Eternal Night

Chapter 874 Shattered Domain

Wu Pifu did not set off immediately. He first returned to the Land of Redemption, intending to pick up Xu Shilan, Amadeus, and Huang Rong and leave. Of course, the three small animals and the golden tree bonsai must also be taken along.

These are his harem members, aren't they? A petite woman, right? A dog, right? Huge breasts, right? A vase (flowerpot), right?

With so many members in his harem, he had to bring them along.

When Wu Pifu arrived at the Land of Redemption, he saw Beelzebub transformed into human form and arguing with Guanyin...

"No, you're everywhere?" Wu Pifu asked in surprise.

Guanyin had just cursed "fat pig" when she heard Wu Pifu's reply. She casually said, "It's just a projection. These are not the real body. Within the range of the Five Lotuses of Creation, I can barely achieve a certain degree of infinite loop."

Beelzebub, hands on his hips, cursed, "You white lotus, you still haven't explained yourself clearly! What do you mean by 'I was just being presumptuous,' and what do you mean by 'useless effort'?! I really hate white lotuses like you who only say half of what they mean!!"

Guanyin smiled and said to Beelzebub, "Fat pig, I am now a five-colored lotus, no longer a white lotus."

Beelzebub flew into a rage, veins bulging on her forehead. If she hadn't known she was no match for Guanyin, she would have charged forward long ago: "I'm not a fat pig! Binge eating doesn't mean being fat! Tell me, what do you mean?!"

Guanyin stopped teasing Beelzebub. With a compassionate expression, she walked to Beelzebub's side and gently stroked her head, saying, "Foolish child, haven't you realized it yet? The dream world has undergone unprecedented changes. Even I, who was nearing the end of my cultivation, have regained one-fifth of my self, thus gaining a glimmer of hope. So... as the strongest of the seven deadly sins, gluttony, where is your self?"

Beelzebub, who was originally disgusted and about to break free, was startled by what he heard and stood there blankly.

“I, I, I… I am myself!” Beelzebub said incoherently.

Guanyin's face was full of compassion, and her eyes were filled with undisguised pity. She gently stroked Beelzebub's head and said, "If you are the self, then where is your root essence? Even if you have completely transformed into the Dao, as long as the self is revived, you can sense the root essence of the Dao. As long as there is truth, regaining power is only a matter of time. So... what about you? You are backed by the Absolute Truth Layer, and Wu Pifu trusts you implicitly. You are not lacking in truth, so why don't you seek your power back? Gluttony, one of the Seven Deadly Sins of Life; Causality, the Void; the Lord of Darkness; the Lord of the Flies; Baal; the Sun God of the ancient civilization of Canaan; the Child of the Epoch—at your peak, you were a being more powerful than me. Where is your power?"

Beelzebub stood there blankly, her eyes growing increasingly vacant and empty, as if some kind of divinity was emerging from them. At the same time, tears fell from her empty eyes.

"I, I, I..."

Guanyin continued, “Don’t you understand yet? Foolish child, you keep your promise to those who go to their deaths. They go to their deaths to create hope, while you go up to the heavens to steal fire and bring this fire of hope to all living beings, time and time again, without ceasing. But each time you build the ladder to heaven with your own flesh and bones. You steal fire from the heavens by stepping on your own bones and flesh, time and time again… Stop now, stop in this one era, and follow Wu Pifu back to the source. You… have done your best, foolish child.”

Beelzebub murmured between tears, "No, they... they are waiting for me. They promised me, and I promised them. As long as this eternal night continues, I will..."

Just then, Wu Pifu walked over, waved his hand, and Guanyin was immediately pushed aside. Then he patted Beelzebub and said, "Let's go."

Beelzebub's empty gaze vanished instantly, as if he had just woken from a dream, and he asked blankly, "Where are you going?"

Wu Pifu turned around abruptly and said, "Of course we're going to look for clues about the Zanpakuto... Or are you going to stay here alone?"

"I'm going! I'm going! I'm going!" Beelzebub shouted, then transformed into a large, fat fly and flew onto Wu Pifu's waist. He then said to Guanyin, who was not far away, "White Lotus, I'm going on an adventure. You just guard the house. Hahaha, just watch me slaughter everyone!"

Guanyin was initially taken aback, but gradually she smiled and said, "Okay, I'll wait for your cawing."

"A little bit..."

Wu Pifu walked away, and Guanyin stood silently watching. After a long while, she clasped her hands together and whispered, "May the Buddha have mercy and protect this believer... She shouldn't have suffered such a tragic end, and none of these people who went to their deaths should have..."

On the other side, Wu Pifu brought Beelzebub to the picnic table where Xu Shilan and the others were. He put Chiu Chiu on his shoulder, let Daphne come to his feet, and picked up the golden tree bonsai that had been whipping him with branches. Then he said to Xu Shilan and the other two, "Let's get ready to set off. We only have one year, it's very tight."

Xu Shilan and the other two nodded with smiles; they had long been prepared for this long journey.

Wu Pifu took out the Dream Compass, looked at the three numbers on it, and was about to speak when Beelzebub suddenly spoke up: "Wu Pifu... can you keep winning, never lose, protect the Gaia humans, and protect everything in this order?"

Wu Pifu was stunned. He shook his head and, in Beelzebub's silence, said, "I can't guarantee that I will never lose, because ever since I first raised my fist to fight, I've known one thing: those who kill will be killed in return. It's certainly exhilarating to kill non-humans, but non-humans will surely want to kill me too. If a non-human is stronger than me, then death is death, and there's nothing to complain about... I can only assure you that I will never back down, nor will I ever kneel down. Even if I die, I will splatter my enemy with blood. Otherwise, I will not be at peace."

Beelzebub remained silent for a long, long time before finally saying, "Hmm... Let's splatter the enemy's blood, and let those who destroy others' hopes, their hard work, and their light suffer excruciating pain too!!"

Wu Pifu remained silent, then nodded, before saying to the mainframe, "Mainframe, use the Dream Compass, target... the location of the extraordinary path of the Zanpakuto, a place where I can learn the Zanpakuto for the sake of death."

"Judging in progress...judging complete."

"One Perfect Fate Point has been consumed, leaving two Perfect Fate Points."

"Dream Compass is starting up... Coordinates have been anchored, Dream Compass super-penetrating effect activated."

"penetrate……"

Just like last time, the mainframe's voice began to be stretched without limit. At the same time, Wu Pifu and those around him felt themselves being stretched, as did space and time. The whole world seemed to have turned into a passageway, and then everyone was sucked into the Dream Compass...

When Wu Pifu regained consciousness, all he could see was half the sky.

That's right, there's actually half of the sky... It's not that it's blocked by buildings or terrain, but that the other side of the sky is nothingness, with neither clear blue skies nor stars, only emptiness, as if the sky had been shattered by something.

Then Wu Pifu looked at the earth, which was only a few dozen kilometers long, and at its end there was nothingness.

“...Fragments of the world”.

Wu Pifu murmured.

He had seen similar fragments of the world before. The descendants of the Chan Nian Temple of the Zhenwu lineage lived in a similar fragment of the world. It was a small piece of the world, a remnant of the original dream world.

Fortunately, it's not the world's debris. The world's debris is a desolate and lifeless place. Although this world fragment is small, it has plants and rivers, and you can occasionally see animals. Of course, there are no people living there. The whole world is just the remnants of nature.

At this moment, Beelzebub also spoke up: "The Shattered Realm... This is the Shattered Realm."

Wu Pifu looked at Beelzebub in surprise: "You can speak outside now?"

Beelzebub said indifferently, "What I fear is the Heavenly Court. I have an inexplicable fear. Although I don't remember anything, I think all my previous efforts were probably destroyed by the Heavenly Court. In fact, not only my efforts, but I myself am probably being hunted down by the Heavenly Court. But it doesn't matter now. The Heavenly Court has been revived. In fact, it will first target the Four Emperors and the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals who went to war. Even if they know I am here, do they think they can spare the energy to hunt me down? Besides, you are a dead man. Unless the Four Emperors come in person, or a large number of Heavenly Soldiers and Generals lay a net, we will just kill each other indiscriminately. So it doesn't matter."

Wu Pifu thought so too. At this moment, Xu Shilan and Huang Rong both asked about the Broken Domain, and he naturally gave them his answers.

The so-called fractured region can be considered as the asteroid belt in outer space, which is a place where fragments of broken planets or material fragments that could not form planets are put together. Although the fractured region is certainly much more complex, this general description is not wrong.

At this point, Beelzebub said seriously, "This is troublesome."

Wu Pifu was taken aback and asked, "What do you mean?"

Beelzebub said, “The Shattered Realm is vast and boundless. No one knows how many fragments or remnants of worlds are within it. From countless ages ago, before I was even born, before the Buddhist Realm and the Heavenly Court existed, the Dream World already existed. And since then, fragments and remnants of worlds have gathered here. There are too many unknowns, too much terror, and even unimaginable remnants of ancient civilizations. You must know that the more ancient a civilization is, the further it is from humanity. You can't even describe its essence, form, civilization, or style…”

"Most importantly, if the location of the Zanpakuto's transcendent path is here, this also proves one thing..."

"The original civilizations that provided the Zanpakuto's extraordinary path have long been wiped out, or even completely lost. Now, only scattered fragments of its world remain, or can be searched in the desolate world of its ruins. You, within a year, must find clues about the Zanpakuto, and also learn, comprehend, and master it..."

"It's so difficult, so incredibly difficult!"

(End of this chapter)