Eternal Night.

Chapter 921 The First Buddha's Move and the Moment of Awakening from the Dream

(PS: This was like a bolt from the blue... This morning, my son suddenly developed a high fever. He was a little better after taking fever reducers, but by this morning his temperature had spiked back to 40 degrees Celsius. His mother and I rushed him to the hospital, and the tests showed he was positive for influenza A, weakly positive for respiratory syncytial virus, and had a bacterial infection in his lungs—both bacteria and viruses... I'm going crazy! I got better, then my wife got sick; my wife got better, then my child got sick... Thankfully, my in-laws are helping out. They're at the hospital now, so I came back to take a nap and catch up on most of the chapter I wrote yesterday... I can't go on like this, I'll have to take another day off. I'll make up for whatever I owe later. I'm taking two days off in advance, tomorrow and the day after. I guess this will be the only chapter today. I'm going crazy! This part of the story is exactly what I'm most proud of... I'll update as soon as my child gets better.)
Wu Pifu bit his tongue hard, unleashing his sleepless spiritual light to its strongest point. He pushed all his spiritual senses to their maximum, and at the same time, he no longer cared about dealing with the root's trump cards. He unleashed all his power, regardless of whether it was a little skirt or the giant body of the Hero Race. As long as it could be added, or if it was a perfect characteristic that could survive in the root's information loop, he added it all.

This fish... was countless times more terrifying than he had imagined!
When he was in the Shattered Realm, he thought the fish were a very special and bizarre phenomenon, or a form of pollution. Later, when he went to the Primordial Demon Prison, he thought the fish were a manifestation of a source of pollution, a very special kind of nightmare. But now he knows that this thing may have exceeded the limits of his most exaggerated imagination, something he cannot understand or guess...

What Heaven, what origin? When a fish floats to the surface, it's all just a hair... no, he's wrong, it's all just a bubble!!

The Heavenly Emperor became a bubble as a fish floated to the surface of the water. This treatment far surpassed all the previous sublimations, such as heavenly soldiers, heavenly generals, gods, heavenly masters, and so on. Those beings were not even a bubble, let alone a drop of water. They disappeared in a way that Wu Pifu could not understand at all.

As the saying goes, the greatest fear is the unknown. Even the root of the problem, once known, will at most become a source of power, not pure fear. But this fish, and the other creature that resembles a butterfly, are completely beyond the limits of comprehension...

They... are the purest form of the unknown!!
In the boundless expanse beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens, a giant, light gray figure appeared out of thin air. As the giant appeared, the space around it rippled like liquid, as if its weight had caused the space itself to cave in.

Without the main brain's judgment, Wu Pifu didn't know which hero's soul he had extracted. Similarly, without the main brain's judgment, he didn't know what the perfect characteristic of this hero was. However, his strength was now vastly different from before. He only needed to sense it to roughly understand what the perfect characteristic of this hero was: gravity or mass.

This is completely different from the hero race traits drawn in the previous draws. The hero race traits in the previous draws were perfect traits that were similar to rules, but this time the perfect hero race trait is very simple, which is simply strong, strong in terms of numbers!
But that suits him perfectly!

At this moment, any rules are a joke in front of the fish and the butterfly. They directly pull you into a state of bewilderment. You can't control your own existence, let alone power and rules.

At this point, Wu Pifu's strength was merely numerical; it wasn't that he intended to turn the tables on Yu and Die—that was impossible. His plan was quite simple…

They dragged the entire Heavenly Court down with them!
He can die, but he absolutely cannot die on the spot!

Even if it means death, I'll drag the enemy down with me!
Isn't your Heavenly Court supposed to be all high and mighty? Doesn't it have to sacrifice the true civilization of that era every time it awakens?
Isn't it true that sending out any random celestial master means killing the whole family?

Isn't the First Immortal supposed to be the strongest among the origins, and the Heavenly Court supposed to be the strongest among the ancient civilizations?

Let's all die together!

Wu Pifu, transformed into a hero, dared not delay for a moment. He immediately conjured a death-defying greatsword matching the size of a hero's body and released it into his first form. A large sword as square as a block of steel was then in his hand.

The perfect characteristics of the Hero Clan—mass and gravity—along with the Zanpakuto transformed into the Death Blade, directly unleashed super-weight. With a single slash, a line of vision receding towards the sky appeared, and Wu Pifu traversed towards the second layer of the Thirty-Three Heavens at an incredible speed.

In the blink of an eye, following the receding trajectory of his vision, Wu Pifu traversed the first heaven in just one or two seconds and entered the second heaven of the ethereal Heavenly Court's Thirty-Three Heavens.

The entire Heavenly Court was incredibly vast. In Wu Pifu's perception, the First Heaven was a super-huge world, with a round sky and a square earth, even more exaggerated than an entire continent in the Ancient Insect Realm.

It's important to know that a continent in the Ancient Insect Realm is so large that it requires faster-than-light travel to reach it. Wu Pifu experienced this firsthand when he fought against the Primordial Evil. Furthermore, each of the Thirty-Three Heavens, where the Heavenly Court is located, is far larger than the supercontinent of the Ancient Insect Realm. Since he doesn't understand the teleportation mechanism within the Heavenly Court, if he tries to travel at his current speed, it's uncertain whether this era will even exist by the time he breaks through the first heaven.

Wu Pifu's original plan was to use the magical girl's weapon to shatter space and travel across the vast distance of the Thirty-Three Heavens. However, the magical girl transformation is similar to the hero's transformation, which has a time limit. Moreover, each use of the weapon will greatly reduce the time limit. He was not confident that he could reach the Heavenly Court's higher levels before the magical girl's time limit ended.

But now there are better options!
It was like a perfect opportunity; the summoning of the Hero Clan once again perfectly suited his current needs. This method of crossing was actually very similar to warp drive. Wu Pifu himself did not move, but relied on the shrinking space to carry him forward.

That's really good luck...

You feel extremely lucky.

But was it really just luck?
Butterflies flutter in, their dreamy colors dancing around you, drawing you into deep thought.

No, it wasn't good luck, but rather an inevitable cause and effect.

As you gaze at the butterfly, a profound realization dawns upon you: Yes, you are the person, you are the butterfly, you are the plants and trees...

Everything is you, and you are everything; it's just that the dream you're in is human...

"Wu Pifu, buddy, wake up! It's me, Qing!"

You listened to the sound with a puzzled look and then looked at the butterfly.

"I am your first dream, I am you..."

You were puzzled, then gradually it dawned on you...

The water surface churns, fish leap out of the water blowing bubbles, one bubble crashes into you, and more bubbles obscure something colorful.

The fish is very angry. You belong to the fish, and you must belong to the fish. Nothing that is neither fish nor thing can take you away.

You laugh happily, while saying that the fish is right, you are a fish, you are not a fish, and the fish is not you, but soon you can transform into a fish and swim in this endless water.

Bubbles obscure the vibrant colors, and fish surround you, about to pull you beneath the surface, away from the dazzling hues.

But suddenly, Wu Pifu was stunned. He saw the blue sky fall down. In an instant, the world turned upside down. No, it wasn't the blue sky. It was a palm larger than the entire Thirty-Three Heavens, falling from an unfathomable height...

You see the blue sky, and suddenly the blue sky presses down on the fish, bursting the bubbles, and you see a dazzling array of colors rushing towards you, enveloping you in it...

You saw the butterfly, and the butterfly saw you too...

"Wake up, remember, I am your first dream, I am you, and you are actually..."

You suddenly realize, yes, you are actually...

Suddenly, Wu Pifu was drenched in cold sweat, his eyes filled with madness. He brandished his death-defying sword and slashed wildly at what seemed to be some unknown level of the Outer Heaven. Countless retreating trajectories swept across everything around him, but the omnipresent sound still reached his ears...

"...Eastern Qinghua..."

Suddenly, you stare blankly at a fat man who has appeared in front of you.

The fat man sat cross-legged under the bewildered tree.

A confused tree bears confused fruits; beneath the confused tree are you and me. I laughed and said, "The pronouns are wrong..."

The fat man stood up with a cheerful laugh, pointing one finger to the sky and the other to the ground. The bewildered tree immediately rose and fell, its top reaching the blue sky, and several branches entwined with fish. In just a moment, the bewildered tree began to crack.

"Monk, how dare you stop me?!"

You heard garbled text coming from the sky, and you were completely bewildered.

As the Confused Tree collapsed, the Confused Fruits fell from it. The fat man caught one of the Confused Fruits and handed it to you with a smile.

You took the "Bewilderment Fruit" in a daze, and before you could even react, it was already in your mouth.

Everything before your eyes begins to seem unreal, and you can't distinguish anything around you. The fat man turns into an inverted, enormous skeleton; the blue sky becomes a hand made up of countless tiny worms; the colorful butterflies turn into wandering, grotesque, laughing heads; the water becomes chaos; and the fish turn into indescribable, gaping maws of the abyss...

The whole world reveals its truth before you... only the truth you currently perceive, and the whole world...

You feel as if you're inside a intestine, and the entire intestine is constantly wriggling. You're sliding down, down, down...

"Qing, you must always be a good person."

"Let's name this child Chu."

……

"Tread upon the Southern Heaven! Shatter the Heavenly Palace!"

"It will never come back!"

……

"So, am I an absolute spacetime or a relative spacetime?"

"Or perhaps, this is simply two sides of the same coin for me?"

……

"I'll do this experiment!"

"I have come to become the first man-made primordial evil!"

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"The Milky Way is vast and boundless."

"You've gotten old, Zhenwu!"

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"...Humanity is dead, Gaia is destroyed, I have no interest in distinguishing right from wrong. In the end, take my blow and we'll perish together!"

"Qing, I told you, I want you to be a good person."

……

……

The enormous, upside-down skeleton laughed and said, "This is a Bodhi tree and Bodhi fruit, not a confused tree and confused fruit, although the effects are similar... Remember that."

In the next instant, the bewildered tree shattered completely, countless tiny worms formed a palm that pressed down on you, and wandering, hideous, grinning heads crashed into you. An indescribable abyssal maw leaped out of the chaos and swallowed you whole.

Completely bewildered, you knew nothing more...

"Wake up, man! Wake up!"

A voice rang in his ears, "You..." Wu Pifu was startled and jumped up in terror, his suicidal broadsword about to strike the source of the voice.

Then, with a thud, a thin young man collapsed to the ground in fear, while you... Wu Pifu had no knife in his hand, but simply waved his palm forward in a casual motion.

"Dude, don't scare me! You're dreaming too much, wake up!" the skinny young man shouted, his face full of fear.

You… Wu Pifu’s consciousness was still somewhat confused, but you… Wu Pifu saw clearly the person in front of him. It was a person, not a weirdo, a strange creature, or any of those unbelievable things. You… Wu Pifu lowered his hand and just looked at the thin young man.

The thin young man was so frightened that tears streamed down his face. He shouted, "It's me! Remember me! It's Qing! Wu Pifu! Remember me! The dream of District Thirteen has been leaked! You've been corrupted by the dream! I don't know how much time has passed, I don't know what you were dreaming about..."

"Wake up!"

Countless memories churn in your... Wu Pifu's mind...

A cataclysmic change, death, resurrection, a seemingly afterlife, or perhaps a bizarre afterlife, District 13, a leaked dream—this is, no, this is now…

The Heavenly Court is still in the ancient era of the Absolute Truth Layer!?

you……

Wu Pifu's eyes rolled back, and he fainted.

(End of this chapter)