Night of Despair

Yu Hong knew very well that if it weren't for the Black Mark enhancing his positional power again, he might have forever fallen into eternal sleep here, unable to leave.

Thus, he named this layer the Eternal Sleep Belt.

This is a place deeper than the Forgotten Belt.

Standing up, Yu Hong looked back toward the direction he came from.

The countless dark golden pupils under his outer skin slightly contracted.

Suddenly, he saw the varied disasters of annihilation that had already completely eroded the Forgotten Belt behind him.

Wind Disaster, Cold Disaster, Black Disaster, etc., all Source Disasters began mixing into one in the Forgotten Belt, transforming into a colorful, pixel-like mysterious fluid.

This fluid had completely submerged, eroded, and crushed the Source Stone Plate made by Wuji Heavenly Venerate, turning it into the same colorful pixel fluid.

"It's almost like Source Disaster's version of original particles...." Yu Hong took a deep breath and withdrew his gaze.

Turning his head, he looked ahead, toward the other directions.

Suddenly, he vaguely saw something flashing directly ahead.

In the white fog, that thing seemed to be spinning, flashing with a faint silver light.

His heart moved slightly, as he maneuvered the two Black Black Spirit ships, accelerating towards that object.

Suddenly.

The entire Black Black Spirit shook slightly, and Yu Hong felt a membrane-like thing brush past his body.

Immediately, he noticed the scene before him, everything started to distort, elongate, and rotate.

Then....

Poof.

The main control room of the Black Black Spirit before him, and the mysterious object approaching outside the window, along with the dense white fog.

Just at this moment, everything vanished from Yu Hong's sight.

The entire scene shattered like a screen explosion, fragments flew and disappeared, slowly revealing a vast, dark empty void behind.

Within the void.

A bright, white, multifaceted crystal gleamed with countless, unknown facets, slowly rotating.

Around the crystal, like a spider web, a large amount of gray-white threads extended outward in connection.

These threads formed a three-dimensional web, layers upon layers expanding outward, each opening in the web was embedded with a pane of glass.

'Original object....!!' Upon seeing the crystal, information about it naturally emerged in Yu Hong's mind.

He then looked again at the three-dimensional web composed of white threads and glass.

A clear and profound realization instantly surged from Yu Hong's heart.

'So, all things are shadow projections and refractions cast by the original object through dimensions.'

He turned back and looked toward the direction he came from.

Seeing the colorful pixel-like Great Annihilation continually shattering the structure composed of white threads and glass.

'The essence of Source Disasters is to destroy all threads around the original object. And those threads should be the so-called dimensions. Time is a dimension, space is also a dimension, when all threads disappear, dimensions disappear, and when reconstructing dimensions, that will be the time for everything to rebuild....'

The positional power made Yu Hong understand thoroughly in his heart, he simply remained still, quietly observing the Great Annihilation speeding closer, faster and faster.

A vast oppressive sense of crisis also rushed towards him at this moment, getting closer, stronger!

The full spectrum of colors quickly filled his entire field of vision.

Through the outer wall of the Black Black Spirit, Yu Hong closed all eyes on his body.

Hiss....

He took a deep breath.

'Come on....'

"Kill me...."

"Or be killed by me!"

Aaah!!!!!!

All of a sudden, he opened his mouth, roaring towards the sky, his body rapidly expanded, grew larger, instantly piercing through the Black Black Spirit like a phantom and in turn enveloped the two spaceships inside his body.

His body rapidly expanded to a kilometer, ten kilometers, hundreds of thousands, millions of meters, tens of thousands of kilometers....

His size seemed unrestricted, crazily and infinitely growing.

By this time, his body had returned completely to its original form, transforming into a giant covered with billions of eyes with black backgrounds and golden pupils.

The rapidly growing dark body, along with the swiftly approaching colorful Great Annihilation disaster.

In the next instant.

The two collided violently.

"I gaze into the future, I grasp the present!!"

"I refuse to believe I cannot change the past!!"

Yu Hong roared, his arms clenched into fists, countless eyes on his body emitted countless transparent beams at the moment of impact.

Buzz!!!!!!

The beams collided completely with the annihilation disaster.

The transparent beams shot through the colorful annihilation creating a huge transparent passage.

Swish!!

The other Great Annihilation raced past Yu Hong's side, shattering all surrounding threads and glass, then headed for the core original crystal.

The next moment.

Yu Hong heard a giant crashing sound, akin to an explosion.

Immediately, he fully concentrated, gathering Holy Power layer upon layer, blocking and covering his surface.

Yet Holy Power was unable to withstand the ensuing impact.

One ripple after another from the giant Great Annihilation's collision with the original object created massive white ripples that instantly shattered and decomposed the Holy Power he had gathered.

But Yu Hong relentlessly continued, constantly gathering new Holy Power, blocking outward.

Time after time it was destroyed, time after time it was instantly rebuilt.

No one knows how much time has passed.

Finally, the outer activity slowly ceased, the shockwaves weakened and disappeared.

At this time, Yu Hong's body had expanded to an extent he himself did not know.

Once he fully released his true form, his body kept expanding rapidly.

The Black Black Spirit and Aus Spaceships within his chest now couldn't even be considered a speck of bacteria, completely untrackable.

His body was covered in scars, many of his pupils destroyed, leaking transparent blood.

Thankfully, this blood was rapidly flowing back into the wounds, healing them.

Hiss.

Yu Hong's massive body began to shrink rapidly, and soon, he was back inside the Black Black Spirit.

He sat cross-legged on the ground, draped once again in a covering Daoist robe.

Everything outside the window had turned into an absolute myriad of colors at this moment.

The colorful pixels of the Great Annihilation occupied everything.

In this colorful torrent, the Black Black Spirit and the Aus Spaceship floated alone.

Countless tiny colorful pixels automatically adhered to the ship's hull.

Inside the room, Yu Hong sat cross-legged, gazing at the original objects that had completely vanished outside.

"It seems to be over."

"This time it should be true, completely over...."

Everything outside was no longer in any order, without any distinction; time had disappeared, space had disappeared.

In his perception, the colorful torrent outside the safe room, its erosion and destruction intensity, had begun to slowly decline.

The intensity of the Great Annihilation began to drop, signifying that this dreadful disaster, here at this moment, finally showed signs of ending.

'It seems indeed hopeless....'

Yu Hong stood up, his injuries now fully healed.

"There is no such land of vitality, even here and in the Eternal Sleep Belt, there is no so-called land of vitality. Fortunately, Wuji Heavenly Venerate, you did not actually enter that Vortex Gate..."

Yu Hong sighed softly.

Perhaps for Wuji Heavenly Venerate, leaving a hope in his heart, an unknown thought, is better than complete despair.

As he looked at the complete chaos outside now, even the original objects were destroyed in the recent collision.

The power of annihilation dissipated, and the outside colors began to gradually transform into new silver-gray original particles.

Yu Hong, having experienced despair once, was now calmer.

'It seems I still have to complete this false hope myself...'

'The land of vitality.... it should exist!'

He raised his right hand, palm open.

"But before that, I need to regroup everyone's fragments.... even if it's only the basic original particles..."

Ability activated—Positional Condensation.

In an instant, a small silver-white metal block device appeared in Yu Hong's hand.

This was the Particle Tracker.

The essence of the Original Object Position can condense any emerging matter, as long as it can exist, from any dimension.

But he couldn't condense entities that had once appeared and then been destroyed by the Great Annihilation.

Therefore, by condensing the Particle Tracker, he would find the original particles Yiyi and the others were once composed of, then wait for the time-space dimensions to reconstruct, and only then could they truly be resurrected.

At this moment, Yu Hong felt an unprecedented sense of relief.

Gather the particles, condense them into seeds, then establish a safe new land of vitality, plant everyone in there, and reverse time....

He had already planned out the entire future process.

If the positional powers he grasped at the moment were not diminished, this method theoretically could indeed resurrect Yiyi and the others.

Of course, in this process, the Black Mark must not stop resting; it should continue to enhance the Outer Eye until it can no longer be strengthened. This was Yu Hong's pre-arranged plan.

Removing the Outer Eye, he casually added some original particles to it, then silently strengthened it.

'Cannot strengthen, Outer Eye quality has reached its peak.'

Finally, the scene Yu Hong had imagined countless times appeared.

The enhancement of the Black Mark had finally reached its peak....

After confirming it several times, Yu Hong was genuinely certain that the Outer Eye could no longer be strengthened.

He finally lowered his hand and took a long breath.

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One year later....

In the endless stream of original particles.

The front of the Black Black Spirit was equipped with a pair of large black metal hands, continuously radiating red light, grasping for something in the void stream.

Inside the cabin, on the first floor.

Round pots were placed on the ground.

Each pot was filled with dense silver original particle soil.

Inside the soil, familiar human heads to Yu Hong were emerging, slowly growing.

"The particles we encountered today belonged to Ku Chan, everyone don't worry, with the Particle Tracker, finding all the particles is just a matter of time."

Yu Hong squatted by the pots, gently stroking the foreheads of the human heads, speaking softly to himself.

The heads hadn't recovered yet, there was no movement at all, just silently standing in the pots like sculptures.

After watering them one by one, Yu Hong stood to leave.

Suddenly, in Yiyi's pot, the eyelids of the head trembled slightly.

Yu Hong stopped abruptly, turning around as if struck by lightning, looking at Yiyi's head.

"Yu... big brother...." Yiyi's eyes slowly opened, full of drowsiness.

"I'm... still alive!?"

"Yes.... you just slept for a while.... had a nightmare."

Yu Hong slowly walked over, squatted down, gently caressing her face.

"Rest assured and sleep a little longer, when you wake up next time, everything will be normal...."

Yiyi looked at him, completely unaware of her state, her eyelids slowly drooping again, pupils dilating, and she fell back into slumber....

Yu Hong then stood up with a smile, turning to walk towards the Main Control Room.

Next, he needed to continue enhancing the Particle Tracker with the Black Mark to speed up particle capture.