Desperate Night

‘Even so, the disappearance of the Terror Shadow I summoned should give me some feedback. But I haven't noticed anything all night.’

Yu Hong looked at the empty and dilapidated ground around him, his mind plunged into contemplation.

By daylight, the surroundings of the attic were even clearer.

The terrain here was a basin.

Surrounded on all sides by mountains, the gray-white mountains were like high walls, blocking most of the light.

Only the cave openings in the ground were the most convenient entrances and exits.

Taking a deep breath, Yu Hong didn't know if it was right for him to rashly become Yu Xuezi's disciple.

This apprenticeship was like child's play; he was decisive, and the other party was quite casual. The two sides quickly settled on their titles after only meeting once, with little understanding of each other.

If it were before, Yu Hong certainly wouldn't have been like this, but at that time, Yu Xuezi's methods were quite amazing, and coupled with his own panic from the approaching Ultimate Sun, he lost his composure and followed the other party's lead.

But what the other party was thinking, he didn't know.

‘No matter what, as long as it can help me suppress the Ultimate Sun, anything else is fine. Survive, surviving is the most important thing.’

Yu Hong wandered around the attic a few times, swept away the dust, and remained vigilant, setting up small Dustless Arrays in every place.

Resting in a place arranged by the other party was basic etiquette. But that didn't mean he completely trusted the other party's arrangements.

After setting up the array, he also set up an embedded array to isolate the red-value radiation. Only after doing all this did Yu Hong sit down to rest.

“Junior Brother Yu Hu, are you awake? It's time to go to Master's place.” Bai Sheng's voice came from outside the attic at this time.

Yu Hong quickly got up, walked to the aisle, and looked downstairs through the window.

He saw Bai Sheng in white, carrying a long sword on his back, standing beside the entrance to the cave and waving up at him.

He immediately went downstairs, and the two set off together, continuing to travel through the tunnel along the route from last night.

They quickly returned to the Wanxue Palace.

Unlike last time, this time they met Yu Xuezi in an ancient and quiet meditation palace.

Yu Xuezi had changed his clothes, wearing a emerald green Taoist robe embroidered with silver carp and dragons, a jade dragon scale crown on his head, and a snow-white whisk in his hand, sitting upright on a futon, eyes closed in meditation.

“It was okay, but when I got up in the morning, there was a little abnormality…” Yu Hong carefully told him about the situation he encountered.

He had always been so honest, with nothing to hide.

Because what he hated most was the various misunderstandings caused by concealment.

“Is that so?” Yu Xuezi was stunned, then nodded casually. “It's okay, not a big problem. Since the Celestial Sovereigns sealed the Star Calamity, this kind of inconspicuous little thing occasionally appears. Don't worry, they will disappear quickly on their own. At first, many seniors were a little worried, but after careful research and investigation, they found that it was just a simple illusion, without any harm, so they ignored it.”

“Is that so?” Yu Hong was stunned.

“That's right.” Bai Sheng on the side also nodded and smiled. “Junior brother doesn't need to worry. You'll understand when you get used to it in the future.”

Since both of them said it was okay, Yu Hong didn't say anything more.

Next, Yu Xuezi asked Yu Hong to follow him in chanting a Taoist scripture called the Spirit Snow Sutra.

After chanting slowly a hundred times, it was noon.

Bai Sheng led Yu Hong to lunch together.

In the huge, soccer field-sized restaurant, only the three of them sat down to eat.

Clatter.

Bai Sheng placed a plate of brownish-yellow mud-like mixture in front of Yu Hong.

“Sorry, because of our physical structure, what we eat is different from you. The previous energy meal supplier is also broken. We found some spare nutrient solution mixed with dry food to make you a meal. Just make do with it for now.” He apologized.

Yu Hong looked at the brownish-yellow sludge in the plate, which emitted a pungent smell, and gave a dry laugh, about to decline.

Suddenly, his eyes narrowed, and he saw that on the wall behind Bai Sheng and Hei Ying, an dark red eyeball the size of a bathtub had appeared at some point!

The eyeball was embedded in the wall, turning from side to side, as if scanning everything in the restaurant.

Bloody water slowly seeped out from below the eyeball, but it didn't care, still wriggling, the surface reflecting a moist sheen.

The seeping blood flowed down the wall to the ground, emitting a strong fishy stench.

“Look behind you!” Yu Hong stood up abruptly, took a few steps back, and reminded urgently.

Bai Sheng and Hei Ying were stunned and looked back.

“Behind us, there's nothing there? What's wrong, Junior Brother Yu Hu?” Bai Sheng turned back with a blank face and asked in confusion.

Hei Ying on the side also glanced at it, then turned her head back and looked at Yu Hong with a puzzled expression.

Yu Hong looked at the huge eyeball on the wall, and then looked at the two people who were completely unaware.

“You, can't you see it?? ”

The two exchanged glances, both showing very puzzled expressions.

“See what? What's wrong, junior brother?”

Yu Hong wanted to say something, pointing at the eyeball on the wall, but in the next instant, his eyes blurred, and he found that the eyeball had disappeared in an instant.

It was as if everything he had just seen was an illusion.

Even the dripping blood on the ground and the fishy stench had all disappeared.

“Are you okay?” Bai Sheng waved his hand in front of Yu Hong.

“I'm, fine.” At this time, Yu Hong already had a vague feeling that something was wrong.

But he didn't know if there was a problem with himself or with them.

Could it be that those strange things were really just normal phenomena, as Yu Xuezi said?

He told the two of them about the scene he had seen.

But the two of them showed even more puzzled expressions.

“To be honest, we've lived here for hundreds of years and have never encountered the situation you described,” Bai Sheng said.

“It should be the normal little problem that Master said,” Hei Ying added.

Seeing that the two of them didn't take it seriously, Yu Hong had no choice but to give up and could only secretly increase his vigilance.

After eating, the afternoon was continued chanting.

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Time passed slowly, repeating continuously.

Yu Xuezi didn't teach him any techniques, but just kept asking Yu Hong to chant scriptures.

This went on for more than two weeks.

One morning, after finishing chanting, Yu Hong was about to get up and have lunch with Bai Sheng and the others.

“Wait. Yu Hu, stay.” Yu Xuezi said with his eyes closed.

“Yes.” During this time, Yu Hong chanted scriptures with peace of mind, not thinking about any miscellaneous matters. He went to bed early and got up early every day. Not only did he not see those previous visions again, but the internal force of the Chaos God Heavenly Eye Sutra in his body also naturally grew stronger.

Obviously, this kind of peaceful cultivation also had great benefits for him.

After a while, Bai Sheng and the two left the Taoist palace after bowing.

In the soccer field-sized Taoist palace, there were only Yu Xuezi and Yu Hong.

“Yu Hu, during this time, I have observed that your nature has not been contaminated by demonic techniques or evil ways. Your state of mind has also been rebuilt almost. Under the concealment of various appearances, the essence of your heart is indeed upright and kind.”

Yu Xuezi's seated figure turned silently, facing Yu Hong.

“Therefore, from now on, of the two cultivation techniques you have, the one that cultivates the eyes can continue to be practiced, but the other one cannot be practiced concurrently,” Yu Xuezi said, his expression becoming serious.

“To be honest, there is also my own purpose in accepting you as a disciple.”

“It's better for us to lay it out clearly. Your origins are unknown, your identity is unclear, and although your aptitude is good, logically speaking, I shouldn't have rashly accepted you as a disciple, but this is actually an exchange.”

“Exchange?” Yu Hong asked in confusion.

“Yes.” Yu Xuezi nodded, “The three of us, master and disciples, shouldn't have come to this mining star, but we've been here for more than a hundred years since we came. If there are no other accidents, we may have to stay here for thousands or tens of thousands of years, unattended, unknown, and may even be gradually forgotten in the end.”

He sighed.

“If it were just me alone, it would be fine, but there are also Bai Sheng and Hei Ying. They are still young. If they don't achieve the Immortal Realm, I'm afraid they will live to be five thousand years old and die of old age, living their whole lives on this lonely mining star.”

“So... my arrival, could it change all of this?” Yu Hong guessed.

“Yes... there is that hope.” Yu Xuezi nodded honestly. “Your aptitude is ten times better than theirs. Even if you start from scratch, you have a great chance of breaking through to the Immortal Realm. According to the rules of my Qinghe Mountain, cultivating an immortal will allow me to obtain another qualification to apply for a distribution point. At that time, leaving here will be easy.”

“I see...” Yu Hong suddenly understood. “Then, may I ask Master, how many years does it generally take to cultivate to the Immortal Realm?”

“Although you have your own cultivation, everything has to start from scratch, so, at the fastest, it will take about three hundred years,” Yu Xuezi replied.

Three hundred years...

Yu Hong had thought about it for a long time, but he didn't expect it to be so long.

“Of course, once you reach the Golden Core stage, you can enter the stage of non-leakage. At that time, with my assistance, it will be very easy to completely cut off the connection with the Ultimate Sun, so don't worry,” Yu Xuezi said with a smile.

“...” Yu Hong wasn't worried about this, but he was worried that in three hundred years, he didn't know if Yiyi, Ku Chan, Quan He, and the others would still be around...

Moreover, could the Source Calamity really wait for him for three hundred years?

Judging from Agris's tone, probably not.

“Before cultivation, I need to explain it to you first, so that you won't have any doubts in your heart and can be as bright and new as a mirror,” Yu Xuezi said, “In addition, the Qinghe Mountain techniques of this sect cannot be passed on to outsiders after cultivation. If there are those with extremely good aptitude, they can apply to open their own branch and bring them into the sect.”

These were all normal sect rules, and Yu Hong quickly agreed.

“Next, I will teach you the most orthodox Foundation Establishment technique of my Qinghe Mountain—the Qingyuan Heavenly River Wonderful Method.”

Yu Xuezi gently took out a scripture from his large sleeve and handed it to Yu Hong.

“Take it, study it carefully, and if you have any questions, you can come and ask me quickly.”

At this time, Yu Hong was completely stunned the moment the other party took out the scripture.

Because the scripture was covered with dark red, foul-smelling flesh and blood. Slender white bones were the edges and corners of the book, and moldy and bloody rotten flesh was the outer skin of the book.

But Yu Xuezi seemed to not see it at all, still holding the scripture with a smile, handing it over.

Just looking at the scripture, Yu Hong felt waves of strange dizziness constantly impacting his mind.

An indescribable, powerful, and bizarre mental force spread out from the scripture, like an awl, frantically trying to drill into his brain.

This place...

There's a problem!!!!

At this time, he was 100% sure of this!