Chapter 2283 Old Friends

At the Guardian headquarters, Zhang Menglong was lying weightlessly in the middle of a pool, his body like a massive black hole, drawing all the water in the pool toward him.

What was special was that the water in this pool was a jade-like emerald green, but after passing through Zhang Menglong’s body, it turned clear and transparent like ordinary water.

“Tsk tsk tsk, worthy of being the two biggest forces in this world—one’s loaded, one’s got resources. The speed of cultivation is just insane.” Zhang Menglong soaked in the liquid, a look of pure enjoyment on his face.

At his request, the Huanyu Group immediately mobilized a huge amount of SS-grade Energy Liquid.

This type of Energy Liquid was a technological product. For the same volume, the Energy it contained even exceeded most high-level elixirs, and more importantly, it was a renewable resource—just with complex procedures, long processing flows, and a sky-high price tag.

One milliliter of this SS-grade Energy Liquid cost around ten thousand Supreme Coins, and ten milliliters could buy a small kingdom. The refining patent was held solely by the Huanyu Group; they had basically monopolized the entire industry.

This batch of Energy Liquid was practically their whole yearly output, but at Zhang Menglong’s request, all of it was delivered at the fastest possible speed.

Of course, Zhang Menglong wasn’t the type to freeload; he paid for all this SS-grade Energy Liquid out of his own pocket. The CEO of Huanyu Group very conscientiously gave him a 20% discount.

Zhang Menglong had never fought a battle with such ridiculous resources in his life!

The Energy in his body began accumulating at a terrifying rate. He was like a super-sized filtration pump: what got poured in was green, what flowed out was transparent.

Outside this room, several core members of the Guardians stared, dumbfounded, at the water streaming out like a flowing creek.

“What the hell is this kid’s body made of? The amount of Energy Liquid that’s passed through this room already could probably stack up into over ten million Dominators by now, right?”

“To be precise, about thirty-five million!” the CEO of Huanyu Group said. “This batch of Energy Liquid is pretty much our full annual output, enough to cover nearly the entire Continent’s demand. He’s basically a monster.”

“Anyone who can come into contact with an Ancient God is bound to be unusual.”

“Once he breaks through to the Dominion Realm, ordinary Ancient Humans probably won’t be his match. We should be getting a major boost in top-tier combat power. What we need most right now isn’t numbers, but the quality of Peak combat strength.”

“I don’t know why, but I keep feeling like something bad’s about to happen.”

“Yeah? I’ve got the same feeling.”

…

Zhang Menglong maintained this state for a full month.

During this period, the situation across the entire Continent was extremely grim.

They investigated and observed the hundred thousand-plus coordinates Zhang Menglong had provided. Aside from those that had already revived, most of the Ancient Humans at the remaining coordinates were still in complete slumber—however, more than two thousand were already stirring restlessly, vaguely showing signs of waking.

The Guardians took those two thousand coordinates very seriously, mobilizing large amounts of combat strength to carry out a purge.

Because the number was huge and they had practically no reaction time, they managed to completely wipe out over eighteen hundred of those coordinates! But more than two hundred Ancient Human Remnant Souls were rescued by their own kind.

At the same time, more than seventy thousand Human Dominators were lost, and the Human situation grew increasingly dire.

Meanwhile, in the Energy Pool, Zhang Menglong slowly opened his eyes. As the accumulated Energy hit its peak, the power in his body began another metamorphosis.

A logistics member carrying supplies had just passed by Zhang Menglong’s area when, out of nowhere, a spray of flowers burst out of the ground by his foot.

“What the hell?” The sudden, bizarre sight made him instinctively pull back his foot.

You had to know, this place had gone through a prehistoric war; the entire land had been polluted by Energy. In theory, no plants should have been able to grow here.

Not only that, beneath this ground there was also a thick layer of metal structure, built to prevent tectonic shifts from tearing the base apart.

Which meant this plant was literally growing right on top of metal.

Was that even possible?

Obviously impossible!

Which left only one other possibility—the Energy saturating the air around them had reached some kind of threshold point, rich enough for plants to draw on it and grow!

The plant began spreading wildly outward, and he noticed the center of this weird phenomenon was precisely the room where Zhang Menglong was cultivating!

He quickly took out his instruments to test the Energy density here.

Then, the numbers that showed up on the device made him doubt whether it had malfunctioned.

“This value is 13,000 times what an ordinary Martial Artist experiences when breaking through to Dominator—and it’s still climbing!”

He immediately reported this to the higher-ups.

Very quickly, the big shots who were still at the base rushed over.

“This kid really is a monster. Just breaking through to the Dominator realm can trigger something like this.”

“Yeah, and who knows how strong he’ll be once he completes the breakthrough.”

“But I’m afraid he won’t be completing that breakthrough so easily today!” All of a sudden, the CEO of Huanyu Group looked up toward the sky, and the leader of the Blood Martialists also turned to stare in the same direction.

They saw, hovering at the top of the surrounding valley, more than a dozen figures in black robes. There was no aura at all coming off them; they were like dead corpses.

“You all felt that?” the black-robed figure standing at the front asked.

“The power of the Ancient God—how could we ever forget?” Under the masks of those black-robed people, faces twisted with hatred appeared one after another.

“Just recently, I sensed the Ancient God’s lingering power on this Continent completely vanish. Looks like someone here has obtained the Ancient God’s power inheritance. That person can’t be allowed to live!”

“But this is the Guardians’ headquarters. Those old bastards are all here. With the strength we’ve recovered so far, it’s not possible to kill him right under their noses.”

“Even if we can’t kill him, we can at least give them a little deterrence, right? The strength of us Ancient Humans is unprecedented right now; we can’t keep letting these New Humans suppress us here forever.”

…

As they spoke, two figures instantly flashed into the sky as well.

“Number One, didn’t expect you’d actually come here.” The Blood Martialist leader looked at the Ancient Human leading the group.

“I just sensed the aura of an old friend, that’s all.” His gaze stayed fixed on the room where Zhang Menglong was undergoing his breakthrough.

“What are you trying to do? You should know very well—one-on-one, we can’t beat you, but two-on-one, you won’t have the upper hand.”

“For now, that’s indeed the case.” Ancient Human Number One didn’t care. “But since I’m here, I have to leave a greeting for my old friend!”

With that, those dozen Ancient Humans vanished in an instant.

“Why’d they leave so fast?” Just as the two were still puzzled, a massive Energy fluctuation suddenly came from the sky.

They looked up, and their pupils contorted with shock.

“Evacuate! Full evacuation!”