Gao Wu: If this BOSS isn't nerfed, is it even playable?

Chapter 141 Late Stage of Meridian Opening, Rapidly Clearing the Forest!
puff!

Another shot was fired.

The spear tip pierced precisely through the eye socket of the second giant bear, and the violent force instantly turned everything inside its skull into a puddle of mush.

The two mutated giant bears, both at level 26, died without posing any real threat to Lin Ye.

Lin Ye drew the Piercing Star Spear and flicked his wrist.

The blood and brain matter on the tip of the gun were shaken off instantly, leaving no trace.

He glanced back at the source crystal vein he had hollowed out, his nostrils flaring slightly as he tried to catch any lingering energy in the air.

There is still a small portion of the body's vital energy and blood that has not been fully tempered.

The skill 【Shadow Scale】 seems to be able to continue absorbing energy, reaching true perfection.

Lin Ye maintained his black scale-covered body as he disappeared back into the eerie, deep forest.

Unlike the skill [Crystallization], which requires a large amount of mental energy to maintain, this skill is different.

After the Shadow Scale has grown and covered its body surface, achieving perfect mimicry and camouflage, the consumption of mental energy is negligible.

With Lin Ye's current total mental energy, plus the recovery speed brought by the post-combat health regeneration mechanism, he can completely cover Shadow Scales without interruption while out of combat.

The aura of the source crystal carried on the wind was like a lighthouse in the darkness, guiding his direction.

The aura was even stronger than before.

Lin Ye knew that he had found the right direction.

However, it's like looking at a mountain and running until the horse dies.

More than half an hour had passed before Lin Ye finally saw the clusters of enormous source crystals growing beside a towering ancient tree, resembling a crystal forest.

Along the way, he casually killed dozens of mutated beasts that blocked his path.

This forest is not without mutated beasts.

However, their numbers are much sparser compared to other parts of the occupied area.

Moreover, without exception, these mutated beasts were all more or less entangled with those strange black threads, like puppets controlled by invisible threads.

Lin Ye showed no politeness whatsoever.

He walked to the huge cluster of source crystals and began to devour them frantically.

Each piece of extremely pure source crystal transforms into the purest torrent of energy.

Until the last bit of vital energy and blood in the body is completely refined, it transforms once again into that critical state between vital energy and malevolent energy.

Until the shadow scales covering its body gave off a feeling that it could no longer evolve or improve.

Lin Ye then stopped devouring.

At this moment, the black scales on his body looked as if they were alive.

With his breathing, and with the subtle changes in the surrounding light and shadow, the color and texture of his scales adjusted in milliseconds, perfectly synchronized with the environment.

[Shadow Scale] has already been enhanced to its current maximum level!
Lin Ye found a relatively clean grove of trees, sat down cross-legged, and focused his mind on introspection.

He planned to use the refined and pure blood and energy within his body, which had been tempered and refined countless times, to break through to a higher realm once again.

With the [Shadow Scale] alert and stealth skill.

Lin Ye doesn't need to worry about being ambushed at a critical juncture in his breakthrough due to the dangerous environment.

One is born, the second is cooked.

Having gained experience from previously opening up the Ren meridian, Lin Ye proceeded with ease this time.

He gathered all the qi and blood in his body that had been tempered to the extreme, and visualized them converging into a roaring, golden dragon.

The Governing Vessel (Du Mai) is the sea of ​​Yang meridians, governing all the Yang meridians in the body.

It originates in the lower abdomen, runs along the inner side of the spine upwards, and reaches the Baihui acupoint on the top of the head.

The entire meridian is like a great dragon coiled on the spine of the human body.

Although it only has four major acupoints: Changqiang, Mingmen, Dazhui, and Baihui.

But each challenge is more dangerous and more difficult than the last!

Like a Great Wall reaching to the sky!

Lin Ye specifically adjusted the method of qi and blood circulation.

The next moment, the golden dragon formed from pure blood and qi let out a roar that shook the soul and launched a fierce attack on the first gate of the Du meridian, the Changqiang acupoint!

boom!
boom!
boom!
The three consecutive violent impacts caused Lin Ye's body to tremble slightly, and his blood and qi surged throughout his body.

However, the expected feeling of stiffness and intense pain due to the incorrect impact method did not occur.

Lin Ye's heart skipped a beat.

If there is no damage to the veins or reversed flow of qi and blood, it means that your method is correct!
The Fourth Impact!
Lin Ye gathered all his vital energy into one point, transforming it into an indestructible dragon head, and smashed it fiercely!

Click!

A crisp, shattering sound seemed to resonate from the depths of the soul.

The first gate of the Du Meridian, the Changqiang acupoint, suddenly opens!

However, Lin Ye did not stop the surge of his blood and qi.

He wanted to press on with his momentum!
Drive straight in and strike at the heart of the enemy!
The golden dragon broke through the first barrier, its power undiminished, and continued upward along the straight meridian path!

boom!
boom!
Two more muffled, thunderous explosions erupted inside Lin Ye's body!

Break through the Gate of Life!
The Dazhui (GV14) joint is broken!
Lin Ye felt a scorching warm current rise from his tailbone like magma, instantly running through his entire spine and rushing straight to the top of his head!
The momentum is overwhelming!

The first three formidable barriers of the Du Meridian were actually pierced through by his attack!

Finally, the torrent of Qi and blood reached the final hurdle: the Baihui acupoint.

This acupoint is located on the top of the head, adjacent to the Shen Ting (a point on the head), which is the highest point in the human body.

Lin Ye no longer dared to be as arrogant and reckless as before.

He steadied his mind and transformed the surging dragon of blood and energy into countless fine streams, beginning to gently and continuously penetrate and wear down the barrier of the Baihui acupoint.

A few minutes later.

As the last barrier melted away.

Baihui acupoint, connected!
At this point, the Ren and Du meridians, these two vast rivers that govern the circulation of Qi and blood in the human body, have been completely opened!
Lin Ye felt a sense of relief throughout his body, and the suffocating feeling caused by the excessive amount of qi and blood instantly dissipated!
The Ren and Du meridians are the last and most difficult hurdles on the path of cultivation for martial artists who have reached the Meridian Opening Realm.

Once the connection is established, the subsequent Six Paths of Extraordinary Meridians will be no more difficult, requiring only painstaking effort.

But for Lin Ye, he didn't need to spend any time on painstaking work.

In the next half hour.

Lin Ye's momentum was unstoppable, and he successively opened up the Chong Meridian and the Dai Meridian.

At this point, four of the eight extraordinary meridians have been opened!
Lin Ye estimated that the remaining four meridians—Yinwei, Yangwei, Yinqiao, and Yangqiao—would only require him to level up a few more times or improve his attributes further.

The newly generated qi and blood in the body don't even need to be tempered; they are enough to clear them all away.

In less than a week.

His cultivation level soared from the initial stage of the Meridian Opening Realm to the late stage of the Meridian Opening Realm!

This progress is nothing short of miraculous!
Lin Ye slowly opened his eyes.

However, before he could even feel joy at his advancement in his realm...

A truly horrifying scene suddenly came into his view.

Lin Ye felt a chill rush from his tailbone straight to the top of his head, and every hair on his body stood on end!

I don’t know when.

He was surrounded by a dense crowd of people.

These were the mutated beasts he had casually killed along the way!

The two giant bears whose brains he had shattered were right next to him.

Dozens of bizarrely shaped mutated beast carcasses completely surrounded the area where he was sitting cross-legged.

They all stood silently, their empty eye sockets staring at him intently.

Dead silence.

The forest remained deathly silent, suffocatingly so.

These resurrected monsters were covered in wriggling black filaments, which even pulsated at an imperceptible frequency, as if they shared a common heartbeat.

This extremely bizarre scene filled Lin Ye with an instinctive sense of fear.

That's not due to a difference in strength.

Rather, it stems from the physiological horror arising from this completely illogical and incomprehensible unknown phenomenon!
They...discovered themselves?

Lin Ye was certain that he had maintained the perfect disguise of [Shadow Scale] all along.

Moreover, he was absolutely certain that he had completely shattered the brains of those two giant bears with his Star Piercing Spear.

There is absolutely no chance of survival!
How did they find their way here?

How did it manage to "survive"?

Lin Ye's gaze darkened, and he stopped thinking about it.

He gripped the Piercing Star Spear tightly, and his figure suddenly shot up in the next moment!
A black bolt of lightning flashed!

puff!

With lightning speed, he once again plunged the spear into the giant bear's mangled skull.

This time, Lin Ye saw it clearly.

There was no brain tissue left inside that empty cranial cavity.

Instead, there are countless black filaments, like tangled nematodes, constantly wriggling!
Cluck...cluck...

A sickening, bone-grinding sound rang out.

The moment Lin Ye drew his spear, the giant bear's head, which had been pierced once again, was forcibly stitched back together by countless fine black threads.

It pounced on Lin Ye!
Although the movements still appeared somewhat sluggish and clumsy.

But the moment it started to move, all the dead mutated beast corpses around it seemed to receive the same command and began to move at the same time!
They maintained perfect distance from each other, and from all directions, like a tightening net, they precisely surrounded and hunted Lin Ye!

Lin Ye activated the skill [Cleave], his spear flashing like a dragon, instantly creating a black storm around him!
The fierce gunfire easily tore apart the countless corpses that surrounded them.

However, these things seemed to form a true immortal army.

Before the severed limbs hit the ground, they are pulled back and stitched together by countless black threads that emerge from the cut.

The monster that has been cut in half will have its upper and lower halves move independently and continue to attack.

Lin Ye began to consciously attack their limbs, trying to completely destroy their ability to move.

But he soon discovered that inside these corpses, the bones and flesh had already been completely pierced and connected by thin black threads.

They are no longer made of flesh and blood.

Instead, they are puppets controlled by black silk!

As long as they aren't completely ground into mincemeat, they can stand up again in just a few seconds!

Just then, Lin Ye felt his legs go weak.

He looked down, and his pupils suddenly contracted.

The ground he was standing on had changed completely at some point.

Beneath the thick layer of humus, there are countless wriggling black filaments.

These fine threads, mixed with fallen leaves, soil, and some kind of viscous black liquid, formed a swamp-like trap.

These ubiquitous black threads emerged from the ground, desperately trying to burrow into Lin Ye's skin and invade his flesh!
Fortunately, the dense scales formed by [Shadow Scale] provided perfect protection.

These fine filaments, as tough as steel needles, cannot penetrate even a fraction of an inch.

boom!
A muffled explosion suddenly erupted beside Lin Ye!

The corpse of a mutated beast exploded with a bang as it approached him!
A thick, pitch-black fog exploded instantly, enveloping him!
Lin Ye held his breath the instant the explosion occurred.

He wasn't sure if the eerie black mist was highly poisonous.

The thick, dark fog was not poisonous gas.

The moment Lin Ye held his breath, he sensed something was wrong.

The essence of this black mist is billions of tiny particles that are almost indistinguishable to the naked eye.

They seemed to have their own lives!

The moment these particles came into contact with Lin Ye's shadow scales, they acted like sharks that had smelled blood, frantically trying to burrow into the gaps in the scales!
A tingling sensation, like being constantly pricked by countless tiny needles, spread throughout my body.

Lin Ye immediately withdrew and retreated, creating distance.

The battle entered a bizarre cycle.

Lin Ye couldn't kill these monsters.

Their bodies, cut into several pieces, would be stitched back together by countless gushing black threads with each breath, allowing them to launch another fearless charge.

And they couldn't hurt Lin Ye.

Their claws and fangs are no longer as swift and sharp as they were in life.

Neither the black filaments nor the countless black substances could penetrate his body covered by shadow scales.

The battle has reached a stalemate.

But Lin Ye continued to carefully observe the zombie beast army.

The coordination between these monsters is just too perfect.

They were so perfect that they didn't seem like individual beasts fighting separately, but rather like a unified whole, commanded by a single brain. Lin Ye launched a deadly attack from the blind spot of a wolf-like mutated beast, that is, directly behind it.

However, just as the spear tip was about to pierce the back of his head...

The wolf narrowly escaped, as if it had eyes in the back of its head!
At the same time, three other monsters from different directions attacked from three unbelievable angles, blocking all of Lin Ye's escape routes!
This is no coincidence!
Lin Ye's gaze swept rapidly across the entire battlefield.

He quickly noticed the anomaly.

At the four opposite corners of the battlefield, there were always four smaller mutated beasts standing motionless.

They did not participate in the siege.

They simply stood there, their empty eye sockets gazing at every corner of the battlefield.

This is... an observation post!

Lin Ye instantly understood.

These monsters, through those four observation posts, achieved a 360-degree panoramic view sharing without blind spots!
Lin Ye began to consider retiring.

There's no need to continue fighting.

There's no point in continuing to fight these unkillable puppets.

We must find the liar hiding in the shadows!

Lin Ye's eyes suddenly turned cold.

The next moment, his figure became blurry and illusory in place.

Phase transition!

at the same time!

[Instantaneous Movement]!
Lin Ye's figure vanished into thin air, like a burst bubble, amidst the encirclement of dozens of undead corpses!
Disappeared from the face of the earth!

All the monsters froze for a moment at that instant.

They lost their target.

Countless empty eye sockets began to spin frantically, searching for any trace of the human, but there was nothing in their field of vision.

Dozens of meters away from the horde of corpses, in the shadow of a twisted giant tree.

Lin Ye's figure quietly appeared. He held his breath and concealed all his aura to the extreme.

He used his teleportation ability three times to create that ten-meter distance.

He tucked the Piercing Star Spear behind his back with a backhand motion.

Dimness is the best disguise.

At this moment, Shadowscale's mimicry ability has transcended the environment itself, making him completely become part of the darkness.

The horde of corpses stirred for a moment.

After confirming that the target had been completely lost, a bizarre scene unfolded.

The corpses of those mutated beasts, which had been so ferocious just moments before, now resembled wax figures scorched by high temperatures, their bodies beginning to melt.

It all turned into pools of pitch-black slime.

Countless wriggling black filaments emerged from the mucus, like receding tides, quickly disappearing into the ground.

After a while.

The entire clearing in the woods has been restored to its original state.

Apart from a few puddles of foul-smelling black liquid remaining on the ground, it was as if the fierce battle that had just taken place had never happened.

The forest has returned to its suffocating silence.

Lin Ye stood in the shadows, lost in thought.

Parasitic organisms, drawing upon source crystals, manipulating corpses...

These abilities are more like those of a plant than animals.

No.

In Lin Ye's mind, the black mist formed after the porcupine's carcass exploded flashed by.

These black mists...

It looks a lot like the spores of some kind of fungus!
A more precise word emerged.

Fungi!

The mastermind behind this forest is very likely a unique alien race from the heavens, possessing a vast network of mycelium!
If that's the case, then killing it would be an almost impossible task.

Its mycelium has probably already spread to every inch of soil in the entire Black Silk Forest.

As long as the mycelial network remains intact, it is immortal.

How can one person fight against an entire forest?

However, all of them are alien races from the Heavenly Abyss, and they all share a common fatal weakness.

A fatal weakness that they can never get around.

Source Crystal!

Without the energy provided by the Source Crystal, even the most powerful alien races would not be able to survive for long in Earth's drastically different environment.

That being the case...

Then we'll cut off your food supply!
A bold and crazy plan quickly took shape and became perfect in his mind.

……

Midday on the moon.

It was nearly midnight.

At this moment, there are less than eight hours left before the selection competition officially ends.

The heart of the Black Silk Forest.

A pile of source crystals emitted a dazzling, deep blue light, illuminating an area of ​​several meters in radius.

Lin Ye sat cross-legged beside the pile of source crystals.

For the past ten hours or so, he had worked almost non-stop, like a highly efficient prospector, plowing through every inch of the entire Black Silk Forest.

He looted all the source crystals in this forest!
He had already devoured a large amount of source crystals.

Aside from a small portion used to consolidate his newly broken-through realm, most of that energy dissipated and became useless radiation because it exceeded his body's tempering limits.

But that's exactly what he wanted.

The crystal mountain beneath him was the last reserve of source crystals in this vast forest.

He was waiting for a rabbit to run into his trap.

He was using this last bit of food to lure the hungry beast out of its lair.

Lin Ye didn't even activate [Shadow Scale].

In this pitch-black forest, he became the most conspicuous candlelight with the help of the source crystal beside him.

rustling sounds...

Strange sounds came from all directions.

That wasn't the sound of wind blowing through the leaves.

It was the sound of countless tiny things moving at high speed and rubbing against each other under the thick layer of humus.

It's those black mycelium!

Like a swarm of sharks drawn by the scent of blood, they converged here frantically from every corner of the forest!

at the same time.

The Black Silk Forest was directly above them, thousands of meters above the ground.

An armed assault aircraft painted entirely in dark gray camouflage, with its optical stealth mode activated, hovered in mid-air like a ghost.

The atmosphere inside the cabin was tense and somber.

Shi Ruifeng and his elite squad were fully armed and ready for battle.

"Check the weapon mounting system to ensure that the incendiary bomb locks onto the target area and the release error does not exceed three meters."

Shi Ruifeng's voice was clearly conveyed to everyone through the voice channel of the tactical helmet.

"Yes!"

The pilot beside me was rapidly operating his fingers on the virtual screen, making the final confirmation.

Shi Ruifeng's gaze was fixed on the personal terminal on his wrist.

A few hours ago, he received a message from Lin Ye.

That wasn't a plea for help.

It was not a battle plan.

Lin Ye claimed that if the plan went smoothly, he was 90% confident that he could completely eradicate the Black Silk Forest, a major threat that had been entrenched in the occupied area of ​​Linchuan for many years!
Shi Ruifeng dared not delay and immediately reported it to Wang Lingchuan.

After a brief silence, Wang Lingchuan replied with only three words.

"Cooperate with him!"

The Shadowscale tribe in the Northern Rift Valley, the greatest threat, has been wiped out by Lin Ye alone.

So, it's time to completely erase this remaining hidden danger from the map.

Whether the occupied area of ​​Linchuan can still be used as a selection venue is no longer important.

Is there any shortage of occupied areas on this planet?

Ding!
A soft sound.

A new message popped up on Shi Ruifeng's personal terminal screen.

That was a coordinate accurate to three decimal places.

Below the coordinates, there is a short line of text.

"Target spotted, requesting airdrop!"

……

Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
In the deathly silent forest, heavy footsteps, like the beating of drums, resounded.

Each time it fell, the earth trembled.

Lin Ye slowly opened his eyes.

A massive figure appeared in the darkness before him.

It was a monster woven from countless black mycelium.

Its main body is a bloated and deformed massive torso, formed by the remains of dozens of large mutated beasts such as giant bears and tigers.

Countless severed limbs, and even dried-up heads of human warriors were embedded in its body surface by the mycelium as if they were trophies.

Those empty eye sockets seemed to still be telling of the despair before death.

Lin Ye finally understood why Cheng Tianhao's map suggested the presence of human rebels in the area.

Those weren't rebels at all, but puppets controlled by the monster in front of them!
This colossal beast, over fifteen meters tall, resembled a moving mountain of corpses, exuding a nauseating stench and an aura of evil.

The giant monster's level information appeared before Lin Ye's eyes.

【King of Fungal Remains】

【LV30】

[Evolutionary Level: 0.95]

Lin Ye's gaze paused slightly on the last line of information.

Their evolutionary level is lower than mine?

This alien race from the Heavenly Abyss clearly exudes an oppressive aura comparable to that of Garacha, so why is its evolution level so low?
Indeed, the universe is vast and full of wonders.

It was at the very moment that the Fungal King appeared.

In the darkness behind it, pairs of scarlet lights appeared.

Hundreds...thousands!
Those were mutated beast corpses controlled by mycelium, an endless undead army!

They completely surrounded this only place of light.

There was no communication between the two sides.

But when the Fungal King saw Lin Ye grab a handful of Source Crystals right in front of it and drain their energy, it was astonishing.

Its face, pieced together from countless corpses, let out a roar that shook the heavens and the earth!

The roar transformed into a tangible shockwave, sweeping across all directions!
A foul-smelling wind blew, causing the trees to sway.

The Undead Legion has launched a full-scale attack!

However, the next moment.

Lin Ye's body was instantly covered with dense and tough black scales.

He didn't look at the surging tide of corpses, but instead raised his head and gazed at the night sky shrouded in black netting, where the stars and moon were nowhere to be seen.

The night was torn apart.

Tiny sparks appeared out of thin air and then rapidly enlarged as they fell!
They trailed long, fiery tails, like a meteor shower pouring down on earth, piercing the darkness and the giant black net that blocked out the light of day!
Precisely, it crashed down towards the coordinates of the Fungi King's location!
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