A Night of Desperation
Chapter 611: Disaster 610 Part One

Earlier, the fusion involved two traits—High-dimensional Snake and Super Illusion God. The former is a top-tier bloodline just fused with, while the latter has a strong resistance to illusions and significantly enhances the cultivation of illusion techniques.

Initially, Yu Hong was reluctant to fuse these traits. After all, using them to counter the Heart Disaster might have a targeted effect. But as his cultivation continuously advanced, the troubles he faced grew stronger. The Super Illusion God trait, which targets biological entities, became less useful to him.

Standing in front of the golden light sphere, Yu Hong gently extended his hand and pressed it against the surface of the sphere.

Sizzle.

A stream of information flowed into his consciousness.

’Fusion successful, you have acquired the trait—High-dimensional Snake King.’

’High-dimensional Snake King (You are an evolver within the High-dimensional Snake race, and all your innate abilities are fixedly strengthened. You have acquired the talents—Super Dimension Resistance, Super Dimension Jump, Ultimate Permanence, Ultimate Eternal Casting)’

Yu Hong scanned through the new talents, and the biggest change was with Super Dimension Jump. This talent increased from once a week to once a day and allowed the selection of the jump’s dimension.

As for resistance, it had been directly increased to a hundred percent immunity to natural damage. Natural damage refers to environmental harm.

Ultimate Permanence now strengthened all aspects by two hundred times.

Ultimate Eternal Casting provided immunity to all time-eroding damages except for decaying withering illusion-type harm.

’The enhancement is substantial, especially with dimension-specific jumps....’

Yu Hong felt a slight amplification and strengthening of his body, which seemed to be inflating continuously like a balloon. However, due to magic, he maintained his current appearance temporarily.

’I can fuse one more time. Next, I need to repair the Nine Calculation Heavenly Extreme and strengthen the Outer Eye.... Continually advancing one’s position is the key.’

He had found that the amplitude of trait fusion enhancement was far less significant than directly strengthening the Outer Eye, he pondered.

Yu Hong reached for the Sound of Decay and Decaying Eye, pulling them together. These two traits were of no use to him.

He decided to fuse them.

Poof.

The two light spheres merged into a fist-sized black light sphere. A countdown appeared on its surface: 11 hours and 12 minutes.

’It seems too weak, so the fusion time required is quite short.’

Relaxing, Yu Hong began to enter the dimension jump state.

A warm stream surged into his eyes, and everything in front of him suddenly began to change.

Within the Black Black Spirit, in the empty central area, a red elliptical Light Gate suddenly appeared.

Yu Hong’s heart stirred.

A small semi-transparent square light screen immediately appeared at the edge of the Light Gate.

It read: Dimension Jump Options—1, 2.

Can I select two dimensions to jump?

A trace of curiosity arose in Yu Hong’s mind.

Previously, the jumps were completely random, but now, with the upgraded bloodline, he could choose freely.

Although this "1, 2" only showed numbers without labels, it was an imagined interface Yu Hong created for ease of operation.

The High-dimensional Snake King’s ability inherently lacked such specifics, only a vague instinct.

Yu Hong stood up, walked to the Light Gate, and tapped on the number "1" on the screen.

Then, he stepped casually into the Light Gate.

Sizzle!

His vision blurred as if passing through a layer of cool water.

When his vision cleared, he was back in the previously seen pitch-black infinite space.

Below him was a gray dugout canoe representing the Vitality Ship, inside of which lay an irregular semi-transparent stone.

A bright golden thread connected to the bow of the canoe.

’This dimension allows observation and interference with the connections between objects. I’ll call it the Relational Layer,’ Yu Hong decided internally.

Without lingering, he took a step back, immediately leaving this dimension and disappearing from the Light Gate.

After exiting, the number "1" on the light screen at the side of the Light Gate disappeared, replaced by "Relational Layer Dimension."

Yu Hong tapped on the number "2" and continued towards the Light Gate, but a layer of soft yet resilient force stopped him.

’Seems like I can indeed only jump once per day. I’ll have to wait until tomorrow.’

Regretfully, he deactivated the ability, and everything before him vanished.

With the test over, Yu Hong searched for some food to replenish his energy. At this stage, he no longer needed regular food or to chew it directly. With a mere thought, mana could extract nutrients from minerals and other materials to replenish his body’s consumption.

In the surrounding Heartless Belt, there was nothing to supplement, so his only source was the reserve supplies he carried. Fortunately, he had enough reserves and could also acquire supplies from the Aus Spaceship that followed behind.

Around 6 PM.

Yu Hong attempted to use mass-energy conversion with his Heavenly Venerate status to condense water, succeeding effortlessly.

Just as he stored the water in the water tank, the entire safe house trembled slightly.

A strong sense of crisis surged within him. Yu Hong immediately sat down, closed his eyes, and entered the mass-energy conversion state to observe the flow of primal particles outside.

Outside the window, countless primal particles swirled and converged into an enormous vortex, rushing towards the Black Black Spirit.

Yu Hong’s expression changed slightly, and he hurriedly steered the Black Black Spirit to circumvent the edges of the massive vortex.

Simultaneously directing mana backward, he guided the trailing spaceship to follow suit.

"What’s going on?"

Feng Xuezi and others behind, unable to observe the invisible calamity vortex, sent a questioning voice transmission.

"A disaster is coming, follow me closely!" Yu Hong had no time to explain. Yanking the spaceship, he accelerated sharply, like two small black fish skimming past the edge of the enormous invisible vortex.

But just as he dodged this vortex, before catching his breath, three more equally massive vortices appeared ahead.

Their interwoven rotations left only extremely narrow escape crevices between them.

Yu Hong’s expression changed.

"The situation is not right, the Invisible Belt seems to be having issues, no... perhaps it’s not an issue, but this place itself is likely always in this state, it’s just that previously we happened to encounter a brief calm period...."

Yu Hong’s mind raced, his voice heavy.

It makes sense; if the Invisible Belt were truly that safe, those Heavenly Venerates before wouldn’t have mysteriously perished within the Heartless Belt.

Thinking this, Yu Hong focused all his attention, guiding the Black Black Spirit and the spaceship to accelerate together.

As they approached several large vortices, he abruptly aimed at one of the gaps and sprinted with all his might.

Outside the Black Spirit Window, countless silver-gray elemental particles flowed rapidly, rubbing against the outer layer of glass.

Layer after layer of glass was continuously decomposed, turning into equivalent elemental particles.

The Black Black Spirit was like this, the Aus Spaceship behind it fared even worse.

The outer layer disintegrated even more severely; within mere dozens of seconds, the enormous spaceship comparable to a small city had already been decomposed by more than half, its size shrinking by one-third.

The entire ship became tattered, riddled with large holes and pits.

The defensive Magic Shield had already declared its collapse the instant it touched the vortex of the Invisible Disaster.

The inner layer relied mainly on Feng Xuezi’s Heavenly Venerate Seal and the powerful defense techniques supported by the Golden Immortals.

Some mages positioned on the outer layer didn’t have time to escape and were instantly swept out of the spaceship, disappearing into the vortex, their bodies and souls simultaneously decomposing into elemental particles.

When the Aus Academy mages migrated, they numbered over a thousand; now, suddenly, more than a hundred were lost.

The entire spaceship was filled with cries of pain and despair.

The rapid sprint and turn lasted for over half a minute before it slowed down and stopped.

By that time, the entire spaceship had been shaved into a walnut shape, its size reduced by more than half.

Inside the Black Black Spirit, Yu Hong, drenched in sweat, sat cross-legged and looked at the elemental particles that had finally calmed outside, letting out a long breath.

"Are you all okay?" he cast a spell to connect with the spaceship behind.

"..." The other side was silent, not answering immediately.

"Quan He Junior Sister?" Yu Hong’s heart sank, raising his voice.

"Ku Chan Teacher’s mentor, Mage Liu Xiran... was just outside repairing the spaceship’s array...." Quan He said softly, her voice sounded repressed and carried an inexplicable emotion.

"... I’m very sorry...." Yu Hong paused, then said softly.

He actually didn’t have much contact with Liu Xiran, but a Floating City council member like her, in the recent catastrophe, disappeared without any resistance just like an ordinary person.

This sense of oppression raised a hint of hesitation deep in Yu Hong’s heart.

"This is not your fault... you’ve done your best..." Quan He comforted.

Yu Hong did not speak, silently cutting off the communication.

He stood up, walked to the window, and gazed at the elemental particles outside, his expression neutral.

The repair work on the spaceship proceeded quickly, and Aus Academy re-elected Liu Chixuan as the new leading mage.

They spent an hour holding a funeral for the council member Mage Liu Xiran, whose body was never recovered.

The funeral used spells to display Liu Xiran’s life on screen, with subtitles.

White spell-conjured flowers covered a small area in front of the spaceship.

During the funeral, Yu Hong stood by the window, gazing at the white flowers behind, silent throughout.

About two hours later, the trait fusion ended.

He glanced at the newly fused trait, which was named Decaying Force Field.

’Decaying Force Field: Anyone who gazes upon you with malicious intent will naturally decay in body and mind, experiencing an Ash Identification within three seconds. Failure to pass the resistance identification will result in turning to ashes automatically, with the soul unable to escape.’

"Another trait for biological entities..." Yu Hong withdrew his perception, feeling indifferent.

’Only traits aimed at non-biological entities are useful, alas, there’s no opportunity for further trait fusion.’

He took out Nine Calculation Heavenly Extreme, added a hair strand, and fortified it.

’Fortify Nine Calculation Heavenly Extreme, direction: Random Enhancement.’

’Confirm strengthening?’ The Black Mark’s feedback flowed out. Black lines instantly merged into Nine Calculation Heavenly Extreme.

The countdown quickly appeared: 19 days, 20 hours, 8 minutes.

Putting down Nine Calculation Heavenly Extreme, Yu Hong stood by the window, quietly gazing at the endless elemental particles outside.

Since Liu Xiran’s passing, the Aus Academy spaceship fell into a deep silence.

The mages became increasingly idle, recklessly consuming resources, enjoying life as days went by.

Instead, Feng Xuezi’s arrival fulfilled some small wishes of Ku Chan and others.

Fu Bai used arrays to decompose the fused mother from Yiyi, refining her into a pendant for Yiyi to carry, allowing them to communicate anytime.

Feng Xuezi used a magic artifact to reverse Ku Chan’s parents, spouse, and children to restore a trace of broken souls. As long as they returned to Ku Chan’s birthplace after the Great Annihilation, there might be hope for full resurrection of his relatives.

Everything seemed to be slowly returning to normal, Yu Hong dodging three more strikes from Invisible Disaster with the spaceship. This time, smaller ship size made everyone more vigilant, causing no harm.

Until the twelfth day.

Yu Hong received a notification from his master Feng Xuezi, arriving inside the spaceship.

At this time, everyone had gathered in the main control hall of the spaceship. The remaining people numbered even fewer.

Passing through the spaceship’s defensive layer, Yu Hong condensed his form upon landing, scanning the room.

Although crowded, counting revealed only over three hundred people left.

Most appeared lifeless, lethargic, and deadened.

Feng Xuezi and Fu Bai stood at the forefront, raising their hands together to release stream-like mana into the golden screen in mid-air.

Within the screen, the surveillance magic artifact in the Heartless Belt displayed the scene.

"The interference is great at this distance, but only by combining powers can we see specific images." Feng Xuezi sighed.

"What’s the situation?" Yu Hong noticed the grave faces of Quan He, Ku Chan, and others.