Published: February 12, 2025
The Golden Yutang Oak truly was a surprise, but as the team approached these large trees, a dark cloud flew out from above.
For the Cloud Summit warriors, who had made fighting their instinct, they immediately prepared for battle.
This cloud consisted of flying mutated creatures, generally around level six, resembling a type of ladybug. However, compared to the ladybugs on Earth, which were about the size of a child's fingernail, each one here seemed to be the size of a traditional round Pu-erh tea cake.
"There are level sevens, be careful!"
When Ye Zhongming didn't speak, Xiao Min was the commander of the entire team. Under her orders, the team systematically prepared their defenses. As the cloud of ladybugs approached within a hundred meters, the Cloud Summit's attack began.
Various skills, magic crystal weapons, and ranged equipment overwhelmed them, illuminating the surroundings with bursts of energy. The sounds of collisions echoed as many of these mutated creatures fell to the ground, splattering fluorescent green bodily fluids upon impact.
However, the situation was not very good; the defensive power of these mutated creatures was surprisingly high. This entire cloud-like group numbered at least over ten thousand, but the first full-strength ranged attack from Cloud Summit only managed to eliminate about one-tenth.
It should be noted that every evolver has different skill cooldown times, attack speeds, and even differing frequencies for changing bullets and pulling triggers. The first attack was a saturation attack, and thereafter, the intensity would decrease.
Similarly, the damage caused by the first attack was the highest, with the best effects.
But it seemed inevitable that they would have to engage these mutated creatures in close combat.
With no knowledge of their abilities and facing flying creatures, the chances of increased casualties in close combat were very high.
Seeing that the first wave of attacks did not achieve the desired effect, Ye Zhongming, Yangos, Earth Yellow Pill, Nine Treasures, and Xia Bai, all eighth-level lives, began to join the fight.
Their involvement immediately took command of the battlefield. Although the number of these creatures was high, their highest evolutionary level was only seven. Under the group attacks of Yangos' dragon breath and Earth Yellow Pill's skills, they were slaughtered in large numbers.
In the end, only a few hundred managed to reach near the Cloud Summit team.
Ten minutes later, the battle ended with Cloud Summit's casualties remaining in single digits, and there were no fatalities.
"This can be considered a specialty," joked the Cloud Summit warriors digging for magic crystals while cleaning up the battlefield. The over ten thousand average level six magic crystals were quite a fortune. If you added their hard shells as decent materials, their value increased even more.
However, due to the previous attacks from Cloud Summit's top experts, there were not many hard shells that remained intact.
Having dealt with these guardians of the resource point, Ye Zhongming and the others arrived beneath the Golden Yutang Oak, all knowing that they would not be able to come here again in the future. So they simply took a 'drain the pond to catch the fish' approach, burning the forest to hunt, not only picking the fruits but also stripping the leaves and directly cutting down the branches.
After completing these tasks, Ye Zhongming glanced at the time; more than an hour had passed.
Having left the building, he could no longer see the changes in the forces on the star chart, so he had to suppress other thoughts and continue heading toward the surrounding resource points.
It must be said that the harvest from the first resource point made Ye Zhongming feel that this roulette space was quite generous. The gains here were enough to buy a low-level Guardian Beast.
So, how much could be gained by clearing so many resource points?!
But such thoughts were merely thoughts; occupying all the resource points here would take time. By then, others might have already purchased all the Bright Stars, and whether they could survive to leave would be a question mark.