Night of Despair-Chapter 409 - 407 Hope 1

Massive swathes of dark and grey fog intertwined, cancelling each other out, while grey fog poured crazily from the mouth and nose of the Jin-crowned Taoist, counteracting the black fog.

Yu Hong at the bow of the ship was ablaze with purplish-red flames, stubbornly holding back the majority of the spiritual suppression.

This also made it much easier for the people behind him.

"Form the Array!!" Qing Huang shouted loudly.

Everyone hurriedly found their positions, took out portable Array Plates, and pressed them to the ground.

Buzz!

Rings of silver Spirit Light combined with Dao Breath surrounded everyone, forming a gigantic Yin Yang Diagram.

The Yin Yang Diagram covered Yu Hong at the front, completely blocking off the immense pressure coming from ahead.

"The ship is leaking!!" Zhao Jingtang yelled.

"Find something to plug the leak!!" Yu Hong roared, his body’s Dao Breath and Spirit Light madly pouring into the Array.

Immediately, the Array expanded significantly, like a vast raincoat, wrapping the entire Black Ship within it.

He didn’t have much Dao Breath, which was only slightly more powerful than Qing Huang’s, and not as strong as Zhao Jingtang’s, but he had more Spirit Light.

Quickly, the leaking of the Black Ship was alleviated, the ship stabilized itself, turned on its own, and steered away from the jin-crowned Taoist’s head towards other directions.

Fortunately, the Jin-crowned Taoist did not pursue them any further, just stood in the distance, watching them leave.

But the next second.

A pure gold hand descended from the sky, piercing through the black fog, and grasped towards the Black Ship.

The hand opened so wide that it almost completely covered the sky above the Black Ship, and just by visual estimation, its length and width surpassed a hundred meters.

Obviously, it was not the work of the Jin-crowned Taoist from before, but rather another unknown and terrifying Spirit Disaster Monster.

For a moment, the black fog was forcibly pushed aside, and the grey fog of the Spirit Disaster invaded, while strains of Xian music reached everyone’s ears.

From afar, it seemed like someone was singing a high song.

"The Golden Immortal’s Dao forms lotuses as cultivation progresses, all is up to me and not to heaven!"

"Is this freaking a Golden Immortal!!??" Yu Hong looked up, pressing against the Array, peering through the halo above. This completely overturned his impression of Golden Immortals from the legends.

The giant gold hand’s palm was engraved with numerous colorful images of Immortal Gods descending to the mortal world and worshipped by myriad people.

But these images, as the hand drew nearer, began to animate, with the myriad worshippers turning into skeletons, their bodies emitting white light, merging into the bodies of the Immortal Gods.

Then, countless faces emerged on the surface of the Immortal Gods, like a dense cluster of blister-like faces, seemingly all the myriad people they had devoured.

Yu Hong desperately released the boundless inner strength of his Tai Ling Skill, but compared to the opponent’s immense pressure, the speed at which he released his Inner Strength was far too slow.

So much so that the Array enveloping the Black Ship began to deform and crack again, with the outer hull constantly shedding and falling.

Crack.

The silver Yin Yang Diagram that the Array formed showed cracks.

Finally, two breaths later.

All the Magicians on the ship vomited blood in unison, and the Array exploded with a bang.

The giant hand grabbed directly onto the body of the Black Ship.

Yu Hong could no longer contain himself, his entire body emitted blinding silver light, ready to completely recall all the Spirit Light.

But...

Roar!!!

Just then, a loud and deep terrifying roar erupted from within the Black Ship.

The entire ship stiffened violently, the black fog behind it rolling and surging, condensing into a Dragon Lizard the size of a hundred meters resembling Agrius.

But compared to Agrius, this Dragon Lizard was entirely composed of black fog, its body almost as large as the Jin-crowned Taoist in front of it.

As soon as it appeared, its body released blinding Golden Light, transforming into an exaggerated golden colossus, and struck a paw towards the golden hand.

The gold hand, unable to crush the Black Ship in a short time, reached out towards the giant golden Dragon Lizard.

Boom!!

Giant hand against giant claw, the two colossal figures collided right above the Black Ship.

Black River was stirred up with huge waves, the Black Ship swayed within them, constantly losing fragments, but it just would not break.

An unknown force forcibly held the Black Ship together.

"Is that... Agrius’s actual projection!?" Yu Hong, crawling on the violently shaking deck, raised his head and guessed the identity of the giant golden Dragon Lizard.

Agrius was the Prison Warden that guarded the Black Ship and its successive ship owners, and must have an intricate relationship with the Black Ship.

Hiss.

Yu Hong poured all his inner strength into the Black Ship beneath his feet, extravagantly burning vast amounts of Inner Strength to propel the ship forward, steering into the depths of the black fog.

The battle between Agrius and the golden giant hand quickly receded into the background.

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The Black River was tumultuous, and the voyage had never been as intense as today.

As the distance grew, gradually, the successive huge collisions behind them began to fade away.

Minutes later.

The people barely dared to stand up, hastily taking their own medicine to heal.

Two more minutes passed.

The temperature dropped further.

"We’re almost there! Everyone, quickly get dressed, it’s tens of degrees below zero here, you could easily run into trouble if you’re not careful!"

Yu Hong hurriedly reminded.

"There are cotton clothes prepared in the cabin, with all sizes available, everyone help yourselves!"

The line of Magicians moved extremely fast, knowing that this was no time to dawdle, and in less than two minutes everyone was clothed.

After experiencing the recent massive turmoil, everyone calmed down and noticed that there were quite a few people missing from the crowd.

Many of the weaker Magicians from Qingchen Temple, and ordinary people, were all shaken off into the Black River outside during just now’s fierce conflict.

Spirit Alliance also had many people cast outwards.

Yu Hong vividly sensed the delicate strands of Spirit Light rapidly returning to his body.

This meant that the people who were thrown off had already died.

He stood at the bow, looking back at the remaining magicians with an ugly expression on his face.

Of the more than seventy people before, about half remained.

The only consolation was that Master Yu Mo and others were still there. The ones not thrown off were their Taoist boys, disciples, relatives, and some lower-level members of the Spirit Alliance.

Puh.

Finally, the Black Ship slowly moored and came to a halt.

Ahead of the bow, the fog dispersed, revealing the landscape outside the safe haven’s cave and campground.

The Array was still within the range polluted by the Light Disaster, covering and maintaining a small area.

Yu Hong took the lead, jumping from the bow, followed by thirty or so others who entered the camp one after another.

The sudden huge drop in temperature caused everyone’s faces to change dramatically, with silver Spirit Light being stimulated all over their bodies to resist the cold.

"This is where I used to live. Let’s settle here for the time being."

Yu Hong led the way, bypassing the Light Disaster Ultimate Gate, which kept releasing monsters, and arrived in front of the cave entrance.

The Wind and Fire Slaughter Spirit Array operated steadily, releasing a faint silver light screen, blocking the even harsher outside environment.

When Yu Hong arrived, inside the Array, the mysterious Zhang Kajing was hunched over planting vegetables in the snow, and it was unclear what kind of vegetables could survive in such low temperatures.

Hearing the commotion, she stood up and turned to look into the camp.

Her expression stalled momentarily.

More than thirty people, all wrapped in thick black cotton clothes, abruptly emerged from behind the cave, standing together in the campsite in front of the cave.

The light from the Ultimate Gate illuminated them, making Zhang Kajing even more curious about Yu Hong. There had been no one here before, and now suddenly so many had arrived.

"This place...." Zhao Jingtang spat on the ground.

The spit had turned into ice while still midair and shattered on the ground.

All the magicians who entered the Array camp were somewhat befuddled.

The place was bright all around, all white light, but the sun was not visible.

Around them, there were metal walls over three meters high and very thick. Black Dragon Lizards, with silver light on their heads, patrolled the top of the wall slowly, walking back and forth.

Aside from the extremely low temperature, there was no doubt this was a very safe place.

Yu Hong didn’t have time to attend to them. He gave the crowd some food and drinks, then let them set about building their own shelters against the cold.

Soon, Yu Hong boarded the Black Ship again to pick up the second group of people.

He needed to retrieve as many experts as possible; the more powerful individuals gathered, the better and faster they would be able to navigate the road ahead.

Magicians, especially top-level magicians, were powerful cores that were scarce anywhere.

Ten minutes later, another boatload of people was brought back. This time they encountered no monsters blocking their way, and everything was so smooth that he could hardly believe it.

This time, the ones he brought back were mainly the other members of the Spirit Alliance Qingchen Temple.

The third time.

Yu Hong went again, but...

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Taizhou.

Crack.

Black fog surged out from the room. Yu Hong leaped out and, half-kneeling on the ground, got up and rushed out of the room to look around.

"The remaining people...!" He had only said half of his sentence when he abruptly stopped and quieted down.

Because outside the room, as far as the eye could see, were corpses.

Taoist robes, casual clothes, a dense pile of bodies amassed together.

Blood converged into streams, murmuring from the drainage ditch at the edge of the courtyard into the ground below.

In the center of the main hall, the statue of Heavenly Venerate tilted to one side, broken off.

An unknown monk sat cross-legged on the ground, head bowed facing the statue, beneath him a pool of dried dark red blood.

Yu Hong silently moved about, recognizing them.

These were the members of the Spirit Alliance Qingchen Temple who were busy deploying their forces to resist last time he was here. Now, they were utterly still.

Many places around the Taoist Temple had collapsed, with charred spots left on the ground. Clearly, after his second departure, Spirit Disasters had already invaded here.

The Dragon Lizards he left behind had long lost movement, and these charred marks were likely left by the Dragon Lizards’ fire breath.

Taking a deep breath, Yu Hong charged out from the half-open gates of the Taoist Temple.

Outside, the street was also shrouded in grey fog.

Countless sounds like prayers, reciting Daoist Scriptures, came faintly from afar.

Within the ten or so meters visible on the street, walls were cracked, the ground sunken, and dirty clothes and shoes were scattered everywhere, but no people were seen.

Several collided vehicles blocked the front of the Taoist Temple. The people inside had long lost their breath.

Yu Hong took a deep breath, about to continue his investigation.

Suddenly, a massive formidable pressure swept across the sky.

Whoosh!

The potent oppression instantaneously crushed the few remaining buildings in the vicinity.

In a moment, dust billowed in the fog, debris flew, and the next second, everything was thoroughly subdued.

Yu Hong excessively restrained his breath and waited for the pressure to leave before heading straight to the temporary command center.

Minutes later, he arrived in front of the temporary command center building. The previous building, now only one-third left, was flattened like a cardboard box, the entire structure twisted eerily.

The surface of the black walls was covered in patches of exposed concrete.

Without looking, it was certain there were no survivors inside with the interior compressed to this state.