Night Without End-Chapter 823 - 416: Destruction from the Heavens (Part 2)
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In the deep of night in Ye State, the world seemed dyed in ink. Anyone who stepped outside felt blinded and their faces stung, quickly retreating indoors.
"Something’s not right, the night is impossibly dark!"
"Snowflakes as big as one’s palm smack my face, it feels like the heavens are slapping me."
After Shallow Night arrived, people realized that the darkness remained extraordinarily thick, with unusual celestial phenomena!
The massive snowstorm stopped, but the winds grew even more fierce, lifting snowdrifts taller than a person high into the air, swirling everywhere, resembling newly falling goose feather snow.
Qin Ming decided to wait a bit longer. Such harsh weather occurs only once in a century, even High-Level Exotic Birds don’t want to travel against the wind.
He stared outside the inn, and in the raging, snow-swirling wind, he vaguely saw a flash of crimson and heard a wailing sound.
What’s happening? Qin Ming felt that after Yujing’s fall, the impact was massive, and its effects would surely reveal themselves gradually.
For two whole days, the wind howled, tearing off the roofs of flimsy buildings, and many areas suffered damage.
Amidst such extreme conditions, news spread that some cities had been erased, vanishing permanently from the earth, including some giant cities.
"Let’s go, old Wu!" Qin Ming’s rented bird was a mutated giant crow, considered a High-Level Exotic Bird.
However, it bailed on him.
"Although I’d like to say Ye State bird rentals wholeheartedly serve you, right now, with Yujing’s fall, my heart aches..." The giant crow fled, speaking grandly but truthfully just didn’t want to serve anymore.
Qin Ming considered trekking on foot; with his cultivation, even snow as deep as a person wouldn’t be a hindrance.
Before departing, he heard various news in this small town. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂
"Something major happened, the whole world seems different, bizarre events are endlessly emerging!"
People had been cooped up for days, and once they could go out, information flew like wildfire.
Yujing’s fall, an event as significant as the very creation, brought along mysterious and unpredictable changes.
First, people accepted the fact that the darkness was denser, even with Shallow Night’s arrival, it felt shrouded in a pitch-black curtain.
Especially in the wilderness, without the Fire Spring, it was no different than deep night, making it nearly impossible for ordinary people to see their hands.
"How are we supposed to hunt or travel?" Even those reborn once or twice were uneasy.
"What? Stones blooming with vivid flowers?" The City Lord’s Mansion received many letters, all distant rumors.
"Overnight, an ordinary pine forest turned golden, glowing in the icy snow. Someone collected pinecones, and after consuming them, ascended in clouds? Hmm, burnt to ashes in mid-air, sigh!"
The City Lord of this small town was stunned, what’s happening to this world, in just two days, peculiar news emerged.
The destruction of some renowned cities by fragments of Yujing was not surprising—it was expected.
"An old man buried for seven days opened his coffin, sat alone on the grave mound smoking in the dark. When his descendants visited for the ’head seven’ rites, everyone’s eyes were murky, utterly insane?"
The news spread from the City Lord’s Mansion, causing an uproar in the small town.
Qin Ming was dumbfounded upon hearing this, is this the initial impact of Yujing and the giant entity’s mutual destruction?
"That famous ’Mingyu River’, with its bronze lion standing for twelve hundred years, came to life with a roar, dashing into the night!"
And these were just strange news; there were also terrifying events occurring.
Songhe City, a city of over a million people, was prosperous, destroyed by fragments from Yujing beyond the Nine Heavens.
"The day before yesterday, a Great Grandmaster braved the snow to inspect the ruins, discovering a black house inexplicably appeared at the edge of Songhe City’s ruins, cautiously approaching... an accident happened."
Companions watched from afar as the Great Grandmaster entered the black house, blood splattered from the door’s crevices, never to emerge again.
"The renowned ’Night Lake’ appeared with a moon in its waters, conspicuously visible in the pitch-dark night. Yet, there was no real Holy Moon above, and two Grandmasters went to explore. Mist rose, and they disappeared without a trace; the water moon remains."
During Shallow Night, while having breakfast, Qin Ming lost his steed but heard such far-away news, leaving him dazed.
Unexpectedly, the giant crow returned, appearing agitated, flapping its wings and stirring up a flurry of snow in the inn.
Qin Ming asked, "What, have you changed your mind, willing to carry me for a journey?"
"Help, there’s disturbance in the distance, over ten human-skin kites flying in the night sky, too terrifying!" The giant crow’s face was full of fear.
Upon hearing, Qin Ming’s expression froze—blood-stained human-skin kites? Such things related to Earth Immortals are difficult to contend with if malicious. He immediately inquired in detail.
"The skins aren’t bleeding, lifelike with long, flowing hair and hollow eyes, whispering something, and they’re coming here!"
Qin Ming opened his Newborn’s Eye, went to the courtyard, looking towards the night sky, and felt skin-tightening chills. There were thirteen human-skin kites, male and female, old and young, with black and white hair flying, eerie as if overlooking the earth.
But, as they passed over this city, they actually detoured, without flying directly overhead.
Could they fear the city’s populace?
Qin Ming felt the world was steering towards unpredictability; Yujing’s fall was a historically cataclysmic event, with impacts far exceeding imagination!
