The zombie stared daggers at Li Xingye. "You... what do you know?!"
Li Xingye smiled. "Just a guess. Ever since I broke through to the Ninth Rank—no, ever since the day I awakened my superpower—I’ve been wondering about one thing: what’s the connection between the appearance of zombies and the awakening of superpowers."
"If there’s no connection, then why can superpowers be evolved using Zombie Crystal Cores? I don’t know the details of your evolution process, but I imagine it’s inextricably linked to superpower users."
"So, you’ve been trying so hard to hide... is it because you received so kind of revelation when you evolved to the Eighth Rank?"
With every word Li Xingye spoke, the zombie’s expression grew uglier. When it heard that last sentence, it even subconsciously took two steps back.
As the zombie retreated, it stared at Li Xingye as if he were a monster. "You received it too... So, you want to expand the sequence you carry..."
Before it could even finish its sentence, it turned to make a desperate escape!
But there was no way Li Xingye would let it get its wish.
Watching the man and the zombie locked in combat, Chi Wan, who was inside her space, was utterly baffled by their cryptic conversation.
’What on earth are they talking about?’
’What revelation? And what in the world is a "sequence"?’
Before Chi Wan could figure it out, Li Xingye, who had gained the upper hand, taunted the zombie, "Since you know about sequences, why are you hiding? Don’t you want to obtain the sequence I carry?"
As expected of a zombie that had reached the Eighth Rank, although it was struggling under Li Xingye’s assault, it wasn’t as easily defeated as other zombies. It even had the strength to fight back.
It dodged the phantom-like vines, and upon realizing Li Xingye wouldn’t let it go, its face twisted into a snarl. "I don’t know what you’re talking about! If you want the truth so badly, then give your life! Once I eat you, I’ll naturally understand the aning of the sequence—"
Pushed to its limit by Li Xingye, dark, bluish-black veins suddenly appeared on the zombie’s pale face, and its white pupils instantly turned completely black.
"URRGH AHHH—"
A small, pure black, diamond-shaped crystal slowly erged from the zombie’s forehead. As the crystal appeared, it flicked its hand, and several wind blades shot toward Li Xingye with the force of a thunderbolt!
The once incredibly tough vines couldn’t withstand the assault of the wind blades and snapped one after another.
But it wasn’t over.
The mont the wind blades appeared, the zombie vanished from right in front of Li Xingye!
"Behind you! Watch out!"
Seeing the zombie suddenly appear behind Li Xingye, Chi Wan couldn’t stop herself from shouting a warning.
Although Li Xingye was a little surprised to hear Chi Wan’s voice, it didn’t slow down his actions.
He casually sidestepped to dodge the wind blades. Without even turning his head, a swarm of thin, dodder-like vines wove an inescapable net behind him, surging toward the zombie.
At the sa ti, the mutated plants growing on the roadside beca his allies. Their sharp, pollution-tainted leaves spun into the surging zombie horde, reaping a harvest of heads.
In the midst of this, Li Xingye even had the leisure to ask, "Wanwan, are you done with your business?"
His sense of priority was about to drive Chi Wan insane. "Focus on your own fight! Isn’t it a zombie?! Why does it have a superpower?! And two of them, at that!"
And just as she said, the mont the zombie reappeared behind Li Xingye, countless sharp stone spikes materialized around it, hurtling toward him like an overwhelming tide!
However, Chi Wan was wrong about one thing. That so-called Eighth-tier Zombie didn’t just have superpowers—it had three!
In addition to the stone spikes, it could also teleport.
It jumped around like a flea, constantly changing positions. Each ti it reappeared, the stone spikes it created were a bit smaller, but their speed and sharpness had doubled!
Eventually, their trajectories beca impossible to follow with the naked eye.
Chi Wan didn’t dare make another sound to distract him, but she couldn’t shake the feeling that compared to the zombie’s strained efforts, Li Xingye remained completely at ease.
Hearing Chi Wan’s outburst, Li Xingye just smiled, but his assault visibly grew more ferocious.
The endless variety of plants under Li Xingye’s control beca a veritable army, a force of thousands. Not to ntion those phantom-like vines, which could wrap around the zombie’s neck in a single mont of carelessness.
But the Eighth-tier Zombie clashing with Li Xingye grew more desperate the longer it fought. "Impossible... No matter how powerful a superpower user is, they can’t possibly have an endless supply of superpower after using it so frequently! What in the world are you!"
Li Xingye didn’t answer. But as he predicted the zombie’s location, the next ti it teleported, thin vines instantly entangled its hands, feet, and even its neck.
"THUD—"
The zombie was violently dragged down by the vines, slamming onto the ground at Li Xingye’s feet.
Feeling its power draining away in terror, it scread itself hoarse, "Don’t kill ! You said you wouldn’t kill ! I—I can tell you the truth about the sequence! When I ascended to the Eighth Rank, I felt the sequence’s existence. It told that if my sequence becos whole again, I can turn back into a human!!"
"I... I was just testing you. I only wanted to know what makes you different from the others! You want the central area? It’s all yours! I’ll leave and stay far away, I promise I’ll never bother you again!"
"I have special sources of information, I know many things you don’t! The Imperial City—yes, the Imperial City! Don’t you want to know why those people in the Imperial City changed the direction of their experints? I know! As long as you don’t kill , I can be your informant!"
Li Xingye looked down at the pleading zombie, which had rattled off a long tirade in a single breath, and repeated in a low voice, "Turn back into a human?"
The zombie hurriedly replied, "Yes, yes, yes, I just want to beco human again! Li Xingye, I never intended to be your enemy! I never even showed myself to you voluntarily!"
Seeing that Li Xingye remained unmoved, the zombie gritted its teeth and played its trump card. "Did you know that the experints over in the Imperial City have already developed a way to modify a normal person’s sequence using Crystal Cores? But it’s not always successful."
"It’s true that so normal people beca superpower users, but far more turned into zombies! Soone in the Imperial City must have broken through to the Ninth Rank, otherwise they wouldn’t know about the sequence’s existence and start such an experint."
"Li Xingye, do you think I’m the only one who has noticed your anomaly? No, you’ve been on the Imperial City’s radar for a long ti! They say the way you acquire energy is different from everyone else... that it’s more like us."
"They’ll co for you sooner or later. I can help cover for you! You know, the stronger you appear, the more they’ll target you. You might be able to escape on your own, but what about the people in your base? Are you just going to abandon them?"
"Li Xingye, they’re not wrong, you know. Compared to superpower users, the way you acquire energy is much more... like ours..."
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