Published: February 9, 2025
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The Luo Shen Cypress seedling growing in the corner was developing very well. No matter how busy he was, Ye Zhongming would inject some mental energy into its cultivation. The plant now stood over five meters tall and was as thick as a bowl.
What truly astonished Ye Zhongming was the life energy contained within it.
If he weren’t so certain that the Luo Shen Cypress and the Heavenly Tree he had seen in his past life were not the same species, he would genuinely think that the Luo Shen Cypress was the Heavenly Tree; the two were too similar in some aspects, especially in terms of life force, which was almost enviably robust.
Ye Zhongming was currently a six-star evolver, with real strength around seven-star. After mastering the great thousand soul refining technique and the blazing flame combat technique, his life energy was abundant, likely several times that of an ordinary evolver of the same level.
However, compared to this Luo Shen Cypress, which should still be in its juvenile stage, he felt somewhat inferior.
Ye Zhongming couldn’t understand how there could be such a vigorous mutated plant. Was it a mutation of some plant on Earth, or did it come from the life forms of the roulette?
Or perhaps it originated from another dimension?
Ever since he experienced the secret realm, Ye Zhongming had come to believe in the existence of other dimensions.
What reassured him, however, was that this Luo Shen Cypress had been nurtured solely with Ye Zhongming's mental energy since it sprouted, so it felt quite close to him. Whenever Ye Zhongming approached, the branches that had grown would sway towards him.
Ye Zhongming even felt that the connection between him and the Luo Shen Cypress was stronger than that with an ordinary Iron Corpse.
But he wasn’t sure if it was because the Luo Shen Cypress was still immature, as the communication between him and it was somewhat vague. He always felt that the tree was trying to convey something to him, but he could never quite figure it out.
If he didn’t have to keep his mental energy at a certain level, Ye Zhongming would really want to focus all his mental energy on this tree every day to see how far it could grow and what it was trying to convey.
After observing for a while, Ye Zhongming returned to the camp of the Scorching Energy, where he needed to craft some equipment for the three forces he had promised to act with and start exploring the laboratory.
Entering the camp, it was already bustling with activity. Garan’s people had arrived, while Mina’s group still needed some time. After severely injuring the Black Cloud Group and the Stinger Squad, there was a possibility of an attack from other forces of the Linhai Underground City led by Lin Xing. Therefore, at Ye Zhongming's suggestion, several passages had been destroyed. Now, to reach the Scorching Energy, there were only two routes, both of which had been fortified.
Due to the unique nature of the underground passages, once the defensive works were established, the defending side held a significant advantage. Although the combined number of people from the three forces was less than a thousand, it was enough to guard the place.
To be honest, Ye Zhongming didn’t think much of the evolvers in Linhai. They had been closed off for too long and had no idea how much the outside world had evolved. The elite humans were now beginning to evolve to the seven-star level, while there was only one six-star evolver here.
In the vast ocean and mountains, mutated life had already stepped into the threshold of level eight, while the mutated life here was barely hanging on, just entering the level six evolution phase.