A Night of Desperation

Chapter 366: calculation II

"She’s still alive! She’s not dead yet!!"

At this moment, the huge change in emotions from sorrow to a glimpse of hope made Ku Chan’s face flush red with surging blood.

He quickly examined the traces and realized that it was likely a technique unleashed by his father, Yu Qin, before his death that protected and sent Ying’er away.

"Ying’er...." Ku Chan straightened his body and followed the traces left by the Dao Breath, hastening his steps towards the distance.

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On the outskirts of the Zihe Palace mountain ranges.

Rings of military defense lines encircled the massive gray clouds within.

Teams were periodically sent into the interior, trying to gather intelligence in a strategic manner.

The logistics teams continuously transported debris and animal carcasses, forming continuous orange lines.

Yu Hong observed the exterior situation from afar, choosing not to directly contact the official Taoist Sect.

From his previous experiences, he felt there were significant issues in how the Taoist Sect handled the Source Disaster.

Rather than that, he decided to continue building the Mutual Aid Alliance, undermining the Taoist Sect, and creating a new sect!

A few kilometers away from the encirclement, he parked his car in the wilderness and proceeded on foot.

On the gray serpentine road, Yu Hong stood halfway up the mountain, looking at the gray clouds inside the encirclement.

The gray clouds resembled a gigantic living creature, seemingly writhing and devouring everything inside Zihe Palace.

Yu Hong did not rush in but instead activated his mind.

Whoosh!!

In an instant, numerous black Dragon Lizards appeared in the shadows behind him.

"Go inside and have a look," he instructed.

With a swooshing sound, more than twenty Dragon Lizards rapidly charged towards the area enveloped by the gray clouds.

’This time, I need to test the limit of my strength against the Spirit Disaster. How strong can I be after several enhancements of Spirit Light, I must clarify this, otherwise, I might overestimate myself later,’ Yu Hong pondered.

This was also the reason he had to come here alone.

He had many secrets to keep. If he unleashed them one by one, it wouldn’t be easy to keep them secret with someone else around.

Soon, with the shared vision capability of the Dragon Lizards, he slowly moved forward and stepped off the edge of the road cliff.

Puff.

His body fell free, slowly descending towards the lower levels.

Acceleration from slow to fast.

Hundreds of meters in mid-air, the wind whistled louder and louder beside Yu Hong.

He breathed softly.

Buzz!

His body suddenly lit up with a white phosphorescent glow.

"Agrius."

Boom!

A giant black shadow flashed from behind him, precisely catching his body, then landed on the cliff, clinging to the cliff face, and quickly crawled towards the distant gray clouds.

In no time, Yu Hong quietly bypassed the official encirclement using Agrius’s cover, making it seem like only a patch of grayish-black mist had drifted by.

Finally, he successfully sneaked into the inner part of the Zihe Palace mountains.

Puff!

In a dense forest, Yu Hong stood on Agrius’s back, silently landing, standing in front of a vast expanse of gray clouds.

The gray clouds were rolling turbulently, less than one meter away from him.

Yu Hong gazed at the gray clouds, slowly extending his hand to touch them.

Sizzle!

The moment the gray clouds touched, they clung to his hand like living worms.

But they were quickly countered and neutralized by the white light on Yu Hong’s body.

"Let’s go."

Yu Hong commanded in a low voice and actively stepped forward into the gray mist.

The Dragon Lizards had already entered before him, but they couldn’t share their vision.

’It seems I have to check it out myself.’

Agrius carried Yu Hong quickly through the gray fog.

Surrounding them was a gray and dead silence with no insect sounds or birds chirping, only the rustling noise of the wind stirring the leaves.

After rushing deeper for a few hundred meters, Agrius suddenly stopped and looked forward.

Ahead, a thin figure holding a firewood knife stood silently on the withered, yellow grassland.

Despite the cover of gray fog, it was clear the figure was a woodcutter, but curiously, his upper body was bare, and his skin showed visible gray markings.

Yu Hong’s mind acted.

A Dragon Lizard silently pounced from the side, spitting out a dark red line of fire.

Puff, the woodcutter did not dodge and was hit directly by the fire line.

Fire corroded and sizzled.

But this seemed to startle the other party.

"Roar!!" The woodcutter roared lowly, like a wild beast, rushing towards the Dragon Lizard.

Flames were still burning on his body as if pain didn’t affect him, swiftly sprinting to the Dragon Lizard’s face to slash.

Ding!

The knife struck the Dragon Lizard’s face, sparking flames.

Its scales could resist gunfire and paid no mind to such attacks.

Yet, not minding the attack, the Dragon Lizard also roared lowly, swinging its tail instinctively forward.

Bang!

The firewood-cutting woodcutter was harshly hit on the neck, his cervical bone snapping instantly.

He flew more than ten meters away, rolling on the ground several times, but soon, he got up again.

Ignoring his broken neck, he continued approaching the Dragon Lizard upright.

’A living dead?’ Yu Hong frowned.

Immediately, he left a Dragon Lizard to entangle with the opponent while he took the rest of the team to rush deeper inside.

Passing through a small patch of forest, large patches of land appeared like bald spots burnt black.

On these grounds, everything including grass and trees was burnt to black ash by high temperatures.

Yu Hong took out the multimeter and saw the spiritual value fluctuating around seventeen.

His vigilance increased.

He continued forward.

The forest started to thin out, and traces of human habitation, such as log cabins, gradually became more common.

Some even had signs for tourist resorts.

Soon, he encountered the same type of grey-patterned skinned dead people as before.

A group of soldiers in armed police uniforms, holding firearms, hazily charged towards Yu Hong.

Similarly, black Dragon Lizards leaped out from behind Yu Hong, blocking these living dead.

Agrius, on the other hand, set his sights on a three-meter-tall humanoid snake-headed monster in silver armor behind the group.

This monster held a silver spear, wore a silver mask, and had a single red, upward-bending facial tendril that swayed with its movements.

Thump.

Thump.

Thump.

As the snake-headed humanoid’s heavy footsteps approached, the value on Yu Hong’s multimeter shot from double digits to triple digits.

It quickly fluctuated around three hundred eighty, equivalent to the spiritual strength of a seasoned Temple Master.

"Agrius, tear him apart."

Yu Hong patted the enormous lizard by his side.

With a thunderous boom,

Agrius, over thirty meters long, charged towards the opponent like a train.

A flash of golden electricity.

The monster raised its spear in an attempt to block horizontally, but the disparity in size and weight was too great; it happened in the blink of an eye.

Boom!!

The monster vanished from Yu Hong’s sight.

It was forcefully slammed by Agrius into the vast forest behind them.

Golden electric light flared up in the mist, emitting a piercing crackling sound.

After about half a minute, Agrius turned into black mist and returned to Yu Hong’s side, re-condensing.

The snake-headed humanoid did not reappear.

It was clearly defeated.

Yu Hong noticed a slight bulge in Agrius’ abdomen and wondered if it had eaten the creature.

"Continue."

He mentally noted that Agrius had effortlessly handled a spirit disaster monster with Temple Master level spiritual fluctuations.

This outing was not only to verify his own strength but also to test the limits of the power he could wield.

The living dead nearby were quickly dealt with one by one by the Dragon Lizards.

Yu Hong let the Dragon Lizards hunt freely while Agrius was also released to slowly explore towards Zihe Palace.

He then strolled at the rear, gradually moving forward.

Soon, after encountering the snake-headed humanoid three more times, a stronger dragon-headed humanoid in golden armor appeared before Yu Hong.

It had already started fighting Agrius ahead.

This creature, also over three meters tall, emitted fluctuations far weaker than the first dragon-headed humanoid Yu Hong encountered. Yet, its strength was much greater than the previous snake-headed humanoids.

It also bore numerous wounds and dents.

Agrius was also covered in scars, but unlike the humanoid, its injuries automatically healed and disappeared with a flash of black mist.

This was Yu Hong using the Heavenly River to heal it.

Hiss!!

Roar!!

The two monsters charged at each other again in front of Yu Hong.

Boom—A massive collision.

They clashed and wrestled on the ground.

Their strengths seemed comparable, with Agrius having a slight edge in brute force but lacking the agility of the opponent.

They seemed evenly matched, locked in a stalemate.

Yu Hong took out the multimeter and checked the spiritual fluctuations.

’812.732.’

He looked up at Agrius, surrounded by golden electric arcs; it seemed it had used all available means but still couldn’t defeat the dragon-headed golden armor.

"It seems this is your limit for now."

He put away the multimeter, shaking his head slightly.

He wasn’t sure what class the dragon-headed golden armor was among spirit disasters, but Agrius’ limit was now clear.

It hadn’t reached a thousand.

Staring at the roaring, struggling dragon-headed humanoid.

Yu Hong’s gaze narrowed slightly.

"It seems I need to take action myself..."

Without utilizing techniques—since using techniques here with his mere hundred-plus Dao Breath spiritual value would be a waste and equivalent to feeding the enemy.

Daoist Skills, from the beginning, were his way to find a complete solution to the Black Disaster to compensate his weak points.

Now, they were best used just for protection.

So...

Yu Hong raised his right hand, forming it into a blade.

"Test item one: cover with ten percent Inner Strength."

White light flowed over the surface of the hand blade like ripples.

He took steps towards the opponent.

Then...

Whoosh!!

In an instant, Yu Hong had vanished from the spot.

When he reappeared, he was already behind the dragon-headed humanoid.

Without turning around, he lowered his hand, flicking off a drop of golden blood from his fingertips.

He moved away forward.

Behind him, right in the middle of the dragon-headed man’s chest, there was a thump, and it explosively burst open, forming a hideous, large gash.

This gash burst forth with large amounts of golden blood, completely splitting its body in two, severing it horizontally!

Roar!!

Amidst the howling, the body of the dragon-headed humanoid shattered, turning into countless wisps of gray mist that dissipated into nothing.