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Shaximo was stunned.

Wei Ya and Zhou Jin were stunned too.

Yi Qinglian and Yi Qingge were also stunned.

Even Lin Ying’s jaw was hanging open.

Everyone looked at Gao Neng.

’So terrifying?!’

’Is this still Gao Neng? Or rather, is this even human?!’

"Save them!!" Shen Ning’Er’s voice cut through the Dragon List Geniuses’ shock. She had seen Gao Neng use a move like this before.

On the battlefield last time, Gao Neng had successfully ripped up the ground in a several-hundred-meter radius.

This time, however, Gao Neng had ripped up even more.

An entire swamp, over a thousand meters wide!

How terrifying was that?

Shen Ning’Er didn’t know how Gao Neng had done it, but she knew he was in a very bad state right now.

Because Gao Neng’s eyes were very black.

’Black eyes?’

Normally, that wouldn’t be a problem.

But Gao Neng’s eyes were *too* black now—so black that the whites of his eyes were gone. His eyes looked like a pair of endless black holes.

More importantly, sweat was pouring off him like rain, and his entire body was trembling uncontrollably like a leaf.

"Gao Neng must be under immense strain! We can’t waste any time. We have to save them as fast as possible!" Shen Ning’Er shouted, diving down while standing on her massive Iron Dragon.

BOOM!

Flames burst forth.

The Iron Dragon’s mouth spewed a torrent of scorching breath.

Then, this breath ignited, turning into crimson flames that set the dried vines on the ground ablaze, turning them into balls of fire.

"Right, attack them with fire!" A Dragon List Genius immediately realized this. They hadn’t used fire before because the vines could burrow into the swamp, making fire attacks ineffective.

But now things were different.

The swamp was gone!

It had become a stretch of dry, flat land.

Now, once these dried vines were set on fire, they would be consumed by the inferno.

"Kill them!" Fang Tangtang’s voice rang out as well. The Electromagnetic Cannon in her hands fired a beam of blue light, blasting directly into the densest cluster of vines.

SCREE!

SCREE!

...

Piercing shrieks rose from all around.

These sounds also jolted the nearly unconscious Dragon List Geniuses and adventure team members awake. They staggered to their feet and opened their eyes.

"What’s going on?"

"What happened?"

...

"Run!"

Shouts reached their ears one after another.

"Ah, run!"

"Fight our way out!"

Finally, they began to fight back.

In terms of strength, they were all Rank 6 elites. They actually stood a fighting chance against the Rank 5 and Rank 6 dried vines.

It was just that the vines had held the terrain advantage before.

But now that advantage was gone.

The humans’ combat effectiveness naturally returned.

A frantic slaughter and counterattack began.

In addition, the "longswords" that continuously fell from mid-air caused the dried vines on the ground to finally begin dying in droves, nearly turning the battlefield into an ocean of blood and fire.

’Where’s Gao Xiaomeng? Where did she run off to? Why can’t I find her?’ Gao Neng’s eyes were wide as he panted heavily.

’Could she be dead?’

’That’s not possible, is it?’

’Gao Xiaomeng can’t die, right?’

In truth, Gao Neng couldn’t be 100% certain about this, but he had a faint feeling that Gao Xiaomeng truly had some kind of connection with the magnetic pile.

This was because after his Spiritual Power connected with the Magnetic Mountain this time, he had a very strange feeling that was fundamentally different from the last time.

After his Spiritual Power was pulled into the Magnetic Mountain, a landscape resembling a ’Seven-Colored Glaze’ inexplicably appeared in his mind.

It seemed to be an unimaginably vast energy.

It was far beyond his comprehension.

Gao Neng had only known that his Spiritual Power could expand drastically after finding a ’medium’, but he never actually understood the reason why.

But now, after seeing this vision...

He felt like he understood.

The Magnetic Mountain contained magnetic piles.

And these magnetic piles, in turn, nurtured immense energy.

When his Spiritual Power connected with the magnetic piles in the Magnetic Mountain, this immense energy could enhance his Spiritual Power, making it incomparably strong.

However, this energy was somewhat uncontrollable due to its sheer scale.

But he was beginning to grasp the basic principle.

And Gao Xiaomeng...

It was the same for her.

In fact, after spending some time with her, Gao Neng had come to ’understand’ Gao Xiaomeng a little. This understanding, of course, didn’t come from a ’physical examination’.

It was about her "structure."

Gao Neng had studied genetic weapons, which got him thinking about the concept of structure. So, he applied this line of thought to studying Gao Xiaomeng.

And then, he was surprised to discover...

Gao Xiaomeng didn’t seem to have a normal genetic structure.

Or, to put it more bluntly, Gao Xiaomeng seemed like a kind of ’Energy Body’, just an extremely solid one.

The magnetic piles contained a mass of energy.

Gao Xiaomeng’s body also contained a mass of energy.

Moreover, Gao Xiaomeng had once eaten a ’liquid lifeform’ that came out of a magnetic pile. Gao Neng refused to believe there was no connection there.

’Could it be that the liquid lifeform Gao Xiaomeng ate was actually the energy contained within the magnetic pile? And this energy... caused Gao Xiaomeng to evolve?’ Gao Neng thought this was a possibility.

But this was just his current speculation.

Deep down, he had another theory: that the magnetic piles might contain an ’unknowable civilization’ or even ’another world’.

Of course, this speculation was a bit too bold.

For now, Gao Neng could only set this idea aside and use phenomena that his current knowledge could explain to understand the true connection between Gao Xiaomeng and the magnetic piles.

As for whether it was accurate...

"Huh? Holy shit!" Gao Neng couldn’t think anymore. He suddenly noticed that the Dark Ghost Vine, which had been focused on fighting Li Tiannan and Sword Elder, was now charging straight at him.

’Li Tiannan!’

’Sword Elder!’

’You two bastards!’

Gao Neng really wanted to curse them out.

But he couldn’t curse now. He could only focus his power and face the charging Dark Ghost Vine head-on.

Countless "longswords" slashed down.

But while these "longswords" could injure the dried vines below, they couldn’t even break a single hair on the Dark Ghost Vine... literally, not a single hair.

SCREE!

The Dark Ghost Vine let out a startling cry.

A massive, thirty-meter-thick vine whipped toward Gao Neng’s face.

"Vile beast, you dare!" Sword Elder transformed into a sword. At this moment, he embodied an ancient legend: the sword was him, and he was the sword.

BOOM!

With a single slash, the thirty-meter-thick vine was severed.

But how many giant vines did the Dark Ghost Vine have?

A thousand of them!

Coupled with its tenacious regenerative abilities, as soon as one giant vine was cut, a new one would immediately grow in its place. Thus, a second giant vine immediately whipped toward Gao Neng.

"Die!" Li Tiannan transformed into a bolt of lightning, slamming his palm into the Dark Ghost Vine and smashing it straight into the ground.

Gao Neng let out a slight sigh of relief.

But before he could fully exhale, the Dark Ghost Vine on the ground shrieked and lunged at him again. Moreover, a mass of cyan light began to glow on its body, bathing it in a green radiance.

Hmm...

It really had turned green.

However, that clearly wasn’t the main issue.

The main issue was that the Dark Ghost Vine seemed to have temporarily given up on dueling Li Tiannan and Sword Elder, shifting its entire focus onto Gao Neng.

Its aura seemed to scream, "You dare kill my children? I’ll fucking kill you today!"

"Gao Neng, run!" Li Tiannan was frantic. The Dark Ghost Vine was a Rank 9 creature to begin with, and the strength of this evolved species was close to that of a Strongest. Coupled with its innate regenerative ability, it was definitely one of the most troublesome creatures in the wilds of the Underground City.

And most importantly...

Li Tiannan still couldn’t figure out why this Dark Ghost Vine was fighting so desperately.

Normally, with two of the Strongest like him and Sword Elder present, and after they had already clashed a few times, the Dark Ghost Vine should have fled long ago.