Published: February 10, 2025
Ye Zhongming consumed the beginner madness potion, and the weapon he drew was the Shattered Soul Bone Staff.
Previously, the attack from the iron lock prisoner had made Ye Zhongming feel overwhelmed, forcing him to use this potion to temporarily boost his physical attributes to keep going.
The side effects were still better than wasting skills and equipment to resist fatal damage.
As for the Shattered Soul Bone Staff, Ye Zhongming was actually reluctant to use it, as he couldn't be certain how many dark patterns he would need to light up to kill his target. If he lit up too few, it would have no effect. If he lit up too many, it would not only waste his resources but also leave him unconscious, meaning if he failed to kill the enemy, it would be his own life at stake.
However, with life and death on the line, Ye Zhongming was left with no choice but to use it.
He lit up twelve dark patterns, which was the limit of his mental strength after being enhanced by the beginner madness potion.
The previous battles and crafting had left his mental strength not at its peak.
A thick beam of light calmly swept through the air and then struck the valley wall behind him.
At that moment, the metallic debris in the entire valley froze, before falling to the ground, returning to its previous state.
Ye Zhongming's body flew out, surrounded by blood that splattered in the air, an exceptionally striking sight.
When he landed on the ground, Ye Zhongming coughed out a mouthful of fresh blood, feeling as if his entire body had fallen apart. He struggled to open his eyes and glanced at the iron lock prisoner, then he gave up trying to stand up.
He no longer needed to rise because his opponent had lost their head completely!
The strike from the Shattered Soul Bone Staff had directly hit the iron lock prisoner's neck, where it was most vulnerable.
The iron lock prisoner was too weak, and the defense of its neck was not high; the attack cleanly severed it, ending the life of this former ninth-level elite.
Ye Zhongming looked up at the sky and smiled, as the sound of chaotic footsteps approached him, he hoarsely murmured, "Quickly extract the liquid from its eye... quickly extract the liquid from its eye..."
After repeating this several times, he fell into unconsciousness.
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Two days later, Cloud Summit Villa was about to welcome back the massive body of the iron lock prisoner, with two Jingjue Floating Spheres pulling it along, passing through Ying City under the paired protection of Cloud Summit.
The entire city was in an uproar.
That was a gigantic monster over fifty meters tall, and it was an eighth-level life form, the highest evolution level known to humanity thus far.
Indeed, many speculated that there should already be ninth-level beings lurking deep in the forests, in the depths of the oceans, or even in the skies, but at least for now, humanity had not confirmed any.
So when the iron lock prisoner passed by, many people came to watch.
Killing an eighth-level life form was not the first time for humanity; the earlier defense battles at Cloud Summit had accomplished this more than once.
However, that had ultimately been the result of hundreds of thousands of humans attacking together, and those eighth-level monsters were not elite life forms.
But the iron lock prisoner was different; it roamed the wilderness and was quite notorious. Many people knew of a monster draped in iron chains, wielding a giant wooden club, with a horn on its head. It would attack anything that obstructed its path, but as long as one did not hinder its movement or get too close while it was foraging, one could 'freely' admire its form.
So many who saw it lived to tell the tale, and its fame naturally spread.
And now, this guy had been taken down by the forces of Cloud Summit Villa.
Moreover, it was said that only three squads of a few thousand people had participated in the battle!
It was worth noting that the strongest beings recognized by Cloud Summit Villa, such as the earth yellow pill, Yama Tree, and three-trunked elephant, were all within the villa; it was just Ye Zhongming leading a few people to accomplish such a feat?