You don't want your secret to be revealed by others, right?

Zuo Tianchui spoke,

"However, with time, that calling voice will disappear, and perception will gradually recover a bit, but that inexplicable sense of oppression will become even greater, so those with weak Cultivation generally can't stay for too long. A Four Symbols Practitioner can endure in the Eternal Night for a year and a half at most, and only those at the Saint Level can ignore that oppressive force."

Lin Yue nodded slightly, understanding the logic.

Unless one is born in the Eternal Night, one will inevitably feel an inexplicable sense of oppression.

Before the Great Yong was established, the Human Clan was born in the Eternal Night and naturally did not experience the oppression of the Eternal Night.

Just like the people from the Human Clan in Liangwang City.

However, the Power of Eternal Night indeed affects perception, vision, hearing, and Divine Thought alike.

In Great Yong, at the peak of a Great Cultivator's Divine Thought, one can perceive hundreds of miles away, and vision is clear even across a hundred miles.

But in the Eternal Night, without any light or lightning, the visible distance is limited, and even a Saint-Level powerhouse cannot see what is within the darkness, and must proceed with extreme caution.

Divine Thought is also greatly suppressed, with a Great Cultivator at the Peak only being able to sense tens of meters away.

It is said that the Demon Clan is affected much less by the Power of Eternal Night, with a Demon King at the same level as a Great Cultivator able to sense hundreds of meters with Divine Thought.

Although they are also suppressed, it is clearly much better than for the Human Clan.

"Senior Brother can proceed with the army for some time and adapt for a while,"

Zuo Tianchui suggested, "After all, it won't take long. In a matter of days, your senses will adapt to the Eternal Night. After Senior Brother adapts, it will not be too late to leave the army."

"Alright," Lin Yue nodded slightly.

This was his plan as well since exploring the Eternal Night with the perception of a Mortal would be very dangerous.

Even after adapting, one's perception would be limited to that range, and one could only proceed carefully in the Eternal Night without recklessly using Flying Escape.

A journey of thousands of miles would take at least a month.

Therefore, a stay of a few days did not account for much.

Before long, the Warship reached the Northwest Border.

The army stationed at the Northwest Border was merely there to prevent Mortals and low-level Cultivators of Great Yong from entering and exiting at will.

In actuality, what truly defended Great Yong was the National Guardian Array.

If the National Guardian Array were destroyed, only a Proving Saint would be able to hold it against a massive attack by the Demon Clan.

But there were only so many Proving Saints, and it was impossible for them to be stationed at the border at all times.

Moreover, the Essence of heaven and earth at the border was far inferior to Jingzhou's, affecting cultivation. It was not suitable for permanent residence by a Great Cultivator Level.

"Prepare, all troops! We march to Eternal Night!"

In the commanding shout of Commander Zuo Tianchui, the gate of the Northwest Border opened with a roar, revealing the dark and profound void beyond. Crossing it would lead into the vast Eternal Night.

The army set out, with Scouts leading the way.

After the military formations were arranged at dawn, they quickly entered the Eternal Night batch by batch.

The two thousand soldiers, at a minimum, were Four Symbols Peak Cultivators, and the Squad Leaders were strong Cultivators who had entered the Tianxia Building.

As for the Centurions, each of them was a Great Cultivator, and the Commander himself was at the Saint Level.

With the special military formation of the army, once the multitude of soldiers formed the array, amplifying the Commander's power, they could even fight against a Demon Saint of a contrary level and were more adept at defense and the entire army's escape.

The Scouts were also strong Great Cultivators at the Peak with innate Divine Thought, possessing relics and rich experience, adept at exploring the Eternal Night.

The Divine Martial Camp was in charge of the vanguard, with the closely following Jishi Camp responsible for healing, while the Dao Destroying Camp provided large-scale Spell support from behind, and the Tian Formation Camp coordinating the military formations dispersed throughout, working in fluent harmony.

Although each expedition to the Eternal Night brought a batch of new recruits, even the new soldiers had clearly been drilled countless times.

Lin Yue mingled among the scattered soldiers in the rear guard. After all, they were all armored and masked, unrecognizable to one another.

After all the camps had entered the Eternal Night, Lin Yue finally followed in last.

"Buzz..."

Crossing through that dark and profound Barrier membrane, Lin Yue was completely engulfed.

As if the heavens and the earth were changing, space twisted and faded away, and Lin Yue had arrived in a world enveloped by an endless night, an atmosphere entirely different from that of Great Yong washing over him.

"Boom—"

In the sky, dazzling lightning periodically broke through the darkness, with thunderous roars echoing through heaven and earth.

Behind, the immense and glittering Barrier of the Great Yong Divine Formation stood.

An invisible vast Power emanated from the Divine Array, continually repelling any Demon Clan and Mutant Beasts attempting to approach.

"I can't see clearly..."

"Divine Thought can't perceive anything?"

"Is this the Eternal Night?"

After entering the Eternal Night, an unfathomably deep and dark night enveloped them, seeping into every nook and cranny of the world, also oppressing the people of the Great Yong Human Clan who had entered the Eternal Night.

The veteran soldiers had no reaction, but the new recruits were all taken aback.

Even though they had been forewarned that their perception would be suppressed to that of a mortal, and it would take days to adjust, the sensation of being reduced from a cultivator with far superior perception to that of a mortal was naturally uncomfortable.

The new recruits even felt a bit lost and at a loss, looking around only to see a dark and murky night where nothing could be distinguished.

This feeling was like suddenly becoming blind on the spot.

"Form up quickly!"

Zuo Tianchui's commanding shout echoed through the entire army, and immediately the Dawn Army rapidly formed up, becoming unified as one entity, with an invisible power circulating that brought them much comfort.

However, there was no radiant light illuminating the surroundings; instead, it appeared quite dim, relying only on the occasional lightning in the night sky to identify their surroundings.

After all, this was the Eternal Night, the deeper one went, the more cautious one had to be; bright light would only attract powerful mutant beasts.

Even though they were at the edge of the Great Yong Divine Formation, where only the lowest level mutant beasts resided, the Dawn Army would still allow the new recruits to adapt in advance.

As for the marching direction and route, they relied on the essence-powered perception of the Saint Level Commanders to sense the surroundings within a thousand feet, to determine direction, and the messages and marks left by the scouts up ahead.

In this Eternal Night, the Dawn Army could only cautiously explore as the past Human Clan had done.

"How is my brother doing?"

After the Dawn Army had stabilized, Zuo Tianchui relaxed and couldn't help turning to look towards Lin Yue among the dispersed soldiers in the rear.

The Seventeenth Prince, after all, was visiting the Eternal Night for the first time, and he was going to leave the army to act independently in a few days, which made Zuo Tianchui somewhat worried.

However...

"Eh?"

Zuo Tianchui suddenly noticed that Lin Yue looked a bit strange at the moment, as if he was bewildered and surprised.

"Surely the brother's mental state isn't that fragile... Even if he has temporarily lost perception, his mindset shouldn't be affected like this, should it?"

He couldn't help but frown slightly, and then reached out with Divine Thought Transmission, "Brother?"

Lin Yue took a deep breath, looked up at Zuo Tianchui in the sky, and responded, "What's up?"

"Are you alright, brother?"

Zuo Tianchui reassured, "It's indeed tough when perception is suppressed to that of a mortal, but it's only temporary, it will get better in a few days."

After he finished speaking, he suddenly became puzzled, how did the brother directly look towards him?

The two were more than a hundred yards apart, and, not to mention the suppression upon first entering the Eternal Night, but even after adjusting, the perception of a Great Cultivator at the peak couldn't reach a distance of over a hundred yards.

He hadn't seen any lightning either, the Eternal Night was vast, and one should see nothing clearly; yet the brother had directly looked towards him?

But he soon realized that the brother was looking towards other directions again, as if searching for his position.

Right, I am at the center of the army formation, looking towards the center first makes sense... Zuo Tianchui realized.

"Okay, I got it." Lin Yue responded.

Zuo Tianchui nodded slightly, finally feeling at ease.

In the vast darkness, Lin Yue marched with the army, his gaze fixed on the distance obscured by the night, his expression still calm.

Yet within his heart, there was a tumultuous surge of emotions.

"What's going on..."

Lin Yue's eyes fixedly stared into the distance—

Hundreds of miles away in the night sky, a pale-scale feathered mutant beast was flapping its wings in flight.

He could clearly see every feather on that bird and its eyes.

The Eternal Night... seemed to pose no obstacle to him at all.

Even more so, he did not feel the so-called inexplicable oppression; instead, the darkness of the night gave him a strange sense of familiarity, as if returning to a mother's embrace.

It was somewhat like... back in the Inheritance Land, when he received the Supreme Inheritance, the feel of that chaotic, inexplicable essence.

"It's not just that..."

Lin Yue attempted to release his Divine Thought, and his consciousness easily explored hundreds of miles, no different from when he was in Great Yong.

It could be said, not the slightest bit restrained!