Published: February 12, 2025
Soon, a trace of blood flowed from Jie Su's mouth. His current speed had completely surpassed his peak level, and he was burning himself out.
Moreover, he was running with two others.
“Alright, let’s gamble!”
Ye Zhongming opened his eyes, jumped down from Jie Su's back, and threw the formation disk ahead of him, activating it just as it left his hand.
The three of them quickly stood on the formation disk, but they still needed some time before teleportation could commence.
Although Ye Zhongming's hands hung naturally, his fingers were moving slightly, and his body appeared somewhat ethereal.
In the distance, they could already hear the sound generated by the peak expert flying over at high speed, the speed so fast that it made Jie Su's face turn pale.
He looked at Ye Zhongming and the formation disk, calculating in his mind. To successfully complete the teleportation, they would need at least five to ten more seconds since the teleportation coordinates had just been set.
Finally, Ye Zhongming raised his hand, and in the distance, the peak expert's shadow began to emerge.
Suddenly, with a loud boom, the entire ground shook violently, and Jie Su saw a mountain peak next to them suddenly rise into the air, then shatter into countless fragments, blocking the peak expert's path.
Jie Su was a bit dumbfounded.
His good brother couldn’t possibly think to use this to stop the peak expert, right? That was clearly impossible.
The peak expert saw this scene and sneered, not making any effort to dodge, he simply charged right in.
The fragments of stone disintegrated into powder before even touching his body.
As the peak expert entered the cloud of rubble, Ye Zhongming's hands clenched fiercely, and those fragments instantly transformed into a massive stone ring that encircled the peak expert.
At the same time, a loud cry echoed from afar, resonating between the deep valley mountains.
In that critical moment, Ye Zhongming channeled the last of his remaining energy, activating two abilities of the Mountain King Crown in quick succession—mountain surrounding spell and the newly unlocked ability, mountain summoning!
The mountain surrounding spell condensed a mountain peak into a stone ring, binding the target. This was a previously unsealed ability of the Mountain King Crown that Ye Zhongming had used once before, with excellent results. Now, he hoped to use it to hinder the peak expert.
And the booming cry that resonated around was from Ye Zhongming's new ability, mountain summoning.
This ability was essentially a summoning technique that could call powerful lifeforms residing on mountain peaks to become his battle beasts for combat.
After using these two abilities, Ye Zhongming was completely drained of energy, his physical strength nearly exhausted, and even his proud mental strength had bottomed out. It would take a while to recover.
He looked at the stone ring that was gradually enclosing the peak expert, gazing at the rapidly approaching 'heaven and earth magpie', knowing that this was his and Jie Su's last hope. Ye Zhongming didn't believe they could truly defeat the peak expert; he only hoped they could buy a few seconds for himself and Jie Su Pao Bai so that the teleportation array could be completed.
The stone ring wrapped around the peak expert, and although the heaven and earth magpie had not yet arrived, several tornadoes had already begun to form around the peak expert's body, starting to release terrifying energy.
This heaven and earth magpie was a super ninth-level entity.
The mountain summoning ability was incredibly terrifying; it allowed the user to summon the most powerful lifeforms from selected mountain peaks to become loyal battle beasts without many restrictions, as long as the lifeform's level was not significantly higher than that of the user.
Although Ye Zhongming hadn't reached the level of a great expert, he could successfully summon a super ninth-level lifeform as a battle beast for this reason.
Of course, such a powerful ability also had limitations. The first was a long cooldown time, requiring three thousand cosmic days to summon again.