A Night of Desperation

Chapter 378: Resentment II

"What....!!?" Zuo Yunfeng witnessed this scene firsthand, never having seen such a Spirit Disaster before, neither in the Ancient Books nor during the decades he had presided over the Taoist Sect had any information mentioned such an exaggerated intensity of the Spirit Disaster!

No...

Still, there was someone...

Suddenly, a piece of information he had previously read flashed through Zuo Yunfeng’s mind.

In the fringe Taoist Sect, there was a new Temple Master of Qingchen Temple, who had repeatedly written letters warning the Taoist Sect to be wary of the enormous destructive potential of Spirit Disaster and Black Disaster.

The letters exaggeratedly claimed that if not taken seriously, both Black and Spirit Disasters would lead to uncontrollable catastrophic disasters.

The level of those disasters could even reach the extent of world annihilation.

At the time, Zuo Yunfeng had glanced at the letters and then discarded them aside - world annihilation?

With the Sky Stabilizing Plate, with him present, what natural disaster could achieve world annihilation? Moreover, armed with so many large-scale lethal weapons...

Zuo Yunfeng suppressed a trace of regret in his heart, rapidly forming handprints with both hands, Dao Breath madly surged into the handprint, the shadow behind him violently wriggled, vaguely expanding and rapidly corrupting the surrounding large space,

"Sealing Spirit Domain·Sky Determining Law!"

Several dark gold rune cylinders slowly emerged a few meters beside him.

Nine dark golden rune cylinders altogether quickly formed a circular array around him.

Crack.

Fine golden electric arcs began to light up between the nine cylinders, intertwining.

Zuo Yunfeng raised the horsetail whisk high, the tremendous Dao Breath split into nine in a blink of an eye, injecting into the surrounding cylinders.

Dense golden electric lights seemed to be summoning something, and in the void, a cold and majestic terrifying will began to slowly emerge, pouring into this world.

Countless golden electric lights converged on Zuo Yunfeng’s forehead, gradually forming a golden vertical pupil.

"Open!" He shouted fiercely and the golden vertical pupil shot towards the distant Cai Jing Taoist.

Hiss!!

A brilliant golden light burst from the vertical pupil, carrying an inexplicable divine and authoritative judgment will, its intensity several times greater than Zuo Yunfeng himself, and struck directly at Cai Jing Taoist.

Puff!

Cai Jing Taoist looked up, the colorful light on his head trembled, hit squarely by the golden light, spattering some fragments.

But, that was it.

Zuo Yunfeng’s full-strength strike only resulted in a few fragments on his adversary, nothing more.

"How is this possible!!?"

Zuo Yunfeng widened his eyes, unable to imagine that his century of hard-earned Magic, invoking the Divine Intent of Heaven, could possibly...

Ah!!

Before he could recover, a sharp cry of a baby rang out explosively around him.

Cai Jing Taoist gently pointed towards him.

A speck of colorful light flew out from his fingertip, then disappeared into a black hole in mid-air.

When it reappeared, it was already beside Zuo Yunfeng.

Bang!!

The colorful light hit the target squarely, completely enveloping Zuo Yunfeng.

A second later.

The colorful light dispersed.

Zuo Yunfeng, covered in blood, fell helplessly from a height.

"!!!"

Long Qingzi and Xu Chong lying below looked at this scene in disbelief.

Just a moment ago, Zuo Yunfeng, the strongest who had perfectly dominated and suppressed both of them unscathed, couldn’t even block a casual flick from the adversary!

"This is what you wanted! Is this the result you wanted!!?" Recovering, Xu Chong shouted angrily.

"Ha, hahaha..." Long Qingzi, however, laughed bizarrely. He slowly landed, looking up at the just-fallen Zuo Yunfeng.

"Look, isn’t this perfect? Strength rules everything! No one truly holds everything! Even a master as strong as ours has human limits!"

"You!!?"

Xu Chong thought his opponent had gone mad.

Before he could speak again.

That Cai Jing Taoist pointed at Long Qingzi again.

Colorful light burst out, disappearing into the black hole. When it reappeared, it was already behind Long Qingzi.

Puff!

He was markedly inferior to Zuo Yunfeng, frozen by immense spiritual suppression the moment the colorful light appeared, unable to move or dodge.

The light covered half his body on the spot, with countless threads of colorful light drilling out like worms, trying to pierce his body.

But they were forcefully blocked by the massive purple light that erupted from Long Qingzi.

He threw back his head, laughing, his hands forming Seal.

"Sealing Spirit Domain·Red Ridge!"

In an instant, centered around him, all space within dozens of meters manifested semi-transparent vague contours.

A piece of red mountains appeared out of thin air in a miniaturized form, descending around him.

This patch of red mountains appeared only for a moment, punctured by the colorful light threads in a blink, and collapsed.

But this momentary blockage was enough for Long Qingzi to escape.

His light wings vibrated at his back, transforming into purple light flying towards the distance.

"Delighted, today is truly delightful!! Master, you wanted to achieve immortality, right? Look, true immortality has come, descended! You must be very happy, right?? Why not hurry up and surrender!?"

He laughed loudly as he quickly fled into the distance.

Zuo Yunfeng’s body at this moment heavily smashed onto the ground, bizarrely shattering completely like porcelain.

This scene was witnessed by Xu Chong.

"Porcelain Substitution Technique...."

Swoosh!

Zuo Yunfeng’s figure slowly materialized beside Xu Chong and quickly solidified.

He looked down and spat out a mouthful of blood, his face pale, gasping heavily, and he looked up at the Cai Jing Taoist and the massive golden army array emerging behind him.

"It seems I underestimated the hazards of the Spirit Disaster...." His eyes returned to their usually calm and undisturbed state.

"But anyway, I only have less than a year of life left, you...."

Before he could finish, he paused suddenly, seeing the Cai Jing Taoist and the golden army array floating away, heading towards Tongning City, which was closest to the Sealing and Sacrifice Platform.

"I remember the Spirit Disaster, it can evolve itself by devouring souls... right??" he suddenly said.

"...I have never encountered such a strong Spirit Disaster before... It should be..." Xu Chong sighed.

"That direction, is that Tongning City? What’s the population? Five hundred thousand? Seven hundred thousand?" Zuo Yunfeng asked.

"Three million." Xu Chong replied, "Tongning City, with a permanent population of three million, and a floating population of one million...." His voice trembled.

"..."

Zuo Yunfeng slowly stood up straight, and a black shadow wriggled and emerged behind him, transforming into a black cloud, supporting his body.

Whoosh!

In an instant, he turned and ran, flying in the opposite direction of Tongning City and quickly disappearing into the sky.

"Zuo Yunfeng! You won’t die a good death!!" Xu Chong was stunned, then immediately burst into rage, mustering his remaining strength to shout.

"Now the only way is to seize Long Qingzi, letting him be my catalyst, complete the ritual, descend into the Pool of Ten Thousand Spirits to elevate myself to strength sufficient to confront and resolve everything!" Zuo Yunfeng’s indifferent voice rang out again.

"If it weren’t for you, I would have already completed the final ritual and achieved the Eternal Body! If it weren’t for your disruption, things wouldn’t have gotten to this point!!"

"You’re distorting the truth!!" Xu Chong spat out another mouthful of blood, his eyes gradually becoming vacant.

He was too severely injured; the fact that he had held on till now was already due to his strong foundation, and now infuriated by Zuo Yunfeng, seeing him cause a great disaster and still unrepentantly blaming others for not cooperating with his rush to complete, such twisted logic.

Xu Chong was so angry that his last breath was forcibly choked out.

But by this time, Zuo Yunfeng’s figure was no longer visible.

This First Heavenly Master, who had caused such a great calamity, had turned and run at the first opportunity!

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Qian’an Sanatorium.

The life-support system stopped running.

The long-sealed room door was slowly opened.

A slender arm as white as lotus root gently reached out, pushing the door open.

Whoosh!!

An immense spiritual pressure, invisible yet as overwhelming as the sun, covered the three outside for an instant, then swiftly retracted, as if afraid of harming them, completely disappearing.

The three felt as if they were small boats in the ocean, at that moment, as if the other party could easily overturn their thoughts with a mere flicker of intention.

Only Yu Hong, from beginning to end, covered his whole body with Inner Strength. Although shocked by Quan He Monarch’s terrifying spiritual power, the Spirit Light combined with the Cosmic Divine Light and his Inner Strength gave him robust confidence.

Now that the door was open, he was also quite curious about what Quan He Monarch, restored to her original peak state, had become.

The door slowly opened wider.

A woman with long hair wearing a moon-white Daoist robe quietly appeared before the three.

Her black hair cascaded down like a waterfall, simply pinned up with a plain wooden hairpin, her wide Daoist robe fluttering, loosely enveloping her body, her face delicate and soft, with a gentle and kind smile.

If she were not wearing a Daoist robe but casual home clothes, she would seem like the big sister next door, completely approachable.

"Did I scare you?" Quan He Monarch smiled as she walked out of the room, barefoot, stepping softly on the polished floor.

It seemed she was carefully experiencing a sensation she had not felt in many years.

"Not at all!" Qing Huang hurriedly returned from their shock, bowing respectfully.

"I have taught many people the Spirit Light Secret Skill, but among so many people, only Quan He Monarch... has transformed the most..." Yu Hong was also deeply shaken.

This Spirit Light Secret Skill, in the hands of the person before him, was not merely about normal restoration... it was truly rejuvenation!

This effect, those unaware would think he was offering some elixir of immortality.

"I was also curious for a moment, slightly studied the essence of Spirit Light Secret Skill, and then added some of my own techniques into it." Quan He spoke softly.

"The effect has changed from simply amplifying and restoring to also rejuvenating, of course, it’s just a small modification, you don’t mind, do you?"

"..... Of course not." What could Yu Hong say? A Venerate of this stature even modifying a Black Mark-enhanced Spirit Light Secret Skill was simply too extraordinary.

Quan He carefully examined herself.

"This is my state when I was twenty-five, borrowing Spirit Light to return to this time really wasn’t easy...."

"....." Yu Hong was speechless; he felt he and the other were not practicing the same secret technique.

"Don’t mind it, if you wish to learn later, I can teach you." Quan He smiled, noticing his thoughts.

"Thank you, senior!!" Yu Hong hurriedly bowed.

"Don’t always say ’senior’, look how young I am now, you should call me sister." Quan He sternly said.

".... Uh." Yu Hong felt that not only was the body rejuvenated, but the mindset had become younger as well.

"Alright, sister." He saw her expression begin to harden slightly and quickly blurted out.

"And these two. I haven’t seen them before, but since they have also joined my Spirit Light Mutual Aid Alliance, we are one family. You both understand what the extraction of Spirit Light leads to." Quan He’s gaze turned briefly to Qing Huang and Zhao Jingtang, who were trembling at the side.

"But after all, they are also two capable individuals; making do with them will work." She saw the two squeezing out ingratiating smiles like quails in front of her, feeling suddenly uninterested.

She then turned her head towards the entrance.

Two massive presences were rapidly moving in this direction.

"Great timing to stretch the legs, I didn’t expect my teacher to come out of seclusion so quickly!" A robust male voice reached them before the figure.

"Little Lian Yun and Little Golden Light?" Quan He smiled, pointing with her finger.

Everyone instantly saw the surroundings blur, and suddenly they were no longer in the underground life-support hall but inside the ground-level sanatorium yard.

"Ah." Before anyone could react to what was happening.

They saw Quan He Monarch covering her mouth, an apologetic look on her face.

"Sorry, habitually altered the perception to teleport here... An old bad habit, always hard to change..."

Yu Hong looked around and then at the innocent-faced Quan He Monarch.

He always felt something was off...