Eternal Night

Chapter 907 Zanpakuto and Fish
In the end, Wu Pifu did not kill all the ascended beings who arrived.

He left one-tenth of the sublimated beings alive and departed, speaking to them in a very serious tone and saying very absurd things as they left.

"I originally only planned to kill two-thirds of you. I would let the remaining third go and spread the word about this massacre, so that all the non-humans who know of my existence and your fate would know that when they encounter me, I will only kill two-thirds of you, that is, kill after three rounds. This is the rule I set for you."

"But as I just said, I'm going to let loose and vent my anger today, so I'll just kill a lot of people. You guys don't mind, do you?"

Of course I wouldn't mind.

Just as parachute services never get bad reviews, no one will mind Wu Pifu's blade...

As for the surviving one-tenth or so of the sublimated beings, they didn't care at all. They all transformed into human-sized figures, kneeling and shaking their heads and nodding repeatedly.

What a joke!
Within ten seconds, nearly a hundred Ascended Beings were hacked to death by a single person, a mortal, a mortal who wasn't even an Ascended Being. How could they dare not kneel?!

Wu Pifu, the son of the true civilization of this era, the son of the era of this era, once killed one, three, or four mortals of the origin. He once escaped death from the pursuit of the transcendent world of the Mountain and Sea Realm, or cut a mortal with a blade of the Heavenly Dao of the Mountain and Sea Realm, or shattered a corner of the Heavenly Dao of the Mountain and Sea Realm.

The first sublimated entity to escape survived, and it secretly shared the information it knew about Wu Pifu with the remaining sublimated entities.

The remaining Ascended beings desperately wanted to roar, "Do you want to hear what the hell you're spouting?"
You're talking about a mortal, right? Not a being of the Awakened Origin, or an Extreme Dao Ascension Body at the Third Tier or higher, right?
However, they didn't dare to ask Wu Pifu. For a mortal who could kill them all in ten seconds and couldn't even make them escape, they felt that those exaggerated rumors didn't seem like mere fantasy.

Furthermore, they actually began to seriously consider the absurd statements made by Wu Pifu... a mortal, when they encounter this mortal, they will be subjected to three extractions and two killings.

It's better than nine-tenths dying, right?
Moreover, they could all sense that Wu Pifu was radiating an incredible killing intent and malice, seemingly considering not letting them go at all and simply killing them all here. However, some final bottom line restrained him, preventing him from going completely insane.

This realization made all the sublimated beings tremble even more, kneeling obediently.

Wu Pifu gripped the knife in one hand and the crystal in the other. He took several deep breaths before he managed to suppress his surging killing intent.

It wasn't that he thought the remaining one-tenth wasn't inhuman; he had witnessed the true nature of the shattered realm's sublimated beings. These kneeling sublimated beings were only weak because they were weak, not because they were benevolent. Moreover, this weakness was relative to Wu Pifu. Given the right conditions, they would still show their cruelty to those weaker than them, just as he had seen in the space.

However, he still stopped the killing, because killing was merely a means, not an end, and this had to be his bottom line.

"Now, I need three volunteers."

After saying that, Wu Pifu sat cross-legged, seemingly waiting for these sublimated beings to select volunteers.

Three volunteers?
The remaining sublimated beings were all trembling. They firmly believed that these so-called volunteers should be equated with "experimental equipment," "ritual materials," and "manufacturing materials," because that was how they treated the weak, and more than once. These "volunteers" selected by them were often miserable, and in the end, even begging for death was a luxury.

Therefore, they have absolutely no desire to become so-called volunteers.

However, Wu Pifu was not negotiating with them, and they understood this deeply, just as they treated other mortals. Because they had treated other lives so cruelly, they knew that if they refused, it would not be as simple as "three volunteers".

So it was the same old routine they knew: the weak submit to the strong, the big fish eat the small fish. Even if they were not convinced, they had to keep quiet. So the three weakest ascendants were chosen. They continued to kneel, trembling, while the rest of the ascendants looked at Wu Pifu.

Wu Pifu landed and said to them, "Go, get out of my sight, spread my fame, tell those things like you to stay away from my sight, away from my world and civilization, away from everything about me. Don't let me see you, don't let me discover you, otherwise every time it will be a three-draw, two-kill, every single time! I'm not joking with you, this is the last line I have left as a human, and also my last act of mercy for you, now..."

The surging killing intent was almost tangible; it wasn't just a figure of speech, but a real space distorted by killing intent formed around Wu Pifu, repelling the chaotic energy flow and void of this shattered domain into emptiness. All the sublimated beings knelt down, heads bowed, pressing their heads to their bodies, completely motionless.

This is... the aura of the ultimate realm, and it's the most extreme ultimate realm, where killing intent is the ultimate.
"Go."

As soon as the two words were uttered, the remaining involuntary individuals vanished into the distance in an instant. This time, the black and white world did not freeze them; they had truly escaped with their lives and then disappeared without looking back.

The remaining three sublimated bodies, like lambs, continued to tremble.

Wu Pifu looked at them, and after a long while, he said, "I need you to sense my surroundings, sense the places I need to find, and familiarize myself with this broken domain environment..."

The three ascended beings suddenly looked up, their eyes revealing a thirst for life. One of them immediately said, "Please give us your orders, sir. We are very familiar with this shattered realm!"

The other two sublimated beings nodded repeatedly, as if afraid of being even a fraction too slow.

Wu Pifu remained silent for a long while. He then held the crystal in his hand up to his eyes. The crystal was pure and flawless, formed by a mixture of reality and pollution in a certain proportion. To put it simply, the crystal was the most primitive "transcendental path," unprocessed and unanchored, a primitive concept that returned the transcendental path to its original state.

This was the bait. In the final moment before the space shattered, Wu Pifu saw three nightmares. They laughed and cried, without any farewell ceremony or words. They neither complained nor thanked him; they simply existed and then disappeared.

This is their final gift to Wu Pifu... a token of gratitude for being born as a human being.

This is a bait, something created for Wu Pifu to use for fishing.

Wu Pifu never did anything wrong, but looking at this bait, he felt guilty...

"Therefore, what is inhuman is always behavior, not race, civilization, or even whether or not one is alive..."

Under the bewildered gazes of the three ascendants, Wu Pifu uttered these words before beginning to describe the information about the extraordinary path of the Zanpakuto to them, instructing them to search for world fragments or world ruins in the surrounding area.

According to the last information left by the three nightmares, Nightmare No. 1 used the last rule of the three nightmares to pull over the world debris where the Zanpakuto's transcendent path was located, so the Zanpakuto's transcendent path must be in the vicinity.

Although Wu Pifu's combat strength was indeed much greater than these sublimated beings, its inherent conditions were still lacking, such as wide-area detection capabilities. Sublimated beings were, after all, qualitative changes of mortals. This was why he requested three volunteers; it wasn't to torture or toy with them, but because he needed their abilities. As for why they were volunteers and what dangers they might face...

The fish rose to the surface of the water.

It saw the bait, and it wondered if the bait was delicious, and it was also afraid that the bait was a trap.

Reality and illusion blur here; reality and dreams intersect here.

You don't know if you were asleep, or if you went down the rabbit hole, but you did see the fish.

The fish saw you too.

You are not a fish, and the fish is not you...

Fish swim on the surface of the water. You might wonder if fish can also leave the water.

The fish laughed, asking you, "Is there really a surface of water?"
You are surprised and look down; there is no water surface. No, the water surface is below...

You and the bait are underwater, while the area above your head is above the water surface.

The fish swims happily beside you, overjoyed, telling you...

No, no, no, you're wrong. The bait is never the one in your hand...

You find it strange, isn't this carefully prepared bait?
No no no...

You are the bait...

Wu Pifu and the three sublimated beings stood in front of a desolate cluster of ruined buildings. All three were standing, but in the next instant, they all knelt down and began to retch violently.

"My lord, what is that!? What is that!?" A sublimated being vomited and howled loudly, its face filled with indescribable fear. This was different from the fear of being killed by Wu Pifu before, because the previous fear was specific, it was fear of a specific thing or object, but this fear was the source of terror... that is, the fear of the unknown.

Apart from Wu Pifu, who remained expressionless, the other three sublimated beings were terrified.

Because what had just happened exceeded their wildest imaginations, these sublime beings, who had lived for countless epochs and tens of thousands of years, were so close to the truth for the first time...

The most fundamental, largest, and most terrifying unknown truth of this universe, which even their will cannot bear.

Wu Pifu didn't want to answer, but he had forced these three volunteers to stay, so he thought for a moment and said, "Those are fish; they were attracted here."

Then, he looked at the ruins of the buildings in front of him.

A massive, broken sword, reaching to the heavens and the earth, was embedded in the center of this ruin.

The embers of the broken sword still seemed to be burning.

(End of this chapter)