Night of Despair-Chapter 446 - 444 lost, Four

On the Black Light.

Yu Hong was turning the ship, accelerating away in another direction.

"Where are we going now?" Ku Chan asked quietly by his side.

"We need to find a place to hide for a while. That top-tier Black Disaster Monster we fought earlier has its sights set on us. We can’t go back, we mustn’t lead the danger there," Yu Hong replied.

"But this is the Black River. The enemy knows this place better than we do. If we hide here, we can’t possibly shake it off," said Ku Chan.

"Do you think there’s any way to stop them?" Yu Hong obviously knew this.

"We find other Source Disaster entrances to enter, or locate a land of vitality to temporarily avoid and conceal our presence," Ku Chan offered, clearly having considered options beforehand.

Yu Hong narrowed his eyes, about to respond, when suddenly, in his perception, in the Grey Mist behind them, faint distorted human figures emerged from obscurity.

He didn’t know what was behind them, but as those twisted figures drew closer, a strong sense of danger suddenly rose from the depths of his heart.

"Something’s behind us!" Ku Chan also sensed something. His expression grew more solemn.

"It’s okay," Yu Hong took a deep breath. "We’re here!"

Abruptly, he twisted the helm.

Bang!!

The entire Black Light took a sharp left turn, charging abruptly into a grey mist area on the left.

Strangely, as the immense Black Light moved into the mist, it quickly vanished without a trace, all signs and presence dissipated.

Behind them, the dandelion treants that were rapidly catching up all stopped mid-air, staring into the deep Grey Mist, and didn’t advance any further.

In a short time, all the treants made way.

A withered tree person draped in a black robe slowly floated out of the mist, Marissa and Ryan following behind him.

The three of them looked at the Grey Mist together.

Then they raised their heads and looked up at the sky above the mist.

At the very top of the Grey Mist, passing through countless clouds, crossing infinite distances, a colossal Gold human face closed its eyes and spewed countless amounts of Grey Mist downwards.

The face was motionless, completely occupying every part of the sky.

"It’s the Spirit Disaster’s area..." the withered tree person said gravely.

"Still chasing?" asked Ryan.

"There’s no time left. The second phase of the eternal night is about to arrive. If we don’t hurry and prepare for the Ultimate Sun’s arrival, this cycle’s accumulation won’t be enough," replied the withered tree person. "You don’t want to be abandoned by the Holy Tower, becoming one of those indistinct beings outside, do you?"

"It seems we can’t completely ignore them. We lack the strength to hold them back," Marissa said.

"I will let you have one of the huge trees," the withered tree person said.

"Guarding here, as soon as they come out ..."

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In the Grey Mist.

As soon as the Black Light entered, it began to rock slightly.

Below, the black river water was gradually turning into a mercury-like silver color.

The three huddled in the Main Control Room, staring at the endless Grey Mist ahead, all with heavy expressions.

Plop, plop.

The sound of water slapping against the ship’s hull kept coming.

With each slap, the defense Array on the Black Light’s surface fiercely flickered.

"We can’t even withstand the turbulence of the river water in this place!" exclaimed Ku Chan urgently. "Haven’t we found a safe spot yet!?"

"Almost!" Sweat beads were now also appearing on Yu Hong’s forehead.

He was exerting all his Spirit Light Inner Strength into the ship’s body, supplying the Black Light’s defense system to ensure it didn’t collapse.

The Black Light Formation was fine for handling common levels of danger once activated, but in a situation that required full-force, all-around protection like this, the ship’s self-contained energy would be depleted in just over a dozen minutes.

"Look! What is that!?"

Suddenly, Yiyi pointed at the starboard side of the bow and shouted.

The two men hurriedly looked, only to see a white light in the mist slowly brightening from darkness, growing stronger.

Very soon. After a dozen seconds.

Boom!!

A vast wave of white light came crashing over, engulfing everything in sight, completely swallowing the whole Black Light.

All three of them screamed in alarm, feeling the surroundings shake violently, as if they were on a roller coaster, being violently thrown up and then slammed down.

The great Black Light tossed about in the white light’s surge, like a tiny toy, shaking, tossed up, and falling.

Ang!!

Suddenly a clear crane’s cry rang out.

Yu Hong struggled to maintain the ship’s defenses, feeling dizzy and head throbbing.

Suddenly, he saw a new silver halo in the middle of the white light wave rapidly expanding and approaching them.

The halo was also wide enough to cover the entire field of vision, at least several thousand kilometers across.

Quickly, the halo approached at high speed.

Then it smashed harshly onto the Black Light.

Boom!!

With a loud noise, the Black Light was hit squarely by the wave, tossed and thrown into the air.

The defenses of the Black Light Formation on the ship flashed wildly with crimson circuits, trying to stabilize the defense system.

Still, some corners were forcefully struck, creating cracks and breaches.

Many containers and goods in the storage rolled out, breaking their securing straps, scattering all over the place.

Ang!

The silver halo emitted a crane-like cry once again, sweeping quickly across the vessel and then receding into the distance.

As it did so, the Black Light violently crashed down, landing back on the silvery surface of the river, throwing up a vast spray of silver water.

"Huff..." Yu Hong let out a long sigh of relief and turned to look at Ku Chan and Yiyi. Even Ku Chan, usually so formidable, now had his whole body tensed up, a look of bewildered stupor on his face.

Yiyi, in contrast, was simply dazed and took a seat on the floor, hugging a column tightly.

"What was that thing just now?" Ku Chan slowly relaxed his tense nerves and asked in a low voice.

"I don’t know..." Yu Hong shook his head. The silver light surge just now was already far beyond his comprehension.

If one were to say that Quan He’s spiritual intensity could peak at eighty or ninety million, then the silver surge just now was like countless Quan He’s loosely piled together and then, like building blocks, dumped towards the Black Light.

It was just a simple dump, but the impact nearly caused the defensive Array of the Black Light to crumble.

"Perhaps, it’s some kind of natural disaster deep within the Spirit Disaster..." Yu Hong hadn’t finished speaking when suddenly the mist ahead fiercely dissipated.

The whole vessel broke free from the mist, as if it were diving in and out of a waterfall cliff.

Below, the silver waters of the river also disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The whole body of the Black Light shot out from the cliff, suspended in the air, floating lightly, completely absent of the turbulence from before.

"Not good!!" Yu Hong felt something was wrong, his expanded senses detected the situation, and he immediately energized the Black Light Formation with all his might once again.

At this moment, the view ahead of the bow suddenly cleared.

What appeared before the three of them was an expansive, pristine white Cloud Sea.

Above the Cloud Sea was an equally white sky full of clouds.

The scenery was pure and beautiful.

But in the clouds of this sky, there were gigantic brass hands stretching straight down from above, reaching into the Cloud Sea to grab something before retracting back.

Seen from afar, the dense brass giant hands were like endlessly stretching and contracting Heavenly Pillars, appearing and then disappearing.

And right now, one of these brass giant hands was opening its five fingers and reaching down towards the Black Light.

Boom!!!

The giant hand shot straight down, grabbing hold of the Black Light along with other miscellaneous dark objects, then retracting back towards the sky.

The immense pressure compressed the Black Light Formation, the tremendous force far surpassing the Formation’s load-bearing limit. It was like an ocean against an egg, not something that could be compared at the same level. Yu Hong’s resistance under this mighty force essentially crumbled upon contact. Even the apparition of the Ultimate Sun could not sustain half a second before declaring dissolution.

Bang!

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Suddenly, the Array cracked and collapsed, and many parts of the Black Light’s newly reinforced body were brutally burst apart.

Inside the Main Control Room, the three of them lost all balance, the world spinning around them, unable to tell up from down.

Yu Hong initially poured all his strength into the Array, but once he realized it was unsustainable, he decisively withdrew his power, grabbed the dizzy Yiyi, and threw himself towards the door leading into the safety chamber within the Main Control Room.

"Ku Chan! Get in!" he shouted telepathically.

"Got it!" Ku Chan, barely maintaining a Passive Technique for protection, struggled towards the entrance of the safety chamber.

The three quickly grabbed each other, opened the door, and rolled inside.

Thud!

With the safety chamber door slammed shut firmly locked behind them,

the terrifying external compressive force was significantly weakened.

"Huff... huff..." Yu Hong gasped for breath as he stood up. Although the safety chamber was still shaking, it lacked that terrifyingly oppressive force that permeated the air. The simple shaking was mere child’s play to them.

"I’m injured!" Ku Chan leaned against a wall on the side, clutching tightly at his rib area.

"What happened?" Yu Hong frowned, his Inner Strength on his feet to stabilize himself as he walked over.

"I tried to thrust a sword outward, to fight against the trouble, but…" Ku Chan extended his right hand, and in his palm, all that was left was a dark red sword hilt.

The entire blade of the Chi Xiao Sword had snapped off...

"That hand out there, it seemed to have an absolutely solidifying control power, just one encounter and the Chi Xiao Sword..." Ku Chan clenched his teeth and said.

Yu Hong lifted the robe in front of him to take a look, and there was a fragment of the blade’s edge stuck in his ribs.

Immediately, Yu Hong reached out and swiftly grabbed it, and pulled.

Splat!

Blood sprayed out, splattering across his face.

Spirit Light quickly covered the wound, constricting blood vessels, tightening muscles, patching up the skin, and stopping the bleeding.

"Rest and recover. It doesn’t look like there is any other contamination," he whispered lowly.

Ku Chan nodded.

"That hand felt very similar to the one that caught Elder Quan He back then."

"We’ll investigate that later. Now..." he turned his head to look at Yiyi.

Yiyi was unharmed, merely dizzy from the violent shaking, lying on the ground and not daring to move.

He went over to examine her body, confirmed that Yiyi was not injured, then stood up and slowly moved to the observation window of the safety chamber amidst the shaking.

Looking out the window.

Most of the exterior of the Black Light had already vanished.

Only less than one-third of the vessel remained, connected to the safety chamber, and was rapidly falling.

The gray-white thin clouds continued to drift up through the cracks below with the airflow, like white ribbons.

"We’re falling! The Main Control Room seems to have broken off from the main body of the Black Light!" Yu Hong shouted loudly.

"How are we going to get back!?" Ku Chan was a bit dazed.

With the Savior Ship destroyed and them still falling deep in the Source Disaster, were they not doomed?

"It’s okay if I’m here. Don’t be afraid!" Yu Hong was initially flustered for a moment, but with the Black Mark on him and the safety chamber stocked with plenty of supplies, they could sustain for a long time, so he quickly steadied his emotions.

Just then.

The safety chamber, along with the remaining part of the vessel, finally crashed heavily into the Cloud Sea below.

Boom!!

The clouds dispersed, and the Cloud Sea, like a substantial ground, supported the safety chamber, completely smashing the last bit of the Black Light, turning it into fragments that scattered in all directions.

From this moment on, the Savior Ship became a thing of the past, leaving only the numerous times reinforced safety chamber intact, rolling a distance on the white Cloud Sea before gradually coming to a halt.