Eternal Night

Chapter 840 The True Trump Card: Heaven and Earth Return Together
Killua fell into self-doubt.

For the first time, he began to have serious doubts about his understanding of what constitutes power.

He is a descendant of the Zoldyck assassin family. From childhood, he was trained in combat, assassination and other skills. His training intensity was enough to break most adults. Naturally, he was familiar with the skills that Nen users in the human world knew very well.

Simple numbers don't mean much. True strength lies in combat skills, on-the-spot performance, and a combination of fighting styles. Without combat wisdom, a big, dumb guy who is numerically powerful can be easily slaughtered.

This is the core element that constitutes Killua's worldview.

However, his worldview was severely challenged when he faced the Chimera Ants not long ago.

The strongest Nen user among humans, the former chairman of the Hunter x Hunter guild, can be said to stand at the pinnacle of human combat. His combat skills, his on-the-spot performance, and his fighting style are far superior to Killua's. He is also the strongest person that Killua knows, without exception.

However, when facing the Chimera Ant King, he was ultimately defeated and killed, only managing to kill the Ant King with a technological weapon called the Poor Man's Rose Radioactive Explosion Device. This result made Killua doubt the "power" he had learned from childhood.

However, at that time he could still convince himself that it was because the Chimera Ants were another race whose racial talents far surpassed those of humans, and not because the definition of power he knew was wrong.

At this moment, his worldview was truly shattered.

Coola.

His familiar companions, with whom he had once fought side by side, were incredibly powerful when facing the Phantom Troupe. However, as he gained more experience and understanding of Nen, he realized that Kurapika's strength against the Troupe came at an unimaginable price—a price that placed his life on the scales of victory and defeat.

Since he wasn't a member of the Phantom Troupe and they were friends, Kurapika couldn't unleash his full power, so Killua was truly confident in fighting Kurapika.

but……

Kurapika has shown a power that is completely different from what he was previously aware of!
There were no fancy tricks, no absolute rules of Nen abilities, no combat wisdom, no improvisation, no miraculous skills—none of these existed. The only thing it displayed was power and speed that surpassed Killua's comprehension, or rather… physical strength.

Its speed is slightly faster than Killua's Nen ability, Super Speed, and its neural reaction speed and dynamic vision are perfectly matched to this speed, so there is no situation where it will crash into a wall if it is too fast.

At the same time, its immense power reminded Killua of the three Chimera Ant King guards he had faced. They possessed terrifying strength that could break through his Nen protection with brute force alone. In addition, Kurapika was also a Nen user, and his Nen flow was extremely powerful. He could switch Nen attack and defense in an instant. No, his Nen attack and defense changes were much faster than before. The improvement in his basic physical attributes also made his Nen flow speed stronger.

Kurapika caught up with Killua once again. Without any apparent effort, he simply threw a "light" punch. Killua reacted as if facing a formidable enemy, raising his arms to shield his face. All his manifested Nen energy was concentrated in his arms, forming a powerful technique within his Nen ability. Then, the fist struck his arm with a resounding bang, shattering the air itself. Killua was sent flying like a cannonball.

As he flew off, a look of horror appeared in Killua's eyes.

Kurapika's punch nearly broke through Gon's Nen protection, but Kurapika changed his fist into a palm with his other hand and blocked it without turning his head. He blocked Gon's punch, and Gon's punch couldn't even shake Kurapika's stance. Instead, Gon was sent flying by the force of the punch.

incredible!

Nen is a form of life energy, but it is permeated with the spiritual consciousness and soul essence of the Nen user, which allows it to be developed into various Nen abilities with vastly different rules. However, in the final analysis, Nen is still an energy controlled by Nen users, which is not much different from other extraordinary paths.

In battles involving Nen users, the ability to utilize Nen for both attack and defense becomes the most fundamental skill. The stronger the Nen user, the more proficient they are in using techniques such as Hard, Flow, and Circle, making them even more powerful. This is essentially what is meant by improvisation and combat skills.

Because Nen energy is limited, unless the difference in the amount of Nen energy manifested by each other is more than three times, one person can concentrate all of their Nen energy into a punch, while the other person only uses two or three tenths of their Nen energy to defend. As a result, the punch will penetrate through the other person, and the other person will die instantly.

However, Kurapika has clearly exceeded the ironclad rule among Nen users. According to Killua's estimation, Kurapika's punch just now concentrated about 30% of his Nen, yet it almost completely shattered Killua's solid, which had concentrated all of Killua's Nen. At the same time, when facing Gon's all-out punch, Killua only used 20% to 30% of his Nen to defend against it.

He preserved nearly half of the manifested Nen energy...

It turns out that during the battle with the two of them, Kurapika remained vigilant, ready to deal with any possible assassin attacks. It was this almost "perfunctory" fighting style that completely overwhelmed Killua and Gon's all-out effort.

His state, his fighting style, and even his mentality were like an adult facing a child's weak and powerless fist... a world of difference!

Kurapika stopped and did not pursue further. He simply stared intently at his hands and feet, and mobilized the vast blood energy within his body. After a few seconds, he said, "This... is what I meant by having no special abilities, just pure power."

Killua and Gon covered their bruised arms, both too shocked to speak.

On the other side, Wu Pifu withdrew his senses. He was very satisfied with Kurapika's progress. Apart from his previous carelessness, Kurapika was truly remarkable once he got serious.

Of course, it could also be said to be a unique characteristic of humans in the ancient insect world. The vitality of humans in this world is incredibly profound. Perhaps the people in this world have become accustomed to this, but in Wu Pifu's view, even if they are just ordinary people in this world, just based on their strong vitality, they would be simplified versions of superheroes if they were taken to Earth.

An ordinary person could easily run ten kilometers at full speed. With a little training and a stronger physique, running dozens of kilometers continuously at full speed would be a piece of cake. Putting aside everything else, this alone is enough to make the people of Earth kneel down and call it a cheat code.

The most ancient transcendent-level great world truly redefines Wu Pifu's understanding of transcendent-level great worlds.

Compared to it, the Mountain and Sea Realm is really nothing.

After thinking about all this, Wu Pifu smiled to himself and stopped thinking about it. He then resumed his daily meditation on the mind-control system in an attempt to awaken his mind.

This meditation was not entirely fruitless. Although he had not yet successfully opened his mind, he had indeed made great progress with his practice over the past few days. Not to mention anything else, the effect of concealing his own negative aspects alone could be described as a qualitative change.

He can now use his willpower to hide his negative aspects, and it can also make the negative aspects in his mind more peaceful. Although this is not a fundamental cure, it is still an unexpected benefit, as it allows him to withstand the backlash of negative influences for a longer period of time.

And that's not the only gain...

Wu Pifu entered a deep meditation, his consciousness reaching the depths of his sea of ​​consciousness. All he could see was boundless negative nothingness, but it seemed calm and posed no threat.

But now he knows that the negativity condensed in his sea of ​​consciousness is likely something far more terrifying than anything he knows, even the very source. Once this thing is unleashed, it might even change the very structure and framework of the dream world.

He was unaware of it at first, but as he experienced more and more dream worlds and his horizons broadened, he became increasingly aware of its negative terror.

He has now decided to try practicing the true scripture in reverse!

Since following the extraordinary path of meditation can hide and calm thoughts, then practicing in reverse... wouldn't it completely unleash and erupt negative thoughts?
Wu Pifu cannot self-destruct. At most, he can only unleash the negative energy beyond 100% capacity and use that negative energy as a trigger to bombard everything. The total amount of this negative energy is also large, but compared to all the negative energy accumulated from countless personality iterations in his sea of ​​consciousness, it is not even a drop in the ocean.

The 100% negativity he bears is merely a fraction of an infinite number of negative things!
He cannot utilize or unleash this negative aspect. Once his own personality perishes, the destination of this negative aspect is uncertain, but it has absolutely nothing to do with erupting and perishing together with the enemy. More likely, it will simply transform into some kind of symbolic source that pollutes the surrounding area.

Right now, he wants to try and stir up all the negative emotions within his consciousness. It's not that he wants to commit suicide, but rather that he wants to have another trump card, or rather...

When everything is beyond redemption, and everything he cares about, including all of humanity, has been destroyed, at least he can act like a commoner and splatter the enemy's blood!

Under Wu Pifu's reverse cultivation control, the negative influences he saw began to tremble slightly, and he could clearly feel that under this seemingly slight tremor, endless terrifying negative influences were fluctuating.

This power was immeasurable; it was as if he were standing in the infinite universe, watching the entire universe explode in a deafening roar...

"It works! But... it's too dangerous. Once used, it's all over."

Wu Pifu paused his reverse training. He pondered for a moment before resolutely saying, "But when that time truly comes, everything will cease, everything will vanish. Then I won't bother arguing about right and wrong anymore. Just take my move..."

Let heaven and earth perish together!

(End of this chapter)