Eternal Night

Chapter 802 A Power Similar to the Heavenly Court
Wu Pifu's casual slashes carried immense force, and even without the three major enhancements, the Death-Saving Blade was not something an ordinary being could withstand.

However, this multi-armed, multi-headed monster blocked the attack with an ordinary stone axe, and its strength was equal to that of Wu Pifu, not a bit more or less. In the ensuing struggle, the two actually stood facing each other.

But in just a moment of confrontation, Wu Pifu seemed to have known that the monster's strength was equal to his own. His hand trembled slightly, the blade flew, and the huge stone axe slid past. The monster's center was wide open, and the suicidal broadsword came to meet it, but it was immediately blocked by the spear on the monster's other arm. The reaction speed was also astonishing.

However, Wu Pifu's forward strike was a feint. He shifted his weight to the side with one foot, deflecting the spear and advancing to the monster's base. Even so, the monster continued its attack, unleashing a barrage of primitive weapons from its multiple arms at Wu Pifu. But he had already lost the initiative. Wu Pifu's suicidal broadsword transformed into a series of blade beams, slashing upwards and cutting the monster into dozens of pieces in the blink of an eye, its entire body reduced to fragments scattered on the ground.

The entire exchange took less than a second, and Wu Pifu had already killed the monster. However, the intensity of the battle was so great that bystanders couldn't even see it clearly.

Immediately afterwards, the fragments of the monster dissipated into life energy carrying a dark, negative aura. Wu Pifu stood beside them, staring intently. He was absolutely certain that this negative life energy had been directly annihilated and dissipated, rather than being absorbed and recycled by some extraordinary means.

A few seconds after it completely dissipated, Wu Pifu walked back to the campfire and said, "So it's really strange. I've killed this monster several times, so why does it keep reappearing? Even the extraordinary energy that constitutes its essence has been annihilated. It shouldn't be like this."

In fact, this monster is extremely powerful. When Wu Pifu fights it, it will directly use its normal strength and speed. On this basis, for every bit of strength and speed Wu Pifu adds, the monster will become equally stronger. If it weren't for the huge difference in strength and skills, this monster would be a powerful template for the final BOSS.

Beelzebub, standing nearby, analyzed, "What if you actually killed this monster several times?"

Wu Pifu was taken aback, and after thinking for a few seconds, he said thoughtfully, "You mean there are many of these monsters?"

Beelzebub continued, “It’s obvious that this monster came for that stone bowl. We found the stone bowl in a small ruin that resembles a tribe. The stone bowl is the hope of this small ruin, and the disaster is this kind of undead that gathers the warriors of the tribe. You did kill this undead, once in the ruin, three times on the road, and once today, a total of five times. But this is a tribe, and there is more than one undead. If you understand it this way, there should be no problem.”

Wu Pifu nodded in understanding. He then took out the stone bowl and said, "It's amazing. A stone bowl from a primitive tribe made of stone has such a wonderful effect. It truly deserves to be called the 'hope'."

"The sacrificial bowl, a specialized fantasy item."

"Originally, the sacrificial bowl was filled with food, symbolizing the fear of food scarcity and the hope of a bountiful harvest in primitive civilization. Due to the distortion of the idea, disaster occurred. The sacrificial bowl turned into hope, and all the dead souls turned into disaster. The entanglement between them will continue until the end of complete annihilation."

"This bowl can hold any item, whether organic or inorganic. After holding it for more than 20 hours, the item inside will become edible. Regardless of its original material, it will be digestible and provide nutrients that allow any life to continue. The quantity will depend on the quality of the substance it holds; the higher the quality of the substance, the more food it can be converted into."

This is the mastermind's assessment of the stone bowl.

It's an extremely useful item, so effective that it's almost exaggerated.

At first, Wu Pifu thought this thing was not very useful, more like a toy, but after Beelzebub pointed out the information in it, he was amazed.

It may seem that this thing can only turn any substance into food and allow life to continue under any harsh conditions, but in fact it contains a miracle of rules, namely, "it will provide nutrients that allow any life to continue".

Life takes countless forms. Even in the absolute reality of the universe, there are countless kinds of alien life. And in the dream world, there are even more: conventional carbon-based life, silicon-based life, as well as elemental life, undead life, and even conceptual life, meme life, and so on.

If the food produced by this stone bowl can be consumed and sustain any life form, then its efficacy is already incredibly exaggerated, especially for those who follow the path of summoning the extraordinary; this stone bowl is no less powerful than a divine artifact.

Of course, this stone bowl is no match for the Perfect Fruit, which is a top-tier, heaven-defying treasure even in the entire dream world.

"...So it can be basically determined that the larger and more extensive the ruins of a civilization, the stronger their potential for hope, and at the same time, the stronger their potential for disaster," Beelzebub analyzed.

Wu Pifu immediately scoffed, "What are you talking about? The Perfect Fruit is awesome enough, right? What the hell is that mirror? It's not even as troublesome as these wandering spirits."

Chirp and Daphne chirped at the same time.

Wu Pifu immediately jumped up, somewhat embarrassed and angry, and said, "What are you saying! I'm human, a pure-blooded human! That thing is just trash, how could it be powerful!?"

Beelzebub scoffed, "Don't you have any self-awareness? Even if you are a pure-blooded human, you are still a completely... ordinary super pure-blooded human, right?"

Wu Pifu then withdrew his fierce gaze and nodded.

Beelzebub continued, “That mirror is actually quite terrifying. It can reproduce the life that enters it in a ‘perfect’ form. The key is that it can reproduce more than one life. This makes quantity completely meaningless. In terms of quality, the perfected individual far exceeds the original. If it hadn’t encountered you and become stuck in a bug, the perfect fruit probably wouldn’t have been taken away for billions of years.”

Wu Pifu walked beside him angrily without saying a word.

He resolutely refused to believe that the rotten flesh and tentacles were the result of his perfection! Beelzebub said helplessly, "Let's continue testing. This ancient insect world is too vast. Who knows how long it will take to find intelligent life and civilization? In the meantime, we can continue searching for ruins and more clues. We already know that there are humans in this world, or rather, intelligent life, at least. They existed in the ancient insect world a long time ago, but as the ancient insect world underwent self-sublimation and its vitality increased greatly, they couldn't keep up with the speed of evolution and were forced to migrate, resulting in the destruction of their civilization. If they haven't completely perished, they must be continuing to migrate to safer and open areas. As long as we continue to search for clues in the ruins, we will eventually find where they migrated. It will just take more time."

Wu Pifu had no reason to object to this. Since he didn't know what to do next, he decided to follow the expert's advice.

Nothing happened that day. The next day, Wu Pifu, along with the small animals and the golden tree bonsai, began his frantic run, his senses heightened as he searched everywhere for possible relics of the ancient insect realm. Then, at night, the ghosts that had followed him reappeared, only to be killed by Wu Pifu once again...

And so, another ten days passed.

Wu Pifu finally arrived at a vast, boundless grassland and swamp area from the semi-jungle, semi-grassland area surrounding the forest.

Aside from the changes in terrain, the creatures living in the grassland and swamp areas remain ferocious and savage, engaging in all sorts of killings and battles, even disregarding their sense of danger. Many super-large creatures have even launched direct attacks on the Wu Pifu.

Thus, they continued their journey, fighting and killing for over ten days. That night, Wu Pifu and his group emerged from the enormous grassland and swamp area. They found no relics there, but instead found a steep and treacherous mountain range ahead. Each mountain was at least tens of thousands of meters high, yet its peaks were free of snow. All these peaks were volcanoes, with continuous stretches of flowing volcanic lava between them.

There were naturally no ancient civilizations in this area, so Wu Pifu quickened his pace and spent five days crossing the mountain range before arriving at a slightly gentler hilly area.

To his surprise, as soon as he entered the hilly area, the tribe's ghosts that would appear every night vanished without a trace, and did not reappear for three consecutive nights.

"Have they all been killed?" Wu Pifu asked in confusion.

"Do not."

Beelzebub flew to the tip of Wu Pifu's nose and said, "Perhaps those wandering souls dare not enter this place?"

"here?"

Wu Pifu looked towards the endless hilly area in the darkness.

In fact, since entering the hilly area, the number of ferocious wild animals has indeed decreased significantly, and the place is filled with a sense of deathly stillness, but he couldn't say where this sense of stillness came from.

Wu Pifu thought for a moment and said, "Forget it, there's no use thinking about it so much. Let's keep moving forward and deal with whatever comes our way."

This is what is meant by "skill breeds daring." Since entering this world, although the Ancient Insect Realm he has seen and heard is indeed worthy of being the oldest transcendent world, Wu Pifu's strength has not diminished here. Not to mention self-preservation, he still belongs to the top of the food chain among the ferocious beasts in nature.

Having made his decision, Wu Pifu settled down to rest. However, in the early hours of the morning, a sudden downpour began. Wu Pifu had no choice but to dig open the giant rocks on the ground to create a temporary shelter from the rain. But just then, as the rainwater spread across the hilly land...

Where the rainwater had flooded, a series of electric currents surged, with visible currents bursting from the rocks scattered on the ground. In some places where the current was stronger, plasma reactions even occurred.

"What the hell? This breaks the law of conservation of energy?"

Curious, Wu Pifu picked up a rock from nearby and threw it into the water. Sure enough, electricity started to emerge from the rock.

The electric current appeared out of nowhere, and crucially, the rock's mass remained unchanged.

Beelzebub stared blankly at the stone, and memories suddenly flashed through her mind.

That was the source of Heavenly Energy that she discovered by sheer chance when she was invited to a banquet in Heaven. Of course, it wasn't this stone, but something else that even she found somewhat frightening at the time, and these two...

"Wu Pifu, I know what the concept of 'thought' is in this world!"

"That's the origin of immortals!"

"Power from the soul!!"

(End of this chapter)