The next day.
In the Taihang Mountains, many Evolutionaries gathered to wait for the pinecone on the Mutant Tree to ripen. They wanted to seize this opportunity to evolve again.
Two of the four renowned Evolutionaries had come as well: the Silver-Winged Heavenly God and King Kong.
With so many Evolutionaries assembled and weapons in hand, killing intent naturally stirred. A clash to establish who stood above the rest was inevitable.
The Silver-Winged Heavenly God and King Kong in particular were considered the strongest Evolutionaries alive by most people. Even they had begun to believe their own reputation.
In the eyes of Chu Feng and his team, though, the two were merely minor Cultivators at the Ninth Awakening Stage, each killable with a single palm strike.
But to ordinary Evolutionaries, they were unimaginably powerful, having reached the very pinnacle.
At noon, the pinecone finally ripened.
A fierce struggle erupted on White Snake Ridge in the Taihang Mountains, and the fighting began.
Blood splashed across the earth. Evolutionaries fell.
Power truly could make people swell with pride, even twist them beyond recognition.
It made some look down from on high, imagining themselves Deities and holding life in contempt.
That was especially true of Evolutionaries from the Financial Consortiums. Even before the world had changed and they had evolved, they had been indifferent to human life.
Now, all the more so.
They embraced the taboo of killing without hesitation.
The Silver-Winged Heavenly God and King Kong lived up to their places among the four great Evolutionaries. Powerful among Awakening Realm Evolutionaries, they seized some of the pine nuts inside the cone.
That pinecone was valuable. A single pine nut from it could produce an Evolutionary.
Only one at the very bottom, of course—an Evolutionary at the First Awakening Stage.
Even so, at