Eternal Night

Chapter 934 Lost Civilizations

Wu Pifu did not immediately engage in battle; instead, he fell into deep thought.

The first round of arena battles was relatively uneventful, mainly consisting of wild boar demons and the like. However, starting from the second round, the enemies that appeared were things that Wu Pifu vaguely remembered...

Games, settings, anime, comics, or movies and TV shows...

If it were just one, it would be fine, as there are similar derivatives in the dream world, but they are few in number and mostly involve loss or near loss. However, if three in a row are of this type, then the situation of this arena is becoming quite clear.

Are all the civilizations that were brought in lost civilizations?
Or rather, all the lost civilizations that have fallen into the source of pollution no longer have a past or future time dimension. Even if they become lost civilizations in the future, they can still be manifested in the source of pollution countless years ago.

If that's the case, then the source of pollution is very likely a true place, or even further back...

Because the Bodhi fruit roughly describes the various characteristics of the true person, among which, apart from the power characteristics that Wu Pifu cannot understand, such as the self being true and external things being false, one of the most important characteristics is that it has no beginning or end.

Once the true person is achieved, then the past, present, and future will be completely merged.

This does not refer to the sole anchor of the universe, nor to the unification of all parallel selves at the level of time, space, cause and effect. Rather, it refers to the true liberation from the constraints of all time, space, and time—the great power of freedom that is one with the past, present, and future.

So... the sources of pollution are at least true persons?

Wu Pifu was filled with frustration, though not quite despair, but it still weighed heavily on his heart.

He had personally experienced just how powerful and terrifying the existence of the True Person was.

The fish and the butterfly are incredibly powerful, their power transcending the realm of mere "power." It's an incomprehensible force. Once enveloped by them, Wu Pifu loses even the ability to think for himself, let alone any other abilities. As for anything extraordinary... it simply doesn't exist in the presence of the fish and the butterfly.

Mortals, the extraordinary, the sublimated, and even the origin are nothing more than a "bubble" in front of the fish and the butterfly. No, the origin is a bubble, and the others don't even exist in themselves. They are truly nothing.

According to Bodhi Fruit, fish and butterflies only have position, not magnitude. But the source of pollution cannot be without magnitude. This means that even if the source of pollution is only a true position, it must be a true "true position" with both position and magnitude. This difference in weight is immediately apparent.

"...But that's a story for later."

Wu Pifu didn't think too much about it. Regardless of whether the source of the pollution was a True Rank or something above it, it was still too far away for him. What he needed to do right now was to find a way to get rid of the fish and the butterfly. This was his most urgent goal. If he couldn't get rid of them, anchor them, or kill them, then the fish and the butterfly would inevitably devour him, and at that time... even death would be a luxury.

The arena space in this round is enormous, estimated to be at least tens of thousands of square kilometers in size. This open space alone is even larger than the strange arena landscape seen from the outside. In this round, there are tens of thousands of creatures fighting on the field. In addition to some humanoid creatures, there are many more giant beasts, super-large creatures, and so on.

For example, the beings that Wu Pifu saw, resembling Ultraman and Godzilla, were among them.

The humanoid life form, resembling Ultraman, was about 100 meters tall, clearly a gigantic humanoid. The Godzilla-like dinosaur-like life form was also about 100 meters tall. The two were fighting each other. The Ultraman-like giant was radiating light, and with a wave of his hand, beams of light, light blades, and light waves were generated. The power was enormous, sweeping away large areas. Apart from Godzilla, other giant beasts could not even get close.

Godzilla, on the other hand, radiates crimson heat energy from its entire body. Its body temperature is extremely high, and the ground beneath its feet is rapidly vitrifying and melting into magma. When faced with Ultraman's beam attack, Godzilla's crimson heat energy bursts forth. It doesn't even need to open its mouth to breathe; its crimson heat energy collides with Ultraman's beam energy, exploding with a deafening roar, like a super-powerful missile.

Besides the most powerful creatures in the very center, resembling Ultraman and Godzilla, there are all sorts of giant beasts of various sizes in this arena. The red dragon from before is nothing compared to these creatures: a nine-headed dragon, a supergiant octopus monster, or even a Cthulhu-style fleshy monster...

Compared to these colossal beasts, the humanoid creatures on this battlefield were utterly weak. Most of them carefully hid at the edge of the clearing, afraid of attracting the attention of these giants. Moreover, Wu Pifu also discovered that most of these giant beasts lacked intelligence, possessing only the most brutal instincts for fighting and killing. Therefore, this clearing was a scene of carnage, filled only with slaughter. Apart from that, only the humanoid creatures possessed reason and consciousness.

"...Is it because of the different degrees of loss? Or the different degrees of manifestation?"

Wu Pifu also had his own guesses, but he couldn't say for sure what the situation was.

However, unlike other humanoid beings, he did not hide everywhere as soon as he entered the space.

No way!
On the contrary, after entering this space, because there were so many dead people here, and the ground was covered with corpses, and each of those giant beast corpses provided him with a much greater degree of anchoring and physical control than humanoid life, his physical control had already increased to 15% just by entering this space, and it was rapidly increasing at a rate of 1% every few seconds.

This is a treasure trove!

Wu Pifu stared at the scene before him with shining eyes, standing casually at the entrance, while the others who followed him were already pale with shock.

Even the arrogant Saiyans turned pale at this moment.

He no longer had a combat power detector, but his combat instincts remained. Sensing the giant beasts on the battlefield, he discovered that his strength was at most at the middle level among these beasts. There were at least ten giant beasts in the entire open space that were stronger than him, especially the dinosaur that kept wielding beams of light and waves and spewing out crimson light radiation. Both of these were far stronger than him.

"Sir, perhaps we should hide for a while..."

The man in the long robe immediately moved closer to Wu Pifu and asked him anxiously.

Wu Pifu shook his head slightly. He looked at the farthest part of the open space, where the mist had disappeared. At the farthest point of the open space was the only building in the Strange Land of the Arena. This was probably the last battle in the arena. After this battle, they would either enter the building to fight the final BOSS or clear out this Strange Land.

"It's alright, killing them one by one is too much trouble. I'm going to clear the area outright. Remember to help me grab some larger chunks of meat to carry with me; I'm going to eat them later..."

Wu Pifu spoke, then took two steps forward, ready to unleash a devastating attack to clear the area.

He now has 30% control over his physical body, which is enough for him to easily kill the ascended form. The strongest creatures in the field, suspected to be Ultraman and Godzilla, are only giant beasts close to the ascended form, posing no threat to him.

Just as Wu Pifu was about to act, he suddenly shuddered, then abruptly turned his head to look in a certain direction in the open space, and his eyes widened in shock.

There, a creature resembling a terror bird, about fifty meters tall, was attacking a dilapidated mech, while behind the mech, a dozen people were using guns or supernatural abilities to attack the terror bird.

But all these attacks were like tickles to the moa. At this moment, the moa raised its head and pecked down. Below it, several people were supporting a severely injured man. They were about to be pecked to death when, in the next instant, the moa's upper body exploded, and blood and flesh were scattered all over the ground. Not only the moa, but behind it, a group of giant beasts exploded one after another.

A figure appeared in front of the group, and at the same time, the person roared, "Why are you here...why!"

"Answer me! Why are you here? Could it be... that the Gaia civilization has been lost!?"

"Gao Changgong!!"

(End of this chapter)