A Night of Desperation-Chapter 254: Future 252

Soon, Yu Hong stood in front of the gray-black wall, gazing up silently.

Swoosh.

He suddenly leaped, precisely landing in front of the window he had discovered last time.

Through the round window, that man with the disheveled short hair and pale face was still on the other side.

Seeing him appear, the man immediately became excited, beating on the window incessantly with his hands.

Without hesitation, Yu Hong took out a sheet of paper and with a charcoal pencil, swiftly wrote a line of Night Text characters.

He couldn’t write, but he was able to copy directly from the translator machine.

“My name is Hong, and I am a traveler who strayed into this place by mistake. Who are you, and why are you imprisoned here?”

The man seemed to understand and quickly searched the ground, soon finding an irregular piece of yellow wood. He found a red pencil and began writing rapidly on it.

The wooden piece was quickly held up, facing Yu Hong.

“My name is Yang Chenhe, I am the incense master of the thirteenth division of the True Origin Sect. Can you tell me what the situation is like outside? How is the war between the Court and our Sect? Where is our Sect Leader? Has he returned? Did we win?”

The man’s last word was followed by three consecutive question marks, signifying his agitated emotions.

Yu Hong was momentarily startled;he knew nothing of any war between the Court and the True Origin Sect.

But more than being dazed, he was overjoyed!

For it had been so difficult to find someone with whom he could communicate normally. In this strange world, most of the people one met in the black night were shadow or Evil Shadow.

Dangers lurked everywhere, unpredictable and unpreventable.

Regaining his composure, he quickly picked up the charcoal pencil and began writing on the paper.

“I do not know the situation outside, but I have been to a place…” He relayed the process of how he had previously obtained the Pure Yuan Spirit Stabilizing Scripture and the Annals of the Star River Taoist.

As the man read on, his initially joyful expression slowly turned somber, then wooden.

After reading Yu Hong’s text, he was silent for a good while before, being urged, he continued writing.

“There is no defeat,” he wrote earnestly, “The Star River Taoist gave you his annals, which is to give you hope… You have inherited the Black Ship, which is the Savior Ship fully created by our Sect…. It can take you to any place where there may be hope. When the apocalypse comes, the Black Ship will lead you to a new land of hope. You may encounter danger, but occasionally you will also find hope.”

“What counts as hope?” Yu Hong asked.

“I don’t know… The Black Ship is a tool painstakingly created by our Sect. At that time, many major powers were looking for a way out in their own ways;our Sect was just one of them,” explained Yang Chenhe.

“What exactly is the True Origin Divine Light?” Yu Hong asked again.

“Do you know the Source Disaster?” Yang Chenhe countered.

“No…” Yu Hong shook his head.

“True Origin Divine Light is one type of Source Disaster…” said Yang Chenhe, “Our Sect’s founder, in an accident, communicated with the True Origin Divine Light Source Disaster… Discovering that it could be used as a foundation for his own cultivation, he began to establish the Sect.”

“Divine Light is extremely dangerous, and the slightest carelessness could expand contamination, eroding everything around. Therefore, our Sect’s founders pondered deeply and created a variety of Cultivation Techniques to restrain the Divine Light. Yes… all of our Sect’s Cultivation Techniques are for restraining the True Origin Divine Light, to suppress its overly powerful contaminating force.”

“So why are you imprisoned here…” Yu Hong calculated the time and realized it was almost too late, so he quickly asked his most pressing question.

“Because this is the Endless Strong Wall Prison…. To control the Black Ship comes with a price…” Yang Chenhe smiled.

“A price??” Yu Hong’s heart skipped a beat.

“Yes… everyone in this prison was once a captain of the Black Ship. Each captain, after controlling the Black Ship for a hundred years, if they fail to find hope and stop, they will be imprisoned here forever… The Dragon of Xianglv, as the warden, will forever guard this place…” Yang Chenhe replied with a wry smile.

“The Black Ship… since it is so dangerous, why did you insist on becoming captains?” Yu Hong took a deep breath and asked.

“Because of hope,” Yang Chenhe answered frankly. “Before the world was destroyed, we had no choice… The Black Ship would randomly find different survivors within the Source Disaster, and both the Court and our Sect found new bases this way.”

Yu Hong glanced at the time.

“One last question. How does one become a captain?”

“Kill the Dragon of Xianglv once,” answered Yang Chenhe. He watched Yu Hong intently, “It seems your world has also reached a dead end…”

“…” Yu Hong didn’t respond;he had already gathered the information he needed from this man.

The last minute.

He looked up, towards the approaching indistinct shadow in the black fog above.

Agrius was nearing.

“Does that mean, all of you captains succeeded by defeating this thing?” he suddenly wrote quickly.

“What do you think?” Yang Chenhe smiled.

“How to defeat it? What is that golden lightning?” Yu Hong continued to ask.

“That is divine power,” wrote Yang Chenhe, “Divine power can weaken 99% of all attacks, reducing them to one-tenth of their original power. It can penetrate 99% of all defenses, directly harming the main body. If you want to kill Agrius, you need to find a way to block divine power. If you can’t find one, you can channel Divine Light Power, which is infinite and extremely dangerous;be very careful…”

“By the way, is there only one Black Ship?” Yu Hong suddenly asked.

“Of course not. Originally, seventy-two were crafted, but many were destroyed later, and the rest have gone missing.”

“One more question,” Yu Hong wrote quickly, checking the time. “Do you know what a ‘star’ is?”

“Star?” Yang Chenhe was taken aback at first, not immediately realizing what this referred to, but soon, via the pronunciation, he seemed to think of something, and his expression changed drastically.

“Don’t try to probe, don’t try to understand, don’t attempt to touch it! It was the source of the destruction of my world! It is the strongest plague, the most terrifying nightmare, and natural disaster!”

He rapidly wrote frantically on the wooden piece.

“Forget it! Forget everything related to it!”

“…”

Yu Hong didn’t reply but nodded his head, then let himself fall.

Buzz!!

In an instant, the massive black Dragon of Xianglv appeared before him, claws raised high and slamming down with full force.

Bang!!!

Yu Hong raised his hands high, forcefully blocking the blow.

Golden sparks arrived as expected, piercing through his polar bear suit and leaving red scars directly on his body.

“Kill!!” Behind Yu Hong, a half-human figure, over four meters tall, formed and ferociously smashed its fist toward Agrius.

The second battle had begun anew.

Ten seconds later.

Yu Hong was thrown back, blood spurting from his body, landing precisely on the Black Ship’s deck, gasping for breath.

At the dock, Agrius lay on the ground, roaring angrily at the Black Ship.

Howl!!

Hiss!

In an instant, water from the Black River rose up, condensed into a blade, and shot out, fiercely smashing towards Agrius.

But it missed, as Agrius easily dodged by tilting its head to the side.

Yu Hong propped himself up from the deck, leaning on the ship’s railing, and stared coldly at the large lizard.

“Divinity….”

He recalled his conversation with Yang Chenhe and his understanding of the True Origin Sect had greatly improved.

And the True Origin Divine Light, turns out to be such a special and terrifying power… No wonder it has been able to resist the Black Disaster for so many years.

‘There’s also the final layer of the Condensing Water Technique, after completion, maybe I can consider cultivating the True Origin Sect’s techniques… Since the True Origin Divine Light is so powerful, maybe…’

He had to admit, at this moment, Yu Hong was truly tempted.

The Black Ship was a product of the True Origin Sect, and although he didn’t obtain the cultivation technique of that sect, he could completely consult with Yang Chenhe, then use the memoir given by Star River Taoist to superimpose and strengthen it.

Creating a cultivation technique wouldn’t be difficult.

Back at the camp, Yu Hong checked the Array. After this fight, a bit of Agrius’s strength was consumed, and the Array’s integrity had returned to about seventy percent of what it was before.

It could last a few more days.

So, every few days, he went to Prison Island to spar with Agrius, always returning with injuries all over his body.

Delaying the time till the Array would be at full load.

And now, three nests had started to hatch three dragon lizards at a time.

On his third return from Prison Island,

while Yu Hong was healing, he turned on his communicator and received devastating news.

“Aurora City Number Three has collapsed….”

Chen Yaofeng’s voice was somber.

“The canopy collapsed, the nuclear reactor exploded for unknown reasons, and I’ve completely lost all contact with that place….”

“The current temperature outside is negative 89 degrees….” Zhang Kaijun said.

At such temperatures, even if people wore the warmest, thickest clothes, without heating facilities, they wouldn’t survive a day.

And from Aurora City Number Three to the other two, it would take at least ten days by the swiftest light travel.

They were doomed….

Snap.

Chen Yaofeng turned off the communicator.

Zhang Kaijun also exited the channel.

Only Yu Hong remained, not exiting.

He just sat there, the tens of thousands of people in Aurora City Number Three, all dead just like that.

In such desperate circumstances, life seemed to have become nothing but simple numbers.

He sat quietly.

His Dao Breath Circulation trait automatically cultivated the Condensing Water Technique for him.

One hour.

Two hours.

Three hours…

Pfft.

Suddenly, a black, eerie pattern emerged on Yu Hong’s body.

The pattern flashed and was gone, lasting only two seconds before it vanished on its own.

‘Condensing Water Technique has reached completion, trait acquired: night moth.’

‘Night Moth (Regeneration increases by 75% at night, resistance to toxins increases by 100%).’

The moment the notification sounded,

Yu Hong’s injuries began to visibly twitch, recover, and heal.

He stood up, his palm opening, as black mist from the surrounding air gathered and spiraled, condensing into a diamond-shaped ball of qi that slowly rotated.

The greatest takeaway wasn’t the traits of the Condensing Water Technique, but the control over the black mist itself, which was his biggest surprise.

At this very moment, his senses became acutely aware of the Black Fog particles all around in the air.

They too were a vaporized form of the Black River water, another physical manifestation of the Red Value.

Combined with his original Thunderbolt Inner Qi, which was a modified version from the Black Mark capable of absorbing Red Value to condense Inner Qi,

Yu Hong now operated the Condensing Water Technique, manipulating a vast amount of high-purity black mist around his body.

The Thunderbolt Leg Technique frantically absorbed the black mist, transforming it into Inner Qi, endless and boundless.

Right now, the only thing that could limit his Inner Qi was the physique of his body.

‘This is perfect….’

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Yu Hong walked out the door.

Lifting his hand towards the Black Fog outside.

Hum.

A faint white light swirled and lit up in the palm of his hand.

Endless Inner Qi, as if costing nothing, furiously converged in his palm.

Then, the Condensing Water Technique was activated.

Inner Qi was rapidly consumed, starting to cycle.

Red Value was absorbed, transformed into Inner Qi, prompting the Condensing Water Technique, further increasing the density of the surrounding Black Fog, and accelerating the absorption of the Red Value.

This cycle made the Inner Qi within Yu Hong grow more and more abundant, more concentrated.

His entire body began to emit white flames. Without even unleashing Inner Qi, just in its natural state, it ignited into white flames.

Slowly, black cloud-like patterns began to appear on his chest and back.

Countless Inner Qi furiously compressed and condensed, gradually forming into a liquid of higher concentration within his body.

The liquid’s flow accelerated, quickly burning into flames. From the inside out, it began to refine Yu Hong’s entire body.

The aura on his body began to strengthen bit by bit, and as time passed, it gradually began to emit a vast negative radiation.