A Night of Desperation
Chapter 612: Natural Disasters, Volume Two

"Not so good..." Quan He shook his head. "The Senior Uncle and the seniors usually start observation every two days, but this morning’s observation revealed that over half of the magic artifacts on the Heartless Belt side have lost signal. Moreover... the Great Annihilation we saw earlier has already spread everywhere, much earlier than we predicted."

The vast hall was filled only with her voice echoing in the space.

"So, those who surrendered couldn’t hold out?" Yu Hong was silent for a moment before asking.

"Completely annihilated..." Feng Xuezi said in a low voice. "The Night Mother Tree of the Black Disaster, and the stagnative storm of the Wind Disaster, all gone. I just observed several forces forcibly entering the Invisible Belt, only to be disassembled and washed away by the invisible disaster, disappearing without a trace... "

"Perhaps they’ve just been temporarily isolated and can’t be detected, they shouldn’t be completely wiped out." Yu Hong guessed.

"Maybe..." Feng Xuezi wanted to say more, but was gently patted by Senior Fu Bai beside him.

So, he didn’t say more, nor mention the scenes he personally saw of the surrendered forces being utterly disassembled.

"According to the current trend, at most by tomorrow, the entire Heartless Belt will be completely filled by the Great Annihilation, and then it will be the turn of the Invisible Belt." Fu Bai said softly. "Zheng Rou, have you decided what to do?"

"Whatever you decide, we will support you." Feng Xuezi said firmly.

Yu Hong looked at the many pairs of eyes gathered around him.

The hesitation in his heart slowly turned into determination.

"The density of the natural disasters is increasing, it seems this place can’t stay for long... Wait a bit more, after I finish repairing the Nine Calculation Heavenly Extreme, we’ll have a greater chance of success before moving further!"

"Alright! You just arrange the way forward!" Feng Xuezi nodded.

Yu Hong nodded seriously, looked at everyone one by one, and then at the light screen showing the Great Annihilation destroying everything.

He turned into a silver snake shadow, suddenly penetrating through the spaceship, and flew back to the Black Black Spirit.

In the endless white light.

Two pitch-black large and small aircrafts slowly started and moved further into the depths of the Invisible Belt.

The reinforcement and repair of the Nine Calculation Heavenly Extreme continued for seven days before it was completely finished.

During these seven days, the Heartless Belt was completely engulfed by the Great Annihilation, leaving no gaps.

Every day, Yu Hong could see from Feng Xuezi’s light screen the destruction and collapse of some surrendered forces.

Until the final day, the Night Mother Tree shattered inch by inch and was pulverized, while the Holy Tower and the Child of the Mother Tree within it were stuck by endless black mist, gradually decomposed and dissipated.

That day, Feng Xuezi and Fu Bai felt no satisfaction of revenge, only deep-seated confusion arising from the depths of their hearts.

In the Black Black Spirit.

Yu Hong picked up the newly strengthened Nine Calculation Heavenly Extreme, this little box had now turned silver and looked like a Rubik’s Cube with crisscrossed lines on its surface.

A purple triangular symbol appeared on its side, with a smaller triangle inside it, continuing to nest smaller and smaller triangles endlessly.

Until even Yu Hong’s vision could no longer discern how many times it nested.

A white instruction manual was pressed under the Nine Calculation Heavenly Extreme, Yu Hong gently picked it up.

’Nine Calculation Heavenly Extreme (Enhanced Version): The inherited treasure of the Nine Calculation Heavenly Palace, when injected with body tissue, it can calculate a suitable cultivation method for oneself. The cultivation method can be optimized with each calculation, but it consumes a large amount of energy.’

"It worked."

Yu Hong put down the manual, remembering Senior Fu Bai’s words that this object could only calculate once, but now, after enhancement, it had become able to repeatedly optimize, evidently a significant improvement.

Holding the small cube, he directly tore off a strand of hair, coiled it and placed it under the cube, then gently pressed it.

Hiss.

In an instant, the Nine Calculation Heavenly Extreme spun rapidly like a real Rubik’s Cube, while the triangular symbol on the side spun and flashed wildly.

It lasted for over a minute.

The cube slowly decelerated and calmed down.

The purple triangular symbol on the side flashed, emitting a hint of silver light.

Yu Hong reached out to grasp the cube.

At the moment of touching the Nine Calculation Heavenly Extreme, a complex information stream poured into his mind.

’Calculation complete, Sacred Body model unknown, status: pseudo-saint status, cultivation method generated, based on reference from 742 methods, auto-named: Qingyuan Heavenly River Holy Technique - Version 1.’

Yu Hong followed the cultivation method information down.

’Qingyuan Heavenly River Holy Technique - Version 1, seamlessly integrates with Qingyuan Heavenly River Miao Technique, converting mana to Holy Power, the method is divided into three stages: Listening, Focusing, Illusions.’

Yu Hong roughly understood the content of this method.

Starting from perception, meticulously sensing all internal and external structures of oneself, then finding the key Sacred Body condensation points, and letting mana follow these points, repeatedly flowing to quickly undergo significant transformation, converting mana into Holy Power. Finally, using his strongest eyes as the breakthrough point, to release and collect Holy Power.

The final stage, Illusions, involves Holy Power combined with the innate ability of bloodline to jump dimensions, instantly transferring oneself and everything within the range of divine sense to a designated dimension.

This is considered a strengthening of his talent.

’This cultivation method mainly enhances the transformation of mana to Holy Power, suitable for my current status, which also solves my shortage of ammunition. Moreover, it enhances control, and the Illusions stage extends the dimensional jump useful for myself to be applicable to others around. In battle, it can completely send enemies to dangerous dimensions.’

The method perfectly solved Yu Hong’s current troubles.

He nodded slightly, tore another strand of hair and inserted it again, and activated the Nine Calculation Heavenly Extreme once more.

Mana poured into the small cube, seemingly endless.

Yu Hong’s expression remained unchanged, continuously inputting mana, one minute, five minutes, half an hour... until three hours later.

The small cube began to spin again.

Soon, the second version of Qingyuan Heavenly River Holy Technique was calculated.

Yu Hong placed his hand on the small cube, carefully sensing the cultivation method information in his mind.

’Qingyuan Heavenly River Holy Technique - Version 2: Successful cultivation can slightly enhance bloodline strength, with a slim chance of evolving into a higher bloodline.’

Aside from this one additional note, the rest of the description was the same as before with no differences.

Yu Hong was undeterred, continuing to activate the Nine Calculation Heavenly Extreme once again.

Once he injected a large amount of mana again, five hours later, the Nine Calculation Heavenly Extreme provided the third version of the cultivation technique.

The previous version had a small chance to evolve to a higher bloodline; this one changed to having a significantly higher chance to evolve to a higher bloodline.

He wanted to input mana for further calculations, but the subsequent calculations by the Nine Calculation Heavenly Extreme showed almost no changes, with very little difference from the third version of the cultivation technique.

"As expected, it’s still far inferior to the Black Mark..." Yu Hong carefully compared the techniques and confirmed that the Nine Calculation Heavenly Extreme could provide him with a set of supportive cultivation techniques, and nothing more.

Feeling somewhat disappointed, he noted down the cultivation technique, put away the Nine Calculation Heavenly Extreme, sat cross-legged, and began cultivating.

The sixth version of the Qingyuan Heavenly River Holy Technique was created based on his own bloodline, and the required cultivation energy was still vitality, which was the fundamental basis of all Qinghe System techniques.

However, the Nine Calculation Heavenly Extreme provided a method to enhance the quality of mana.

Yu Hong took out the Outer Eye, freely reinforced it once, and watched as a countdown appeared on the surface: August 28, 11 years, 17:06.

He remained silent for a long time.

In the end, he chose to commence reinforcement.

Days passed.

More than a month went by in the blink of an eye.

The Great Annihilation, which everyone feared would invade the Invisible Belt, did not occur. The Great Annihilation halted at the Heartless Belt, no longer advancing or retreating, continuously destroying everything within.

In the Invisible Belt, the Black Black Spirit and the Aus Spaceship were slowly flying deeper inside.

"The cultivation technique is confirmed. Next is cultivation itself. Your current problem is the severe lack of time for cultivation," Feng Xuezi said, intently watching the cross-legged Yu Hong.

Fu Bai was also there. The three of them, alone in the first-level hall of the Black Black Spirit, were discussing how to help Yu Hong quickly improve his cultivation.

"Didn’t Senior say there was a way? Could it be...." Yu Hong squinted, seemingly guessing something.

"Exactly what you think, accelerating your own time and arranging an array to seal it. As long as you have enough vitality, you can grow rapidly. But the downside is that your lifespan will be greatly reduced. And...." Feng Xuezi paused.

"And what?" Yu Hong asked calmly.

"And, you must not have any time resistance," Feng Xuezi said solemnly.

Yu Hong fell silent immediately. He thought of the time-space resistance inherent in his bloodline and voiced it out.

"In that case, the Time Array is ineffective for you. Then we’ll use an Illusion Array to deceive your body, accelerating your metabolism and increasing your cultivation speed," Feng Xuezi changed his approach.

"Illusion Array, I am nearly immune to illusions as well..." Yu Hong said helplessly.

"This...." Feng Xuezi and Fu Bai both fell silent.

"It’s alright, Senior. The situation is relatively stable now. We can take our time, cultivate slowly, there is still time...." Yu Hong said.

"But the higher-level the bloodline, the longer it takes to cultivate...." Feng Xuezi sighed.

Yu Hong nodded slightly.

"Actually, it’s not bad to live quietly like this. As long as I’m cautious and vigilant, there won’t be much danger. We can wait here until the Great Annihilation ends outside, then return."

"I’m just afraid that the Great Annihilation won’t just stop like this...." Fu Bai said softly, lowering his head.

Yu Hong did not answer, he just sat cross-legged on the ground, quietly staring out the window.

Feng Xuezi and Fu Bai sighed and left, returning to the Aus Spaceship.

Only Yu Hong was left, still quietly watching outside, motionless.

But after just half an hour, a sudden surge of mana waves came from the back of the spaceship, connecting with Yu Hong’s divine sense.

"Zheng Rou, come quick! Something happened!" It was Golden Immortal Fu Bai.

Yu Hong’s heart trembled, he hurriedly stood up and turned into a silver snake shadow, flying out of the Black Black Spirit.

When he arrived at the spaceship.

Over a hundred mages were sparsely gathered in the cabin, all with a trace of fear in their eyes.

When Yu Hong landed and looked around, he saw Ku Chan and the others standing together, their faces pale, but Quan He was nowhere to be seen.

A sense of foreboding rose in his heart.

"Where is Quan He?!" he stepped forward and asked in a deep voice.

Ku Chan’s face darkened, and he shook his head at Yu Hong.

Yu Hong’s heart skipped a beat. He looked at Yiyi and the little White Dragon, both of whom had pale faces and shook their heads as well.

"Just now, in an instant, more than a hundred people directly disappeared from the spaceship!" the little White Dragon said, trembling.

"It’s a new Invisible Disaster!" Fu Bai’s voice was gloomy. "No wonder, no wonder those who surrendered would rather seek survival in the Great Annihilation than come in here!"

"...." Yu Hong looked at the Senior, Feng Xuezi, who also shook his head.

"No bloodstains, no monsters, no struggle, just in an instant, people disappeared," Feng Xuezi said. "My divine sense also couldn’t find the reason for the disappearance."

Yu Hong swiftly entered a dimensional jump state, the primitive particles around him remained undisturbed, he had felt nothing amiss before.

Standing where he was, he remained silent for a while, his divine sense repeatedly scanning inside and outside the spaceship.

But he discovered that not only had Quan He disappeared, but all her related items had completely vanished too.

All remaining traces were slowly dissipating.

Even his memories of Quan He in his mind were slowly fading away.

"We cannot stay here any longer, we must either advance or retreat!" Feng Xuezi said in a deep voice. "Something has erased Quan He and the others from existence...."

Yu Hong closed his eyes, gently grasping the crane-shaped jade pendant at his waist. The jade pendant was also slowly becoming transparent, fading, and disappearing.

But it was not disintegrating into primitive particles; it was thoroughly disappearing.

"Alright! We move forward!" Yu Hong opened his eyes, a trace of moisture flashed in his eyes.

He turned around, transforming into a silver snake shadow, and flew out of the spaceship.