Published: February 12, 2025
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On the ice surface, some black rod-like objects stood upright, resembling prominent flagpoles.
This was a type of life form very common in the northern region, typically growing in watery areas, on the ice surfaces of lakes or the sea.
Their round roots were submerged in the water beneath the ice, where magic crystals were also found. The black stem protruding from the ice was hard like yam and was covered in dense thorns. Along other parts of the stem, there were some small holes that emitted a special scent to lure mutated land creatures closer.
Once a mutated life form could no longer resist the temptation of this scent and approached the stem, it would be pierced and immediately drained of energy. This mutated plant, known as ‘ghost water immortal’, would inject a strong paralyzing toxin into the target’s body, rendering it unable to resist and leaving it to be completely drained dry.
This scent had little effect on humans, and the ghost water immortal was too recognizable, so generally speaking, this life form posed no threat to evolvers.
In fact, evolvers were quite pleased to encounter such things. As long as they avoided contact with these pole-like stems, they could break the ice and dig out their roots to obtain magic crystals.
If they were lucky, they might even encounter higher-level ghost water immortals.
Of course, once the ice was broken, the entire ghost water immortal would lose its stable position. This creature was heavy, and evolvers couldn’t touch it; otherwise, they would be drained of life as well. They could only hide and dodge, and if luck was bad, they might end up getting hit and face tragedy.
Regardless, ghost water immortals had basically been wiped out in the lakes and streams of human activity over the years. Only in the seas did such a large area of this mutated plant still exist.
Under normal circumstances, if evolvers saw this mutated life form, they would definitely be overjoyed, as it meant they could harvest a lot of magic crystals. Especially these in front of them, there were at least eight thousand if not ten thousand. Looking at the height of some of them, they seemed to be around level five or six, which meant five or six-grade magic crystals. Once all dug up, it would be a substantial fortune.
But now, these normally generous creatures brought a simultaneous feeling of despair to everyone’s hearts.
This patch of ghost water immortals was right on the path of their escape. If they had time, they could naturally cut off these stems and pass through, but right now even delaying for a second could mean being crushed into meat paste by the gigantic ice mountain behind them.
Many people frantically used skills or ranged attacks on these mutated plants. They didn’t know if they could shatter all of them, but they could no longer care; all they could do now was this.
As a result, many people opened fire, causing the entire human evacuation army to shift into attack mode.
So many people with such formidable firepower shattered the sections of the ghost water immortal standing on the ice. However, due to the lack of unified command and the evolvers moving at high speed, many skills missed their targets or concentrated on one spot. The uneven distribution allowed some of the gigantic "yam" to remain standing before the evolvers.
Everyone's faces turned ashen.
They had no opportunity for a second attack; the ice mountain behind them was already close at hand.
Should they turn back to attack the ice mountain? Weren't there people who had tried that? But what was the result? The skills of ninth-level life were immense, and when they seemed to block the heavens and earth, perhaps the strongest strike from everyone could break them, but to completely destroy them was impossible. The best they could hope for was to shatter them, but these ice blocks, as large as mountains, would still come down with the power of peak life, making no difference from before.
Perhaps it would be different for the highest-level evolvers, but for the vast majority of evolvers, it wouldn’t be.