Eternal Night

Chapter 761 Minor Gods of the Mortal Realm, You've Done Your Best

(PS: I'm going to travel around Inner Mongolia tomorrow. I'm really sorry about this trip. I've been depressed for several years, but this trip was really fun. I'll make up for the missed chapters and updates when I return to Chongqing in August.)
Wu Pifu felt sorrow.

He was trapped in endless negativity in his sea of ​​consciousness. Although the source of this endless negativity was the result of countless personality iterations, these were also his predecessors, so he had no reason to shirk responsibility. He could only suffer it himself and try to find a way to turn this endless negativity into power.

However, this does not mean that endless negativity is a good thing. This thing is the most polluting and terrifying thing that Wu Pifu has discovered so far, and it may even be more terrifying than the source of pollution. It just basically only affects himself and it is difficult to unleash it.

Why does he always insist on being a human being, and why is he so sensitive to this?
Because of this negative effect, he could really turn into something unknown at any time. This is not only a physical mutation, but also a complete change in his senses, cognition, personality, and even his essence. This is even greater than the distance between a trilobite and a human. In fact, after Wu Pifu killed the four Roots at the last moment in the Warhammer Dream World, when he was outside the galaxy, he suspected that he was already something that was neither life nor matter, neither alive nor dead.

Therefore, he is truly aware of the terror of this kind of negative mindset, and he knows how to endure the pain of this negative mindset. To put it bluntly, his countless past personality iterations probably disappeared painfully because of this negative mindset. The essence of those personalities became a part of this negative mindset, neither alive nor dead, and perhaps still exists eternally in his current sea of ​​consciousness.

If the ultimate awakening form of a Devil Fruit is what we see now, a negative backlash within the sea of ​​consciousness that forms this outward appearance and display of power, then... who will pay the price?

Wu Pifu's negative backflow rate is a self-created path to transcendence using negative methods, but in reality, it is a form of self-harm, similar to the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique. Each use of it causes enormous damage to himself.

When the negative backflow is less than 20%, it only damages the physical body. After the early battles in the dream world, his physical body frequently collapsed and mutated. Fortunately, the Gaia humans have advanced technology and nanoscale regeneration and repair methods, which prevented him from collapsing his physical body in the early stages. Among these methods, the extraordinary path of Chinese martial arts played a crucial role.

When the negative backflow exceeds 20%, it begins to affect the mind, causing mental distortion and altering mental states. When it exceeds 50%, it will affect the soul...

These are the negative consequences and costs that Wu Pifu has to bear. In order to mitigate these negative effects, he has used various techniques, such as the micro-control and repair of his physical body through traditional Chinese martial arts, the Dragon Elephant Suppressing Prison Scripture, and even the Free and Easy Ultimate Skill, all of which have the effect of counteracting the negative effects. This is why he is still a pure-blooded human. Even so, he desperately wants to obtain the Human-Human Fruit - Pure-Blooded Human Form.

So... what is the price for this giant tree ascended to its current form, known as the progenitor of Devil Fruits, to use this negative mental backlash?

Wu Pifu had a vague idea of ​​what was going on, but he wasn't sure yet, so he still had to tear off the veil and see for himself what the cruel truth was!
Wu Pifu floated up from the crack in the ground, holding the Death-Seeking Blade. He watched as the blade constantly changed size, and he channeled all his energy into his body, causing his blood to boil. A beam of energy with a diameter of a thousand meters rose towards the top of the sky, where it transformed into a spiraling tornado. With his full power, he barely moved, yet the winds of the entire world seemed to be shaken by his slightest movement.

The heavens and earth shook!

"...The Heaven-Shaking Immortal is indeed an outsider. Is he really related to the peerless being of the Extreme Realm who attacked this world before? Is he a remnant of the True Martial Civilization?"

Seeing this, the surrounding sublimated beings all showed expressions of "I knew it."

The Zhenwu Civilization was once incredibly powerful, hailed as the most likely to become an ancient civilization. Unfortunately, it split internally for various reasons and, for some other reason, provoked the Heavenly Court. It was destroyed by the Eastern Qinghua Emperor, one of the four emperors of the Heavenly Court, who led the various departments of the Heavenly Court on a distant expedition. The civilization's leader, the Zhenwu Ancestor, was captured and taken back to the Heavenly Court, where he was given the title of Zhenwu Emperor, but in reality, he had become a puppet of the Heavenly Court.

Even so, many remnants of the Zhenwu civilization survived, remaining hidden for countless eras, and were a formidable force in the Dream World.

Seeing that Wu Pifu had revealed his true identity, the surrounding sublimated beings secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

It's not the strong that come that we fear, but the unknown.

They are in a transcendent world, and even the origin of this world is helpless against it. Once they know the origin of the other party, nothing else is a big problem.

Moreover, Wu Pifu's strength was roughly as they had guessed: above mortals, below the threshold of transcendence, at the brink of extinction.

In the Zhenwu lineage, whether it is the Yang Shen lineage that focuses on spirit and consciousness or the Renxian lineage that focuses on physical body and blood, both can achieve sublimation when they reach their extreme. Those in the Renxian lineage who have accumulated weak points can achieve sublimation after opening up the acupoints in their physical body. Those in the Yang Shen lineage who have achieved the Eight Tribulations Ghost Immortal level can also achieve sublimation. Wu Pifu's current performance is probably at the level of an Acupoint Renxian, so it wouldn't be unreasonable to say that he is a quasi-sublimated body.

But what happened next silenced all the sublimated beings.

Wu Pifu shuddered, and his peerless internal energy, which had been gradually growing stronger, erupted in full force. At this moment, his internal energy had formed a crystalline spiral in his meridians. Once it erupted, it directly created a thousand-foot-long wall of energy, shaking away all the rocks, wind, and sand around him. Within a thousand feet around his body, it even appeared to have a distorted gaseous state.

"...A forbidden lineage of immortal martial arts?"

The sublimated beings are all voiceless.

Even though they are sublimated beings from a transcendent world, they are still extremely wary of this kind of pollution that involves the phenomenon of loss.

The reason why the Zhenwu civilization collapsed so quickly was not only due to internal divisions, but also because of the lightning strikes of Xianwu. This directly led to the almost comprehensive pollution of the Zhenwu civilization, especially the emergence of the Lost Pollution, which made things even worse for the Zhenwu civilization.

Unexpectedly, this foreign invader is also from the Immortal Martial lineage. He's incredibly audacious to even get involved in that.
"But so what? We sacrificed heaven and earth, sealed this place, and even the Heavenly Dao is not afraid of that extreme realm expert. Three second-tier masters are also present. He is just a mere, insignificant..."

After unleashing all his inner strength, Wu Pifu suddenly roared to the sky, his Armament Haki solidifying into a substance almost three feet away from his body. He then concentrated it all onto the Death-Seeking Greatsword, turning the ancient sword into a jet-black metallic color, exuding a domineering and ferocious aura.

At the same time, Conqueror's Haki erupted, creating countless shimmering stars above his head. Although they were just phantoms, the appearance of these stars greatly reduced the oppressive force of the Heavenly Dao's invisible lightning on him. Although he was still affected, at least he no longer felt dizzy or lightheaded.

Observation Haki is formless and invisible, and Wu Pifu was not proficient in Observation Haki, so naturally there were no unusual phenomena at this time.

The sheer amount of Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki condensed, especially the Conqueror's Haki which even manifested its innate special phenomenon, almost turning a tenth of the sky into a void of stars. This forced the radiance of dozens of ascended beings around them to be unable to get any closer. This alone left even the ascended being of the Great Tree, the progenitor of Devil Fruits, speechless.

This is way too outrageous!
He was originally a powerful member of the Zhenwu lineage at the level of a Heavenly Immortal. Judging from his strength and energy, he was at least at the level of condensing acupoints. As a result, not only did he have powerful immortal martial arts internal skills, but he also had Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki.
Especially since this Conqueror's Haki has even manifested its own innate special phenomenon... Is this really an outsider?

But this was still not the end. After Wu Pifu roared and unleashed two powerful auras, his own blood energy, internal strength, and domineering aura all exploded. At the same time, he was in a state of 50% negative mental backlash. In the shadows, his blood energy, internal strength, and domineering aura transformed into a blurry dragon-elephant giant god behind him.

This dragon-elephant colossus was merely a faint phantom, but even as a phantom, a single glance was enough to make anyone who saw it feel its boundless grandeur.

The feeling of holding the sun and moon in one's hands and plucking stars from the sky!
A colossal dragon-elephant god who can suppress countless mountains and rivers and shatter endless suns, moons and stars with a single roar!

"Let's fight side by side and quickly kill this intruder, this monster..." As he spoke, an exoskeleton armor made of flesh and metal emerged from Wu Pifu's body, fitting snugly against his body. In the blink of an eye, it transformed into a flesh-and-metal mecha over two meters tall. In the projection behind him, a giant flesh-and-metal egg over five meters tall seemed to appear, as if it was about to descend and cover his body, but for some inexplicable reason, it did not descend and simply disappeared as a phantom.

"...The Guyver Armored Kapp, the Eurasian Civilization..."

The ascended beings that were about to rush up and attack stopped again. They looked at the other ascended beings with a slight sense of bewilderment, and they saw disbelief in each other's eyes. Then a possibility was about to come out of their mouths, but it was too incredible, so they couldn't say it.

But this is still not over...

Wu Pifu reached out and pulled out a cracked Heart Flower crystal. He paused for a moment, and the surrounding Ascended beings also fell silent. Except for the giant tree Ascended being, who still looked bewildered, a more than ten-meter-tall Ascended being with goblin features and another Ascended being completely enveloped in light, they all looked at Wu Pifu with very strange and absurd eyes.

That look seemed to say... Seriously, man, are you really going to go this far? Is this really going to be a fight to the death?
Wu Pifu remained silent for at least a second or two, then resolutely picked up the Heart Flower and placed it over his heart. He then made a heart shape with his hands towards the giant tree sublimation body in front of him. The next second, a lace dress and stockings began to appear on his bio-armor...

The giant tree's sublimated form, and all the sublimated forms: "?"

In the next instant, Wu Pifu disappeared from the spot, and it seemed as if another invisible bolt of lightning fell from the sky. However, at the same time, hundreds of branches around the sublimated giant tree had been annihilated and dissipated. By the time Wu Pifu was forced out of the super brain world state, the defensive branches around the sublimated giant tree had already collapsed.

Only then did all the Ascended Beings around them finally come to life, no longer mere spectators. Led by the two strongest second-tier Ascended Beings, the majority of them launched a direct attack on Wu Pifu, while two other Ascended Beings turned around and charged towards the Celestial Dragon box that Wu Pifu had dropped.

In an instant, Wu Pifu thrust his blade straight in, continuing to slash at the sublimated giant tree. Just as he was about to use that unpredictable "Perfect Trait" again, the remaining branches of the sublimated giant tree lashed out incessantly. In an instant, wind, fire, and thunder appeared out of nowhere, along with quicksand, rocks, metal, and all sorts of fantastical creatures, all of which surged towards Wu Pifu in dense numbers.

However, any attack beyond five steps landed squarely on Wu Pifu, without even shaking the delicate lace on his clothes. Although the fantastical creatures formed from tree branches managed to get within five steps, Wu Pifu's combat power was at its peak. He had just broken through the invisible barrier of energy, and within five steps, the fantastical creatures were instantly shattered by the slight gust of wind from the blades.

In the blink of an eye, Wu Pifu had closed to within a thousand meters of the giant tree's sublimated form. Given the size of the giant tree and Wu Pifu's speed, this distance was already within five steps of the giant tree. Just as they were about to clash, the remaining branches of the giant tree suddenly retracted, and four dazzling Devil Fruits rose slowly from its top.

One fruit was yellow, one was green, one was white, and one was red. The yellow, green, and white fruits all appeared very ethereal, while only the red fruit had some substance. Just as Wu Pifu made his lunge forward, the red fruit flashed slightly. Almost simultaneously, Wu Pifu's sense of danger surged. Almost at the same time, he once again activated his Super Brain World, but instead of lunging forward, he retreated rapidly backward, retreating more than 100,000 meters away.

Then the Heavenly Dao unleashed another thunderbolt, jolting him out of his super-brain world state. Another wave of negativity surged into the ethereal realm of the Heavenly Dao along with the invisible lightning.

The instant Wu Pifu emerged from his superbrain state, a vast and boundless torrent of energy erupted from the red fruit of the giant tree.

This was a torrent of pure, highly condensed energy, like a laser, sweeping across at an incredible speed. It was tens of thousands of meters in diameter, encompassing heaven and earth as it struck Wu Pifu, and then continued to advance, directly severing the entire landmass. With a roar, it shot forward to the horizon, finally exploding with a deafening roar. The distant continent was instantly transformed into a sea of ​​inferno, almost shattering an entire landmass, with an unimaginable range of impact.

After the energy fluctuation erupted, Wu Pifu was still standing in mid-air. However, the lace trim and stockings on his body were charred, and his bio-armor was emitting hot smoke. Although he was not seriously injured, even the five-step defensive feature of the Pifu title could not completely protect him. One can imagine how terrifying and dreadful this attack was.

If this were in the absolute reality layer of space, that one strike would have been enough to create a hole at least one-fifth of the way through Earth!

"Time, space, matter, energy... It's a pity that after so many tens of thousands of years, I have only managed to condense the Energy Fruit, which is barely considered a second-tier sublimation body. If all four ultimate Devil Fruits were fully condensed, I would surely be able to reach the ultimate realm!"

The sublimated giant tree sighed slightly, and then the white fruit among the four fruits swayed slightly. Although it also burst out with light, the light was somewhat illusory and unreal.

Even so, Wu Pifu felt a stagnation within himself, not in time, but in space. He was like an insect frozen in amber, the space immobilizing him in place.

At the same time, the remaining dozens of sublimated beings rushed forward.

They also seemed to know that the five-step distance was the critical point of some characteristic of the Wu Pifu.

Although they did not understand why Wu Pifu could still use his perfect characteristics under the suppression of the Heavenly Dao, it did not stop them from taking advantage of the situation to kill people!
At this moment, dozens of physical bodies, energy, Devil Fruits, and Haki power all condensed and did not disperse, all rushing towards Wu Pifu within five steps!

These sublimated entities... are determined to utterly annihilate Wu Pifu!

In the midst of this frozen space, Wu Pifu slowly spoke.

"A minor deity in the mortal realm..."

The next second, his death-defying greatsword suddenly transformed into the image of a heart in magical girl form, shattering the vacuum blade.

At the same time, the power of dozens of sublimated beings concentrated in this stagnant space. Wu Pifu raised his sword, stepped forward, and began to struggle...

One person fights against dozens of sublimated beings capable of shattering stars!

The cloak of censorship rules behind him!
Kratos title! Victory is assured in any contest!
The title "Great Mighty Heavenly Dragon"! Tenfold bonus!
The vacuum blade shatters, tearing open space!!
In an instant, the greatsword in Wu Pifu's hand shone as brightly as a star, and the stagnant space began to crumble inch by inch. Moreover, it wasn't just this one space; in Wu Pifu's eyes, the space at this moment seemed to have turned into shattered glass, filled with all sorts of illogical passages and wormholes...

In the next instant, Wu Pifu appeared beside the two Ascended beings, sword in hand. These two Ascended beings had just retrieved the Celestial Dragon's box. Then, with multiple superimposed multipliers, Wu Pifu, amidst his exploding and spitting blood, forcibly activated his Hyperbrain World again, unleashing Kratos's "Execution QET" effect on the two astonished Ascended beings!
It exploded with a bang...

In a nanosecond, Wu Pifu had slashed at least tens of thousands of times.

Space shattered, and the entire earth was blown away and pulverized, with the World Government headquarters below easily torn apart...

When all the sublimated entities looked back, the two giant sublimated entities in front of Wu Pifu had already begun to crumble inch by inch and gradually disappear. Only then did his voice reach the ears of the remaining sublimated entities.

"...You did your best."

(End of this chapter)