As Wei Kai spoke, the Golden Cudgel in the ground began to grow wildly, like a tender sprout in spring.
In the blink of an eye, it grew from a fifteen-foot long rod into a towering pillar dozens of feet high.
Then it fiercely stabbed into the Big Mouth’s mouth.
“Ow, ow, ow!”
The Big Mouth let out a painful howl, its maw, which was about to close, was directly pierced through.
Countless dark blood rained down.
Its body, which was originally chaotic and completely indistinguishable, also revealed its bloated and terrifying form.
Along with its appearance, the dark night sky began to churn with wind and clouds, countless dark clouds rolled in, accompanied by intermittent thunder, and the sky seemed to go mad.
On the ground, Wei Kai still felt it wasn't enough.
So he held the rod with both hands and stirred it vigorously.
With this stirring, the Big Mouth’s wound was immediately torn open, and a large amount of black blood gushed out, like a torrential downpour.
“Ow, ow, ow!”
The Big Mouth roared in pain again, then fiercely closed its mouth, seemingly trying to bite down on the Golden Cudgel and not let go.
“It’s trying to snatch my weapon!”
Seeing this, Wei Kai quickly retracted the Golden Cudgel in his hand, and in a blink, it returned to its normal size.
The Big Mouth immediately lunged at empty air.
Repeatedly frustrated, the Big Mouth became even more enraged.
Lightning flashed and thunder roared within the dark clouds around its body, with lightning bolts as thick as water vats dancing wildly in the clouds, as if brewing a world-ending tribulation.
As the ruler of this area, it had lost its sanity after repeated failures.
It wanted to destroy everything in front of it at all costs.
At this moment, Wei Kai finally noticed the anomaly in the sky and immediately felt a strong sense of crisis.
“This guy… didn’t cause a huge mess, did he?”
Just then, an alarm suddenly rang from his pocket.
He was startled at first, then glanced at his phone, his face full of pleasant surprise.
“It’s dawn!”
As soon as he finished speaking, a golden light rose from the horizon, followed by a brilliant radiance.
The crimson new sun descended upon the sky, sweeping away the previous darkness and chaos.
In the sky.
As soon as the sun’s light appeared, the Big Mouth showed a look of horror, and the dark clouds and lightning around it instantly vanished.
A moment later, as the light grew brighter, the Big Mouth’s body was like ice illuminated by the sun, instantly melting away and gradually dissipating into the light.
The transition from dark to dawn took only a brief minute.
When Wei Kai turned off his phone alarm and looked up again.
The sky, which had been pitch black, covered in dark clouds, and filled with lightning and thunder, suddenly transformed into a radiant, clear blue sky with light clouds and gentle breezes.
There was no longer any sign of the terrifying phenomena from before!
“It’s finally dawn.”
Wei Kai let out a long breath, feeling completely exhausted.
He looked around, then simply found a piece of broken stone to sit on and rest for a while.
Just then, his phone in his pocket rang again.
“Hello, A Kai, where did you go last night?”
The call was from his mother, Huang Liqiao, and her first words were about what happened last night.
Last night, Wei Kai was trapped in the Black Night, so he naturally couldn't go home.
Wei Yitong and Huang Liqiao waited all night at home but he didn't return, so they were already extremely anxious.
However, the city would cut off electricity and internet in the middle of the night, and people were not allowed to go out casually.
Neither of them had any choice but to call again early the next morning.
Fortunately, the first call went through.
“I… stayed at a friend’s house,” Wei Kai quickly told a small lie.
There was no way he could just say he was trapped in the Black Night, right?
If his parents found out about this, they would worry themselves to death… and probably wouldn’t let him out to level up anymore.
“Which friend?” Huang Liqiao pressed, “A Yi and Changlin both said they didn’t see you!”
Wei Kai paused: “Uh… a friend I met outside.”
“A girlfriend?”
His mother saw him hesitating and immediately felt her gossip soul ignite.
“No, no, just a business partner,” Wei Kai quickly explained.
“I know,” Huang Liqiao quickly thought of something and teased, “It’s the saleswoman who introduced you to the house yesterday, right?”
“…”
Wei Kai was speechless, not expecting his mother’s intuition to be so sharp.
“Let’s not talk about that anymore, I still need to go out of the city to level up,” he quickly found an excuse and hastily hung up the phone.
Who knew that as soon as the call ended, the phone rang again.
He looked at the screen and saw that it was Tian Xiaoling calling.
“Hello, Xiao Kai, were you busy last night? Why didn’t I see you at the store?” Ling Jie’s gentle voice came from the other end of the phone.
“Uh, I forgot something,” Wei Kai quickly replied, “I’ll go to the store to restock right away.”
“If you have something to do, go take care of it first.”
Tian Xiaoling suddenly said, “The goods in the store are never enough to sell, so there’s no rush.”
“It’s nothing.”
Wei Kai smiled and said, “I’m going now.” With that, he hung up the phone again.
After putting his phone back in his backpack, Wei Kai patted his chest and said with a wry smile, “Luckily, it was only one night this time.”
If he had disappeared for several days, his parents at home would have worried themselves to death.
In this era where monsters run rampant and death can occur at any time, disappearing for several days… would basically be considered dead.
Thinking about what would happen after his death, his heart couldn't help but feel heavy.
“I can’t do this again,” he silently warned himself.
After resting for a few minutes, Wei Kai stood up again and walked towards the city.
After only a few steps, a small team suddenly walked towards him.
The person at the head of the team was startled when he saw Wei Kai.
“Are you… a human or a ghost?”
“What are you talking about?” Wei Kai said irritably, “How could I be a ghost?”
“Then… how did you walk out from in there?”
The person looked bewildered, completely unable to react.
One must know that after the city gates opened this morning, they were the first team to leave the city.
He was 100% sure that no one had entered the Wild Boar Forest before him.
But there was someone in the Wild Boar Forest, and he was walking out from it…
“You… didn’t spend the night in the wilderness, did you?”
“Is that not allowed?” Wei Kai retorted.
Although nights in the wilderness were dangerous, no one had stipulated that one couldn't spend the night there, and Yongning City didn't have such a rule either.
“Then you’re not dead?” The person was stunned when he heard this.
To be able to spend the night in the wilderness and not die… that was absolutely a miracle!
“Do I look like a dead person?” Wei Kai made a funny face.
Unfortunately, the person was not scared, but instead shouted.
“Come quickly!”
“Someone spent the night in the Wild Boar Forest and came back alive!”
As soon as these words came out, the other members of the team rushed over, directly surrounding Wei Kai.
“Hey, don’t block my way,” Wei Kai said unhappily, “I still need to go back to the city to rest.”
“Wait a moment!”
Just then, another person stepped forward: “Are you… Chen Xianchi?”
“Chen Xianchi?” Wei Kai also recognized the other person.
“It’s actually you!”
Chen Xianchi was a bit bewildered; he had already thought Wei Kai had some ability before, but he hadn't expected him to be so formidable.
He could actually survive a night in the wilderness!