Published: February 9, 2025
After examining several corpses, Ye Zhongming finally confirmed that these people were all killed by the Luo Shen Cypress he had personally cultivated.
No wonder when Ye Zhongming saw the Luo Shen Cypress, its size and aura had increased significantly; it had already taken the opportunity to come here and start slaughtering while waiting.
Although the Luo Shen Cypress had indeed helped Ye Zhongming tremendously at a critical moment, it could even be said that without this trump card, Ye Zhongming and others might have been facing a ninth-level life form's massacre.
However, Ye Zhongming had never received any request or notification regarding the events that transpired here. The Luo Shen Cypress had not informed him that it had killed so many people.
This made Ye Zhongming feel a sense of vigilance towards the wisdom mark, a skill that could grant medium intelligence to mutated plants for the first time.
Yes, intelligence—this term not only implies that it can execute commands more perfectly, but also that it possesses its own thoughts and will perform some autonomous actions.
For example... feeding.
Ye Zhongming had indeed never commanded it not to eat or to kill humans, but the Yama Tree had disobeyed his clear order to wait and had gone out to hunt for food. This was essentially no different from defying a command.
It seemed that in the future, even if the cooldown for this skill was over, it should not be used thoughtlessly; even when used, commands needed to be more comprehensive and accurate to avoid any unforeseen circumstances.
"The people from the Ogre Alliance recognized these individuals as part of a family that entered Linhai this time; their surname seems to be Tang. They all died here," Mo Ye informed Ye Zhongming after gathering some information.
Ye Zhongming nodded, "Have the brothers come over to clean up the battlefield; these people have decent items on them."
This large family team, which had entered Linhai intending to fish in troubled waters, had silently perished under the ambush of an oddly powerful mutated plant, resulting in a complete annihilation that was hard not to sigh over.
"The zombie horde is still here. Since our people dare not get too close, we cannot investigate what is inside that high-rise ruin," he added.
This was the second piece of information received earlier. The numerous zombies had surrounded a high-rise ruin in Linhai City for some unknown reason. Some had already entered, while the rest were desperately trying to push inside, even the recent battle with the Yama Tree had not driven them away.
After learning this news, everyone was somewhat relieved; if the zombie horde had come over to disrupt things earlier, it would have added a considerable amount of unpredictable danger to the entire battle.
"Keep a close watch on them. If they move, I want to be informed immediately," Ye Zhongming ordered.
After giving this command, Ye Zhongming led his team back to the previous battleground. The battlefield at Cloud Summit had been mostly cleaned up; due to the Yama Tree's massive size, materials like Death Vine branches had piled up in several heaps.
Without hesitation, Ye Zhongming tossed all these items into the Gate of Sacrifice.
He did not sacrifice the shards of the Beautiful City flowers as he was quite interested in them and planned to take them back along with the four giant flowers for Liu Zhenghong to study. If he could restore this somewhat equipment-like item, he would strike it rich, much better than Ruan Xiao's Clear Sky Fat Stream, at the very least a piece of purple defensive gear.
At this moment, the people who had gone to find the four giant flowers returned, and one of the small teams had suffered casualties.
After inquiring, he learned that they had encountered a battle team that had already taken control of that giant flower. The people from Cloud Summit had directly moved to seize it, resulting in a conflict. Two people from Cloud Summit died, but they managed to eliminate the team of several dozen.