I told you to plant peas, and you summon Mordekaiser?

A green crack appeared in the void, and a blurry figure slowly emerged.

It is Mordekaiser.

His body was shrouded in a ghostly aura, his bronze armor faintly gleaming with a cold light, and his aura was several times stronger than before.

The King Steeltooth Flower and the Bursting Pea Zombie have disappeared, leaving him all alone.

Chen Yang felt relieved; it seemed that Mordecais had won.

But at the same time, he also sensed the change in the other person.

Even though Mordekaiser had toned it down, the oppressive aura he exuded was no less than that of the zombie monk.

"There's a fishy smell... Did he help you break through the spatial restrictions?"

Mordecais spoke, his deep voice carrying a hint of surprise.

"Him?" Chen Yang realized, "Parker?"

Mordecais did not respond, but pondered for a moment, as if sensing something.

"Eighth rank? Know your place, little fish..." The voice came from the iron armor again, full of provocation.

"Who is he talking to?" Chi Zigao quietly approached and asked Chen Yang.

"Shh..." Chen Yang simply gestured for silence.

The sound of water droplets falling could be heard in the wind.

Tick ​​tock...

Tick ​​tock...

Mordecais stood proudly, his hammer striking the ground heavily.

The atmosphere became inexplicably tense.

Chen Yang raised an eyebrow slightly. Mordekaiser had just returned and was already going to fight Pike?

Is this guy a stray dog? It bites everyone it sees!

And how are these two communicating? Damn it, I didn't hear a thing! He mentally screamed.

Fortunately, the wind gradually subsided.

The two sides did not fight.

Mordecais turned around with satisfaction and looked at Chen Yang.

"...Anyway, you did a good job."

"How did you manage to defeat those two high-ranking opponents?" Chen Yang couldn't help but ask.

Mordecais simply chuckled softly: "I cannot fail."

"...I am now at the eighth level."

He raised his hand and said slowly, "As agreed, you have one more chance to summon me."

Oops.

He now has another level eight henchman.

He might even be able to defeat a ninth-level fighter.

Although it was expected, Chen Yang was still somewhat pleasantly surprised.

Mordekaiser paused for a moment, a slight smile playing on his lips: "Consider this next hammer blow a bonus."

Everyone was stunned, not yet realizing what he had said.

The next instant, the Netherworld energy condensed in the air, forming a giant hand that reached straight into the depths of the forest!

A pale green light pierced through the shadows in the forest and enveloped the two plants.

One plant is a kiwi, and the other is a black cherry.

They struggled desperately, but the giant, ghostly hand was as unbreakable as steel, lifting them straight out and suspending them in the air.

"Hiss—" The kiwi fruit let out a sharp screech, and billowing black mist also overflowed from the surface of the black cherry, but all resistance seemed futile.

Mordecais glanced at them, his eyes filled with indifference and disdain.

He clenched his fist through the void, forcibly drawing two beams of light from the plant.

Soul extraction!

Having ascended to the eighth rank, the Lord of the Underworld has awakened most of his power.

Mordecais was adept at using little tricks to steal souls.

The kiwis and black cherries drooped limply, like lifeless puppets.

Mordecais casually tossed them in front of Chen Yang.

"The soul has departed; now it is merely an empty shell."

"Maybe it will be of some use to you."

The three looked at the kiwis and black hole cherries on the ground, memories surging in their minds.

They all remembered that this was the plant that had been growing on the leaves of the Giant Steel Tooth Flower.

It was this black hole created by the cherry blossoms that forced them to hide in this jungle.

"So these two plants have been hiding in the jungle all along," Chen Yang exclaimed. No wonder he hadn't seen them in the lake area.

Mordekaiser glanced at Chen Yang one last time before his figure gradually blurred and reformed into a card.

The card floated lightly into Chen Yang's hand, signifying that all of this had finally come to an end.

With the two plant bodies in tow, the three left the jungle and returned to the cave where they had first settled.

Inside the cave, it remained exactly as it had been when they left the night before, with the few streetlights standing quietly, emitting a bright glow.

Chi Zigao and Huangfu Qinghe returned to the cave to rest first.

Chen Yang stood alone on the cliff, his thoughts wandering.

The gains from this trip were something he couldn't quite process for a while.

The ninth-tier Pyke just became his card without him even realizing it.

Everything was too strange, and he was filled with doubt.

What exactly happened beneath the surface of the lake at that time, and who exactly is this Pike?

According to Mordekaiser, this Pyke is probably a ninth-order being. Will he be able to obey him?

We must get to the bottom of this.

With a thought, Chen Yang's card representing Bloodharbor Ghost flickered in his hand.

A wisp of mist suddenly surged out from the card, and the air instantly turned as cold as ice.

As the mist gathered, that familiar, slender figure slowly appeared, its silver hooks gleaming, its eyes flashing with a chilling light.

Parker stood there, leaning slightly forward.

"What are your orders, sir?"

His voice was low and husky, with a hint of a smile.

"I just want to ask a few questions."

Chen Yang carefully examined Pike, thinking that this guy was quite polite, much better than Mordekaiser.

"Are you... that clown zombie? How did you become like this?"

Parker grinned, a smile that sent chills down one's spine like a cold front.

"My memory is very vague, I can't remember much... about what happened before I was born."

He spoke slowly, his voice carrying an unfathomable emotion.

"When I woke up, I was at the bottom of that lake. At that time, I only had two thoughts in my mind."

"Firstly, it is to serve 'Chen Yang'."

Chen Yang raised an eyebrow.

"And the other, rather than a thought, is more like the roar of a raging ghost..."

Parker raised his head, his deep blue eyes staring directly at Chen Yang.

"It said, 'I will drag everyone involved in the ascension plan to the deepest bottom of the water.'"

At this point, his smile faded, his eyes lowered, as if he were deep in thought.

Chen Yang understood.

He knew that the first thought was probably because he was the owner of the Bloodharbor Ghost card.

Pike's second thought might be related to the clown zombie himself.

Should we kill everyone involved in the Ascension Plan?

Chen Yang didn't press the matter, but instead asked a different question.

"What are that heart and that green core?"

Pike said calmly, "After I got ashore, I killed an eighth-level zombie, and the heart was his."

"It contains extremely strong energy that can be absorbed by living organisms."

"As for that green core, I found it in the hands of that level eight zombie."

"It's probably an eighth-order energy core."

Chen Yang talked with Parker for a while longer, and after confirming that the guy was at least currently under his command, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Retracting Parker, he turned to look at the two plant carcasses on the ground.

Kiwifruit, and black hole cherries.

While Mordekaiser might be useful to Chen Yang, his attempts to use the Fusion Card on both of them yielded no results.

This greatly disappointed Chen Yang, who had hoped to integrate kiwifruit with the Monkey King.

Maybe it will come in handy in the future?

Thinking this, Chen Yang instructed Rex to put the two plants back on his back, securing them firmly between the thorns.

After doing all this, he turned and went into the cave.