Desperate Night

‘This time, strengthening my outer eyes was definitely the right move.’ Yu Hong slowly opened his eyes, feeling the drastic changes within his body.

The Celestial General's Eyes allowed his Chaotic Godly Eye Technique to break through to the eighth layer in one go, his power increasing exponentially. It even suppressed the inner force of the Grand Spirit Art.

Of course, the Grand Spirit Art had the support of the Light Well, so if it came to sustained output, it would definitely be stronger, but in terms of equal quality, the current Chaotic Godly Eye Technique could completely suppress the Grand Spirit Art.

Standing up, he felt the surging, powerful inner force within him. Although he had become much stronger, without a specific point of reference, it was difficult to know his position.

After thinking for a moment, Yu Hong stretched out his hand and pressed it against the window.

He needed to repair the ship first.

‘Repair the Dark Spirit.’

Black lines flowed out, and a prompt appeared, quickly followed by a countdown timer on the window.

‘11 days, 18 minutes’

“Not bad.” Yu Hong nodded slightly, confirming that the repair had begun. His power increase really made a difference.

He didn't plan to add the materials given by Ku Chan right away. He intended to strengthen the materials separately before adding them together.

‘During this time, I can only insist on staying here, waiting until I'm thoroughly strengthened and fully prepared before setting off.’ Yu Hong was determined this time, preparing to strengthen everything he could to the limit before breaking through the Phoenix Eyes in one go and entering the area beyond.

After confirming the strengthening, the countdown began quickly.

Yu Hong himself continued to stabilize his cultivation, consolidating his newly breakthrough internal energy.

When the Chaotic Godly Eye Technique reached the seventh layer, Chaotic God, it would give rise to a brand new ability.

That was Chaos.

More than ten days passed, dry and dull, and coinciding with a great increase in cultivation, he also gained such a special new ability.

After sitting still for six days, Yu Hong finally couldn't bear it anymore.

It wasn't that he wanted to set off again, but he started to drive the ship, once again breaking away from the wind disaster and returning to the space near the floating city.

This time, with experience, he appeared directly in an area far from the Absolute Balance.

So he didn't alarm the patrol team there.

Then, he kept the ship in isolation mode, allowing it to float quietly around the exit of the floating city, waiting.

Having just broken through, he naturally felt itchy and wanted to find a target to test his hand. But fighting wind disaster monsters was too boring.

And it would easily cause unrest.

So Yu Hong naturally set his sights on Margaret, who had just offended him.

Of course, Margaret was a sixth-level arcanist, and her strength was definitely extremely high.

Within the floating city that could control undying energy at the third level, a sixth-level must undoubtedly be an extremely terrifying existence.

So, just in case, Yu Hong waited quietly, waiting for a suitable opportunity to arrive.

He wasn't worried about finding the wrong target.

The good thing about the floating city was that every mage had their own window of light.

And Margaret was already considered an upper-middle class, her window of light was larger and more conspicuous than Harvey's.

Yu Hong had been there once, and for a powerhouse like him, his mental strength was extremely strong, remembering these things was child's play.

Inside the Dark Spirit.

Yu Hong stood in the main control room, quietly observing the floating city through the circular window.

His terrifyingly powerful eyesight allowed him to easily see through some shallow obstacles to the location of Margaret's window of light.

He could also see all the ships entering and exiting there.

“Anyway, there's nothing to do while waiting for the strengthening, might as well cause some trouble for that woman. Try out the effect first.”

With a surge in power, his overall strength had increased by at least a large margin compared to before. Yu Hong felt like he could do it again and began to eager to try.

He silently observed the ships entering and exiting Margaret's window of light, including the number, markings, direction, and size of the ships.

All of them were recorded.

He observed for three consecutive days.

Finally...

“Here it comes!”

Suddenly, the corner of Yu Hong's mouth hooked up, seeing a sky-blue ship composed of the largest volume of liquid, slowly flying out of Margaret's window of light.

The exterior of this ship was marked with a special water-blue three-petal flower.

Having seen it many times, Yu Hong knew that this was Margaret's unique mage mark.

Every mage had their own exclusive mark.

Margaret's mark was this water-blue three-petal flower.

Each petal was also printed with her three-segment encrypted true name.

“Such a big ship... and this specification, it should be a freighter... Interesting...” Seeing this ship, Yu Hong's heart stirred.

Originally, he had been waiting and waiting, unable to find an opportunity, and was about to temporarily give up, waiting until his strength was more assured before returning for revenge.

But now, the opportunity seemed to have come.

* * *

Inside the floating city.

Inside the sky-blue spaceship.

Three water elements composed of water were bidding farewell to Margaret and her disciples who had come to see them off.

“Mother, you can send us here. We can go back by ourselves.” One of the water elements had a weak appearance. Although he had a male form, there was no masculinity between his eyebrows.

He was wearing a white mage robe and his hands were covered with several permanent enchanted rings that Margaret had just given him.

Behind him, small water elements were moving and placing a large amount of goods that had just been delivered to the ship.

“This time, the supplies sent back to the clan are a full 80% more than before, which will definitely allow the clan to have a prosperous year. You must pay attention to safety on the road and be careful.” Margaret had completely lost her usual stinginess and meanness at this time, and instead had a gentle motherly appearance.

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“Although Absolute Balance is very strong, the City of the Sea of Trees has been making more and more small moves in recent years. As floating cities, their blink troops often act as interstellar pirates to plunder. You must be careful.”

“Don’t worry, Mother.” The water element man nodded, “I have Siha and Meilan protecting me, and our freighter is not large in scale, so it won’t become a plundering target. After all, it’s not worth it for any pirate to expose themselves for a ship.”

“That’s right.” Margaret thought that this was reasonable. Siha and Meilan were a third-level arcanist and a fourth-level arcanist, both absolute experts. Escorting a mere freighter was not a big problem.

Normally, especially a fourth-level arcanist, given time to prepare, would even be enough to destroy a planet. These people were absolute high-level existences in any force outside the floating city.

These two were escorting her son and such a small amount of goods, so there was indeed no major problem.

Not to mention that this Oyster also had a powerful fifth-level psychedelic magic circle, which could greatly conceal its existence and hide its aura and image.

The forces that could crack this illusion formation would not be interested in such a small amount of goods. Those interested in these goods could not break this illusion formation.

In addition, with two arcanists escorting, safety had been considered to the highest level.

“Go back, Mother, the patrol department still has so many affairs to deal with. Sending me here is enough.” Her son Ulman advised.

“Alright...” Margaret looked around, “It’s a pity it’s too far away and there are too many gaps, otherwise we could directly establish a teleportation array, why would it be so troublesome?”

“The consumption of instant teleportation is too great over a distance of thousands of light-years...” Her son Ulman said with a wry smile.

“Do you think I don’t know?” Margaret glanced over, immediately scaring Ulman into shivering, not daring to say more.

“Hurry up and get lost, just looking at your virtue, being timid and cowering, makes me angry.” Looking at her son like this, Margaret felt a burst of anger in her heart and her hands itched to beat him.

Who wouldn’t want their son to be a stalwart and powerful archmage?

She was the same.

But Ulman might have been beaten by her too much since he was a child, and his personality was shaped like this. It was impossible to change it.

“Yes!” Ulman was startled and quickly ordered the hatch to be closed.

The Oyster slowly turned around, its whole body lit up with sky-blue fluorescence, and the hull quickly became translucent, entering the illusion formation activation state.

“Mother, see you after the New Year.” Ulman transmitted his voice.

“Get lost!” Margaret waved her hand impatiently.

But even though she said it fiercely, a gentle look unconsciously flashed across her face as she watched her son leave.

Why was she saving resources and seeking benefits? Wasn’t it all for her son to have a good future?

Her son’s aptitude wasn’t very good. In the future, when arcane magic rushed to the fifth level, he might stop there. At that time, breaking through the sixth level, this qualitative change, would require countless resources.

And Ulman was already the most talented person in the clan.

Therefore, whether for her son or for the clan, she had to cultivate a second sixth-level arcanist.

How could she not know that her son was under great pressure and working hard, but there was no way...

Being in her position, she saw things differently from low-level mages. Some checkpoints that she couldn’t break through now would be even more impossible to break through in the future. The decline of the clan in the future was almost inevitable.

“Teacher, don’t worry, it’s okay. The Oyster has already entered a psychedelic state. It’s very concealed when it goes out, so nothing will happen.” Harvey comforted in a low voice on the side.

“Yeah.” Margaret responded, turned around and flew back to the window of light.

Harvey glanced at the disappearing shadow of the Oyster, breathed a sigh of relief, and followed closely behind.

At the same time.

Outside the Source Disaster Floating City, Yu Hong, hidden inside the Dark Spirit in isolation mode, took off his eye mask, revealing the white fluorescent outer eyes that had just been strengthened, staring at the Oyster leaving the floating city.

A meaningful smile appeared on his face.

He saw...

The exchange between Margaret and her son. Although he couldn’t hear the content, he could see that faint warmth.

And that ship… the goods on the ship looked like a lot…

He originally thought that the opportunity for revenge might only come later, but he didn’t expect the opportunity to come so quickly…

The Celestial General’s Eyes were now releasing a shimmering white light, with a circle of golden light spots in the center of the pupils, converging and dispersing, repeatedly.

This was the manifestation of the Chaotic Godly Eye Technique activating its ability to break through illusions.

Yu Hong didn't know the limit of this breaking-illusion ability, but at this moment, it was easy to lock onto that sky-blue spaceship.

Quietly, he waited.

Waiting for that spaceship to slowly fly out of the floating city, gradually accelerating and flying into the distance.

Yu Hong's eyes flashed, and the instantaneous movement ability was activated instantly.

In the next moment, he had disappeared into the Dark Spirit.