Eternal Night

Chapter 894 Battle, Group, Arrival
Wu Pifu easily pinched the tip of the knife with two fingers, applying neither too much nor too little force.

This was actually him demonstrating his skills. If the other party had any sense, or was a martial arts expert, they would have no choice but to immediately retreat instead of immediately surrendering.

In martial arts, it's said that being three points higher is already incredibly high, and that's certainly true. But Wu Pifu's martial arts level is far beyond just three points higher; it's practically at the pinnacle. Even with a mortal body that doesn't possess any extraordinary abilities, let alone a five-year-old child fighting a strong man, even if the opponent were Mike Tyson, he would still be defeated in a single exchange.

The strong man in front of him only showed surprise and did not show any other reaction. He began to thrust the knife forward with force, but the knife could not advance even a millimeter, as if the knife was pressed against a steel plate.

Only then did the strong man suddenly release the knife, reaching one hand towards Wu Pifu Yang's throat while simultaneously stabbing the other hand into Wu Pifu's eyes. His speed was extremely fast, exceeding the normal human threshold in terms of speed, accuracy, and reaction time.

But Wu Pifu still didn't take this seriously. He twisted and turned the knife in his hand, and with a gentle squeeze, the knife turned into a ball of iron. He turned iron into mud, and just before the strong man's hands and fingers were about to touch his body, two iron balls the size of little fingers slammed into the strong man's elbows. With two muffled thuds, the strong man's elbows were dislocated, and both hands slid past his sides.

But this strong man was also ruthless. Despite dislocating his elbow, he didn't utter a sound. Before he could even retract his arms, he kicked Wu Pifu in the chest with a stomp of his foot. Moreover, the speed was faster than when his arms were extended. The kick even produced a sound like thunder. However, Wu Pifu immediately noticed that the bones in his leg were beginning to tear.

Faced with this situation, Wu Pifu became interested. He stretched out one palm, and the kick seemed to be delivered to his palm. With a muffled thud, Wu Pifu moved back several meters without moving, while the strong man staggered and almost fell to the ground. However, he only took two steps in place before standing firmly in place.

At this point, Wu Pifu finally confirmed a few things: the strong man in front of him had no sense of pain, or rather, he had managed to block out the sense of pain; secondly, he had unlocked the self-limiting mechanism of his body, and his strength, speed, reaction speed, etc., far exceeded those of a normal adult male; finally... he had even tampered with his brain.

The strong man was drenched in sweat, his skin was bright red, and his body temperature was rising rapidly, even emitting a white mist. If Wu Pifu hadn't been familiar with the Immortal Martial Arts, he might have mistaken the strong man for someone circulating his vital energy.

"...True Martial Arts? Galaxy? Or Body Tempering? Body Refinement? Or perhaps the self-cultivation of the physical body in alchemy? The taijutsu system in chakra? The half-demon body in demonic energy?"

The muscular man stood still, not launching another attack. Instead, he stood there talking to Wu Pifu while breathing heavily. With each breath, his muscles visibly "flowed" and deformed.

Seeing Wu Pifu staring at him silently, the muscular man revealed a ferocious smile: "Since I survived the first wave of rule-based instant kills, do you think I wouldn't try to guess about this space and your plans?"

At this moment, the muscular man's appearance was quite horrifying. His face was skeletal, with all the flesh and blood flowing to other parts of his body except for a thin layer of skin. His eyeballs looked like they were about to fall out at any moment. At the same time, the muscles in his chest began to form plates, covering vital organs such as his lungs, heart, Adam's apple, and abdomen. The muscles in his arms and legs swelled dramatically, and the bones in his limbs seemed to have been crushed and forcibly reassembled with muscles, making him look like an insect's arthropod, which was quite disgusting.

Wu Pifu calmly asked, "Oh? What are my plans?"

The muscular... no, the monster-like man swung his arm, a sharp crack like a whip, its attack range spanning about two meters. He said, "This space forbids the extraordinary, even forbidding my self-perfection as a second-tier ascended being. Such a thing is unheard of, but since it has appeared, there must be a reason for it. And after discovering the first rule of this space, I know the source of this reason... humans, right?"

Wu Pifu remained silent, and the monster man began to walk towards him, saying as he went, "Those mortals in this space are probably all secondary souls you devoured, right? Similar to the Heavenly Court's Human Emperor Banner, they devour the souls of living beings with whom you have a karmic connection. The more they devour, the more powerful they become. The role of these mortals is actually to strengthen the rules. Anyone they deem 'non-human' will immediately trigger the option of certain death. This has been confirmed by many fellow cultivators."

"Then why did you set this rule? It's simple. You have a way to maintain your combat power in a mortal body, with your abilities and state, or rather, your combat power within this forbidden space for the supernatural, right?"

Wu Pifu was speechless for a moment, but after thinking about what this monster man said, hey, it actually made a lot of sense. After all, since the extraordinary was forbidden, his martial arts skills could really crush everyone.

"But there are a few loopholes here, and the biggest one is... how do you deal with attacks from non-humans when there are no 'others' present?"

The monstrous man revealed a ferocious smile, laughing silently. It had already approached Wu Pifu, almost to the point of looking down at him. It coldly stared at Wu Pifu and said, "I admit, your control over your physical body without using your extraordinary abilities is astonishing. It's a system specifically designed to gain an advantage in battles without extraordinary abilities. But let me understand, even without extraordinary abilities, the control of an Ascended Body over the physical body far surpasses that of a mortal like you, right? You are actually a mortal, but relying on this secret treasure space, you dare to disregard Ascended Bodies and even dare to come to this deserted place. You are truly foolish. No, I think you are greedy. You want to devour me, don't you? To obtain the full power of a second-tier Ascended Body, is this also a special rule of this secret treasure space? Once you kill an enemy, you can obtain all of their power? Or at least a portion of it? Then this space is truly..."

Looking at the skull so close to him, its head bowed face to face, Wu Pifu suppressed the urge to slap it to pieces and calmly said, "Aren't you overthinking it? I also entered here by accident, and there's a crucial point..."

Unexpectedly, the monstrous man before him had no intention of exchanging words with him. His bones were cracking and popping all over the place: "I don't have time to waste with you. Some old friends have also come to this space. After killing you and obtaining this space, I need to familiarize myself with it. Then, those old friends, hehehehe..."

In the next instant, the monster man's limbs converged on Wu Pifu at a supersonic speed, leaving him with no way to escape.

"Snapped!"

Wu Pifu stepped forward, leaning his right side forward and pulling his left side back, forming the shape of a large bow that was quickly drawn and released. His right hand then struck forward with incredible speed, almost bursting out all the explosive power in a small space. His palm struck the center of the monster man's muscular chest. At the same time, the monster man's hands lashed out like whips, already within inches of the back of Wu Pifu's head.

"Ha, this isn't even my vital spot..." In that instant, the monster man, whose brain was in overclocked state, even had time to quickly utter these words, but the next moment, his vision changed, and he was looking at the sky at an angle. At the same time, he lost all sensation of his limbs and body.

Wu Pifu struck the monster man's chest in the center with a palm strike. Strangely, the monster man's body suddenly folded in the opposite direction of the force, with his upper body folding upwards and outwards. This was completely opposite to the direction of Wu Pifu's palm strike. With this fold, his spine was completely broken, and then it crumbled into pieces, each no larger than a fingernail.

The monster's upper and lower body were completely folded into a pancake shape, with only the eyeballs on its head still trembling wildly, while the rest of its body was completely immobile.

The monstrous man immediately hissed, "I still have companions, bound by a soul pact. The moment I die, they will know immediately, wait a minute..."

"Snapped."

With another crisp sound, Wu Pifu lifted her small foot, revealing the broken skull beneath, which had been completely crushed into a pulp.

"Noisy."

At this point, Wu Pifu fully understood the situation regarding the outsiders...

These are creatures that are completely incommunicable, and are non-human beings who resort to plunder, murder, and robbery to establish themselves in the Broken Domain.

In this way, Wu Pifu felt no remorse whatsoever for those things that were immediately exposed and killed on the spot as soon as they entered this space. If he didn't find them, fine; but if he did, he could just kill them immediately.

It's nothing more than some remnants mixed in with this battle against the nightmare.

Meanwhile, more than ten blocks away from the alley where Wu Pifu was, among three people sitting silently by the roadside, a young woman suddenly trembled and immediately lowered her head. The two people next to her also noticed something was wrong, but neither of them made any move or said anything.

A few seconds later, the young woman said, "Coolshu is dead."

The two people beside him remained silent. The young woman continued to mutter to herself, "Killed by a strange creature? No, he couldn't possibly have failed to escape, so..."

A man beside him said coldly, "He left in a hurry this afternoon. Given his usual behavior, he must have discovered a key clue and found the core of this space, either a person or an object."

The other person didn't speak, but nodded in agreement.

The young woman was silent for a few seconds before saying, "Then let's find his body and determine how he died... When we find the key clues, we'll each rely on our own abilities."

The two nodded at the same time, and then the three of them fell silent again.

Meanwhile, in a rice paddy dotted with scarecrows on the outskirts of the city, a boy suddenly appears out of nowhere.

After he appeared, he actually lay down in the rice paddy, letting the mud and water engulf him completely. Then, just a few seconds after he appeared, the scarecrows in the rice paddy began to tremble, and the trembling became more and more intense. They... began to move, moving towards the boy.

Only then did the boy slowly stand up.

"...What a wonderful space. It reminds me of the time when my grandparents took me to farm when I was a child."

The boy's face showed reminiscence, and then...

He vanished into thin air, and the scarecrow, having lost its target, slowly came to a stop and turned back into an ordinary scarecrow...

(End of this chapter)