Chapter 388: Seen 3

(PS: Today, I feel much better than yesterday. I'm just very sleepy, but my body temperature is completely normal, my nose isn't blocked anymore, and although my throat still hurts a bit and I'm coughing quite severely, I really do feel much better.

Actually, you all can imagine my situation—not referring to this illness, but why I insist on writing even when I'm sick.

It was hard enough to return to my comfort zone, and I'm feeling particularly inspired and motivated while writing this book; it resonates strangely with my own character. I'm afraid—afraid that because of this or that reason, I'll eventually slack off, going from three chapters a day back to two, then to one, and then I'll start feeling weary, start skipping updates, and finally end up with a rushed, poor ending. If that happens, what kind of self-healing book is this?

So, even if it's just to maintain my current state, I must update at least one chapter every day, right?

Tomorrow, I can try to start recovering to two chapters, still at 12:00 PM and 6:00 PM. If my body has no major issues, then it will be three chapters.)

There is a kind of stubbornness and purity in Wu Pifu's character.

To use a 21st-century colloquialism, it is basically what is known as "treating life and death with indifference, and fighting if you aren't convinced."

This is not the nature of the original Wu Pifu, but the personality of the Wu Pifu iterated this time. Moreover, due to the specialization trend of personality iteration, this character of Wu Pifu is extremely resilient and pure.

Ever since he knew he was not the original Wu Pifu, but the personality newly born after countless iterations following the annihilation of the original Wu Pifu's personality, he had taken this matter to heart. And after learning about the existence of the Sanctuary and that human civilization had begun to gradually awaken, he took advantage of his time resting in the Sanctuary to look up relevant psychological data.

According to one of the psychology books, the personality consciousness of an intellectual lifeform will undergo permanent changes under extreme environments or extreme situations, and this change itself is to adapt to the damage or destructive consequences brought about by extreme environments and situations.

This is actually just like the theory of evolution—if you don't adapt, you go extinct. When facing the ravages of extreme environments and situations, intellectual lifeforms certainly cannot evolve their physical bodies quickly enough to adapt, so they can only adapt by changing their conscious personality.

Those so-called war sequelae, PTSD, and other mental illnesses are actually the "evolution" or mutation of this self-personality consciousness under extreme environments and situations.

But no matter how extreme the environment and situation, it absolutely cannot compare to the negative mental accumulation Wu Pifu has faced over infinite years. His personality has iterated I don't know how many quintillions of times, and every iterated personality was formed to adapt to this super-extreme environment. Iterating generation after generation, it eventually became incomparably pure and clean.

Even according to the theory in that psychology book, if one continues to iterate and transform under a persistent super-extreme environment, one will eventually completely shed intellect and become some kind of "nothingness" in terms of spiritual consciousness—a pure and clean nothingness.

Because only when there is nothing left will there be no pain.

Fortunately, Wu Pifu has not yet iterated to that extent, but even so, his spiritual level is far purer and cleaner than anyone else's.

Life and death, nothing more...

You make it sound like I haven't experienced it before!?

Wu Pifu roared as he condensed again from a state of rotten flesh, yet about one ten-thousandth of his flesh and blood completely lost its vitality.

In less than thirty seconds, Wu Pifu had been beaten to a pulp nearly a hundred times.

Currently, there were still only three phantoms appearing before him. Each phantom had manifested a fake human form: a fake version of himself, a fake Liang Min, and a fake Chu Minghao. All three possessed weakened versions of the original abilities. If they came one by one, Wu Pifu could defeat and annihilate them even at the cost of being wounded.

But when all three appeared at once, their special abilities combined to produce an incredible qualitative change.

In terms of Super-Brain ability, the fake Chu Minghao was still invincible for now. Once his Super-Brain Heaven and Earth was used, everything fell into stillness. Then, to Wu Pifu's surprise, in this state of stillness, the fake version of himself and the fake Liang Min could actually still move. It was just that when Chu Minghao could move, they couldn't, and when Chu Minghao was in stillness, the two of them could each move at half of Chu Minghao's speed. This seemed to be another way of using Chu Minghao's special Super-Brain ability.

Then the fake Liang Min stopped moving either. Instead, the fake Wu Pifu, who had the weakest Super-Brain domain, strode toward him in this still space-time, raising his hands to greet him with various Wu Gong moves. After just a few dozen moves, his physical body turned into fragments of flesh.

This was simply a combination of the most powerful traits of Wu Pifu, Chu Minghao, and Liang Min!

The trait of being able to move one's own body within the super time-sense of Chu Minghao's Super-Brain, the choice of millions of past states from Liang Min's Super-Brain, and the physical strength and Wu Gong moves belonging to himself, all combined with the close-quarters absolute kill brought by the "Pifu" title.

With these three combined, even if each was a weakened version, it was still an incredible qualitative change. Even with Wu Pifu's current strength, he had no way to parry the siege of these three fake human forms.

If it weren't for the fact that these three were fake illusions, with a huge gap in strength compared to the real bodies, and the duration of the Super-Brain Heaven and Earth being extremely short, Wu Pifu probably wouldn't have been beaten to a pulp nearly a hundred times in thirty seconds.

Even so, Wu Pifu was still healing and recovering rapidly, letting his sea of consciousness surge wildly. A large amount of negative backlash impacted his sea of consciousness. Anyway, he still had the Luo Han Jun Tu Bo Golden Body and the Demon Realm world fragment suppressing the negativity, so he completely ignored it.

His body took on a human shape in a flash. At this moment, the fake Wu Pifu had just attacked him and hadn't had time to move away. As Wu Pifu just healed back into a human shape, he raised one hand and slapped the fake Wu Pifu.

But at such a close distance, his slap actually missed directly, hitting only the nothingness beside the fake Wu Pifu. With a "Boom—", the fake Wu Pifu was unscathed and immediately raised a claw and a palm to strike him.

Wu Pifu raised his hand to block, his elbow striking diagonally, intending to clash head-on with the fake Wu Pifu's claw and palm, but he still missed them by a hair's breadth. The fake Wu Pifu's claw and palm were about to hit him.

This was all the effect of the fake Liang Min's past non-change, making all his attacks unable to produce any effect, while at the same time, he was unable to avoid any attacks.

However...

Wu Pifu's eyes widened, and the black and white of the Super-Brain Heaven and Earth appeared immediately. In this Super-Brain Heaven and Earth state, all three fake human forms also fell into stillness. Only he could move and attack in this state.

The next instant, Wu Pifu had already attacked the fake Wu Pifu hundreds of times, each time missing and ineffective. But as he attacked again, finally, his palm and the broken Spirit Blade touched the fake Wu Pifu's body. Just as he was about to destroy the fake Wu Pifu, suddenly, all his movements stopped completely.

The fake Chu Minghao's Super-Brain Heaven and Earth had opened again!

Claws, fists, palms, seals, fingers, stabs, tears... Countless fist and foot moves slammed into Wu Pifu's body. His body, which had just healed and reorganized, shattered immediately, turning into meat paste and scattering everywhere once again...

(Mental negative backlash rate... ninety percent!)

Suddenly, Wu Pifu's flesh and blood condensed into one place. Even in the Super-Brain Heaven and Earth state unfolded by the fake Chu Minghao, his flesh recovery speed was still incredibly fast. While the fake Chu Minghao was striking him with slow movements, his body had already finished recovering and was also striking back at the fake Wu Pifu with even slower movements.

No defense, no guarding, single-mindedly attacking!

When the Super-Brain Heaven and Earth effect stopped, the fake Wu Pifu had already been annihilated and disappeared, while Wu Pifu's body flickered continuously between shattering and healing. At the same time, his flesh and blood carried a sense of pitch-black nothingness, and in the flickering, he lunged straight at the fake Chu Minghao and the fake Liang Min.

But this peculiar pitch-black nothingness body had only moved a short distance when, in the next second, his body began to gasify and annihilate from the edges. Yet Wu Pifu did not stop his movements at all, even dragging an afterimage of his gasified body behind him.

In his sea of consciousness, the last bit of existence of the Luo Han Jun Tu Bo Golden Body was incomparably resilient. It was a golden light, round and rolling, shaped like an egg. Even though the essence of his whole body had been washed away and annihilated by negativity, this remaining golden light was still resilient and upright. At this time, even the Demon Realm world fragment had been annihilated by about one-fifth, but the last essence of the Luo Han Jun Tu Bo Golden Body still existed.

Until this moment, Wu Pifu opened the mental negative backlash rate to ninety percent. The negativity surging from the depths of his sea of consciousness produced a qualitative change. Finally, this round golden sphere could no longer maintain its existence. A crack appeared on its surface, and then the whole thing was annihilated in the sea of negativity.

Everything of the Luo Han Jun Tu Bo Golden Body was completely annihilated and disappeared.

At the same time, Wu Pifu, who was in an inexplicable state, seemed to sense something flowing into his body, spirit, and soul. However, all his attention at this moment was on the Final Producer clone.

In this unprecedented state of ninety percent mental negative backlash, the Demon Realm world fragment in his sea of consciousness was dissolving at a rapid speed. At this time, he didn't care at all; he just wanted to kill everything of this Final Producer!

"Kill!"

Wu Pifu roared and rushed straight at the fake Chu Minghao and the fake Liang Min. But the next moment, the fake Chu Minghao's Super-Brain Heaven and Earth unfolded again, and he fell into time stillness. At the same time, the fake Wu Pifu was condensed once again.

But this time, before the three fake human forms could have any reaction or change, Wu Pifu's body, which was flickering and transforming between normal matter and pitch-black nothingness, had circles of similarly flickering pitch-black nothingness erupt from its surface. Wherever this pitch-black nothingness covered, the Super-Brain Heaven and Earth disappeared immediately. Even the white light space around the Final Producer began to become unstable, and streaks of pitch-black nothingness cracks filled the surroundings.

!

The root domain was being interfered with and countered by a domain of the same level!

"Wu Pifu... become one with me... your parents, your regrets, your pursuits can all be achieved... continue... and you will no longer be able to be called human..."

The fake Chu Minghao, the fake Liang Min, and the fake Wu Pifu suddenly spoke at the same time, saying the same words in a distorted voice.

Wu Pifu's material body had gradually transformed toward pitch-black nothingness, and its form was also transforming toward some kind of distorted, terrifying loss of reality.

"It doesn't matter what happens to me..."

"I just want you to die!!"

Wu Pifu roared, and the nothingness pitch-black was about to erupt.

"Mental negative backlash rate, ninety..."

Then, at this critical moment, at the very instant that even the pitch-black nothingness Wu Pifu was expanding could not interfere with or counter, in one picosecond, two arms pressed onto Wu Pifu's left and right shoulders respectively.

Instantly, the pitch-black nothingness on Wu Pifu began to retreat, and his body transformed back into a human shape.

"Well said! Kill this thing!" Chu Minghao's voice came from behind Wu Pifu.

"Damn! This also counts as a pure-blooded human!?" Liang Min's voice also came from behind Wu Pifu.

The next second, the two of them walked out from behind Wu Pifu, facing the fake Chu Minghao, the fake Liang Min, and the fake Wu Pifu in front... and the hazy human figure further away, at the very core of the white light space.

Wu Pifu was expressionless, but his heart suddenly felt a palpitation. At the same time, Chu Minghao's emotions also erupted, while only Liang Min produced a feeling of extreme reluctance.

The next moment, Chu Minghao cupped his fists, his expression solemn, and said with surging killing intent: "Chu Minghao!"

Wu Pifu cupped his fists, his voice cold as a blade: "Wu Pifu!"

Liang Min's face was wooden, standing in place and whistling.

Chu Minghao and Wu Pifu looked at him at the same time.

A few seconds later, Liang Min's face turned red, he lowered his head slightly, cupped his hands and immediately put them down, saying softly: "Liang Min..."

"Seen it!!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 389 =====