Eternal Night

Chapter 846 An Unsolvable Enemy
"Primordial evil?"

Wu Pifu repeated himself, then asked curiously, "Does it mean another path to advancement? Or... is this the true nature of the sublimated body in its final form?"

So far, according to the dream world system as understood by Wu Pifu and Gaia's human civilization, there is only one path to advancement: mortals ascend to sublimation into sublimated beings, and then sublimated beings further transform into the source. There is no other way to go.

Of course, during his previous experiences in the Mountain and Sea Realm, Wu Pifu vaguely sensed that the Root Path might not be the correct one, and that the Sublimation Body was divided into five stages, so the Sublimation Body Path might be the truly correct one.

But now, listening to Beelzebub, it seems that the fate of those who continue to ascend to higher levels is also quite tragic.
Otherwise, why would that incredibly large thing below be called an "evil object"?
Who would call themselves evil, demon, or monster?

"No, that's not the case."

Beelzebub immediately said, "Although I don't remember what happens to the Ascended in the end, the Primordial Evil is different, this thing is different..."

"...No one knows how to become a Primordial Evil, nor does anyone know exactly how it transforms, nor does anyone know when the first Primordial Evil was born. We only know that this thing must have come from a very, very, very distant past, perhaps a life form that existed and accumulated continuously from the very beginning of the dream world..."

"...Were the Primordial Evil Creatures originally intelligent life forms? Did the Primordial Evil Creatures possess extraordinary abilities? Did the Primordial Evil Creatures have races? Could the Primordial Evil Creatures resist the source of pollution? Why did the Primordial Evil Creatures coexist and slumber in the mature, transcendent world? All of these are unknown."

"...Secret Experiment Report of the Twelfth Primordial Evil Object: Research on the Essence of its 'True Name'. In this experiment, Jealousy and Pride, together with Lilith, intercepted the Primordial Fear Moros, who had awakened and fled after the shattering of the Thirty-Three Heavens, in the Third District of ZC. They fought with him, attempting to capture him, or test the essence of his 'True Name' during the battle... After the battle, Pride slumbered in the Prison of Sins. Research results..."

"...Secret Order No. 33: Cease the deployment of the Third Prison Force and abandon the pursuit of the Primordial Shadow Mokolo. Venus has been defeated. Repeat, Venus has been defeated."

"...In summary, the Primordial Evil Creature should also be considered a path of advancement, a third path besides the Origin and Transcendence. Currently, the amount of accumulation required to transform into a Primordial Evil Creature is too exaggerated. There is no clear evidence to explain the source of its initial accumulation. It is very likely that only one Primordial Evil Creature is born every few hundred real and illusory eras."

"...Primordial Evil Creatures possess the following characteristics: First, they have near-permanent immortality, stemming from their supreme priority. It has been determined that neither root-level attacks nor infinite loops can annihilate them. Second, they possess a true name; in battle, one naturally understands their true name. The characteristic derived from this true name also reaches the supreme priority level. Third, no Primordial Evil Creature has any so-called weakness. This is completely different from our root. Our root actually has two weaknesses: the first is our civilization; if we lose our civilization, we will gradually become Daoized; the second is our self, which manifests in our physical form as an energy core. Once our self-closing loop is broken, revealing our true form, this is a fatal weakness. However, Primordial Evil Creatures do not have this. They do not possess the concept of 'self.' Every single cell of theirs can be a manifestation of their essence. Therefore, currently, unless we gather more than ten times the size of the Primordial Evil Creature's root and use a root-level, supreme-priority attack to completely annihilate and pulverize every single cell, we cannot kill any Primordial Evil Creature!!"

"...Top Secret Experiment No. 3, Extreme Path Seed Super Fusion Test, unlimited supernatural pathways are superimposed and accumulated to reach the critical point of primordial evil accumulation, test personnel..."

"...Good news and bad news. Which do you want to hear first? The good news is, we succeeded! We finally achieved the birth of the Primordial Evil! As for the bad news... the Primordial Evil's self was erased the moment it was born. You heard me right. A seed of ultimate power, a being that had reached the ultimate realm of the third stage of sublimation, with an incredibly stable and unshakeable self under any circumstances, had its essence erased the moment it reached the critical point of accumulation and transformed into the Primordial Evil. So... you'd better run the hell out of here! The Ten Hells Holy Demon Seal can't suppress this thing!!"

"...So, you suspect that the Primordial Immortal isn't actually the Root? But rather a Primordial Evil Being that has retained its own self? Yes, I know the Primordial Immortal's existence is exaggerated, and its immortality is also exaggerated to the extreme, especially that time it went deep into the Realm of Death, where destined death, primordial death, and final death... were all treated as nothing. But please remember, Primordial Evil Beings do not possess the characteristics of a domain, or rather, their domain is not a real domain, but rather a natural change in the environment of heaven and earth due to its accumulation to an inconceivable state. Simply put, it is essentially a dream world. But the Primordial Immortal is different. It and the Primordial Buddha both possess the Root Domain. What's there to be afraid of? This is the Land of Embryo... One is Myriad Phenomena, the other is Myriad Spirits, two of the most special domains. You can't not sense them. I even suspect that the Primordial Immortal is..."

"...Beelzebub, we probably won't be coming back, and we can't come back, but we've taken this result with us. It's our only hope. If the Seventh Top-Secret Experiment wasn't a coincidence, then this result might very well bring us the greatest hope... to end all of this, to end the source of the pollution, to end this dream, this nightmare, this eternal night of despair!! And you, Beelzebub, my dearest friend, you can't come with us. I'm sorry, but this most important task can only be entrusted to you, who possesses the concept of nihilistic cause and effect. So... don't blame us for abandoning you, my dearest friend..."

As Beelzebub spoke of the primordial evil, her voice suddenly changed. It became flat and straightforward, and her tone began to shift. Eventually, her voice itself began to change, sometimes sounding like a man, sometimes like a woman, and sometimes like something that was neither male nor female...

As they were talking, the big fly suddenly fainted again.

Wu Pifu was utterly speechless.

Beelzebub was good in every way; he was quite satisfied with the external brain and ancient information extractor. But damn it, it malfunctioned too many times. Whenever too much information from the past was extracted, it would basically break down...

"...I was planning to discuss with you how to deal with the enemy. So, does this mean that this primordial evil is impossible to kill?" Wu Pifu frowned as he looked down at the enormous thing before him. Compared to it, he wasn't even a mosquito on an elephant; he was probably more like a bacterium on an elephant, or perhaps an atom on a bacterium?

Even disregarding its so-called immortality, he wasn't confident he could kill this colossal behemoth before him. Its size was simply too monstrous, just as he couldn't kill the sun. If it were merely Earth, over time, he might be able to pierce through the crust and mantle, then plunge into the core and deliver tens of thousands of blows—a feat unmatched by any hero. In short, over time, he was confident he could kill an object the size of a planet.

But this thing in front of me is much bigger than Earth, and it's a living thing. Even if I could kill it with real damage, I wouldn't have enough power to destroy it... because you've only scratched a tiny mark on it. It might not even be able to heal as fast as you've damaged it.

unless……

Unless it's a replay of the Heart of the Silver explosion from the Warhammer Dreamworld, using the Kratos title to borrow the explosive force of the supermassive black hole, and then, under the control of the mainframe, killing it before it can escape...

But how did this ancient insect world find a black hole in the hairy place to explode?
Moreover, the Ancient Worm Realm is not like the Warhammer Dream World, where the entire world is fighting desperately for that battle.

"...I can't win. I can't even win if you just stand still and let me hit you, but..."

The faces of Kurapika and the others flashed through Wu Pifu's mind again, and he recalled the five prophets who were willing to die to keep him alive. He raised his death-defying sword, used his Nen ability to open a faster-than-light passage, and prepared to try a sword technique that would fall from the sky...

"I won't be satisfied until I've made a cut!"

Wu Pifu raised his death-defying sword high, and at the moment the faster-than-light passage took shape, he followed the sword, and the sword fell in a dazzling flash.

"My greatsword is a greatsword that can cleave the sky!"

National martial arts, immortal martial arts, immortal martial arts internal force, domineering aura, magical girl, psychic energy... Apart from the hero's transformation as a trump card, Wu Pifu has already unleashed his full power, even including Kratos, the Great Mighty Dragon, and so on. This strike is Wu Pifu's strongest strike ever...

The blade's light pierced through, slashing towards the black earth, at distances of 100,000 meters, 50,000 meters, 10,000 meters...

Upon entering within 10,000 meters of the black earth, Wu Pifu suddenly felt an intense itching all over his body. At the same time, he instinctively recognized the "true name" of the entity before him... the Primordial Fungus, Elstero.

Mycelium, fungi, or something like mold began to grow on his body. Not only him, but even his death-defying broadsword began to grow something like rust. Attacks from five steps away were ineffective because this was not an attack, but... a natural phenomenon!
With a single strike, it was as if the heavens and earth had collapsed. The black earth before him began to crack, and an annihilation effect began to appear within five steps, obliterating everything within its range. However, the cracking around him stopped and then began to heal at a speed far exceeding Wu Pifu's dynamic vision...

When Wu Pifu quickly escaped back into the sky, apart from the five-meter-sized semi-circular mark, all other damage had completely disappeared. Even the five-meter-sized mark of annihilation of real damage was slowly healing...

Can't win!
For the first time, Wu Pifu had such an epiphany.

He...can't defeat the Primordial Evil!

(End of this chapter)