Published: February 12, 2025
In that moment, Ye Zhongming had never felt so powerless to resist.
He had faced ninth-level beings before; the Holy Father, Armored King, Nine-Winged Crow, Snow Wolf King, and Man-Bear King were all true ninth-level lives. Even after his continuous improvement in strength, he could still fight against beings like the Snow Wolf King.
Although he would lose, it was absolutely not without the means to fight back!
But at this narrow cave entrance, Ye Zhongming and Xia Bai had lost the room to maneuver, and when those white silks entangled them, there was no way to escape.
Under other circumstances, they could have chosen to fight head-on, but at this moment, the toughness of these white silks left them helpless.
It was just like before when faced with the spirit woman, unable to cut through the white silks when captured.
Their bodies were ensnared, and a tremendous force surged towards them, making Ye Zhongming and Xia Bai feel as if their bodies were about to be crushed.
The magic crystal, supported by the white silks, rose to the top of the cave, looking down at Ye Zhongming and Xia Bai. Although it could not express any emotions, it radiated a clear sense of greed and evil.
Ye Zhongming and Xia Bai felt that this thing was filled with a desire to consume both of them.
Xia Bai did not resist at all; she wanted to inflict a more serious injury on herself, preferably to the brink of death, so she could unleash her strongest strike. What she needed to do was cut all the white silks.
The characteristics of her strange evolution allowed her not to be completely bound like Ye Zhongming; she could control the scythe to appear beside her.
Xia Bai knew she had to do something to save Ye Zhongming, whose second life was still cooling down. If he died, he would permanently lose the elemental spirit!
The King of Cloud Summit was also contemplating a countermeasure. With his equipment, he was in a much better state than the unresisting Xia Bai.
The only thing Ye Zhongming could think of that might help was the sky cutting move, using all his mental power in a desperate attempt.
However, this would carry a huge risk; with his arms tightly bound to his body, the sky cutting might very well cause him harm as well.
What to do, to gamble or not to gamble?
Ye Zhongming could only choose to gamble.
He hoped that the purple gauntlet combined with the characteristics of sky cutting would allow him to escape his current predicament.
A faint glow emanated from the gauntlet, signaling the activation of the skill.
Ye Zhongming's mental power began to surge wildly into the gauntlet. He made up his mind but felt quite frustrated.
This ninth-level life was so unique that he didn’t even know how to deal with it.
Now, he was completely forced into this situation.
Just as Ye Zhongming was about to passively use sky cutting in desperation, a silent and odorless black energy portal appeared on the ground beneath the white silk magic crystal.
Earlier, as both sides had entered a combat state, no one had noticed it; but now, the energy portal was wide enough for both Ye Zhongming and the ninth-level white silk life to discover.
A spherical entity slowly emerged from within.
This creature was not large; its diameter was at most two meters. It had long, soft tentacles growing from its spherical body, which looked extremely elastic.
This... Ye Zhongming's mouth slightly opened, unsure how to describe his current feelings. Wasn’t this the hellish life form that was summoned last time after activating his bloodline and was referred to as 'ball' by many of the red dress guard warriors?
Ye Zhongming's excitement suddenly diminished by half.
He understood the reason for its arrival.
Although he hadn't brought it here, since it was a summon of his bloodline, when Ye Zhongming activated the bloodline again, it was summoned from the Cloud Summit team outside.
However... Ye Zhongming bitterly smiled inside. Even if the nine treasures came, they could try using venom to see if it had any effect on the white silks. But of all things, it had to be the ball!