Night of Despair

But this swelling force was nothing to Yu Hong, the strength of the Ancient God Body easily suppressed everything.

'Mana turning into a golden line is a mark of reaching the Mahayana realm... It seems I've surpassed the Returning to Void stage.'

He breathed a sigh of relief. Next was the Heavenly Tribulation. Finding a place to undergo the tribulation would ensure the stability of the Mahayana Realm.

Then, he looked at the feedback information flowing in after the enhancement of the Black Mark.

Buzz...

Suddenly, a slight vibration came from outside the window.

Yu Hong's divine sense twitched, and an uncontrollable fear surged up from the depths of his heart.

He knew something was wrong, he quickly rushed to the window and looked outside.

Outside the window, at the rear flank, the originally multi-colored Wind Disaster now had black and white disaster threads appearing in a small section.

"The Great Annihilation, it's coming!!" Yu Hong's heart trembled. Estimating the approaching speed of the black and white threads, he figured there was only about an hour before this place would be engulfed by the Wind Disaster Great Annihilation.

"I have to flee!" Without thinking, he quickly placed a row of small wooden blocks on the Black Black Spirit ground, then manipulated the Black Black Spirit to change direction, charging swiftly into the Time Turbulence Zone.

The mana, after being stimulated, was ordinary mana before flowing into the Ancient God Body. However, after circulating within Yu Hong's body for a while, this mana initially gained some temporal resistance of the ancient gods.

At this moment, a large amount of mana wrapped around the inner and outer layers of the safe house, forcibly blasting through the Time Turbulence Zone, passing through a large area.

A few minutes later...

Whoosh!

The Black Black Spirit once again darted into the Heartless Belt.

Ahead was a long, straight black stone pillar avenue. At the end of the stone pillars was the enormous silver-gray Star Singing Hall.

This time, Yu Hong did not stop, but activated the Black Black Spirit's stealth integration function. The teleportation technique flashed, and the safe house brushed past the Star Singing Hall, rushing deeper.

In the dark red and silver-blue interwoven starry sky.

The Black Black Spirit continuously flickered, teleporting rapidly away from the Star Singing Hall behind.

The once enormous silver-gray hall gradually shrank with increasing distance, becoming blurred until it was no longer visible.

Yu Hong opened the map and looked at the next area.

'Next to the Heartless Belt should be the Invisible Belt... also the extremely dangerous zone that Senior Su Dan mentioned, where danger comes without warning and time of arrival. I can't rush in blindly...'

Boom!!

Suddenly, a loud explosion resounded.

The entire safe house seemed to be heavily struck by something, creating a huge dent in the middle.

Yu Hong's mana was scattered on the spot, the material of the safe house bent, twisted, and cracks appeared, with all arrays collapsing instantly.

This enormous pure monstrous force sent the Black Black Spirit soaring upward in an instant.

Yu Hong tumbled and floated within the house, vaguely seeing through the window a silver humanoid figure, even larger than the Star Singing Hall, waving countless silver-white arms, clearly the one that had hit the Black Black Spirit just now.

The humanoid figure's lower body was like a snake tail, entirely pitch black, with the tail end connected to a long, indeterminately extending silver river.

The tail and the river were entirely merged, indistinguishable from each other.

Yu Hong noticed the humanoid figure had no facial features, only the silver flames enveloping it, similar to the skeletal humanoid from earlier.

'Another Unconscious Body...!'

He had no time to think. His entire body's mana furiously stirred, supporting the Black Black Spirit to decelerate rapidly until it finally stopped flying.

After two minutes, the entire safe house slowly came to a halt.

The originally small building-like safe house had now turned into a U-shape, with a large dent in the middle.

Yu Hong sat cross-legged in the cultivation room of the house, his face pale, panting heavily.

'So this is the Heartless Belt...' He finally understood why Senior Su Dan always mentioned the deepest part in a state of reticence.

Just now, that monster only didn't pursue him; otherwise, the safe house could have been smashed to pieces.

Yu Hong truly didn't dare to move recklessly this time.

Sitting cross-legged, he adjusted his breath for a while, with all his vitality already converted into mana, leaving no room for further cultivation.

After recovering his state, he got up and looked out the window.

This glance made his heart tighten suddenly.

Not far outside the window, countless silver stars surrounded the center.

Sitting there was a white-haired elder in a white and blue robe.

The elder's eyes were closed, smiling, holding a jade ru yi in one hand, and placing the other hand calmly on his knee.

If it were just this, Yu Hong wouldn't have been so scared.

The key was, this elder was enormous beyond imagination...

The Star Singing Hall he had just escaped from, and the long stone pillar avenue.

From here, they seemed like mere specks of dust floating beside the elder's fingers.

Even the elder's fingernail was larger than them.

Moreover, the elder's white hair was coiled into a bun, and the silver-black triangular crown adorned with a constantly rotating golden star system in the center was above it!

Yu Hong didn't even dare to breathe heavily at this moment, carefully manipulating the Black Black Spirit to fly away from the elder in the opposite direction....

Although he knew that, at his current level, it was unlikely that his actions would disturb such a powerful being, but instinctively, he felt compelled to do so.

The teleportation spell was quietly activated.

With a whoosh, the next second, the Black Black Spirit instantaneously moved a considerable distance away.

As time passed, he teleported again and again, until the old man shrank to the size of a palm, and he finally slowly relaxed. Only then did he have the chance to check the feedback from the Black Mark.

'Hint: You have successfully entered the Cloud Racing Venerable's radiation zone and gained the trait—Cloud Speed.'

'Cloud Speed (Your own speed increases by 25%. During the exploration of the Source Disaster Core, the Cloud Racing Venerable perished for unknown reasons. His body, upholding his will, does not erode over time and constantly emits special radiation to combat the Source Disaster.

This radiation mimics the Red Sky Fruit and can convert the Source Disaster Power into a special enhancement for life within its range. Once you leave this range, the enhancement will disappear.

This radiation will continuously consume the Venerable's body until it completely disintegrates into everything and ceases.)'

"...." Yu Hong's initial fear slowly subsided due to the Black Mark's prompt.

"Heavenly Venerate.... Even such a powerful Heavenly Venerate mysteriously perished...."

Gazing at that colossal corpse once more, a profound despair rose within his heart.

'No... I still have the Black Mark!! I still have hope!' He suddenly pulled his consciousness away from the depths of despair.

'That's right, I haven't checked the enhanced traits!'

He quickly regained his composure, using Inner Vision to examine the state of the Outer Eye in his mind.

In his mind, in a corner belonging to his traits, a peculiar light ball shimmering golden with black lines, floated silently among a cluster of traits.

Yu Hong stepped forward and gently touched it.

'Outer Eye: Also known as the Galaxy Eye, its origin is unknown, its material is unknown. The All Saints Venerable discovered it during a Source Disaster exploration and refined it into his right eye.'

'You have acquired the Galaxy Eye, you have gained the trait: Immortal.'

'Immortal (You will not be affected by changes in time and space. Immune to space-time techniques)

'You have acquired the Galaxy Eye, you have gained the traits: Sound of Decay, Decaying Eye.'

'Sound of Decay (Your voice can decay all things), Decaying Eye (Your gaze can decay all things).

'You have acquired the All Saints Right Eye, you have gained the trait: Incomplete Heavenly Venerable Position.'

'Incomplete Heavenly Venerable Position (You can perform mass-energy conversion without any loss on all energetic and material substances within the range of your divine sense, once per day)

Hiss...

Yu Hong suspected that this enhancement would bring significant changes, but he didn't expect it to be so extensive...

Especially this Incomplete Heavenly Venerable Position....

Lossless mass-energy conversion....

This has already touched upon the highest fundamental laws.

Converting matter into energy is one thing, as there can be many types of energy with simple methods of conversion, but if energy wants to condense into matter....

The required level would be extremely exaggerated.

Standing still, Yu Hong touched his right eye, momentarily lost in a nameless shock.

'The Heavenly Venerate's right eye.... Indeed, strengthened to this point, I have hope before the Great Annihilation arrives! There's still hope!!'

His heart, just struck into despair by the looming Great Annihilation, now brimmed with hope again due to the Black Mark's enhancements.

'If the Heavenly Venerate can't break through this dire situation, then enhance once more!!'

Reaching out, Yu Hong moved his mind, and a perfectly intact turquoise-green wooden block floated into his palm.

'Convert.' He commanded internally.

Hiss...

Instantly, the wooden block melted like ice meeting light, rapidly transforming into a ball of bright white ionic energy.

The entire process of conversion from wood to energy was completely overlooked by the Heavenly Venerable Position.

One step, one success.

But the incomplete version could only be used once.

"And the Immortal trait, it came at the right time!" No longer troubled by the Time Turbulence, now he didn't have to worry.

Immortal directly immunized against the effects of time and space on himself.

Yu Hong carefully felt the sensation of the Heavenly Venerate's right eye, feeling as if there was a scorching little sun within his eye socket.

Mana flowing in and out, transforming from cold water to boiling water.

The altered mana then began to transform and influence his entire body.

Having tasted its benefits, Yu Hong immediately drew the Immortal and Ancient God Body traits together, forcibly merging them.

Quickly affirming the Black Mark's query, the two light balls merged, revealing a countdown: 19 days 3 hours 7 minutes.

After finishing all this, Yu Hong began to help with repairing the entire safe house.

The benefits brought by the Heavenly Venerate's organ were far more than just traits; it also included the unique changes due to the strength of the Heavenly Venerate's body.

And this, in the Qinghe Mountain Universe, where there was long no more Heavenly Venerates, would be the only hope to resurface.

At the moment Yu Hong enhanced the Heavenly Venerate's right eye.

Far away in the Heavenly Venerate Universe, Feng Xuezi and the Corrupt Traveler's bodies slightly trembled, sensing some unusual change burgeoning in the universe.

The two stood apart on a patch of red light ground.

The ground lay in the pitch-black lightless fog, with a massive vermilion fruit floating in the center, continuously absorbing the surrounding Black Disaster radiation, converting it into new vitality power.

"Just now, the Source Disaster seemed slightly weaker than before...." Feng Xuezi, single-handedly releasing layers of golden light, suppressed the innumerable Black Disaster Great Annihilation mists outside.

Capable of suppressing the Black Tide protecting an entire planet, he could now barely envelop himself, Fu Bai, and a small Red Sky Fruit area in the Great Annihilation black mist, and that was all....

The two had thought they could no longer hold on, but suddenly the intensity of the Black Disaster Great Annihilation decreased by a small margin.

Though it was just a tiny reduction, it offered them a brief respite.