A Night of Desperation-Chapter 524: returns 4

"Junior Brother, is it on time?"

"On time, on time!" Yu Hong quickly replied, breathing a sigh of relief.

"Am I cool or what!" Hei Ying asked again.

"Cool, very cool!" Yu Hong promptly replied once more.

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"That’s good. I’ve been thinking about this entrance for a long time!" Hei Ying nodded.

"Senior Sister, can we hurry up? We’re running out of time, there’s only half a minute left!" Yu Hong couldn’t help but urge, looking helpless.

He had actually shattered Hei Ying’s token ten seconds ago, but for some reason, she hadn’t shown up.

It turns out she was thinking about how to make a more stylish entrance!?

"This can be easily done." Hei Ying nodded, turned around, facing the gaping hole, looking at the incoming swarms of Black Disasters like ocean waves.

"Let me show you the pinnacle of the Immortal Realm."

She clasped the sword in both hands, raising it high above her head.

"Seven-Time Sword Technique."

"Divine Separation!"

Buzz!

In the next instant, a raging and dazzling white Heavenly River emerged from beside her.

The river surged into the sword, as if it was a deep chasm, capable of containing endless True Qi.

Shing!

Hei Ying swung her sword downward.

The sword blade slashed down, transforming into a black sword scar, infinitely extending from the breach.

The black sword scar rushed out of the breach, slicing through the battlefield outside, cutting all the Black Disaster Monsters in half, forming a fissure of unknown length.

At this moment, on the planet’s surface.

A faint black sword scar suddenly appeared, carving a thin line on the gray-blue sphere’s surface.

The line rapidly extended, directly stretching across half of the planet’s circumference.

The earth was split apart, the ocean severed. Mountains cleaved in two, the immense tremor making everyone and every monster numb and unable to move.

The battlefield seemed to have been paused for a moment.

Yu Hong and Quan He gaped at the scene. Before they could even voice their shock,

The sword scar had not disappeared but suddenly unleashed a terrifying suction force.

Whoosh!!

A raging wind swept through, with the enormous attraction pulling all the surrounding Black Disaster Monsters into the sword scar.

The black sword scar, like a gigantic invisible abyss, only absorbed Black Disaster Monsters, doing no harm to people or anything else.

Such terrifying control left Yu Hong in awe.

"Remember to treat me to a meal when we get back!" Hei Ying only had time to leave this one sentence before her form faded, became transparent, and disappeared.

The sword scar continued to absorb Black Disaster Monsters without end.

Yu Hong and Quan He, clearly standing to the side, felt nothing apart from a stronger wind force.

The battle was completely over.

The two were still immersed in the recent shocking sight.

Until there were no more sounds of fighting from outside, did they snap out of it.

Quan He walked step by step to the corner, picked up her severed arm, pressed it to the wound, and activated a spell to reconnect it.

After spending a few seconds to reconnect it properly, she walked to the black sword scar still floating in mid-air.

She reached out to try and touch it.

But the sword scar seemed illusory, completely untouchable. She could only touch empty air.

"I’ve learned a lot." She sighed deeply in silence.

"So have I...." Yu Hong sighed in agreement.

"Wasn’t that senior brought by you?" Quan He looked at him.

"Yes, but I didn’t expect her to be this strong either..." Yu Hong smiled wryly.

"I thought she was just a bit stronger than that Du Yuan...." He gestured with a small gap.

"Alas.... you came back a bit late..." Quan He lowered her head, looking dejected.

"Everyone is dead. Only Qing Huang, Yu Mo, and I are left, nine-tenths of the Spirit Alliance have perished...."

"What about Chen Yaofeng?"

"He died in the first wave. His strength was the weakest.... couldn’t withstand the initial impact," Quan He replied.

"What about Master Yu Hen and the others?"

"The same...."

Both fell into silence for a moment.

Until hurried footsteps were heard from outside.

They collected themselves and headed towards the breach.

Half an hour later....

At the highest point of the fortress, a relatively intact warehouse was used as a meeting room.

Yu Hong, Quan He, Yu Mo, and Qing Huang, all gathered here.

"The people of the Taoist Sect are all gone, only a few of us are left. What’s happened to this world?" Yu Mo, the elder, looked much older, with a sorrowful and despondent expression, hunched in a chair.

"Alliance Hierarch..." Qing Huang still recognized Yu Hong as the Alliance Hierarch, standing by his side. "The disaster broke out two weeks ago, a giant meteor suddenly fell from the sky, then a Black Disaster force calling itself the Holy Tower rushed in with countless monsters. Ordinary people died nine-tenths in the first wave...."

"Holy Tower....." Yu Hong squinted and remembered the name, recalling he’d heard of it from Brother Hu as well. Holy Tower is rumored to be notoriously submissive.

"What do you intend to do next?" He looked at Quan He, as she was evidently in charge.

"You mentioned you’ve joined a sect, and that senior who dealt with Du Yuan just now is from that sect?" Quan He asked again.

"Yes," Yu Hong nodded. "With your talent, if you join Qinghe Mountain like me, you will surely soar to great heights in the future."

"I am already seriously ill, completely bound to the Ultimate Sun..." Quan He smiled bitterly and shook her head.

"Give it a try. Perhaps my sect truly has a way?" Yu Hong urged.

"This place, that sword scar still exists, continuously absorbing Black Disaster Monsters. How long will this last?" Quan He asked.

"Since Senior Sister Hei Ying said it’s the pinnacle of immortality, then...." Yu Hong hesitated.

"Then what?" Quan He pressed. She hated when people spoke hesitantly.

"Then it means, as long as the sword scar doesn’t encounter an immortal force of the same level, it will continue to exist here," Yu Hong answered.

"That’s good news. We’ve noticed this sword scar... wait, that’s a sword scar!!?" Qing Huang was about to explain, but suddenly realized something was off.

"Yes. It was created with a single slash by a senior named Hei Ying," Quan He nodded. The others were dumbfounded, plunged into shock.

Then she looked at Yu Hong.

"Immortal Realm, so that’s what it means?" She pondered Yu Hong’s earlier suggestion.

"I understand.... you’ve encountered a far greater world than I’ve known, staying put leads only to stagnation and awaiting destruction, nothing else matters. So.... I am willing to join you!" She had planned to enjoy her final years peacefully, but even this wish, the Source Disaster wouldn’t grant her.

The world in its current dilapidated state was largely due to her inadequate strength and inability to advance.

"That’s good." Yu Hong breathed a sigh of relief. He then quickly became happy again.

Having witnessed Quan He’s talent and insight, he wondered what realm she might achieve if she cultivated the Qingyuan Heavenly River Miao Technique!

"When shall we leave?" Yu Hong asked.

"I wish to... pay my respects to the Spirit Alliance and Taoist Sect brothers before leaving...." Unlike Yu Hong, Quan He had stayed here all along, with daily interactions with the Spirit Alliance and Taoist Sect, and was extremely downhearted at the time.

Although Yu Hong was the Alliance Hierarch, he didn’t have much interaction with his subordinates. Besides feeling a bit rueful, he was otherwise not very emotional.

He had witnessed too many similar destructions...

After wrapping up things in the afternoon, Quan He left together with Yu Hong, while the others chose to stay behind.

After a detailed understanding of the sect Yu Hong had joined, they believed the environment at Qinghe Mountain was equally dangerous. Except for Quan He, who might rely on her terrifying talent and insight to quickly receive treatment, the rest feared they would only be a burden.

They chose to stay because they discovered that the terrifying sword scar was not only absorbing the approaching endless Black Disaster Monsters but also the infinite Red Value Radiation continuously emitted by the giant meteor.

Absorption and emission, the meteor and the sword scar formed a delicate balance.

This gave them hope of stabilizing once again.

Yu Hong respected their choice.

Originally, he intended to stay longer to help with the aftermath. But the continuously returning Spirit Light, intermittently, back into his body made him realize.

It wasn’t just here that had issues.

Other places where he left Spirit Light had issues too.

Taking the severely injured Quan He, the two rapidly departed the Hope City World in the Black Black Spirit safe house.

Following the direction of the Spirit Light, they continued forward.

Inside the safe house.

Quan He carefully massaged and applied medicine to her severed arm, looking exhausted.

She was unconcerned, exposing her upper body, wearing only simple undergarments, while conversing with Yu Hong, who was meditating and cultivating Qi not far away.

"Qinghe Mountain, what kind of place is it? Will I really be able to adapt?"

"There will definitely be no problem. With talents and insights not as great as yours, I was still considered potential for the Immortal Realm. I can’t imagine what my master’s expression would be in front of someone like you. Didn’t you see that old guy Du Yuan from the Holy Tower also tried to subdue you?" Yu Hong noticed her concerns.

"Okay, I trust you, just...." Quan He wanted to say something.

Suddenly, a resonating sound slowly emerged inside the safe house.

"You’ve finally come out, Yu Hong." The scenery around the two suddenly changed, instantly shifting from the safe house to an endless deep starry sky.

In the starry sky, an immensely large pitch-black dragon was coiled around a sepia planet surface. Its scarlet eyes quietly watching them.

It was Agrius’s true form!!

"Lord Agrius!" Yu Hong greeted promptly. Having gone through this summoning before, he wasn’t surprised this time.

"Yu Hong, do you know you’re in great danger now!" Agrius’s first words caused a slight change in their expressions.

"Danger? My Lord, what do you mean?" Yu Hong frowned. "Could it be related to the Holy Tower of the Black Disaster?"

"The Holy Tower is merely a small vanguard under the Night Mother Tree, insignificant. The real danger I speak of is the mysterious faction you’re in now… Qinghe Mountain!" Agrius stated solemnly.

"My Lord…. do you know anything about the new sect I’ve joined?" Yu Hong’s heart skipped a beat, he quickly asked.

"Qinghe Mountain…. its highest-ranked entity was a terrifying individual named the Heavenly Venerate. But that was more than tens of billions of years ago…. Long ago, 8.4 billion years back, this immensely powerful faction was completely overwhelmed by the Source Disaster, leaving no trace, and vanished without a trace. It’s only unexpected that you’d encounter their remnants in some place deep within the Wind Disaster following the Phoenix Eye," Agrius said, causing both Yu Hong and Quan He to turn pale.