Desperate Night

Carrying the medicine for the Heavenly Thunder Palm, Yu Hong didn't stop along the way, returning to Black Spirit swiftly.

His sparring with his senior brother allowed him to vaguely see the path he should take in the future.

Previously, he was forced by the Source Disaster, passively moving forward step by step, but now, he finally had the leisure to calm down and consider his future plans.

Yu Hong walked alone slowly from Wanxue Palace back to his residence in Black Spirit.

The pavilion where he lived was given a convenient name by Bai Sheng, called White Tiger Pavilion.

Yu Hong thought the name was not bad, mainly because his main internal cultivation technique, the Chaotic Divine Eye Skill, manifested as a giant, strange white tiger.

Centered around the White Tiger Pavilion, an area of about two kilometers in radius was designated by Yu Xuezi as his private area.

'It's a pity... If Ku Chan and the others could have persevered a little longer and come here, they might have been able to become disciples under Teacher Yu Xuezi as well.' Yu Hong felt a little regretful in his heart. From the current information, Qinghe Mountain here was far more powerful than Sky City.

Moreover, one was located deep within the Source Disaster behind the Phoenix Eye, while the other was only guarding the central hub outside the Phoenix Eye and could not go deep.

The difference in quality was immediately apparent.

Hehe...

Just as Yu Hong was walking and thinking about his cultivation techniques and future, suddenly, in the dark underground mine, a faint chuckle sounded.

Yu Hong looked in the direction of the sound.

He discovered that on the right side of the mine tunnel ahead, there was a small, short figure, carrying a large package on its back, standing quietly against the wall, facing him.

"Who are you?" Yu Hong stopped, focusing his eyesight to look. He immediately saw the other party's entire appearance clearly.

It was a dwarf-like little person, less than one meter tall, wearing a set of dirty, black-gray clothes. The layers of clothes were somewhat tattered, but the outside of the clothes was covered with various small bags.

Apart from these, the most conspicuous thing was a huge black-red fleshy tumor growing on the dwarf's back.

This fleshy tumor was more than two meters in diameter, like a small mountain pressing on the dwarf's back, causing him to involuntarily bend over, lowering his head, unable to see his face clearly.

"Hehehe..." The dwarf continued to laugh. "Guest, need anything? Very cheap..."

"Are you a merchant? A peddler?" Yu Hong understood that this was a traveling merchant running around in the underground mine to peddle goods.

He paused and asked, "What do you have? What currency do you use?"

"I don't have many things, but they are all very useful, especially for you right now," the dwarf smiled.

Yu Hong narrowed his eyes and walked closer.

The closer he got, the more clearly he could see that the huge fleshy tumor on the traveling merchant's back had unknown bulges inside from time to time, protruding and then receding, which was very strange.

"The black one is the Heart-Protecting Pill, which can protect your mental consciousness from unknown intrusions and pollution. But the effect only lasts for a month and needs to be taken continuously," the dwarf replied.

"The white one is the Body-Protecting Pill, which can protect your body from unknown pollution. The effect time is also one month and needs to be taken continuously."

"Do you think I need this?" Yu Hong asked.

"Then how about this?" The traveling merchant dwarf retracted his hand, rummaged in the pockets on his body, and took out two more items.

The left hand held a pale purple dagger made of unknown material.

The right hand held a roll of old and incomplete thin paper.

"Now, the left hand is a bone weapon. I don't know what the effect is. It depends on your luck. The right hand is a fragment of an unknown scripture, suspected to be a part of some powerful cultivation technique," the dwarf described with a smile, "Here, all transaction prices are in crystal coins."

Yu Hong didn't have any crystal coins on him, but he was more curious about where this guy came from than about buying things.

"Senior brother clearly told me that there are only four of us on this entire planet," Yu Hong said.

"Looks like you don't want to buy?" The dwarf smiled and retracted his hand. "Then I won't disturb you. Looking forward to your next visit... if you have a next time."

Chī!

The next moment, Yu Hong wanted to say something, but his eyes blurred, and he couldn't see anything.

The other party disappeared instantly before his eyes.

It wasn't teleportation. His powerful eyesight could tell that teleportation required stimulating strong spatial fluctuations and also required the eruption of extremely strong self-energy, regardless of what the nature of this energy was.

But the way this dwarf left just now was more like disappearing into thin air without leaving a trace.

Yu Hong walked over and looked at the ground. There was no trace of the dwarf standing there just now.

'This guy, what did he mean by his last sentence?'

After a trace of vigilance rose in his heart, he turned around, quickened his pace, and quickly returned.

Hua la.

Only a few minutes after entering the house, a torrential rain began to fall outside.

Black-gray raindrops fell on the ground, faintly dyeing the earth into some dark colors.

Yu Hong stood by the window, staying in the warm and spring-like safe house, looking at this somewhat mysterious and strange planet through the glass.

Recalling the words of the dwarf traveling merchant, he once again thought of the abnormalities he had discovered these days.

"Perhaps that guy is right. There are very deep secrets and very deep dangers hidden here. If I had a choice, I wouldn't stay, but unfortunately, only Yu Xuezi can help me suppress the Tai Ling Skill from time to time in the short term. If I leave now, I don't know when I will encounter a kind and powerful expert like Teacher Yu Xuezi again."

This was also the reason why Yu Hong had to stay despite realizing that something was wrong, because he had no choice.

The next morning, Yu Hong began to study and read the Heavenly Thunder Palm, while also preparing the medicinal herbs for his bath.

The heavy rain continued to fall, but he was unaffected inside the safe house.

After quickly putting the medicinal herbs into the large barrel and soaking himself, Yu Hong tidied himself up and hurriedly left to pay his respects to his teacher at Wanxue Palace.

Yu Xuezi was someone who placed great importance on daily greetings. Unless in long-term seclusion, he didn't allow his disciples to be too lax, so he needed to judge their daily lives from their greetings.

After Yu Hong finished his greetings, he quickly left Wanxue Palace and entered the underground mine tunnel back.

Whoosh...

A subtle wind blew from the side of the tunnel entrance. There was a somewhat familiar black hole there, on the stone wall.

Yu Hong had passed by here many times, but he only encountered this hole the first time. For a long, long time after, he never encountered it again.

Until now.

This hole had appeared again.

He had thought that his senior brothers and sisters were responsible for filling the hole, but he didn't expect to see an identical hole in the same place again today.

Pa.

Yu Hong stood still, not moving.

He tried hard to stare at the hole, but he could only see a bottomless darkness inside.

After hesitating for a moment, he waved his hand, and a Speedster suddenly materialized out of thin air and walked towards the hole.

Poof.

In utter silence, the hole disappeared.

The Speedster that entered seemed to be the trigger for its disappearance.

'It's like this again. Sudden appearance, sudden disappearance.'

Yu Hong tried to contact the Speedster, but unfortunately, there was no response. The connection between them had been completely severed.

Without a word, he turned around and quickened his pace, heading back towards the safe house.

On this mining star, the only place where he could completely relax and rest was Hei Ling.

Time passed day by day.

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Yu Hong began to switch from the Shou Shan Eight Methods to the Heavenly Thunder Palm.

This palm technique has six layers, each layer named with a four-character phrase containing the word 'Thunder'.

It is said that when cultivated to its peak, one can summon heavenly thunder to attach to the body, stacking it with one's own immense strength to bombard opponents.

This palm technique also trains one's physical strength.

Yu Hong used the Black Seal to enhance the effects of the medicine, and continued to bury himself in crazy hard cultivation.

A week later, he successfully entered the first stage of the Heavenly Thunder Palm.

With a splash, Yu Hong got up from the large barrel and evaporated the moisture from his body.

It was time to go to Wanxue Palace to greet his master again.

He changed his clothes, quickly went out, and entered the underground mine tunnel.

He accelerated all the way.

Soon, as he was about to reach Wanxue Palace, he suddenly stopped.

That hole in the wall had appeared again.

Not only that, but a blackish-yellow, rotting arm stretched out from the hole, groping and rummaging on the ground outside.

That arm was quite thick, two circles thicker than Yu Hong's current arm.

It unconsciously groped around outside, as if searching for something.

After searching for a while without finding anything, the arm slowly retracted, and there was no more movement.

Yu Hong waited until the arm had completely disappeared before moving his heart and condensing a Prism Mirror Taoist figure.

'Go in and take a look,' he instructed.

The Prism Mirror Taoist, with a head full of colorful light, quickly flashed and appeared in front of the hole, then plunged straight in.

Not broken!

This time, Yu Hong sensed that his connection with the Prism Mirror had not been severed.

He stood at the entrance of the cave and waited for a while, until the Prism Mirror came out of the cave again, then he slowly approached and slowly probed into the cave with his hand.

It felt like piercing through a layer of cold water curtain.

Yu Hong confirmed that there was no problem, and then took a step forward.

Poof.

In an instant, the world spun before his eyes.

The next moment, he reappeared in front of the hole, as if he had never entered at all.

But soon, Yu Hong noticed something was wrong.

The Red value of the air here is too high!!!

As soon as he inhaled, the concentration of Red value radiation he felt far exceeded the intensity he had sensed before.

In the air, at least more than ten thousand units of Red value radiation energy spread wantonly around.

Yu Hong looked around. He found that the underground mine tunnel was filled with a thin mist.

He thought for a moment, waved his hand to summon nine Prism Mirror Taoists, and let them quickly spread out around to investigate the situation.

The investigation lasted for a few minutes, and soon, Yu Hong seemed to have found something, turned around and walked towards the entrance of Wanxue Palace.

Passing through the exit.

Yu Hong's pupils suddenly shrank. He stood still in place.

He never thought that the scene he saw would be like this.

Woo woo

The cold wind whispered, blowing Yu Hong's long hair and hem constantly.

He stood quietly in front of the gate of Wanxue Palace, looking at this group of buildings that he had entered and exited many times.

At this time, he fell into contemplation.

The entire Wanxue Palace, in front of him, had long been reduced to ruins.

Only a few places still had dilapidated broken walls.

Yu Hong walked in slowly, checking the situation along the way.

"No!" Suddenly his brow furrowed, and he reached out and picked up a trace of debris on the ground.

"This trace, this state, is not a recent collapse. But it should have been completely destroyed a long, long time ago."

Yu Hong quickly looked around and first went to the several Taoist palaces where the teacher often stayed, but found nothing. Moreover, there were no traces of human activity left on the ground in these Taoist palaces.

He was more and more certain that no one had been here for a long, long time.