Published: February 12, 2025
Ye Zhongming's body suddenly disappeared, and when he reappeared, he was already above the palace.
He had replaced his weapon with the Wind and Thunder Twin Birth, raising it high. His body turned slightly, and before anyone could see how he did it, a beam of sword light that nearly illuminated the somewhat dark sky slashed down towards the palace.
Perhaps many people believed that when a person evolved to the highest level on the planet, they should have a bit of 'style' and 'grace'.
One should not fight against many with fewer numbers, especially when the Yama Tree had already said she would come.
If one doesn't give face to the enemy, they should at least give some to their own people.
But Ye Zhongming still made his move without hesitation, and when he saw the Yama Tree at a disadvantage... well, strictly speaking, it wasn't exactly a disadvantage... he launched an attack against the palace giant.
To the vast majority of onlookers, Ye Zhongming's attack seemed instantaneous; as soon as the sword light illuminated, it had already struck the palace giant.
A large section of the building was cleaved from the palace giant and crashed down to the ground under the astonished gazes of the crowd.
Many had just been watching the fight between the Yama Tree and the palace giant, thinking—this is the battle between ninth-level beings?
But now with Ye Zhongming's strike, their thoughts shifted to—so this is what a battle between ninth-level beings looks like!
The palace giant's injury abruptly interrupted its usual attack rhythm. Its huge body swayed as if trembling, and the roots of the Yama Tree that had been fixated on it immediately dropped down.
"Little Ye, I'm coming!"
The voice of the Yama Tree, transformed into her true form, sounded somewhat different, but one could still tell she was a bit angry. How well she had learned other human emotions was unclear, but her competitive spirit had been fully grasped.
"Let's finish this quickly."
Ye Zhongming replied淡淡.
When he was at the eight-star level, the King of Cloud Summit wasn't afraid of ninth-level beings, let alone now that he had become top-tier.
Mo Ye raised her hand and summoned a Talisman, which was blue, seemingly ice attribute.
Only the spirit woman did not move, not because she was unwilling, but because against a foe like the palace giant, her and the black cat's roles were minimal.
As the ninth-level beings from Cloud Summit were preparing to strike, the palace giant shook its body, shaking off not only the roots of the Yama Tree but also the bricks and stones from its body, as if... shedding its skin.
The Yama Tree retracted her roots, and getting hit by these bricks and stones was quite painful.
Many evolvers who had retreated far were feeling a bit dry, as if the moisture around them had been sucked away.
As this feeling grew stronger, many were puzzled until they saw the massive ice spikes falling from the Talisman floating in the sky.
One by one, the ice spikes, resembling train cars, whistled down toward the palace giant on the ground. The rune masters began to unleash their power, and at the same time, Ye Zhongming raised his hands again for another slash.
The Yama Tree felt displeased, but there was little she could do. She retracted her crystallized state, pulling many of the originally dense leaves back in. The remaining sparse leaves began to enlarge, quickly reaching the size of basins.
The big leaves were arranged very orderly, either up and down or left and right on the branches, and in the next moment, they began to spin like a steel saw.
The rapidly spinning leaves enveloped the opponent.
It seemed like the few ninth-level beings from Cloud Summit wanted to take down the palace.
"Be careful!"
The spirit woman, observing from the side, suddenly shouted. As her voice rang out, the bricks and stones that had just fallen to the ground around the palace giant suddenly flew back up, swirling around it to form a mobile 'brickstorm' surrounding it.
Ye Zhongming's second sword strike, the Yama Tree's branch cuts, and Mo Ye's Talisman ice spikes all hit this layer of brickstorm simultaneously.