A Night of Desperation-Chapter 248: Pathway 246 Thoughts Two

“Simple revenge doesn’t quite fit their style,” said Chen Yaofeng. “According to the investigation, the Eternal Life Association does not take care of its internal members to the extent of avenging them at such lengths. My side, No.1 Aurora City, has escorted an expert from Frilica who’s said to know a lot about the Eternal Life Association. Once they arrive, we’ll share any clues promptly.”

“Alright, I’ll also try to capture some traces of their activity,” said Yu Hong.

After the three agreed, they disconnected the communication. Yu Hong originally wanted to lie down and rest for a while, but he was worried about new attacks possibly occurring in the vicinity. With the increasing burden on the Array, if another siege happened, the situation could become quite dire.

Creak.

The door swung open.

He donned his reinforced gray lizard Protective Suit. Leaving the large iron ball behind, he strapped on a reinforced handgun and stepped out beyond the high walls.

Outside the wall, silence enveloped the mist-shrouded mountains and forests in a haze.

The cold wind, like knives, pricked at the damage in the suit, causing Yu Hong’s skin to ache faintly.

He glanced at the detector.

‘-62 degrees.’

“It dropped again!” Yu Hong couldn’t help but curse. Even he felt cold, let alone ordinary people.

He stepped into the snow, leaving footprints over ten centimeters deep with each step.

‘With this kind of low temperature, who knows how many will die on this trip.’ He felt a pang of emotion as he trudged through the snow, slowly circling the camp.

Along the way, not a single shadow crossed his path, most likely due to the exhaustion from the previous assault. It was probable that the Blood Tide’s shadows within a few hundred meters had been cleared out.

After a while, seeing no ghosts, Yu Hong headed back toward the high wall.

He had only taken a few steps when he suddenly stopped, looking up ahead to the right.

Behind an imposing, gnarled old tree to the right, there was a small figure quietly curled up, hidden in the shadows.

“Yu Hong… Sir…” a somewhat familiar voice floated over.

Yu Hong’s vision was obscured by the fog, and at this distance, he could only discern a slight silhouette. So, he did not answer, as many Evil Shadows had triggered responses.

He just took a few steps forward, trying to get a clearer view of the other person.

The mist thinned as he drew closer.

Gradually, the figure behind the tree trunk became more distinct.

It was a long-haired girl dressed in black shorts and a black T-shirt.

Her face was dirty, her bare arms white as lotus root, her legs wrapped in thick black stockings with several tears on the side, and her feet in black ankle boots.

Following the face turned upwards, Yu Hong recognized the person.

“Wei Shanshan?!”

Tears brimmed in the girl’s eyes as she slowly walked out from behind the tree.

“It’s me…”

Seeing Yu Hong, she seemed a bit agitated, stepping towards him.

“I have nowhere to go… My parents are dead… just me alone… Everything around is so dark… I can’t see anything…”

She was shivering, her lips pale and bloodless.

“I saw a light from far away, so I, I came over here…”

“I didn’t want to bother you… I just couldn’t hold on any longer…”

She trembled, her eyes pleading as she looked at Yu Hong.

“How long have you been out here?” Yu Hong asked after a moment of silence.

“I… don’t know,” Wei Shanshan shook her head gently.

Yu Hong silently sighed and pulled out a tube of nutrient paste from his lower back waistband, tossing it to her.

“Catch.”

Thump.

Wei Shanshan clumsily caught the nutrient paste. Seeing what it was, with instructions written on it, her face brightened with surprise and she quickly tore it open to consume it hungrily.

“Eat up. If you really have nowhere to go, you can rest outside my camp, but if you want to come in, you’ll need to follow the rules,” Yu Hong said.

“Mhm!”

Wei Shanshan nodded earnestly.

“However, you also need to be careful coming to me. Recently, some bad people are stirring up trouble near my camp. Getting close now could get you involved,” Yu Hong cautioned.

“I’m not afraid!” Wei Shanshan said hastily after swallowing the nutrient paste.

“That’s good, let’s go,” Yu Hong turned and continued towards the camp.

But after walking more than ten meters, there was still no sound of following footsteps behind him.

He stopped and turned around.

Wei Shanshan had vanished;not a soul was in the place where she stood, not even a trace in the snow behind the tree trunk.

On the snowdrift lay an untouched tube of nutrient paste, sticking out of the powdery snow, motionless.

It was exactly the same one that Yu Hong had thrown just moments ago.

Seeing the nutrient paste, Yu Hong folded back, picked it up, and gave it a squeeze.

The nutrient paste wasn’t even opened. He checked it carefully and slid it back into his waist pouch.

He sighed and headed back to the camp.

Five hours later.

Swoosh!

A figure shrouded in white light leaped dozens of meters in an instant, landing in the woods in front of a sneaky silhouette holding a delicate, transparent glass bottle.

Clearly visible inside the glass bottle were fine white granules.

As the figure landed, it was also spotted by the sneaky silhouette.

Without any hesitation, the sneaky figure paused, and then a glaring red light illuminated from his chest.

Boom!!

Yu Hong had only reached out a hand when he was caught in the explosion.

The fire swept over the surrounding area, igniting the leaves and branches not covered by snow.

The intense heat pushed back the cold for a moment, but it was fleeting, revealing the slightly charred figure of Yu Hong.

He rushed to the site of the explosion and bent down to inspect it. Regrettably, aside from some shattered metal components, there was nothing else left.

“I refuse to believe this!”

Yu Hong stood up and returned to the camp, waiting for the second wave.

In the blink of an eye, another hour had passed, and a flash of white light in the forest was followed by a thunderous bang.

Yu Hong walked out of the mist in his slightly scorched enhanced suit.

His expression was ugly;just now, he had not delayed when he spotted a suspicious target.

He went straight for the opponent’s head, intending to knock them out first.

But it turned out that the opponent was a completely mechanical being, which immediately self-destructed.

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Despite wearing his protective suit, this point-blank self-destruction still left some of his skin damaged. After all, the suit had sustained quite a bit of damage that he’d forgotten to repair.

The explosive force this time had exceeded the maximum power of the previous self-destructs. It had reached a level incomparable to that of a standard high-explosive grenade.

‘The enemy is learning…’

With a thought from Yu Hong, a shadow of a spearman emerged in the darkness.

Taking his place, the spearsman began a rapid patrol of the surrounding area.

Yu Hong quickly returned to the cave, crossed his legs to meditate, and began to replenish his consumed Inner Qi, while also calming his mind.

The relentless attacks were a truly disgusting move by the Eternal Life Association.

Two hours later, another explosion occurred outside.

Yu Hong didn’t move;he simply used the vision of the dragon lizards and saw the situation at the scene.

The spearsman had one third of its body blown away.

Fortunately, it wasn’t a living being. After resting for a while, its body returned to normal.

Then, every two to three hours, an assailant would approach the camp, carrying special items.

The spearsman tracked them down one by one, and they would self-destruct as soon as they were discovered.

In the blink of an eye, three dragon lizards had been blown to death, and in the most recent explosion, the spearsman didn’t make it. Its upper body was blown to shreds, completely dissolving away.

It seemed the Eternal Life Association intended to completely crush Black Wind Camp, which had only one person left, with this method.

Fortunately, the enhancement of the Black Mark also came to an end amidst these events.

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Inside the cave.

Yu Hong listened to the explosions outside with an unpleasant expression.

In the most recent explosion, another dragon lizard had perished. Now, only about ten remained.

The radar could not detect them, and the dragon lizards were also encountering problems with their search. After all, dragon lizards bred too slowly.

He simply ordered all the remaining dragon lizards to contract their patrol range.

This move proved effective immediately.

The dragon lizards, with their patrol range reduced, quickly picked up some traces. Only then did they manage to barely keep the mechanical bombs of the Eternal Life Association at bay.

Inside the cave’s basement.

Yu Hong stared quietly at his left hand, where the crescent mark on the back of his hand still shimmered with a faint silver edge.

Swoosh!

The countdown instantly hit zero.

The crescent mark on the back of his hand vanished, and seconds later, the crescent reappeared, turning completely silver.

Beyond that, there were no other changes.

Immediately afterward, a string of new instructions entered his mind.

‘Moon’s Call: also known as the Infinite River Technique, is one of the unique and superb skills that can only be learned by true disciples of Wuji Palace.’

‘Secret Technique effects: After successful cultivation, the technique will endow the Cultivator with an illusory river flowing with their own Spiritual Energy. After filling the river with vast Inner Qi, derivative effects can be produced.’

‘Effect one: The Spiritual Energy river can instantly strike the opponent’s consciousness. The more Inner Qi in the river, the greater the power.’

‘Effect two: The Cultivator can selectively merge the spirits of the opponents they have killed into the river. When needed, these opponents can be summoned to fight for the Cultivator. The number of opponents that can be merged depends directly on the strength and size of the river itself.’

“This is basically the original Infinite River Technique, aside from the name ‘Moon’s Call’…” Yu Hong was lost for words.

This Secret Technique, obtained directly by enhancing the Moon God bloodline’s summoning privilege, came already initiated automatically.

It actually saved Yu Hong a great deal of energy and time.

With a thought,

in front of him in the middle of the cave, a transparent, strange fluctuation slowly emerged in the air.

It had no shape, invisible contours, and Yu Hong could only sense a slight presence.

He reached out and touched it, feeling an icy, ribbon-like stream of water.

He didn’t know from where it flowed, nor where it was headed. He could only feel it appearing in the air before him, flowing ceaselessly.

‘Now, to infuse it with Inner Qi.’

At the thought from Yu Hong, Inner Qi from within him surged into the stream like a breached dam.

The Inner Qi kept flowing without end.

Ten minutes, twenty minutes, over half an hour.

Gradually, Yu Hong began to sense a frigid stream coursing before him, circulating.

One end of the stream linked to the void behind him, moving with him.

The other end connected to the silver crescent on his left hand, also moving with his actions.

As the Inner Qi poured madly into it, Yu Hong infused all of his Inner Qi.

His Dantian was empty, not a trace left inside.

Finally, after another ten minutes or so, an odd sensation emerged in his mind.

He suddenly realized that his Heavenly River had stabilized and he could now merge a chosen opponent into it.

The Black Mark promptly provided a timely reminder.

‘Note: After merging slain opponents, the Heavenly River will continuously consume Inner Qi. More merged opponents will require more sustaining Inner Qi. Conversely, the more opponents you call on, the more power you will have.

Note: The strength of the summoned opponent’s power depends on your comprehensive understanding of them. The more you know, the closer the strength to its original level.’

“With only one quota, I’ll have to choose carefully…” Yu Hong somewhat understood the mechanism of this Secret Technique and became excited.

This Secret Technique perfectly complemented the lack of elite units in the Wuji Palace’s nest system.

The combination meant that just one Wuji Palace disciple could build a terrifyingly powerful army.