Night of Despair-Chapter 414 - 412 Resolution Two

The iron gate in the yard slowly closed automatically.

Yu Hong led the group and pushed open the main door of the small building; within was a giant purple crystal chandelier hanging in a spiral shape in the living room, resembling a cluster of giant wisteria.

The living room was seven to eight meters tall, creating a significant visual impact upon entering.

Yu Hong, Qing Huang, Ku Chan, and Zhang Kajing stood on the round purple carpet at the center of the hall and stopped.

"This time we must act quickly and decisively, integrating all the effective forces here as soon as possible to form the strongest defense line, blocking the infiltration of the Source Disaster, and prolonging the support time for the safe area!" Yu Hong said. "I can feel that the concentration of the Red Value here is also slowly rising, indicating that this area is also on the edge of being invaded. Therefore, we must act quickly."

"Understood!" Qing Huang nodded.

Ku Chan also nodded silently.

Seeing everyone nod, Zhang Kajing followed suit.

"Since we need a quick resolution, dealing with the officials can’t be through the slow communication method used before. It has to be fast, direct, and effective!" said Yu Hong.

He looked out through a side window, watching the endless stream of cars passing by.

"Qing Huang, I want you to repeatedly initiate the wide-ranging Hypnosis Technique here, hypnotizing everyone who passes by, then have them bring more people over for re-hypnosis. After the hypnosis, I will release Spirit Light Seeds onto each person."

"Ah??" Qing Huang was momentarily stunned. Wasn’t this action a bit too extreme?

Even the villainous Seven Evil Alliance didn’t dare to openly conduct such widespread hypnosis techniques in the city area casually, only daring to do so at the final battle.

"In unusual times, unusual actions are necessary," Yu Hong said. "Your actions will inevitably draw official investigations and interference. I’ll handle that when the time comes. Your hypnosis can’t control people for a long time, only briefly. So if we can’t quickly expand our scale and amplify our power, a lot of resources will go wasted once the Source Disaster breaks out."

"I understand now. The more widely the Spirit Light is spread, the better. Should there be trouble, the Spirit Light can protect ordinary people to a certain extent. If they really can’t be protected and die, their deaths will also contribute to strengthening our power," Qing Huang realized.

"Now, the power of Spirit Light has already grown quite strong. Do we really need to do this? In doing so, how are we any different from demons?" Ku Chan frowned and asked.

Ever since a large amount of Spirit Light returned to Yu Hong, the intensity of Spirit Light skyrocketed, to the point where an ordinary person could stand still under machine-gun fire without any harm.

And for a magician expert, the amplifying effect was even more exaggerated.

With the help of Spirit Light, Yu Hong could even stand against a fully-powered Cai Jing Taoist in a one-to-many conflict.

His combat power surged to the peak of Quan He during his prime.

This level was referred to as a Nightmare Level apex in the previous Spirit Alliance rankings.

Shadow, Evil Shadow, War, Nightmare, Despair.

Each level encompassed a vast range.

Even within the same level, the disparity could be as vast as that between an elephant and a mouse.

Compared to Cai Jing Taoist, the subsequent emergence of the Immortal General placed by Yu Hong was classified as Despair Level.

This was also, so far, the strongest monster he had encountered. The Immortal General’s golden arm that snatched away Quan He was classified at the same level.

Hearing Ku Chan’s question,

"The difference is that we won’t harm the safety of ordinary people, but demons will," Yu Hong came back to his senses and answered.

"Don’t worry, simple hypnosis won’t cause much harm to people. Through hypnosis, we can also probe the special power system of this place and see how it really works," Qing Huang said, whose cultivation had also advanced significantly, combined with the amplification of Spirit Light, boosting his hypnotic ability substantially.

Although not reaching Nightmare Level yet, his strength was now akin to fighting ten people with ease compared to before.

"What method can we use to fastest spread Spirit Light across the entire world?" Yu Hong looked at everyone and asked.

"Directly contact the power structure, engage in widespread basic activities, and forcibly spread it," Qing Huang answered.

"That can only cover a portion. We can also utilize online platforms, control media giants, generate huge traffic, and achieve extensive long-term exposure to attract scattered crowds. As long as the actual effects are shown, there will be plenty of people coming to join!" Ku Chan unexpectedly gave a good suggestion.

"Live streaming? We can do both, but we need to be careful not to provoke the Source Disaster before actually taking action. Try not to alert the enemy prematurely to avoid backfiring," Yu Hong nodded, recognizing the soundness of the idea.

He might not know how to live stream, but as long as there are people who do, and he just needs to control those who can.

Immediately, Qing Huang began to set up the Array, taking out various items that amplify Dao Breath.

Before long, he was sitting cross-legged at the center of the Array, his hands rapidly forming Seals.

Hiss.

A layer of invisible hypnosis waves, like ripples, spread rapidly from him as the center.

The ripples crossed the surrounding walls and outer courtyards and soon covered nearby houses up to a two-kilometer radius before slowing down and stabilizing.

Since then, ripples of hypnosis waves continuously spread out from Qing Huang towards the surroundings.

Beep beep beep.

Nearby cars slowly reduced their speed, causing the following vehicles to honk frantically.

But the cars within the hypnotized area wouldn’t respond.

Only after the cars behaved abnormally for more than ten seconds did faint, barely audible semi-transparent silver threads shoot out from the small building, entering those cars, then everything returned to normal.

Meanwhile, in the surrounding buildings, families one by one woodenly walked downstairs, moving towards where Yu Hong and others were located.

They didn’t enter the courtyard, but just paused outside the fence for a moment, then turned and left.

Just during that pause, a faint spirit light thread had already penetrated their bodies.

In just over ten minutes, more than a thousand people were endowed with spirit light.

Yu Hong’s face was cold and stern as he stood behind Qing Huang, his hand constantly flashing with silver spirit light.

He was waiting, waiting for the supernatural powers system of this world to come and negotiate.

Unfortunately, the implantation of spirit light lasted for over two hours without anyone nearby coming to negotiate with him.

With no one intervening, he simply let the exhausted Qing Huang hypnotize a truck, and within the truck’s cabin, he arranged an array to hypnotically affect all the people around it.

The white truck slowly started, heading towards the city center.

All of this had been witnessed by Jiang Rong, who was hiding in her own stairwell.

She had originally run out of her house to ask for help, but stopping in the stairwell and witnessing this scene, she was surprisingly unaffected by the Hypnosis Technique. Instead, she covered her mouth in horror, watching the large crowds approach the opposite fence and stand there quietly with bowed heads, as if on a pilgrimage.

"What... What is that?? A cult!?" Jiang Rong stared at the rigid-faced crowd, watching them stand motionless like zombies, a chill surge through her from deep within.

Immediately, she didn’t think twice and ran back home, closing all the doors and windows.

She huddled in the blankets, shivering.

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In another part of Mana City.

Phils, dressed in a white suit, had just come out from a television station where he had completed a character interview show.

It was already past eleven at night, and the recording, which had finally ended, made him heave a sigh of relief.

Stepping out of the TV station building, he opened his car door and saw a bald, muscular priest sitting inside, which took him by surprise.

"Father Tam, it’s so late and you’re still here, not resting?"

"This year alone, four areas have been quarantined, and the number is increasing. Sooner or later, we won’t be able to hide it anymore. The Church is severely short of people, too many dead and injured. When will you start the Spirit Exploring Association you promised us?" Father Tam asked seriously.

"Really, is there no way to resist them?" Phils held on to the last shred of hope. "Holy water, amulets, Bible, the cross, none of them work?"

"Every religion, at its core, is just an organization of people united by a single belief. It doesn’t mean we possess supernatural abilities. We are just ordinary people who, because of faith, are more determined, more courageous, and not afraid of sacrifice, that’s all," Father Tam explained earnestly.

"...What about Sister Sara?"

"Like you, she first had a spiritual physique able to sense evil spirits, then she became a nun. Her faith strengthened her will, making her spiritual senses more acute and powerful. But that’s it, she can’t fight against those things either," Father Tam answered.

"Quarantine, quarantine, always quarantine. Apart from letting time pass and everything fade away, is there really no other solution?" Phils said.

"..." Father Tam remained silent, having said all that needed to be said.

"I understand," Phils looked up at the night sky, his face filled with sorrow.

"If you understand, that’s good. Huailin Mental Hospital, spiritual sensitives from all over the world have gone there to investigate, confirmed that it is the most severe ghost disaster area ever discovered by humanity. If it erupts, it might bring about one of the notorious Demon Gods—The Impure Serpent Fura’er."

"That’s like a volcano that could erupt at any time, so we must go in and find a way to interfere with its arrival... This task, apart from spiritual sensitives, no one else can do," Father Tam continued.

"How many people will die this time?" Phils covered his face with his hand, his voice weary and weak.

"If successful, a few dozen. If not... I don’t know," said Father Tam, "Perhaps the surrounding cities will be abandoned. Just like that time in history, a few million, tens of millions could die..."

Humans have no way to fight against evil spirits and Demon Gods, only to interfere before they descend, and to quarantine and seal off once they have.

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Phils got into the car and started it.

The car doors closed, and they quickly headed towards his home in the city.

Yet neither of them realized that at this moment, in a rural corner of Mana City, strange, earth-shaking changes were occurring.

A truck was slowly driving on the city’s main arterial ring road, hypnotizing all the nearby people with each loop.

Inside the truck, Yu Hong sat cross-legged beside Qing Huang, continuously releasing large patches of spirit light.

Inspired by Ku Chan, he had also thought of a way to maximize the cost-effectiveness of using the Black Mark to enhance his targeted power against the Source Disaster.

That is... to focus on intensifying the cultivation targeting an organ.

Although the Black Mark couldn’t directly strengthen his body, it could be used indirectly with potions and Cultivation Technique.

And instead of enhancing the whole body, which would waste time—since there are so many types of Source Disasters—he thought of intensifying different organs individually, each geared towards a specific type of Source Disaster.

Keep intensifying them—perhaps only an eye or a finger.

To keep strengthening it until it has power that can resist a specific type of Source Disaster.

That way, because the parts needing intensification are small, the efficiency of the Black Mark’s enhancement would be extremely high, and the required time would also significantly reduce.

Sitting in the truck, Yu Hong felt more and more that it was feasible.

Single organ extreme intensification, once confirmed to be viable, will definitely greatly enhance his adaptive and combative capabilities against different Source Disasters.