A Night of Desperation

Chapter 280: Trap 278 Two

Bang!

Water splashed in all directions as a human figure instantaneously appeared behind Agrius, gently pointing a finger.

Its fingertip immediately burst forth with countless black threads.

These numerous threads poked into Agrius’s back scales, causing it so much pain that it angrily roared.

Golden arcs of electricity suddenly surged, severing the black threads and turning them into nothing.

The man and the lizard began a frenzied struggle.

The figure made of white light constantly flickered, attacking Agrius’s body with large amounts of black threads from every blind spot.

Agrius, on the other hand, charged and broke through with golden electric light weakening every attack, and any wound it suffered would heal automatically.

Whereas its golden arcs, upon contact with its opponent’s body, would directly remove large chunks of black flesh.

For a moment, the two fought to a standstill.

Yu Hong stood on the wooden bridge, with an unusually solemn expression.

Not for any other reason, but because further away under the waters of the Black River, shapes of white light bordered with black human figures began to vaguely emerge;the second, the third, the fourth… their contours already visible…

‘Come back!’ he commanded Agrius to return.

Instantly, a flash of golden light, the giant lizard flew back to Heavenly River, and Yu Hong retracted his aura, controlling the waters of Black River to fly up, forming an elliptical water membrane around himself again.

The black water flowed, hiding his and Agrius’s presence quickly, leaving only the residual traces of their aura from before.

Once the aura was cut off, the white light figures also began to aimlessly

Yu Hong took off his clothes and crawled into the tent, inhaling the fresh scent of women’s perfume in the tent, the same scent that Song Siyu wore.

Clearly, this tent was previously used by Song Siyu herself.

Gradually, Yu Hong relaxed his body, immersed his mind, and entered into the cultivation state of the Taiyuan True Method.

According to the current pace, his Second Layer of the Dawn Realm would probably make a breakthrough soon.

At the earliest, one month;at the latest, three months.

The peculiar aspect of this Cultivation Technique is that often, Yu Hong could feel that the technique itself, the Cosmic Divine Light itself, seemed more eager to enter the next layer than he was.

Combining the fact that this Magic Skill originated from the Taiyuan Orthodox Sect, which was annihilated due to guiding in the Source Disaster, maybe its abnormality is the norm.

Therefore, he proceeded with extreme caution at every step.

The cultivation of the Taiyuan True Method involves collecting some Cosmic Divine Light and then integrating and refining it within the body.

So, one doesn’t need to stay by the Ultimate Gate at all times;it’s only necessary to visit occasionally to ensure the progress of the Cultivation Technique.

And right as Yu Hong concentrated on cultivating, a pale figure flashed past just outside the rings of red lines around the house.

Squeak.

The locked security door suddenly clicked open, the door panel moved automatically without wind, slowly opening to a small gap.

A vague white figure stepped over the red line circle and slowly walked into the corridor.

Swoosh.

“Here it is… finally found it!”

Outside the house, on a mountain path, Zhao Sisi bent over with a flashlight and picked up a rabbit-shaped gold bracelet from the ground, sighing in relief.

“Now that it’s found, hurry back, it’s too cold… Is it going to rain?”

She looked up at the sky with some concern and quickly walked back toward the double-layered shop.

All around was dark, with only about ten meters visible ahead and behind her on the long mountain path.

Beyond that was pitch darkness.

Zhao Sisi, though not a believer in superstitions, started to get scared.

Thereupon, she took a deep breath.

Patter, patter, patter.

She broke into a run.

“Just run a bit to warm up.”

The moment she started running, a pale hand reached out from behind her but grabbed nothing.