Doomsday Reboot: My Superpowers Absorb Everything

As the petals of the purifying sunflower warmed slightly in his backpack, Lin Ye lay on the cliff of Black Wind Mountain, watching the outline of the White Bone Castle below gleam coldly in the moonlight. Su Ya's green energy climbed the rock wall along the vines, condensing into a transparent leaf in his palm—this was the "Hidden Leaf," capable of shielding the energy of the bone domain; when placed on the skin, it could avoid the perception of bone beasts.

"Old Zheng said that the Bone King's throne is on the Bone Tower in the center of the castle," the skinny monkey said in a very low voice, the bone blade on his iron spear covered with a layer of purifying flower dew. "The map drawn by Scarface shows that there is a secret passage in the underground prison leading to the basement of the Bone Tower."

Lin Ye gently tore off a hidden leaf and placed it on Zhao Shan's wrist. The old man's body was still very weak; the residual energy from his bone domain caused him to cough frequently, but the determination in his eyes was stronger than anyone else's. "I'll take you to the entrance of the secret passage," Zhao Shan's voice was panting, "Back when I was imprisoned, I felt a loose stone in the corner."

The three slid down the cliff along the vines, landing almost silently. Just as the old carpenter had said, the bone walls surrounding the castle were indeed built of layers of thigh bones, with unweathered fingernails embedded in the gaps, gleaming pale in the moonlight.

"The skulls on the bone wall blink." Zhao Shan pointed to the skulls at the top of the wall, where a faint blue light occasionally flashed in their empty eye sockets. "They're the Bone King's spies. Don't stare at them."

Lin Ye's silver markings danced gently in his palm, and the energy of Yin Ye resonated subtly with the bone wall, like a pebble thrown into water. He gestured for Su Ya to encourage vines to entwine around the nearest skull. The moment the green energy seeped into the bone crevices, the skull's eye sockets suddenly dimmed, like a candle flame being extinguished.

"It works!" Suya's eyes lit up, and the Hidden Leaf energy at her fingertips became even more active. "These skulls contain Red Sha hyphae, and my energy can temporarily paralyze them."

As Lin Ye passed through the side door of the bone wall, he smelled a familiar acrid odor—the smell of burning bones. The streets inside the castle were covered with a thick layer of bone dust, feeling like walking on sand. The doors and windows of the bone houses on both sides were tightly closed, with only the occasional eerie blue light shining through the cracks indicating that bone riders lurked within.

"Turn left, there's a dry well at the third intersection, the secret passage is at the bottom of the well." Zhao Shan's voice was even lower, his fingers were trembling, clearly he had a deep fear of this place.

As they passed a bone house, the sound of chains dragging on the floor suddenly came from inside. Lin Ye immediately pressed everyone down to crouch, raising his Hidden Leaf Energy to its maximum. A moment later, a bone rider pushed out a cart loaded with corpses. The corpses' chests were still rising and falling slightly, clearly "nourishment" that had just been captured.

"They're supplying 'fuel' to the bone kiln." The skinny monkey gripped his iron spear so tightly it creaked, and the dew on the bone blade gleamed faintly. "The bone kiln Old Zhao mentioned is right behind the bone tower."

Lin Ye gestured for him not to act rashly, pointing towards the dry well. The three of them crouched low as they crossed the street. The well's opening was covered by a huge scapula, with a skull carved on it, and red fungal filaments in the eye sockets slowly wriggling.

"I'll do it." Suya's green energy spread along the well wall. The moment Yin Ye touched her shoulder blade, the red sha fungus suddenly curled up, like a frozen snake. The skinny monkey took the opportunity to lift the bone, and a strong smell of blood immediately came from the well.

The ropes leading down the well were woven from purifying vines, resistant to the corrosive effects of the bone domain. The bottom of the well was more spacious than expected, with more than a dozen alcoves carved into the walls, each containing piles of bones, with rusty iron rings still on the finger bones—clearly left by former prisoners.

"The secret passage is behind the third niche on the left." Zhao Shan pointed to the innermost alcove, where the pile of bones was the highest, with the skull on top facing them, its eye sockets gleaming with an eerie light.

Lin Ye's silver markings suddenly heated up. He walked over and parted the white bones, discovering a blurry wolf head pattern carved on the stone wall of the niche, exactly the same as the Iron Hoof Alliance's emblem. "It was left by Zhao Feng's father." He gently tapped the stone wall with his energy blade and, sure enough, heard a hollow echo.

Moving the stones aside revealed a narrow passage, barely wide enough for one person to pass through. It was pitch black inside; the only sound was her own heartbeat. Suya's green energy condensed into a ball of light at her fingertips, illuminating the path ahead—the passage floor was covered with a thin layer of bone powder, imprinted with fresh footprints, indicating that someone had passed through recently.

"It's the Bone Riders." The skinny monkey pressed his iron spear against the ground, revealing a blood-stained piece of cloth beneath the bone dust, embroidered with the Bone Riders' insignia. "They're patrolling the secret passages."

Lin Ye signaled everyone to extinguish the light orbs and proceeded by the faint light of the silver patterns. At the end of the secret passage was a stone chamber containing more than a dozen iron cages, each holding a person, just like the "container candidates" in the church prison, with red fleshy tumor marks painted on their chests.

"They're the people Scarface was talking about!" Skinny Monkey's voice trembled. He recognized one of the boys in the cage as the migrant child who had escaped from the cannery.

The boy saw them too, his eyes lit up instantly, but he didn't dare to make a sound. He just pointed to the shadow in the corner of the stone chamber—there stood a figure wearing bone rider armor, his back to them, playing with a red sha mother core in his hand. It was none other than the Bone King!

Lin Ye's silver markings tightened instantly, and Yin Ye's energy reached its peak. The Bone King seemed to sense something, suddenly turning around, his eyes beneath the bone mask gleaming with a ghostly blue light: "I've been waiting for you for a long time, bearers of the White Scale Seed."

The prisoners in the iron cage let out terrified gasps, but the Bone King ignored them, simply tossing the Crimson Core into the air: "Do you know why these containers weren't transformed? Because their genes all carry the White Scale Serpent's antibodies, just like..." His gaze fell on Zhao Shan, "just like this old friend."

Zhao Shan swayed, his cloudy eyes filled with pain: "You're using them as petri dishes, trying to find the perfect container that can simultaneously hold the white scale antibodies and the red rashes hyphae!"

"Clever." The Bone King caught the mother core with his bone claws. "It's a pity you were too stubborn back then, preferring to be boned rather than hand over the White Scale Serpent's genetic blueprint. But it's alright, now I have a better choice." His gaze fell on Lin Ye's silver markings. "Your silver markings are the most perfect 'key'."

Lin Ye's energy blade was instantly drawn, and dark purple energy exploded in the stone chamber: "Don't dream about it!"

The Bone King retreated unhurriedly, and the floor of the stone chamber suddenly cracked open, revealing the bone kiln below—in the raging flames, countless red fleshy growths floated, like beating hearts, which were the mother nest of the Red Sha fungus cultivated by the Bone King!

"If you want to save them, inject your silver-patterned energy into the Mother Nest," the Bone King said mockingly. "Otherwise, they will all become nourishment for the Mother Nest."

The bars of the iron cage began to tighten, and the prisoners screamed in agony. Lin Ye looked at the figures struggling in the flames, then at the crimson core in the Bone King's hand, the silver patterns throbbing violently in his palm. He knew it was a trap, but he had no other choice.

"Lin Ye, don't believe him!" Su Ya's green energy clung to the iron cage bars, trying to stop the contraction. "He wants your energy to merge with the Mother Nest, creating the Silver-Striped Red Pestilence under his control!"

Suddenly, the Bone King's bone claws pointed at Su Ya, and a bone spear hurtled through the air. Lin Ye's energy shield blocked it in time; the bone spear struck the shield and instantly turned into bone dust. However, tiny bone fragments pierced through the shield and embedded themselves in Su Ya's arm—the wound immediately turned white and began to ossify!

"Suya!" Lin Ye's eyes reddened, and the energy of the silver pattern erupted uncontrollably. The dark purple light resonated intensely with the red light of the mother nest, and the red pustule mycelium in the stone chamber suddenly grew wildly, surging towards his arm like a tide.

"That's it!" The Bone King let out a sinister laugh, his eyes beneath the bone mask gleaming with greed. "Let the energy flow, become the new core of the Bone Domain!"

The moment the red sha mycelium wrapped around the silver pattern, Lin Ye suddenly felt a familiar energy—the blue light of the white-scaled snake! It turned out that Zhao Shan's notes contained a secret: the white-scaled snake's gene chain contained a fragment that could reverse and devour the red sha mycelium!

"You're wrong!" Lin Ye's silver markings erupted with an unprecedented blue light. Dark purple energy merged with the blue light, forming a torrent of blue and purple that surged back into the mother nest along the red pustule mycelium. "It's you who needs to be purified!"

The mother nest emitted a piercing scream amidst the blue-purple light, its red tumors crumbling and turning into golden specks that merged with the flames. The Bone King suddenly clutched his chest with his bone claws, and the red nucleus on his seventh vertebra began to burn, clearly suffering from an energy backlash.

"No—!" The Bone King's armor crumbled in the blue-purple light, revealing his body covered in red bruises. "My Bone Domain!"

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Lin Ye used his energy blade to cleave open all the iron cages, and Skinny Monkey and Su Ya immediately led the prisoners to retreat to the secret passage. Zhao Shan was the last to leave. He looked at the Bone King struggling in the blue-purple light, and suddenly took out a small metal bottle from his pocket, which contained half a bottle of white-scaled snake gall.

"This is what you owe the White Scale Serpent." The old man threw the bile bottle at the flames of the mother nest. The blue liquid met the firelight and instantly turned into a huge flame tornado, which completely engulfed the Bone King and the remaining Red Sha mycelium.

As they emerged from the secret passage, the entire Bone Castle shook. The thigh bones of the bone walls crumbled, the bone beasts turned to bone dust in the blue-purple light, and even the eerie blue of the sky began to fade, revealing the long-lost starlight.

Zhao Shan leaned against the cliff edge, watching the castle collapse in flames, two clear tears streaming down his cloudy eyes: "Finally... it's over..."

Lin Ye supported him, the silver veins gently brushing across his arm, the ossified skin slowly recovering. "Yes, it's over." He gazed towards the distant fortress, where the steel forest shimmered green under the starlight, like an ever-burning lighthouse.

Skinny Monkey and the prisoners had already climbed the vines, the children's laughter drifting down on the wind, carrying the joy of surviving a calamity. Suya stood on the vines, green energy blooming into a golden sunflower at her fingertips, which she waved in their direction.

Lin Ye knew this was not the end. The virus-infected environment remained, the mutants were still there, and perhaps other organizations like the Bone Riders and the Black Crow Hall were lurking in the shadows. But he was no longer afraid, because he had comrades-in-arms, a home to protect, and the silver marking on his right arm that was constantly evolving, carrying the purity of the White Scale Serpent and the resilience of the Sunflower, guiding him forward.

The flames below the cliff gradually died down, revealing fertile black soil. Lin Ye scattered the last handful of purified sunflower seeds there. A silvery blue light gently swept over them, and the seeds sprouted instantly. Golden flowers bloomed in the morning breeze, like countless small suns, illuminating this land that had once been covered by bones and sins.

A new day begins, bringing hope and new challenges. But as long as the seeds continue to grow, and as long as the belief remains in their hearts, they will never stop.