Published: February 12, 2025
These two people... Let's just consider them human for now... have been rivals from the very beginning.
Even though both are essentially part of the Cloud Summit camp, their confrontations and conflicts have rarely ceased.
Later on, due to Ye Zhongming's presence, their overt confrontations transformed into covert competition.
At different times, each of them had their moments of strength; sometimes Red Hair was stronger, at other times the spirit woman was.
Recently, without a doubt, Red Hair has become stronger, as she now has the undead fish dragon, giving her an advantage that, while not overwhelming, certainly ensures her victory.
One can only imagine how unwilling the spirit woman must be.
But everyone knows that the ninth-level, the nine-star, is the ultimate goal of evolving life; whoever can reach that point can claim victory in this long-standing competition.
Now, the spirit woman has reached this milestone first, so she declares that she has won.
She and the black cat, both at the ninth level, are more than enough to overpower Red Hair.
Red Hair looked at her old rival with a smile that seemed both amused and mocking, saying nothing.
Others may not understand such a smile, but the spirit woman does.
After all, the person who knows you best is not necessarily your friend, but your enemy.
"Are you talking about it?"
The spirit woman looked at the undead fish dragon lying motionless on the ground. Red Hair and it were now in a similar position as the spirit woman and the black cat.
Red Hair nodded and shook her head.
"Isn't it your turn? Go ahead."
Faced with Red Hair's vague remarks, the spirit woman chose not to pursue the matter further. She gestured to Ye Zhongming, indicating that he should choose to challenge, then stepped over the team and entered the battlefield.
Since this was a result of the swap card, there were no specific rules regarding who could take the field.
The other members of the battle teams naturally didn’t know who the spirit woman was, but they found it hard to believe that only a woman holding a cat would represent Cloud Summit in challenging the powerful Guardian Beast.
Without raising the difficulty, this should have been a Guardian Beast of ninth-level strength. Now that the difficulty is doubled, it must be a terrifying entity.
Against such a being, everyone must join the fight; an individual cannot handle it alone.
But what’s with this one person and cat?
Cloud Summit is being overly ambitious, isn't it? It’s important to note that if they fail the challenge, they must continue challenging; there’s no option to pause. Wouldn't this be a reckless strategy?
The battle quickly commenced, and the people from Cloud Summit watched with intense focus.
They wanted to see what was so remarkable about the ninth-level spirit woman.
The spirit woman’s first action shocked everyone, including Ye Zhongming.
She... threw the cat in her arms out.
Then came a cat's cry.
Later, many members of the Youth Army would find themselves dreaming during their breaks, waking up to the sound of a strange, soft cat cry.
It wasn’t a nightmare, just a kind of... aftereffect.
Many of them had evolved, but their overall strength was lacking, such as in terms of profession, lineage, skills, and even experience. This naturally included their mental state.
The mental strength of the Youth Army was disproportionate to their evolution level.
As a result, the cat cry left a mental imprint on some of them that they could not shake off for a long time.
After a moment of dazed silence, the onlookers recovered, and many exclaimed.
“Ninth-level! That’s a ninth-level black cat!”
They saw the magic crystal on the black cat's forehead!
In that moment, whether it was the Mechanical Genius, Ella, Jannadrah, Black Peach, or even Wu Xiu and Ruan Xiao, they couldn’t suppress their shock.
Cloud Summit actually had someone with a ninth-level battle beast!
Why hadn’t anyone known this before? Why wasn’t it shown on the national power rankings? Has it only recently come to be? And the evolver with the battle beast wasn’t the boss of Cloud Summit but a woman nobody had seen before?