Eternal Night

Chapter 781 Meeting the Gods: Unity of Heaven and Man
Wu Pifu had been pondering what the realm beyond the indestructible divine realm truly was.

From the perspective of the Chinese martial arts system, "seeing the god without being harmed" is the end point of Chinese martial arts, the ultimate peak where there is no further progress. Wu Pifu himself is the very peak of "seeing the god without being harmed" in Chinese martial arts, so how could he not know this?
The physical body, spirit, skills, and the extraordinary path of Chinese martial arts have all reached their limits. The mortal body has evolved twice, and the microscopic control has reached the cellular level. As long as the heart and brain are not missing, the physical body has almost no other weaknesses. It is immune to all diseases and poisons, and it is no problem to live to be two hundred years old.

Keep in mind, this is just a mortal body without any supernatural energy!
The extraordinary path of Chinese martial arts can actually be considered perfect. It is a path of cultivation that goes from the outside in, from the body to the spirit, step by step, gradually and imperceptibly evolving oneself. It is neither hasty nor slow. Although it requires a high level of talent, it only requires talent. Compared with most other extraordinary paths, its requirements are almost non-existent. It can be a path of extraordinary cultivation that can be popularized by the general public.

Wu Pifu even suspected that the extraordinary path of Chinese martial arts did not require contamination and could be achieved at the level of absolute truth!
Logically speaking, the deeper one goes into the dream world, the more pollution and real energy one consumes, and the stronger one's power and strength should become. However, martial arts are a rare exception among the many extraordinary paths that Wu Pifu has discovered.

While traditional Chinese martial arts itself may not be particularly strong, once the extraordinary path of traditional Chinese martial arts reaches the Dan Jin level or above, the enhancement and strengthening of all the cultivator's own qualities is too powerful. This is not a superposition of various extraordinary paths, but a fusion and control of power... Especially for someone like Wu Pifu, who can cultivate countless extraordinary paths, the extraordinary path of traditional Chinese martial arts has almost become the core of his combat system and mode, without exception!
However... Wu Pifu didn't know how to break through to the level of "Seeing Gods Without Destruction". The disadvantage of this extraordinary path of martial arts was that its level was too low. It was an extraordinary path from the level of absolute reality to the level of the zero-point nine dream world. The level of "Seeing Gods Without Destruction" was gradually becoming insufficient to integrate so many extraordinary paths of his.

At this moment, seeing that Adam actually simulated his martial arts realm of "Seeing God Without Being Broken" by relying on the illusion of God, and was even surpassing it little by little, finally, with this palm strike, a path was opened up again on the top of the "Seeing God Without Being Broken" realm where there was no way to go!
As Wu Pifu saw the palm strike coming, his vague senses told him that this palm strike had broken through the Divine Realm, but on the surface it was just an ordinary palm strike.

(...It doesn't look unusual to the naked eye; you still need to listen to the energy and feel the interaction of qi and blood!)
Having made up his mind, Wu Pifu spared no effort in striking Adam with both his palm and claw, colliding head-on with the incoming palm strike.

The two clashed silently, a stark contrast to the explosions that followed when the two clashed before. Wu Pifu's palm and claw seemed to have stuck to Adam's palm, the immense power of which vanished without a trace. Not only that, Wu Pifu even felt as if he couldn't control his own blood and qi.

"...No! This hasn't completely surpassed the realm of indestructible divinity!"

In a pure martial arts battle, if the difference in skill level between the two is too great, the higher-level practitioner can cause the lower-level practitioner's qi and blood to scatter or even flow backward when their palms touch. Once the practitioner loses control of their qi and blood, the outcome of the battle is no longer in doubt.

However, Wu Pifu was, after all, a top-tier grandmaster who could not be destroyed even when facing gods. The moment his qi and blood began to scatter, he suddenly opened his mouth and roared, his strength bursting forth and his qi and blood surging. Immediately, immense power burst forth from his arms again, and he pushed his palms forward, about to explode towards Adam's palm.

But the next second, he suddenly saw Adam's palm grow to be huge, huge, huge...

He felt as if he were facing the edge of the universe, everything before him was boundless and vast, the palm held upright, encompassing heaven and earth and all things, while he was as small as a speck of dust...

This isn't like an ant trying to shake a tree; it's like dust trying to shake a planet!
(Hallucination? Suppression of the atmosphere? Or something else...)
Although Wu Pifu "saw" everything before him, he was also a seasoned veteran who had even slain the root of all evil and struck at the Heavenly Dao. Despite seeing this, his mind remained unmoved and his power continued to surge forward. Even with his dust-like body, he charged forward without hesitation, not caring if he were to be smashed to pieces.

Upon impact, the difference in sensory perception, so great yet so small, vanished instantly. He was still facing Adam with his palms together, and even the surrounding environment remained unchanged. It was as if he had just experienced a brief but real dream.

However, Wu Pifu knew that it was neither a dream nor a hallucination, nor was it a distraction. Rather, it was because the difference in their vital energy at the moment of impact was too great, resulting in that strange "sensory perception." It wasn't actually seeing anything with the naked eye, but rather a manifestation of a huge difference in their senses.

This is actually quite common in martial arts combat, but it usually happens when a master fights a novice, or at least when there is a difference of two major levels. For example, Ming Jin versus Hua Jin, An Jin versus Gang Jin, or Dan Jin versus Jian Shen Bu Hua. In this situation, when their Qi and blood collide, the novice will "see" what is in front of him as if he is facing an elephant, a whale, or even a mountain range. He can throw a punch or a kick and the opponent will not budge. But if the opponent flicks his finger, he will be smashed to pieces.

This situation is not common, but it is not rare either, and it is often recorded in some ancient novels.

But how could that be possible given the current situation?

Wu Pifu's descended body's blood and energy far surpassed Adam's descended body. Even though Adam relied on the ability of divine vision to cross the realm of seeing gods without decay, he was only a hair's breadth away from Wu Pifu's current peak of seeing gods without decay. Could it be that... a breakthrough above seeing gods without decay is just a hair's breadth of progress, yet it is enough to bring about such an exaggerated and huge improvement?
How can this be! ?
If that's really the case, why would Wu Pifu need to learn other extraordinary methods? He could just frantically and desperately hone his skills in traditional Chinese martial arts.

The difference in blood and qi just now is enough to add up to the current Wu Pifu. If we calculate it this way, once he breaks through to the Divine Realm, his blood and qi, blood essence, physique, physical body, etc. will be even more than all his current extraordinary paths combined!

(Wait! Something's definitely wrong!)

Wu Pifu took a deep breath. He watched as Adam had truly broken through to the level of "Seeing Gods Without Being Destroyed." All sorts of mysteries were right in front of him, but he was completely bewildered, as if he were in a fog. He knew that Adam did not actually have the martial arts level of "Seeing Gods Without Being Destroyed." Instead, he cheated his way through by using the illusion of divine vision. This state could not last long. He might die suddenly or stop practicing at any moment.

This made Wu Pifu extremely anxious. He no longer cared that they were sparring. With each breath, his blood and qi began to surge. He used the blood and qi circulation technique of the Immortal Martial Arts to move his blood and qi through his skin, flesh, tendons, bones, and membranes from the outside in, from the fine to the large. In just an instant, billowing white qi rose from his body and then transformed into a thin but still straight plume of smoke that pierced the sky at least five or six hundred meters high.

Chinese martial arts and the Immortal Martial Arts are of the same lineage, but to be precise, Chinese martial arts is actually a technique for controlling internal force, while the Immortal Martial Arts is a truly extraordinary path involving supernatural energy. Therefore, even if one does not use Chinese martial arts with one's own physical body, as long as one has reached a certain level, it is not difficult to use.

Even a master of unparalleled skill, whose body is tempered through countless trials, can still kill a three-year-old child with a mere flick of his wrist, as long as he remains conscious.

Conversely, a great master at the level of a human immortal, if he did not cultivate the Yang God system and was actually replaced by a three-year-old child, would probably not be able to defeat an adult in a short period of time.

Wu Pifu's current physical body is certainly not as good as his pure human body, which has been tempered and refined over thousands of years. However, the level of his physical body and blood energy far exceeds that of ordinary mortals. In addition, his martial arts are also at the peak of the Divine Indestructible realm. At this moment, he completely unleashed his power. With the circulation of blood energy, his physical body was able to barely operate the Human Immortal Martial Arts, and he was also at the initial stage of the Martial Saint realm.

Instantly, Wu Pifu's energy surged several times over. He retreated, leaping at least 500 meters away in a single bound. In the blink of an eye, he stood still with both feet planted on the ground 500 meters away, but leaning backward from the waist up. His upper body was almost at a 90-degree angle to the ground, giving those around him the impression that he was taut and stretched to his limit, like a huge longbow.

"Again!!" Wu Pifu roared from 500 meters away, the sound waves spreading outwards in ripples. Then he stomped his foot, the ground cracked, and he actually surpassed the sound waves from his roar in an instant, shooting towards Adam like an arrow released from a bow.

In the blink of an eye, the retreat and charge took less than a second. All the onlookers saw was Wu Pifu shooting towards them. Before the sound even arrived, his claws were already there. As he swung his claws forward, a dazzling arc appeared. Although it was a claw-like hand, it gave everyone the feeling that he was wielding a large sword.

At this moment, Adam's eyes were lifeless and dull. Faced with this attack, he could only "slowly" raise his hand.

This slowness is the perception of everyone around him, completely different from Wu Pifu's lightning-fast movements. Adam's movements are not only "slow" but also "gentle." He seems to be exhausted, even dying. When he raises his hand, everyone around him feels that he is powerless.

But this seemingly slow and gentle raising of the hand happened to block Wu Pifu's lightning-fast claw strike precisely at the crucial point. Not a fraction more, not a fraction less, the single hand lifted upwards, and as if by some divine intervention, it pressed against Wu Pifu's wrist, preventing the strike from coming down.

"Skill alone is not enough!"

Before Wu Pifu could even strike, he had a vague understanding from the sensation in his wrist. But this was far from enough for him to see through the fog of the indestructible god. He didn't dodge or avoid, and didn't even have time to withdraw his hand. He turned his claw into a palm and pressed down on Adam from above.

His physical attributes as a descendant were superior to those of Adam's descendant. Furthermore, he combined traditional Chinese martial arts with the martial arts of immortals, resulting in a superimposed superposition of extraordinary abilities. Adam neither attacked nor dodged at this moment, but instead raised one hand to engage in a contest of strength with Wu Pifu.

Wu Pifu was overjoyed. This kind of grappling was perfect for listening to the opponent's strength and judging the flow of qi and blood. Moreover, Adam was not ten times his size, so there was no issue of the Kratos title interfering. He focused wholeheartedly on sensing the qi and blood and strength that Adam was displaying at this moment, from skin to muscles, from muscles to tendons, from tendons to bones, and from bones to internal organs...

(Not enough, not enough, not enough...)
Wu Pifu felt as if the fog in front of him was breaking through a crack, and he was about to glimpse the truth behind it. But he was just a hair's breadth away from seeing the truth, which made him so anxious and uncomfortable that he felt like he was going to vomit blood.

"Is this the level you want to reach?"

Just then, Wu Pifu seemed to enter an incredible slow rhythm, slow time, and slow motion state, which was very similar to the Super Brain World, but also completely different from it. It was more like the final moments before death, a recollection of the past.

He vaguely saw Adam giving him a warm and radiant smile: "Child, is this the realm you sought to transcend through my divine vision?"

Wu Pifu was unable to move or speak, and Adam did not seem to expect a reply from him.

"...Truly remarkable skill. A single step can separate the world of the living and the dead. This is not the power of our world, is it? Child, you are an outsider, aren't you?"

Adam's smile grew even warmer: "I am so happy to know that there are humans beyond this world, and that there are such powerful, strong, and gentle humans as you. My child... I will grant your wish now and let you see clearly what kind of power you want to pursue."

As he spoke, Adam's eyes regained their luster and brilliance, and the six-pointed star pattern in his pupils began to glow.

Adam's Noble Phantasm: Divine Vision!

Burst with all your strength!

In an instant, Wu Pifu sensed Adam growing bigger and bigger...

That power, that energy, that spirit encompassed heaven and earth in an instant. He turned into dust once again, but this time it wasn't dust colliding with a planet; rather, heaven and earth embraced him like parents...

boom!
Adam was thrown hundreds of meters away like a rag doll, while Wu Pifu landed, stood still, his eyes blind and lifeless, and stood there blankly for dozens of seconds.

It wasn't until the three surrounding natural barriers were completely broken, and a bird, a wolf, and a tree burst forth in fury, that Wu Pifu suddenly realized what was happening.

"I understand!"

"Beyond the realm of the indestructible!"

"The Way of Harmony Between Heaven and Man!!"

(End of this chapter)