Night of Despair-Chapter 457: End at 455 one

"I’m sorry." Quan He’s face, frozen in the crystal, softened and was no longer as cold as before.

"Sorry to have worried you..." she whispered softly. "Where are the others, why are only the two of you here?"

"....." Upon hearing this, Yu Hong and Ku Chan were both reminded that when Quan He was captured, the Dao Mai World was still intact.

But now...

The two of them were at a loss for words and could only remain silent.

Such silence gradually erased the smile from Quan He’s face.

"Where are the others?" she asked again.

"Ah..." Chi Xiao sighed. "Girl, they’re all gone. The entire planet has been destroyed. The Taoist Sect is gone, the Seven Evil Alliance is gone, billions of living beings have all been harvested by Heaven..."

He continued to shake his head. "The demise of a planet should have given rise to a new Emperor Realm. There should be a fifth Great Emperor in Heaven now. I advise you to run as far as you can while you still can."

"Demise..." Quan He, solidified in the crystal, looked bewildered and disbelieving.

But seeing the expressions of Yu Hong and Ku Chan, it seemed that the old man’s lingering spirit was telling the truth.

"Gone... Are you sure everything is gone?" she closed her eyes, suppressing her breath rapidly.

No one responded, Yu Hong merely nodded silently.

"Yes, I was captured, how could you youngsters possibly resist Heaven, or fend off those many Spirit Disaster Monsters."

"It’s my fault... If, if I hadn’t been captured, if I had been more cautious..." Quan He’s breath began to grow increasingly turbulent.

Yu Hong quickly spread the Call of the Elf Ancient Tree, covering her entire body.

The swift healing eased some of Quan He’s pain, bringing her back to her senses.

She looked towards Yu Hong and the other.

"I want to go back and see, see where everything vanished. Is that possible?"

She seemed to still harbor hope.

"Could it be that you are too weak to notice the entrance to return, thus believing the entire world has disappeared?"

"Senior... I was the last one to leave. I went back twice after that. The last time, there were no living people left... only corpses everywhere..." Yu Hong said somberly.

Quan He fell silent.

For a long while.

She finally spoke.

"Let’s go again, I want to see for myself."

Her voice carried a plea.

Yu Hong looked into her eyes. Nodded.

"Okay!"

This meeting also left him with many questions he wanted to ask Quan He.

For instance, the key point—how, while being deep within the Spirit Disaster, did Quan He manage to absorb enough Light Disaster Radiation to replenish her Spirit Light?

Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been able to emit such strong waves of Spirit Light every so often.

If not for those waves, he wouldn’t have been able to locate where Quan He was.

Another point.

This time, he noticed that Quan He’s Spiritual Power had grown stronger compared to before...

And it wasn’t just a slight increase.

Something was off.

Yu Hong faintly sensed in Quan He an even denser aura of the Ultimate Sun than his own.

The major purpose was accomplished.

Immediately, Yu Hong moved the safe house towards the North Heavenly Gate.

But... the previously open North Heavenly Gate was now completely closed.

The gigantic gate, resembling a sword blade, was now tightly shut without a single gap.

Above the Cloud Sea, the safe house awkwardly stopped right below to the right of the Heavenly Gate, unsure of how to exit.

Yu Hong stood in front of the observation window, his eyebrows tightly furrowed.

"Chi Xiao, do you know when this Heavenly Gate will open?" he softly asked the sword hilt behind him.

"I’m not sure, I’ve been kept in the treasury since I was made, I never use the main door." Chi Xiao gently shook his head on the side.

"Since there’s a South Heavenly Gate and North Heavenly Gate, could there be East and West Heavenly Gates?" Yu Hong asked.

"Of course, but those might be far from here, and... we don’t need to risk going to other Heavenly Gates. They’ll probably return to their usual state after a while when they can’t find anyone here," Chi Xiao said.

"Are you sure?" Ku Chan approached from behind, holding a bowl of noodles.

Quan He followed behind, her movements stiff. After entering the safe house, without the continuous Spirit Disaster Radiation from the Heavenly Prison to maintain the Sealing, it only took her half a day to easily remove the Sealing crystals on her body.

"Sure about what, if the gate won’t open, let’s make it open," Quan He said calmly.

"Is this... going to be very dangerous?" Chi Xiao hesitated slightly.

"There is me here, isn’t there?" Quan He smiled softly, gently tugging a stray lock of hair beside her face.

"I know you all have some doubts, wondering why I can still cause such a stir in the Heavenly Prison. While sealed during this time, shouldn’t I be weak and in a poor state?"

"There is indeed this doubt." Yu Hong turned his gaze back to her. "From your prestigiously elder, I sensed a strong radiation of Light Disaster.... Are you..."

He didn’t finish his words, but a look of concern flashed through his eyes.

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"You’re right." Quan He nodded with a smile, "During the time I was captured, I completely merged myself with the Light Disaster within the Spirit Light Secret Skill. If not for this, I couldn’t possibly have communicated with the Ultimate Sun within the Light Disaster and unleashed a powerful Spirit Light even within the Heavenly Prison."

"Wouldn’t that be problematic?" Yu Hong fell silent for a moment and asked.

Even he only dared to use the Black Mark-enhanced Cultivation Techniques to cultivate and absorb the power of the Light Disaster; Quan He’s direct merging...

"Don’t worry, compared to other Source Disasters, Light Disaster is already very mild. Even if I merge, I still have a long time to maintain myself. Everyone dies eventually, no one can escape that; it’s a natural choice, a law of the universe. Don’t resist it." Quan He consoled softly.

Watching Ku Chan, Yu Hong, and Yiyi’s worried faces, she continued.

"Don’t worry so much, I actually have many years left before my complete demise, which is enough for me to live the life I want. Relax..."

"It’s not that..." Yu Hong pondered for a moment, "I am not worried; I have a century-old curse on me that I can’t shake off, and so does Ku Chan. Due to overexertion in pursuit of power, the side effects will also erupt around a hundred years."

He paused and continued.

"I was just thinking, so many monsters in the Black Disaster, and so many strong beings in the Spirit Disaster, did they once think like you, but eventually became monsters corrupted by the Source Disaster..."

As soon as this statement came out, everyone’s expression in the room slightly changed.

Even Yiyi, who half-understood, seeing everyone changing their expressions, quickly tightened her own.

The smile on Quan He’s face settled.

"You are right, these days, I discovered that many monsters in the Spirit Disaster actually have some remnants of their past memories; they once, at least once, were also complete humans like us. But now..."

"Don’t worry about these unnecessary concerns; when the time comes, we’ll talk about it. Why think so much now?" Chi Xiao interrupted the speculation of the two.

"The issue now is, the door won’t open. What should we do?"

"Let me out, and about five seconds later, open the door and let me come back in," Quan He said seriously.

"Are you truly confident, Senior?" Yu Hong and Ku Chan looked at each other and asked.

"Shall we try?" Quan He reached out toward both Yu Hong and Ku Chan.

Her palms lightly patted their shoulders.

The moment of contact, Yu Hong sensed the flow and condition of Inner Strength within Quan He.

Contained within her terrifying Spiritual Energy center, which was like the sea, were three stabbing blue-light wells in a triangular formation, floating right in the center of Quan He’s torso.

From each of the three blue-light wells, an infinite and boundless surge of Light Disaster radiation burst forth every moment.

’That is... Light Well!!’ Yu Hong immediately recognized the identity of these three blue-light wells.

His Tai Ling Skill recorded the development of the Light Well, but it was at the Seventh Layer, which not only requires opening a Light Well but also a Wind Well and a Spirit Well altogether. Otherwise, solely cultivating one would inevitably be devoured by the Ultimate Sun.

However, Quan He here managed to open what only the Seventh Layer of Tai Ling Skill could do with a Light Well, and she opened three of them!

Yu Hong did not know what to say.

It clearly stated in the Tai Ling Skill that the more Source Disaster Wells there are, the stronger the instantaneous burst of output could be.

The output strength of one Light Well is comparable to one Ultimate Gate.

Three Light Wells are equivalent to three Ultimate Gates.

Thinking of this, Yu Hong fumbled on his body and quickly took out the Tai Ling Skill record book.

The record book was some key points of experience he had noted down himself after the secret manuals were destroyed, to prevent himself from forgetting.

Since the Tai Ling Skill had a strong uniqueness, anything enhanced by the Black Mark was completely fit for oneself and extremely unfriendly to others.

Therefore, Yu Hong hoped to record useful things in this way to provide some help to outsiders.

"Senior, please wait a moment. I have a cultivation manual here that might be helpful to you." He wrote down the general context of Tai Ling Skill and the dangers to be faced in this record book.

Apart from the fascinating visualization which couldn’t be recorded, the main points could be seen here.

Handing over the Tai Ling Skill book.

Quan He raised her eyebrows, took it over, and quickly started reading.

Only reading the first few hundred characters, her brow quickly furrowed.

"This cultivation technique...I seem to have seen something similar somewhere..."

"Huh?" Yu Hong was stunned.

"It was... before, there was a senior Magician whose Cultivation was extremely terrifying, of course, he didn’t compare with me since he passed away before I was born. He was a leader among Ancient Mages, and he created a cultivation technique that could use the balance between Black Disaster and Spirit Disaster to fight against the Sealing, called Taiqing Skill."

"....." Yu Hong’s expression became somewhat unbearable.

He immediately thought of the usual tricks of the Black Mark.

He had thought that this Tai Ling Skill was finally his own fusion-enhanced creation.

Now it seems...

"Well, the more I look at it, the more similar it is. The thought process and treatment methods below are very similar. Although it has added some other details to the main context, and many minor adjustments. But overall, it’s basically a modified version of Taiqing Skill." Having quickly flipped through the record book, Quan He nodded directly.

"I wonder if it has any reference value for you, Senior..." Yu Hong sighed expressively and asked.