A Night of Desperation

Chapter 345: suppression one

Yu Hong took out the enhanced multimeter and pressed the switch.

Beep...

He first tested himself, placing it close to his temple.

The value on the LCD display suddenly soared, breaking through one hundred and then continuously fluctuating around one hundred and thirty.

’Not bad.’

He put down the multimeter, then explored with his Inner Qi, which tethered it like a rope and threw it towards the nearby Yin Qi Sky Pillar.

Pfft.

The white Inner Qi, like a white rope, quickly threw the multimeter into the gray pillar.

After hovering tensely for a few seconds.

Yu Hong used the Inner Qi to press the record button, then pulled it back.

The multimeter quickly retracted, landing precisely in his palm.

He picked it up and saw.

’12383.571’

’As expected...’ Yu Hong sighed, this was the value of Spiritual Fluctuation, he then switched to Red Value test mode and repeated the action.

The value displayed on the retrieved multimeter was 0.

This meant that there were absolutely no Red Values here...

Not leaving yet, Yu Hong thought to himself.

From the sea nearby, a Dragon Lizard slowly surfaced and swiftly swam towards the Yin Qi Sky Pillar.

’Go see what’s inside...’ he instructed.

The Dragon Lizard unhesitatingly plunged into the gray mist.

But in the next instant, its connection with Yu Hong was severed.

’It seems the Spirit Disaster mainly targets the spiritual aspect, which severely restricts my summoned creatures...’

Yu Hong realized something.

Bang!

Instantaneously, a bloody, mangled sphere burst out of the mist, crashing heavily into the seawater beside Yu Hong.

It was the Dragon Lizard!

Yu Hong instantly reconnected and sensed it, his expression slightly changed as he recognized that the sphere of flesh was the Dragon Lizard that had just entered the mist.

It was dead.

Suddenly, he looked up into the pillar.

Within the gray mist, a towering figure in silver-gray armor was seated on a cloud of golden mist, slowly becoming clearer from the blur.

Once the figure was completely clear, it was visible as a creature with a dragon’s head and a human’s body.

Its head had shaggy white hair and lion-like golden mane, with three white dragon horns on its head, and a third eye on its forehead emitting a soft golden light.

"Kneel..."

"Kneel..."

"Kneel..."

A series of immense, invisible sound waves vibrated around Yu Hong’s ears.

"Why do you not kneel before the True God!?" the sound waves transformed into a massive spiritual pressure, instantly enveloping Yu Hong, trying to make him kneel.

Crack, crack...

His bones made a slight sound as the yacht was pressed down into the water.

"True God?" Yu Hong squinted, "So, could it be that this Spirit Disaster... is really connected to the place linked by the Inheritance Dao Artifact?"

He was about to raise his hand to release his Inner Strength to counteract the pressure.

Relying solely on spiritual power, he definitely couldn’t match his opponent.

But at that moment, the so-called True God paused suddenly, and the layered pressure retracted like a tide.

"It appears to be a remnant of the Moon."

Buzz.

The dragon-headed True God slowly retreated, disappearing into the mist in a blink, no longer appearing.

"Moon remnants?" Yu Hong quickly realized, "Could it be referring to the thin tainted Moon God Bloodline within me?"

No conflict ensued, which was also good for him, but... Moon remnants, whether it referred to the bloodline in his body or...

Thinking thus, Yu Hong gently grasped the Inheritance Dao Artifact Guang Han hanging on his chest.

This Spirit Disaster seemed deeply intertwined with the world itself...

If that dragon-headed figure really started fighting, he wasn’t sure he could withstand the opponent’s Spiritual Shock.

Although he had now acquired Spiritual Sharpness, the gap in spiritual power between them was still too large... he would likely need to use the Inner Qi merged with the Cosmic Divine Light.

And such creatures were definitely not the only ones inside.

’Looks like Temple Master Level is just the beginning... just barely out of the weak stage.’

Yu Hong thought, if he didn’t have his physical strength and other trump cards, relying solely on Temple Master Level spiritual power, he probably wouldn’t have been able to beat the Feixia Sword from Zihe Palace that came to support earlier.

"Still need to work hard." He tentatively instructed Agrius to approach the Heavenly Pillar.

Hiss.

A black smoke shot out from behind him, heading straight for the Heavenly Pillar.

After Agrius turned into smoke, he plunged into it without hesitation.

Then, there was silence.

After waiting for about half a minute.

Suddenly a black shadow shot out from the pillar, swiftly disappearing into the invisible Heavenly River beside Yu Hong.

It was Agrius!

Yu Hong took a moment to sense the situation inside the Heavenly River.

He then saw that only the front half of Agrius’s body remained, clutching in his mouth a black and purple stone resembling jade.

The stone appeared to have a character engraved on it.

But Yu Hong didn’t have time to take it out for inspection.

Because inside the front Heavenly Pillar, intense turbulence began to occur.

Terrifying waves of Spiritual Fluctuation spread out from the pillar.

One after another, figures with dragon heads and human bodies in armor stepped onto clouds and appeared.

They filled the space as far as the eye could see, numbering no less than a thousand.

The formidable spiritual fluctuations converged, forming an invisible whirlwind over the surrounding sea, which accelerated around the Heavenly Pillar.

The seawater was also forcibly distorted by the spiritual power, continuously twisting and turning, forming a massive vortex around the Heavenly Pillar.

Yu Hong, seeing the unfavorable situation, noticed that the readings on his multimeter had already skyrocketed to over a million!

So he quickly turned the yacht and forced his way out of the vicinity.

Strangely enough, the massive vortex seemed to pay no heed to him, nor did it attack him. It just spun on its own, spreading spiritual fluctuations as if searching for something.

After a few minutes, when the fluctuation found nothing, it quickly converged, and all the armored figures with dragon heads and human bodies slowly blurred and vanished.

By then, Yu Hong had already pulled away, standing hundreds of meters away on the sea surface, looking at the Yin Qi Sky Pillar with lingering fear.

"That’s exaggerated.... It rivals the Black Disaster from before...."

The first time he explored a large number of Black Disasters, the value had also directly soared to over a million, which had truly frightened him.

Perhaps it was a fluctuation produced by the accumulation of tens of thousands of entities, rather than a single entity with a value of millions.

"But even a spiritual value of tens of thousands is terrifying."

He could sense that inside the Heavenly Pillar, there was something even more exaggerated, lying dormant, not awakened.

Looking at the Heavenly Pillar, Yu Hong breathed a sigh of relief, quickly turned around, and headed back to Taizhou.

Halfway there, standing in the yacht, he reached out and retrieved something from inside Tianhe that Agrius had found.

It was an egg-sized black-purple stone, with a vague and unclear text engraved on its surface.

Yu Hong carefully identified it, and it seemed to be from the Second Night Language...

"Star!?"

He unconsciously read it aloud.

Just as he spoke, he realized something was amiss.

’Could it be Star??!’

Instantly, he linked this discovery to the clue related to the Star found in the Black Disaster.

In the Spirit Disaster too, clues about Star had unexpectedly appeared. Does this mean that these two types of disasters have some unknown connection between them?

Holding the stone, Yu Hong gently squeezed it.

Crack.

Suddenly, the stone crumbled like tofu.

Immediately afterward, the stone turned into a cloud of purple-black powder, instantly flying into the Inheritance Dao Artifact, Guang Han, he wore on his chest, thickly coating it.

A few breaths later, Guang Han returned to normal, and the layer of powder on the surface was absorbed and disappeared like water.

Meanwhile, Guang Han itself seemed to become brighter and more lustrous.

Observing this change, Yu Hong did not have time to stop it from happening, and he had no intention of intervening.

It seemed to be a good thing.

He tentatively input a bit of Dao Breath.

’Hungry....’

’So hungry....’

A spiritual fluctuation much stronger than before emanated from Guang Han, that was Chang’e.

The aura and fluctuation of Chang’e were at least twice as strong as before.

’Indeed, it’s a good thing.’ Yu Hong thoughtfully assumed that perhaps the initial material for the Inheritance Dao Artifact might have been obtained from the Spirit Disaster by the predecessors.

That is to say, the world’s magicians had started interacting with the Spirit Disaster quite early.

They might be able to fight the Black Disaster because they have the power of the Spirit Disaster, using it to suppress the unlimited resurrection ability of the Black Disaster.

Holding Guang Han and withdrawing that trace of Dao Breath, Yu Hong turned around and sped off into the distance.

The next day.

A letter personally written by the new Temple Master Zheng Rou of the Qingchen Temple was sent from Taizhou, heading to the Daoist Sect Ancestor Court at Yunshu Mountain.

The letter described in detail his exploration of the Yin Qi Sky Pillar, omitting parts about Guang Han and the multimeter, with most of the information written truthfully.

Since it was not possible to make phone calls to the Ancestor Court recently, letters had to suffice.

As Yu Hong waited for a response, he also began formally eradicating all cases in Taizhou.

As the new Temple Master, he intended to bring a style unlike Yu Hen’s, which was solely for making money. After all, given the current situation, what Qingchen Temple needed was not this style.

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At night, in a park in the city area.

Two Qingchen Temple Taoists were holding talismans, running Techniques, struggling to fight against a strong monster with a pig’s head and human body hiding in the shadows.

The monster, which intermittently appeared and disappeared, was muscular and dressed in tattered black robes, wielding a butcher’s knife, like a butcher specializing in slaughtering pigs.

Not far away, two Taoists had fallen unconscious.

Zheng Ming’s face was pale as paper; he sat cross-legged on the ground, attempting to gather Dao Breath to summon a new Fear Shadow.

His previous Fear Shadowibilidade had been forcefully torn apart by the monster.

"Just hold on a little longer, support is almost here!"

He loudly reassured the two Taoists in front.

But reassurance was futile in the face of absolute power differential.

The pig-headed man possessed extraordinary strength, and whenever his eyes turned red, his speed increased significantly.

His combination of speed and power easily disrupted the Techniques embodied in the talismans released by the two Taoists.

Bang!

Suddenly, the pig-headed man flung his butcher knife forcefully, letting it spin and fly towards one of the Taoist.

As the Taoist was unable to dodge in time and was about to be struck,

attacks from Spirit Disasters concentrate entirely on the spiritual, meaning that instead of the body, it’s the mental consciousness that gets damaged.

Even so, the healing time required for a spiritual injury isn’t any less than that for physical injuries.

It might even be more severe, potentially leaving a lifetime of permanent trauma.

At that moment,

a gigantic six-meter-tall black figure suddenly materialized and condensed, precisely blocking the trajectory of the flying cleaver.

Bang.

The cleaver spun and hit the black figure in the chest like striking a steel plate, bouncing off and landing on the ground motionless.

The blade had not inflicted even a minor scratch on the gigantic figure.