A Night of Desperation-Chapter 593: Deep into One

The passage of time, when stable, is not frightening. What is terrifying is the rapid and violent changes over a very short period, and even more terrifying is when the conscious mind can perceive these changes happening.

Under normal time flow, consciousness will accelerate together, not detecting any anomalies.

But Yu Hong and Quan He sensed something wrong, which meant the time acceleration in that area was abnormal.

Yu Hong reached out and patted Quan He on the shoulder.

"It seems that the path ahead is one I must walk alone."

He sighed.

"We..." Quan He wanted to say something but couldn’t find the words.

The unconscious layer had already begun to show such eerie dangers. Going further, the danger might be even greater. Yu Hong, being too preoccupied, might not have the time to take care of them.

"I understand," Quan He finally nodded after a moment of silence. "We’ll find a place to wait for you."

"How about the silver sea world we just left? It’s close to the unconscious layer but far from the Great Annihilation," Yu Hong suggested.

"How are you doing? What happened?!" Ku Chan rushed in from the doorway, looking worried.

Yu Hong signaled for the medical staff to leave and then carefully explained their troubles to Ku Chan.

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"Besides the unconscious bodies, the unconscious layer is that dangerous? Wasn’t there any recorded data to reference?" Ku Chan frowned.

"No, we even asked some of the old elders, but no one had described such changes. If those elders hadn’t deliberately withheld information, then these changes might have emerged recently," Yu Hong explained.

"The Great Annihilation..." Ku Chan’s face turned grim.

"Let’s go together, keep migrating;we can’t stay here," Yu Hong proposed again. "With the upgrades to my power source, I should be able to carry enough people."

The safe house Black Black Spirit was now a three-story building. It could squeeze in dozens of people without much problem. The living quality might suffer, but with storage bags, they could manage for a long time.

"I actually mentioned this to my mentors. They recently confirmed through observations that what you said is true. Two distant space guard post cities have already lost contact...." Ku Chan continued, "The council has initiated the Space-Time Giant Wheel project, using the Great Wishing Technique to build a space-time giant wheel within five days. It can enter the Source Disaster, leveraging its jump effect similar to space traversal to escape the Great Annihilation."

"How many people? Have they chosen a destination?" Yu Hong’s spirit was uplifted, knowing that no one in the Floating City wanted to wait for death. They were all striving for self-rescue.

"The space-time giant wheel can accommodate about half of the Floating City’s area, including all formal residents. However, the circle of informal residents in the outer city won’t make it," Ku Chan solemnly replied.

"What about the destination?"

"It’s not decided yet. The council’s Great Arcanists received a Source Disaster map as a gift from Agrius and are currently studying it," Ku Chan explained.

"When do we leave!?" Yu Hong asked urgently.

"If you had come back two days later, no one would be here..." Ku Chan chuckled bitterly.

"Understood. The Great Annihilation is so severe that even the surrender factions are fleeing. But their escape means they are more aware of the dangers than we are. What if we follow their escape route and traces? Wouldn’t that be safer?" Yu Hong pondered.

"That’s a thought the council had as well." Ku Chan nodded.

"You have many people and Arcanists who use their minds for cultivation, surely more thorough than I. I’ll leave Yiyi and Quan He in your care. Look after them," Yu Hong conveyed his trust.

"Rest assured, brother, I’ll take good care of them," Ku Chan promised with a serious tone.

"??" Yu Hong was stunned, "What?"

"What?" Ku Chan was also puzzled. "Surely, brother, you haven’t gotten together with Quan He and Yiyi yet? You’ve been living under the same roof for so long. What would people think if they knew they stayed with you for so long?"

Yu Hong was at a loss for words.

He hadn’t considered that aspect. If word got out, anyone could easily interpret Quan He and Yiyi’s intentions.

"Wait, what intentions? Why don’t I know?" Quan He was baffled.

She had stayed with Yu Hong simply because she had no stable safe house. But from Ku Chan’s words, it sounded like she had moved into Black Black Spirit to pursue Yu Hong.

"Ah... you two really are slow..." Ku Chan sighed helplessly.

"You don’t understand..." Quan He was also speechless. "Your big brother’s situation is different now. With a body size of six meters, who could handle that."

"Let’s not talk about this. Leave a mental imprint in the water instrument ball, so we can later confirm your state and location," Yu Hong said. "I’ll test the path ahead. Although the time acceleration zone is extremely dangerous, it might also have some benefits." freewēbnoveℓ.com

This caught Quan He’s attention, and she nodded.

"Indeed, with enough stored vitality, cultivation inside there would be highly efficient. One second in there equals several thousand outside seconds;it’s very convenient for accelerated training. Of course, the lifespan has to be long enough," she said, touching her graying temples with a hint of gloom in her eyes.

"There might be more than just acceleration..." Yu Hong murmured. He sensed his internal state. Within just those few seconds, his Qingyuan Heavenly River Miao Technique was on the verge of reaching the middle stage of Returning to Void.

Under normal circumstances, despite abundant vitality, he would need at least ten years of intensive cultivation to progress to the next stage.

But since his last breakthrough, only months had passed.

If used properly, that place could indeed be an excellent zone for acceleration cultivation.

Provided one could withstand it.

After assigning Ku Chan several precautions, Yu Hong re-entered Black Black Spirit, setting off for the unconscious layer once again.

The unconscious layer, also known as the Heartless Belt, is a circular zone close to the Source Disaster Core.

Even before fully entering, they were hit hard by its time acceleration phenomena.

After placing Quan He and Yiyi down, Yu Hong piloted Black Black Spirit and re-entered the Wind Disaster at full speed, reactivating the Vitality Ship’s function.

Buzz...

The enormous energy furnace accelerated madly, pushing Black Black Spirit to race through the Wind Disaster.

Yu Hong stood at the window, watching the colored lines blur into a kaleidoscopic haze. He was tense, standing on the first floor, ready to reach their previous destination.

In midair, the mana-formed colored map showed Black Black Spirit’s green light dot nearing the previous location.

Yu Hong focused, waiting in silence.

The wall clock’s second hand ticked steadily.

But soon, the next second...

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Crack.

The second hand of the clock suddenly began to decelerate.

It now took two seconds of normal time for one tick to pass.

Then it became three seconds, five seconds, ten seconds... the intervals kept increasing.

Until... click.

The second hand came to a complete stop.

Yu Hong also froze in place, standing still.

The mana within his body still circulated, but at an unfathomably slower rate than usual.

Everything in the surrounding air came to a standstill.

Even the formation arrays at the Golden Immortal level within the Black Black Spirit ceased operation.

Tiny specks of dust hovered next to Yu Hong, clearly visible in the light filtering in through the window.

Yu Hong’s thoughts also came to a complete halt, but this static force didn’t entirely bind him.

The time-space resistance of his powerful Ancient God Body allowed him to gradually open his eyes, and his divine sense and body began to adapt, slowly starting to function again.

’Is time itself frozen this time?’ he wondered to himself.

This stasis didn’t last long;soon, there was a booming sound.

Stasis vanished, replaced by the once again roaring Black Black Spirit, heading straight into the depths of the Wind Disaster.

Hiss...

Yu Hong stood on the first floor, raised his hand, and sensed that the time around him had become completely chaotic.

He could feel that, on his left hand, the time flow on five patches of skin had accelerated to an alarming degree.

But aside from these five spots, the rest of the areas experienced significant time dilation.

More than that, his body also faced similar issues.

The time on his cheek accelerated by thousands of times, while his abdomen experienced time slowdown, with his heart beating once every few hours in a normal state.

If it weren’t for his incredibly strong physique, his powerful Ancient God Body, and his immense time-space resistance and recovery, anyone else in his place would have fallen apart by now.

Yu Hong stood in the center of the hall, his body constantly flickering with dazzling colored lights, shifting from one spot to another without any fixed position.

At this moment, the entire Black Black Spirit also began to tremble violently.

Woo~~~

A sound like a ship’s whistle began to ring in Yu Hong’s ears.

His vision started to spin, rotating clockwise as if in a drum of a washing machine.

Everything in sight began to rotate faster and faster...

Thin streams of blood flowed from Yu Hong’s nostrils, unnoticed by him.

Just then.

A high-pitched screech erupted from the protective array set by Fu Bai, the Golden Immortal.

Clang!!

It was a burst like the explosion of a drawn sword.

This explosion seemed to shatter some diffuse presence in the surrounding space.

The time flow distorted and instantly returned to normal.

The light outside the safehouse window also reverted to normal, transforming into the quiet, deep starry cosmos.

Inside, the hum of the energy furnace petered out, bringing silence, allowing the safehouse to drift slowly in space.

Poo.

Yu Hong’s legs gave out, and he half-knelt on the ground.

"What... just happened!?" He shook his head, his vision already restored.

A trickle of blood hung beneath his nose like snot.

He wiped at it, seeing the blood with tiny glints of silver.

"Where... have we ended up?"

Outside the window was a magnificent cosmos dominated by dark red and silver-blue hues.

Yu Hong looked down through the window.

Behold, the safehouse was floating at the edge of an enormous black stone pillar.

Several light blue and grey planets orbited the pillar, which stood silently in the cosmos, its surface covered in mottled grey scars.

The safehouse was positioned slightly to the right above it.

Compared to the other planets, it seemed like an insignificant speck of dust.

And Yu Hong, inside the house, could see the full view of the pillar only because of the long distance and the pillar’s sheer length.

From this angle, Yu Hong saw that the end of the pillar was connected to a silver-grey building that looked like a sedan chair.

This pillar seemed to be a road, a cosmic path leading to that silver-grey building.

’I can’t go on anymore. I need to rest and recover;if I keep going, even I won’t be able to hold on... I need to stop here and strengthen myself again.’

Looking around, that building clearly held a lot of clues about this place.