Night of Despair-Chapter 435 - 433 Anning 1

Thunderous boom!!

The terrifying Spirit Light amplified Thunderbolt Fist, with a Spiritual Fluctuation reaching tens of millions, connects solidly with its target.

A tremendous explosion roars out, and where the fist lands, rings of interwoven blue and red flames ripple out.

The ripples, sharp as blades, instantly slice through the surrounding walls, the ground, everything.

Everything within the research facility, under the explosive force of this fist’s Inner Strength, is devastated like by a hurricane, transforming in the blink of an eye.

The horrific Spiritual Fluctuation Value, coupled with the shockwave from the Tai Ling Skill’s Inner Strength, wildly annihilates all the spiritual entities here.

The old crone’s body ripples with ghastly white, with countless black gases surging from her facial features, attempting to withstand Yu Hong’s punch.

But beyond just raw Spiritual Fluctuation and Inner Strength, there’s also the presence represented by Light Disaster, firmly suppressing her power.

...With the ghastly blue Ultimate Sun Illusion growing ever brighter, she ultimately roars in unwillingness, her face gradually losing its smile.

Crack.

The old crone, along with the grand door beside her, now shatters, like a mirror, into a multitude of cracks.

The next second.

With a swoosh.

Everything shatters into countless fragments and debris, scattering to the ground.

Yu Hong, maintaining his full-strength punching position, unleashes a terrifying surge of Tai Ling Skill’s Inner Strength from his fist, slamming into the ground behind the door.

Hiss!!

The ground is pierced by a dark hole as deep as a bucket. Like being penetrated and scorched by a laser, the inside of the hole is all smooth surfaces.

With his Inner Strength retracted, Yu Hong gazes at where the old crone disappeared.

"Is it over?"

He’s not certain if he’s succeeded, but it seems he arrived just in time, intercepting her before she could fully emerge from the Gate of Despair.

Silence surrounds him.

Buzz!

Only now does the sound and vibration from the underground explosion earthquake, caused by the Inner Strength column from his punch, finally reach back to him.

Yu Hong, expressionless, carefully senses the remaining Black Disaster and Red Value around him.

Splat!

At that moment, a pale arm silently reaches out from behind him, lightning-fast piercing through his chest.

The arm, with a hand as sharp as a knife, easily penetrates Yu Hong’s back and exits through the front of his chest.

But the next second, Yu Hong’s pierced body slowly fades into an illusion, revealing it was just a realistic afterimage.

The real Yu Hong, with a chain of afterimages, flashes to the other end of the underground hall, behind him a vast semi-humanoid colossus woven silently from dark red Inner Strength threads.

The colossus breaks through the ceiling above with its arms outstretched, swinging its fists.

As the fists gouge out a deep chasm in the ceiling, Thunderbolt crashes down onto the pale arm.

Boom!!

Fist meets hand. Black and dark red, two overwhelming forces, a high concentration of millions of Red Value against millions in Spiritual Fluctuation Value Spirit Light amplified Tai Ling Skill Inner Strength.

Neither force shows any sign of obliteration, each piercing through the opposing light, striking each other’s bodies directly.

The pale arm, struck by the dark red Spirit Light Inner Strength, crumbles to pieces, with countless tiny dark red ice fragments seeming to spread from within.

Yu Hong’s chest is hit by black mud-like high concentration Red Value Radiation, layer after layer of Spirit Light instantly pierced through, with a slight remainder shooting inside, hitting his torso squarely.

On the surface of the body, streaks of golden arcs emerge once more, the weakening from the moon’s Divinity only managing to block a small part of the Red Value Radiation, the rest is forcefully endured by Yu Hong’s own high-intensity body.

Puff!!

He steps back, his Inner Strength already ablaze before being struck.

Dark red flames completely engulf his body, as Yu Hong activates the Thunderbolt State with double Inner Strength burning on top of the Spirit Light amplification; this is the strongest state he has ever been in.

This residual wave of Red Value Radiation, hitting him, only leaves a burn-like scar the size of a fist in his chest.

"Die!!"

Raging, Yu Hong’s face contorts ferociously; he charges forward instead of retreating, the massive humanoid figure raising its fist alongside him.

Silver and red lights intertwine onto his right fist, punching forward together.

At this point, the pale arm can no longer withstand; it only has one arm to counterattack, but clearly, though its body is extremely powerful, it failed to seize the opportunity to emerge earlier, and now it can only rely on a single arm to fight.

For Yu Hong, the intensity is ultimately still insufficient.

"I... remember you... now..."

Just then, the arm suddenly relaxes its grip on its fist, forming a somewhat strange handprint.

Boom!!

The next instant, Yu Hong’s punch hits the arm at its wrist.

The blinding red and silver light completely engulf the pale arm.

Seconds later, the light fades, and there’s no trace left on the spot.

Huh...

Yu Hong stands in place, feeling no more of the terrifyingly intense Red Value from just a moment ago.

Finally, he breathes a sigh of relief.

"Is it finally over?" Suddenly, a voice came from behind him.

The voice was calm and clear, that of a young woman.

Yu Hong did not show any surprise, just turned around to look behind him.

Standing there was one of the people by his side whom he had intentionally ignored all along.

Zhang Kajing.

Clad in a white lady’s trench coat, Zhang Kajing was crouching on the ground, gently picking up a white shard that had just fallen from that pale arm.

The shard was continuously disintegrating into black smoke and fading away as time passed.

"So you’ve finally decided to stop pretending?" Yu Hong said deeply.

"Even ’Mother’ has been sent packing by you, it’s meaningless for me to keep pretending," Zhang Kajing said calmly.

"Mother?" Yu Hong raised an eyebrow, "The owner of that arm just now?"

"Yes, actually, for a long time, we’ve been aware of you. The dissipation of will forced us to look for a substitute... Mother didn’t want to give up power and become one of you; she chose to plunder. But I am different, I choose to surrender and then be reborn," Zhang Kajing had obviously improved her speaking ability by a lot recently.

"So where do you stand now?" asked Yu Hong with an unchanged expression, but his interest in Zhang Kajing had grown.

"Human? Or Black Disaster?"

"If I say I am Black Disaster, they won’t care about me and will just swarm to eat me again. What do you think?" Zhang Kajing answered.

"Heh heh... So what do you want to do by suddenly revealing yourself?" Yu Hong chuckled, shifting the topic.

"I just suddenly feel very tired, you and I both know you had doubts about me; pretending further is just a waste of time. I want to be honest, it’s more relaxing. Consumes less energy," replied Zhang Kajing.

She looked up at the huge dark red figure behind Yu Hong.

"And moreover, you’ve become the spokesperson for Light Disaster, do you realize?"

"So what?" replied Yu Hong.

"It seems you were well aware of what you were doing before tapping into this power," Zhang Kajing showed a somewhat surprised expression.

"If you truly stand with humanity now... then," Yu Hong stretched his hand toward her.

"Come to me... don’t resist."

"What do you want to do?" Zhang Kajing blinked, "Plant the power of Light Disaster inside me? It’s useless. As both originate from Source Disaster, insufficient quantity will be eradicated by another Source Disaster."

"Meaning that, you still have the power of Red Value from Black Disaster inside you?" Yu Hong raised an eyebrow.

"Meaning that, all you just said was to deceive me?"

"Appearing here now, trying to deceive me with words, I no longer care about your purpose."

He lit up with a silver-red halo once more.

"Wait! Don’t get agitated, I still have something to..." Zhang Kajing’s eyes widened, she hurriedly spoke out.

Boom!!

But it was too late.

"Die!" Yu Hong’s figure had disappeared from its original place, leaving a blur as he threw a punch at her face in the blink of an eye.

The tremor, massive like an earthquake, squeezed the air in the underground space and brought a gale.

His punch hit Zhang Kajing’s face instantly.

Her nasal bone cracked first, shattering, followed by the fracture of her facial bones, her brain bursting like tofu and spraying backward.

Zhang Kajing’s head was blown open by the punch, exploded into numerous red and white fragments, splattering all over the place.

Her body stiffly stood in place, trembling a few times, and then fell to the ground with a thud.

"Anything else?" Yu Hong stood in place, withdrew his fist, and looked towards the body.

Right then, the body slowly dispersed, turning into black foam as if it had never existed from the beginning.

A half-transparent illusion of an old crone noiselessly appeared behind Yu Hong.

The crone was the very top-tier Black Disaster monster that was nearly about to enter this place earlier.

"You’re... very... sharp..." This time the old crone did not take action, but just stood there with a black stone cane, quietly watching Yu Hong.

"Zhang Kajing hasn’t spoken this much to me ever since I met her; your slip-up was too big. But... speaking means communicating," Yu Hong turned around and looked at her. "May I ask you a question?"

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"Hehe... if you’re not afraid, go ahead," the old crone smiled.

"Afraid?" Yu Hong was taken aback, then noticed that his own consciousness was unconsciously rising with violent, insane thoughts, wanting to abandon everything.

And the golden sparks on his body had already emerged automatically, seemingly resisting something.

"The power of xing, just by making contact, will corrupt..." the old crone spoke intermittently.

"Communication is also a form of contact; I understand," Yu Hong closed his eyes. He no longer looked directly at her with his eyes, but only used his hearing and sensation.

In his sensations, however, the spot where the old crone stood was completely filled with black energy particles in the void, obviously the essence of the Black Disaster energy particles.

Apart from these, the Heaven’s Eye in that area of the old crone was showing a fragmented and incomplete state.

This gave Yu Hong more options for his speculations about the Heaven’s Eye.

"I want to ask, is peaceful coexistence possible with us? Why must you hunt down living beings?" he asked quickly.

"Would you live in peace with the roast meat on your plate?" the old crone replied softly.

"As for why... hunting you down... it’s naturally because we’re hungry... to maintain consciousness, we require enough replenishment..."

"And what about xing? What is xing?" Yu Hong asked again.

"That is the source of everything for us, as well as the end of everything. Every kind of disaster has a xing, and finding it means we can avoid hunting for a long stretch of time," the old crone spoke faster and faster, evidently becoming more adept at speaking.