wuxianovels18 Chapter 241 - 142: Gaining Another Skill, the General Star Camp Begins
Chapter 241 - 142: Gaining Another Skill, the General Star Camp Begins
They writhed like thousands of crazed white vipers, lashing out in every direction to force back their attackers.
CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!
Lin Ye bore the brunt of the attack. Countless fungal filaments lashed against his body, which was covered in Shadow Scale, producing a rapid series of metallic clangs.
But... it still didn’t break through his defenses!
After being enhanced to its limit by the Source Crystal, Shadow Scale’s Defense Power, while not as purely rigid as Crystalization’s, still demonstrated astonishing toughness against these flexible, lashing attacks.
Facing four genuine Gang Condensation Realm experts—plus Lin Ye, who had entered his second phase with combat power rivaling a novice in the Gang Condensation Realm—the outcome of the battle was no longer in doubt.
Gang Sha flowed over the weapons in the hands of Shi Ruifeng and the other three. Every Slash severed a large swath of the milky-white filaments.
They controlled their power with precision. Their goal wasn’t to completely destroy the filaments, but to continuously weaken and restrain the creature, forcing it to expose its weak point.
"Lin Ye!"
Shi Ruifeng barked.
He and the other three team members unleashed their power in unison. Their four weapons intertwined like a net, forcefully ripping a massive gash in the main body of the writhing fungal mass!
Lin Ye understood instantly and peered through the opening.
There, wrapped in countless layers of filaments, was a basketball-sized core. It was semi-transparent, and its interior was filled with complex patterns that resembled the gyri of a human brain. The core was vibrating violently.
’This is the Fungal Descendant Corpse King’s true weak point!’
Lin Ye immediately understood that Shi Ruifeng and the others were deliberately creating this opportunity for him.
Their main goal was to end the crisis as quickly as possible, but that didn’t conflict with letting Lin Ye complete his trial.
Entrusting him with the final blow was both a testament to his strength and a profound display of trust.
Lin Ye had no intention of betraying that trust.
He watched as countless milky-white filaments swarmed frantically to cover the gash, trying to seal it shut.
’Now’s the time!’
At that moment, the Qi and Blood within Lin Ye’s body erupted without reservation!
The black scales that covered his body, perfectly insulating him from the intense heat, receded like a tide.
In their place, a suit of dense, angular, deep-purple crystal armor formed!
Shadow Scale had instantly switched to Crystalization!
The moment he switched, an unbearable, searing pain shot through his entire body.
Without the perfect heat insulation of Shadow Scale, the terrifying temperature of the inferno felt as if it would roast his flesh and soul dry.
Lin Ye gritted his teeth, forcing himself to endure the pain.
The next moment, the Star-Piercing Spear in his hand began to glow with the same brilliant, purple crystalline light!
He switched his spear stance to the Soul-Chasing Form!
Instant Body!
Lin Ye’s figure transformed into a bolt of purple lightning that tore through the sea of flames. Trailing a long, crystalline tail of light, his spear tip hurtled with unstoppable resolve toward the core, which was rapidly being enveloped by the filaments again!
This was the most powerful, peak-level strike he was currently capable of unleashing!
VMMMM—!!!
Shi Ruifeng’s expression changed drastically.
The other three also felt the terrifying, destructive wave of energy wash over them. As if by unspoken agreement, they all took half a step back, giving him a wide berth.
The next moment, a seemingly tangible beam of purple light from the spear exploded at the Fungal Descendant Corpse King’s core!
The entire core, along with the filaments surrounding it, was instantly pierced and annihilated!
The terrifying power of the attack continued unabated, plowing a scorched, black trench half a meter deep and several meters long into the solid ground!
"Waaah... waaaah..."
A faint cry, like that of a newborn baby, echoed in the ears of Lin Ye and the others, filled with resentment and malice.
Immediately after, the writhing mass of milky-white filaments that filled the air seemed to have all its strength drained away, and it instantly went limp.
Upon touching the surrounding flames, the filaments rapidly shriveled and burned, finally turning into a cloud of ash that dissipated into the air.
[You have slain the LVL 30 Fungal Descendant Corpse King!]
[Affected by the Cultivation Technique "Five Qi Guiding Formulas," experience gain rate has been set to 50%!]
[Killing a higher-level enemy has triggered an additional experience reward. Experience gain increased by 150%!]
[You have gained 48,000 experience points!]
[You have completed the side quest: Mystery of the Black Silk!]
[You have gained 30,000 experience points and 3 skill points. Your Mechanism: Taotie has been upgraded!]
A series of crisp notifications chimed one after another in Lin Ye’s mind.
The great weight on his heart finally lifted.
Since the system had confirmed the kill, it meant the monster had been completely erased from the world, with no chance of reviving through other filaments deep within the forest.
PSSSHH—
The moment the creature’s core was annihilated, the fighter jets hovering high above immediately registered the end of the battle.
A massive amount of white fire-extinguishing foam rained down like a saving grace.
The suffocating, intense heat of the inferno dropped at a rapid rate.
However, Lin Ye had still been burned.
In the few seconds it took to switch his skill to Crystalization, he had lost the perfect heat insulation of Shadow Scale, and his skin was covered in burns of varying degrees.
His skin was now stinging with pain.
But when Lin Ye looked up and saw the gigantic web of filaments that had covered the entire Black Silk Forest begin to collapse and dissipate at a visible rate, turning into black ash that fluttered down, it all felt worth it.
Everything was over.
But in the next moment, Lin Ye’s heart suddenly clenched.
’It felt like... he’d forgotten something crucial.’