Desperate Night

"What?"

"How did Daomai Tianshifu manage to be strong and make money?" Yu Hong asked.

"You mean?" Yu Hen's eyes lit up, thinking of something.

"Yes. That's it." Yu Hong nodded with a smile.

"Indeed, I forgot that we are now strong enough to collect protection fees!!" Yu Hen slapped his thigh and said happily.

"." Yu Hong's smile froze. When did he say he wanted to collect protection fees?

"Wait, uncle, why should we collect protection fees?"

"Didn't you say you wanted to learn from Daomai Tianshifu?"

"But I don't want to collect protection fees?"

"But that's what they do? They ask all places to pay tributes to support the entire Daomai. Isn't that protection fees?"

"." Yu Hong was speechless.

"Then what do you want to do? Where will the money come from if you don't collect it?" Yu Hen saw that Yu Hong had objections.

"We don't need to be so annoying. Since we can make money by making talismans, why don't we strengthen it and do something in depth." Yu Hong said softly while walking.

"Talismans can only do this much, the output is so small, there is no way to increase it." Yu Hen frowned. "If you want to raise the price, with that little effect, no one will buy it even if it is raised. Many simple talismans can be made by Daomai and other sorcerers. The complex and difficult ones are not available to ordinary people, and they need to be ignited by Daoqi."

"It doesn't matter, I'll take care of this." Yu Hong narrowed his eyes, and had a vague calculation in his mind.

Yu Hen opened his mouth to ask, but seeing that he didn't want to continue, he didn't ask.

"Please take care of all matters, uncles and aunts. I plan to go to the Yin Qi Tianzhu and check the situation later." Yu Hong said.

"Yin Qi Tianzhu." Yu Hen has been deliberately ignoring this point. In fact, the Yin Qi Tianzhu is not at the master level, and it is impossible to even get close to it.

Its huge radiation of Yin Qi is enough to make all Taoist spells be annihilated instantly like igniting underwater.

So in such a close-range environment, non-master-level sorcerers are no different from ordinary people.

If you get close, you will die.

This is also the reason why Qingchen Temple has been doing nothing after the Yin Qi Pillar erupted.

It's not that they don't want to, but that they can't do it.

But now. Yu Hong has broken through to the level of the master of the temple. His spirit is sharpened and can resist the corrosion of high concentrations of Yin Qi. He should be able to get close and observe something.

"Be careful!" Yu Hen said in a deep voice. "You are the greatest hope of our Qingchen Temple for hundreds of years. When you encounter danger, you must ensure your own safety first!"

"Don't worry, I understand!" Yu Hong nodded.

He had long wanted to investigate the Yin Qi Pillar, mainly because the disaster was not the black disaster he expected, but the spiritual disaster.

There must have been some unusual changes in it, so he had to investigate and determine the subsequent changes in order to prepare early.

And before going to investigate, he needed to make some preparations just in case.

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Hope City World.

In the safe house, Yu Hong coughed a few times, and was a little uncomfortable with the toxic air here.

However, his strong physical fitness quickly adjusted his lung function and stopped coughing.

He glanced at the first floor of the familiar safe house in front of him.

Fireplace system, boxes of supplies, a large communicator on the table, stockpiled dried cockroaches, dried lizards, dried vegetables, etc., and a kettle with half of the water left.

And apart from these, there was the subtle hum of the reinforced nuclear generator in the air.

The warm and soft white halo made the whole safe house seem particularly quiet and peaceful.

Yu Hong walked to the front door and opened the viewing window.

Through the reinforced glass, you can see the ruins of the white stone fortress that was frozen into a mound of earth outside, and the Ultimate Gate that was constantly emitting blue light not far away.

Several monsters of unknown origin, like large dogs with ice-blue spiked fur, lay beside the Ultimate Gate, chewing something with their heads down, whimpering from time to time.

"Alas" Yu Hong sighed involuntarily and opened the door.

Just walked out.

The low temperature of more than 100 degrees below zero instantly made his whole body tense, but he quickly adapted to it.

Only his hair and eyebrows were instantly stained with a white frost.

That was some moisture that was frozen into frost.

Crack, crack.

Yu Hong walked step by step to another auxiliary cave on the side of the safe house.

There are three auxiliary caves in the camp.

One is used to place breeding boxes and other sundries.

One is where Zhang Kaijing lives.

The last one is his goal this time.

Standing in front of this cave, Yu Hong glanced at the cave door on Zhang Kaijing's side. No movement.

There was no breathing or heartbeat inside. Obviously, the mysterious girl went out and didn't know what to do.

Yu Hong retracted his sight and stretched out his hand, pressing on the stone blocking the door of the cave in front of him.

Use force.

Crack.

There was a slight sound of ice breaking where the stone and the door gap were frozen.

A stream of pungent strong acid smell diffused from inside.

Bang.

The big stone was pushed aside by Yu Hong, and he looked up and looked inside.

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A large group of densely packed dragon lizards completely blocked the cave tightly and did not move.

All the dragon lizards were like sculptures, entwined with each other, forming a solid object more than three meters high and of unknown thickness.

Yu Hong couldn't remember how many dragon lizards were produced in this nest, anyway, he hadn't come to visit during this period.

At this time, seeing that the cave was almost full, it suddenly occurred to me that if the environment was suitable, these dragon lizards could become large-scale destructive weapons.

"It's time to use you." Yu Hong stretched out his finger and gently touched the surface of the solidified dragon lizard.

Invisible spiritual light quickly poured into all the dragon lizards, helping them to improve their resistance to low temperatures.

Crack

A layer of transparent ice broke and fell from the outermost dragon lizards.

Snap.

The first dragon lizard landed lightly, shook its head, and lay down in front of Yu Hong to show its submission.

Then came the second and third.

More and more dragon lizards woke up.

In just a few minutes, more than 300 dragon lizards squeezed out of the cave.

Yu Hong exhaled a breath of white air, opened the door of his safe house, and let the dragon lizards line up and quickly enter.

He had already opened the dock of the black ship in his cave. Teams of dragon lizards lined up and quickly crawled into the black fog in the cave, crossed a short layer of black fog wooden bridge, and quickly boarded the black ship docked in the black river.

Bang.

After the last dragon lizard crawled into the cave, Yu Hong closed the door, took a last look at the Ultimate Gate outside, and also stepped into the black fog.

Soon, the black fog dissipated and the cave returned to the previous safe house.

There are still many dragon lizards, but Yu Hong only plans to take 300 over this time, and the rest will stay here to protect the camp.

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Xiayuan Tianshi Mansion.

The master of Jinxiao Temple, Mo Dao, with a messy red hair draped over his shoulders, holding a large jar of honey wine he just bought, knocked hard on the wooden door of a courtyard in the Tianshi Mansion.

"Open the door, Lao Lu. You've been in seclusion for so long and you're going crazy!"

He was drunk, his face was red, and he yawned from time to time. It was obvious that he stayed up late to drink again.

Bang, bang, bang.

But no matter how he knocked, no one in the yard responded.

"Lao Lu!" Taoist Mo Dao shouted again and started to bang on the door.

"Master Mo went out to clear the grudges two days ago." A young Taoist in his teens approached and reminded him carefully.

"Going out?" Taoist Mo Dao raised his eyebrows, "Strange, I made an appointment with him before, and I came to drink with him at this time. Even if he went out, Lao Lu would usually call me to say hello."

"This. I don't know, but the master left in a hurry, it seems that he received a very troublesome and urgent notice. The place he went to is also very remote, and the mobile phone signal may be very poor." The young Taoist explained.

"Okay, it's really troublesome." Taoist Mo Dao waved his hand impatiently, turned around and left with the wine jar.

The young Taoist just watched him go until he completely disappeared from his sight.

"Mo Wen and Lu Zhengshun have a close relationship. It is very difficult to convince them. It is better to deal with them together." A voice sounded in the young Taoist's ear.

"Not only him, but also Kong Jun of Yunshen Temple and Su Ling of Qingxia Palace. Their Taoist magic is a great obstacle to our plan." The young Taoist's lips did not move, but an old voice sounded beside him.

"There is also Zihe Palace, the Pool of Darkness and the Pool of Ten Thousand Spirits. Both are indispensable. With the infinite power of the Pool of Darkness, swallowing the latter can truly achieve eternal life. And the spiritual magic of Zihe Palace has a great restraint on spiritual disasters. I have calculated that it may become the biggest variable." The voice continued.

"Zihe Palace is not so active." The young Taoist frowned.

"It doesn't matter. I will create an opportunity." The voice slowly faded and went away.

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Offshore of Taizhou.

On the blue-black sea, waves are surging and waves are roaring.

Buzz.

A white speedboat pulled out a thin white line and headed towards the gray Yin Qi pillar in the distance.

There was only one person standing on the speedboat, wearing a white Taoist robe with gold edges, with a huge black and white Tai Chi diagram on his back. He was burly, like a bear or a tiger. It was Yu Hong who set out from Qingchen Temple.

He was more than two meters tall, which was considered majestic among the crowd, but compared with the vast sea around him, he seemed small and thin.

Looking up at the thick gray pillar, Yu Hong estimated its diameter.

"This thing is at least hundreds of meters thick. It's really spectacular."

He had never seen such a thing in the world of Hope City.

The speedboat sped all the way, and after about ten minutes, it began to slow down.

At this time, the Yin Qi pillar was already close at hand, standing on the blue-black sea.

It was like an illusion, rising from the bottom of the sea, surging upward continuously.

Yu Hong pressed the speedboat switch to stop it.

Then he stood on the boat and observed the entire pillar.

He was only a few meters away from the pillar, almost within reach.

The sea water kept shaking the yacht, making him likely to be shaken over and crash into the pillar at any time.

The entire pillar was made entirely of gray smoke. The smoke was swirling and surging inside, and nothing could be seen inside.

Yu Hong squinted his eyes to sense it, but his perception seemed to be blocked by a curtain, and he could only vaguely sense that there seemed to be many living things inside.

They were like insects that were submerged and solidified by colloid, fixed in the pillar, unable to move.