Published: February 9, 2025
On the ground, there were not many humans left. Many had entered the underground city alongside the people from Linhai in search of the Yama Tree. Even the members of the Ying City Alliance, after consulting with Ye Zhongming, had chosen to go in. After all, even if they couldn't find the Yama Tree, the underground city contained many valuable items, and it wouldn't hurt to gather some bargains.
However, none of the people from Cloud Summit Villa went down; instead, they carefully cleaned up the battlefield. The corpses of the dried-up bodies had exploded, rendering them useless, but those half-dried corpses still retained some energy and could serve as good materials.
There were also quite a few items left behind by the humans who died in battle. Cloud Summit picked out some necessary items and gave the rest to the survivors from Ying City who hadn't entered the underground city. Their fearless assistance in Linhai earned them great goodwill from Cloud Summit.
Ye Zhongming had specifically ordered the collection of four types of items: one was the straws that had fallen from the corpses controlled by the Yama Tree; the second was the Death Vines or branches that were no longer controlled in various parts of the city; the third was the shards of the stunning flowers; and the last was the four enormous flowers observed at the four corners of the city by the members of the Ying City Alliance.
As for the main body of the Yama Tree, Ye Zhongming personally brought a team to handle that.
The eight-level, or even nearly nine-level, mutated life form's body was incredibly precious. This was one of the most valuable materials Ye Zhongming had obtained so far. The only others comparable were Ghost Gold and Drilling Sea Gold, the Four Symbols powers.
Furthermore, due to Ye Zhongming's profession as a gardener, the main body of the Yama Tree might have unexpected effects.
Ye Zhongming first explored on his own for a long while, then considered for a moment before allowing others to start dividing it evenly from both the upper and lower parts.
"Zhong Ming, take a look at this."
After assigning someone to watch the surroundings, Mo Ye came to Ye Zhongming's side and handed him an item. Upon receiving it, Ye Zhongming found it to be a beautifully crafted pouch-like object.
"It’s from Zhang Dalong; it should be a piece of space equipment."
After killing Zhang Dalong, Mo Ye found the bragging rights he had spoken of and brought it with him.
This surprised Ye Zhongming a bit. Although space equipment was a personal exclusive, which others could not open, Ye Zhongming was a craftsman and had heard people in his previous life discuss space equipment.
This pouch could not be opened and had no effect, but Ye Zhongming was not worried about damaging it while experimenting. He directly performed a qualitative enhancement with his space crystal.
With a flash of light, the two pieces of space equipment merged into one, with the space crystal as the main body, fusing with the space pouch.
Ye Zhongming found that the area of his space had immediately increased significantly, and there were also some new items inside.
Raising an eyebrow, it seemed the rumors from his previous life were indeed reliable; craftsmen could use higher-level space equipment to merge with lower-level space equipment, thereby unlocking others' space equipment, which is known as space unlocking.
The increased space was undoubtedly a great advantage for Ye Zhongming in carrying items more easily. As for the additional items from Zhang Dalong, they genuinely surprised him.
First, there were the magic crystals. Ye Zhongming counted and found there were over two thousand of them, with about a thousand in the lower three levels, followed by the fourth level, which had around six hundred, over two hundred at the fifth level, and ten at the sixth level.
For someone like Ye Zhongming, who had a large number of magic crystals, this might not seem like much, but for others, the quantity and level undoubtedly represented a vast fortune.