Published: February 10, 2025
"Still Fantasy, uh, no, Still One in Two."
While Ye Zhongming was out battling, Cloud Summit Villa was also developing positively, even rapidly.
In addition to the upgrades of magic crystal weapons, significant progress had been made in other areas as well.
Among them, the alchemist known as Candy, who had previously just been a decoration, began to shine.
After emerging from the competition of death roulette, Ye Zhongming received a reward: the alchemist's special tool, Grip of Equilibrium, of green level. Besides enhancing the success rate of alchemy, it also came with two formulas, one of which was the dense fog corrosion bomb.
Previously, due to a lack of materials, he could not manufacture it. During Ye Zhongming's absence, the materials required for both formulas had been gathered. This time, when Xia Lei came to meet Ye Zhongming, she brought fifty vials of the potion each.
Although called a bomb, the dense fog corrosion bomb did not have much explosive power. Instead, it generated a large amount of toxic mist and splashed out a highly adhesive and corrosive liquid.
Through experimentation, everyone found that the toxicity of the mist had a significant lethal effect on first and second-level evolved life forms, but once life evolved to third-level, the effects of this toxic gas were greatly reduced.
On the other hand, the corrosive liquid was much more formidable, causing great harm to life forms of fourth-level and below, and even having some effect on fifth and sixth-level life forms.
During testing, it became clear that the greatest effectiveness of this liquid was not in its damage but in its corrosive nature. Particularly against defense-type sustained skills and equipment, it exhibited a terrifying corrosive power. Even Shengyuan's skills would be easily destroyed if contaminated with this liquid.
When Ye Zhongming first heard about this, he was quite surprised and began to look at the dense fog corrosion bomb with new respect.
To deal with the iron lock prisoner, Ye Zhongming took this along, hoping it would be useful, and to his surprise, it was used right at the start of the battle.
The attack from Cloud Summit was not blind; the armor-piercing bullets were of silver level and not many in number. These weapons obtained from the resistance zone had been modified by Ye Zhongming and were mostly white, with great power, aimed precisely at the iron lock prisoner's arm joint holding the Bloodwood.
This was also part of the plan; if they could break that arm, they could retreat after grabbing the Bloodwood.
The whistling bullets struck the luminous points of the Life's Burden, emitting a sound similar to firecrackers. Each person fired three shots, and the continuous impact of one thousand five hundred bullets made the iron lock prisoner's arm flicker with light, almost blinding even in daylight.
At the leg of the iron lock prisoner, the liquid from the dense fog corrosion bomb obscured the light of the luminous point, and thick fog kept billowing out, unclear whether it was emitted by the bomb itself or reacted with Life's Burden.
Elites from Ying City teamed up with people from Area S and T to attack the areas contaminated with the acidic liquid from the dense fog corrosion bomb, trying to break through the defenses.
The iron lock prisoner detonated two missiles in the air, holding the Bloodwood in front of him as if checking for damage to his weapon, probably believing that Life's Burden could completely protect his body.
"Ah woo!"
The iron lock prisoner suddenly lowered his head to look at his leg, covered by the dense fog. It was hard to see anything, but he felt a twinge of pain.
His previously unchanged expression turned somewhat ferocious.
Hovering in the air, Ye Zhongming did not launch a strong attack but continued to circle around the iron lock prisoner, trying to attract his attention. Ye Zhongming had already tested it; the green level Sand Dance hitting these luminous points would cause violent collisions, making them flicker brightly and dimly, but breaking through them was still not feasible in a short time.