Published: February 11, 2025
Strictly speaking, the Shattered Soul Bone Staff is Ye Zhongming's true trump card.
When fully activated, it possesses the power to instantly kill an eighth-level mutated life form, comparable even to the legendary rainbow equipment.
However, the mental energy consumption of this item is terrifyingly high, to the point that even someone like Ye Zhongming, whose mental energy is vast like an ocean, feels a prickling sensation every time he uses it.
He fears that if he is not careful, overloading his mental energy input could lead him to faint on the spot.
This staff absorbs mental energy at an alarming rate.
This time, Ye Zhongming wanted to resolve the issue quickly, so he brought it out.
As he input his mental energy, a circle of patterns lit up, and Ye Zhongming immediately stopped.
He couldn't continue; if he did, this staff would drain him dry.
With the activation of the circle of patterns, Ye Zhongming felt it was enough to deal with these frost beasts.
Indeed, it proved that in front of such a powerful Soul Artifact, these frost beasts were hardly any tougher than paper.
A thick beam of light shot out, clearing all the monsters in its path.
Although it wasn’t as exaggerated as piercing through the city wall when he was at Cloud Summit City, it was enough to break through the formation of the frost beasts.
Garan felt a bit numb; she didn’t know how many more tricks Ye Zhongming had up his sleeve, but it seemed that victory was not difficult for him.
Meanwhile, among the people waiting on the ground, someone suddenly shouted.
Everyone turned to look, and they saw this person staring at the nameplate, pointing at the completion rate, saying, “It moved, the completion rate moved, three people, one percent!”
Everyone quickly took out their own to check, and indeed, the completion rate that was originally zero jumped by one notch, with the name of "Three People" appearing on it.
“How did he do that?”
Many had gone down before and had killed frost beasts, but they didn't cause the completion rate to change.
They speculated that killing one or two, or even three or four, should not be enough to reach the threshold for the nameplate to show any change.
But now, it directly jumped to one percent. How many frost beasts had Ye Zhongming killed down there?
Unconsciously, they began to feel that this temporarily named "Three People" from Cloud Summit Villa might really be able to complete the Hundred Caves Marsh, which was known as the most difficult adventure in the brightwater realm.
Tong Steward and Water Steward exchanged glances, understanding each other's expressions; there was surprise, but more so a sense of inevitability.
Ever since Ye Zhongming had crushed the royal guild with overwhelming strength, they had already elevated his status to one of the top three in the national district.
However, being able to kill so many monsters so quickly to achieve one percent completion still left them feeling somewhat unable to accept it.
Because accepting it would mean acknowledging the gap between them and Ye Zhongming.
For proud individuals like them, this was hard to bear.
Underground, Ye Zhongming struck down four times with the Shattered Soul Bone Staff, directly taking out more than half of the frost beasts, raising the completion rate to two percent.
He estimated that there were only about two to three hundred left in front of him.
Ye Zhongming immediately drew his knife, calling one of the ice birds, and in a primitive manner, he began to attack alongside the two birds.
After firing the Shattered Soul Bone Staff four times, Ye Zhongming's mental energy consumption was significant.
Considering what he had used earlier, his mental energy reserves were dangerously low, and with unknown dangers ahead, he had to be cautious.
Ye Zhongming was not just abundant in mental energy; he also had stamina.
Attribute stones and Bloodstained Battle Boots gave him a natural advantage in this regard, and several significant increases in his physical attributes had allowed him to far surpass other evolvers.