Published: February 12, 2025
"Is it me? Shouldn't I have killed him?" Xia Bai stood beside Ye Zhongming, her voice a little weak.
If others were to hear the infamous Cloud Summit Killer, known by terrifying titles like Xia Dog, Demon of Death, Lady of Death, and Black Woman, speak in such a tone and with such an expression, they would surely be shocked into believing that the apocalypse had come once again.
Hmm? Ye Zhongming paused for a moment, then realized that since Xia Bai had descended like heaven and beheaded the Boss of Wing of Light, he had been squatting next to the bizarre corpse, leading Xia Bai to misunderstand the situation.
At this moment, Ye Zhongming had already consumed some healing potions from the space around him, and his injuries had improved significantly. He estimated that in a few hours, he would completely recover.
With the beautiful celestial body he possessed, all of his abilities were exceptionally formidable.
Without any constraints, given Ye Zhongming's identity, he naturally wouldn’t care about Wing of Light or Brother Long. He immediately moved to the side of the monster's corpse, carefully examining it, so much so that he overlooked Xia Bai standing beside him.
"No, you did well to kill him. I just encountered something very difficult to explain," Ye Zhongming said apologetically to Xia Bai.
Xia Bai, now without her mask, tilted her head, revealing a look of confusion on her beautiful face. However, she did not voice her questions; instead, she stood beside Ye Zhongming, guarding him so he could study in peace.
At this moment, Ye Zhongming had a hypothesis.
Was he trapped in that space earlier… inside this monster's body?
Yes, even now, this remained a hypothesis, and he was still uncertain. However, Ye Zhongming felt that the truth was essentially along those lines.
He had disappeared from the depths of Cold Bay Rainforest, and when he reappeared, he was at the edge of the rainforest, lying next to the corpse of this monster. He still carried a similar scent and energy fluctuations to those emanating from the corpse.
Almost direct evidence was the fatal wound in the monster's abdomen, which had some dried-up wooden structures. No matter how Ye Zhongming looked at it, it resembled Luo Shen Cypress, though it had shrunk to an unimaginable size.
Ye Zhongming took a closer look at the inner wall of the monster's abdomen. Although it was damaged, there were still some intact areas. There was a slightly smooth cavity wall, but beneath a thin inner membrane lay regular tiny dot-like objects. Ye Zhongming intentionally used a knife to cut one; it was fragile, indistinguishable from ordinary flesh, and upon careful observation, these small dots indeed resembled the openings on the boundary wall, though their sizes differed drastically.
Now he was basically certain that he had been 'absorbed' into this monster’s body.
But the more he thought about it, the more astonished Ye Zhongming became.
He had never heard of anything so bizarre.
A living person, especially a nine-star evolver like him, equipped with spatial gear, just like that was absorbed into a monster's stomach space? Even more astonishing was that this space formed its own world with its own rules, and any life absorbed had to comply.
It sounded simple, but the reality was utterly unbelievable.
Although Ye Zhongming had never interacted with ninth-level beings in his past life, in this life, whether it was the three-legged monster beneath the Sacred Pool or the previous Guardian of the Sacred Pool, they were all ninth-level or close to it. Moreover, the Holy Father and the Nine-Winged Crow had also directly or indirectly clashed with him as ninth-level lives.
At this moment, Ye Zhongming had gained much understanding of that ninth-level tier.
To put it bluntly, it was a kind of extremely special energy exchange with space. Ye Zhongming, although not a nine-star evolver at the moment, had already developed his own understanding and comprehension of space.
He knew that space could indeed allow other spaces to exist within it. However, the original space must be an extraordinarily vast foundational space, a primal space, while the spaces existing within it were much smaller storage spaces.