A patch of brown crystals spread out from Talking Lady's feet towards the distance, instantly covering the open ground from the periphery to Xia Lei's side. The green-skinned monsters that rushed over stepped on them. The ones in front were somewhat surprised, not knowing what these things under their feet were, but pushed forward by those behind, they could only step onto them.

Soon, the green-skinned monsters discovered that these crystals posed no threat. Stepping on them felt uncomfortable, but they didn't cause any other harm. So they stopped being afraid and continued charging towards this area.

Yellow Ball, who was still in intense combat, and the twin sisters all noticed this problem and started moving towards this side. But the enemies around them were too strong and too numerous, making it impossible for them to move even an inch; they simply couldn't secure this area.

"This is all I can do." Talking Lady looked back at Xia Lei and said, "If we don't die this time, I should be able to save one advanced contract scroll, right?"

Xia Lei smiled bitterly and nodded. "Yes, it's saved."

She and Zhao Xiangxue beside her exchanged glances, both knowing the most dangerous moment had arrived. Talking Lady probably had only a little strength left; after using it, they could only rely on themselves for protection.

The black cat had been crouching on Talking Lady's shoulder, its blood never stopping flowing. There were several deep, bone-visible wounds on its body. Through these wounds, even its internal organs could be seen. One wound pierced through the black cat's abdomen, almost cutting it in half. If it weren't a top-tier life form, it would have died long ago.

After Talking Lady used this ability, it drained its own power. The black cat directly fell off Talking Lady's shoulder and completely passed out. If Zhao Xiangxue hadn't been quick to catch it, the black cat might have become the first top-tier life form to die from falling from less than two meters high.

Talking Lady's hair floated up. Seeing the nearest green-skinned monsters were only a few meters away, her raised hands suddenly clenched tightly, and then her whole body fell backward.

In front of her, those low black crystals on the ground instantly shot upwards, wrapping all the green-skinned monsters within the range. When Talking Lady's body fell into Xia Lei's arms, these crystals all shattered with a bang, and the monsters inside turned into fragments as well.

The scene was spectacular, the effect top-tier.

Just this one move killed at least tens of thousands of monsters.

They were simply too dense and too unprepared. Facing Talking Lady's ability to materialize psychic power, the non-top-tier green-skinned monsters had no ability to resist at all; at most, when they burst, they had fewer fragments.

The breach was immediately plugged by the human soldiers again. This situation made Xia Lei and the others sigh with relief. But it didn't last even a few seconds before the place was breached by monsters again.

Xia Lei's team was no longer sufficient to organize an effective defense. That they could plug the breach for these few seconds this time was only because many people happened to gather nearby. But that number of people was simply not enough against the numerous monsters.

Watching the number of her team's fighters rapidly decrease, Xia Lei's heart bled.

The monsters charged again. This time, their expressions were even more ferocious because they thought the enemy probably had no more tricks. Their victory was already in sight. After devouring the top-tier life forms there, they would evolve to become members of the highest level.

"Let's fight desperately; that's all we can do."

Zhao Xiangxue placed the black cat beside her. She looked at the opposite side, took out some things from her spatial equipment, and scattered them among the monsters. Those were some black seeds, the size of glass marbles. Upon landing or touching the monsters, they immediately took root and sprouted, using the monsters as nutrients.

There were probably only a few hundred of these plants. At the beginning, they didn't cause too much damage to these monsters. But who knows what these seeds were; their speed of taking root, sprouting, and growing was too fast. They could completely drain a level-five green-skinned monster in just two seconds. After growing, they became even more terrifying; even level-seven monsters could be killed within a few seconds.

Estimated in ten seconds, the chaos caused by these seeds would begin to affect these monsters on a large scale.

This was something Zhao Xiangxue obtained when spinning a level-nine wheel, called 'Life-Grasping Grass,' a very terrifying life form. Although from taking root to death, it only lasted a short minute. Within that minute, as long as there were enough lives around, whether mutated animals or mutated plants, they would become its nutrients. After absorbing them, it would grow frantically, maturing within seconds and reaching level-eight strength. If it hadn't been killed by the time it survived for half a minute, it would become a top-tier demon vine!

Used well, this thing could produce effects no less than holding a major force and a group of top-tier experts.

Unfortunately, it could only be used here. Even more... Zhao Xiangxue thought they took effect a bit too slowly.

By the time they grew into level-eight life forms and caused enough impact, it would already be enough time for these green-skinned monsters to charge in front of Xia Lei and overwhelm her with numbers.

Zhao Xiangxue couldn't wait. Gritting her teeth, she took out something else from her spatial equipment and poured it into her mouth. It was a bottle of purple potion. Xia Lei recognized it as the Mad Flower Potion with extremely strong side effects, which could enhance an evolved being's mental power and various physical attributes. After use, the user would be weak and powerless for up to seven days. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

But although the side effects were so obvious, the duration was only a short twelve seconds.

Stimulated by the potion, Zhao Xiangxue, whose mental power had recovered considerably, let out a piercing scream. Her hands swung out in a huge arc and then slammed heavily onto the ground. In front of her, three huge masses of flame immediately rose, and then Zhao Xiangxue violently pushed them forward. The three masses of flame turned into three roaring flame dragons, charging forward.

When the Flame Spirit Envoy wasn't transformed, she was very adept at using group abilities. This was one of Zhao Xiangxue's strongest group attack abilities—Flame Surge, Dragon Soar.

Wherever the three flame dragons passed, green-skinned monsters were burned to death one after another. Charred black corpses fell to the ground, lying atop the previous corpses wrapped in crystals.

After Zhao Xiangxue released this ability, blood started flowing from all the holes on her face. But she still had a few seconds left. She charged out, holding two short knives in her hands. In the midst of flying up and down, she killed several level-eight monsters not far from her that hadn't been burned to death.

After twelve seconds, Zhao Xiangxue directly collapsed and was pulled back by Xia Lei, who had been prepared.