Desperate Night.

Chapter 344 Exploration 344

"what?"

"How did Daomai Tianshi Mansion manage to become so powerful and able to stand firm and make money?" Yu Hong asked.

"You mean?" Yu Hen's eyes lit up and he thought of something.

"Yes. That's it." Yu Hong nodded with a smile.

"Indeed, I forgot that we now have the strength to collect protection fees!!" Yu Hen slapped his thigh and said happily.

"." Yu Hong's smile froze. When did he say he wanted to collect protection money?

"Wait, Uncle Master, why do we have to collect protection money?"

"Didn't you say you wanted to learn from Daomai Tianshifu and the others?"

"But I don't want to collect protection money, do I?"

"But that's what they do, right? They ask all places to pay tributes to support the entire Dao lineage. Isn't that protection money?"

“.”Yu Hong was speechless.

"Then what do you want to do? Where will the money come from if you don't charge?" Yu Hen saw that Yu Hong had objections.

"There's no need for us to be so annoying. Since we can make money by making talismans, why not improve on it and do something in-depth." Yu Hong said softly as he walked.

"Talismans can only do so much, the output is so limited, there is no way to increase it." Yu Hen frowned. "If you want to raise the price, with such limited efficacy, no one will buy it. Many Daomai and other sorcerers can make simple talismans. Complex and difficult ones are not available to ordinary people, and need to be ignited by Daoqi."

"It doesn't matter. I'll take care of this." Yu Hong narrowed his eyes and had a vague idea in his mind.

Yu Hen opened his mouth to ask, but seeing that he didn't seem to want to continue, he didn't ask.

"Please take care of all the matters, uncles and aunts. I plan to go to the Yin Qi Pillar and check the situation later." Yu Hong said.

"Yin Qi Pillar." Yu Hen had been deliberately ignoring this key point. In fact, the Yin Qi Pillar was not at the master level, and it was impossible to even get close to it.

Its huge radiant Yin energy is enough to instantly annihilate all Taoist spells like underwater fire.

Therefore, in such a close-range environment, non-observant master-level warlocks are no different from ordinary people.

If you get close, you will die.

This is also the reason why Qingchen Temple has done nothing after the Yin Qi Pillar erupted.

It’s not that I don’t want to, but that I can’t.

But now, Yu Hong has broken through to the level of a temple master. His sharpened spirit can resist the corrosion of high concentrations of Yin energy. He should be able to get closer and observe some things.

"Be careful!" Yu Hen said in a deep voice. "You are our greatest hope in Qingchen Temple for hundreds of years. If you encounter danger, you must ensure your own safety first!"

"Don't worry, I understand!" Yu Hong nodded.

He had long wanted to investigate the Yin Qi Pillar, mainly because the disaster that broke out was not the black disaster he had expected, but a spiritual disaster.

There must have been some unusual changes, so he had to investigate and determine the subsequent changes so that he could prepare early.

Before going to investigate, he needed to make some preparations just in case.

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Hope City World.

In the safe house, Yu Hong coughed a few times, somewhat uncomfortable with the toxic air here.

However, his strong physical fitness quickly adjusted his lung function and the coughing stopped.

He glanced at the familiar first floor of the safe house in front of him.

Fireplace system, boxes of supplies, a large communicator on the table, stored dried cockroaches, dried lizards, dried vegetables, etc., and a kettle with half water left.

And besides that there was the faint hum of powerful nuclear generators in the air.

The warm and soft white light makes the entire safe house appear exceptionally quiet and peaceful.

Yu Hong walked to the front door and opened the viewing window.

Through the reinforced glass, one can see the ruins of the white stone fortress outside that have been frozen into a mound of earth, and the ultimate gate not far away that is constantly emitting blue light.

Several monsters of unknown species, like large dogs with ice-blue spiky fur, lay beside the Ultimate Gate, gnawing on something and whimpering from time to time.

"Alas," Yu Hong sighed involuntarily and opened the door.

Just walked out like that.

The temperature of more than 100 degrees below zero made his whole body tense up instantly, but he quickly adapted to it.

Only his hair and eyebrows were instantly covered with a layer of white frost.

That's a little bit of water vapor frozen into frost.

Click, click.

Yu Hong walked step by step to another auxiliary cave on the side of the safe house.

There are three sub-caves in the camp.

One is used to place breeding boxes and other sundries.

One is to live in peace and quiet.

The last one is his purpose this time.

Standing in front of the cave, Yu Hong glanced at the cave door on Zhang Kaijing's side. No movement.

There was no breathing or heartbeat from inside, and it was obvious that the mysterious girl had gone out and no one knew what she was doing.

Yu Hong retracted his gaze, stretched out his hand, and pressed it on the stone blocking the door of the cave in front of him.

Hard.

Click.

Where the stones and door cracks were frozen, there was a slight sound of ice breaking.

A pungent, acidic smell wafted out from inside. Bang.

Yu Hong pushed the big rock aside and looked inside.

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A large group of densely packed dragon lizards completely blocked the cave and did not move at all.

All the dragon lizards were like sculptures, entangled with each other, forming a hard solid object that was more than three meters high and of unknown thickness.

Yu Hong couldn't remember how many dragon lizards were produced in this nest. Anyway, he hadn't come to visit for some time.

Seeing that the cave was almost full, it suddenly occurred to me that if the environment was right, this dragon lizard could become a large-scale destructive weapon.
"It's time to use you." Yu Hong stretched out his finger and gently touched the surface of the solidified dragon lizard.

Invisible spiritual light quickly flowed into the bodies of all dragon lizards, helping them improve their resistance to low temperatures.

click
A layer of transparent ice shattered and fell from the outermost surface of the dragon lizard.

Snapped.

The first dragon lizard landed lightly on the ground, shook its head, and lay down towards Yu Hong to show its submission.

Then the second and third
More and more dragon lizards are waking up.

In just a few minutes, more than three hundred dragon lizards squeezed out of the cave.

Yu Hong exhaled a breath, opened the door of his safe house, and let the dragon lizards line up and enter quickly.

He had already opened the black ship's dock in his cave. Teams of dragon lizards lined up in a line and quickly crawled into the black fog in the cave, crossed a short layer of black fog wooden bridge, and quickly boarded the black ship docked in the Black River.

Bang.

After the last dragon lizard crawled into the cave, Yu Hong closed the door, took a last look at the Ultimate Gate outside, and also took a step forward and walked into the black fog.

Soon, the black fog dissipated, and the cave returned to its previous appearance as a safe house on the first floor.

There are still many dragon lizards, but Yu Hong only plans to take 300 of them this time, and the rest will stay here to protect the camp.

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Xiayuan Tianshi Mansion.

The abbot of Jinxiao Temple, Taoist Mo Dao, had messy red hair draped over his shoulders and was holding a large jar of honey wine he had just bought. He was knocking hard on the wooden door of a villa in Tianshi Mansion.

"Open the door, Old Lu. You've been in seclusion for so long and you're almost going crazy!"

His breath reeked of alcohol, his face was red, and he yawned from time to time, obviously having stayed up late drinking again.

Bang bang bang.

But no matter how hard he knocked, no one in the yard responded.

"Old Lu!" Taoist Mo Dao yelled again and started banging on the door.

"Master Mo Guan went out to clear up the grievances two days ago." A young Taoist priest in his teens approached from behind and reminded carefully.

"Out?" Taoist Mo raised his eyebrows. "Strange, I made an appointment with him before. I'll go have a drink with him at this time. Even if he's out, Lao Lu will usually call me to say hello."

"I don't know about this, but my master left in a hurry. It seemed that he received a very troublesome and urgent notice. The place he went to was also very remote, so the cell phone signal might be very poor." The young Taoist explained.

"Okay, it's really troublesome." Taoist Mo Wen waved his hands impatiently, turned around and walked away with the jar of wine.

The young Taoist just watched the other person leave until he completely disappeared from his sight.

"Mo Wen and Lu Zhengshun have a very close relationship. It will be very difficult to persuade them. It is best to deal with them together." A voice sounded in the ears of the young Taoist.

"Not only him, but also Kong Jun from Yunshen Temple and Su Ling from Qingxia Palace. Their Taoist magic will pose a great obstacle to our plan." The young Taoist didn't move his lips, but an old voice sounded beside him.

"There is also the Zihe Palace, the Pool of Night and the Pool of All Spirits. Both are indispensable. Only with the support of the infinite power of the Pool of Night and devouring the latter can we truly achieve eternal life. The spiritual magic of the Zihe Palace has a great restraint on spiritual disasters. I have calculated that it may become the biggest variable." The voice continued.

"The Zihe Palace is not so active." The young Taoist frowned.

"It doesn't matter. I'll create the opportunity." The voice gradually faded away.

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Near the coast of Taizhou.

On the blue-black sea, waves rise and fall, and the sound of waves is heard.

hum.

A white speedboat pulled out a thin white line and sailed towards the gray pillar of yin energy that connected the sky and the earth in the distance.

There was only one person standing on the speedboat. He was wearing a white Taoist robe with gold edges and a huge black and white Tai Chi diagram on his back. He was tall and strong, like a bear or tiger. It was Yu Hong who set out from Qingchen Temple.

With a height of more than two meters, he was considered tall among the crowd, but compared with the vast ocean around him, he seemed small and thin.

Looking up at the thick gray pillar in the sky, Yu Hong estimated its diameter.

"This thing is at least hundreds of meters thick. It's really spectacular."

He had never seen anything like this in the Hope City world.

The speedboat sped along, and after about ten minutes, it began to slow down.

At this time, the Yin Qi Pillar was already within reach, standing on the blue-black sea.

It seemed unreal, rising from the bottom of the sea and surging upward continuously.

Yu Hong pressed the switch of the speedboat to stop it.

Then stand on the boat and observe the entire Tianzhu.

He was only a few meters away from the pillar of heaven, almost within reach.

The sea water kept shaking the yacht, and he might be shaken over and crashed into the pillar at any time.

The entire pillar was made up of gray smoke, which was swirling and surging, and nothing could be seen inside.

Yu Hong squinted his eyes and sensed it, but his perception seemed to be blocked by a curtain. He could only vaguely sense that there seemed to be many living creatures inside.

They were like insects that had been solidified by gelatin, fixed in the pillar of heaven and unable to move.

(End of this chapter)