Eternal Night

Chapter 798 Ruins and Obscurities

Wu Pifu rushed excitedly toward the location of the suspected intelligent creature's creation. Naturally, there was no cover at this moment, and a shockwave exploded directly in mid-air, carrying sound-breaking ripples toward the glowing spot.

This scene naturally fell into the eyes of the nocturnal predators throughout the forest. They saw a huge tongue, like a spear, piercing straight towards Wu Pifu from the earth. The life force on the surface of this tongue had even condensed into a liquid state. Its speed was also incredibly fast. In just one stroke, it cut a giant tree tens of thousands of meters tall in front of it in half.

But before the tongue could even reach Wu Pifu's location, the owner of the tongue realized something and frantically began to retract it, causing the lower half of the tongue to sway. However, the force of inertia still propelled the tip of the tongue straight toward Wu Pifu.

Wu Pifu drew his sword in mid-air, spun around, and slashed at the suddenly appearing tongue.

This tongue, hundreds of meters in diameter, was severed by Wu Pifu's blade. Wu Pifu didn't stop, continuing his frantic charge towards the fluorescent light. The tongue remained motionless, standing thousands of meters in the sky. Several seconds after Wu Pifu had already charged forward, the tip of the tongue completely annihilated. A knife mark ran down the tip of the tongue, splitting it in two. A deep, visible crater appeared in the ground, from which a lake-like amount of blood gushed forth, completely filling the crater…

This single strike silenced the restless forest in the darkness, and Wu Pifu was no longer attacked as it flew along.

"...I saw it, that light was..."

Wu Pifu saw the light in the distance. Sure enough, the place where the fluorescence appeared was not covered by dense giant trees. However, it was completely different from the city, residence, or creation of intelligent beings that he had imagined. In the place where the fluorescence was emitted, there were mirrors ranging from several meters to hundreds of meters high.
These mirrors, some lying horizontally on the ground, some standing upright, and some seemingly floating in mid-air, all of varying sizes, emit fluorescence. There are at least tens of millions of these mirrors, turning this vast area into a fluorescent color. There are no plants in this area, only these eerie mirrors and the fluorescence they emit.

"...What the hell?"

Wu Pifu was inexplicably suspended in mid-air.

This scene is truly baffling.

Mirrors? Fluorescence? The key point is that many of these mirrors are suspended?

"careful!"

Beelzebub's voice said, "This is the Ancient Insect Realm, an ancient world that existed long before the Heavenly Court civilization appeared. Its timeline is untraceable, and some even suspect that the Ancient Insect Realm existed even earlier than the Buddhist Realm. Regardless of what civilizations existed in this world or whether they have perished, its antiquity is beyond imagination!"

"Among these countless civilizations, heaven knows what kind of technology they developed, or how bizarre they became."

“I know.” Wu Pifu nodded in response. He did not rush into the mirrored land immediately, but instead began to wander around the edge of the mirrored land.

It is quite clear that wherever there are giant plants, there is a mirror-like area.

Wu Pifu also discovered that no life approached the edge of this mirror-like land, not even animal or plant remains.

There was nothing inside except for bare stones and mirrors.

Wu Pifu circled around for a while and roughly discovered that this mirrored land was not a complete circle, but an irregular polygon. Some areas were very close to the center of the mirrored land, and he could even see the center of the mirrored land...

architecture!

Surprisingly, there are several buildings in the Mirror Land that are severely weathered but still retain their original architectural shapes!
He even saw the steel bars protruding from the building!
Moreover, on the largest building, he saw a fruit about the size of a watermelon.

It was colorful and dazzling. Although it did not emit light, the fruit looked so tempting thanks to the fluorescence emitted by the mirror.

For some reason, when Wu Pifu saw the fruit, his mouth watered. Not only him, but the three small animals and even the golden tree were mesmerized by the fruit.

"Chirp!"

"Wang Wang!"

"I said……"

The three small animals spoke at the same time, and even the golden tree gently touched the skin of the pifu with its branches.

"I know I know."

Wu Pifu wiped his drool and said, "No matter what this thing is, I want to eat it too. And I sensed it; it's not some kind of meme contamination, but rather my body, my cells, my genes—something like that—craving to eat this fruit... And there are buildings inside too. Let's go in and pick this fruit." Beelzebub also really wanted to eat the fruit, but she still warned, "This fruit has existed for who knows how long, and this is a forest, yet it's still here. It must be very dangerous in here; you have to be careful."

Wu Pifu nodded: "I understand!"

After saying that, Wu Pifu did not rush directly towards the fruit from the air. Instead, he landed on the edge of the mirror-like land. He first brandished his death-defying broadsword twice, then twisted his body and adjusted his mind before throwing himself out. With a thud, he threw himself hundreds of meters away and crashed directly into the mirror-like land.

But just as he was about to fall into the mirrored land, Wu Pifu, who had been intently looking at the mirrors, suddenly turned around and looked towards a certain spot in the forest.

"what?"

Wu Pifu landed, letting the fluorescent light illuminate his body, but his gaze remained fixed on a dark spot in the forest.

"What's wrong? Could the attack on this mirrored land be coming from the outside or the edge?" Beelzebub asked anxiously.

Wu Pifu shook his head. He looked at the mirrored surface a few more times, puzzled, before looking back at it and saying, "No, it might be an illusion... Just now, I seemed to feel someone watching me, but after careful observation, I didn't feel anything."

Beelzebub was puzzled, but her attention was entirely focused on the fruit. She urged in a low voice, "Don't delay. We don't know what's going on here. Let's speed things up."

"Okay, speed it up."

Wu Pifu readily agreed and immediately strode towards the center of the mirror-like area.

About 300 kilometers away from Wu Pifu, in a tiny hole in a giant tree, a man was lying trembling inside.

After a few minutes, he quickly reached out and pointed at nothingness. A milky white life energy subtly erupted, and then a notebook and a pen appeared in mid-air.

The man immediately grabbed a paper and pen and began writing rapidly: "...the ninth year and twenty-eighth day of exploring the perfect fruit."

"Hope: The Fruit of Perfection, Disaster: The Mirror of Perfection. Just like the previous five explorations, I couldn't enter the fluorescent zone of the Mirror of Perfection. Once inside, the Mirror of Perfection would collect information about my physical body, spirit, and soul. The longer I stayed inside, the more complete the information collected, thus giving birth to a more perfect 'me.' The current limit is twelve seconds. It gave birth to a clone that is slightly weaker than I am now, but its mental memory capacity is almost infinite. I narrowly escaped and spent six years recuperating..."

"My plan was to use Nitrome to lure an A-rank magical beast during the sixth exploration, sending it inside to disrupt the information gathering sequence of the Perfect Realm, and take this opportunity to get closer to the Fruit of Perfection. But before I could even find any trace of the A-rank magical beast, I saw something terrifying..."

"That's definitely not a person! It's some kind of terrifying disaster disguised in human skin, or even the 'catastrophe' I've been talking about while exploring various ruins!"

"We were almost discovered. It is now known that this catastrophe can be directly detected by sight, even in the absolute state after all thoughts and information have been completely contained."

"The strength of its physical body is unknown, but it can achieve supersonic flight using only its physical body. Its flight speed is unknown, tentatively set at five times the speed of sound. Its strength is unknown, its combat power is unknown, and whether it has awakened its mental powers is unknown, but..."

As he wrote this, the man began to tremble violently, and even his forced composure began to waver.

This made him quickly clutch his chest and point his finger at the void again. A milky white life force burst forth, and a palm-sized emerald green leaf fell out. He immediately tore off a piece the size of a fingernail from the leaf and swallowed it. Instantly, the vigorous emerald green life force permeated his entire being, but it was blocked from leaking out by a layer of milky white life force on his body.

This emerald green life force even seeped into his brow, shifting its effect from his physical body to his mind. With the help of this emerald green life force, his mind, which was on the verge of fainting, managed to hold on.

Only then did he take a few deep breaths, and then wrote on the paper: "When exploring the Dark Continent, the most important thing is to see the essence of everything that exists. You must see through its appearance and see its essence, otherwise you won't even know how you died... The Nen ability I use, the Eye of Truth, can see through the essence, but now I have also discovered the negative effect of the Eye of Truth. That is, once you look directly at the malice and terror that exceeds the limits of human cognition, your life instinct will not be able to bear it. The next step is to try to adjust and change the Nen ability of the Eye of Truth, and use the oath and restraint to remove this negative effect."

At this point, the man took several deep breaths before his trembling hand continued: "That catastrophe was an unfathomable, boundless terror, an ultimate fear infinitely more concentrated than all the malice in the world. I don't know how to describe it; the language of intelligent life is far too inadequate to express this thing. But I know that it was the end, the finality, the manifestation of all evil. I can assure you, it must have been mentioned by chance in the numerous ruins I explored..."

"catastrophe!"

After finishing writing, the man was covered in sweat, but dared not wipe it or move around. He closed the diary, lay down in the planting hole, and breathed silently, not daring to move at all.

There are some words in this diary.

"Journey to the New World: Deep Two"

(End of this chapter)