Night of Despair-Chapter 217 - : Blue Three

Chapter 217: Blue Three

Blue light…

Yu Hong squinted his eyes and tore off the helmet that had been slashed in two, that last strike had cleanly bisected his bulletproof helmet and all.

He exhaled sharply and abruptly moved to the left, dodging the elder’s next finger thrust.

Thunderbolt Inner Qi erupted as he spun around with a swift, turning back kick.

Thud!

The kick was blocked by the elder’s single hand; his withered fingers clasped like five sharp spikes, fiercely stabbing towards Yu Hong’s leg.

Fortunately, the speed of the Thunderbolt Leg was extremely fast, and he quickly retracted his leg, widening the distance.

Yu Hong jumped slightly, easing the stinging pain in his legs. Once again, he noticed the blue light on the elder’s horsetail whisk had dimmed a bit more.

Understanding flashed in his eyes.

‘Again!’

Immediately utilizing his speed as an advantage, he circled the elder rapidly, darting in and out with kicks.

The opponent’s speed was fast in a straight line, but couldn’t match the mobility of the Thunderbolt Leg Technique.

With this strategy, Yu Hong quickly gained a significant advantage in a short amount of time.

Like the time he had taken down the giant, his silhouette flickered constantly at the elder’s side, launching kicks.

The Thunderbolt Leg Technique, now with a vast reserve of Inner Qi, could sustain a continuous eruption for an extended period, enough to hold up during this battle.

Bang bang bang bang!

A series of heavy impacts sounded as Yu Hong clashed with the elder, fracturing space, shattering steps along the way, and retreating to a stony beach.

As the blue light faded gradually, everything seemed to be drawing to a close.

Rumble rumble…

Not far away, the area covered by the blue light began to shrink, and the Black Fog started to encroach.

One by one, mountains were enveloped by the Black Fog, gradually disintegrating, collapsing like sand dunes.

Boom!!

Another powerful kick landed on the elder’s left shoulder, and Yu Hong leveraged the force to jump back and land.

Looking at the changes happening around him, a frown appeared on his face.

A nameless agitation started to rise quietly within him.

Crack.

The elder raised his horsetail whisk, about to continue his attack, but suddenly jerked to a halt.

It was as if a robot had lost power, completely freezing in place.

Buzz!

In that instant, countless overlapping voices echoed through the surroundings.

It was as if they were chanting, singing, shouting.

“Sample has been recorded, current progress 40%.”

“…..current progress 51%.”

“…68%.”

At that moment, the myriad voices of the translation devices rose up simultaneously.

Yu Hong now knew why the progress of the translation device had increased so rapidly. The chaotic sounds around him obviously played a significant role.

His eyebrows knitted tightly as he was about to step forward to check on the elder.

All of a sudden, he noticed a change in the elder’s eyes, which went from being mechanical and lifeless to suddenly lively and gentle.

That was…

The light of consciousness!

He realized it in a flash.

“You…!!”

“ahqck…” The elder put away his horsetail whisk and revealed a serene smile on his face, uttering a string of Night Text that was completely unintelligible.

Crack.

In that instant, his body shattered like broken glass, and countless fragments of blue crystals drifted out from him, dissipating into the air.

As he disintegrated, the Black Fog in the distance approached even more rapidly.

The blue light was fading rapidly, vanishing, its brightness plummeting swiftly.

“Current progress 86%,” the translation device prompted again.

The elder opened his mouth, looking at Yu Hong and spoke again.

Sadly, not a word was intelligible.

He seemed to realize this too, a tinge of regret in his eyes, then he turned his head to watch the quickly encroaching Black Fog, his face expressing resignation and calm.

Not long after, the elder sat down cross-legged, resting the horsetail whisk across his knees, his demeanor peaceful, as he closed his eyes.

Buzz!!!

A brilliant blue light burst forth from him, expanding in all directions, momentarily holding back the Black Fog.

Then, he raised his hand, waving at Yu Hong, signaling him to leave quickly.

Yu Hong watched him, feeling a sudden sense of regret welling up inside for no apparent reason.

But he didn’t hesitate, turned around, and sprinted, leaping aboard the Black Ship in just a few bounds.

The overlapping voices continued to resonate in his ears.

The progress updates from the translation device kept speeding up.

Click.

The Black Ship slowly started moving, retreating, leaving the stony beach.

On the beach, the elder, still enveloped in the blue light, sat cross-legged, beginning to recite something loudly.

As he chanted, the progress updates from the translation device accelerated even more.

Watching the progress bar almost hit 100%, the Black Fog completely swallowed the blue light.

The Black Ship also completely departed from the pure blue area.

Yu Hong looked in that direction when suddenly, a point of blue light pierced through the blackness, shooting toward him like a meteor.

He reached out and grabbed it.

Snap.

The blue light fell into the palm of his hand.

He looked down to see.

It was an ancient tome with a sky-blue cover.

The tome was surrounded by a faint blue glow, with countless blood-vessel-like blue threads prominent on the cover, appearing almost alive and extraordinarily uncommon.

“sdhqf…” The last thread of a fine and vague voice drifted from afar through the Black Fog.

All returned to utter silence.

“Current progress, 100%, Night Text analysis complete, wishing you a pleasant usage,” the translator’s notification sound seemed to be the final piece completed, collecting all of the sample data.

Yu Hong’s spirits lifted as he looked at the book in his hand, the characters of the Night Text in his eyes quickly translated into a sweet Chinese female voice by his ear.

‘The Last Scribbles.’

This was the text on the cover.

Having finally completed the translation of the Night Text, Yu Hong hastily flipped to the first page.

‘…I do not know how much longer I can hold out, its power is too great, too terrifying, omnipresent. It’s as if, when I close my eyes, it’s all there in my mind.’

‘Countries have long since decayed, dilapidated, the Black Fog shrouding everything, all beings succumb to the Black Disaster without exception. After extensive joint studies by various peers, only the extreme cold of True Origin Divine Light can withstand the invasion. But True Origin Divine Light is not a power from within us…’

‘It is not easy to change one’s cultivation path, the Masters transformed themselves, buying time for us, the younger generation, to advance our cultivation.’

‘In the Year 3014 of the Common Era, the Black Fog engulfed everything, and eternal night fell.’

‘The Grandmasters transformed themselves as well, perhaps, it will soon be our turn.’

‘Mountains are collapsing, the earth quakes, and cracks, the world seems to be disappearing. I can hear the wails carried in the wind.’

‘In 3017, everyone’s True Origin Divine Light converged here on me, I did not expect that I would still be among the living as the most suitable. Alas…’

Yu Hong turned the pages one by one, reading. This seemed to be the diary entries left by that old man. There might be a substantial amount of useful content related to the Black Disaster within.

‘The convergence of the Divine Light is complete, I was left at the heart of Array Formation Mountain, guarding everything. Being the last guardian of all, seeing my peers enter and exit the Divine Light area, protected by the Divine Light from the Black Disaster’s assault, there is always a little comfort in my heart.’

‘People are dwindling… That thing has begun to pollute once more, even the Divine Light can only protect Cultivators. It cannot shield others when radiating outward, why is this so? The Sect Leader Brother came to sit in meditation with me, it’s apparent, he is very tired….’

‘Ten years, I see no hope. We cannot escape, only to continue depleting endlessly….’

‘The Sect Leader Brother and most of the others voted to converge all of their cultivation onto me, they do not want to sit waiting for death any longer, they wish to transfer their powers and then go out to fight for one last hope.’

‘I don’t understand… Apart from protecting the core, there is nothing else I can do.’

On the edge of this page, there was a faint trace of blood left.

Yu Hong sighed softly and continued to turn the pages. The following pages were all records of landscapes, the dwindling of people around him, and everyday mundane matters of life.

After flipping through many pages, finally, there was a new change.

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“The last group of people decided to go out, following the path trodden by our predecessors, continuing their quest outward, in search of hope… but there was no one left around.”

“I don’t know how many years have passed, I became the conduit of the True Origin Divine Light in this realm, the blue light still sheltering a certain range around me. But the food is gone….”

“It seemed like I saw survivors outside, I waved at them, only to realize they were waving back at me… It turns out it was only my shadow…”

“It’s as if there’s music in the wind, and I want to go see, but I can’t go out…. Going out would sever the Divine Light. I promised my master and the others I would guard the last bit of hope for everyone.”

“Today a survivor came, he saw me and knelt on the ground, begging for my protection. I told him I am not a god, but he didn’t believe…”

“Soon more survivors came, they broke out of the Black Fog and came here, thinking this was a haven beyond the world, they begged me to save their relatives, but unfortunately… I couldn’t do anything.”

“People slowly started to increase… but they say they all saw the star. What is the star?”

“There isn’t enough food…. people began to fight over it…. someone died. Someone rushed into the Black Fog, never to return… I’m getting a little weary…”

“Someone within the Divine Light turned into the Black Disaster! What’s happening!? I want to investigate, but I can’t go out!”

“The voices outside have stopped…. all is quiet. I want to go out and see what’s happening…”

“Some people are kneeling outside, but why won’t they come in?”

“I want to go out…”

“I am the last hope of humanity…. The Divine Light is the last haven…”

“I want to go out.”

“Before my master died, he entrusted me… to guard the last haven…”

“My seniors gave me all their cultivation….”

“I am the last hope of humanity… the last light.”

“The last hope, the final light.”

The following pages are filled with such text. Page after page, dense and scribbled, the handwriting getting more and more careless.

Until the very last page.

“I am the last hope… the final light…. I am… who am I?”

“I can barely hold on… I can only reduce the pain of the Divine Light connection by hibernating, I can feel it, my consciousness is also aging, decaying…”

“True Origin Divine Light, True Origin… perhaps, I can create a method to transmit all my cultivation before I completely collapse… to leave the last spark of humanity. If… someone else can enter…”

This was the last sentence. The booklet ends here entirely.

Yu Hong closed the booklet, looked at the pure blue light diffusing from it, and sighed softly.

“If the person who entered that rift at the end wasn’t me, but another who understood Night Text, maybe they could have woken him up in time, communicated with him, kept him from leaving the cave, thus preventing the collapse of this haven, perhaps even inheriting that something Divine Light.”

Flipping through the entire booklet, Yu Hong found a line of neat small script in the back corner: Recorded by Star River Taoist Xu Zhengyuan.

A haven that had lasted so long seemed to have triggered a chain collapse due to his intervention.

Although Yu Hong understood that the old man called Xu Zhengyuan did not blame him when he sat down with his legs crossed at the end,

he still felt extremely regretful.

The other party was clearly a survivor who had experienced the complete Black Disaster of the Night Text civilization, and if he could have communicated with him in detail, it would have been of great help in combating the Black Disaster.

And now, although he held this seemingly extraordinary booklet, he didn’t know how to use it.

The fact that the other party threw the booklet out to him at the end couldn’t have been just to leave behind his own story.