Ice Age Apocalypse: I Hoard Billions of Supplies Chapter 1539: A Reversal Between Two Extremes

The Sword in the Tree responded to Zhang Yi with its instinct, so Zhang Yi decided to give it a chance, to see whether it could actually affect the Sea of Maggots.

High in the air, thousands upon thousands of huge vines surged downward, driven by Black Chariot-tier ability power, stabbing relentlessly into the Sea of Maggots!

"Plop!" "Plop!" "Plop!" "Plop!" "Plop!" "Plop!"

A mass of vines fell like blades from the sky, directly impaling those gigantic maggots.

The stench of white ichor splattered everywhere.

The maggots’ physical defenses were not especially strong; they could primarily absorb supernatural attacks.

But faced with countless thorned vines piercing through them, they simply could not defend.

Thousands of maggots were directly skewered, but that alone would not be enough.

Because soon many maggots would crawl over and bite the vines, even absorbing the energy from those vines.

After the vines pierced the maggots, they actually began to grow inside their bodies, the end tendrils ravenously absorbing the nutrients within the maggots.

That vast force fed back into Zhang Yi himself!

"Reverse absorption?"

Zhang Yi’s eyes widened. He had not expected the Sword in the Tree to possess such an ability!

But on reflection, it made sense: plant-type users can, like trees, draw strength from the earth.

Their potent vitality allows them to even draw nutrients from dung…ugh, that sounded disgusting, but decaying flesh and corpses do make trees grow robust.

Zhang Yi had not studied these things before; after all, he had engaged in few battles since acquiring the Sword in the Tree.

This discovery filled Zhang Yi’s eyes with excitement.

There was a way to deal with these maggots!

After the Sword in the Tree killed the maggots, it grew even more vigorous, then continued to expand around it at terrifying speed!

Its roots sank deep into every inch of visible ground, choking and piercing the giant maggots, then plundering and consuming the energy inside them.

Green rhizomes plunged into the maggots like someone drinking juice; across Edo City one could hear a sucking sound.

And the force fed back to Zhang Yi replenished the large amount of ability power he had consumed.

It even stirred the Transcendent essences from the Demon Kingdom that hadn’t yet been fully digested within him.

As expected, combat was the best way to increase one’s ability index.

Zhang Yi could clearly feel that, as those essences were assimilated, his strength grew stronger.

"If I can finish converting the stored essences in my body, my ability index could reach 22,000 points. Not bad!"

Zhang Yi curled his mouth in a smile; he hadn’t expected such a surprise from this mission!

The three black shadows watching from afar also felt the situation turn serious when they saw this.

"No good! He actually has a weapon like that, this is bad!"

"What do we do? Will the seed we painstakingly cultivated lose?"

"This is unacceptable. That brat must be someone cultivated by the Dragon Nation, otherwise he wouldn’t be this powerful!"

"Hmph. Even if he is from the Dragon Nation, so what? This is the Marshland Kingdom, not their place to run wild!"

"But should we act?"

One shadow asked the question.

The other two immediately fell silent.

After a long while, the middle shadow slowly said, "No. It is not yet time. If we reveal ourselves now, we could face unimaginable danger."

The shorter shadow on the left snorted coldly, "Killing that brat wouldn't take much effort."

The middle shadow replied, "Do not take risks. And do not try to provoke that one. We tried years ago. The result was brutal."

The left shadow went quiet, but his eyes locked onto Zhang Yi, those deep blue pupils fierce as a fiend.

At this moment, the body of the Ultimate Evil Boy, which Zhang Yi had shattered, finally regenerated.

When he took in the scene before him, the smile fell from his face.

From the high heavens, Zhang Yi’s arm had strangely extended downward, forming a gigantic tree like an inverted World Tree, reaching toward the earth.

A massive canopy bloomed over Edo City.

The Sea of Maggots he had cultivated for so long was locked in fierce battle with those enormous vines.

They devoured each other, but clearly, the maggots had fallen into a decisive disadvantage.

This was an irreversible situation.

The Sea of Maggots excelled at countering supernatural attacks; their physical defenses were not particularly strong.

The Sword in the Tree was the opposite: an infinitely growing massive tree with thick bark. Once it grew to two or three meters in diameter, the maggots’ gnawing caused little damage.

"You little—"

The Ultimate Evil Boy finally lost his temper, which showed he was truly panicking.

He had felt invincible in Edo City because of the Sea of Maggots he had carefully nurtured for a year.

As long as the maggots survived, he was effectively unkillable.

Yet now the maggots had met a nemesis.

He could no longer remain calm. He raised his long proboscis high, and a terrifying void force concentrated at its tip, coalescing into a huge black sphere.

He had separated the Divine Domain Purification’s force from his body, forming an immensely powerful void cannon.

He aimed at Zhang Yi, targeted, and with a booming blast fired!

But by this time Zhang Yi had completely calmed.

With the Sword in the Tree he had already reversed the situation, so there was no need to recklessly slug it out with the Ultimate Evil Boy.

Now it was the other side that was anxious.

Tracking of All Things preemptively predicted the trajectory of the Ultimate Evil Boy’s attack, so Zhang Yi easily used Spatial Shifting to dodge it.

The terrifying force shot into the sky; though overwhelmingly powerful, it was useless now.

The Ultimate Evil Boy thrashed angrily in the air.

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! You keep running around like an annoying insect!"

The delusional teen screamed insults.

"Before you say that, you’d better take a look in the mirror!"

Zhang Yi’s mocking voice came from afar.

He once again aimed at the Ultimate Evil Boy, his right hand forming a two-finger sword posture.

At this moment the Sword in the Tree continually siphoned the Sea of Maggots’ strength back to Zhang Yi.

The power replenishment he received was greater and faster than what the Ultimate Evil Boy could gain!

So then, let’s see whose defense is stronger!

Oh right.

Almost forgot, Zhang Yi’s ability codename was Absolute Defense.

So what followed would be the time to hunt!

"Divine Domain Purification!"

A devastating attack slammed onto the Ultimate Evil Boy without mercy, pulverizing his body once again.

On the ground, the Sword in the Tree’s devouring of the Sea of Maggots intensified, completely restraining their movement and preventing any escape.

"Plop!" "Plop!" "Plop!" "Plop!"

The Sword in the Tree had found the perfect nourishment and hungrily absorbed these juicy maggots.

It itself began, due to this massive energy intake, to evolve, surging toward the peak of Delta-level.