[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-eternal-nightmare-of-the-long-night":3,"chapter-eternal-nightmare-of-the-long-night-eternal-nightmare-night-chapter-110":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Eternal Nightmare Night",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2221957,4052,"Chapter 110: The Return Room","eternal-nightmare-night-chapter-110",110,"\u003Cp>The man’s name was Xia Luote. According to his own account, he was a member of the Witch-Hunting Bureau of the Holy See’s Demon Hunters and one of the participants in this strategic operation against the Demon Castle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...There were eleven of us in this batch, and now only the two of us are left,\" Xia Luote said candidly. There was not even a hint of sadness on his face; he casually pulled two cigarettes from his pocket, tossed one to Wu Pifu, and lit his own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Pifu borrowed Xia Luote’s lighter to ignite the cigarette and asked, \"Why are you smoking hand-rolled cigarettes?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Luote laughed and said, \"It’s good enough that we have them. Although the Demon Castle has all sorts of messy things, cigarettes are something that only appeared after the nineteenth century. It’s too difficult to get cigarettes from people of the future, so it’s easier to find some loose tobacco instead.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Pifu was stunned and asked curiously, \"What era are you from?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Luote said, \"The time I entered the Demon Castle was 1366 AD.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Pifu was genuinely surprised, because from his clothing to his smoking habits and the lighter he held, he didn't look like a person from the European Middle Ages at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Luote said helplessly, \"It’s because of the End Giant. Information from the future was transmitted to the past through the Sea of Spirituality. I was doing just fine as a mercenary, but then I had no choice but to come to this Demon Castle to risk my life...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Pifu was completely confused and asked again, \"Wait a second, didn't you say you were from that Witch-Hunting Bureau? What kind of mercenary is that? That’s a government job, isn't it? You’re a civil servant, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Luote was stunned for a long while before he understood what \"civil servant\" meant. He immediately burst into loud laughter, which caused him to choke, and since he had a cigarette in his mouth, he ended up coughing for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Luote said disdainfully, \"The ones in the village outside the Demon Castle are the Holy See’s civil servants. People like us who climb the Holy Name are more accurately described as mercenaries, hired thugs, black gloves, or cannon fodder. Unless you can climb to the Saint-level Holy Name, don't even think about the Holy See giving you a second glance.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that Wu Pifu didn't seem to understand, and thinking that Wu Pifu was not a member of the Holy See, he smiled and said, \"There are eleven paths to climbing the Holy Name, which are the four Archangels and the seven Demon Kings. They are the four virtue paths of Benevolence, Protection, Courage, and Sacrifice, and the seven original sin paths of Pride, Envy, Sloth, Greed, Wrath, Gluttony, and Lust.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Using the intellect represented by your path as a foundation, you resonate with the Sea of Spirituality, gradually refining your own transcendence, sublimating your soul, and crowning yourself with the Holy Name represented by the various levels of angels and demons. This is what climbing the Holy Name is.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Pifu nodded, though he just listened and let it pass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, he and Xia Luote were sitting in the Return Room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Return Room was small, only about twenty square meters. In the center of the room was a giant, pitch-black heart, beating rhythmically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both of them were waiting for Xia Luote’s female companion to wake up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Pifu could actually use his true qi to stimulate her to wake up immediately, but that would be somewhat taxing on the mind. The woman had suffered heavy injuries and shock, and after taking the potion and holy water, she was already on the verge of waking up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Pifu looked at the woman about to wake up and asked, \"I need to find my bird as soon as possible. Isn't it said that you can live in the real world for a period of time after returning? It can be as long as a few years, or at least a year or two at the shortest. I can't wait that long.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Luote shook his head and said, \"Time within the Demon Castle is its own system. No matter how long you stay in the outside world, to the people and monsters inside the Demon Castle, the time from when you leave to when you return is just an instant. Besides, she is also a transcendent of the Holy See; it's impossible for her to stay outside for long. At most, she can live peacefully in the outside world for a few months to calm the spiritual tremors caused by the absorption of chaos.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Pifu and Xia Luote had finished their cigarettes and watched the woman on the ground moaning; she could wake up at any moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this time, Wu Pifu asked curiously, \"Speaking of which, what exactly is the End Giant? Why is the Holy See so terrified of it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Pifu thought that since he had already established a shelter in this world, he was, frankly speaking, already on this world's pirate ship. Now, all he was thinking about was how to upgrade his shelter, so he had to pay attention to the various intelligence of this world, rather than just listening to stories like before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Luote spread his hands and said, \"What are you thinking? I’ve only climbed to the second-tier Holy Name, and I’m still far from the Saint-level of the fourth-tier Holy Name. You are already a hero, capable of rivaling a fifth-tier Holy Name, right? When sensing the Sea of Spirituality, you obtained far more information than I did. You’re coming to ask me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Pifu finally understood that when Xia Luote called him a hero just now, he was actually referring to his transcendent strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he was not part of this world's transcendent system, so naturally, he couldn't sense any Sea of Spirituality and was completely blank on the various information of this world, so he said, \"Sorry, I really don't know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Luote was stunned for a moment and said, \"I have heard that some transcendent systems have a weaker connection to the Sea of Spirituality... The so-called End Giant, at least according to the Holy See's internal interpretation, is explained entirely by the Forbidden Canon.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"God said, in the beginning, there was no transcendence. When early humanity reached its limit due to scientific progress, Singularity Technology was born. This is a level of science that transcends the limits of understanding of intellectual mortals, just like the event horizon of a black hole—unknowable, unperceivable, and unobservable.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When Singularity Technology was used to a certain critical point, humanity broke through the barrier of rationality. From this, chaos came, turning into endless pollution, triggering countless deformities and distortions. All kinds of strange and unimaginable things happened, and the first generation of humanity was almost extinct, with only a very small number of individuals surviving. These few individuals relied on their own intellect—whether it was resilience or a strong ability to withstand terrifying negativity—to barely survive, and then they propagated new life. Transcendence was born at this time, relying on the resonance between intellect and chaos to produce the initial spirituality.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"God said, as time passes, the tide of chaos will gradually recede, triggering a corresponding decline in spirituality. Therefore, since the end of the most ancient era, transcendence will become weaker and weaker over time. For example, there were many heroes in ancient Greece, but by my era, Saints are the strong ones, and in the future, even the most ordinary transcendence will be rare, and the power of science will once again become the mainstream.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Until transcendence almost retreats, people will once again push the power of science to the limit, thereby obtaining Singularity Technology again. By then, the second source of chaos opened will be unstoppable. This time, chaos will mix with human desires, turning into a giant that devours everything, tracing back from the end of time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is the End Giant.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Pifu listened carefully. Although this belonged to the religious scriptures in this dream world, the mentions of science, Singularity Technology, post-apocalyptic civilization, and the future End Giant gave him a great shock. Especially since the real world he lived in also had Singularity Technology, and the dream network in the real world had turned into endless dream worlds—could there be a connection here?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Pifu kept this information in his heart and asked, \"Then shouldn't you go fight the End Giant? Why come to this Demon Castle?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Luote stood up and walked toward the woman, saying, \"It's not just our Holy See; the Dark Council and transcendent organizations from various eras, as long as they have a certain scale, have basically come. Because no existence can resist the End Giant, only the Demon Castle and the Demon King who possesses the Demon Castle can resist it, because according to the Forbidden Canon...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Demon Castle is the manifestation of the chaos channel when the first generation of Singularity Technology brought about chaos. Only chaos can resist chaos, and only the Demon Castle can resist the End Giant.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the woman had already woken up. She first opened her eyes in a slight daze, then immediately wanted to scream. Xia Luote immediately covered her mouth and whispered, \"We have been saved. Don't scream. The Return Room only isolates chaos, but it does not isolate sound.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman slowly relaxed. She immediately looked around and saw Wu Pifu, who had also stood up. She immediately said, \"Thank you, my lord, for saving us. We come from...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Holy See, and he is a hero,\" Xia Luote interrupted her again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman was stunned, her speech stuttering: \"He, he, hero!?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, a big shot, right?\" Xia Luote smiled, then said seriously, \"We have been saved by this hero, so we must give a reward!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman's expression gradually calmed down, and then she nodded firmly: \"I understand. I will take on this responsibility. Then...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are you thinking?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Luote patted the woman's head and turned to explain to Wu Pifu: \"A hero's bloodline can be inherited. Although it will weaken generation by generation, at least within three generations, they will definitely become transcendents. So, I don't know when it started, but whether it's the Holy See or other transcendent organizations, they all have a position similar to a Saintess. You understand, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman's face was already blushing, and Wu Pifu really did understand...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Luote looked at the woman again and said, \"The reward the hero needs is Divine Revelation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman was stunned and murmured, \"Divine Revelation?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Luote pointed to the black heart and said, \"You return to the real world, tell the Holy See the intelligence we gathered, our casualties, and the changes in the Demon Castle, and then state the hero's reward. Those old guys will naturally know what to do.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman let out a sigh of relief as if in regret, then immediately nodded in agreement. Without waiting for Xia Luote to order her, she turned and walked toward the black heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Pifu saw that the moment the woman touched the black heart, it turned into a huge black coffin and swallowed her. Then the black coffin rotated once, and the woman walked out of the black coffin again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When she entered, the woman was covered in blood and injuries, but the woman who walked out of the coffin was wearing a brand-new silver armor, with a white cloak fluttering behind her, and her whole person looked high-spirited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hero, the result of the Divine Revelation is out. The object you are looking for is in...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The graveyard area in the deepest part of the Demon Castle!\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1981,"2026-06-17T19:09:27.946Z","2026-06-18T03:30:09.135Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","f621d5f5ff6a81cfaa0fd1d04a2fc8d750bfedc6f6927c186617ec0113253ea6","eternal-nightmare-night-chapter-111","eternal-nightmare-night-chapter-109",602,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Feternal-nightmare-night-cover.jpg"]