"Ah! Damn it! I was too impatient! I wonder how long it will take for this message to reach Judge Yan and Master Gu!" Hao Yun tapped his head in frustration, thinking deeply.
At that moment, the system emitted a pleasant notification sound and said, "Ding! Message sent. This transmission consumed 15% of Phoenix Feather No. 6's energy. Energy reserves of Phoenix Feather No. 6 now at 55%."
"What! Sending and receiving two messages consumed so much energy?! This is too much of a rip-off!" Hao Yun exclaimed as he looked at the system's prompt.
However, at this moment, Hao Yun finally understood that with the help of Phoenix Feather No. 6, he had suddenly received two messages, one from Judge Yan and the other from Master Gu, and successfully sent out the message just now. At the same time, Hao Yun realized that his system was now able to establish contact outside the black hole, thanks to the newly activated Whistleblower function. It turned out that the Whistleblower function was a powerful enhancement that strengthened the system's communication signals outside the black hole. No wonder activating it consumed so much energy!
"Ding! You have a new message, please check it!" Just as Hao Yun was marveling at the power of the Whistleblower function, another message prompt interrupted his thoughts.
Another new message? Judge Yan and Master Gu replied so quickly again? Hao Yun thought with some surprise.
Because the two messages Hao Yun had just received were replies from Judge Yan and Master Gu to the messages he had sent at two different times. Previously, Hao Yun had tried to send many messages to Master Gu, but only these two messages were successfully sent out and replied to after the Whistleblower was activated. This indicated that even with this powerful function, the system only managed to send and receive two messages at random. So after sending the last message just now, Hao Yun didn't actually expect to receive an immediate reply.
Hao Yun quickly checked the new replies and found that the message was indeed a response from Judge Yan to the message he had just received. The content of the message was: "Hao, my friend, I am Judge Yan! I have united with the Divine Soldiers of Sector 619 of the Underworld Realm and rushed to the black hole VOID-360. We are already searching for a way to enter the black hole as soon as possible! Please provide your current coordinates so that we can search for you! Also, Hao, please make sure to protect Yan Chaoyue for me! Your kindness, I will surely repay!"
Looking at the message sent by Judge Yan, Hao Yun felt ecstatic. Because this meant that Hao Yun had restored contact with the outside world. However, this excitement was short-lived, as another message from the system immediately dampened it. The content of this prompt was: "Energy consumption of Phoenix Feather No. 6 is 5%, energy remaining is 50%."
Just activating the Whistleblower function and sending and receiving a few messages consumed up to 45% of Phoenix Feather No. 6's energy? This astonishing energy consumption really hurt Hao Yun. If this continued, wouldn't the energy of Phoenix Feather No. 6 be completely depleted after a few more exchanges with Judge Yan and the others?
What hurt Hao Yun even more was that to use the Whistleblower function, the energy of his battle armor was also rapidly depleted during this period. Coupled with the activation of Phoenix Feather No. 6, Hao Yun hadn't had time to start recharging his battle armor, and the rapid consumption by the Thorn Cage and the Destroyer against the battle armor's protective shield had reduced its energy from 79% to just 32% now.
Therefore, Hao Yun also realized that he couldn't continue to send messages outside the black hole recklessly. Otherwise, not only would the energy he injected into the dagger be quickly depleted, but even the energy of his Underworld Realm battle armor would also be exhausted soon. Once the energy of the battle armor was completely depleted, Hao Yun would immediately fall into the clutches of the Destroyer due to losing the protection of the battle armor's shield. Moreover, even if Hao Yun stopped consuming the energy of the battle armor, according to the system's calculations of the current situation, the remaining energy of the battle armor would not support the protective shield for more than seven days.
So now, with the greatly reduced support time of the protective shield, Hao Yun knew he had to do something! Therefore, Hao Yun decided to take another risk and recharge Phoenix Feather No. 6 once more to ensure that he had at least one well-equipped item to defend himself with. However, since this dagger seemed to only accept Mould Spirit energy produced after the disintegration of Amu Zinen, Hao Yun gritted his teeth and decided to use the Mould Spirit Energy Collector and Mould Spirit Energy Storage Device for a second recharge.
However, to Hao Yun's surprise, no matter how he tried, Phoenix Feather No. 6 did not recharge this time. Therefore, Hao Yun believed either Phoenix Feather No. 6 could only be recharged once, or he would have to wait until all the energy of Phoenix Feather No. 6 was depleted before he could activate the recharging function again. However, the problem was that although there were still many residual Mould Spirit energies left outside, and Hao Yun's Mould Spirit Energy Storage Device still stored some Mould Spirit energy, could Hao Yun really bet that this dagger would automatically activate the recharging mode after the energy was depleted?
Clearly, Hao Yun dared not take that bet. Moreover, in the current situation, rather than betting on whether the dagger would activate the recharging mode after the energy was depleted, Hao Yun preferred to use the existing energy of the dagger to do something more valuable. Therefore, Hao Yun sent another message to Judge Yan. In this message, he roughly explained his current situation and his next action plan. Hao Yun also told Judge Yan that in order to ensure the smooth implementation of his next actions, he had to temporarily terminate contact with Judge Yan. However, Hao Yun would actively contact Judge Yan again after overcoming the current crisis.
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In addition, because Hao Yun was unaware of his exact location, he couldn't provide Judge Yan with his precise coordinates. Moreover, due to the extremely complex situation inside this black hole, if the divine troops were to force their way in, the losses could be devastating. Therefore, Hao Yun strongly advised Judge Yan against forcefully entering the black hole with the divine troops. Instead, the divine troops should set up a blockade outside the VOID-360 black hole, closely monitoring it to prevent any enemies from escaping.
After transmitting this lengthy message, the system immediately notified him that the energy of Phoenix Feather No. 6 had dropped to 45%, while the energy reserve of the Shadow Spirit Battle Armor had decreased to 27%. Watching the energy levels of these two items decrease once again, Hao Yun couldn't help but feel a pang of heartache. However, looking at it optimistically, at least he had detailed his experiences and discoveries on Yongmu Star to Judge Yan and the others with as few uses as possible. From that perspective, this energy expenditure was worthwhile.
However, at the same time, Hao Yun was still puzzled by his unsuccessful attempts to send messages to Dao Lao and Dream Jia. It was clear that sending messages from Yongxing Body to Muxing Body was much easier than sending messages from Yongxing Body to outside the black hole. Therefore, Hao Yun could only attribute this situation to Countess's interference. It was certainly Countess who had meddled, or had some thought that prevented Hao Yun from contacting Dao Lao and Dream Jia on Muxing Body using the informant.
However, speaking of communication, Hao Yun immediately had another idea. Although he couldn't use the informant to send messages to Dao Lao and Dream Jia, Phoenix Feather No. 6 itself was a tool specifically meant to locate Yan Chaoyue! Given this, and considering that the energy within this dagger was still sufficient, could he use the power of the informant to directly contact Yan Chaoyue through this dagger?
The thought illuminated Hao Yun's mind. He then commanded the system, under the cooperation of Phoenix Feather No. 6, to activate the informant function again. However, this time, Hao Yun didn't just intend to send out a message. He wanted to use the informant to continuously transmit an energy wave from outside Yongxing Body. Within this energy wave, he left a brief message - "I am Hao Yun, and I am here with Phoenix Feather No. 6. Hoping to attract Yan Chaoyue's attention with this."
Although the informant had certain shielding capabilities, due to the excessive energy released by Phoenix Feather No. 6 at this moment, it was still unavoidable for the Destroyer to notice Hao Yun's actions. However, because the Destroyer was fully absorbed in absorbing the Mold Spirit energy remnants left by Amu Zinen, and because he believed that Hao Yun's release of such powerful energy was only to contest him for the Mold Spirit energy remnants while trying to counteract the Thorny Cage that he had strengthened once again, the Destroyer did not pay attention to Hao Yun's situation and merely sneered contemptuously, saying, "Hmph! Stop struggling! You can't escape from the palm of my hand! Behave yourself! At least that way, I'll make your death a bit cleaner!"
However, since Hao Yun didn't want to communicate with the Destroyer and no longer wanted to compete with him for the Mold Spirit energy remnants left by Amu Zinen, the Destroyer simply followed Hao Yun's posture and sat back down in place, leisurely continuing to absorb the Mold Spirit energy drifting in the prison. Soon after, many soldiers carried wooden boxes into the prison, each containing a body buried on Yongxing Body.
It turned out that after the Destroyer found Hao Yun and El, he first devoured all the negative energy remaining on all the bodies stored in that secret room, and then ordered the destruction of the entire Elvita Grand Hotel. As a result, when they destroyed the Elvita Grand Hotel, they unexpectedly found multiple large secret rooms connected to the mountain, and inside, they found a surprisingly large number of bodies. Naturally, the Destroyer would not waste the negative energy contained in these bodies. So in the subsequent period, while squeezing the power from Amu Zinen, he also absorbed the negative energy from these bodies to further accelerate his power growth.
The Destroyer was satisfied that with the absorption of more Mold Spirit energy fragments and the increasing negative energy absorbed from the bodies brought by the soldiers, he distinctly felt his power strengthening. However, what displeased the Destroyer was that despite his significantly enhanced strength, he still could not break through Hao Yun's protective shield. Therefore, the Destroyer could only curse and grumble as he sat back down in place, continuing to digest the energy within him.
As the Destroyer settled down to digest the absorbed negative energy, he gradually entered a meditative state and no longer paid attention to Hao Yun's situation. However, not long after, he was forced to interrupt his meditation due to the chaotic shouting of the soldiers guarding Hao Yun.
"Damn it! You useless bunch, what's going on?!" The Destroyer furrowed his brow and opened his eyes, cursing in frustration.
Upon hearing their leader's self-reproach, the soldiers immediately stepped back to make way on both sides, simultaneously pointing towards the Thorny Cage and shouting loudly once again. It was at this moment that the Destroyer finally saw clearly what was inside the Thorny Cage—Hao Yun had stood up by now, raising the dagger that was continuously emitting black flashes above his head, as if he was about to summon something.
"No! Stop him!" Seeing this, the Destroyer immediately shouted. At the same time, he flew and leaped in front of Hao Yun, transforming his arms into two extremely strong and sharp spikes, fiercely thrusting them towards Hao Yun's protective shield. This thrust from the Destroyer was significantly more powerful than before, causing not only two large waves of energy to ripple across Hao Yun's shield, but also leaving two deep marks about a foot long where the spikes had struck.
Hao Yun was initially startled by the appearance of the two deep marks above his head, but upon confirming that the protective shield had withstood the Destroyer's attack, he then wore a smirk and taunted, "Nice try! You almost broke through my shield! But too bad, you won't get another chance!"
With that, Hao Yun forcefully slashed the dagger downward through the air. The space in front of him was immediately torn apart, forming a spatial rift radiating with black mist and purple electric light. Without hesitation, Hao Yun darted into the rift. Along with the powerful suction released from the rift, his protective shield was immediately drawn into the spatial tear.
Following a loud bang, the Thorny Cage tightly wrapped around Hao Yun's protective shield completely closed. However, inside the tightly closed Thorny Cage, there was nothing left but air. Because the sudden appearance of the spatial rift had caused Hao Yun to disappear without a trace.