Published: February 5, 2025
"Thank you to Mo Shui Lan (Is she a girl?? Drooling~~) for the 1888 reward, thank you to Yu for the 588 reward, and thank you to Tan Tan, Feng Sha, Shu Chong, Yesterday, Xiaoyao, Ni Zuo De, Leng Qiu, Ka Lu Se Ruan Jian, Ji Mo, and the super high school level character for their continuous rewards. Thank you all, Old Huan!"
Ye Zhongming encountered his rescuer, Little Tiger and Mo Ye, at the entrance of the Western District. In the dark of night, the edge of the moon they held in their hands emitted a conspicuous white glow.
With his keen senses, Ye Zhongming felt a hint of killing intent from Liang Chuyin and Little Tiger. It was likely that they had encountered some trouble in the chaos; the two must have fought, shed blood, and perhaps even killed someone.
Sometimes it is like this; if you don't kill, someone else will kill you. The items on these people's bodies must be coveted by others, and without taking some decisive measures, they would definitely not have gotten this far.
"Boss!"
Little Tiger smiled upon seeing Ye Zhongming, approaching with the edge of the moon still smeared with blood.
"Was it you who caused this mess?"
His tone was filled with schadenfreude.
Ye Zhongming shot him a glare; this guy seemed to thrive on chaos.
"Let's go back."
The most important thing for Ye Zhongming now was to inject the two-star evolution elixir; everything else could wait.
The group hurried back to their residence, and Ye Zhongming went straight to an empty room on the top floor. He instructed everyone to guard outside and asked Little Tiger to fetch Jia Min for him.
Taking out the prepared medicine from the space crystal, Ye Zhongming began to focus on improving the two-star evolution elixir.
The process of refining the elixir was not long and was not complicated, but it was a delicate task. A mistake in any one area could lead to previous efforts being wasted.
Fortunately, in his previous life, Ye Zhongming had done a lot of this kind of work, so he was quite familiar with it.
The improved two-star evolution elixir presented a beautiful, crystal-clear green color, mesmerizing enough to captivate anyone. Even though Ye Zhongming had seen this many times in his previous life, he was still entranced by its beauty at this moment.
However, he was also aware that this substance was like a poppy flower—captivating but deadly—because countless individuals had turned into piles of white bones for the sake of this small vial of elixir.
Slowly pushing the evolution elixir into his body, Ye Zhongming held a hard wooden stick in his mouth.
Ordinary evolution elixirs generally made most people feel pleasure upon injection, experiencing warmth, comfort, and fullness—a sensation comparable to the joy of intimate relations between men and women. Only a few would feel discomfort. However, the refined evolution elixir would definitely cause pain upon injection, and this pain was extremely intense—those with weak willpower would not be able to endure it.
As the elixir spread within his body, that heart-wrenching pain arrived as expected. Ye Zhongming's body trembled violently; he knelt on the ground, gripping the hard cement surface tightly with his hands. The wooden stick in his mouth snapped under the pressure, and sweat poured from him like rain, even tinged with blood.
His throat produced beast-like moans as the stick broke with a crack, and his hands clawed at the ground, leaving bloody marks...
A few minutes later, after being drenched in sweat, Ye Zhongming finally relaxed his expression, lying on the ground with a satisfied look.
He had evolved.
In less than half a month since the apocalypse began, he had become a two-star evolver!
This was not a half-baked two-star evolution like Wang Ding's, but a true two-star evolution, and a refined one at that!
From one-star evolution to the completion of two-star evolution, Ye Zhongming had consumed improved elixirs. Since secondary evolution was based on the previous evolution, Ye Zhongming's physical strength now exceeded that of an ordinary two-star evolver by a significant margin. While he could not estimate the exact values, he guessed he was at least about 20% stronger than the average two-star evolver.