Eternal Night

Chapter 805 Mind Over Matter
With a single, horizontal stroke, the blade severed this hilly area, its influence extending at least hundreds of thousands of kilometers away.

The twenty-odd people were completely stunned. Even their attack rhythm was brought to a standstill, and they all stared at the distant horizon with utter shock on their faces.

Countless small peaks, hills, and even parts of the ground were directly cut off and floated in the air, but the blade light avoided the twenty-odd people.

They paused in silence for a moment, then continued their charge towards Wu Pifu.

"...I have fulfilled my duty to stop here."

Wu Pifu sheathed his sword, stood still, and spoke these words. All twenty-odd people present could hear him clearly, but no one flinched or answered. Then, in the next instant, Wu Pifu appeared in front of a middle-aged man with a crew cut. This was the same man who had just cut off a piece of his hand. He slashed with his sword, but the middle-aged man with a crew cut neither dodged nor flinched. Instead, he simply lashed out with his claws to meet the sword.

He dodged past, and the middle-aged man with the crew cut was severed in one stroke. However, several cracks and holes appeared on Wu Pifu's body. These cracks and holes appeared out of nowhere, even though he was not touched by the middle-aged man's claws.

Moreover, his own defenses seemed to have vanished at this moment, offering no resistance whatsoever.

After making his first strike, Wu Pifu didn't rush to continue his attack. He stopped and looked at his wounds with curiosity.

The two holes were in the chest near the heart and in the abdomen, respectively, both piercing through the body and allowing one to see through from the front and back. Several lacerations were also found on the thighs and the neck, completely severing the body.

However, this is only physical damage, without any pollution or erosion. For Wu Pifu now, unless his brain is wiped out in an instant, or more than 70% of his body tissue is destroyed, the healing will only be instantaneous.

When he fell from mid-air, the holes and cracks had already healed. Not only were they not fatal, but if he got serious, these injuries wouldn't even be considered minor wounds. Attacks without contamination, erosion, or supernatural energy wouldn't even leave a mark on his body.

There were only two things that really concerned Wu Pifu. The first was that the form of this attack was beyond his comprehension.

It wasn't a tremendous force that pierced his body, nor did the claws create a spatial tear or void. It was simply a claw strike that "torn" him. However, the damage it caused was also a straightforward "tear," directly skipping the cause and going straight to the effect. After the claw strike, voids and cracks appeared on his body, without any intermediate process whatsoever.

This attack method and form were beyond his comprehension.

The second type is his fully activated super-brain emotional perception.

Although the twenty-odd "people" in front of him did indeed look human, with human bodies, human emotions, and human cognition, the environment here was so strange, their arrival was inexplicable, and they were even blocking his way. Naturally, Wu Pifu wanted to find out whether they were human or not.

The super brain's emotional perception was still useful to them, but what Wu Pifu sensed in the emotional perception was not the murderous intent and malice that appeared on the surface.

He sensed that these twenty-odd people were fighting him with the awareness to sacrifice themselves!

That's right, in the instant he severed the middle-aged man with the buzz cut, in that life-or-death moment when there was no room for pretense, the strongest emotion he felt was... sacrifice!?

These twenty-odd people were completely different from the intense killing intent and malice they displayed. Regardless of whether they were villains, terrorists, assassins, or near-inhuman humans with such strong desires that they could slaughter at will, at this moment, they were actually fighting him with the intention of sacrificing themselves.

Isn't that ridiculous?
Who did he provoke?

A perfectly good journey was interrupted by an attack while he was taking a nap, and his companions were put in danger. Now, as he was about to deal with the source of the danger, a dozen or so bald men suddenly appeared... Well, not bald, but they stopped him from attacking the real enemy, and now they were actually prepared to sacrifice themselves, and the object of their sacrifice was very clearly human.

A large number of ordinary, civilized, and social humans!?
It makes him seem like a catastrophe that will destroy the world.

After Wu Pifu finished his attack and watched the middle-aged man with the crew cut disappear, he brandished his death-defying broadsword but did not continue attacking. Instead, he spoke again: "Can we communicate? I think there might be some misunderstanding between us."

What greeted him was not words, but the resolute and aggressive stance of more than twenty people.

Ignoring the consequences, the cost, and their own safety, these twenty-odd people launched a frenzied attack on Wu Pifu.

Moreover, Wu Pifu clearly saw that their strength and speed exceeded the limits of their physical bodies by at least three times.

From a physical standpoint, these twenty-odd people, in the words of martial arts practitioners, are roughly at the Dan Jin and Gang Jin levels. Each of them possesses a body that has been tempered to the extreme, and this is an achievement made without the development of extraordinary methods in martial arts.

At the same time, their physical vitality is extremely vigorous. Just like other life forms in this world, in martial arts terms, they have both the physical bodies honed by the national martial arts and the unparalleled vitality accumulated by the human immortal martial arts. If they were to follow the True Martial lineage, they would all be geniuses.

However, in terms of attributes, they shouldn't be able to unleash their current strength and speed, as this goes against their physical limits, even considering their vigorous vitality.

In the blink of an eye, all twenty-odd people struck the spot where Wu Pifu was standing, but at the instant of impact, their gazes all shifted simultaneously, looking towards a point hundreds of meters away.

Wu Pifu stood there, about to speak, but in the next instant, he reappeared in the encirclement of more than twenty people, and in the next instant, all kinds of attacks bombarded him.

Tearing, twisting, drying, crushing...

A barrage of attacks landed on Wu Pifu, and in an instant his body was almost completely torn apart. However, all of these attacks began to heal rapidly in a short time, and even after the attacks ended, his healing speed exceeded the speed at which he was injured.

After enduring all the attacks without blinking, the twenty-odd people watched in shock as Wu Pifu stood unharmed in the same spot. The ground beneath his feet was collapsing, and the small hill behind him was shattered by the attacks of the twenty-odd people, but he still looked completely unscathed. In fact, due to the burst of the martial arts aura of the Human Immortal, he looked even more imposing.

"...Can we talk now? We're all human, and I've felt your willingness to sacrifice yourselves to protect other humans. We can definitely..." Wu Pifu didn't continue attacking but started to speak. However, the next second, he felt that his gaze was wrong.

His vision was filled with the bizarre and the strange, as if the whole world was being ripped away and turned into lines and circles, no longer a flat three-dimensional space, but a strangely shaped ball of yarn.

In fact, at the moment he spoke, six attackers on the scene underwent a dramatic change. Their vigorous life force, which was almost visible to the naked eye, suddenly withered, and their spirit began to die out at an unbelievable speed, almost like a candle flame in a hurricane being extinguished directly. Then their bodies began to wither rapidly and shrink.

In the blink of an eye, their bodies shrank to the size of a fist, condensing into something resembling a small fruit. However, this small fruit was a miniature version of a withered human body, with a large head, a small body, and withered, wrinkled skin. On its head was a visible withered tube, like a branch connecting a fruit to a plant.

Wu Pifu's location, along with the mountain he was on, and everything within a diameter of about 300 meters, was "compressed," exhibiting a highly distorted and compressed state. The earth rose and condensed upwards, while the clouds in the sky were pulled down. Along with the air, rocks, minerals, and Wu Pifu's body, everything was compressed into a square shape with a diameter of five meters.

It is a flawless cube with a mirror-like surface, almost without any blemishes, hovering motionless in mid-air.

"...Using the 'nurturing' effect of the nurturing beast, the constraints and oaths we can activate are at least a hundred times greater than those in the free state. Even such a terrifying disaster can directly bypass the oath restrictions and take effect." The remaining dozen or so people stood apart, looking at the cube and sighing silently.

The beautiful woman in the group said, "'The World of Fang,' the miracle of the world's five greatest Nen users six hundred years ago, has now become a thing of the past."

"And the indestructible arena, combined with the strength of the world's second-ranked Nen user four hundred years ago, and the physical body he represented standing at the pinnacle of human enhancement types, can no longer be reproduced." The muscular old man sighed as well.

The cold and strong young man said in a cold voice, "What terrifying power! The 'nurturing' effect of the human-beast has directly broken through to the supreme realm where the mind triumphs over matter."

At this moment, the bespectacled man, who looked at the thin young man, suddenly asked curiously, "Why aren't any faces appearing? Shouldn't the outcome of the Cube World be that painful faces appear on the surface of the cube, and then serve as eternal works of art?"

"Because they failed to attack me at the last moment."

Wu Pifu's voice suddenly rang out behind them.

Everyone was startled and immediately dodged backward, looking behind them. Sure enough, they saw Wu Pifu standing unharmed in the same spot.

Wu Pifu twisted his body, and one of his arms also twisted, as if it had turned into a twisting spiral. But as he shook it, his arm healed instantly.

"To be honest, it's quite amazing."

Wu Pifu commented, "Just now, I was unable to escape your attack range. There was an invisible but incredibly resilient force binding me, with a diameter of about three hundred meters. You were able to retreat safely, but I was stuck in it. This should be the reason why I was forcibly moved into your attack range. Moreover, the force that compresses everything seems almost unsolvable. Even though I was more than five meters away, the attack still seemed to affect me within five meters. It's truly unbelievable."

"So, what exactly are oaths and constraints? Does 'the mind triumphs over matter' mean that your spiritual consciousness can directly influence the material world?"

As Wu Pifu spoke, he ignored the dozen or so people who had retreated and were on guard. He walked up to the six withered humanoid figures, picked them up, and carefully examined the six withered humanoid fruits, especially the tube on their heads.

Wu Pifu examined the pipe for a long time, carefully comparing it, before saying, "Is this why you attacked me? Was this the same thing that attacked me and my classmates before? It's called the Human-Nurturing Beast, right?"

Seeing that the dozen or so people were about to continue their attack, Wu Pifu sighed, and then activated his Super Brain World again, but not to attack, but to project his emotions onto the dozen or so people.

The next second, the black and white world disappeared, and the dozen or so people gradually came to a stop while rushing forward.

"You're also...human?" the bespectacled youth asked incredulously.

Wu Pifu nodded and said seriously, "This is the most genuine communication from the heart, and it cannot be faked. My repeated restraint and forbearance are not because I am afraid of you. That's right, I am human, a human from the outside world."

The bespectacled youth was about to speak when the muscular old man waved his hand to stop him: "Don't say anything more. We don't have much time left to be conscious. The Dark Continent is so vast, filled with endless wonders. Didn't we already know that our ancestors, the forefathers of mankind, came from the outside world? The fact that they could still exist as humans speaks for itself."

Veins bulged on Wu Pifu's forehead again as he roared, "How dare you talk like that? I'm truly sorry that I exist as a human being!"

"listen!"

The muscular old man started walking towards Wu Pifu, and the other dozen or so people followed suit.

"You are facing the disaster 'Pap the Human-Breeding Beast,' and we cannot resist it, nor can we hold back. What follows..."

"You will witness the terrifying power that we unleash when we compress the brilliance of decades or even centuries of life into this single moment!"

The next second, the muscular old man struck out with a palm strike from mid-air.

Wu Pifu was violently slammed backward by an invisible force, then slammed against a mountain peak thousands of meters behind him. And that wasn't all; the mountain peak exploded, and he, along with the shattered fragments, continued to be violently slammed backward…

There is no stopping it!

(End of this chapter)