As Wu Pi Fu returned to Gaia, he immediately shouted hoarsely, "Mainframe, identify the creature before me!"
"Sound Hearer Body (incomplete)."
"…After the sound detached from %#$*, the body transformed into Five Lotuses, simulating the five foundational structures of the Heavenly Dao, Buddhist Realm, Sin Realm, Void, and Human World, ultimately forming a vacuum hometown. However, due to the increasingly severe pollution from the Buddhist Realm, in order to escape the pollution, it could only sever the past, thus losing the cultivation knowledge below the Arhat stage."
"This is… the various cultivation ranks of Buddhism that the sound has re-studied: Buddha, Bodhisattva, Arhat, Sound Hearer, Bhikkhu, Shramana, and the Sound Hearer rank among the lay practitioners. The advancement process was interrupted and remains incomplete."
At the moment the mainframe's judgment echoed, three fragments of Yellow Lotus appeared around the Sound Hearer Body, and threads began to extend from the Yellow Lotus fragments.
However, at the instant the mainframe's judgment sounded, all the Yellow Lotus fragments fell to the ground, and the threads turned to ashes and vanished, while the humanoid form began to shatter, transforming into strands that separated from its body.
Yet, whether it was the strands separating from its physical body, those extending from the Yellow Lotus fragments, or the strands piercing into Wu Pi Fu's body, at that moment, all began to wither.
"#*!"
A peculiar sound erupted from the mouth of the Sound Hearer Body, and in an instant, everything around its standing position began to transform into threads— the ground, the ceiling, the sleep chamber, Wu Pi Fu himself, and all things turned into threads.
But in the next moment, an invisible wave surged, and everything returned to its original form, only the threads of the Sound Hearer Body ceased to fall and disperse, barely standing, transforming into a humanoid figure entangled in threads, indistinguishable.
Wu Pi Fu gasped for breath, struggling to use the Unresting Spirit Sense in his consciousness to resist the immense terror of becoming threads just moments ago.
He slowly stood up from the ground, feeling pain all over his body, especially in his right chest, which hurt to the point of numbness.
Every breath felt as if he were being sliced by a thousand blades, and he could barely lift his right arm.
At the same time, the Sound Hearer Body seemed to have finally stabilized its form, turning and striding towards Wu Pi Fu.
With each step on the metallic floor, its feet appeared to corrode, the threads touching the metal rapidly decaying into ash.
But its speed was astonishing; in just two steps, it reached Wu Pi Fu and swung its arm wildly at his waist.
As the arm swung, a crack sounded, and a shockwave spread outward.
Wu Pi Fu's face changed dramatically; he didn't dare to take it head-on and could only extend his arm to block from the side, his body immediately leaning back.
However, the speed of the Sound Hearer Body was too fast.
Wu Pi Fu barely tilted back when his arm was struck with pain, half of his body went numb, and he was sent flying over ten meters, crashing into a sleep chamber, which shattered upon impact, sending him flying another two or three meters before finally stopping.
Wu Pi Fu rolled on the ground several times, coughing up blood.
He wanted to raise his arm but found that the left arm he had used to block the attack was broken into several pieces, and the forelimb was completely shattered.
Meanwhile, his waist had only been grazed, but the joint was almost completely crushed, protruding from the flesh like barbs.
Supersonic!
Just now, with a casual swing, the Sound Hearer Body had unleashed a supersonic strike!
Wu Pi Fu was horrified, and in the blink of an eye, the Sound Hearer Body crossed a distance of seven or eight meters, appearing before him again.
At this life-and-death moment, Wu Pi Fu gathered all his qi and blood, channeling it from his spine up to his mind's sea.
The negative mental reflux rate surged to ten percent… fifteen percent… twenty percent!
In that instant, Wu Pi Fu entered a demonic state, not even the controllable ten percent threshold, but directly crossing into a twenty percent state.
As the Sound Hearer Body stepped before Wu Pi Fu and swung its arm to unleash another supersonic effect, Wu Pi Fu's muscles began to writhe like worms.
Every muscle, every piece of skin, every joint seemed to have its own consciousness, twisting and writhing.
If viewed from a distance, he appeared somewhat similar to the Sound Hearer Body.
As the Sound Hearer Body's arm struck, the shockwave violently expanded, and Wu Pi Fu's right arm, writhing with muscle, also struck out, generating a shockwave that exploded forth, the two arms colliding.
With a loud bang, the shockwave surged like a bomb, Wu Pi Fu's right arm exploded again, sending him flying four or five meters away.
But this time, the Sound Hearer Body's arm also exploded a small section, immediately entangled by threads that formed back into an arm.
The negative mental reflux rate surged to twenty percent… twenty-five percent… thirty percent!
Wu Pi Fu did not rise again but bent his legs, arms on the ground, his body standing like a beast.
His muscles seemed to turn into fluid, his bones visibly shifting and merging, while the muscles flowed and solidified.
The decayed left and right arms were almost simultaneously covered by muscle, transforming into shapes resembling hammers.
The Sound Hearer Body stepped forward again, but this time, it was Wu Pi Fu who struck first.
As the shockwave erupted, the Sound Hearer Body was directly pushed back three or four meters.
However, it had barely landed when Wu Pi Fu lunged at it, his mouth opening wide to the point of dislocation, even breaking, while his jaw was forced out by muscle, biting fiercely into the shoulder of the Sound Hearer Body.
The Sound Hearer Body struck Wu Pi Fu's back, and as his spine fractured, Wu Pi Fu abruptly turned his head, biting off a large section of threads from the Sound Hearer Body's shoulder.
Once detached, the threads instantly turned to ashes, and when the Sound Hearer Body's second arm came crashing down, Wu Pi Fu pushed off with his legs, rolling the Sound Hearer Body onto the ground.
As soon as the Sound Hearer Body touched the ground, the metal, or any material of this world, the threads composing its body began to corrode and turn to charcoal.
At this moment, Wu Pi Fu had completely descended into madness, transforming into a creature that had begun to lose its human form.
The muscles of his body began to solidify, and his bones twisted into bone spurs.
Facing the Sound Hearer Body, he bit, tore, ripped, pounded, crashed, and threw, no longer employing any martial arts but rather acting on some primal instinct, battling the Sound Hearer Body throughout the entire sleep chamber, continuously crashing and destroying two sleep chambers, then slamming against the walls and the ceiling.
Both forces were immense, and their vitality was resilient.
In this sleep chamber, they fought fiercely until Wu Pi Fu, with a mouth that was missing a large portion, bit towards the Sound Hearer Body's neck.
The threads on the Sound Hearer Body had been nearly completely corroded, with intact threads amounting to less than one-tenth of the original total.
Wu Pi Fu bit through its neck completely, and the threads turned to ashes in his mouth.
Wu Pi Fu found himself no longer facing the Sound Hearer Body, only a mass of charcoal black slowly dissipating beneath him.
Wu Pi Fu scratched at the metallic ground a few times, then half-standing, he howled to the heavens, his eyes now blood-red, and then he turned to pounce towards the fallen Yama Dai and Xu Shi Lan.
Just as he was about to leap, a very low chirp suddenly sounded.
Though the sound was extremely low, to Wu Pi Fu at that moment, it was like a thunderclap.
Night, temple, little mute…
Dog Egg, little bird, bumping heads…
Comrades, three battles, Yama Dai…
Battle buddies, gigantic, Xu Shi Lan…
Scenes flashed suddenly in Wu Pi Fu's consciousness, and at that moment, the faint Unresting Spirit Sense in the boundless darkness flickered brightly as if fueled by something.
In Wu Pi Fu's mind, his consciousness began to intermittently revive, and these still images began to flow, transforming into memories of the past…
"Ah!"
Wu Pi Fu roared in anger, his blood-red pupils gradually fading, and then he collapsed to the ground, for at this moment, his body had become twisted, his limbs transformed into strange structures, and his spine had already fractured.
He looked fiercely at the fallen Yama Dai, Xu Shi Lan, and the chirping little bird in Xu Shi Lan's hand.
Even though his whole body ached, even though he only wanted to sleep, he still moved forward bit by bit, pushing against the metallic ground with his jaw.
Wu Pi Fu slowly crawled to the side of the two people and one bird, behind him lay a ground full of bloody flesh fragments, while parts of his muscles were already dissolving into blood, lymphatic fluid, and other substances.
He nudged Yama Dai with his head, then nudged Xu Shi Lan.
He could sense with his skin that both had lost their heartbeat, and their blood had already cooled.
More terrifying was that… a large part of their bodies had turned into paper or threads, even occupying a significant portion of their heads, while the little bird had also gone silent, its body and wings largely transformed into paper or threads…
Blood tears fell from Wu Pi Fu's eyes; he could not distinguish what it was.
At this moment, he could only use the bone spurs protruding from his body to hook the two people and one bird, crawling bit by bit towards the medical base station area.
One minute, two minutes, ten minutes… thirty minutes, sixty minutes…
Wu Pi Fu's jaw had shattered down to his nasal cavity, yet he continued to crawl forward, each movement a painful bow.
The short distance to the medical base station felt as distant as the ends of the earth.
Finally, Wu Pi Fu entered the medical base station.
He used his broken tongue to press the door button of the medical chamber, then activated the fully automatic medical button, struggling to raise his upper body, even at the cost of twisting his already distorted bones and spine.
He placed Yama Dai into the medical chamber, then Xu Shi Lan, and finally, he put the little bird into his open throat, moving to a medical chamber, crawling bit by bit, sliding in until the medical chamber completely closed.
Wu Pi Fu's eyes, streaming with blood tears, plunged into darkness…
In the darkness, suddenly there was light.
Wu Pi Fu instinctively looked towards the light, which began to spread, dispelling the darkness.
He found himself standing in an elegantly decorated bedroom, and on the large bed lay several dolls.
"Cough."
A cough drew Wu Pi Fu's attention, and he saw Xu Shi Lan wearing a gorgeous dress, turning to block the dolls.
Xu Shi Lan smiled at Wu Pi Fu.
(End of Chapter)