Night of Despair-Chapter 442: Exploration 440 Four

Yu Hong sensed the approximate number of remaining dragon lizards after many had been stationed in the New World. Considering no new ones had been created recently and the losses incurred during previous battles, the current number was fairly decent.

"Dragon lizards’ strength is starting to lag behind... they will need to be enhanced later. For now, they’re temporarily empowered by Spirit Light, which makes them barely usable."

Yu Hong kept this matter in mind.

Next, the Arrays.

He eyed the ship model suspended in midair.

"The Black Light itself comes with a basic defensive Array, which offers concealment and weak protection. Its strength isn’t high and it will likely be breached by War Level monsters... I must set up a stronger Array for protection myself."

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He had tried directly empowering the Array with Spirit Light, but to no avail; the boost from Spirit Light only lasted a very short time, because it wasn’t a living being.

In the future, deploying a living being to set up the Array could circumvent this shortcoming.

Now, his mastery of Arrays was decent. Although definitely not comparable to the experts from the Taoist Sect world, who had immersed themselves for many years, he was capable of quickly setting up and slightly modifying an Array when given one.

Yu Hong made a calculation.

"The Arrays I currently master primarily consist of Special Attack Formations from the Taoist Sect world, focused on spiritual power suppression. They’re a bit too ethereal against physical monsters."

He turned his attention back to the Wind and Fire Slaughter Spirit Array·Revised, which they enhanced at base.

This Array was no longer the original version of the Wind and Fire Slaughter Spirit Array; its strength had been significantly improved.

"Combining this Array with those from the Taoist Sect world could set up a layered defense—one against physical entities and one against spirits. However, the strength of the Wind and Fire Slaughter Spirit Array is still weak; it needs to be augmented."

This Array could only counter Black Disaster Monsters below Level Nine; anything higher would be too much.

As Yu Hong pondered on how to enhance and modify it, he ordered the dragon lizards to start patrolling the Black Light at set points and times.

These dragon lizards primarily fed on Red Value Radiation; in times of need, they could directly consume Black Disaster Monsters as their main diet, making them very easy to maintain.

Soon, using the materials transported from the New World, Yu Hong set up Array Talismans throughout the Black Light, combining the Wind and Fire Slaughter Spirit Array with a Ziwei Chaotic Star Array selected from the Taoist Sect world. He managed to raise the defense system to a higher level.

Transforming the previous basic physical defense system into an overlapping defense system that could strike both spiritually and physically.

Hum.

As the Black Light navigated through, it quivered throughout its hull, and a faint dark red trace silently flashed across its surface.

Following that, various faint red, strange patterns began to appear all over the hull, along with symbols representing the magic of the Taoist Sect system.

Standing in the Main Control Room, Yu Hong observed the ship’s body and nodded slightly.

"The new Hybrid Array shall be called the Black Light Array. It just needs Inner Strength infusion every thirty days. As long as the Array remains intact, no monster can board and attack. Not bad."

He slightly adjusted the ship’s body, reducing the pseudo-camouflage aura effect of the Black Light Array somewhat. This was a feature that came with the ship before the base defense was integrated and worked well.

Once weakened, the presence of various Black Disaster Monsters in the surrounding Black River, far stronger than the previous small fish and shrimps, quickly awakened.

They sensed the entry of the Black Light.

Swoosh!

Instantly, the first powerful monster burst forth from the water.

Yu Hong took a closer look; it was a towering black giant insect, over five meters tall, reminiscent of a tick—his old friend, the elephant worm.

Moo!

The elephant worm roared as it slammed into the side of the Black Light.

Boom.

Instantly, a layer of dark red halo radiated from the surface of the ship, where red circuit-like patterns spread out as if to distribute the force of the impact evenly.

The halo quickly faded, rendering the impact utterly ineffective.

The elephant worm returned defeated, plunging back into the Black River.

But its attack was just a signal, and the next moment.

Pupupupu!!

Countless elephant worms emerged, breaking the water surface, accompanied by pale, long-dress-clad figures with black hair appearing out of thin air and flying towards the Black Light, attempting to board.

"Shunpo?" Yu Hong squinted, recognizing these advanced-level Evil Shadows.

Shunpo swarmed in, and at a glance, there were at least a hundred of them.

They crashed against the dark red semi-transparent Array shield on the ship’s body and were harshly repelled, leaving behind transient red circuit-like halos.

The thudding of the impacts drew Ku Chan and two others out from indoors to the deck, peering out.

Countless monsters slamming against the dark red, semi-transparent Array shield was like looking at a large school of fish bumping against the glass of an aquarium.

The overwhelming sense of pressure inadvertently made Ku Chan grip the hilt of his Chi Xiao Sword tightly.

Zhang Kajing, with a calm expression, watched intently, still holding a game controller in her hand.

Yiyi bit her lip, her body tensed, worry evident in her eyes.

Splash.

Suddenly, in the Black River outside, there was a sound of a large amount of water being churned.

On the river’s surface, massive heads, each about thirty meters in diameter, slowly emerged from the water.

These heads, without bodies, slowly broke away from the water and floated upward, their skin pale and rotting, with thin black maggots crawling in and out of their eyes, nostrils, and mouths.

The massive heads blocked the Black Light’s path on the river.

They tightly packed the river’s surface, perfectly colliding head-on with the even larger hull of the ship.

Boom boom boom!!

Amidst the continuing collisions,

The Black Light’s Array began to violently shake, with dark red glow patterns being constantly triggered.

Yu Hong stood in the Main Control Room, his expression slightly furrowed.

"This intensity..." He noticed that after the appearance of those giant heads, all the preceding Black Disasters, including the swift beings, had retreated on their own.

Clearly, these massive heads were even more formidable monsters.

’How to assess the specific level of the monsters outside?’ He pondered briefly, then suddenly raised his right hand.

A black giant lizard more than thirty meters in length materialized outside the hull of the Black Light.

It was Agrius.

’Go, kill one of the giant heads,’ Yu Hong ordered mentally.

Agrius, devoid of intelligence, directly lunged at the nearest giant head.

Boom.

It collided head-on with the giant head, which was unaffected, while it rebounded and almost tumbled into the river.

The two were similar in length, but the difference in size made it clear they were not on the same level.

Instantly, golden electricity flared all over Agrius, and it pounced again, clawing and biting, struggling fiercely with the pale giant head.

After watching for a few seconds, Yu Hong roughly grasped the level of the giant heads.

’War Level monsters?’

That the Black Light had attracted so many War Level creatures was unexpected for him.

Watching the Black Light’s defensive array on the brink of collapse, Yu Hong roughly calculated the array’s defensive limit and promptly activated the stealth function.

At the same time, he recalled Agrius.

But the giant heads outside had already set their sights on the large ship; even with the aura concealed, they showed no signs of retreating and instead swarmed toward the ship in dense clusters.

Judging by their numbers, which filled half the river’s airspace, there were at least a hundred.

"May I take action?" Ku Chan’s voice transmission came all of a sudden.

"You may. This array allows for actions from inside to outside without interference," Yu Hong replied via voice transmission.

"Understood." Ku Chan’s voice lowered.

The next second.

A surge of dark red fire shot up from the ship into the sky.

Accompanied by the cry of a giant bird, the firelight condensed into a hundred-meter-long flame phoenix, which broke through the array and lunged at the giant heads outside.

Upon contact, the giant heads melted rapidly like candles under a flame.

’This guy’s strength has increased again...’ Yu Hong thought to himself.

It was worth it for him to have specially developed the Red Food Method to delay the onset of side effects.

His progress was almost catching up to his own.

He, after all, had the trait of Continuous Tao Breath Circulation, allowing for twenty-four-hour cultivation, a prodigious talent.

And the Tai Ling Skill he was practicing was something he himself was eager to advance in.

Yu Hong watched the dark red phoenix circle the ship, effortlessly burning all the giant heads, then it returned to Ku Chan, dissipated into flames, and merged back into his body.

Then Yu Hong saw Ku Chan take out a white pill from the pocket of his Daoist robe, examined it, then stuffed it into his mouth like a jelly bean, and turned to leave.

Speechless, Yu Hong continued to steer the Black Light towards the general direction of the Taoist Sect’s original location.

Although the Black River’s course was blurry and shrouded in fog, by using the reference points from Prison Island, the Hope City World, and the New World, he had long determined the region where the Taoist Sect world was.

Soon after the giant heads disappeared, the Black Light activated its stealth aura, and thereafter it encountered no other troublesome Black Disaster Monsters.

The ship pressed on.

The massive turbines below the vessel, irresistible, dragged any approaching monsters into their maw, ground them into mincemeat, then expelled them from the stern, serving as propulsion.

Over half an hour later.

The Black Light finally began to slow down.

Yu Hong stood in the Main Control Room, carefully observing through the windows.

Simultaneously, he began sensing the locations of spiritual auras in the surrounding region with all his might.

This time, he didn’t intend to return but planned to stay aboard the Black Light, prepared for a lengthy period, searching the nearby area.

After all, his Inner Strength was virtually inexhaustible thanks to the Light Disaster; he could recharge the Black Light at any time.

There was also an ample supply of resources on board. This time, he decided to spend some time looking for Quan He, and if truly unfindable, he would directly search for the Spirit Disaster.

The latter was much easier to find since Ku Chan’s Chi Xiao Sword was still a top-tier Dao Artifact capable of connecting with the Spirit Disaster Heavenly Court.

If all else failed, he would have to attempt to communicate with Heaven.

However, this would also give away his own location to Heaven.

And so, time trickled by.

Yu Hong and the three of them continued circling in this river region.

One day.

Two days.

Three days.

By the fifth day...

While Yu Hong was using the enhanced Moist Wood Liquid in the Main Control Room to aid his training, suddenly, a faint trace of spiritual light flashed across his perception.

It was like a lamp suddenly turning on in the darkness but extinguished quickly.

Although it was fleeting, Yu Hong recognized it immediately—it was Quan He’s spiritual aura response!