Chapter 1344: Thousand Hand Buddha of the Night

It was because Gu Suitang was the loudest out of everyone.

He wasn’t screaming in panic or crying for help though. He was swearing.

All sorts of obscenities and vulgar words came to him as easy as breathing. They were as rude as he was loud.

Ye Qing smiled. This was very Gu Suitang.

Ye Qing also spotted Lin Yuhuai not far away from Gu Suitang. He was much quieter than the chief though.

Although there was fear, anger, and other negative emotions on Lin Yuhuai’s face, he hadn’t lost his cool. He was coming up and trying solutions to save himself. Unfortunately, his efforts yielded minimal, even no results. Gradually, despair crept onto his face bit by bit.

It was at this moment Lin Yuhuai suddenly felt the entire world shaking one time. It was immediately accompanied by an explosive shockwave of corruptive power.

He could not see what was going on, but he knew that something big just happened.

The next moment, a huge sun appeared in the sky.

It shone so bright that the infinite darkness surrounding the area was dispelled.

All around the sun, dark, formless, terrifyingly powerful arms lunged toward the sun as if they were trying to rip it to pieces, but they melted as soon as they made contact.

Thanks to the sunlight, the victims finally saw where they were and what had kidnapped them: the thousand-handed Buddha. They also saw the thousand-handed Buddha swinging its many arms at the sun, its eyes red with rage and sorrow.

But no matter what the arms tried, they did absolutely nothing to the sun.

On the contrary, the sunlight was growing bigger and stronger.

Buzz!

The thousand-handed Buddha abruptly bowed its head. When a Buddha looked down, all living beings must bow to it.

Scarlet tears ran down the Buddha’s scarlet eyes, and the dead people it was holding abruptly opened their eyes. The stack of bodies that made up the lotus throne were also flailing their limbs in a soundless roar.

Eternal, infinite darkness flooded in from every direction like the sea. It attempted to overwhelm the sun and extinguish its light with death and destruction.

Compared to the vast, eternal, infinite ocean of darkness, even the sun looked as feeble as a firefly.

Logic dictated that a firefly’s light could never contest against the night. And yet, the sun kept shining no matter how many times it was attacked. Its light remained bright and strong even though the darkness was many times greater than it in terms of volume.

“Fuck. Off!”

It was at this moment a thunderous declaration accompanied by a bell chime resounded from within the sun.

At that moment, the voice and the bell chime spread hundreds and hundreds of kilometers of distance wide, and the light illuminated the nine heavens. Just like that, the spell of infinite and eternal darkness was broken, leaving behind only eternal light.

As the light shone, the thousand-handed Buddha’s arms, torso, and lotus throne melted profusely like candles. The melted darkness dripped onto the infinite light like ink before disappearing into the infinite dark.

At the same time, the night grew darker, heavier, and more terrible and oppressive.

It was at this moment the sun suddenly turned dim and became one with the night. Dead silence had also returned to the world.

No one noticed a figure dashing through the area and pulling two people into his sleeve. No one saw him penetrating the darkness and vanishing into the night.

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Tonight was destined to be a tumultuous night. A moment ago, the night was deathly quiet barring the occasional screams of death and despair. But then, the sky suddenly started shaking violently, and a sun that had never appeared in Void Stomach City suddenly appeared in the night sky. It chased away the darkness and illuminated the world. Then, the darkness surged like a tidal wave and engulfed the sun. Finally, the sky suddenly began raining people.

That’s right. Countless people were raining from the pitch black sky like raindrops. Some of them were still alive, and some of them were dead.

It was odd, unbelievable, and spine-chilling.

The city people were high-strung to begin with, and now the unexpected, inexplicable event worsened their fear even more.

After all, this had never happened in Void Stomach City before. No one knew if it was a good thing or a bad thing, and nothing was more terrifying than the unknown.

Their opinion slowly changed over time though. First, they noticed that the people falling from the sky were yelling, running, and generally making a lot of noises, but they weren’t whisked away like in the past. When they themselves accidentally made noise, no danger had befallen them either.

Even the night seemed different from the past. It was no longer as deep, heavy, and dark as it used to be. It seemed much brighter and clearer than before.

Realizing that the threat was probably gone, more and more people left the houses or hiding spots. The deathly silent city slowly began regaining its former vitality.

Meanwhile, the culprit behind it all was calmly standing on a street and receiving Gu SUitang and Lin Yuhuai’s questions and observations.

“It really is you, Joyless!”

Gu Suitang laughed while slapping Ye Qing on the shoulder. Despite being minutes, maybe even seconds away from death earlier, he did not seem perturbed by the harrowing experience at all. “Why are you here? Wait, did you come all the way just to save us?”

“Exactly.” Ye Qing nodded smilingly. “Chief Gu, Brother Yuhuai, it’s truly been a long time.”

“Long time no see, Joyless.” Lin Yuhuai was very surprised and excited to see Ye Qing as well, though his reaction was much more reserved. He only greeted Ye Qing.

Gu Suitang had far less reservation than him. “You did? But how did you know we were kidnapped into this heaven forsaken place to begin with? And how did you come in?”

“Faceless’ the one who told me.” Ye Qing gave them a brief summary of everything that had happened before, though he did not mention the Annon Sutra as a matter of course.

“I see!” Gu Suitang barked out a laugh after hearing this. “Guess you still have some conscience left in you despite all the fame and glory you’ve accrued, boy!”

Ye Qing saluted him deeply. “I would never dare to forget my debt to you even if I have forgotten everyone else’s, Chief Gu. You are the one who guided me on my martial journey and offered me your protection during my darkest moments. How can I ever forget such favors?”

“Hahaha!”

Gu Suitang laughed and slapped Ye Qing’s shoulder again. “Good! I knew I didn’t misjudge you!”

Lin Yuhuai finally could not hold it any longer and warned softly, “Chief Gu, can you please keep your volume down? What if we draw that Stranger’s attention a second time?”

“Oh shit, I completely forgot.” Gu Suitang hurriedly lowered his voice.

But Ye Qing assured them with a smile, “It’s fine. The Thousand Hand Buddha of the Night would not be showing its face for a while.”

The pitch black Buddha with a thousand arms behind its back was called the Thousand Hand Buddha of the Night. It was a Disaster-class Stranger.

No one knew where the Thousand Hand Buddha of the Night came from. However, its strength was indisputable. The Thousand Hand Buddha of the Night only appeared during the night, and it plunged the world into eternal darkness when it did. Invisible to all living eyes, anyone who spoke or moved too much during the night would be discovered by it and whisked away into the darkness. They would eventually be corrupted and transformed into its puppet.

Besides that, the Thousand Hand Buddha of the Night was a creation of the night. Therefore, it was incredibly difficult to kill or deal with.