Published: February 12, 2025
“They're coming.”
In the depths of a cavern, several meters underground, a voice suddenly broke the silence that seemed to have existed for billions of years.
“Hehe, what a coincidence, really.”
After listening for a while, the voice echoed again in the empty space.
“Can you not talk?”
Another voice suddenly appeared, flat in tone, but if one listened closely, they could sense the extremely complicated emotions within.
“Shouldn't I speak? How many years have we been here? Finally, someone has come, and it’s... an old acquaintance, hahaha, shouldn’t I say something? No, I should, I should thank God, Jesus, Shakyamuni, and Allah, the deities of heaven and earth, for bringing them...”
“...Our enemies, right before us!”
The last half of the sentence was pronounced word by word, the anger and resentment within it could practically scorch a person.
“Don’t you hate it? You have even more reason to hate than I do!”
After this sentence, there was another moment of dead silence, and only after a while could one hear the sound of someone getting up, a clattering noise resembling metal clashing.
“I naturally hate him, but it has nothing to do with you.”
After the second voice finished speaking, it walked away.
“You have to lead them here, lead them here! I want to personally butcher them, butcher that person!”
With a loud bang, an extremely thick stone door closed, isolating the roaring, distorted voice inside.
Until the clattering sound disappeared, countless ghostly green or bloody red eyes opened in the vast cavern, emitting low hissing sounds.
Outside, the clattering noise continued for a full ten minutes before it completely stopped. The place was no longer as dark as before; two huge fireballs burned in the recesses on either side of the stone wall, and in between the stone walls was a stone platform covered in countless knife marks and fist prints, even some dark purple clots of dried blood.
On the stone platform lay a human skull and several bones, resembling part of a person's slanted body.
“I originally thought I would spend my life here, never imagining I would have a chance to return. How many years has it been? Have you waited long? It doesn’t matter, I will avenge you, and then go below to find you.”
At this moment, the second voice changed, now sounding like a female voice.
“I will go accompany you...”
……………………
Ye Zhongming rejected Huo Zhi's invitation, which surprised everyone greatly.
Fighting alongside a peak expert is an opportunity that is rarely encountered; watching them in battle, one could learn so much, such as the application of personal tactics, energy distribution, skill utilization, techniques interlinking, etc. These are not things that just anyone can teach you.
For someone like Ye Zhongming, whose strength was rapidly advancing, this was a rare opportunity.
Yet he chose to refuse.
Ye Zhongming was not being arrogant; rather, he weighed his options and chose to stay.
For others, encountering a peak expert might indeed be difficult, and they would be very curious about everything related to a peak expert.
But he was Ye Zhongming, with the entire Library Palace backing him. He could obtain guidance and teaching from countless peak experts at any time through various channels, especially the Old Dean, who had never stated what level he had reached, but Ye Zhongming knew he must be a peak expert, certainly ranking among the top three in combat strength within the All Races of the Universe.
Having such a person teach him attentively, he had no need to learn from other peak experts, not to mention that it was a peak expert from the Su Clan...
Thus, he remained at the base, working with He He and other long void water clan members to begin production and refinement.
He had a bad premonition.
One day later, news came from the Su Clan that their hunting had been successful. They used formations and some powerful members of the Alliance of Small Races willing to join to encircle and kill a super ninth-level mutated life family, which could yield an income of tens of millions in years gold.