Chapter 508

Wu Pifu could confirm that after this golden skeleton before him had been polluted by the Lost, although it possessed the particularities, polluting nature, and immortality of the Lost Domain, its strength had declined significantly, not even reaching one-third, or even one-fifth or one-tenth of its strength in its prime.

For one thing, the golden skeleton could not use its several titles simultaneously; it could only use one at a time, which made it too easy to be targeted by the side effects of the titles. At the same time, the coordination and stacking effects between the titles were gone.

Even... this golden skeleton had not used any techniques; only the attacks with that long spear were quite proficient, at least at the level of a Spear Master to Grandmaster. Therefore, it was impossible for it not to have had any transcendent techniques during its lifetime, yet when it fought Wu Pifu, it used only the most ordinary spear attacks.

Watching the golden skeleton board the dragon’s head, an incomparably intense aura emanated from the dragon and the skeleton. Man and dragon as one, rather than man and dragon attacking separately—this was the true Dragon Knight, but...

Wu Pifu only felt a sense of sorrow and desolation in his heart.

From the titles of this golden skeleton, one could see how heroic and remarkable it once was, having saved the world, perhaps even more than one. At that time, it did not know how powerful it was, full of spirit, with hundreds of companions following it...

Now, it could not even be considered an ember or a dying spark; it could only be considered the afterimage of the last Dragon Knight of the past...

"Heroes grow old, beauties turn gray"—inexplicably, these two phrases surfaced in Wu Pifu’s heart.

"Come! Challenge me! Use your greatest strength!"

Wu Pifu stood his ground, motionless, shouting loudly at the last Dragon Knight who was spreading its wings to fly high.

Whether the golden skeleton or the divine dragon understood his shout was unknown, but this giant dragon flying in the sky suddenly roared, and then from the zenith, it fiercely spat a breath toward Wu Pifu below on the seabed.

The luster was brilliant and flickering, fully capable of rivaling the space-based weapon Wu Pifu had previously withstood. A beam of fire rolled down from above, and Wu Pifu simply slashed upward with the half-broken Spirit Blade in his hand. In an instant, the blade light surged upward, forcefully cutting this beam of fire in half.

But after cutting it open, it was not another beam of light, but the giant dragon swooping down from the zenith. Man and dragon as one, the golden skeleton, which had originally been withered and powerless, held its long spear high. This incomparably huge divine dragon erupted with brilliant light, all of which converged on the tip of the long spear, as if a sharp cone of light had descended.

Wu Pifu still did not dodge or evade, raising the Spirit-Breaking Blade once again to slash at the sharpest point of that cone of light.

At the moment the broken blade touched the tip of the long spear, Wu Pifu seemed to see a heroic young man. He was covered in wounds, yet remained firm and upright, holding his long spear high and shouting in battle. In front of him were countless unimaginable demons, and behind him were the people, banners waving, swarming to follow...

Inexplicably, two people separated by two different eras seemed to look at each other at this moment...

Blade and spear collided, and a vast power erupted at this moment. The entire seabed shattered, and huge smoke and dust shot up a thousand meters into the sky. The seawater that had been forced back surged around again at this moment, revealing a larger area of the seabed. At this moment, on the other side of the island, the wooden ship, which was still a long distance away, was suddenly hit by a strong hurricane. The seven Ruoye unit members all tried their best to keep the wooden ship floating. The entire wooden ship swayed incessantly, as if it were about to capsize at any moment...

Wu Pifu had intended to test the power of this title and see if the golden skeleton had any ultimate moves. Since the opponent had already unleashed its full strength, he no longer needed to suppress his own.

In an instant, Wu Pifu’s vast Qi and blood energy erupted simultaneously. Steam rose from his skin, shooting straight upward like a pillar of heaven. Even standing still, the rolling and surging of his blood energy produced sounds like crashing ocean waves. It was as heavy as liquid mercury flowing through his veins. Even without moving, the air around him began to distort, and his body grew as hot as a furnace.

At the same time, he took a step forward, and the entire island began to tremble. The densely packed crowd in the distance actually stumbled, unable to keep their footing.

Although Wu Pifu’s Human Immortal Martial Dao had only reached the Bone-Refining stage and he had not yet learned the next stage, the Blood-Changing technique, strictly speaking, he was not yet a Blood-Changing Martial Saint.

However, both his physical constitution and the foundation of his Human Immortal Martial Dao were far stronger than those of a normal Blood-Changing Martial Saint or Earth-Shaking Martial Saint!

Moreover, his Human Immortal Martial Dao technique, the Wind-Thunder Roaring Art, which covered internal organs and bone marrow, was no ordinary art. When unleashed at full power, his movements carried the sound of wind and thunder, and faint lightning flickered across his body.

That wasn't all. Since he was going all out, Wu Pifu held nothing back. Armament Haki began to coat the Spirit-Breaking Blade from his arm. Observation Haki began to merge with his martial intuition, and Conqueror's Haki was unleashed at full capacity. In an instant, as if the earth were shaking and mountains swaying, visible sparks of lightning appeared within a hundred meters of him. The trembling of the earth intensified, and the sea outside the island began to recede, exposing a vast expanse of the seabed. The mist shrouding the entire island was torn asunder, and a beam of sunlight shot down from the crack in the sky, enveloping Wu Pifu.

Meanwhile, on a wooden ship off the island, all the artificial humans were anxiously waiting for Wu Pifu’s return. Suddenly, the ship began to tilt. All the artificial humans were stunned and looked over the side, witnessing an unbelievable scene: the seawater... was receding, and the wooden ship had landed on the seabed.

"No, that's not right!"

A1 suddenly shouted: "It's a tsunami! Quick, Ruoye unit members, with me! Use maximum propulsion to lift the wooden ship into the sky!!"

At the same time, on the battlefield in the center of the island, even though they lacked consciousness, the translucent humanoids and monsters stopped in their tracks, cowed by the terrifying pressure Wu Pifu had unleashed.

"Get this straight, Dragon Knight..."

Wu Pifu stood firm. He didn't rush forward immediately, but looked at all the entities ahead and said: "It's not me coming to challenge you, but... you all together challenging me!!"

Just then, a roar echoed from the ocean outside the island. From the distant sea, a tsunami wave at least fifty meters high rolled in, sweeping toward the entire Resurrection Island like the end of the world. Simultaneously, with Wu Pifu as the center, a cyclone resembling a tornado formed above his head. The next moment, Wu Pifu stepped forward, and the entire island seemed to sink. He then swung his blade at the hundreds of entities ahead.

Armament Haki condensed into substance, rendering the entire Spirit-Breaking Blade pitch black. At the same time, the lightning drawn by Conqueror's Haki swirled around the blade. With Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki intertwined, added to the magnificent strength brought by the Human Immortal Martial Dao, he slashed horizontally. A massive, arc-shaped black blade light erupted from the broken blade, flashing forward.

The Broken Temple had been located in a slanted position in the center of the island, with increasingly high mountainous terrain behind it. A black light flashed, and all the translucent humanoids in front of Wu Pifu shattered. The golden skeleton held its spear before itself, pushed backward by the blade light, and was driven into the hillside. The blade light did not stop, slicing through the high ground entirely and pushing the golden skeleton toward the sea.

After swinging this blade, Wu Pifu did not stop for a second. With a step, he vanished from his spot. When he reappeared, he was nearly five thousand meters away, arriving before the golden skeleton even as it was still being pushed back by the blade light.

At the same time, the tsunami finally arrived. The golden skeleton was pushed by the blade light into the tsunami, which had climbed to a height of seventy meters. The immense power of the sea wave crashed onto the golden skeleton. Only then did the blade light gradually dissipate due to distance. But before the golden skeleton could make any move, Wu Pifu had already flashed above it, grabbing its skull with one hand. A massive force erupted, slamming it fiercely onto the seabed!

Boom!

It was like a missile detonating, or a small meteorite falling. The massive tsunami wave was blasted away, and the surrounding seawater was completely displaced, once again revealing the seabed.

On the seabed, a crater twenty meters deep and at least two hundred meters wide formed. Wu Pifu pressed the golden skeleton into the center of the crater. Dense cracks appeared on the skeleton's surface, but it had to be said that its durability was terrifying. After this series of attacks, not only was the spear intact, but the skeleton itself showed no damage other than the cracks.

Then, right before Wu Pifu’s eyes, the "Savior of the World" title among the golden skeleton's four titles gradually dimmed, following the same change as the "Gatekeeper" title.

"So, which title is it now?" Wu Pifu asked.

The golden skeleton naturally could not answer, but at that moment, a giant mouth appeared out of thin air and lunged at Wu Pifu.

Wu Pifu took the opportunity to drop the golden skeleton and dodge a hundred meters away. He saw that with the appearance of the giant mouth, a solid, flesh-and-blood, perfectly intact silver-white giant dragon emerged from behind the golden skeleton.

This giant dragon was incredibly large, with an estimated standing height of at least three hundred meters. Its entire body was silver-white, every scale like crystal, especially the divine light flickering in its dragon pupils. It was a beautiful and terrifying creature that one knew was powerful just by looking at it.

The golden skeleton knelt on one knee, using its spear to prop itself up, while this divine dragon slowly lowered its head, waiting with incredible gentleness for the golden skeleton to stand.

Although only a skeleton remained and there was no dialogue or narration, Wu Pifu saw in this scene a kind of determination of a warrior fighting to the death.

He did not attack while he had the chance, but watched as the golden skeleton propped itself up and climbed with all its might onto the dragon's head.

The final title, "Last Dragon Knight," began to shine brilliantly!

Can this save everyone?

He did not know, but he wanted to try...

The golden skeleton stood up once again. It was already riddled with holes, and it lunged at Wu Pifu again with its equally riddled long spear. Its speed and strength had increased by another twenty percent compared to the last time. And this time, when it was slashed away by Wu Pifu again, all the fragments on its body and the long spear crumbled entirely...

"...I only have my soul left, but I can still resist."

"This is my body, the perfect body of the Sublimated Body..."

"The target of the Lost pollution is only me; you are just being affected. So, place my skeleton in a desolate place and suppress it in the deepest part. The place closest to my skeleton is the purest and most flawless place, like the eye of a typhoon. All these Lost pollutions will be attracted by my body..."

"I will scatter my soul into the central network. In this way, I can also protect the souls willing to enter it. But please, hurry, hurry to clone your bodies. Your souls have not experienced the baptism of sublimation. Once you leave your bodies for too long, you will be eroded by the ubiquitous pollution..."

"Humans, do not give up hope!"

"...Do not give up... hope..."

Wu Pifu stood silently, watching the remains of the golden skeleton dissipate completely, watching the broken long spear slowly turn to ash. In the end, he was the only witness.

A lone hero at the end of a civilization, a warrior who fought until the very last moment.

Wu Pifu stood still, cupped his hands in a salute, and turned around.

The seawater backflowed, drowning everything.