Chapter 310: Origin of the Ring

(PS: I beg all the big bosses to show mercy. It's almost the Spring Festival. Please don't reward the Alliance Leader again this month. I can't hold on. Let me have more time to save manuscripts so I can accompany my family, wife, and children during the Spring Festival...

The additional update for the new Alliance Leader boss will be on the 22nd...)

"Come in, don't stand at the door."

Wu Pifu penetrated the entrance of the Demon Realm. What he saw was not anything bizarre, only a very ordinary detached small courtyard appeared before his eyes, with front and back gardens, only one floor, and a man sitting on a chair in the front garden reading a newspaper.

This was not real, but it was definitely not false either. It was the first layer of reality, and beneath this layer, other realities were hidden.

But Wu Pifu did not dare to look through the reality before his eyes to the deeper layers. He felt danger. Once the truth of that deeper layer was known, it would immediately trigger some kind of unexpected disaster. The Huang Lian fragment he carried could not immunize him from the truth noticing him when he watched this truth.

So Wu Pifu stood at the gate of the courtyard and did not step in immediately.

Instead, the man sitting in the courtyard laughed, greeted Wu Pifu, and signaled him to come in.

Wu Pifu stared at the man for two seconds and walked into the courtyard. At the same time, the man also picked up the newspaper and stood up. He turned and opened the door, simultaneously inviting Wu Pifu to enter. Seeing Wu Pifu walking toward the room, he smiled and walked in first.

The interior of the house was not a dragon's den or a tiger's den, but looked like a very ordinary home environment: a fireplace, a sofa, a small dining room, a bookcase, etc. It looked ordinary and carried some warmth.

"Find a place to sit." The man waved his hand and went to the dining room to turn on the gas stove to boil water. After Wu Pifu sat on a small chair, the man poked his head out from the dining room and said: "What would you like to drink? Is tea okay? Or do you want coffee?"

Wu Pifu didn't think about looking at the next layer of truth anymore. He said: "Anything is fine... Are you the original Demon Castle Lord?"

"Wait a moment, it'll be quick."

It was indeed quick. Dozens of seconds later, the man came over with two drinks. Wu Pifu subconsciously looked into the cup. Good fellow, he had brewed two cups of Coca-Cola.

The man laughed, drank the cup in one gulp, and then said to Wu Pifu: "Yes, I am the original Demon Castle Lord. You can call me Zero, or Original. So... what is the purpose of your coming here?"

Wu Pifu stared at the man for several seconds before saying: "You are watching me, so you still ask me the purpose of my coming here?"

The man smiled and shook his head: "No, I am not watching you. I mean, I am watching all the people from outside the heavens who come to this world, not just you. But it will be soon. This world is about to welcome the end of this era. My gaze will be refreshed. As long as you don't enter this world again, you won't be watched by me. Good news, right?"

Wu Pifu ignored him and asked: "What about the others who were watched?"

The man spread his hands and said: "Become nutrients for this world and the Demon Castle. They will also enter the cycle of the next era, turn into residents of this world, and then wash away the brand of the outsider in one cycle after another. Finally... it's almost like they're gone."

Wu Pifu was silent for a while and said: "Then if I want to take people from this world away, what price do I need to pay?"

"Impossible."

The man shook his head: "In essence, they are just incomplete information. Their true bodies have already died many times. Once the era ends, they will enter the next cycle. No matter where you take them, unless a source consumes itself to complete their incompleteness, they will perish at the moment the era ends. This has nothing to do with whether I am willing to let them go."

Wu Pifu looked at the man silently, and the man responded with a smile. After a long while, Wu Pifu nodded and said: "Then if I sever the cycle? What will happen to them?"

"Sever the cycle, huh."

The man sighed and said: "Don't misunderstand, I don't have the slightest intention to mock you, just because the last person who said they were going to sever the cycle has already been killed by you. That's right, it was that black dragon. He tried to sever the cycle, but gave up and fell into despair after trying. As for the one before him, it was the same, and the one before that was the same... Alright, let me answer your question first."

"Let's not talk about whether you can sever the cycle, because whether you possess the prerequisite conditions to sever the cycle is one thing. Let's talk about the result of you killing me and then killing the End Giant... This world is gone, directly destroyed. All the past lives attached to this world, as well as their current information remnants, will all be annihilated in an instant." "It does sever the cycle, but the result is a clean, white expanse."

Wu Pifu did not speak. After a few seconds of silence, he took out the Magic Conch from his personal space, and then took out the Whisper skull.

He first said to the Magic Conch: "Magic Conch, is what he said true?"

A female voice mixed with the sound of waves came from the Magic Conch: "He knows the truth."

Here it comes, the correct nonsense that hasn't been heard for a long time.

Wu Pifu didn't waste time either, directly picking up the Whisper skull and saying: "Resolve this sentence of the Magic Conch."

Green light emerged from the skull's eye sockets, and then the skull said in a gloomy, hoarse voice: "The original Demon Castle Lord understands all the truth of this world. He did not lie, but limited by his level, he can only say the truth he knows and understands. According to the estimation, with the user's cognition as the core, when the user reaches the source-level existence, they can use other methods to solve the cycle problem of this world."

Wu Pifu nodded silently. The man's eyes widened, looking like he was watching a Western mirror, his face full of curiosity and longing, almost saying "lend it to me to play with."

Wu Pifu then looked at the original Demon Castle Lord and said: "Is there any way to sever the cycle?"

The man put away his curious expression. He thought for a while and said: "If you want to sever the cycle, you need to know what you are facing first. Every visitor who comes here, or every person from outside the heavens I drag in, I will give them this opportunity... Unfortunately, none of them have obtained the qualification to know the whole truth. Either they know part of the truth, or they can't even know part of the truth. I can only 'collect' them as nutrients, consumables, and gods and strong people for the next cycle of this world. Now, I will give you this opportunity too."

The man pointed to the cup in front of Wu Pifu and said: "Break it. You can use any means, not limited to your extraordinary power, your weapons, or the utensils transformed by pollution, which is what you call fantasy objects. All can be used. Break it, and you will have the qualification to know the whole truth. Then defeat me, and you will have the qualification to challenge the End Giant. Then defeat the End Giant, and you will sever the cycle. It's that simple."

!

It really is simple.

Wu Pifu didn't say a word, picked up the cup and drank it in one gulp, then squeezed it hard with one hand. But no matter how much force he used, the cup remained intact.

"It seems a pity, you don't even have part of the truth..." The man looked for a long time and shook his head slightly.

Wu Pifu directly handed the cup to the man, then raised his blade and stood still, saying: "Come, use this cup to hit me."

The man was stunned for a moment and said: "Are you sure?"

Wu Pifu just looked at him silently. The man smiled, held the cup, and gently smashed it toward Wu Pifu. The speed was not fast, and the force was not great, but at this moment, Wu Pifu had a feeling that the mountains and rivers were smashing down. However, he was calm in his heart, motionless, just slashing a blade at the cup in the man's hand.

A blade flashed, Wu Pifu withdrew his blade and retreated, and the man reached out and took the cup back. He looked at the cup in his hand. The cup slowly showed cracks, and then split into two. This scene made the man silent for a long time, and then a smile appeared on his face—sincere, relieved, rather than the fake professional smile from just now.

"... Finally, I waited."

The man put down the broken cup, walked to the TV, pressed it, and said to Wu Pifu: "Come, watch the truth first... the whole truth, of this world, of the End Giant, of me, and..."

"The truth of this cycle."

Wu Pifu looked at the TV. A black and white picture appeared on the TV screen, then it had color. The next moment, everything around Wu Pifu disappeared, he himself disappeared, and all his consciousness became the scene on the TV screen.

It was in the chaotic haze, infinitely high above, a piece of matter full of mosaics fell straight down from that supreme point, destroying and disappearing countless worlds along the way. It was not destroyed by the collision of this giant object, but for deeper reasons. Under some kind of anchoring and causal reaction, the worlds that existed relying on this giant object collapsed.

With the fall of the giant object, more and more worlds were annihilated and disappeared. But with the annihilation and disappearance of these worlds, the falling speed of the giant object began to slow down, but this giant object also became more and more illusory...

At this time, another giant object appeared above the zenith, and countless worlds appeared and disappeared along with it. And a world happened to appear below the falling giant object. The giant object grazed the side of this world. Although it was only for a moment, some light particles on the giant object fell into this world, and this world was also rendered with a little color of this giant object.

This color is called...

Ring.

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As the giant object fell, more and more worlds were annihilated and vanished, but as these worlds were annihilated, the falling speed of the giant object began to slow, though the giant object itself also became increasingly illusory...

At this moment, another giant object appeared above the zenith, and following it, an infinite number of worlds appeared, flickering in and out of existence. A world happened to appear beneath the falling giant object, and the giant object grazed the side of this world. Although it was only for an instant, some light particles from the giant object spilled into this world, and this world was also rendered with a little of the giant object's color.

This color is named...

Ring.

(End of chapter)