Night of Despair-Chapter 557 - 555 Fusion One

On the other side, Bai Sheng and Quan He also stood on the spaceship, gazing at the surging mass of the Black Tide below.

"This place has already been completely overtaken by the Black Tide... there’s no hope." Bai Sheng sighed.

"As is customary, you try to test your skills, experience the destructive power and lethality of your cultivation level, and thereby determine your position in the Extraordinary World."

"Alright." Quan He’s expression remained unchanged, mentally prepared for this.

She was also granted a magic treasure by her master, a silver-edged, palm-sized mirror with a simple and elegant appearance.

Pointing the mirror downward, suddenly, with a whoosh, a pillar of silvery white light surged out.

But the light pillar’s descent was extremely slow, covering an area of only about ten meters wide, turning a small section of the worms below into ash.

Quan He sighed, retracting the magic treasure.

’I wonder how Yu Hong is doing over there. Probably facing something similar, the Black Tide here is much harder to deal with than outside.’ She felt this kind of emotion for the first time in her life.

It was fresh yet tinged with a hint of melancholy.

"Don’t worry, you’re just at the Foundation Establishment Stage, it’s natural for the magic treasure’s power to be small. Let me explain how to effectively combat the Black Tide here," Bai Sheng’s voice rang out beside her.

"Yes." Quan He responded immediately.

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Boom!

The Black Phoenix once again swooped down, finally shattering the upper body of the Hundred-armed Giant Demon.

Black flames quickly spread across the remains of the Hundred-armed Giant Demon, burning it until it was turned into a massive torch, engulfing everything.

"Finally...." Yu Hong on the spaceship breathed a sigh of relief. After grinding it down for so long, he had finally dealt with this creature.

The power of the Black Phoenix was indeed impressive, even though it had been crushed several times in between, it had always reborn using True Yuan.

This magic treasure clearly had an unending supply of True Yuan and relentless attacks.

He looked down, the land of Yellow Leaf State, once covered in countless yellow leaves, was now almost completely destroyed due to their battle.

The land was now nothing but a charred black ash.

This area had been burned to a black ash, resembling a huge black scar on the land of Yellow Leaf State.

The remaining black tentacle worms were mostly burned to ashes in the prolonged battle.

Yu Hong identified the positions of the remaining black tentacle worms; with a thought, the Black Phoenix flew out again, diving towards them.

A few minutes later, the last of the black tentacle worms were cleared out.

He let out a sigh of relief, about to use his magic artifact to contact Senior Sister.

"Kill!" Suddenly, a deep roar in the Night Language came from the mid-air behind him.

He quickly turned around to see a giant black whale, its head covered in a ghastly white bone armor, flying at high speed towards him from the sky.

The giant whale was only about fifty to sixty meters long, but its body was riddled with numerous black holes, from which black smoke continuously emanated.

On the giant whale’s head stood a tall man in black armor, wielding a gigantic sword.

"Who are you?" Yu Hong rarely encountered a monster that could speak. He couldn’t help but use the Night Language to communicate.

"Heavenly Sun Sect, Protector Li Xun!"

"Heavenly Sun Sect?" It was the first time Yu Hong heard this name and wanted to ask more. But the opponent had already entered within a hundred-meter range.

Immediately, he controlled the Black Phoenix to meet the attack head-on.

Screeeech!!

The massive phoenix, engulfed in rolling black flames, fiercely swooped towards the giant whale.

The phoenix was only over ten meters long, but with the added black flames surging around it, its momentum was in no way inferior to the giant whale.

The two monsters collided instantly.

Bang!

The Black Phoenix was sent flying on impact, tumbling with a screech, scattering black flames everywhere.

The giant whale’s speed slightly reduced, still charging towards Yu Hong, about to crash into the spaceship.

Yu Hong’s expression changed slightly, rapidly channeling True Yuan, his right eye flashed with colored light.

Swish!

A slender beam of colored light shot forth, hitting the giant whale’s head.

This time it worked, the light beam pierced through, creating a hole in the giant whale’s head.

But the black-armored man leaped up, brandishing his giant sword, rolling and flying towards Yu Hong.

"Die!!"

At this distance, the man reached Yu Hong in an instant, striking down at Yu Hong’s shoulder with his giant sword.

The giant sword’s swoosh came with a deafening boom, rings of white air currents being compressed and displaced.

As the giant sword descended, the rapid speed created a small vacuum in the air surrounding it.

The sword’s surface, rubbing against the air, even sparked thin red flames.

’Thunder Sound Sky-breaking Blade!!’ The black-armored man’s entire body surged with black energy, dyeing the giant sword pitch black, sealing off the surrounding space, prohibiting instantaneous movement and teleportation.

One deadly strike! Right on target!

Boom!!

There was a burst of explosive roaring on the spaceship deck.

Everything fell silent.

Shhhhh!

Suddenly, a broken black blade, spinning at high speed, flew out of the spaceship, plunging fiercely into the ground below. freeweɓnovel.cѳm

On the deck.

Yu Hong grabbed the giant black blade with one hand, pressing the other onto the black-armored man’s forehead.

The scene froze.

The front half of the giant blade broke off and flew away, disappearing without a trace.

The man’s head tilted back at a right angle, forehead blasted open with a giant lotus-shaped wound.

"Is it over?" Yu Hong furrowed his brow in confusion, retracting his hand as the man fell backward with a thud, his body beginning to disintegrate into black smoke.

Then he looked up at the giant whale floating in mid-air.

Swoosh!

The giant whale involuntarily shrank back, its whole body trembling.

The next second, it flicked its tail, turned around, and lunged into a black crack, disappearing from sight.

"So timid, why even come out to be a Black Tide monster?" Yu Hong was speechless.

Now he finally understood why conscious beings couldn’t match the strength of those acting instinctively.

Fear and terror inherently weakened their normal strength.

"Such a big display, I thought it was formidable, but in the end..." Yu Hong shook his head.

He had actually just wanted to block it initially, but didn’t expect that as he blocked, the creature exploded by itself.

He hadn’t even put in any effort yet.

Looking down, he checked the spaceship to ensure that his senior sister’s ship was undamaged under his precise control.

Yu Hong let out a breath of relief.

’It must have been severely injured beforehand. By the time it got to me, it was already at its wit’s end.’ After all, the Black Phoenix had also been shattered by it before.

’Probably shattering the Black Phoenix was its last burst of strength.’

Only this explanation could justify why it suddenly disappeared at the last moment.

Refocusing, Yu Hong took out the talisman from his storage bag to contact his senior sister.

True Yuan ignited, and as the talisman slowly burned, a message was sent out.

"Senior sister, are you done over there? I’ve finished up here."

"Almost, almost. These rats are scattering everywhere, so troublesome!" Hei Ying said helplessly. "You didn’t run into any trouble, did you? I was just ambushed by a human-shaped monster riding a Black Whale."

"No problem. I also ran into that one, but it’s all resolved. It suddenly charged at me, and when I just blocked, it exploded. Guess it was severely injured somewhere else." Yu Hong said.

"Severely injured? Well, maybe I stabbed it before leaving." Hei Ying speculated.

"Probably. It exploded suddenly, scared me a bit." Yu Hong laughed.

"As long as you’re fine. I’m coming back soon. We need to meet up with the senior brothers."

"Okay."

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Beside the turbid river.

Plop.

A tall man in black armor, holding a black blade, fell by the riverbank, motionless.

"Brother Li? What’s... What happened to you..." The man in black robes lying on the ground looked at his friend in astonishment, not knowing what happened.

"I... What was I going to do just now?" The man in black armor was weak all over, his face confused.

"Why does my head hurt so much?"

"You said you were going to avenge me," the man in black robes answered.

"Really?" The man in black armor turned over, looking up at the sky. "Did I go?"

"... I don’t know..." The man in black robes was puzzled, "I forgot."

"... I forgot too..." The man in black armor raised his broken black blade, looking at the half-cut edge.

"My blade is broken. What mission were we here for again?"

"... Mission?" The man in black robes started to think, "Did we have a mission?"

"Aren’t we Black Disaster? Why do we need to do missions?" The man in black armor also questioned.

"Yes... We’re Black Disaster, we’re free, why take orders..."

"Yeah, forget the mission... Lying here feels so good..."

"Really, so comfortable..."

The two lay side by side, looking at the sky, their clear eyes gradually turning into confusion and daze.

Before long, as the surrounding black worms completely disappeared, black mist appeared beside them, enveloping them and taking them away together.

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Red Stone Plain.

The vast expanse of blood-red rocks covered the ground.

Two spaceships, one black and one white, were floating in mid-air, meeting.

On the deck, Bai Sheng and Hei Ying were exchanging the information they had gathered and the spoils of war.

Yu Hong and Quan He were standing guard around them, occasionally chatting softly.

"I was really lucky this time, only encountered opponents I could handle well. Solved the Hundred-armed Giant Demon and later picked off some severely injured monsters easily." Yu Hong summarized his training this time.

"I was just cleaning up some black worms alone. Encountered two Broodmothers and it took a long time to grind them down. My cultivation is still too weak." Quan He sighed.

"Don’t worry, you’re already very fast." Yu Hong comforted her.

"I’m much slower compared to you." Quan He shook her head.

"Don’t compare yourself to me. I just look fast now. When it comes to stages requiring comprehension, I’ll be stuck and unable to move forward. By then, you’ll be way faster than me," Yu Hong said sincerely, "I’ll have to ask you for advice a lot then."

"You’ve become more articulate than before. I’ll help you more in the future." Quan He smiled. She had indeed noticed Yu Hong’s poor comprehension compared to her, so she knew his words were genuine.

"What are we doing next?"

"Only this plain area needs to be cleaned up. This place is the most troublesome because there are too many deep holes requiring gradual, thorough handling." Bai Sheng answered Quan He’s question.

"Next, I’ll arrange the divisions here. The plain has five large areas, each with many small cave groups..."

While Bai Sheng was arranging the split tasks, Yu Hong suddenly felt a burst of heat in his body.

Sensing something, he immediately closed his eyes, sending his consciousness deep into his mind, reaching a corner of his traits.

The trait light ball he had fused earlier was now emitting a pure pale golden glow.

Clearly, the fusion was complete.