Published: February 12, 2025
Patting the head of the ball creature, Ye Zhongming felt that there was still a glimmer of hope.
Just a moment ago, he was in a perilous situation. Even though he had activated his bloodline, gained the 'home-field advantage' fighting on the sand, had the lightning sand monster's help, and even managed to eliminate an opponent beforehand, the number and strength of the life forms he faced were overwhelming. If he got trapped, what awaited the King of Cloud Summit would be either death or capture; for Ye Zhongming, death would be preferable.
However, his current situation was still not optimistic.
His bloodline was in a cooldown period and could not be used for a short time, reducing his combat ability by at least one-third. His left arm was severely injured and lost its fighting capacity. Due to consecutive injuries, the self-healing process was extremely slow.
The two knife wounds from hofu kafu were manageable; although they were deep enough to see bone, and the arm's bones were slightly sliced, accompanied by minor fractures that severed blood vessels and meridians, with enough time, even without treatment, the recovery ability of a nine-star evolver combined with the beautiful celestial body's healing powers would eventually restore it.
However, the holes created by Wade were much more troublesome. Some light green substance was attached to the wounds, obstructing healing and causing continuous pain.
Ye Zhongming also didn't forget that his troubles didn't stop there. The cooldown for the Mountain King Crown and Sea King Crown abilities was ongoing, and he could no longer dare to use his arm to block knives. And then, there was that cursed affliction!
The loss of hearing kept Ye Zhongming in constant danger. He had tested it before; even the sensing technique was greatly affected and no longer provided the vast detection range it used to.
After killing hofu kafu and a long-armed opponent, according to the rules, he could earn one-third of their joint points. Perhaps it was because they had been hunting Ye Zhongming, their points weren’t high. Ye Zhongming only gained nine points, meaning the two he eliminated only had a total of twenty-seven points.
Now, Ye Zhongming's points reached sixty-two.
This score wasn't particularly high. He glanced at the leaderboard, finding himself ranked over two thousand.
Previously, after killing the spirit fire heavy rhinoceros, his rank was still in the nineteen hundreds. Now, after adding nine points, his rank dropped instead of rising, indicating that others had gained much more.
Ye Zhongming searched for Jie Kui and found that his points remained unchanged and he was still on the leaderboard, which meant he was still alive.
This was somewhat good news, as the final ranking for the Star Eye Clan depended on overall points. Another point was that the tracker had followed Jie Kui, so until he returned, Ye Zhongming's safety coefficient was relatively higher.
Carefully observing his surroundings, Ye Zhongming confirmed that there was currently no one pursuing him. He took out a dagger and inserted it into the bleeding holes on his arm, scraping off the light green substance along with bits of flesh.
He wasn't sure if this substance had any long-term toxicity, but it couldn't be good for his body. The sooner he got rid of it, the sooner he could feel at ease.
But what made Ye Zhongming's heart sink was that after removing the green substances, he found that there were still green, shining dot-like objects at the wound.
He scraped again, the pain causing beads of sweat to form on his forehead, but the result was the same. This stuff seemed like a maggot that wouldn't be removed with this 'scraping bone to remove poison' method.
It seemed he would have to return to the camp to find a solution.
A whole day hadn’t passed yet, meaning his left arm would be unusable for the next two days.
And it looked like even if he returned to the camp, recovery would be costly; he didn't know how many points it would take.
Ye Zhongming casually ate something to replenish his energy and continued running in a chosen direction.