Published: February 6, 2025
A sharp, ear-piercing sound, akin to an object scraping against metal, suddenly rang out. Following that, Xia Lei, Mo Ye, Liang Chuyin, and everything else vanished, and the scene before him returned to its previous state.
Under the third strike of the sealing flame blade, the entire layer of the abyssal demon nest had been mostly annihilated. The highest-level blood swallows, which were only tier 2, had long since fallen, posing no threat to Ye Zhongming.
The only survivor was a gigantic abyssal demon nest maternal body that almost filled an entire room. At this moment, its sac had been cut open by Ye Zhongming, and a large amount of green slime flowed out. Inside this slime, an undeveloped blood swallow was struggling to rise, but its immature body made all its efforts futile.
On a thick tree trunk that had also been split in half, there was a green magic crystal!
Everything that had just appeared now had an explanation.
This abyssal demon nest maternal body had evolved after devouring Brother Bao's three-star evolved eldest son, jumping from level 3 to level 4. Its abilities had also improved, allowing those hallucinogenic gases to affect humans through skin contact rather than just breathing. Ye Zhongming had unwittingly fallen for it.
Fortunately, he woke up in time.
Strangely enough, the abyssal demon nest was too eager to kill Ye Zhongming. After it controlled his mind and created an illusion based on those memories, it hastily "manufactured" those women. Perhaps Xia Lei and Liang Chuyin could actually do things in the illusion, but that woman Mo Ye definitely could not. This flaw was discovered by Ye Zhongming, allowing him to successfully awaken from the illusion.
Although he had only been here for a short half minute and had fallen into the illusion for mere seconds, Ye Zhongming still felt a lingering fear.
He wasn't afraid of powerful enemies like the choker; at least for now, having become a three-star evolver, if he encountered a level 4 mutated lifeform, he was confident he could fight. Instead, he was afraid of such strange and insidious tricks that could catch him off guard. If he hadn't woken up quickly today, he would have sunk deeper into the illusion and been torn to pieces by the blood swallows that had just lunged at him.
However, it seemed he had also gained quite a bit.
Ye Zhongming knew that the maternal body had summoned those blood swallows to attack the Burning Fury Battle Team before dying. Therefore, he quickly collected all the magic crystals from here, dug out the grade 4 magic crystal from the maternal body, and took a small piece of white substance from its root's center; that was the essence of the demon nest and had special effects.
At this time, the blood swallows had already returned, furious at seeing their breeding tree body killed. They charged at Ye Zhongming, unleashing various sound wave attacks.
Having prepared himself, Ye Zhongming swiftly activated the speed ability of the Bloodstained Battle Boots, dashing into the staircase of this floor. Although he was affected by some slowing sound waves, he managed to escape with little danger.
The blood swallows were relentless, rushing in with red eyes, but what awaited them was the ray attacks from the Frontline Thunderous Mechanic.
In the narrow staircase, such attacks were devastating.
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Downstairs, Brother Bao was still shaken. These flying monsters were incredibly terrifying, both in number and speed; even he, a two-star evolver, struggled to react as they swooped down. In just a short while, about ten from his team had died, including two evolvers.
In less than two minutes, so many people had died that Brother Bao was already considering escape.
But suddenly, these monsters flew away, seemingly becoming extremely agitated, all returning to the office building.
When Young Master Yun arrived and saw the terrified Brother Bao, just then, Ye Zhongming's signal came through. As the group entered the office building, a stunned Brother Bao was taken aback by the sight before him: those bizarre plants that had once become his nightmares had all been slain, and the bodies of the flying monsters that had just caused massive losses to the team now littered the ground.