A Night of Desperation

Chapter 353: signs Three

"Where did the man who just dived go!?"

At this moment on the fishing boat, Yuan Chun also felt something was wrong and hurriedly grabbed the pendant of the Inheritance Dao Artifact on his chest.

From such a close distance, the opponent could dive and swim for a bit and then...

Puff!

Suddenly, a pale blue scimitar engraved with dense runes fiercely pierced through Yuan Chun’s chest from behind.

This scimitar not only penetrated him but also pierced through the Inheritance Dao Artifact that he was gripping tightly in his hand.

He stood frozen in place, vomiting a mouthful of blood.

"No!! Yuan Chun!!" Fa Ming, who was beside him, stunned for a moment, then roared furiously and instantly activated the Inheritance Dao Artifact.

A massive blue whale phantom quickly appeared above them and crashed down with a thunderous bang.

The entire fishing boat seemed to be enveloped in blue jelly, and all magicians onboard except for the two men would be attacked by the whale.

But...

The next second.

Hiss!

The entire head of the whale was severed from top to bottom by an invisible blade in an instant.

Roar!!

The whale screamed miserably, the Divine Intent from the Inheritance Dao Artifact quickly dissipated, and collapsed.

The fishing boat, unscathed, was revealed.

On the deck of the fishing boat, Yuan Chun and Fa Ming, two senior Magicians of the Temple Master Level from the Nine Sects, were now both lying in a pool of blood, lifeless.

A man in a black cloak with long black hair, bearing a giant character for "evil" on his back, was now standing beside the two bodies.

"Got rid of two more, can’t let Xu Chong reorganize the action team again." The man dissolved the pale blue scimitar in his hand, letting it turn into blue light spots.

"Xuan Jing Senior, your Passive Technique is cracked," said another woman in a black cloak, softly walking up beside him.

"It’s okay, I’ll fix it in a bit." The man chuckled, "But it’s rare for us to act together, does your Green Jade Sect want to join us for a joint operation?"

"You want to feed your Magic Blade with blood?" The woman revealed a hint of sarcasm.

"We’re all colleagues here, and the Alliance Hierarch is watching, how could I dare?" The man laughed playfully.

"You’re the leader of the Seven Evils, what is there you can’t do?" The woman spoke coldly.

"Enough jokes, let’s quickly make arrangements and head back, this place is cold and dull, there’s no one around, it’s boring." The man kicked the corpse in front of him.

"Okay."

The woman took out a black disc, covered in various symbols and patterns carved with purple-red lines, with a white human eye pattern at the center.

It was completely the opposite style of the Sky Stabilizing Plate.

She quietly chanted a few spell words and then threw the disc out.

"Go."

The disc gently plummeted into the sea surface, quickly sinking with a splash.

The two waited quietly nearby, no longer speaking.

After a few minutes.

Wisps of gray mist emerged steaming from the seawater.

"It’s done." The woman took out a black talisman, looked at the illuminated patterns on it, and nodded.

"Then let’s go." The man smiled, turned around, and was about to return to the small boat they came from.

Suddenly his expression changed, as if sensing something, he turned back to look at the sea.

"What’s wrong?" The woman looked at him puzzled.

"Nothing... It must be an illusion." The man shook his head. For a moment, he seemed to sense an extremely exaggerated and terrifying spiritual fluctuation flash by.

But soon he was back to his senses; how could such a powerful spiritual force exist in this world?

That kind of terrifying pressure, like a mountain range, would require at least a hundred times his spiritual power to converge.

Even the Alliance Hierarch couldn’t possibly be that strong.

"Let’s go."

He shook his head, slightly chuckled, and with a leap, landed lightly on the small boat as if performing light footwork.

The woman followed suit and stood on the small boat, and soon they started the engine, turned the bow, and rapidly left the way they had come.

Leaving behind the original large fishing boat, still quietly floating on the sea surface, with all living people aboard killed during their boarding.

The sea wind howled, and the waves surged.

In a few moments, over ten minutes had passed.

Hiss.

Suddenly a massive fish-shaped white light flashed by. It glided over the sea surface and vanished in a blink of an eye.

This white light appeared mysteriously and disappeared without a trace, with incredible speed.

After the white light, the previously large fishing boat also mysteriously disappeared from the sea surface, leaving no trace, as if it had never existed from the beginning.

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Hope City World.

Yu Hong stepped out from the black mist and returned to his own safehouse.

He took a deep breath, having not stayed here for a long time; returning now, he unexpectedly felt an indescribable sense of nostalgia.

’This trip to Hope City, to extract Spirit Light once, should be enough to enhance its intensity further.’

He contemplated inwardly, it had to be said, the strengthening ability of Spirit Light was bizarrely powerful.

The Tai Ling Skill had created something special that, much like a virus, as long as enough people practiced it, its intensity could crazily stack up.

Thud.

He opened the door.

Outside, the Ultimate Gate was wide open, a half-transparent hand resembling a sculpture of ice was stretching out, trying to grasp something.

The hand emitted a soft blue light, illuminating its surroundings, covering all the nearby ground with a thick layer of blue ice.

Yu Hong paid no mind to these.

Lately, the Ultimate Gate always occasionally bursts out with some monstrously powerful creatures.

But because he possessed a trace of the Ultimate Sun’s power, not only did these creatures not attack him, but they also regarded him as one of their own.

Rather it was Zhang Kajing.

Yu Hong looked towards her dwelling cave, securely sealed, and he could faintly sense a vague spiritual fluctuation still alive inside.

Confirming she was alive, Yu Hong did not dwell on it, he looked up at the direction, leapt high into the air, and with a sudden whoosh, he charged towards Hope City.

Hours later.

His figure returned to Black Wind Camp.

But this time, two physically robust armed warriors followed behind him.

Both warriors were dressed in the latest enhanced version of the Heavenly Destiny Suit.

This suit could extremely effectively transmit Spirit Light, and even amplify the effects of Spirit Light.

Thus, many users in Hope City had given it a common nickname—Spiritual Equipment.

"I’ll have to trouble you to patrol here. I will come out every once in a while; other times, I need to focus on research," Yu Hong stood at the door of the safehouse, turned back and instructed the two.

"It’s our duty, no need for the Alliance Hierarch to be polite," both persons responded respectfully, bending forwards.

"With Spiritual Equipment on, maintaining 24-hour security here should not be affected by various dangers. However, due to physical constitution issues, you still need to go back and switch every once in a while," Yu Hong said.

"We understand that, but regarding the other safe location mentioned by the Alliance Hierarch, not sure where it is…" one of them couldn’t help but ask again.

"I am already handling it, it still needs time. There are other dangers and troubles there, no less severe than the Black Disaster and Cold Disaster," Yu Hong sighed, feeling a headache coming on just thinking about the Spirit Disaster in the other world.

He was acquainting Hope City with various travel routes back and forth, also to facilitate his own convenience, so he wouldn’t need to keep running over there.

Now, the enhancement of Spirit Light has significantly improved the survival rate of warriors in Hope City.

Blended with Cosmic Divine Light, these individuals wouldn’t be actively harmed by creatures from the Ultimate Gate.

This meant that the Ultimate Gate’s area of influence, conversely, became a safe zone for humans.

This time was also a trial; if it was confirmed that the Ultimate Gate held no impact on Spirit Light, then Hope City planned to relocate again, moving closer to establish a new base here!

"The test time is roughly three weeks; if you two have no problems here over this period, then we will implement the next plan," Yu Hong said.

"Yes," the two responded respectfully.

Now, Hope City, for Yu Hong, was already as esteemed as a deity. Spirit Light significantly increased the residents’ survival rate, no worries about being frozen by the Cold Disaster, no worries about being killed by ordinary Black Disaster shadows.

Only when encountering high-level Black Disaster Blood Tide would there be danger.

Apart from the potential side effects not yet observed, Spirit Light has almost given the residents of Hope City a second life.

After settling the two in the yard, Yu Hong watched as they started to skillfully set up portable warming tents on their own, performing quite well even moderated by the warm reinforced Spiritual Equipment.

He turned his gaze, looking towards Zhang Kajing.

Indeed, the activity here caught Zhang Kajing’s attention.

A crack was moved in the stone door of the cave, a pair of eyes carefully observing from it.

"…" Watching those eyes, a sudden thought struck Yu Hong.

He waved his hand towards her.

"?" Zhang Kajing looked at him puzzled, paused, then forcefully pushed open the stone door and walked out from the cave.

She was wrapped up like a bear, wearing who knows how many clothes.

The cave was a mess with all sorts of random items picked from outside. There was also an electric stove boiling hot pot on the ground, steaming and fragrant.

Yu Hong sniffed, it even smelled quite delicious.

He watched her walk up to him and stand quietly in front.

This girl had not been afraid of the cold even back in the base, obviously a culmination of research by people like Zhang Kaijun, and her background was rather mysterious, Yu Hong always felt she wasn’t as simple as she appeared on the surface.

"Is it very boring staying here alone? Want uncle to take you to a nice place?"

He spoke softly, a gentle smile appearing on his face.

The world of the Taoist Sect now felt somewhat wrong. A foreboding feeling in his heart grew stronger; contacting Hope City this time was to borrow all possible power to stabilize a safe territory on the other side.

And the existing power, relying solely on the magicians from Taizhou might not be enough.

In Hope City, among the residents practicing Daoist Skills, there are now a thousand who have reached the Fifth Layer of Guanwu Skill.

With the Qi Condensation and Shadow Transformation Technique passed down, instantly thousands of top-tier Dao Seed masters would emerge.

He even suspected, in another half to a full year’s time, coming over, it wouldn’t be surprising to even see Temple Master Level figures.

The willpower of people here was horrifyingly firm.

Many warriors and soldiers hovering between life and death, their cultivation of Daoist Skills advanced explosively, to a point even more exaggerated than him, the teacher.