Published: February 6, 2025
Chapter Title: Thank You to Brother SKT2403 for the 588, and to Other Brothers and Sisters Like Liu Muning from Cold Autumn Lingnan!
The three-tailed demon frog was ultimately a fifth-level creature. Even after losing half of its face, revealing a bloody and vascular brain, it still did not die. Instead, it ferociously began its final counterattack.
Its three tails stood upright, and an intense chill emanated from its body. The temperature around it plummeted, and tiny ice flowers began to form and rapidly grow in the air.
Ye Zhongming was already quite familiar with such a scene. He had experienced this move the last time he faced this creature.
This was the three-tailed demon frog's ultimate skill—the ice extreme tornado!
And this time, its might was far greater than the last, as the gap between fifth-level and fourth-level evolution was massive.
However, today, the three-tailed demon frog encountered Ye Zhongming, a four-star evolver with real strength close to five stars, wielding a purple weapon.
The second shot accurately struck the previously injured area of the three-tailed demon frog, turning its exposed brain into a pulp.
The distance was too close; Ye Zhongming activated his deadly marksmanship skill, spatial folding, allowing him to attack almost right next to the three-tailed demon frog, leaving no room for evasion.
This time, the entire head of the three-tailed demon frog was blown off. The supernatural phenomenon caused by its innate skills disappeared, and its massive body wobbled twice before crashing to the ground.
Ye Zhongming walked over and extracted the magic crystal from the frog's forehead, which simultaneously ceased its convulsions and died completely.
Despite the simple kill, Ye Zhongming felt no excitement, as if he had merely accomplished an inconsequential task. In fact, there was nothing to feel happy about.
If he hadn’t had the purple crystal energy magic bullet gun, or if he didn’t possess the deadly marksmanship profession, even if he could kill the three-tailed demon frog, it wouldn’t have been so easy. The most likely outcome would have been mutual destruction.
Ye Zhongming’s strength was close to five stars, but that didn’t mean he could easily crush a five-level monster. He was relying on his past experience and excellent understanding and application of his abilities. The outcome of the battle was unpredictable.
Unfortunately, Ye Zhongming had a purple weapon, a powerful piece of equipment capable of inflicting damage on eighth and ninth-level mutated life forms. After the skills were applied, its power was truly beyond the reach of a fifth-level creature. To avoid being instantly killed by the crystal energy magic bullet gun, one would need at least the absolute strength of a sixth-level like Yangos.
Of course, if it were an ordinary fifth-level monster, using this purple weapon to kill it would actually be a bit of a loss.
He would need at least two shots to take down a fifth-level evolved life form, which required ten grade 3 magic crystals. If Ye Zhongming hadn’t wiped out several factions and robbed many magic crystals during this period, plus killed some monsters in the last two days in the desolate land, he would have been reluctant to part with these grade 3 treasures. Ten grade 3 magic crystals were almost equivalent to a fraction of a three-star evolution potion, and trading them for a single grade 5 magic crystal felt like a bad deal.
However, while fifth-level monsters may not be treasures all over, they were still valuable. As a craftsman, Ye Zhongming would gain some materials in addition to the magic crystals, which could help compensate for his losses.
After carefully processing the corpse of the three-tailed demon frog, Ye Zhongming began mining natural gemstones, which was the biggest harvest of this trip.
When Ye Zhongming left, the space had yielded a high-grade water system gemstone, fourteen mid-grade ice and water system gemstones, and several hundred low-grade gemstones.