Published: February 12, 2025
Red Hair sat on a tree, her gaze fixed on the distance. Her long crimson hair flowed down her back, gently swaying in the breeze, making her graceful figure appear exceptionally beautiful.
If it weren't for the fact that she was holding a corpse of an eighth-level monster, over three meters long, for the petite bone dragon beside her to absorb, the scene would have been even more perfect.
Since Red Hair and the undead fish dragon successfully evolved into ninth-level lifeforms, and since Ye Zhongming ascended to the sky, she felt a sense of boredom, just like Little Tiger.
Fighting? As a ninth-level lifeform, there were not many opponents left for her. The spirit woman and the black cat could be contenders, but being part of the Cloud Summit series, they couldn't go all out. After all, those days were gone. Now, whether it was Red Hair or the spirit woman, their intelligence had reached a high level, and they certainly wouldn't engage in life-and-death battles like before. As for the others, they wouldn't dare to challenge her.
In the days since her evolution, only Yangos, relying on becoming a ninth-level dragon, had been a bit arrogant. Once, when he failed to execute an order, he went off on his own to wreak havoc among the mother beasts in the mountainous forest, nearly causing their mission to fail. When Sister Lei criticized him, he even dared to glare at her, only to be dealt with by her and the undead fish dragon, expending about eighty percent of their strength in the process.
"Today, there's only one ninth-level over there. Should you go or should I?" Red Hair asked, stroking the now fully flexible undead fish dragon.
The undead fish dragon lifted its head, flapped its wings, and flew onto Red Hair's shoulder, conveying a message.
"Together. Do you want to go back for a meeting?"
Red Hair couldn't help but laugh. The self-awareness of the undead fish dragon had completely opened up after its evolution. Rather than being an undead lifeform, it was more accurate to say it was a lifeform with an undead body.
Now, it was also interested in the specific affairs of Cloud Summit.
Red Hair's smile was only halfway formed when the undead fish dragon gave her another message.
"Mm? You said you always feel a sense of danger?"
Red Hair's expression became much more serious as her extraordinary perception began to cover the surroundings.
"Is there a powerful lifeform nearby? Or something else?"
"It's just a feeling of danger, but it's not urgent?"
Red Hair was puzzled, unsure exactly what the undead fish dragon was trying to express.
Occasionally, Red Hair would feel a slight sense of panic, but it lasted only for a very short time. She preferred to think of it as an emotion arising from her gradual 'humanization'.
"Let's get rid of that troublesome guy and you can replenish your strength."
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The battle lasted only six hours from start to finish.
This means it includes the time for pursuing the remaining soldiers; the actual fighting was just over an hour, and the opposing side collapsed under the powerful assault of the Cloud Summit army.
The reason the opposing force crumbled so quickly in a battle of hundreds of thousands was mainly due to two points. The first was psychological; shortly after the battle began, their relied-upon leader, the nine-star evolver, was taken down by a single person and dragon, and the process didn't even take ten minutes. The second point was the overwhelming impact of the Cloud Summit army, with an overwhelming number of battle beasts and cavalry riding them, directly breaking through their formation.
Thus, it resulted in a rout and a chase.
For such opponents who dared to confront Cloud Summit head-on, any Cloud Summit team, regardless of their style, would show no mercy and no forgiveness, aiming to annihilate as many as possible before adopting a conciliatory policy towards the remaining individuals.
After six hours, the pursuit stopped. Li Daqian, participating in battle for the first time as the overall commander after merging into Cloud Summit, quickly issued orders.