to the previous humanistic atmosphere, the way of heaven at this time is more in line with Wu Pifu's perception of the heavens.

Heaven is ruthless, treating all things like straw dogs!

However, this indifference is different from the ethereal, fate-referring Heavenly Way on Earth. In this dream world, the Heavenly Way is real, truly treating all living beings as mere straw dogs...

"The arena?"

Wu Pifu roughly understood the meaning of these sublimations.

They did something, some process, that caused the unified consciousness of this world, which had originally possessed anthropomorphism, to retract that anthropomorphism and truly treat all things in heaven and earth equally. As a result, the bug he achieved by using the deceptive orb became ineffective against these sublimated beings. He was no longer a chosen one of heaven, so killing him was no problem.

But just as those who gaze into the abyss are also gazed into by the abyss, these sublime beings can kill him without hindrance, and he can kill them without hindrance as well.

However, this kind of equal treatment should have certain site requirements, and should only be in the vicinity of the World Government headquarters.

There... perhaps it's already... Wu Pifu remained silent, continuing to fly forward. After a long while, he finally saw the edge of the World Government's magnificent city, but as soon as he saw it, he was met with an endless mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood...

Countless corpses lay on the ground. Judging from their clothing, the vast majority were ordinary civilians, but among them were also soldiers and military personnel from the World Government.

However, judging from the state of the corpses and the way they were piled up, it was not civilians who resisted and killed these World Government soldiers. Rather, all the civilians were collectively executed and slaughtered. The corpses were piled up and collapsed in a regular manner. Most of the soldiers died by gunfire, and most of them appeared to have committed suicide.

"You've finally arrived, world destroyer, world overthrower..."

A female voice came from the heavens above, but Wu Pifu ignored it, only looking at the blood and corpses all over the city.

Dozens of radiant orbs slowly descended from the sky, completely surrounding Wu Pifu from all sides. The leader was a two-meter-tall woman who, unlike other sublimated beings, did not reveal her true form but remained in human female form.

The woman had a graceful figure, but her face was obscured by the shimmering light. Only her large eyes seemed to speak, as they gazed at Wu Pifu.

The woman said, "It's all pointless to say these things now, but I'm still very curious, and I think most of you here are curious too... Outsider, why do you want to destroy all of this? This is neither your hometown nor your home. You fell into this world by chance and gained the status of a favored one because of the disorder of the Heavenly Way. So, whether it's power, strength, status, or even if you want to fulfill your own moral principles, why do you have to destroy this world?"

"Because you are here."

Wu Pifu withdrew his gaze from the blood-soaked city. His face was expressionless, only his death-defying sword remained in his hand. He looked up at the woman, then at the numerous Radiant Horde members: "I'm actually quite lazy. I don't act like a madman, always insisting on doing things my way. Most of the time, I'm pretty capricious, you know? A long time ago, I even made up many excuses for this behavior, one of which was 'Sorry, I can't do it,' 'Sorry, I'm just a person,' and so on..."

"To put it bluntly, if nothing serious happens, I'll just pretend nothing happened. My first priority is to take care of myself, the people around me, and the people I care about. So, if there were no Celestial Dragons, no you guys, how wonderful that would be. I'm just a passerby, nobody knows me, and I have no interest in getting to know people I don't want to get to know..."

"But why do you exist?"

Wu Pifu stretched out his hand and pointed at the woman, then at each of the sublimated beings, saying, "You shouldn't exist."

Then, he gripped the hilt of his sword with one hand and clasped his other fist in a respectful gesture, saying solemnly, "Wu Pifu greets you all!"

The next second, the world turned black and white, and Wu Pifu was already wielding his broadsword, slashing at the woman...

But just as he moved, the aura of the Heavenly Dao in the sky suddenly changed. Wu Pifu was released from the Super Brain World in the next second, and an invisible lightning bolt suddenly exploded in his sea of ​​consciousness. At the same time, the trace of the Heavenly Dao essence that was entangled with his true spirit seemed to have received some great tonic, and a lightning bolt also exploded in his true spirit.

Wu Pifu swayed and almost fell heavily to the ground from mid-air.

The woman seemed to smile: "You want to use your 'Perfect Trait'? Is that right? When you killed one of us before, you suddenly unleashed this seemingly time-stopping Perfect Trait? It was precisely to prevent you from doing this, and to obscure your identity as a Chosen One, that we staged such a grand sacrifice here."

"In this sacrificial land, all the perfect characteristics of sublimation, except for the physical body, physical skills, Haki, and Devil Fruits, are completely blocked!"

Wu Pifu had a splitting headache. The endless negativity in his mind was churning, but besides affecting him, the invisible lightning that had entered his mind was also submerged by this endless negativity and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"Hehe, hehe..."

"In the end, heaven and earth are biased..."

"Well then, listen carefully..."

Blood seeped from Wu Pifu's eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, but he laughed loudly. Then, under the sublimated body's gaze that looked down upon him like an ant, he looked up at the sky and extended a middle finger: "Fuck you! Come on! Try blocking me!!"

"A negative backlash from the mind!"

"Fifty percent!"

"Super Brain World!"

Once again, the world turned black and white. The invisible lightning seemed to fall from the sky again, but this time, endless negativity surged out and flowed directly out of Wu Pifu's body along with the lightning, turning into an extremely thick black aura, which actually surged back along the place where the invisible lightning exploded.

At the same time, Wu Pifu had already moved forward rapidly in this bullet-time-like black and white world, his suicidal broadsword slashing horizontally at the woman...

All the ascended beings saw Wu Pifu disappear from his spot. When he reappeared, his broadsword had already struck the woman's body countless times. The woman's eyes were still filled with astonishment. In the blink of an eye, her female body was cut into pieces and then quickly vanished.

"...Devil Fruit ultimate awakening form?"

"...But you haven't eaten the Devil Fruit you want yet!"

The woman's voice continued to ring out, but it gradually became more real and ferocious. Then, a tree branch with a diameter of a hundred meters shot out from the depths of the earth. Wu Pifu's broadsword flashed like light, slicing the incoming branch into dust. But the next second, branches extended from all directions at incredible speed. Wu Pifu couldn't reach them in time and was blasted away with a snap, falling into the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood at his feet.

A colossal tree, approximately 10,000 meters tall, with countless branches and roots dancing in the air, slowly rose from the depths of the earth. At the tip of each branch was the figure of a woman, which looked like a human body but was actually just a leaf at the tip of a branch of this giant tree.

Millions of women said, "I am the progenitor of Devil Fruits... If you haven't eaten a Devil Fruit, then why are you using its ultimate awakened form?"

As they spoke, a thick, dark aura emanated from the giant tree, enveloping its trunk like black clouds and flames.

Wu Pifu slowly rose from the crack in the earth. The negative energy in his mind was still surging. From the outside, it was also surrounded by layers of dark energy, like black clouds and black flames. In this respect, it was indeed similar to the ultimate awakening form of the Devil Fruit that the tree had mentioned.

At that moment, Wu Pifu learned the truth about Devil Fruits...

If that's the case, then the truth of this world...

It was far more terrifying than he had imagined!

(End of this chapter)