Chapter 364: Reaching a Transaction and All-World Arena

"... Interesting."

The shadow did not fly into a rage, and did not even threaten, just pondered for a moment and said the word "interesting".

Su Xing did not continue to speak, still eating the food on his own.

The shadow suddenly laughed and said: "Are you not afraid? Bargaining with me in my domain, or do you think the games you experienced are the whole

"Of course not."

Wu Pifu looked up, pointed to his own eyes, and said, "I can see the third layer of reality, a certain manifestation of death, right?"

The shadow seemed to be stunned for a moment, then laughed out loud: "You overestimate me. It is merely a tiny manifestation of one aspect of death. Perhaps you think it's the Grim Reaper? Or something else? No, no, no. This is true death, death itself. Even if it is just a tiny manifestation, it is not something you can touch right now. So, back to the same question: aren't you afraid?"

Wu Pifu picked up a bottle of beer and drank it in large gulps. After finishing it all, he let out a burp, then stood up and said, "Not afraid... You're standing too close to me."

The shadow did not speak, but the shadow on its body showed slight signs of spreading. In that instant, a terrifying premonition of threat surged in Wu Pifu's heart. Without even thinking, he activated the Super-Brain Heaven and Earth.

In a flash, the world turned black and white. Within this Super-Brain Heaven and Earth, Wu Pifu saw the truth of that shadow: it was a symbol, an emblem, a figure, an abstract concept... He could not describe it accurately, but he knew that this was the core of this amusement park.

Then, looking at this thing within the Super-Brain Heaven and Earth, he thought for a moment, but did not actually strike it with a fist. Instead, he blew a breath at it, sat back down, and deactivated the Super-Brain Heaven and Earth.

Naturally, none of this was known to the outside world. Everyone just saw Wu Pifu stand up for a moment and then sit back down on his own. They were all baffled. Only that mass of shadow shrank violently, and all the spreading shadow aura vanished. The mass of shadow fluctuated for a while, and after a long pause, it said, "... What did you just do?"

Wu Pifu did not answer, only saying, "Come on, keep threatening me and see what happens."

The shadow fell silent. Wu Pifu didn't care and actually turned his head to start eating and drinking again.

More than ten seconds later, the shadow laughed and said, "Truly impressive. Given your strength and your personality, the lives you kill later will surely be numerous, and their quality will surely be very high..."

"How about intelligence?"

The shadow stopped laughing and said, "I am merely a tiny, insignificant manifestation of one of the countless profiles of death. Because of the characteristics of this place, I possess sentience. Naturally, I want to become stronger and obtain more of the authority of death, so I need higher-quality souls—the more, the better. However, I have nothing to give you. Things that are treasures in my eyes are deadly poisons to all you living beings. So, how about I trade with you using intelligence?"

Wu Pifu frowned, but unexpectedly, Beelzebub reacted strongly, saying, "Agree to it!"

Wu Pifu was stunned, but he still didn't speak, only turning his gaze toward Beelzebub.

Beelzebub immediately said, "Death knows the most real information in this world. Have you forgotten the description of the Whispering Skull? As long as this trade is real and credible, you will definitely not lose out, because you couldn't gain any benefits from those dead people anyway."

Wu Pifu thought for a moment and said to the shadow, "But I don't trust you, because even now, you still harbor malice toward me."

The shadow was taken aback, then laughed and said, "Because you are a living being. Death treats every life equally; this malice is actually death's attitude toward life, it's just that from the perspective of life, it appears as malice."

Wu Pifu was noncommittal. He thought for a moment and said, "This trade seems beneficial to both of us, but I'll say it again: I can't trust you. What if you give me false intelligence? Or what if you ask me to give you ten million or a hundred million lives for a piece of trivial information? Wouldn't I just be working for you for free?"

The shadow immediately said, "That's easy to solve. I will swear by the source of my power, and likewise, you can swear by your true source."

Wu Pifu looked at Beelzebub. Beelzebub immediately said, "This is feasible, just like the Main Brain contract. In fact, the Main Brain is your true source, and his source comes from death. This is the highest level of oath. Unless it is a source in the domain of deception, fraud, or lies, such an oath cannot be reneged upon once made."

Wu Pifu did not trust this shadow, but he did trust Beelzebub, so he nodded at the shadow and said, "Fine, then let us make the oath. For the lives I kill, you may select the souls you need to bring into the amusement park. But how should I ask you for intelligence? And how should the value of the souls be compared?"

The shadow thought for a moment and said, "I will set a reasonable evaluation number for these souls. The number for each soul will be different; the higher the quality of the soul, the higher the number. Then, I will deduct these numbers based on the value of the intelligence you wish to inquire about, and then..."

The shadow paused and said to Wu Pifu, "You have an extraordinary item on you that involves the domain of death. You can take it out and give it to me. I will set a death node for it, so that it can both receive the elite souls of the lives you kill and be used as a medium for you to communicate and inquire with me."

Wu Pifu didn't even think and took the Whispering Skull out of his personal space. Sure enough, after he took out the skull, the shadow did something, and the skull floated into the air on its own. Then, black gas emerged from its eye sockets, making it look eerie and ghostly.

After finishing all this, the shadow spoke first: "I, the Master of the Death Amusement Park, swear by death to enter into a contract with the living being before me. He provides me with elite souls, and after I evaluate the value of these souls, I will answer his inquiries with intelligence of equal value."

Wu Pifu also spoke: "Main Brain, establish a contract. I, Wu Pifu, enter into a contract with the Master of the Death Amusement Park. All lives I kill may have their souls selected by him, and then he will answer my relevant inquiries based on their value." "Judging... Judgment complete."

"One thousand points have been deducted."

"Contract with the Master of the Death Amusement Park has been established."

The Main Brain's voice rang out in Wu Pifu's mind.

At the same time, the shadow seemed to sense something. After a long silence, it said, "... A remarkable truth. Is it actually like this? No wonder..."

Wu Pifu looked at it with confusion. The shadow paused and said, "This is intelligence of extremely high value. It would require at least fifty thousand soul points. Based on one ordinary elite being worth one soul point, you would need to provide me with fifty thousand elites, so I certainly cannot tell you this... However, since we have reached a trade contract, I can tell you one piece of news for free."

Wu Pifu nodded slightly, and the shadow said, "My Death Amusement Park is not fixed here, but echoes within the deaths of the myriad worlds. There are two reasons why it appeared here. The first reason is that there has been a massive degree of death fluctuations in the surrounding area, and there are many high-rank lives dying. The Death Amusement Park was attracted here. It is not just my Death Amusement Park that was attracted; other special symbols in the myriad worlds were also attracted here, layered and stacked in this vicinity. I think if you go to the surrounding worlds, regions, or scenarios, you should have a deep understanding of this, right?"

Wu Pifu narrowed his eyes. He thought of the previous weekend and nodded slightly.

"The second reason: a part of the truth has been pulled into the illusory. In terms of time, every truth slowly descends, with durations ranging from tens of thousands of years to hundreds of millions of years, or even longer. Moreover, the portion of this truth that is falling is extremely large. For any source, special existence, special world, region, or scenario, this is an extremely precious object. We are instinctively attracted here and gather at this place. The closer one is to this part of the truth, the more special the scenario becomes."

Wu Pifu pondered silently for a moment and said, "You mean the next weekend scenario will be more difficult, right?"

!

The shadow said, "Whether it is more difficult, I do not know, but it is certainly more special than my Death Amusement Park. And... do you call the area we are in 'weekend'? Interesting... truly too interesting. This truth is truly interesting—much more interesting than the dozens of truths before I gained consciousness, and the three truths after I gained consciousness!"

"I look forward to our trade... part of the truth."

As the voice spoke, everything before Wu Pifu's eyes began to turn illusory.

"Part of the truth... does that refer to Chu Minghao? Then why am I also called a part of the truth by it?"

Wu Pifu's mind was full of question marks, but he had no way to ask the Master of the Death Amusement Park. He could only wait until he had killed enough lives and gathered enough soul points to ask later.

"Judging... Judgment complete."

"Citizen Wu Pifu has left the second weekend scenario and is being pulled toward the location of the target weekend scenario. There is still one weekend distance from the target."

Wu Pifu appeared in a void once again, and everything around him had vanished, along with the sixty-plus other humans.

He had once again left a weekend scenario and was crossing over toward the next one.

"This is the last weekend scenario. After this, I will go to the area where Chu Minghao is."

As Wu Pifu spoke, the void before his eyes changed rapidly. A patch of white light appeared, and immediately after, Wu Pifu stepped onto a massive block of marble rock.

Before him lay a massive, ancient Roman-style arena. Its size was at least as large as several thousand football fields combined, and surrounding it were rows of massive steps, with all sorts of different lives sitting on them.

At this moment, in the arena, a red giant dragon, a hundred meters long, was fighting a blood-red rabbit that was wearing a cape and standing upright like a human.

"Welcome to the Myriad Worlds Arena!"

A voice suddenly appeared in Wu Pifu's mind at this moment. If the voice hadn't been different, Wu Pifu would have even thought it was information released by the Main Brain.

"You can obtain everything here: money, power, treasures, lifespan, strength... The only thing you need to do is one thing..."

"Survive, and win!"

(End of chapter)