A Night of Desperation-Chapter 257: Searching for One

Yiyi and the others soon left.

They simply split from the main group, taking the chance to check on Yu Hong and leaving him with the latest version of the Black Disaster Rift map.

Standing in the camp, watching the lights of the vehicle fade into the distance, Yu Hong gently pulled off his helmet and took a deep breath.

The toxins in the air no longer had any effect on him.

‘It seems the night moth trait is at work,’ Yu Hong thought.

He put his helmet back on, its primary purpose now being to act as a barrier.

Direct contact with unknown substances versus contact through the suit, which provided some protection first, had naturally different safety outcomes.

“Almost there….” Yu Hong glanced at the time.

Whoosh!

In an instant, his figure flashed, bolting out of the camp and into the surrounding Black Fog.

Shadow figures began to appear, one after another, from the forest within the fog.

Pffft pffft pffft!!

But as soon as they revealed themselves, they were struck by jets of fire from the dragon lizard, ignited on the spot, and quickly turned into black smoke.

Expressionless, Yu Hong completed a round about the camp, assisting the dragon lizard in clearing the surrounding dozens of shadows.

Then, he changed direction and headed further away.

Moo!

A beast resembling a wild boar, covered in black armor, charged out of the darkness toward him.

The creature, over five meters long and three meters tall, looked like a speeding minivan, loudly stirring the airflow as it lunged at Yu Hong.

“Agrius.”

Yu Hong remained expressionless as a colossal shadow suddenly sprang up beside him.

Boom!!

The over thirty-meter-long Dragon of Xianglv thundered out, toppling the beast with a head-on collision.

Aoow!!

The Dragon of Xianglv smashed the creature, leaving a clear dent in its body. With a flash of golden lightning, the beast became paralyzed, unable to move, and could only issue pained cries.

With a tear, the Dragon of Xianglv lowered its head, biting off a large chunk of flesh from the creature’s body and swallowing it.

Bite by bite, amidst the giant’s wailing, the monster was completely devoured by the Dragon of Xianglv in less than ten seconds.

Yu Hong took a step and leaped up, landing on top of Agrius’s head, using it as a foothold as he advanced through the deeper Black Fog.

Within the forest, hordes of oddly-shaped Blood Tide bugs and clusters of drawn Evil Shadows were annihilated under the powerful divine lightning of the Dragon of Xianglv.

Pockets of Black Disaster were shattered by the golden arcs and turned into black smoke.

However, the Black Fog teemed with countless Black Disasters, and after more than an hour, even Agrius, who had released divine lightning without restraint, began to dim.

Yu Hong’s thoughts stirred, and he immediately withdrew Agrius into the Heavenly River, then released it anew.

Instantly, the divine lightning on Agrius’s body returned to its former brilliance.

Thump.

Thump.

Thump.

Deep within the Black Fog, at last, a stalwart adversary emerged.

Familiar, heavy footsteps approached from a distance.

“Black Giant,” Yu Hong said, turning his head toward the sound.

“Tear it apart. Agrius,” he commanded, standing still.

The massive Dragon of Xianglv behind him roared and surged as black mist, rushing toward the direction of the sound.

Yu Hong, left standing, had a slight chill in his eyes.

“Eliminating all threats is the ultimate safety…”

He walked step by step in that direction.

Boom!!!

Suddenly, a loud explosion resounded.

The Black Fog was blown away by the fierce wind generated by the collision, revealing the scene not far away.

A Black Giant, as tall as a skyscraper with dark scales and an auburn scar on its forehead, was being charged head-on in the abdomen by Agrius, who had ambushed it.

The Black Giant, over two hundred meters tall, dwarfed the thirty-meter-long body of Agrius.

But at the moment of collision, it was the Black Giant who seemed to suffer more despite the apparent size difference.

Its body was overrun with golden lightning that spread, climbed, and eventually covered it entirely.

Black smoke billowed from its body.

Aoow!!

Agrius, in a furious roar, seemed to turn golden as countless divine arcs spread from its body.

Charging headlong, it pushed the Black Giant back.

But soon, the pained Black Giant managed to grab Agrius by the waist with a giant hand, lifted it high, and smashed it down.

Pu!

The moment Agrius hit the ground, it turned into a large cloud of black mist, slipped out of the grasp, reconvened, and once again lunged at the Black Giant.

Blizzard winds howled, and snowflakes danced.

The two colossal creatures collided and wrestled again and again.

Even though Agrius seemed no bigger than a house cat to a grown man compared to the Black Giant, its release of a massive amount of divine lightning viciously sapped and suppressed the Giant’s attack and defense.

The divine arcs weakened incoming attacks, reducing them to a tenth of their strength.

The offensive force, however, could penetrate any shield or defense and strike directly at the body.

The Black Giant’s scales were useless;each strike of the golden arcs left it wailing in agony.

Pure strength and weight were meaningless against the vaporous Agrius.

Instead, it was as if facing an opponent like Yu Hong, wearing it down with a massive expenditure of energy, that proved to be the turning point.

Time ticked away.

After roughly ten minutes.

“”

The divine lightning on Agrius’s body gradually weakened;after all, the Black Giant’s physique was too large. Its attack was strong, but the damage dealt to the opponent was inherently limited.

The disproportion in their consumption made it normal for one to falter at this point.

But…

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With a thought from Yu Hong, Agrius instantly turned into Black Fog, flying back to his side and entering the Heavenly River.

Within the Heavenly River, Inner Qi frantically vanished, transformed, and replenished Agrius’s body.

The next instant,

It pounced again, rushing towards the distant Black Giant in its prime state.

Yu Hong stood silently atop a huge dead tree, watching the battle unfold.

A continuous stream of Inner Qi transformed and replenished the Heavenly River.

The combination of Cloud Sky Nine Palaces’ Condensing Water Technique and Wuji Palace’s Infinite River Technique indeed produced extraordinary effects…

“It truly is worthy of being the top demonic force that once brought forth the Source Disaster and devastated the world. The combination of the two forces’ Cultivation Techniques amplifies the effect far beyond my previous expectations…”

Yu Hong watched as Agrius, restored to its prime, engaged in combat with the Black Giant once more.

After repeated tremors, about ten minutes later, Agrius once again appeared weakened.

So it returned to Yu Hong, refreshing its state.

It went back and forth like this, time and time again.

The golden electric light inflicted cumulative damage on the Black Giant, growing more and more significant.

Finally…

After the eighth restoration to its prime and subsequent assault,

The massive Black Giant could no longer hold on.

It staggered, swatted at Agrius as if shooing away flies, pushing it away, then began retreating step by step, trying to escape the battlefield and leave the area.

“Kill him,” Yu Hong said in a low voice.

The Dragon of Xianglv roared, turned into a clump of Black Fog, leaped up, and scaled the massive body as if climbing a high wall. In a few movements, it reached the Giant’s face.

Crack.

It fiercely bit into the Black Giant’s visage.

The sharp serrated teeth penetrated the scales and flesh, tearing the Black Giant’s facial scales and flesh, brutally ripping off a large piece.

Agh!!

The Black Giant roared in agony, fiercely punching its own face.

Bang!

The punch failed to hit Agrius, instead crashing into its face.

The tremendous force, like a heavy artillery shell, made the Giant stagger and daze.

Blood rained down like droplets.

Yu Hong stood silently below, spreading his Inner Qi like an umbrella, pushing aside the black and red blood water.

He watched as Agrius tore and bit at the Black Giant repeatedly until the behemoth crashed heavily to the ground.

The wounds grew more severe on the Black Giant’s body;its legs had bone shattered by the bites. Unable to escape, it could only thrash around on the spot, smashing the surrounding trees with its hands.

Agrius returned to the Heavenly River for another recovery before continuing its assault.

This time would be the last.

Minutes later,

The unfortunate Black Giant finally took its last breath and didn’t rise again.

Pfft!

Its entire body softened at the moment of its death, turning into countless black fluids and evaporating into a black mist.

Agrius frantically devoured the Black Giant’s flesh and blood.

But Yu Hong, witnessing this scene, was thinking of something else…

“I wonder if the Heavenly River can control the Black Giant…”

With a thought, the Heavenly River flew out, coiling around the whole body of the Black Giant.

But soon, the Heavenly River’s volume began to shrink rapidly, becoming thinner.

And only one-fifth of the Black Giant’s body had turned transparent.

“It’s too small… The Heavenly River is too small to contain it,” Yu Hong sighed with some regret, recalling the Heavenly River.

If he could summon the Black Giant, it might give a tremendous advantage in many situations.

After all, with its thick skin and strong flesh, it was an excellent super meat shield.

It had a very effective attack against cities and large monsters.

Black smoke billowed and evaporated, and soon, the corpse of the Black Giant completely vanished, leaving only a huge pit in the distance.

Inside the pit was a ghastly pale skull, large enough to be encircled by a person’s arms.

It was a humanoid skull, identical in shape to the Black Giant’s.

Yu Hong stepped forward and gently touched the relic.

“Aurora City and the Black Disaster have fought for a long time, surely leaving many relics like this behind;too bad, I forgot to trade for such things with them…”

He lifted the skull with one hand, stood on Agrius, and headed back towards the camp.

Still on his return journey,

Suddenly, a loud orange firelight burst forth from the direction of the camp.

Orange-yellow flames formed a mushroom cloud, slowly rising. The huge firelight illuminated the area for dozens of meters around.

The Black Fog was dispersed temporarily, as if everything had reverted to the moment before the Black Disaster spread.

Yu Hong’s expression changed slightly. He recalled Agrius, his figure like a lightning bolt, and in an instant, he reached the camp’s outskirts.

At that moment, the camp was a mess, blown up by the explosion, and in the center, the ground was left with a deep pit more than ten meters in diameter.

Thick smoke billowed, and the melted rock and earth on the walls of the pit glowed faintly red, as if smeared with tomato sauce.

The Array had been destroyed.

Yu Hong looked at the damaged Wind and Fire Slaughter Spirit Array in the camp without saying anything.

He just turned around and closed his eyes.

Dragon lizards dispersed, providing shared vision, giving him clues from all around.

Swoosh!

Yu Hong suddenly sprinted, turning into a white shadow that vanished into the Black Fog.