Published: February 13, 2025
The person responsible for the operation of the formation looked helplessly at Ye Zhongming, then pointed with a look of resentment at the energy index.
This was the core location of Cloud Summit Manor, the hub for the operation of the formation. Here, there were many devices that could only be seen in the Su Clan, one of which monitored the remaining energy of the formation.
Currently, the energy was decreasing at a terrifying rate, with up to three thousand units dropping rapidly. Although it wasn't falling at a rate of one unit per second, it was at least... one unit every ten seconds. Since Ye Zhongming arrived, the energy had already decreased by six units in about a minute.
The full energy state of the formation required three million two hundred thousand years gold, converted to three thousand units, meaning each unit represented nearly one thousand sixty-seven years gold.
According to the person in charge of the formation, since the anomaly appeared, the energy units had decreased by a total of forty-five units. This meant that in just a short period, Ye Zhongming had lost almost fifty thousand years gold.
Just as he was unable to hold back his pain for his lost years gold, a third tremor hit, and the energy units suddenly dropped by another five units... again losing over five thousand...
Ye Zhongming looked at the remaining energy displayed on the device and said to the person in charge, "Keep an eye on it. The energy needs to support the maximum consumption of the formation. If there isn't enough years gold, add more."
"Yes, but... what about this?" he referred to the ongoing decrease in energy.
They had already investigated and found that something was absorbing the energy of the formation, and it was inside Cloud Summit Manor.
But obviously, Ye Zhongming didn’t want to bother with it. He snorted, saying it was fine to maintain it like this before leaving.
This was naturally the "work" of the Yama Tree. For some reason, while absorbing the energy of the annual rings, it was also continuously siphoning off energy from the defensive formation, causing Ye Zhongming to think that an enemy was attacking.
Fortunately, this absorption didn’t last too long. About three hours later, the Yama Tree woke up, appearing significantly stronger than before. According to her, she had absorbed about one percent of the energy from the annual rings.
After testing, the current fuleira for the Yama Tree was slightly over one thousand nine hundred, while yesterday, this number was only just above one thousand one hundred.
During that short time, her fuleira increased by nearly eight hundred!
Eight hundred was one percent, so one annual ring could provide the Yama Tree with eighty thousand fuleira? Although Ye Zhongming knew that the situation wouldn’t be that simple, having a rough idea was still a good thing.
But... this time the Yama Tree had "drunk" more than one million years gold from Ye Zhongming, so calculating one percent, there were still ninety-nine more times to go. That would be... Ye Zhongming's mind spun for a long time, calculating over a hundred times, and it still left him in despair with over one hundred million years gold!
One annual ring costs ten million, fully digesting one hundred million... why not just do something else!
For the first time, Ye Zhongming felt a sense of self-entrapment.
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The night in the Survivor Fortress was truly night.
After the incident at the planet hunting grounds, Dark Strip City had developed quite well during this period.
This is somewhat characteristic of the All Races of the Universe. As long as there is money, other things can be done very quickly. After all, this is a place with advanced technology; whether building something small or large, as long as you don't require the same materials as the Survivor Fortress, small-scale constructions can be done in a few days, medium-scale in twenty to thirty days, and large-scale in a couple of hundred days.
So now, compared to before, Dark Strip City showed some signs of developing into a big city.