Chapter 1824: Respect
Patting Qiuqiu's head, Ye Zhongming felt that heaven never seals off all exits.
Just moments ago, his situation had been extremely perilous. Even after activating his bloodline, gaining the 'home advantage' on sandy terrain, with the Lightning Sand Monster's assistance, and even having eliminated one opponent in advance.
The beings he faced were simply too numerous and too powerful. Once trapped, what awaited the Cloud Peak King would be either death or capture—for Ye Zhongming, death in battle would be preferable.
But now, his situation remained far from optimistic.
His bloodline has entered a cooldown period and cannot be used for a short time, reducing his combat effectiveness by at least one-third. His left arm was severely injured and had lost its fighting capability; moreover, due to being wounded twice in succession, the healing process there was extremely slow.
The two blade wounds from Hofkaf were somewhat manageable—though deep enough to reveal bone, with the arm bone slightly cut and accompanied by minor fractures, and blood vessels and meridians severed—given enough time, even without treatment, the recovery abilities of a nine-star evolved and the Beautiful Celestial Body should eventually heal them.
But the holes pierced by Wade were troublesome. A light green substance was attached to the wounds, hindering healing and causing constant pain.
Ye Zhongming hasn’t forgotten that his troubles don’t end there. The abilities of the Mountain King Crown and Sea King Crown were also on cooldown; the specially made Black Earth Armor cannot be summoned, he no longer dared to block blades with his arm, and that damned curse!
The loss of hearing kept Ye Zhongming in constant danger. He had tested it—even his Detection Art was greatly affected, no longer providing the extensive detection range it once did.
Having killed Hofkaf and the bent-over long-armed opponent, according to the rules, he was entitled to one-third of their points. Probably because they had been constantly pursuing Ye Zhongming, their points were few. Ye Zhongming gained only nine points in total, meaning the two guys he killed had only twenty-seven points combined. Now, Ye Zhongming’s points had reached sixty-two.
This score wasn’t very high. He glanced at the rankings and found himself placed around twenty-two hundred.
Earlier, after killing the Spirit Fire Rhino, Ye Zhongming’s ranking was still around nineteen hundred. Now, with nine additional points, his ranking has dropped instead of risen—it seems others have been quite productive.
Ye Zhongming also looked for Jie Kui and found his points unchanged. He was still on the leaderboard, which means he wasn’t dead yet.
This was good news, as the Star-Eye Clan’s final ranking depends on overall points. Additionally, that tracking expert followed Jie Kui. Before he returned, Ye Zhongming’s safety was relatively higher.
After carefully observing his surroundings, Ye Zhongming confirmed that no one was pursuing him for now. He took out a dagger, inserted it into the bloody holes on his arm, and scraped off the light green substance along with bits of flesh.
He didn’t know if this substance had any long-term toxicity, but it certainly wasn’t good for his body. The sooner he got rid of it, the better.
But what made Ye Zhongming’s heart sink was that after scraping off the green substance, he found that the wounds still had glowing green specks.
Ye Zhongming scraped again, sweating profusely from the pain, but the result was the same. This thing seems like a bone-deep parasite—it simply could not be removed by this kind of 'scraping the bone to heal the poison' method.
It seemed he must return to the camp to find a solution.
Now, less than a day has passed. In other words, his left arm would be unusable for the next two days.
And it seems that even if he returned to the camp, recovery would require significant cost—who knows how many points it would take.
Ye Zhongming ate something casually to replenish his energy, then identified a direction and continued running.
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