Night of Despair

Invisible Belt.

The Black Black Spirit floated quietly in the air, surrounded by darkness, with nothing in sight, nothing visible.

There was no light, and the light inside the Black Black Spirit could not be projected out, as if the windows were painted black.

Yu Hong sat cross-legged on the ground, his Divine Sense spreading out around him, but there was nothing.

As soon as his Divine Sense was released, it seemed to be swallowed by something and disappeared directly.

'So this is the Invisible Belt… indeed dangerous…'

He sighed and stood up, coming to the circular window.

In his mind, the countdown on the Trait Light Ball had only a few minutes left.

He simply did not continue his cultivation and just quietly watched the darkness outside.

Pop.

At that moment, everything before Yu Hong's eyes flickered.

All the darkness outside instantly turned into pure white.

Bright white light shone in from outside the window.

He was slightly stunned; in the blink of an eye, the outside changed from black to white.

The farewell reinforcement from All Saints Venerable kept the safety house intact until now.

However, after entering here, Yu Hong did not even know how to leave. If he let the Black Black Spirit act freely, it would inevitably delve deeper inside.

So the only thing he could do now was to remain unchanged.

'I wonder how Yiyi and the others are doing…' Staring at the pure white outside, Yu Hong couldn't help but recall.

Click.

In the next second, a golden light flashed through the Trait Light Ball in his mind.

The previously fused light ball was now pulsating with golden light, as if something inside was continuously struggling to tear its way out.

Yu Hong floated in front of the light ball, gently touching its surface.

Immediately, a feedback message from the Black Mark flowed into his mind.

'Fusion complete, you have acquired the trait: High-dimensional Snake.'

'High-dimensional Snake (This is a new species bloodline; you can perform a dimension jump once a week, traveling to the current area of a random dimension.)'

'By acquiring the High-dimensional Snake bloodline, you have gained the talent: Dimension Resistance (Natural damage from all dimensions is reduced by 99%)'

'By acquiring the High-dimensional Snake bloodline, you have gained the talent: Final Forever Casting (Consciousness body fully strengthened to 180 times the original state)'

'You have gained the talent: Final Permanence (You are unaffected by any state of decay or withering, always maintaining the peak state of body and mind until death)'

'High-dimensional Snake…' Yu Hong glanced over the other additional talents and felt that, overall, it was just an enhancement of his current state as an Ancient Wanderer.

Not much optimization.

But given the limited time for fusion, it was still quite good.

At this point, he no longer felt much about his own strengthening.

Because there were hardly any opportunities to use it. There were no more enemies outside… the enemies were all fleeing in the Great Annihilation.

In essence, the only true enemy was the Source Disaster.

And against the Source Disaster, no matter how much the body and consciousness were strengthened, it made no significant difference.

The nature of the Invisible Belt dictated that without reaching the Heavenly Venerate Realm, one was almost certain to die here.

This was the boundary.

So...

'So, the Floating City can't possibly enter here, so the moment the Heartless Belt was overtaken by the Great Annihilation, it was the moment of Yiyi and the others' deaths…'

Yu Hong understood in his heart.

But he was powerless to stop it.

Even he could barely survive here, thanks to the Black Mark.

The future, he could not see any hope.

Even the Invisible Belt was a destined area of demise in the words of the All Saints Venerable.

Yu Hong felt somewhat aimless and disinterested in cultivating; what use would it be even if he ascended to the next realm?

He couldn't possibly reach the Heavenly Venerate Realm by tomorrow, and even then, he could only barely protect himself at this level, the next level would still be…

Slowly, he began to move around inside the Black Black Spirit.

Step by step, he observed the safety house that he had built and reinforced from scratch.

Unconsciously, he found himself in his bedroom.

Since he began cultivation, he rarely used his bedroom.

Most of the time, cultivation replaced sleep. But now…

Yu Hong realized that cultivation was meaningless…. so he reentered the bedroom, reviewing the traces of his past.

Suddenly, he stopped and reached into a built-in cabinet by the bed, taking out a broken black phone.

This was something he brought from his past life. Since it broke before, he had someone repair it, replacing many parts and the outer shell.

It could now be turned on.

He took it out and gently pressed the power button.

Dong, dong, dong…

The clear startup tone sounded quickly.

After a rough colored animation, the screen displayed a no-signal interface.

Looking at the familiar interface, Yu Hong suddenly thought of a problem.

'Did my previous world also perish in this Great Annihilation?'

'I wonder if the ability of the High-dimensional Snake could let me return to my past world…'

He did not know.

But now, he saw no future, no hope.

So he simply started to try.

Holding the phone, a kind of instinctual warm flow surged from his heart, merging into his eyes.

He opened his eyes.

In front of him, the safe house space suddenly had something more.

It was an elliptical colored portal, taller than a person.

The portal floated in mid-air, about two meters ahead of him.

'Is this the ability of the High-dimensional Snake?'

Trait fusion can bring him a higher status and more abilities. But these things are actually like innate divine abilities.

To use them proficiently, he must study and explore on his own.

Looking at the colored portal in front of him, Yu Hong didn't hesitate and stepped directly into the light.

With a swoosh.

The next moment, he appeared in the safe house again.

But this time, the safe house seemed different from before.

Inside the house, the air was filled with black threads everywhere.

A large black web was woven from numerous black threads. The source of the web was linked to Yu Hong's right hand.

Slightly startled, he raised his right hand and saw that all the threads were connected to the Black Mark on the back of his hand.

'Indeed, the Black Mark is far beyond my current dimension.' Yu Hong was not surprised, he shifted his gaze to his other hand holding the smartphone.

At that glance, he was slightly stunned.

The black smartphone had a black thread extending outward as well.

The thread extended into the void and disappeared into thin air.

'That's... if these black threads are a different kind of connection, the safe house was strengthened by the Black Mark, so it's intricately linked to it. What about the phone? The black thread connected to the phone, could it be....'

Yu Hong's heart suddenly began to race.

If it was really as he thought, then maybe he might find a way back before he died!

Immediately, his emotions were reignited.

'Then how to use this connection to find the other end of the black thread??'

He was stuck again at this problem.

The High-dimensional Snake's ability is random, which means uncontrollable.

'It seems I need to continue integrating and enhancing!' Yu Hong re-entered the trait brain space.

This time, he fiercely merged the High-dimensional Snake with the Spirit Barrier, fusing them into a golden light ball.

After quickly confirming the fusion, a dark red countdown appeared on the surface of the light ball: 5 days 11 hours 9 minutes.

Returning to his senses.

Yu Hong exited the brain space and walked around the high-dimensional safe house.

Slowly coming to the window, he looked outside and was suddenly stunned.

Outside the window was no longer completely white.

But countless silver particles, flowing and floating.

These particles were endless, filling every space outside the window.

The so-called white light was actually the faint fluorescence emitted by the particles gathering together.

'What is this?'

No one answered.

There were no living things here anymore.

The All Saints Venerable had also given up his own existence, choosing to place his hope on him, using his revived power to strengthen the safe house.

He hoped it could help Yu Hong make it further.

At this moment, Yu Hong was the only one here.

Standing at the window, Yu Hong suddenly had a thought, and quickly used his mass-energy conversion ability.

The silver particles outside the window penetrated the window like flowing water, forming a strand that gathered into his palm, rotating and condensing, soon becoming a faint golden vitality crystal.

Yu Hong was shocked, as if he had recalled something.

He had once seen the predecessors' speculation in the classical books of Qinghe Mountain.

Everything is composed of the most basic prime particles. No matter what substance, it was divided and recombined from the initial explosion of the primordial one.

Prime particles are like building blocks that can form any substance and energy.

But no one can observe them.

Some thought they hadn't cut the matter finely enough, some thought prime particles didn't exist.

Back then, Yu Hong thought of the Higgs boson from past science, but the Higgs boson only gives mass to everything, while prime particles are the root of substance, energy, and even fields.

They are much smaller than the Higgs boson.

Yu Hong's heart was shaken, looking at the golden crystal in his hand.

Suddenly, he thought of something.

'If these particles are truly prime particles, then... perhaps the Heavenly Venerate's ability to create something from nothing can be understood...'

'Here, transforming something into nothing is actually decomposing everything into the most basic prime particles...'

The High-dimensional Snake's talent enabled him to unexpectedly discover the secret of the Heavenly Venerate and the secrets here.

'If this is the case... can I also use high-dimensional observation to avoid the invisible natural disasters here?' A thought suddenly flashed through Yu Hong's mind like lightning.

'Furthermore, time is also a dimension, although considered the most special dimension, perhaps the High-dimensional Snake can utilize its talents to excavate some special survival strategies...'

At that moment, Yu Hong's mind flashed with various new inspirations.

If utilized correctly, he could completely use non-Heavenly Venerate power to perform Heavenly Venerate deeds, helping the Floating City and others enter the Invisible Belt, avoiding dangers!

Moreover, if he could utilize the High-dimensional Snake to manipulate the time dimension, it would greatly aid his cultivation.

Because most cultivation requires time accumulation, leading to qualitative changes from quantitative changes.

If the High-dimensional Snake evolves again and involves the time dimension, then...

At this moment, Yu Hong, who had almost given up, suddenly felt a renewed sense of hope.

As long as it involves the time dimension, then approaching the Great Annihilation, he will definitely find a way to delay it!