Desperate Night

Hu!

Seventy-three figures of colorful light faced the densely packed thousands of two-winged black stone statues head-on.

All the Prism simultaneously raised their hands and pointed into the void.

Chi chi chi chi!!

In an instant, the densely packed black stone statues shattered and fell.

Immediately afterward, the Prisms released their full, immense spiritual energy pressure, instantly suppressing and slowing down the actions and reactions of these two-winged black stone statues.

Then, like seventy-three pulverizing blades, they frantically annihilated the rising black stone statues.

For a time, massive tremors, explosions, and the sounds of metal cutting erupted in a dense barrage.

Yu Hong stood by the window, his entire body surface shimmering with red-purple fluorescence, a sign that he was fully outputting the Tai Ling Gong.

The inner force of the Undying level allowed the Prism Daoists to quickly repair themselves and return to normal, even if they were accidentally scattered or severely injured.

"So that's it. Ordinary level attacks have little meaning for the Undying realm. No wonder it's named Undying. Only Undying can completely shatter the structure of Undying," Yu Hong thought, watching as large swaths of black stone statues were extinguished, while the seventy-three Prism Daoists remained unharmed. He finally understood the meaning and weight of the Undying.

Each of these black stone statues was actually quite strong, reaching the level of a Golden Armor Dragonhead Man without using teleportation or special abilities. They were even faster and stronger in some aspects.

They were not without instances of shattering and cutting apart the Prism Daoists.

But the final outcome was that the Prism Daoists quickly repaired their bodies, unaffected, while they, once shattered, could not regenerate.

It wasn't that they lacked the ability to regenerate, but rather that their own energy structures seemed to be shattered and dispersed after being destroyed by Undying...

Yu Hong's eyesight was now extremely terrifying, and he could easily see some details.

He could see that the scattered fragments of the black stone statues were struggling to reassemble, but his Tai Ling Gong inner force also scattered light spots, quickly annihilating this aggregation phenomenon.

"Is this the suppression of a higher level of regeneration and recovery ability?"

He sighed with emotion.

Soon, the statues outside were extinguished completely.

Everything quieted down.

Hei Hei Ling continued to fly forward.

The seventy-three Prism Daoists guarded both sides.

Yu Hong completely released his control over Hei Hei Ling, allowing it to act on its own.

The greatest characteristic of the Ark of Salvation was its ability to find places of Source Matter and vitality on its own.

This was the fundamental reason why Chief Inspector Margaret had asked him to come and investigate.

Hei Hei Ling floated and shuttled through the city, which seemed to be burning with magma.

Before long, a huge figure appeared in the black smoke ahead.

It was a super-giant black-winged statue, over a thousand meters tall.

The statue knelt in a large group of buildings, like an adult in a pile of small model toys.

Its body was like a mountain, with four black wings extending from its back and a black crown of thorn-like spikes on its head.

A pair of eyes burned with raging dark red flames.

Yu Hong's expression slightly hardened, and he controlled the Prism Daoists to teleport over and point into the void.

Chi!

An invisible finger force suddenly exploded a small hole in the statue's body, but that was it.

The statue ignored it and punched Hei Hei Ling.

There were no extraordinary phenomena, only extremely fast speed.

The distance of a thousand meters was reached in an instant.

Hei Hei Ling couldn't dodge at all and was hit on the spot.

Boom!!!

'The previous damage hasn't been repaired yet, so it seems I can't continue to resist head-on.'

The first hard resistance was to test the other party's specific destructive power, so that he could be mentally prepared.

But there was no need for subsequent ones.

Hu!

Seeing the giant fist approaching rapidly for the second time.

Yu Hong decisively activated Isolation State.

The Hei Hei Ling swayed with layers of transparent water waves in mid-air, then quickly disappeared, gone.

In the next instant, the giant fist, nearly a hundred meters in diameter, swept through the space where Hei Hei Ling had been, hitting nothing.

The remaining Prism Daoists rushed up again, frantically destroying the giant four-winged statue.

Unfortunately, the effect was minimal.

After fighting for a while, the four-winged statue flapped its wings, and its injuries recovered in the blink of an eye.

'Is this guy unaffected by Undying energy?' Yu Hong frowned and observed, hidden in the Isolation State.

He discovered that the external erosion of Undying energy had a duration. For oneself, it could achieve constant Undying, and even if it was destroyed, it would quickly recover.

But the effects of external destruction and influence only lasted for a period of time.

This time was about five to ten minutes.

He remembered this time limit.

The Hei Hei Ling quietly passed the four-winged statue and continued to fly deeper.

After the Prism Daoists held back the statue, they quickly dissipated on their own.

Yu Hong dismissed the control and stood in the main control room, looking at the increasingly deep, dark red city outside.

Suddenly, in the deepest part of the front, a shadow appeared in mid-air.

It was an armored humanoid bound by countless lava chains.

The countless lava chains in all directions shone with a somewhat dazzling red light, converging to a point and binding the armored man in the center.

The armored man was about two meters tall, with two dark red spiral horns on his head, and wearing heavy red and black armor all over his face and body.

There were openings, scars, and charring everywhere on his body.

He hung his head, motionless, as if dead, quietly suspended in the air.

Yu Hong stood inside the Hei Hei Ling in Isolation State, carefully observing the humanoid through the circular window.

'The shape looks very much like a legendary Great Demon. But this is the depths of the Source Disaster... These buildings, this humanoid, what exactly are they...' Yu Hong frowned.

Just then, the humanoid slowly raised his head, as if sensing Yu Hong's peeping.

"This is the Third Era of Destruction... the Great Silence has begun... Everything will be destroyed... order will collapse, chaos will arrive."

An old and trembling voice echoed inside the Hei Hei Ling.

"Whoever you are, please take the message out... I am... unable to leave... this time..."

"With the flowing Eternal Winds, go to where you came from."

The voice gradually weakened and became smaller.

Then, the armored humanoid slowly faded and disappeared, along with the surrounding sky of lava chains, all disappearing without a trace.

Yu Hong widened his eyes and used all his eyesight to search, but he couldn't find a trace of residue.

Outside was still the dark red, dilapidated city, but there was no trace of any armored man in the sky above the city.

Even the lava chains were gone.

Noting the scene just now, Yu Hong breathed a sigh of relief.

The Hei Hei Ling continued to circle and move in the sky.

After who knows how long. Perhaps half a day, perhaps two days.

All the timers inside Yu Hong's ship had stopped turning, and he had lost his sense of time.

Only the countdown on the black mark on the outer eye was still flowing.

This allowed him to roughly know how long he had passed.

'Twenty-three hours?' Yu Hong poured himself a cup of hot water and slowly sipped it.

At the same time, he kept a close eye on the changes outside.

Finally, the Hei Hei Ling stopped moving.

It was suspended above a black building with a structure like an accordion.

There were no traces of anything suspected of being Source Matter around.

With a thought, Yu Hong summoned a Prism Daoist and flew towards the building below.

After wandering around inside the building for a long time, he didn't find anything unusual.

However, he found a large number of unrecognized written records on the walls.

All of these records were recorded by Yu Hong with a translator.

"Overall, this place is not dangerous, why didn't Margaret come in to find it herself?"

Yu Hong frowned and thought about the reason.

He didn't think that the giant four-winged statue would be Margaret's opponent, there must be another reason.

Controlling the Hei Hei Ling to fly out.

Yu Hong quickly returned to the entrance he came from and drilled out.

Harvey and the blonde twin-tails were still waiting there.

Seeing the Hei Hei Ling come out and release the Isolation State, they both showed surprise.

"So fast?" Harvey said in surprise.

"Fast? I searched inside for a day and found nothing," Yu Hong said, jumping out from inside and landing.

"A day?" Harvey said in surprise, "It hasn't even been five minutes since you went in."

"Huh??!" It was Yu Hong's turn to be surprised.

He clearly found that he had spent twenty-three hours after entering through the countdown of the black mark, but why did Harvey say that he had only been in for less than five minutes??

"In any case, let's go back and report to the teacher first," Harvey said seriously, "If what you said is true, then there may already be time turbulence involved here, and the seal on this place needs to be readjusted."

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Chief Inspector's Palace.

Margaret was talking to a burly humanoid composed entirely of flames.

Both were sitting on a black stone high-backed chair in the main hall, with various foods and wines with a faint purple light in front of them.

"You're still the same, Margaret," the flame humanoid said dissatisfied, "But this matter cannot be decided by us Chief Inspectors. This is the resolution of the Arcane Circle, and no changes are allowed."

"There are rumors everywhere that the Great Silence has begun, and everything is being destroyed equally. Order will die, chaos will arrive, this is not just empty words. But in these thousands of years, how many people have left the Floating City because of this? They are all tired of the unchanging rigid rules. They don't want to just go to extinction in such a step-by-step manner, but try to find a more suitable and recognized path for themselves!" Margaret said in a low voice.

"Rules are rules, once broken, it will be the beginning of the shaking of all cornerstones," the flame humanoid said firmly.

"What's the use of those meaningless cornerstones? Used as cannon fodder in the front line and the Source Disaster?" Margaret laughed.

"Time rifts are different. Our level of rash entry will definitely lead to unpredictable chaotic results," the flame humanoid said in a deep voice.

"But in our era, all the Source Matter that can be mined has been used up. Where else can we go next? We have no choice but the past and the future," Margaret retorted.

"So you let an Ark of Salvation enter the time rift to help you find Source Matter? Anyway, he's very weak and won't cause much impact?" the flame humanoid said.

"Can't I?"

"The Ark of Salvation does have the least impact, but..."

"No buts, Andrei, as long as you, as the Time Chief Inspector, don't report it, everything is not a big problem," Margaret said seriously.

"We are friends, friends who grew up together! Aren't we?" she added.

"Sigh..." The flame humanoid Andrei sighed helplessly, "You will cause big problems... Margaret."

"What does that have to do with us?" Margaret smiled, "According to the first principle of time, we can't interfere with the time of our own time and space in any way. So all the time and space we can enter are from other universes, as for the reduction of Source Matter in other universes, what does it have to do with us?"

Andrei was silent.

He picked up the wine pot and took a light sip.

He asked again.

"Then what about that Ark of Salvation? How do you deal with it? Are you really going to give him Star Spirit Alloy?"

"How is that possible, a little thing that will be imprisoned and never able to escape in a few decades, isn't it a waste to give him Star Spirit Alloy?" Margaret laughed. "When we get the information, we'll just drive him away. Anyway, a little guy who will be gone in a few decades. No future to speak of."

Andrei was speechless and had to continue drinking.