Eternal Night

Chapter 881 Special
"Non-human origin."

Although Wu Pifu was quite surprised by the scene before him, he immediately understood that the scene depicted the content of the Omniscient Sphinx. Although he had never seen the Omniscient Sphinx, something that asked questions right away... could it be a computer question game?
Therefore, Wu Pifu answered immediately, just as he thought, without any falsehood, concealment, embellishment, or hesitation, because in his mind, the source of all this pollution in the dream world must be a non-human source.

Pollution equals inhumanity, no problem.

Questions, answers, and... all remained silent.

Wu Pifu didn't know why he saw these three as questions, answers, and ???. They weren't humanoid, and he couldn't even say what he saw, but he knew they were questions, answers, and ???.

After a moment, the questioner continued, "Question two..."

"what do you?"

Wu Pifu replied without hesitation, "Human, pure-blooded human."

Questions, answers, ... ? ? The three fell silent again, and it seemed the third question was about to begin.

Unexpectedly, Wu Pifu took out his death-defying sword at this moment. He calmly said, "I don't know what you are. Perhaps you are a manifestation of pollution as he said. Since you asked a question and I answered it honestly, then this can be considered a kind of contract or tacit agreement. I give you an answer, and you give me an answer. If you randomly stuff some junk information that I don't need into my hands, then I will kill you."

"carry……"

After one syllable, the question, the answer, and then silence fell again, and this time for an extremely long time.

Wu Pifu wasn't in a hurry. He could sense that time here flowed differently from time outside, more like a virtual reality or a pure illusion. The flow of time here was likely tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, or even more exaggerated than outside.

Silence, silence, silence...

Remaining silent...

Wu Pifu wasn't in a hurry.

Silence, silence, silence...

Still silent...

Wu Pifu remained unhurried.

He fell into a strange, hazy state, which was both dreamlike and not a dream. He was used to it because this feeling seemed to have lasted for a very long time.

Thinking is the state of an ordinary person; not thinking is the state of someone in a coma, asleep, dormant, or even dead; neither thinking nor not thinking is the state of an enlightened being; and beyond that…

Wu Pifu's hazy state was tinged with tranquility, like a dream yet not a dream, like thought yet not a thought. He couldn't even perceive how much time had passed around him—perhaps a second, or a long time, or an eternal second...

At that moment, he seemed to hear some voice interfering with him, trying to pull him out of this state.

"I can tell you're not human at first glance."

Upon hearing this voice, Wu Pifu instinctively wanted to retort, but he vaguely remembered the familiar feeling, and his desire to refute immediately subsided.

"The source of pollution, to put it bluntly, is because of what we're watching!"

"Beneath the tower lies boundless darkness and terror, the dead beyond the multiverse, the extinction of heaven."

"Such filthy language!"

"You're the monster! Your whole family are monsters!"

"We have been watching you."

……

Wu Pifu heard a dense array of sounds, some male and some female, but Wu Pifu knew that these sounds were not made by humans, or even that they were sounds at all, but rather countless indescribable messages disguised as sounds.

However, Wu Pifu still did not feel scared or afraid, because he had heard these "voices" before, and they had given him important hints and help.

"It's you guys, monster people. I didn't get a chance to say thank you last time."

Wu Pifu mumbled something in this hazy state, but this did not prevent him from being in this hazy state.

Suddenly, at that moment, he clearly heard a sound.

"Ask...a question..."

Wu Pifu opened his eyes, yawned, and looked at the seemingly exhausted person in front of him. He didn't know how he could tell the other person was tired.

At the same time, the other person's voice sounded very dull and slow, almost like a gear without oil grinding against each other. "...Your question is..."

Just saying those words seemed to have exhausted the other party's strength. Wu Pifu was completely bewildered, but he didn't say anything more. He just listened to the prompts from those monsters. Unfortunately, as the other party asked the question, the monsters' voices gradually faded away, which made him feel very regretful.

The voices of these monstrous beings were like narration, providing him with information he shouldn't have known, information of immense significance and value. Unfortunately, it was disorganized and he couldn't select information, and it was always rushed… If possible, he hoped the monstrous beings could offer more different hints next time. He thanked them all, and their ancestors…

"I want to know about the extraordinary path of the Zanpakuto and the Buddhist secrets within the Shattered Domain," Wu Pifu said bluntly.

The questioner fell silent, while the answerer slowly began to open its mouth. Of course, the "mouth" was just an illusion created by Wu Pifu, and none of the three were even human.

But at that moment, ??? suddenly began to slowly but steadily crumble inch by inch, and as the answer opened its mouth, Wu Pifu's mind was rapidly and violently flooded with a great deal of information.

It was a dream world, a derivative world with multiple worldviews: the material world of ordinary mortals, the place where souls go after death, the place where corrupted monsters and their souls reside, the nascent celestial realm... and so on.

But at that moment, the civilization of that era fell, and in the process of falling, the civilization began to be destroyed. Almost the entire main body of the civilization perished, and its main world also completely collapsed and disappeared during the fall.

However, one civilization was extremely lucky and escaped the cataclysmic destruction. Like the last individual of the contained civilization, it fell into this derivative dream world. The force of its fall destroyed multiple institutions and almost all the living beings in this world. It fell into the deepest part of this derivative dream and became the core of this derivative dream world.

He—no, He calls Himself the Spirit King—used the unique and extraordinary power of the soul, a path unique to His civilization, to create all things and reshape the multiple structures of this derived world. At the same time, He hopes to use the new life in this dream world as a starting point to reshape His original civilization.

However, this world is only a derivative world after all. The beings reshaped by His power cannot bear His unique extraordinary path of soul power. Instead, His soul power is divided into four types of power: the power of the Shinigami, the power of the Hollow, the power of the Saint, and the power of the heart. The extraordinary path of the Zanpakuto is one of the manifestations of the power of the Shinigami.

then……

Endless information began to surface in Wu Pifu's mind, including the past history of this world. Because He had given birth to all the life and structure of the world, His power weakened infinitely, and He was then imprisoned by the new life of this world. These new life did not understand the situation of the dream world and mistakenly believed that He was the cause of the world's birth and the core of its maintenance. Therefore, He was imprisoned in the core of the world. In order to stabilize the world and make it more perfect, He was even dismembered.

The entire world had been slowly collapsing since its birth. After a very long time, its power finally waned, and the entire world collapsed into fragments and debris. Most of these fragments were completely destroyed, but some debris, carrying the strongest carriers of the four major powers, fell into the Shattered Domain.

Wu Pifu's mind began to conjure up countless fragments of the world, world ruins, all the information on them, the monsters, the strange and bizarre, the dangers, the paths, the directions...

Just as Wu Pifu was feeling a headache coming on, the information he was receiving suddenly changed.

He saw a Buddha sitting cross-legged on a lotus flower.

The Buddha had a sallow complexion, was six zhang tall, his body was covered in dirt and sweat, he was restless in his seat, and his face was bitter.

The five signs of decay in the divine indicate that one's days are numbered.

"...A destined person, the secrets of Buddhism, the secrets of Buddhism...The First Buddha has truly posed a great challenge for me. I possess nothing, and I don't know what to leave you. Apart from the secrets the First Buddha told us, I will leave you these fragments. These are probably my most precious possessions..."

"Ultra Instinct..."

"...I wonder if I'll be able to..."

"...You're destined to meet me, but you'd better not..."

"...Oh no, this is..."

"...Impossible, could it be that all of this..."

What followed was the Buddha's face filled with horror. Then, He gradually disappeared, transforming into an infant, which in turn transformed into a dog, a cat, a fish...

Yes, fish, but you are not a fish, right?

You're sleepy again, extremely drowsy, your eyes are about to close...

You can have anything in your dreams...

Yes, you're about to fall asleep, and you're about to dream about what you were like before...

There was a bang.

Wu Pi Fu suddenly collapsed to the ground, then tried to vomit something, vaguely resembling a fish. But just then, it heard the cry of alarm from the last individual of the civilization that had been sheltered.

"Holy crap! What happened?"

"The Omniscient Sphinx..."

"Old age and death!?"

(End of this chapter)