Published: February 10, 2025
Star Beauty Corporation was the one that contributed the most to the recent defense battle at Cloud Summit, and they also suffered the greatest losses. Almost all the members who stayed at the villa were killed or injured.
However, Zhao Xingmei did not agree to Ye Zhongming's proposal to join Cloud Summit. The position of a main battle team leader held little appeal for her; she was accustomed to giving orders, not taking them.
Naturally, Ye Zhongming wouldn't force her.
The Bai Feng battle team also put in considerable effort. Although their losses were not as severe as those of Star Beauty Corporation, they fought valiantly.
Ye Zhongming's compensation for these two teams was greater than for other factions, including a six-star evolution potion for both Zhao Xingmei and Bai Feng, which surprised them immensely.
For the future, both decided not to return to Ying City but to set up bases in a more remote location. They understood that Cloud Summit would need to expand in the future, and if both battle teams remained in Ying City, it would complicate matters, limiting their development and obstructing Cloud Summit's growth.
This understanding was mutual.
Although the two teams would establish bases outside, they wouldn't leave the influence of Cloud Summit. They still needed to rely on Cloud Summit, and given Ye Zhongming's massive gains this time, both knew that a large batch of evolution potions would soon be produced. They held preferential rights to the potion trade, allowing them to purchase a batch to strengthen their forces.
Like Cloud Summit, they suffered heavy losses but would recover quickly and become even stronger.
For other teams that made special contributions, Ye Zhongming was generous, offering additional potions and items as a thank you on top of the promised rewards.
With rewards, there must also be punishments.
Not all factions assisted Cloud Summit during this battle. Some teams specifically targeted humans who came to help, and others even deliberately attracted mutant life forms to join the siege against Cloud Summit. Additionally, some organizations attacked Cloud Summit's members while battles raged both inside and outside the city, seizing equipment and magic crystals.
Furthermore, those who received the call to gather from Cloud Summit did not come to help and instead lingered nearby with ulterior motives.
Cloud Summit would settle accounts for all these actions.
Being overly aggressive would lose allies, while being overly weak would lose fear.
Kindness must be repaid. Hostility must be avenged!
Thus, with the information provided by avoidance, Cloud Summit's newly formed seven main battle teams set out from the villa, launching surprise attacks to clean up these hostile factions in a bloody fashion!
Many had treated Cloud Summit's previous warnings as mere background noise. Some believed that helping was their own choice; what could happen if they didn’t? Whether or not they could survive was still a question. Others were convinced that Cloud Summit would surely fail and engaged in numerous actions that harmed Cloud Summit, thinking that even if some survived, they would no longer pose a threat.
However, Cloud Summit used overwhelming force, demonstrating their strength with blood and lives, proving that they were still a formidable force!
Those who had relied on Cloud Summit for survival but remained indifferent when their benefactor needed help would have their livelihoods shattered.
With accurate intelligence from avoidance, Cloud Summit's seven teams continued their strikes, annihilating one hostile faction after another. Each time they attacked, Cloud Summit would bring along the affiliated organizations around the target to fight alongside them. This wasn't due to valuing their combat strength, but rather to make a statement.
After each victory, the territory of the eliminated factions was handed over to the teams that fought with them.
The entire area around Cloud Summit and Ying City was quickly “cleaned up.” Any faction remaining nearby was bound to be a friendly force of Cloud Summit!