Eternal Night

Chapter 796 The Meaning of Transcendence
"The essence of a transcendent world does not lie in its temporary power, but in its unique characteristics!"

Wu Pifu killed a "small snake," about 600 meters long. Although it wasn't a tough fight, he couldn't kill it instantly. The snake's physical body was too strong, and it was a naturally extraordinary life form. Because its life force was too strong, it formed an extraordinary power of pure life energy simply by overflowing its life force. This was actually more terrifying than the extraordinary power of the system.

"Don't be fooled by the Mountain and Sea Realm!"

Beelzebub said to Wu Pifu very seriously: "To be honest, the Scattered Heavenly Dao is like a newborn infant, which was devoured by the Mountain and Sea Realm. However, the Mountain and Sea Realm is also just a child in its early stages of growth. The same goes for the Misty Realm. It has only just gained the ability to protect itself in the Dream World. It is a transcendent world in its new stage."

While roasting the snake meat over a fire, Wu Pifu asked, "So you still haven't told me, what exactly are its special characteristics?"

Beelzebub flew to Wu Pifu's front, buzzing as he shouted, "Transcend, transcend! That is, to accumulate endlessly, to break through the shackles time and time again!"

"Oh."

Wu Pifu didn't understand at first. He looked at the snake meat and saw that it was emitting an extremely rich aroma. It was an aroma that was almost solidified into a physical form. His mouth watered and he swallowed the still hot snake meat in one gulp. Then his eyes lit up and he couldn't wait to start chewing.

"Delicious! The life force has transformed into an indescribable flavor!" After swallowing the piece of snake meat, Wu Pifu flashed and cut off more snake meat to roast. At the same time, he said to the other small animals, "You should also have a taste!"

Beelzebub slammed into Wu Pifu's head and roared, "Listen to me!"

Wu Pifu wrapped Beelzebub in gentle force and said, "Yes, yes, surpassing is about continuous accumulation, and then what?"

Beelzebub's voice cracked: "Don't you understand yet? The special characteristic of a transcendental world is that it is not affected by the dragging of the dream world. Its essence is a next-generation world that has fully adapted to the dualistic pattern of reality and illusion in the dream world. Therefore, it can absorb reality and obtain the extraordinary power brought by illusion, and it will not be dragged down to the lower levels of the dream world. As long as it is given enough time, its internal power can be accumulated permanently. This is the truly unique essence of a transcendental world!"

Wu Pifu understood, and as he grilled the snake meat, he fell into deep thought.

If Beelzebub's explanation is true, then the transcendental world is indeed a terrifying existence. Unrestricted accumulation, unaffected by the source of pollution, means that given enough time, it will form everything he sees before him.

Big, big…

From a human perspective, the world is incredibly large.

A blade of grass (a towering tree thousands of meters tall) is ridiculously large, while real trees are at least hundreds of thousands of meters tall. A small snake is hundreds of meters long, and even such a small snake has natural superhuman strength. Even with his strength, he couldn't kill it instantly.

The giant adult snake that had a bald head that was thousands of meters in diameter and at least tens of thousands of meters long probably had enough life force accumulated from its instincts to rival even the weakest sublimated form.

These are all natural life forms in this world. What about the even stronger, extraordinary beings in this world?

It's terrifying to think about. There must be tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of beings with the power of sublimation in this ancient insect world.
Seeing that Wu Pifu understood, Beelzebub continued, "It's just as you think. This is the true nature and significance of a transcendental great world. Given enough time, it can accumulate almost infinitely. Of course, most transcendental great worlds perish in their nascent stage, or they stray from the right path along the way, like the Mountain and Sea Realm. But every transcendental great world that truly grows up is terrifyingly powerful, like the Thirty-Three Heavens beyond the Heavenly Court..."

"I've regained some of my memories. Before that transcendent world was refined by the nascent immortals, its world structure was a high-low ascension world, with the mortal world at the bottom being the largest. Then, one world per day, and once your strength reached the critical point of that level, you could ascend upwards. You could ascend a total of thirty-two times! Just imagine that terrifying amount of time!"

Wu Pifu clicked his tongue in amazement.

Ascension thirty-two times?

Even if one ascends to the next minor realm, with the accumulation of thirty-two minor realms, wouldn't the thirty-third day be entirely a second-order limit, or even a third-order sublimated body?
But thinking about it this way, if a nascent immortal can refine such a Thirty-Three Heavens world, wouldn't that be even more terrifying?

Beelzebub seemed to have guessed Wu Pifu's thoughts. She said, "Don't presume to guess the strength of the First Immortal. He is completely different from all origins and all existences... It's best not to discuss it. Although this is one of the three most ancient transcendent worlds, it probably can't escape the First Immortal's perception. In short, what I mean is, you really have to be extra careful on this trip. This Ancient Insect Realm is a world from the same era as the Thirty-Three Heavens Transcendent World. It must have accumulated and hidden countless great terrors. Even with your current strength, if you act recklessly here, you will probably die a terrible death."

Wu Pifu nodded silently, his heart filled with caution and apprehension. However, he then looked up at the sky and said after a long while, "But it's strange. Since I entered this world, I haven't sensed the existence of the Heavenly Dao. Or is it because the Heavenly Dao has accumulated for too long and is too strong, exceeding my perception limits?"

"There is no Heavenly Dao!"

Beelzebub, however, stated resolutely: “I have memories of the initial research I conducted with some others on the Transcendental Great World, so I know about this. The growth process of the Transcendental Great World is also included in this. In the beginning, the Transcendental Great World was born on a land where countless sources of pollution converged, similar to the current Land of Redemption. The characteristics of these sources intertwined, resulting in a peculiar sense of balance. This is the foundation of the Transcendental Great World's existence, possessing both the extraordinary resources brought by pollution and the balance sufficient to bear reality.”

"Because of this characteristic, the world can accumulate, and with long-term accumulation, the initial rudimentary unified general consciousness will be born. But that is not the Heavenly Dao, but a unified general consciousness that is much more primitive than the Heavenly Dao, which is similar to the prototype of the modern martial arts world from which the land of human salvation originated."

Wu Pifu nodded repeatedly when he heard this.

The world where Chu Minghao obtained the Land of Redemption, the special world where he launched the Battle of Redemption, actually had something similar to the Heavenly Dao. However, at that time, his level was too low to perceive it, and that thing similar to the Heavenly Dao was too weak, only having the most basic instinctive defense.

Beelzebub continued, “Then, after a long period of accumulation, it must not be discovered by the outside world, otherwise it will be snatched and destroyed by all kinds of demons and monsters. Only after surviving this long and fragile period will the general consciousness transform into the true unified general consciousness and become the original Heavenly Dao. For example, the predecessor of the scattered Heavenly Dao was like this. But that was also the most dangerous time, because other Heavenly Daos that have grown up will hunt such nascent Heavenly Daos, which are the most nutritious things for them.”

"Then continue to accumulate, continue to grow, integrate the general consciousness into the Heavenly Dao, and control the transcendent world. At this time, you will have enough power to protect yourself, and ordinary sources will not be able to destroy you. But at this time, another situation is also likely to occur, that is, the Heavenly Dao will go astray, leading the entire transcendent world all the way to the abyss of self-destruction. The Mountain and Sea Realm is a typical example of this."

"If this even longer period of time is also endured, then after a sufficiently long time, the Heavenly Dao will scatter and combine with the entire transcendent world, transforming into the Pan-Heavenly Dao. Its self will cease to exist, transforming into a more metaphysical abstract concept, the so-called mysterious one. This is precisely the current situation in the Ancient Insect Realm, as well as the previous Thirty-Three Heavens."

Wu Pifu was taken aback. He stared blankly at Beelzebub: "You mean... the Heavenly Dao is dead?"

Beelzebub was also stunned. She thought for a moment and said, "If you want to say that, it's fine. The Heavenly Dao will die of old age... In fact, apart from the First Immortals and First Buddhas, even the Roots will 'die of old age'. There are countless ancient Roots that have lost their names in the Zero Point Dream World. For example, there are countless Roots that have lost their self-awareness. These can all be considered as Alzheimer's disease. Apart from the world itself which is ignorant and without consciousness, nothing can accumulate indefinitely. The First Immortals and First Buddhas can only live longer and accumulate to a higher degree. The Heavenly Dao is no exception."

"Of course, once it reaches this stage, the sheer size of the transcendent world itself is enough to allow it to contend with all sources and terrors except for the primordial immortals and primordial Buddhas. Even if those legendary sources were to descend, they probably wouldn't be able to do anything to this transcendent world of such accumulated size."

"...In fact, in my memory, one of the reasons why the First Immortal would take the Heavenly Court into a long period of slumber every now and then was that he suffered some kind of severe injury when he was refining the Thirty-Three Heavens. Of course, this is just my guess."

This is terrifying, Wu Pifu thought to himself.

"The ancient insect world..."

Wu Pifu silently lowered his head and continued grilling the meat. At that moment, in his perception, at the far end of the sky, a colossal beast at least a million meters long soared into the air, battling a mantis-like insect of the same size. Their movements seemed to shake the heavens and the earth. Even though they were separated by countless kilometers, Wu Pifu could still feel the ground trembling slightly, and the air carrying a slightly scorching heat.

However, after his perception was stretched without limit, he could see that this was only a small corner, and even the entire forest area was not affected. Wu Pifu could also sense that the giant beasts and insects were eating and drinking as usual, completely ignoring the battle between the two giant beasts and insects that were comparable to the peak of the first tier or even the second tier of the sublimated body.

It's almost like in the 21st century, when lions prey on buffalo on the African savanna, while buffalo herds further away continue to eat and drink.

Wu Pifu remained silent, dividing the roasted snake meat among the three small animals and the golden tree bonsai, and then took a large piece for himself and began to eat.

"The vows and constraints of thought..."

After Wu Pifu finished eating, he stood up and looked up at the sky again.

"I'm really looking forward to this trip. This world... is bound to be incredibly wonderful!"

(End of this chapter)