Desperate Night

Finally, after another ten days or so.

The color of the wind disaster around the Black Black Spirit had begun to turn somewhat dim and deep.

The surrounding vortexes also rapidly decreased.

Initially, these vortexes were abundant and could be seen everywhere, each representing an entrance to a world.

But now, it often took more than ten minutes of sailing to spot a single vortex.

“It seems that after that cardboard world, we officially entered a deeper area. The current density is completely different from before. The intensity as well.”

Ku Chan stood beside Yu Hong, gazing outward together.

“That’s right. Are the others doing well? I’ve been seeing you guys folding things every day recently, even little Garfield seems happier,” Yu Hong said with a smile.

“It’s alright, that living paper is really fun. The more complex the fold, the closer it is to reality, the more real and flexible it becomes... It feels like creating life!” Ku Chan sighed.

Even he couldn't resist secretly folding his parents and wife and children, but unfortunately, because the folded figures were completely new people, without their previous memories, personalities, etc., and even with very low intelligence.

So in the end, he could only dismantle them again.

“It’s good as long as you’re happy,” Yu Hong nodded. “I’m observing that we’re about to reach the next place. Get ready.”

“Okay, I’ll go inform the others,” Ku Chan nodded, turning and leaving the main control room.

Yu Hong turned his head and continued to look outside.

At this moment, in the distance, a dim gray-black vortex was rapidly approaching.

Unlike before, this time the Black Black Spirit flew straight towards the vortex without the slightest hesitation.

Whoosh~~~

Suddenly, Yu Hong seemed to notice something.

He turned to look in a certain direction of the wind disaster.

Whoosh!

After a muffled sound, before even reaching the vortex, the Black Black Spirit seemed to break through some kind of barrier and entered a vast, colorful space.

Within the space, what came into view were huge sunflower-like yellow faces.

These faces were different from the previous meteor forms; they were like ordinary planets, floating in the wind disaster.

The faces wore bright smiles, each one incomparably huge.

Compared to these face planets, the large Black Black Spirit was like a soccer ball and a sesame seed, insignificant.

The gray eyes of the faces seemed to notice Yu Hong's arrival, and they all focused their gaze on him.

Oooo~~~

Oooo~~~

The face planets occasionally pursed their lips, emitting huge, low-pitched strange noises.

The continuous strange noises made everyone inside the Black Black Spirit feel numb all over.

The Black Black Spirit nimbly weaved through the giant face planets, accelerating.

Finally.

A minute later.

Yu Hong also breathed a sigh of relief, glad that those giant face planets hadn't actively attacked.

Looking at the black vortex tunnel outside.

He reached out and pinched the paper butterfly, gently stroking it, waiting for the end.

Whoosh!!

The ship rushed out of the darkness and quickly stabilized.

Outside the window was a huge snow-white planet.

The Black Black Spirit was floating in space, passing by this planet.

Yu Hong felt his body begin to experience weightlessness, and immediately activated the gravity simulation array in his mind.

Soon, everything in the safe house that had floated up quickly fell and stabilized again.

Yu Hong looked at the white planet outside the window, then turned his gaze to a massive silver-blue space station floating in the planet's ring-shaped orbit.

The space station's exterior resembled a combination of large, sharp mountain peaks, its surface sparkling with starlight. From a distance, one could see huge, bizarre creatures covered in golden light flying back and forth between the peaks.

“It seems we’ve arrived at an extraordinary place...” Yu Hong narrowed his eyes. A civilization of this level of advancement definitely had martial power far exceeding the upper limit of the worlds he had experienced before.

At this moment, the appearance of the Black Black Spirit seemed to attract the attention of the massive space station.

From the bottom of the space station, a small spaceship vessel silently popped out, flying rapidly towards them.

“This is Absolute Balance Sky City. Unknown visitors, please stop advancing immediately. This is a private security zone, and all outsiders are prohibited from releasing teleportation, transmission, space-time jumps, and similar types of spells.”

A cold, emotionless male voice reached Yu Hong's senses, quickly delivering the information.

“Sky City!?” Yu Hong immediately thought of the specialties of Feisina’s place.

To avoid conflict, he controlled the safe house to stop advancing and remain in place, waiting.

Then he left the main control room and came to the first floor.

Everyone had already arrived.

“Did you hear it? That mental notification!?” Yu Hong asked.

“Yes, we all heard it,” Ku Chan nodded. “Feisina said that there is a very strong divine aura here, and the elemental energy is also very terrifying, so we should be careful.”

Yu Hong looked at Feisina, and the little goddess puffed out her chest and continued.

“I can now confirm that this is definitely an arcane world far more developed than the one I was in. I sensed a large amount of divine aura from that sky city outside. Each of these auras is far stronger than I used to be. But...”

“But what?” Yu Hong frowned, seeing her expression, he had a bad feeling.

“But, these gods are all in a comatose state. And most of them are incomplete, their divine spark and divine fire are even being cut apart and placed in several different places,” Feisina said with a grimace. “So, I suspect that this is a world ruled by arcanists, and the gods here are probably being used more as experimental research materials...”

Hearing this, the faces of everyone in the room changed.

Yu Hong and Ku Chan didn't think they could surpass Feisina in her prime. And now hearing that gods much stronger than Feisina were only experimental materials for these arcanists.

One could imagine how terrifying the strength level in this place was.

“But don’t worry, if we can build a good relationship with the natives here and make some deals, we might gain far more benefits than before,” Yu Hong said in a deep voice.

His current strength had just broken through, giving him considerable confidence. And the incomparably sturdy safe house, the Black Black Spirit, was their greatest security guarantee.

So, this time, although it seemed dangerous, it might not be an opportunity.

“That sky city is very big...” At this time, Feisina looked at the silver-blue sharp peaks through the window. “I feel very terrifying elements gathering inside.”

“Something is coming, it’s approaching!” Chi Xiao reminded.

Yu Hong also sensed it, but because the other party was approaching openly, they didn't plan to completely hide themselves and cause misunderstandings, so they simply waited quietly in place.

Not long after.

A fish-shaped black ship flew out from under the silver-blue sky city.

The ship was flashing with specks of blue light, and the top was supporting a large silver sail, rapidly approaching the safe house.

The ship wasn't simply flying, but disappearing for a moment and then reappearing at a closer point.

After doing this three times, the ship finally approached the Black Black Spirit and decelerated.

“We do not receive external sightseeing here, leave immediately.” A powerful mental wave came from inside the ship.

“Sorry, we accidentally strayed in here, we’ll leave immediately. But before we go, let me introduce myself,” Yu Hong quickly transmitted his mental power. “I am Captain Yu, a traveling merchant. I sell special goods from many places, and I also buy local specialties, mainly through barter. So... since we’re here, I’m hoping to purchase some of your local specialty materials. I wonder if you need anything? Perhaps I can provide something.”

In a few short seconds, he had concocted a self-consistent mysterious merchant identity in his mind.

He had used this identity when negotiating with Garfield before, and now it was even smoother and more natural.

“Traveling merchant? Bartering?” The other party seemed somewhat surprised.

“You came in through space jump, right? To be able to get here, that technology is not bad. I am Harvey, the patrol arcanist here. My son needs some advancement materials, do you have any here? To be honest, I’ve encountered you plane merchants before, and the materials you provide are not bad, but the prices are a bit steep.”

“I’m different from those colleagues,” Yu Hong quickly said, “I only do fair trades. Business is just a hobby, my essence is still travel.”

“Okay, you say travel, then travel. Let me talk about the materials, I need a Frost Heart of an Ice Titan. The right eye crystalline tissue of a Deep Beast, any amount will do. Two fangs of a Lie Demon of the six-winged level, and about ten tons of Dimensional Mithril.” The patrol arcanist Harvey quickly reported the materials he needed.

“Uh...” Yu Hong stalled. He had never heard of any of these materials...

“Sorry,” he suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind. “Most of my goods are in the knowledge category, the specific materials I can't carry many because I have to go to many places. But knowledge is different, so, you understand.”

“Knowledge? You come to Absolute Balance to sell knowledge??” Harvey laughed.

“It seems you don’t understand anything. Forget it, everyone disembark first and come back to the city for review.”

Yu Hong's mind raced, quickly taking out a copy from his previous treasures, and then sending it out with internal force.

The red-purple Tai Ling Gong internal force transformed into a stream of light in space, rapidly hovering at the edge of the other party's ship.

“This is a special casting material I collected from a certain place, take a look.”

In the opposite ship, a light blue hand condensed out of thin air, grabbed the collection, flashed, and took it in.

“Hmm, an energy-rich material from a spirit disaster creature, not bad. Okay, consider your review passed. Do you have more of this kind of thing? Trading this is still possible.” Harvey was obviously knowledgeable and recognized the source of the material.

The eyes of the Three-Eyed Dragon Head General still had some value.

Yu Hong breathed a sigh of relief.

“I do have some, but I also need your local specialties as a trade, what is the material with the highest strength here, do you sell it?” he quickly asked.

“Highest strength? There’s Keisha Alloy, Nightmare Fine Gold, Godblood Black Rock, the three materials are about the same strength, how much do you need?” Harvey replied, “Let me make it clear first, I also purchase from other mages, I need a little price difference handling fee.”

“Naturally. I need the kind with the strongest resistance to Source Disaster,” Yu Hong said directly.

“Wait, Source Disaster? Still need materials? You wouldn’t happen to be Salvation Ark?” Harvey reacted immediately.

“According to the depth of the Source Disaster, our place is almost a wind disaster qualitative change point fortress world, if it is Salvation Ark, your next stop should be Phoenix Eyes. To go to Phoenix Eyes, these three materials are not enough.”

He paused.

“Only Deep Godly Liquid can withstand the pressure of Phoenix Eyes. This kind of material is controlled by the Nine Ring Grand Arcanists.”

“Can you introduce us?” Yu Hong quickly asked.

“It’s difficult, the Nine Ring Masters’ attitude towards Salvation Ark is not good, they believe that relying on the primitive and crude search method of Salvation Ark, it’s impossible to find the legendary place of life no matter how long you search. Only our Supreme Sky City is the hope of all life. So... personally, I don't think you can get Deep Godly Liquid. No Grand Arcanist lacks rare materials.” Harvey explained.

“Is that so?” Yu Hong frowned. Looking at the time, “Well then, we’ll rest for a dozen minutes and leave.”

“Okay, good luck. Although I don’t look up to Salvation Ark, there is no doubt that you are pioneers of life.” Harvey said earnestly and sincerely.