Published: February 10, 2025
Chapter Two-in-One
Ye Zhongming fainted because he had exhausted his mental power.
Even though he had Afo and the three-legged person explain the making and usage of Soul Artifacts to him, in the end, he still understood too little. Moreover, Afo's understanding of Soul Artifacts was still at a very low stage; even his peak work barely reached an intermediate level. The three-legged person, although gifted in mental power, also related to his race.
In other words, the three-legged person was simply strong in mental power, having lived long enough to know a lot, but he was not skilled in making Soul Artifacts.
Indeed, knowing and being skilled are two different things. With the strength of the three-legged person, he probably wouldn’t need Soul Artifacts in the Blue Secret Realm during his free time, as those things might not be as powerful as his own attacks.
Therefore, Ye Zhongming was unsure whether using a level nine material to create a Soul Artifact would be affected by beginner craftsmanship and other artisan skills. In any case, he succeeded and created fifteen dark patterns at once.
Regarding this, the three-legged person knew it was powerful, but he never expected it to reach such an extent.
These factors combined resulted in Ye Zhongming using the Shattered Soul Bone Staff to unleash a wave of energy, directly plowing out a death corridor of hundreds of meters, even killing a level seven life form and severely injuring an eighth-level life form. Afterward, he drained all his mental power and fainted.
What was Ye Zhongming's total mental power? Using it all at once to achieve such an astonishing effect was not surprising.
Of course, it was also due to the suddenness of the situation. Ye Zhongming only wanted to exert maximum power in an instant, without considering—or perhaps he did consider, but did not expect—that triggering fifteen dark patterns would require such an enormous amount of mental power.
He fainted, but Xia Bai, Hongxiang, and Red Hair suffered. While they were distracted by the zombie horde, they almost managed to dash back through the large hole in the city wall to Cloud Summit Villa, but it was just a hair's breadth away.
At this moment, two people, a corpse, and a dog were all in their strongest state.
King Hongxiang wielded two types of weapons: a silver long knife and a pair of silver double hammers, both gifts from Ye Zhongming.
When the zombies surrounded them, Hongxiang knew he had to go all out. The long knife transformed into silver light again and again, cleaving through the enemies rushing at him.
Although King Hongxiang was a newly promoted eighth-level powerhouse, he was still at that level. Even though he was being firmly suppressed by Ye Zhongming, it was because Ye Zhongming had too many tricks up his sleeve during battle.
But now, facing these mutant zombies, it was different; almost none of the zombies could withstand the might of Hongxiang's blade.
Xia Bai protected Ye Zhongming with one hand while wielding the sadness ink pattern scythe with the other, not seeking to kill enemies but only to prevent harm from coming to Ye Zhongming.
At the same time, her bloodline and profession activated simultaneously, allowing her to keep zombies at bay even without actively attacking.
The earth yellow pill had completely entered a frenzied state. Its body expanded significantly, positioned right behind Xia Bai, preventing her from being attacked from both sides. Shadowy jungle thorns and explosive projectiles continuously struck out, clearing away the approaching zombies. Now a level seven dog, in terms of combat power, it was second only to Ye Zhongming in Cloud Summit, and even Xia Bai likely couldn’t match it.
Hongxiang was the spearhead, Xia Bai was in the center, while the earth yellow pill stood at the rear, and Red Hair was extremely agile, her position shifting unpredictably.
Earlier, she had controlled those zombies and couldn’t reuse the mental control ability, which consumed a large amount of mental power, but this half-human half-corpse existence fought with a momentum comparable to the shining earth yellow pill.