Published: February 9, 2025
Peng Liang was taken aback, and then he saw the young man across from him move his arm.
After all, he was a five-star evolver, so facing someone directly didn’t count as a sneak attack, since both parties were within view.
However, the fist raised by the person across from him made Peng Liang have only one thought in his mind.
This guy is attacking me!
Because Peng Liang simply couldn’t keep up with his opponent’s speed!
He only felt that the other party was attacking him, and he instinctively tried to raise his arms to protect his head and face while retreating in shock.
But he was too slow.
Peng Liang's arms only reached chest level when his opponent's fist had already swept past that point, grazing a few of his fingers. In an instant of excruciating pain, those fingers snapped off.
Then, Peng Liang felt a pause in his breathing, along with a crisp sound of bones cracking, and then everything around him began to spin, everything in front of him became blurred.
He desperately wanted to command his subordinates to attack, but he couldn’t make a sound, and even his body lost control.
Almost the next second, an extreme chill consumed all his senses, and then everything fell into darkness.
With a loud thud, Peng Liang's corpse lay on its back on the ground, his head twisted in a strange angle, his arms pressed against his chest, and a few fingers of his hands were stuck together, the angle and shape looking unnaturally chilling.
“Once you’re done talking, you can go die.”
Ye Zhongming retracted his fist, as if he had done something trivial.
With that punch, he shattered Peng Liang's throat bone, and the immense force subsequently broke his cervical vertebrae. In just one strike, this five-star evolver, who had been so arrogant in front of Ye Zhongming just moments ago, was killed.
The scene was eerily quiet, and everyone was unable to accept what had just happened.
The shock brought by that punch was so heavy that their minds couldn't process it for a moment.
Although Peng Liang wasn’t the most powerful evolver in all of Linhai, he was certainly one of the top few. The members of the surging power battle team had never imagined that one day, this boss they looked up to would be killed in a single blow.
Even if someone had fantasized about it, they would never have thought it would be done by someone who seemed so harmless this year.
“You, how did you do that?”
Yang Yixi was shocked. After all, he had interacted with Ye Zhongming the most. He previously thought this person was a bit cold inside, but not hard to get along with. In the apocalypse, who would still keep a smile on their face all the time?
So he didn’t pay much attention, thinking that this was a person who could easily become a friend.
But now, he had just killed his own boss… with a single punch.
Ye Zhongming smiled and didn’t explain. Although this punch looked effortless, he had used all his strength and simultaneously activated the great thousand soul refining technique along with the blazing flame combat technique. How could Peng Liang, whose real level was more than two grades lower, possibly withstand that?
Not to mention, this guy had come right up to Ye Zhongming, which was no different from seeking death. Ye Zhongming had already decided to kill him, and he had delivered himself right to his door.
“From now on, you’re the boss.”
Ye Zhongming patted Yang Yixi's shoulder, advancing his plan another step.
Observing Peng Liang, realizing it wouldn’t work, then observing Yang Yixi and deciding to replace him was something Ye Zhongming had already planned. It was just that Peng Liang’s sudden reckless behavior forced Ye Zhongming to act sooner than expected.
But it made no difference; the outcome wouldn’t change.
“I, me?” Yang Yixi was overwhelmed by the successive waves of information, wide-eyed and not knowing what to do.
“I believe you will be a much better boss than this guy; at least, you won’t abandon your companions to save yourself.”