Night of Despair-Chapter 589 - 587 ready one

Yu Hong didn’t know how much time had passed before he slowly woke up from unconsciousness.

He opened his eyes and could vaguely see through the blindfold that he was still standing by the window.

Behind him, Yiyi was still making dumplings, and Quan He was speaking softly.

’Agrius’s actions seem to involve time manipulation. Not much time has passed since just now.’

Yu Hong spread his divine sense and sensed his own body.

Countless tiny black crystalline particles were evenly distributed in his meridians and blood vessels.

There were also many surrounding the Heavenly River outside his body. freewebnøvel.coɱ

Each of these crystals contained a massive amount of Agrius’s vitality aura.

"This gift is a bit heavy... Agrius..."

The permissions of Black Black Spirit’s safe house were transferred, and in the end, he also left this large gift. If I successfully find the land of vitality, it wouldn’t make sense not to resurrect you...

Yu Hong still remembered that among his summoned creatures, there was a sub-body of Agrius, which meant that as long as his strength was sufficient, he could completely use it as a marker to reverse and resurrect Agrius’s entire body.

’It’s too early to think about this now.’

Clearing his thoughts, Yu Hong turned around and headed towards the two people in the first-floor hall.

The safe house also gradually disappeared in space, wrapped in countless colorful threads.

A month later....

Flame Star.

The entanglement and covert struggles between the Moon Palace and the Yinluo people had temporarily reached a stalemate. Every once in a while, a group of Moon Palace officials would die, followed by the deaths of several Yinluo people, almost becoming a routine.

The Yinluo people, initially furious and searching everywhere to no avail, gradually got used to it and started to ignore it, reluctantly maintaining the situation.

All this was because the Moon Palace lost more people each time they were besieged, far more than the Yinluo people. Under such a casualty ratio, it seemed unsurprising that a few Yinluo people would die.

What they could not have imagined was that most of the Moon Palace’s deaths were Yu Hong’s summoned Fear Shadows...

As for the so-called Yinluo people’s casualties, it was just a regular cycle of harvesting vitality by Yu Hong and Quan He.

This process gradually stabilized over time.

Yu Hong and Quan He also focused on lying low, diligently cultivating and conducting research on Flame Star.

Click.

Yu Hong sat cross-legged in the secret room, frowning as he perceived the new fusion trait in his mind.

Cloud Hand and Piercing Eye, and this is what it resulted in?

’Thorn Dragon Bloodline: All of your attacks will gain a 200% piercing effect enhancement.’

He took out a High Martial Secret Manual from a hidden compartment in the wall and started cultivating while pondering over the follow-up arrangements for Black Mark.

’This enhancement obviously resulted in a lemon. It seems the possibility of fusion failure does exist. Just because it rarely happened before doesn’t mean it’s nonexistent.’

’Previously, the Piercing Eye could amplify the effects of eye-released attacks by five times. Now, it gets a broader range but only amplifies by three times. This is undoubtedly a failure...’

’There’s still a chance for another fusion... but there’s nothing particularly worth fusing right now... I’ll wait for now...’

Compared to fusing traits, Yu Hong had realized that without superior similar traits, the cost-effectiveness of fusing traits was not high for him now.

’Enhancing the Outer Eye provides higher returns. Utilizing the high energy level obtained through Immortal Cultivation to supply and enhance the Outer Eye through Black Mark until the highest level, then feeding back to the entire body, progresses much faster than the cultivation realms...’

After hesitating, Yu Hong finally decided to take out the Outer Eye and arbitrarily add something from the side.

’Enhance the Outer Eye, direction: Overall comprehensive enhancement.’

The appearance of Emosa’s Body essentially marked the enhancement of the Outer Eye after Emosa’s Body began to take off, meaning the return from enhancing the Outer Eye was far greater than from cultivation.

Yu Hong made up his mind to let Black Mark focus on this. After getting good traits, then fuse.

Soon, black lines flowed from the back of his hand and into the Outer Eye.

The Outer Eye, emitting colorful light, flashed slightly, and a line of red countdown numbers appeared inside: November 17, 5 years, 9:43 AM.

"...Indeed, the higher the energy level, the longer the required enhancement time. This is just a simple comprehensive enhancement, not an extreme one, yet it takes so long..."

But Yu Hong still confirmed the enhancement in his heart.

Enhanced Outer Eye feeds back to cultivation, and cultivation enhances energy to supply the enhancement. This has been his set path from the start.

In the next moment, countless amounts of mana inside him madly surged into the Black Mark imprint.

The continuous mana supply, once gone, was swiftly replenished by the Immortal Dao Tianhe’s conversion of vitality.

Essentially, the Immortal Dao focuses on constant quality improvement and self-evolution, unlike the Arcane which can provide limitless energy once reaching a certain point.

The limitless energy of the Arcane is essentially infinite low-tier energy, which, at high energy levels, is far inferior to the Immortal Dao.

The continuous supply of mana lasted for more than ten minutes before it slowly reduced and then completely stopped.

Only when the countdown timer slightly flashed and began to move did Yu Hong wipe the invisible sweat from his forehead and breathe a sigh of relief.

’The energy requirement is increasing... If it was my previous cultivation level, it wouldn’t fill up even with a few days and nights of absorption... Fortunately, I had the foresight to cultivate the Immortal Dao and elevate my energy level...’

Using Inner Vision to observe his body, Yu Hong found that the vitality converted madly for over ten minutes hadn’t even used one-tenth of Agrius’s gift in his body.

He finally felt how rich this guy’s worth as a Star God was.

After a sigh in his heart, Yu Hong got up and walked out of the secret room.

Quan He and Yiyi were not there. The stable environment of Flame Star allowed them to often go out for shopping, playing, and living much better than before.

Looking at the empty safe house, Yu Hong shook his head internally, then spread his divine sense outward to perceive the surrounding Chaotic God Sky Eye Puppets.

Most of the Moon Palace people were composed of his summoned Fear Shadows and Chaotic God Puppets, while the people Yan Wei roped in accounted for only a small part.

After all, how many terrorists in this day and age aren’t afraid to play with self-destruction every day?

This perception immediately made Yu Hong reveal a hint of surprise.

After entering Returning to Void, the range of his divine sense could already cover tens of thousands of kilometers around him, which was quite small among Immortal Dao cultivators. Because his stabilization time in each realm was too short, his divine sense didn’t naturally grow to its limit before quickly breaking through to the next realm.

So it was very normal for this situation to occur.

But even so, the range of tens of thousands of kilometers was enough to cover almost half of Flame Star’s huge region.

Within his divine sense, it seemed that the Yinluo had stealthily dispatched a special forces unit, targeting the Moon Palace for reconnaissance and a beheading plan.

Unlike the powerful squad sent last time, this special forces unit had nine members in total, all of whom wore high-level life armor codenamed Black Mark. The team leader, in particular, wore specially designed armor called Beheader.

It was obvious that this high-level armor was specifically for the Moon Palace.

As Yu Hong observed them,

this squad was quickly moving towards a sub-base of the Moon Palace.

The mountain forest was rugged, light rain was falling, and wild grass was growing chaotically.

The members of the beheading squad were all enveloped in a faint purple light. This purple light allowed them to move at supersonic speeds without causing any sonic booms.

Swish! Swish!

In an instant, the squad went from extremely fast to extremely still, stopping abruptly.

The team leader, standing at two meters tall, had a helmet similar to a triceratops, with three horns standing upright. His body armor was mostly composed of overlapping round spots, giving an appearance of bulging muscles.

"The enemy might have already detected our presence," the team leader said in a low voice, his voice clear and cold on the communication channel.

"The leader of the Moon Palace, Yan Wei, indeed possesses certain special abilities, but her key strength lies in the immense effect produced by combining her abilities with the armor. Therefore, our insider will trigger a strong interference particle at the crucial moment, making all the stolen armors in the Moon Palace inoperative for about twenty minutes. This is our key period to handle all the trouble," the team leader continued.

"Yes!"

The Yinluo members replied solemnly.

"Let’s move." The next moment, all the Yinluo members disappeared on the spot, rushing straight towards the Moon Palace’s sub-base.

At that moment, inside the sub-base of the Moon Palace, in a temporary air-raid shelter two hundred meters underground,

Yan Wei was in a conference room with several sub-base leaders, formulating the latest action plan.

Unbeknownst to them, danger was quickly approaching.

Yu Hong’s divine sense noticed this, roughly simulating the energy level response of both parties.

"The captain of this special forces team has reached the Immortal level. Yan Wei probably won’t be able to handle it. Plus, the interference particles affecting the activation of the armor, this time, it might be really dangerous...."

Yu Hong estimated the clear gap in combat power between the two sides.

Even if Yan Wei used her Outer Eye with the armor, she could at most exert nearly-Immortal strength, comparable to the Cai Jing Taoist without using regular abilities.

In essence, the strength of many monsters is extremely hard to gauge and difficult to compare in parallel, usually, whoever captures the opponent’s weaknesses first will win.

Therefore, the practical combat gap within the same energy level can be very large.

And now, this special forces captain directly crossed to the Immortal level. This is a qualitative difference.

A strong person at the ordinary Extraordinary level, even if they can destroy stars with one hit, if their energy level is not high enough, it’s just a result achieved through quantity.

Facing the Immortal level, one hit can obliterate them.

"It looks like I’ll have to lend a hand a bit..."

An Immortal-level captain, coupled with his specialized armor...

Now that the Great Annihilation is imminent, and having learned from Agrius that the forces of the Elemental Emperor and the Heavenly Sun Sect have already withdrawn entirely.

Yu Hong also stopped worrying too much and decided to accelerate the Moon Palace’s plan.

Testing the Yinluo’s backing could be advanced further.

Thinking this, Yu Hong walked to the door and pushed it open.

With a click, the door automatically bounced back, closing.

The next instant, he had disappeared from the spot.

Immortal Dao magical power enveloped Yu Hong completely, condensing black flames released by Black Phoenix Jade into a Fire Bird, speeding towards the Moon Palace’s sub-base.

Meanwhile, inside the base,

Yan Wei lightly touched her right eye, which had a mysterious transformation that she had discovered upon waking up.

A powerful force continuously flowed from this eye throughout her body.

This power enhanced her body, which was already several dozen times stronger than ordinary people due to armor amplification, even further, increasing it several times over.

At that moment, she was extremely confident in facing any armor of the same level.

She was meticulously simulating possible Yinluo attack strategies and routes with two sub-base leaders.

Boom!!

Suddenly, the entire base violently shook, and the three people swayed, immediately hearing the piercing alarm sound around them.

"Quick, arm up!" Yan Wei’s face turned cold; she flew towards the life armor in the corner of the conference room.

The other two did the same, though they were very fast, it was still a step too late.

A wave of invisible vibrational sound spread throughout the base.

The sound wave penetrated the walls, covering the entire base, causing Yan Wei, the two leaders, and everyone inside trying to put on armor to freeze slightly.

With a pop, Yan Wei resumed movement, grabbed her armor component, and activated it with her mind.

But nothing happened. The life armor, which usually responded to her mind, was now like a stone, completely unresponsive.