A Night of Desperation

Chapter 451: Situation 449 Three

Inside the vast North Heavenly Gate.

Groups of people in yellow robes and white skirts dispersed and shuttled through various palaces, squares, and corridors,

To prepare eyeballs for collection.

In the blink of an eye, over a month passed.

Quan He’s whereabouts remained elusive and were not pinpointed, but instead, Yu Hong collected a large pile of eyeballs by ambushing and targeting the weak.

Inside the Main Control Room, the walls were covered with glass bottles of various sizes, each filled with differently shaped and colored eyeballs.

Yu Hong sat surrounded by these eyeballs.

’It’s about time... I can try my previous idea.’

He stood up, glanced at the remaining time for the Black Mark enhancement—it was the last day, and the increase in the safe room’s defensive strength was about to be completed.

Quietly walking to the wall, he watched the continually flashing red countdown timer, waiting quietly for the last five minutes to completely pass.

In a short while.

Snap.

Finally, the countdown completely vanished, returning to zero.

The entire safehouse suddenly trembled, blurring momentarily.

Simultaneously, a new instruction manual appeared in Yu Hong’s hand.

’Safehouse reinforcement complete, external walls upgraded to ultra-strong special alloy walls. Strength increased by eleven times, this wall material comes from the ancient star civilization of Ovires, and is part of the level five basic protection wall in the ten-level defense system.’

Yu Hong paused, noticing the wall slowly beginning to show faint blue dim light patterns, reminiscent of technological circuits.

’This Immortal Martial Sect isn’t enough for you, you even reach out to star-level civilizations...’

He exhaled, ignoring the Black Mark’s manual, casually picking up a small bottle containing a silver eyeball from nearby.

This eyeball was dug out from a Silver-armored Dragon Man wandering nearby.

Strangely, the number of Silver-armored Dragon Men here was very limited, even Golden Armored Dragon Men were extremely rare.

Perhaps this was because it was inside the North Heavenly Gate.

The only advantage was that these creatures could regenerate, these eyeballs look numerous, but in reality, they were all harvested from two Dragon Men.

A total of ninety-nine, for good luck.

At this moment, holding a silver eyeball, Yu Hong confirmed the end of the Black Mark enhancement and silently thought.

’Enhance Outer Eye, direction: eliminate all side effects generated during transplantation into my body.’

He didn’t directly enhance functionalities but first removed hidden dangers.

Instantly, the black lines on the back of his hand flashed, rushing into the eyeball in the bottle.

The silver eyeball slightly contracted, and soon the feedback asking whether to start came.

Yu Hong glanced at the countdown that synchronously appeared on the bottle.

’19 minutes’.

Unexpectedly short.

His heart filled with anticipation.

If this experiment succeeded, he would no longer need to slowly cultivate for enhancement as he did before.

While cultivation is stable and lays a solid foundation, it always seemed insufficient when strength was needed.

If this path proved viable, it meant he could completely change his approach, and use the same principle to modify other organs and limbs.

The time of about ten minutes was short;Yu Hong simply sat cross-legged and practiced Tai Ling Skill while waiting.

Soon, the time was almost up.

He opened his eyes and stared at the silver eyeball in the bottle.

At the moment the countdown hit zero, the surface of the eyeball flashed with silver light, then it quieted down, making no further move.

Yu Hong exhaled, opened the bottle’s cap.

Looking at the ordinary-looking eyeball inside, he took a deep breath. He reached out...

Whoosh!

Suddenly, he jabbed his hand directly into his own left eye, scooping it out forcefully.

With a tearing sound.

The eyeball, along with nerves, was brutally pulled out.

The intense pain stimulated Yu Hong’s brain, nearly causing him to lose his composure and scream in pain.

But the anticipation for the future made him endure the agony, placing his own eyeball into a prepared clean bottle.

Then, with trembling hands, he picked up the silver eyeball, stuffing it into the bloody socket of his left eye.

Positioned correctly, he quickly released the Elf Ancient Tree’s Call, covered by Golden Light.

Soon, new eye nerves and blood vessels began growing from the eye socket, connecting to the newly introduced silver eyeball.

Yu Hong, enduring pain, formed a Sealing with both hands, releasing a minor Magic to purify himself of bacteria and viruses.

Bacterial and viral particles also emit extremely faint Spiritual Fluctuations, hence the Taoist Sect’s Magic includes this research. This is one of the reasons why those big shots in the Taoist Sect are hard to kill. Even at later stages, Heavenly Master Level practitioners might have secret Techniques to completely change their bodies.

At this moment, Yu Hong found it quite handy.

After cleaning off the blood, Yu Hong walked to one side, sat down on the ground, and slowly waited for his left eye to adapt and change.

The newly planted eye was still completely dark, and he could see nothing.

But as time passed.

Soon, an hour went by.

Gradually, Yu Hong felt the pain lessen, and he quickly applied some anti-inflammatory Eye Drops to himself, this time not his own enhanced kind, but just ordinary commercial medicine produced outside.

Waiting a little longer, finally.

Little bits of faint light appeared in Yu Hong’s mind.

He widened his left eye, the silver eyeball slightly rotating, continually streaming tears.

But at this moment, he didn’t care about these;only the light and images emanating from his left eye were thrilling him!

’It worked!!’ he suddenly got up, although the vision of the silver eye wasn’t as good as his original.

But at this time, in Yu Hong’s vision, countless thin silver threads floated in the air.

These threads, some thick, some thin, floated softly in mid-air, moving around.

’This is....’ Yu Hong reached out his hand, involuntarily grasping at a silver thread.

Sizzle!

In the instant he pinched the thread, an immensely pure Spiritual Energy madly surged into his body.

And that thread slowly shortened, disappearing.

The influx of Spiritual Energy was entirely different from that of materials like White Stone.

If White Stone was like a jumble of thousands of impurities forcibly compressed together, the thread was pure unconscious Spiritual Energy.

Like a newborn Spiritual Energy, it could be freely absorbed and devoured.