Chapter 304

(PS: Thanks to the Alliance Leader Raphael Xiaoxing for the alliance-level tip. This extra chapter is added in honor of that. Thanks again for the support.)

Wu Pifu rode on the three-headed dog, heading toward the Demon King's Chamber at the very top of the Demon Castle.

The middle head of this three-headed dog held a ruby in its mouth. It couldn't bear to swallow it, instead keeping it under its tongue to savor it carefully.

This ruby was the one Wu Pifu had obtained in the Land of Redemption. The main brain determined the information: this ruby only possessed enhancement characteristics for polluted life, artificial life, elemental life, negative energy life, etc., and it held a huge attraction for these existences.

Clearly, this three-headed dog belonged to one of these categories. Wu Pifu had only taken it out to test it earlier; who knew it would have such a great attraction to this three-headed dog, immediately turning it into his sycophant.

From the library area all the way up, the monsters Wu Pifu encountered became fewer and fewer. And this was not because they were avoiding him, but because the monsters of the entire Demon Castle were indeed gradually disappearing.

"Tell me, doggy, will you disappear later too? Or will you enter the graveyard area?" Wu Pifu asked.

The three-headed dog naturally could not answer, only flapping about as it continued to run forward.

At this moment, Jiu Jiu on Wu Pifu's shoulder made a sound.

Wu Pifu shook his head slightly and said, "I don't know how to sever the reincarnation either. Either defeat the Giants of the End, or defeat the original Lord of the Demon Castle. There will always be a way. No matter which one it is, I will try. Don't worry, I won't let Daphne die!"

Without having experienced the feeling of having a partner in the midst of life-and-death despair, one could absolutely never understand the psychology of Wu Pifu and Jiu Jiu.

Even if Daphne's joining at the beginning was just an accident, and neither Wu Pifu nor Jiu Jiu had any feelings for her, after experiencing multiple life-and-death desperate situations together, Daphne had already become a companion they could not abandon!

Jiu Jiu chirped again. Wu Pifu was just about to answer when he suddenly froze. He immediately shook his head slightly at Jiu Jiu, and Jiu Jiu immediately prepared to fly up and evade.

On the other side, in Wu Pifu's ears, a huge roaring sound came from above, as if it were thunder. It was exactly where the three-headed dog was running toward. Judging from the surrounding architectural style, the three-headed dog had already run to the area where the Clock Tower was located, and it was already very close to the Demon King's Chamber on the top floor.

After arriving here, the side paths became fewer, the rooms became larger, and the higher it went, the more spacious it became. Once the three-headed dog passed through a wide and huge upward staircase, what appeared before Wu Pifu's eyes was a spacious and huge platform, with no cover above and no city walls in the distance. He had already arrived at the very top of the Demon Castle.

In the center of this platform were two suspended passages leading upward, reaching directly to a palace. That was undoubtedly the Demon King's Chamber. At the same time, Wu Pifu looked up at the zenith and saw a misty mirror surface, within which countless figures seemed to be fighting and roaring.

"... That must be the Reverse Demon Castle, right? But it's all the way at the zenith, how should one go up?"

Wu Pifu muttered curiously, and then he instinctively knew how to enter.

As long as you are within the Demon Castle and want to enter the Demon Castle, you will receive a scroll. After tearing it open, you can enter directly.

With a thought, Wu Pifu felt as if something had indeed appeared in his arms. He reached out and pulled, and sure enough, he took out a scroll, just like the one the two giants had torn open earlier.

Wu Pifu didn't pay it any mind and stuffed the scroll back into his arms. At this time, the three-headed dog's speed became slower and slower. Wu Pifu patted the dog's head, then leaped and jumped onto the suspended passage, running quickly up along the passage.

At this moment, in the Demon King's Chamber at the end of the passage, a giant humanoid figure was sitting on the throne holding a glass of red wine. In front of him, a Grim Reaper in tattered burlap clothes and a Dark Archmage in a black magic robe were both bound by dense chains that had sprung out from the darkness.

"Old friend, wake up! The end is coming soon, don't let your sacrifice and honor be stained!" the Dark Archmage roared and bellowed.

The existence that looked like the Grim Reaper also emitted a cold, low voice, saying, "Master, please remember your once-lofty ideals!"

The giant humanoid sitting on the throne remained motionless, with only the chains tightening continuously.

Torrents of energy surged from the Dark Archmage's body, colorful and diverse, turning into flames, ice, flowing wind, and thunder, but they could not shake the chains in the slightest. These energies were also drained by the chains, making him increasingly weak.

Gray-black energy also surged from the Grim Reaper, and the green light in the pupils of its skull was also becoming faint.

But whether it was the Dark Archmage or the Grim Reaper, both were desperately resisting and struggling against the chains. They looked at each other secretly, both preparing to use their trump cards; at the very least, they had to restrain the Demon King until the end.

Yet, unexpectedly, at this moment, footsteps came from outside the Demon King's Chamber.

The Dark Archmage and the Grim Reaper saw a human with a small emerald bird standing on his shoulder walk into the center of the hall of the Demon King's Chamber. He looked left and right at the two suspended in mid-air by the chains, and then cast his gaze toward the giant humanoid sitting on the Demon King's throne.

"Although I don't know what kind of artistic performance you are doing... but it doesn't matter. You continue, I'm just here to ask a question."

The person who arrived was naturally Wu Pifu. He looked at the giant humanoid leaning on the throne and said, "You are the Demon King of the Demon Castle, right? I'm here to ask about the truth not found in the Forbidden Canon. I heard that the Forbidden Canon was destroyed quite a bit by the Giants of the End, and now no one can know what the truth is, so I can only come and ask you."

This giant humanoid was a full ten meters tall, its entire body shrouded in darkness, making it impossible to see its true face. One hand leaned on the throne, while the other held a glass of red wine. When Wu Pifu finished speaking, the giant humanoid emitted a mocking laugh.

"The truth? That is no longer important, and... you ant, you actually want to kill me?" the Demon King mocked with a laugh.

"... No, here we go again."

Wu Pifu couldn't help but cover his face and said, "I'm standing right here, I just asked a question about what the truth is. Why do you talk about me wanting to kill you at the drop of a hat? What benefit is there for me to kill you?" The Demon King seemed a bit confused by the situation, but he was too lazy to say anything. He just shook his arm lightly and said, "Arrogant ant... who gave you permission to stand in front of me? Kneel!"

With the word "kneel," the sound echoed continuously in the hall. Each echo became louder, and gradually, the two words "kneel" seemed to turn into a tangible pressure, crushing toward Wu Pifu from all directions.

Wu Pifu didn't stand on ceremony either. He widened his eyes, and his Conqueror's Haki crushed toward the Demon King.

For a moment, Wu Pifu's whole body was under a heavy pressure that had appeared out of thin air, and the Demon King, even while sitting on the throne, was also subjected to this same heavy pressure. Both were surprised, but both were displeased, each exerting all their strength to apply pressure to the other.

Bang!

The granite floor under Wu Pifu's feet cracked into two trails.

Snap!

The red wine glass in the Demon King's hand was crushed to pieces by him.

Boom!

Wu Pifu's feet sank into the floor of the hall.

Rumble!

The Demon King's throne was crushed and collapsed entirely.

For a moment, both were breathing heavily, almost simultaneously dissipating the Demon King's pressure and the Conqueror's Haki.

"... You are quite good." the Demon King said with a complex tone.

!

"You're not bad either." This was the first time Wu Pifu had seen an existence that could completely withstand his Conqueror's Haki, and for a moment, he was also filled with admiration.

At this moment, the Grim Reaper and the Dark Archmage were both stunned. They looked at each other, and for a moment, their plans to use their trump cards relaxed.

The Demon King stood up from the fragments of the throne. He reached out and pulled from the darkness, and a giant sword burning with black flames appeared in his hand. The Demon King walked out of the darkness step by step, saying, "It is truly a regret. Although I made a great vow to become the Lord of this Demon Castle to save the common people, I have remained trapped here until this time of the end, and I cannot even go to the Battlefield of the End to fight... Outsiders think my true body is on the Battlefield of the End in the Reverse Demon Castle, and that this is merely my projection avatar. But how could they know that if I were not here, I would not be able to withstand the erosion of the end at all, so I cannot move a single inch!"

Wu Pifu also took out the Heroic Spirit Broken Blade from his personal space and said, "So... to tell me the truth, we must fight first, right?"

The Demon King walked to a spot twenty meters from Wu Pifu. He lowered his head and looked at this human who felt very weak, saying, "That's right. The so-called truth is actually very simple, but knowing the truth does not mean one can achieve it, so what is the point of knowing? Come, defeat me, and I will tell you the truth!"

"I will tell you what the meaning of this entire reincarnation is!"

Wu Pifu finally saw the Demon King's full body. He was wearing a full-coverage metal armor. Except for the red light revealed from the eye sockets, not even an inch of the rest of his body was exposed. However, judging from the appearance of the armor, this was likely a giant ten meters tall.

"... Then I will be careful not to beat you to death," Wu Pifu said earnestly.

The Demon King was stunned, then laughed loudly, "You are truly arrogant!"

In an instant, the giant sword swung down, and black flames connected into a sheet. The Demon King stepped forward, holding the great sword with both arms and slashing down. At the tip of the great sword, Wu Pifu also gripped his blade with both arms and slashed horizontally in an upward diagonal.

The moment the giant sword and the blade collided, the seemingly surging black flames suddenly extinguished. A surging, immense force was transmitted from the blade of the sword, and the entire giant sword crumbled inch by inch—to the hand, to the arm, to the body. Wu Pifu even forcibly suppressed the execution-crushing attack that his body naturally wanted to launch. With just one slash, directly in front of him, the Demon King's giant sword had shattered, and the armor on half of his body had also completely cracked, revealing the "body" inside the armor...

Endless black flames were burning inside that armor.

"Ha... Hahaha..."

"What a powerful slash!"

"To be able to meet a strong person like you before the end, that is truly great!"

"Come, defeat me! Let me see your strength, see your capacity, see if you are qualified to sever this painful reincarnation!!"

With a roar, the black flames soared into the sky, burning up the remaining armor and burning up most of the Demon King's Chamber. The chains binding the Grim Reaper and the Dark Archmage also retracted completely. The entire Demon King's hall was collapsing, and the suspended passages were also crumbling. Large amounts of stone fell from the sky, smashing onto the huge platform below.

Wu Pifu stood up from the dust, shaking off the broken ceiling that had been pressing on his head. To his left and right were the Grim Reaper and the Dark Archmage, but they were not there to attack Wu Pifu; they didn't even glance at him, because directly in front of them...

The true body of the Demon King of this era's Demon Castle had already been revealed!

A dragon!

A pitch-black dragon!

A pitch-black giant dragon, a full hundred meters tall, two hundred meters long, with a wingspan of about five hundred meters, its entire body bound by chains burning with black flames, was staring at the three of them with its dragon eyes!

(End of chapter)