Eternal Night

Chapter 899 Meeting
"Impossible! It can't be done!!"

In a high-end hotel in the city center, an elegant man was watching a video replay while talking on his phone: "I can't do it! Although I am a human immortal with solidified fist intent, I still can't move qi and blood in this space. As for Chinese martial arts... that is a remnant of the ancient Zhenwu. Apart from the oldest ancestors, no one after them has learned it... no, it should be said that they don't need to learn it anymore, so I really can't."

A cacophony of voices came through the phone, and someone asked, "Why not learn it? It seems this martial art is quite powerful."

The elegant man shifted his posture, his expression slightly more serious, and said, "Because martial arts are about cultivation, not about transcendence, that's why there's no need to learn them."

Once that was said, everyone else understood.

Most of the people here are extremely ancient high-level ascended beings. Although there are no figures like those from the Extreme Realm who appear only once in ten thousand generations, those who can operate in the Shattered Domain are basically second-level ascended beings. They have either lived for a very long time or are the ancestors of some small or unknown civilizations, so they naturally understood what this meant immediately.

The process of each civilization falling from the Absolute Reality layer is actually quite similar. In short, the Absolute Reality layer detects the clues, and a very small number of talented individuals, future ancestors, and children of the era perceive the dream world. If they have great opportunities, a small number of people can explore the dream world first through spiritual perception or dreaming. If not, they have to wait for various pollution phenomena to appear before they can explore the dream world after they have become extraordinary.

However, the process is actually quite similar. It is a gradual process. Before the emergence of civilization-specific extraordinary abilities, countless civilization elites have tried to understand pollution, solve pollution, or obtain extraordinary abilities in a scientific way. The accumulation process before true extraordinary abilities is actually what is called cultivation.

Traditional Chinese martial arts are the cultivation practices of the Zhenwu lineage before the emergence of the Human Immortal Martial Arts. Similarly, in some Buddhist-like civilizations, meditation is the cultivation practice before the emergence of the extraordinary. In some spiritual and conscious extraordinary civilizations, meditation is the cultivation practice before the emergence of the extraordinary.

This type of cultivation does not involve true transcendence, but rather focuses on the level of absolute reality, specifically the control over the physical body, mental consciousness, and even the true spirit of the soul. Although cultivating these methods before pursuing special transcendence can be twice as effective, the cost-effectiveness is too low, especially for more powerful transcendent paths.

It's a very simple principle: lifespan.

Cultivating the extraordinary path allows you to live for hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands of years, and even become nearly immortal after reaching the sublimated state. However, the lifespan of a mortal is at most a few decades or a hundred years, or at most a few hundred years depending on the race. If you don't bravely and diligently learn the extraordinary path, but instead spend decades or hundreds of years cultivating slowly, can you really gamble that you can soar to the sky as soon as you start cultivating the extraordinary path?

What if we can't? We only have one life.

Therefore, this type of cultivation method is quickly eliminated and forgotten after each civilization enters the dream world. Apart from the early ancestors, the new generation cannot even know about it.

This elegant man happens to be a senior member of the Zhenwu lineage, so he knows about martial arts and also knows that martial arts is cultivation. Unfortunately, he has never studied martial arts and only knows about it.

The video now shows Wu Pifu's multiple attacks, the most outrageous of which was the attack on a five-person team. Multiple shots were taken by residents in the surrounding buildings, including Wu Pifu breaking the sound barrier, almost flying through the air, another attack that killed someone in one blow, and the most outrageous one...

The vital energy and smoke rose hundreds of meters into the air!
The essence of war is like smoke, a symbol of the Martial Saint!
While outside this space, Martial Saints might only be able to show off among the younger generation, and wouldn't even give these sublimated beings a second glance, this space prohibits all extraordinary beings. It's like an anteater suddenly appearing in an anthill—what the hell?!
There were thirteen Ascended Beings here, some lone wolves like the elegant man, and others in groups of two or three. They were all originally conducting research, trying to gain an advantage, causing trouble, and controlling this space. However, as Wu Pifu began his massacre, he almost wiped out all the Ascended Beings causing trouble inside and outside the town in the middle of the night. The video alone shows that he killed nearly ten Ascended Beings. He completely crushed them, showing no mercy, no negotiation, and no letting any go. It was all about killing, killing, killing.

This truly terrified the remaining sublimated beings. They immediately stopped all their research, hurriedly cleaned up their mess, and quickly hid among the crowd, trying their best to pretend to be human. They diligently learned the various habits, movements, and expressions of the humans in this world, and imitated their actions.

They were genuinely afraid.

At this point, the surviving sublimated beings, regardless of any gaps or mutual distrust, were forced to contact each other and discuss how to deal with this terrifying enemy.

They had a general idea that Wu Pifu was the controller of this space. Regardless of whether Wu Pifu's strength was obtained through spatial manipulation, such as the rule that all beings are mortal and only I am superior, they knew at least for now that Wu Pifu was not someone they could defeat.

"...At present, there are only two ways to deal with this lucky one."

After a night of discussion, as dawn approached, everyone finally reached a conclusion.

"The first method is to quickly research a way to manipulate consciousness, control the humans in this world on a large scale, and then confirm that this lucky individual is not human. Perhaps this is why he suddenly erupted and wants to wipe us out. He's about to overplay his hand." "The second method is based on the premise that he has an extremely high degree of control over this space and is not affected by the rule of instant kill for non-humans. If that's the case, then we can only try to solve him from the root... break the rules that prohibit the extraordinary in this space. Once we all obtain the extraordinary, this lucky individual will be easily crushed by us like an ant."

These two methods are the consensus of everyone: one is to eliminate Wu Pifu according to the rules of this space, and the other is to break the rules of this space to eliminate Wu Pifu.

Everyone thought that once they all possessed extraordinary abilities, Wu Pifu was simply as insignificant as a lucky bug.

"...Then, let's lie low for now. In the days to come, everyone should behave yourselves and thoroughly study the mental consciousness of the mortals in this space. Then, keep in touch and wait until the day we have a thorough understanding before unleashing our full power."

"As for breaking the rules of this space, the two most likely methods we currently speculate on are: the first is still the mortals within this space. After manipulating them, a large number of mortals will believe that there should be extraordinary beings in this world, and use their understanding to break the rules that prohibit extraordinary beings. The second is to sacrifice a large number of mortals, so that this space loses its internal observers and breaks the rules that prohibit extraordinary beings. Both are worth trying."

"Then, everyone, be careful to hide and disguise yourselves as mortals."

The elegant man turned off the communication. He looked at the videos of Wu Pifu on the computer with a gloomy expression. After a long while, he said in a very low voice, "To associate with mortals and to be careful to hide... How many years has it been since I've done this? Heh, I will make you taste the suffocating feeling of being so careful when the time comes."

"Why not now?"

A voice came from the floor-to-ceiling window behind the elegant man. Upon hearing the voice, the elegant man charged forward without even turning his head. His muscles began to swell and mutate, and he crashed through the wall in front of him. At the same time, he kicked back with both feet, smashing a large number of cement slabs into powder to block his view behind him.

In just two or three seconds, this elegant man transformed into a muscular behemoth, rampaging through the hotel floors, disregarding doors and walls, smashing through rooms to create dust and search for ordinary mortals. Whenever he found a mortal, he would immediately use the tentacles formed from his muscles to randomly tap on their internal organs, acupoints, nerves, and brain, before moving on to find another mortal.

Any ordinary human attacked by it will immediately scream in agony, their muscles will tense and twitch, and they will faint from the intense pain. At the same time, their bodies will begin to mutate.

Just then, a small hand emerged from the dust and touched a spot on their heads. The humans who had begun to mutate immediately stopped struggling, and their muscles slowly returned to normal. Although there were small bleeding marks on their bodies, they would no longer become irreversible flesh monsters.

Wu Pifu walked calmly, much faster than the elegant man who was fleeing. He rescued the mortals he encountered along the way. Ahead, the elegant man was about to jump off a building, and Wu Pifu had nowhere to escape!
But at that moment, Wu Pifu suddenly stopped. His calm expression turned serious, and he stretched out his hands, one palm and one claw, pointing forward.

"...No need to be on guard. Until these maggots from the past are all killed, I can barely be considered your ally."

A voice rang out, and Wu Pifu saw a boy of about twelve or thirteen years old slowly walking towards them through the dust and smoke. In his hands, he held the elegant man who had turned into a muscle monster. At this moment, the elegant man's head was showing boundless pain, and his flesh and blood were twitching and trembling wildly, but he could not move an inch and could only silently endure the pain.

"I admire your decisiveness in killing them. These maggots that do not respect life should be crushed. However, I do not agree with your methods of killing them. Letting them die so easily is a disrespect to the lives they have defiled. If the conditions are right, they should be made to feel the retribution of one's own actions."

The boy threw the muscular monster to the ground, where it endured immense pain, its life slowly tormented to death in agony.

Wu Pifu didn't even glance at the non-human on the ground; his entire focus was on the boy in front of him.

"who are you?"

The young man extended his hand in a cupped-hand salute and said loudly.

"People from Heaven have come to kill you."

(End of this chapter)