Eternal Night

Chapter 842 Nen Attribute and Who Are You?

"Is this what recitation is?"

Wu Pifu looked at his thoughts and murmured to himself.

"No, this isn't reading!"

Killua, Gon, Kurapika, Ging, and even Alluka all called out at the same time.

Who the hell has a thought that naturally covers the entire island the moment it begins? Okay, superhuman beings can do that, but who the hell has a thought that's 10% white and 90% black?!

Admittedly, every newcomer who awakens Nen will have their life force rapidly dissipate when their Nen hole is opened. This is actually the key to distinguishing whether a person has the potential to become a Nen user. Awakening Nen is not difficult, but this dissipation of life force can be fatal. Basically, even if someone without the potential doesn't die, their physical body and spirit will be ruined.

Those with the necessary qualifications can release and bind their life force in a short period of time, thereby forming the initial thought.

Nen is the combination of life force (physical body) and one's own spiritual consciousness, but it can reflect the soul essence of a Nen user.

This is an extremely rare and extraordinary path that integrates the physical body, mental consciousness, and the true spirit of the soul. Therefore, the strength and quantity of one's thoughts are related to the strength of the physical body, mental consciousness, and the essence of the soul. Potential energy is determined by the limits of these three, while manifest energy is determined by current strength. Of course, the physical body accounts for the largest proportion, followed by the mental body, and then the essence of the soul.

And Wu Pifu...

Not to mention his physical strength, it far surpasses that of humans in this world.

Then there is his mental consciousness, which has undergone multiple transformations and has been bearing negative burdens, making him incredibly resilient.

But what's most terrifying is the nature of his soul...

The thought derived from the combination of these three elements can cover the entire island upon activation, and its color is one-tenth white and nine-tenths black!

God the hell, "Is this what recitation is?" No, this isn't recitation at all, okay?

Regardless, Wu Pifu finally began to use his mind, and at the very moment he did, he actually felt that his negative energy was being brought under control.

Wu Pifu didn't even know how to describe it. It was as if the endless burden weighing on him had been lifted off his shoulders, and he felt an indescribable comfort and freedom.

It's like when you're in pain for a long time, you don't feel the pain anymore, but suddenly the pain lessens and you feel like the world has changed.

Wu Pifu couldn't describe the feeling; he only felt that the world had changed, everything was so beautiful—the clouds, the sky, the sea, the people…

He hovered a thousand meters in mid-air, slowly and lazily rotating. The entire world seemed to be filled with a certain emotion in his eyes—a feeling of being moved, and of perfection.

Never before had Wu Pifu felt alive, and alive as a human being.

As his emotions erupted, the thoughts that had spread beyond the island gradually began to converge and were all drawn into his body.

"...I am indeed human, and a pure-blooded human at that!"

Wu Pifu murmured to himself before returning to the ground from mid-air.

Everyone below looked at him with awe, but he didn't rush to speak. He simply took out the three small animals and the golden tree bonsai from the bed in the room. Then, with a thought, his spiritual energy surged out of his body and entered the three small animals and the golden tree bonsai.

Immediately afterwards, he used his psychic energy to draw out the negative energy that was locked onto the three small animals and the golden tree bonsai. Then, as his psychic energy merged with the negative energy, the negative energy was rapidly dissolving and disappearing.

(...thought is the power of the physical body, spirit, and soul, so it can dissolve negativity in an equal way. However, this dissolution will cause an equal amount of my thought to be permanently lost. This part of thought will never be regained, no matter how much time has passed, which is equivalent to weakening the upper limit of thought energy...it seems that to resolve the negativity in my body, thought alone is not enough.)
Wu Pifu had this realization, but he was still happy because this was the first kind of supernatural power he had found that could counteract negative influences. Even if it was by weakening the upper limit of his mental energy, it was no longer like before when he was helpless or could only resist.

At this moment, the three small animals and the golden tree bonsai were still fast asleep, and Wu Pifu didn't bother with them, letting them sleep as much as they wanted. He turned to the people in the room and said, "Today was really fun, Killua, thank you and your sister."

Killua was also delighted, but he looked at Alluka beside him with concern and said, "But Neneka stopped coming out right away, she..."

"I'm exhausted."

Wu Pifu said with a smile, "The amount of spiritual energy required to open my mind is too great. Even Nanika would have been separated from me. But it's okay, it's just a separation. She can wake up after a few days of sleep."

Hearing this, Killua finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, Jin suddenly said, "Sir, would you like to test your Nen attribute?"

Wu Pifu already knew that the path to transcendence had attributes, which were different inclinations manifested based on the different nature of each person's soul. He naturally nodded. Xiao Jie and Killua were about to prepare water cups, but Jin shook his head and said, "No need for that trouble, and that's not very accurate. I have something good." As he spoke, Jin reached out and drew a circle in the air. The circle actually landed on the ground with a thud.

“My newly developed Nen ability is related to storage, since Nitroami isn’t safe to leave anywhere, it’s safest to carry it with you,” Jin said.

Kurapika, standing next to him, nodded in agreement. However, unlike Ging, he possessed a similar Nen ability, though it hadn't been fully developed before. His chains now contained a space of several cubic meters, where his Nitromi was stored.

As he spoke, Jin picked up the ring, reached inside, and pulled out a smooth stone slab. Then he tossed the ring into the air, and it vanished instantly.

"This is a Nen artifact I found in ancient ruins. It's the best tool for testing Nen attributes. As long as you input your Nen into the stone slab, the slab will directly mark your Nen attribute in the form of numerical proportions and numerical potential. It also marks your Nen ability memory capacity. It's because of this that I can accurately assess the number of Nen abilities I can develop," Jin said.

Wu Pifu nodded. Although he had a main brain, it could only determine things through the Dream Compass, which was inconvenient. So he didn't refuse. He simply placed his hand on the stone slab, and his mental energy surged. The next second, characters that were one-tenth white and nine-tenths black began to appear on the stone slab.

The faces of those around him twitched slightly. Although Wu Pifu showed no abnormality, they felt incredulous every time they saw the color of this thought.

"Enhancement system, 100%, 200%, 300%, 400%, 100,000%, 1 million%, 10 million...∞."

"Emission system, 100%, 200%, 300%, 400%, 100,000%, 1 million%, 10 million...∞."

"Represent..."

……

"Special trait, 100%, 200%, 300%, 400%, 100,000%, 1 million%, 10 million%, ... ∞."

Wu Pifu was completely baffled. He looked at Jin, whose expression was twitching, equally bewildered. The others were even more confused.

Kurapika cautiously asked, "Is it because you're too strong, sir?"

Jin shook his head and said, "No, that's not how it works. This is a percentage for any life form. Unless you have a special Nen ability that allows you to exceed 100% adaptability for a short period of time, the adaptability of any life form is only 100%... Can you imagine having a second body? It's almost like, almost like..."

Xiao Jie bluntly remarked from the side, "It's like countless people are being tested simultaneously, right?"

Wu Pifu then understood.

By the way, Nen ability is a supernatural path that combines the physical body, mental consciousness, and soul spirit. His soul spirit is very special, and the countless iterations of his personality are very mysterious. This may involve changes or accumulations of the soul spirit... So, does his Nen attribute include the countless iterations of his personality in the past?
Does this mean that his adaptability to all systems is off the charts?

Thinking this through, Wu Pifu asked directly, "Does this mean I can easily develop any type of Nen ability?"

Jin's face twitched: "This is not as simple as just developing any Nen ability easily. If this number is not wrong, it means that you can develop a Nen ability in the blink of an eye."

At this point, the stone slab was still displaying the last number.

"Comprehensive assessment of memory capacity...∞".

Wu Pifu was already mentally prepared for this, while Jin simply didn't want to say a word.

"Alright, let's give it a try... How do we develop Nen abilities?"

Jin still didn't want to speak, so Kura said from the side, "Sir, Nen is a very profound and vast extraordinary field. It has four basic cultivation methods: Entanglement, Absolute, Refinement, and Release, as well as applications such as Cycle, Concealment, and Condensation. If it were us, we would have to cultivate to a certain level of proficiency, especially after mastering our own Nen, before we could start developing it. Moreover, this requires a long time and a lot of energy, and we would have to keep trying and making mistakes. But if you want to try, sir, why not start with the simplest way, which is imagination?"

"Imagine?"

Wu Pifu seemed to be deep in thought. He used his own mental energy and began to imagine that this mental energy was thunder. The next second, the mental energy he gathered in his hand actually began to crackle and pop. Its shape changed rapidly and turned into a jagged lightning symbol, which is the kind of thing that often appears in animations and comics, or the thing that Zeus held in mythology.

Wu Pifu was stunned. He had only imagined it casually, but he actually managed to create this?
He instinctively threw the lightning symbol out to sea from the balcony. In an instant, everyone's eyes were flashed as a bolt of lightning, one-tenth white and nine-tenths black, crackled and then exploded with a bang about fifty kilometers off the coast, creating a mushroom cloud of seawater at least a hundred meters high.

“…Yes, sir, that’s exactly how I imagine it.” Kurapika’s tongue was almost slurred.

Wu Pifu was overjoyed. Then he decided to give up on all those ridiculous oaths and restrictions. With this extraordinary path, countless special mental abilities to develop, and countless more extraordinary paths to follow, he would reach the top sooner or later.

Why bother making those ridiculous oaths and restrictions to bind yourself...?

Then, in the next instant, Wu Pifu suddenly asked seriously, "Who are you?"

(End of this chapter)