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

Chapter 168 Ignoring Control, Instant Kill!

[The 28th wave of attacks is coming!]

In Lin Ye's eyes, this wave of the Tianyuan alien race, which came with great force, was no different from chickens and dogs.

The next instant, his undead legion clashed violently with the newly formed alien army.

The living puppets act as sharp blades, fearlessly tearing through the enemy lines, while the corpse puppets transform into endless waves, overwhelming and tearing the enemy to shreds with overwhelming numbers!
No one expected that the battle would turn out to be one-sided from the very beginning.

The newly formed alien army, faced with an undead army that far outnumbered them, couldn't even muster a decent resistance. They were directly overwhelmed, then completely surrounded, and eventually devoured bit by bit.

This is not over yet.

In the brief interval between the 29th wave of alien spawning, the corpses of all the previous 28 waves of aliens that had fallen were instantly swallowed up by the ever-expanding black swamp beneath their feet.

Before long, they swayed and stood up again, their empty eye sockets glowing with an eerie black light, becoming new members of Lin Ye's resurrected army.

In the monitoring room, Yin Liulan and Nie Cang finally had a chance to shift their gaze from Lin Ye's mind-blowing image to the others.

Dongfang Zhen is still persisting, but he is already at his last gasp.

The light of the lightning field dimmed considerably. He leaned on his lightning-patterned halberd, his chest heaving violently, his spiritual power and aura nearly exhausted.

Zhang Daoxuan's image went completely dark halfway through wave 27.

The rest had already been eliminated.

[The 29th wave of attacks is coming!]

A cold notification sound rang out, and a new wave of alien races began to coalesce and take shape on the distant wasteland.

The terrifying number of them and the powerful aura they exuded made Nie Cang sigh inwardly.

There were more than 300 alien races, of which nearly 100 were elites.

Even more terrifying, in the four corners of the legion, stood four enormous, leader-level alien races!

This kind of force is beyond what a Qi Condensation Realm martial artist can withstand.

Nie Cang couldn't understand what the person who designed this assessment system was thinking.

However, when he and Yin Liulan's gaze returned to Lin Ye's image, they were both stunned.

Facing an enemy that could drive any chosen one to despair, Lin Ye simply stood behind his army of the dead, which had grown to over a thousand, and indifferently raised his hand, snapping his fingers lightly.

Snapped.

The crisp sound was like a signal.

The next moment, among the puppet legion under his command, those Molten Demon puppets who hadn't had time to self-destruct in the previous battle had their molten cores on their chests instantly blaze with an extremely intense light.

Like a swarm of fireflies given a mission, they fearlessly charged into the assembling 29th wave of alien forces.

They did not detonate in sequence, creating chaos.

Instead, under Lin Ye's precise control, they arrived at their respective preset coordinates at the same time, maximizing their coverage of the enemy formation.

Then, they all self-destruct at the same time!
boom--! ! ! !

Dozens of devastating fireballs erupted within the alien army, linking together to form a sea of fire and death.

Even more terrifying is that among the alien races that attacked in the 29th wave, there were a large number of Molten Demons.

These living Molten Demons were caught in the terrifying heat and shockwave of the explosion, causing their molten cores to instantly go out of control and triggering a violent chain reaction.

They exploded too!

In an instant, the entire virtual battlefield was engulfed by blinding white light.

Immediately afterwards, a huge mushroom cloud, mixed with the smell of sulfur and burning, slowly rose above the wasteland.

After the deafening roar subsided, the world fell completely silent.

The 29th wave of alien races...

Total destruction!

Nie Cang gasped, his entire body frozen in place.

Can you still play like this?
This is already considered the art of war!
Lin Ye has transformed from a trainee undergoing assessment into a commander who oversees the entire situation and strategizes with great skill!

What made him even more uneasy was that Lin Ye's suicidal attack hadn't even depleted all the Molten Demon puppets in his legion.

This means that he can use the same trick again in the upcoming final wave!

Yin Liulan looked at Lin Ye in the picture, then turned her head to look at Nie Cang, who had turned to stone beside her.

"Now, do you still think it's impossible for anyone to get through wave 30?"

Nie Cang shook his head and smiled wryly: "This ability... is simply made for this kind of positional defense warfare."

"With the enemy's corpses constantly appearing, he is theoretically invincible!"

……

A few minutes later.

Lin Ye felt a blur before his eyes, and the surrounding scenery vanished instantly, returning him to a waiting space with pure white walls.

He looked up and saw Dongfang Zhen and Zhang Daoxuan, who were panting heavily and covered in cold sweat.

Almost everyone's face showed exhaustion and despair from surviving a disaster, except for Lin Ye, whose expression was calm and whose breathing was steady, as if he had just come back from a walk.

His composed demeanor instantly attracted everyone's attention.

Is this... the end?

How many waves did he get through?

The same question arose in the minds of almost everyone.

The space rippled slightly, and the figures of Nie Cang and Yin Liulan appeared.

Su Yunjin was standing next to him, but the expression on her face when she looked at Lin Ye still carried a hint of lingering fear that she could not hide.

Holding a data board, Nie Cang glanced at the crowd and announced loudly, "The first test, holding the position, is over. The results will now be announced."

His voice was devoid of emotion as he began to read out each person's results from low to high.

As he read out each name, those students who had only survived a dozen or so waves all showed frustration and resentment on their faces.

When they heard the subsequent names and scores, the frustration on their faces was gradually replaced by shock.

So the terrifying situation I was facing was far from the limit?
Is there really anyone who can keep going?
"Lu Jiuxiao has successfully passed 20 waves!"

Upon hearing this, many students cast admiring glances at Lu Jiuxiao.

Lu Jiuxiao raised his chin slightly, a hint of smugness on his face.

He glanced at Wei Shuying and Ye Qi, a cold smile playing on his lips.

You guys only have 20 waves at most, don't even think about pulling ahead of me in this aspect.

But the next second, the two names Nie Cang uttered made Lu Jiuxiao's smug expression freeze instantly.

"Wei Shuying has successfully passed wave 23!"

"Ye Qi, you've successfully passed wave 26!"

Lu Jiuxiao's expression completely changed, and he couldn't help but question, "Isn't the maximum 20 waves? How come they..."

Yin Liulan glanced at him coldly: "You'll die after killing the 20th wave. Do you think you can survive until the 21st wave?"

One sentence silenced Lu Jiuxiao instantly, his face flushed red, but he couldn't utter a single word in rebuttal.

Because that's the truth.

Nie Cang ignored the little incident and continued reading.

"Zhang Daoxuan successfully passed 26 waves, but was defeated midway through the 27th wave!"

"Dongfang Zhen successfully passed wave 29, but was defeated midway through wave 30!"

When these two results were announced, the entire audience fell silent.

Everyone looked at Dongfang Zhen and Zhang Daoxuan as if they were monsters.

After wave 20, is it possible for humans to resist that?

These people at the top of the list...

Are they all gods?!
While their minds were still reeling from the shock, an unexpected name was slowly uttered from Nie Cang's lips.

"Lin Ye, you have successfully passed 30 waves."

"He was not injured throughout the entire assessment, and his assigned area was not invaded by any alien race!"

Upon hearing this, everyone was completely stunned.

Dongfang Zhen suddenly looked up at Lin Ye, his eyes filled with pure shock for the first time.

Those who haven't experienced the subsequent waves simply cannot understand what awaits them after wave 29!
He exerted all his strength, even resorting to his most powerful forbidden techniques, to barely clear out the 29th wave.

As for wave 30... that was true despair.

That was a legion of a thousand alien races, attacking like a landslide and a tsunami!
Among them was even a lord-level alien race that was over ten meters tall and whose aura was so terrifying it was suffocating!

Dongfang Zhen even believed that even if the most outstanding geniuses from the capital or other places came, they would have no chance of passing.

That was a disaster that only a master of the Divine Realm could handle.

However, Lin Ye passed.

Even more impressively, he cleared the game without taking any damage!

This result was beyond the comprehension of everyone present.

Nie Cang suppressed the turmoil in his heart and continued, "Now, let's move on to the second part of the final assessment."

"Of the twenty-one of you, except for Dongfang Zhen, the rest of you will be randomly drawn and paired off until the final winner is determined to face Dongfang Zhen for the chief position."

He glanced at the anxious expressions on the faces of the lower-ranked students and added another sentence.

"The final ranking will be based on your overall performance in the battle."

"Don't worry about not getting a single point because you encounter an opponent who is far stronger than you."

This statement dispelled the concerns of many people.

After all, random drawing involves a large element of luck.

Some people might encounter a complete novice, while others might bump into a genius as soon as they step out the door.

If the final decision is based on combat performance, then even if you lose, as long as you fight well enough, you still have a chance.

Soon, a huge light screen and a battle schedule appeared before everyone's eyes.

The names on the screen began to flash wildly and erratically, each flash tugging at the students' taut nerves. Finally, the screen froze.

Ten matches, twenty names, neatly arranged.

Almost everyone's attention was subconsciously focused on one particular match, ignoring the other matchups.

Lin Ye VS Wei Shuying.

Nine out of these ten matches were completely one-sided.

Either a top-ranked student will clash with a lower-ranked student, or two students with similar rankings but mediocre skills will face off. It's almost predictable that it will be a battle of weaklings.

This is the only one that truly matters.

One is a mysterious prodigy who was once one of the "Five Heavenly Kings," whose ranking has now fallen, but who announced his return with a perfect performance in the first assessment.

The other is the only female student who possesses ordinary elemental martial arts spirituality and has consistently ranked among the top five.

Once the two sides were determined, the figures of the twenty students instantly disappeared from their original locations and were teleported to their respective virtual battle spaces.

Inside the martial arts hall, only three instructors and one special spectator remained.

Dongfang Zhen.

As the top scorer in the previous two assessments and the long-time leader in Nirvana Tower's hunting credit rankings, he qualified for a direct entry into the final assessment battle.

At this moment, he paid no attention to the other arenas, crossed his arms, and stared intently at Lin Ye and Wei Shuying on the stage.

Brother Lin... just how strong are you now?

……

On the virtual arena, light and shadow flowed, and the two faced each other from a distance of a hundred meters.

The countdown numbers slowly slid down in mid-air.

"10, 9, 8..."

Before the battle even began, Wei Shuying's eyes were already extremely serious.

She knew very well that Lin Ye was not the kind of brute force opponent like Lu Jiuxiao, whom she could defeat with ease.

That unpredictable, almost teleporting speed meant she had to completely restrict it from the very first moment the battle began.

Just as her thoughts were turning, Lin Ye suddenly felt a chill run through her body.

Even though the countdown hadn't ended yet, the surrounding air temperature began to drop at an alarming rate.

In an instant, Lin Ye exhaled a clear white breath, and a layer of visible frost quickly condensed on the surface of the metal arena beneath his feet.

At the same time, a vast and cold domain, centered on Wei Shuying, spread out like ripples, instantly covering the entire arena.

The manifestation of elemental martial arts spirituality reaching level three: forming one's own domain!
Transform the battlefield into your own domain, constantly weakening the enemy and strengthening yourself.

In the stands, Nie Cang frowned: "The battle hasn't even started yet, and she's already committing a foul."

Yin Liulan's gaze remained calm as she said indifferently, "It's considered a jump start. Regardless of whether you win or lose, you'll lose some points."

The moment the countdown ended, a cold glint flashed in Wei Shuying's eyes. Without the slightest hesitation, she stretched out her palm from a hundred meters away and made a grasping motion towards Lin Ye's direction!
The next moment, Lin Ye felt an extremely chilling aura that ignored his protective qi and directly invaded his body.

The chill seemed to possess a life of its own, spreading wildly along his meridians and blood vessels, attempting to completely freeze his blood and even his internal energy.

Previously, Lu Jiuxiao's fierce aura was disintegrated from within by this move, ultimately leading to his defeat.

At the same time, Lin Ye discovered that his feet had been frozen in place by thick ice, and the ice was even spreading rapidly upwards, soon reaching above his knees.

"Ice Soul Thousand Edges!"

Wei Shuying's cool, low voice rang out.

Above the arena, the moisture in the air was instantly sucked away, condensing into dozens of incredibly sharp ice spikes.

As her hand gesture fell, it transformed into a dense barrage of death bullets, shooting towards Lin Ye with a shrill sound that tore through the air!

Control, erosion, and ultimate strike!

The three-stage attack was executed smoothly and seamlessly.

However, faced with this offensive that could drive any opponent of the same level to despair, Lin Ye only had a slight thought.

The golden liquid energy flowing within his body only rippled slightly.

In an instant, all the ice-attribute energy that had invaded the body was like snow meeting the scorching sun, unable to put up any resistance, and was completely evaporated by the domineering and incomparable golden aura!

Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!
The dense ice spikes bombarded the thin layer of golden aura on Lin Ye's body, but only produced a series of crisp impact sounds before exploding into a sky full of ice mist, leaving not even a trace of white.

No defenses breached?!
Wei Shuying's heart skipped a beat.

Crack—Bang!

A crisper cracking sound rang out, causing her expression to change drastically.

That was the sound of the solid ice beneath Lin Ye's feet, which bound him, shattering under the impact of the golden aura.

not good!

Alarm bells rang in Wei Shuying's mind. She could no longer care about her composure and unleashed her full spiritual power, pushing the spirituality within her body to its limit.

Three solid ice walls, each half a meter thick and shimmering with a ghostly blue light, appeared one after another in front of her; this was the strongest defense she could muster.

But the next second, her pupils suddenly contracted.

She saw that the three ice walls, strong enough to withstand heavy artillery bombardment, were as fragile as tofu in front of Lin Ye's spear tip.

puff!
A barely audible sound.

Wei Shuying lowered her head, looking at the bowl-sized transparent hole in her chest, her eyes filled with confusion and bewilderment.

In the next instant, her figure transformed into specks of light and vanished into nothingness.

The system's cold, analytical voice echoed across the silent arena.

[Lin Ye wins!]

At this moment, both Dongfang Zhen, who was watching from the sidelines, and Nie Cangsu Yunjin were somewhat taken aback.

what happened?
From the start of the battle to its end, it probably took less than two seconds at most.

At the beginning, didn't Wei Shuying still have an absolute advantage, suppressing Lin Ye with her domain and controlling him with ice, completely overwhelming him with a series of moves?

How could someone disappear in the blink of an eye?
On the arena, the icy mist slowly dissipated.

Lin Ye withdrew the Piercing Star Spear, and the golden aura on his body slowly flowed, without a trace of ice crystals remaining, as if the magnificent ice and snow storm just now was just an illusion.

He simply thrust his spear forward calmly.

This thrust did not employ any fancy martial arts techniques; it was simply the purest form of energy, concentrating all its power into a single point and thrusting forward.

But with this simple, almost imperceptible thrust, the gun's wind parted the icy mist, pierced through three ice walls in an instant, and finally, penetrated Wei Shuying's chest.

The victory was simple and unpretentious.

It's so powerful it sends chills down your spine.

Lin Ye himself was also savoring the feeling of that shot.

He had thought that breaking Wei Shuying's icy confinement might require using the passive ability "Unstoppable".

In reality, before he could even test this idea, the golden aura within his body proactively resolved all his troubles in a completely unreasonable and devastating way.

That shot was a probing attack he made after breaking through, against an opponent who was also a human martial artist.

The result is what we see here.

In the stands, Dongfang Zhen felt his body trembling slightly.

It wasn't fear, but excitement.

It is the overwhelming fighting spirit that is almost boiling and burning from the depths of one's soul when one sees a truly worthy opponent.

Nie Cang's face was also filled with astonishment and shock.

Nearby, several instructors responsible for recording combat performance and scoring the trainees looked at each other, their pens hovering in mid-air, unsure of what to do.

Record the process?

What is the process?
The game begins with the player being controlled, then the control is broken, a counter-kill occurs, and the game ends.

If I were to write down the whole process, it would probably take less than ten words.

"How...how do we score this?"

A young instructor muttered to himself.

Another instructor said with a bitter face, "Just give him full marks, what else can we write? Combat performance: One shot, one kill."

"If I submit this report, won't the head instructor shut me down immediately?"

Ignoring her subordinates' embarrassment, Yin Liulan glanced at Dongfang Zhen, who was already eager to try, and then asked Nie Cang, "What is the attribute of his Gang Sha?"

"Fire attribute? Or Yang attribute?"

Nie Cang shook his head, his expression solemn: "I don't know, I've never seen this kind of aura before."

"If it is of the fire element, the aura should be orange or red. Although the aura of the yang element is also gold, it will clearly exude the characteristics of extreme strength and yang."

“But I can’t sense any clear attribute characteristics from his aura.”

Yin Liulan pondered for a moment before finally making a decision: "It's impossible to determine whether his Gang Sha attribute naturally counters the ice attribute, or whether it's simply a matter of overwhelming power."

"In the next battle, let him face either Zhang Daoxuan or Ye Qi; we'll draw the match between those two."

Yin Liulan changed her strategy for the match.

She has realized that the training camp has long since changed from a situation of "one superpower and many strong teams" to a situation of "two superpowers and many strong teams".

Lin Ye, however, is the bigger variable.

She didn't see anything of value in her battle with Wei Shuying.

Including the previous illusionary trial, Lin Ye only demonstrated the incredible ability to resurrect corpses and fight as puppets.

As for where his true personal strength limit lies after breaking through to the Condensation Realm, it remains a mystery.

Therefore, she needs a harder and more "durable" touchstone.

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