Evolving infinitely from ground zero

Sensing that Ye Yongsheng was seriously injured and his strength was greatly reduced, Lin Zichen felt a surge of excitement in his heart.

As he was considering his next move in the battle, debating whether to go all out for a swift resolution or to engage in a steady fight—

"Buzz!"

An explosive sound of breaking through the air resounded.

In the moment the sound ceased, the previously disheveled Ye Yongsheng, who had been hovering in front, flashed behind Lin Zichen in the next second, stepping through the void.

So fast!

Lin Zichen's heart sank as his nerves instantly tensed up; he hadn't expected Ye Yongsheng, with his severe injuries, to be capable of such high speed.

Shocked, Lin Zichen had a thought and his Qi-Blood and spirit surged to their peak, propelling him forward at the fastest speed to create distance from Ye Yongsheng, who had suddenly appeared behind him.

Before he got far, he sensed a terrifying fluctuation of energy from behind him.

The presence of energy fluctuations was something he had expected.

What surprised him, however, was that the wave of energy coming from behind wasn't aimed at him.

At that moment, he realized something.

Ye Yongsheng's target wasn't him!

It was the four city leaders behind him!

Realizing this, Lin Zichen immediately turned around and fiercely charged backwards, determined to stop Ye Yongsheng from going after the four city leaders.

Unfortunately, it was all too late, there was no time.

Before he could fully turn around, Ye Yongsheng had already brutally devoured the four city leaders into the gaping maw that split open on his chest, crushing them into flesh and blood and swallowing them whole.

From beginning to end, the four city leaders didn't even have a chance to scream before being swallowed alive.

Ye Yongsheng, having devoured the four city leaders, no longer looked as pale as before, showing a bit more color in his face.

But his Qi Blood Strength and Spiritual Strength remained at the Legendary Level Eighth Order.

Even though he had devoured four Legendary Level Experts, the replenishment of energy to his body was but a drop in the bucket.

It wasn't enough to restore his strength.

At best, it just made his physical condition somewhat better.

"Now, there are no more annoying flies to hinder me with their self-destruction,"

Ye Yongsheng opened his blood-shot eyes and somewhat creepily said with a smirk, "Or if you dare, you can choose to self-destruct too."

He wasn't afraid of Lin Zichen resorting to self-destruction at all.

Those city leaders who had previously self-destructed were almost all at the end of their evolution path, with not much life left. If they died, they died.

But Lin Zichen was different. This guy, only 20 years old yet possessing Legendary High Order strength, had evolution potential so great it was immeasurable. Without any unexpected setbacks, he was one hundred percent guaranteed to evolve into a Mythical Level Creature with boundless lifespan.

Such a future prospect, a world-shaking evolutionary genius, would certainly not be willing to perish in vain through self-destruction.

"Why would I self-destruct?"

Lin Zichen looked squarely at Ye Yongsheng with an unusually calm voice: "Before you were blasted, I might have been a little less powerful than you, but now, it's still uncertain whose the deer falls by."

Ye Yongsheng couldn't help but laugh: "Oh, the youth are so arrogant, without any understanding of the word 'experience'."

"Dealing with a young man who is only 20 years old like you, even if my strength is similar to yours now, even if my strength was one level below yours, I could easily crush you with my far superior combat experience."

"Next, experience what is known as the craftiness of an old ginger."

The moment his words ended, Ye Yongsheng furiously flapped his enormous wings, instantly flashing forward, transforming into a dark streak of light rushing towards Lin Zichen ahead.

Lin Zichen was prepared for this.

The instant Ye Yongsheng rushed forward at extreme speed, Lin Zichen's Qi-Blood erupted as well, turning into a crimson streak of light, rushing head-on towards the high-speed Ye Yongsheng.

Very quickly!

Only a loud "boom" was heard!

The two streaks of light collided fiercely, causing the air to vibrate intensely, bursting forth with a world-shaking glow and sound.

Afterward, the two figures were both sent flying backward, each sustaining varying degrees of serious injury.

Among them, Lin Zichen took a greater impact and was sent flying further away.

With the city leaders either dead from self-destruction or devoured, none were left.

This rendered Lin Zichen's Biometric Attribute [Social Animal] useless, consequently reducing his strength, which just happened to be one level below that of Ye Yongsheng.

But the good news was that other Biometric Attributes, such as [Lethal Venom], [Hallucination], [Confusion], and so on, which previously couldn't inflict effective damage on Ye Yongsheng, were now starting to take obvious effect after he suffered heavy injuries.

On the other side.

Ye Yongsheng, just after ending the clash with Lin Zichen, was covered in negative statuses.

[Poisoning],

[Hallucination],

[Dizziness],

[Paralysis],

[Stiffness], and so on...

With the accumulative weakening from these negative statuses, Ye Yongsheng's strength was rapidly declining.

Both his Qi Blood Strength and Spiritual Strength had plummeted from Legendary Level Eighth Order to the Great Perfection of Legendary Level Seventh Order, and he was swiftly sliding down towards Seventh Order.

"What's going on?"

"Why is my body experiencing so many negative statuses?"

"Did his attack cause this?"

Ye Yongsheng, while staring at Lin Zichen in the distance, felt the various negative statuses taking over his body, with a rare sense of panic emerging in his heart.

If the negative statuses on him were indeed caused by Lin Zichen's attacks, then the upcoming battle would become difficult to handle.

Now that his raw strength had regressed to be less than Lin Zichen's, he could only rely on years of combat experience to bridge the gap and even possibly to get ahead.

However, if Lin Zichen's attacks could inflict the target with negative statuses, then his advantage in experience would become an insufficient supplement to the strength gap with Lin Zichen.