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

Chapter 136 Scaled Garacha

The size of the entire valley far exceeded Lin Ye's expectations.

The primitive structures built of sandstone and giant bones, like huge, earthen-yellow fortresses, are scattered throughout the valley basin, stretching for kilometers.

A gentle breeze carried the strange, sweet-smelling scent of some unknown plant.

Lin Ye's figure silently lurked behind a giant rock.

He made a rough estimate.

This complex of buildings comprises at least fifty or sixty settlements.

If each settlement is a family unit consisting of 5 to 8 Shadowscale.

The total number of the Tianyuan alien race entrenched in this area is at least three or four hundred, and may even be close to six or seven hundred.

Lin Ye was not so arrogant as to think he could directly confront a large alien army that knew how to coordinate tactics.

Even though he had just completed a racial advancement and his strength had increased dramatically.

Therefore, Lin Ye did not make any sound. He kept his body extremely low, close to the shadows cast by the dense vegetation along the edge of the canyon, and slowly crept towards a settlement located on the far left and edge of the valley.

The buildings there are the sparsest and spaced far enough apart, making it the best place to start.

It wouldn't warrant killing one family and stirring up a hornet's nest for the entire tribe.

Soon, Lin Ye's figure flashed like a ghost into a simple shed made of a mixture of huge banana leaves and some kind of plant veins and mud.

The shack was dimly lit, and the stench in the air was almost suffocating.

Excrement and the rotting corpses of mutated beasts, half-eaten, were piled up haphazardly on the ground, less than a meter apart.

The moment he entered, two rough and violent roars suddenly rang out!
Lin Ye's gaze swept over them.

Two male Shadowscale Clan members, significantly larger than any he had encountered outside, were staring intently at him.

Without the slightest hesitation, they let out threatening growls, and their limbs, covered in jet-black scales, suddenly exerted force, like two arrows released from a bow, opening their sharp bone claws and swooping towards Lin Ye!

At the same time, Lin Ye caught a glimpse out of the corner of his eye that, in the shadows deeper inside the shed, several relatively slender figures were carrying something and hurriedly hid behind a partition in the inner room amidst a panicked scream.

Lin Ye's eyes remained completely unmoved.

Faced with two male Shadowscale Clan members charging at him, he flicked his wrist.

The Piercing Star Spear was like a poisonous dragon, instantly unleashing two spear shadows so fast that they could not be caught by the naked eye.

Extreme speed and power are perfectly combined in this moment.

The momentum of the two male Shadowscale Clan members lunging forward came to an abrupt halt.

The ferocity in their eyes had not yet faded, but a gaping hole had already appeared in their throats.

Large amounts of dark green blood gushed out. They didn't even have time to scream before collapsing to the ground, twitching a few times, and then falling silent.

Instant kill!

Lin Ye didn't even glance at the corpse on the ground. In a flash, he rushed into the room behind.

Several sharper cries, filled with panic and fear, rang out.

The scene inside came into Lin Ye's view.

Three slender female Shadowscale were huddled in a corner, staring at him, the uninvited guest, with fear in their eyes.

Behind them, huddled up an even smaller, still-young Shadowscale cub.

The cub looked to be newly born, its scales not yet fully grown, with large patches of pinkish-red skin exposed, making it appear ugly and fragile.

Besides them, in the far corner of the room, there was an elderly female with a hunched back and grayish-white scales all over her body, trembling all over.

Lin Ye understood instantly.

These are the women and children in this Shadowscale tribe family.

Lin Ye's gaze was as cold as ice that had stood for millennia.

He did not hesitate for a moment.

The Piercing Star Spear in his hand drew a cold arc in the dimly lit room, the wind from the spear whistling as it aimed directly at the three young female Shadow Scale Clan members who possessed considerable combat power!

What about women and children?
Zhang Fu's face flashed through Lin Ye's mind.

He is from Linchuan City. He said that his wife, children, family, and parents are all dead.

He was all alone, with no ties to him.

At that moment, Lin Ye still saw loneliness, sorrow, and deep-seated hatred in the eyes of this shrewd and calculating man.

When Linchuan City fell, did these invading alien races show any mercy to human women and children while slaughtering humans?

No!

Since there isn't one, he won't feel any psychological burden at all!
The human race and the Heavenly Abyss have been locked in an irreconcilable blood feud since the moment they arrived on Earth.

Mercy to the enemy is cruelty to one's own people.

Extermination and annihilation are the greatest retribution for this war against these alien races!

The gunshot swept across, and three sprays of dark green blood bloomed tragically in mid-air.

The three female Shadowscale Clan members didn't even have time to put up any effective resistance before they were cut in half at the waist, their internal organs and blood spilling all over the ground.

The strong smell of blood instantly filled the entire room.

"Woo...Woo..."

The old Shadowscale trembled even more violently upon seeing this.

It lay prostrate on the ground, uttering incomprehensible pleas, its golden vertical pupils filled with humility and begging.

At the same time, a cub beside it, which looked no bigger than a human child, was also imitating the elderly Shadowscale Clan member, constantly kowtowing to Lin Ye.

Lin Ye's spear tip paused slightly.

The moment he saw the cub begging for mercy, his heart, which had been as hard as a rock, actually wavered slightly.

Am I being too cruel, too cold-blooded, and inhumane in doing this?
However, this thought lasted for less than a fraction of a second.

The next moment, Lin Ye's pupils suddenly contracted!
The Shadowscale Clan cub, kneeling on the ground with pleading eyes, suddenly opened its mouth under the cover of its kowtowing!

puff--!
A large amount of dark green corrosive liquid, like a high-pressure water gun, burst out of its mouth and shot straight at Lin Ye's face!

At the same time, a sharp whooshing sound came from behind!
The old woman of the Shadow Scale Clan, who had been lying prostrate on the ground, suddenly sprang up. Her tail, which had been gathering power for a long time, whipped Lin Ye's head with a whooshing sound!

In its turbid vertical pupils, there was no trace of humility left, only an intense, irrepressible resentment and murderous intent!
A semi-transparent purple crystal wall materialized out of thin air in front of Lin Ye.

The corrosive acid splashed onto the crystal wall, making a piercing "sizzling" sound, but it failed to shake it in the slightest.

At the same time, Lin Ye didn't even turn around.

A crystal blade, as thin as a cicada's wing and almost completely transparent, flashed past him!

puff!

The tail that was lashed out snapped off instantly!

The crystal blade in mid-air and the crystal wall in front of Lin Ye disappeared together.

The last trace of concern and pity in Lin Ye's heart was completely severed and vanished at this moment.

These alien races, from the old to the young, are filled with cunning and cruelty to the core.

Even when they're begging for mercy on their knees, all they can think about is how to kill you in the most vicious way!

The shadow of the gun flickered.

Two soft sounds.

Lin Ye used the most decisive and efficient method to send the last old and young Shadow Scale Clan member to hell.

He bent down and used his spear to pluck out the life crystals from the heads of all the Shadowscale Clan corpses in the room.

Seven black, rhomboid crystals of varying sizes lay quietly in his palm.

Lin Ye clenched his fist.

He suddenly realized that, like Yuan Jing, he didn't seem to need to swallow these things as before.

As he grasped these life crystals, streams of cold and chaotic energy spontaneously overflowed from the crystals, flowing into his body through the skin of his palm.

The Taotie mechanism is functioning normally.

Lin Ye breathed a sigh of relief.

He always felt disgusted by devouring these things dug out of the brains of alien races, and he instinctively resisted the act.

But in order to become stronger, they have to force themselves to accept it.

The Shadowscale Clan, a humanoid race, is actually quite good.

With just a little imagination, Lin Ye could figure out that there must be countless more twisted and disgusting alien races existing in the entire Tianyuan world.

For example, the Zerg, or certain slime creatures.

If he were really allowed to devour the cores of those things, he would probably spit them out.

The fact that it can now be absorbed directly by hand is the system's last act of mercy.

Lin Ye left the shack where he had slaughtered everyone.

He repeated the same method, his figure once again blending into the shadows, silently slipping into another, larger stone house not far away.

This time, Lin Ye felt no emotion whatsoever.

Whether he encountered a strong Shadowscale warrior, a frail woman or child, an old man or a cub.

Kill on sight!

Every shot draws blood!

Just as he finished dealing with all the living creatures in the stone house and was about to leave.

His keen mental power suddenly detected an extremely faint life fluctuation coming from the ground beneath his feet.

Lin Ye bent down and carefully felt it.

He quickly raised his Piercing Star Spear and used it to pry open the thick layer of dry grass and animal hides covering the ground.

A crude pit made of mud appeared before his eyes.

Inside the crater, there were five or six giant eggs, each about the size of an ostrich egg, covered with strange black markings.

The eggshells were even trembling slightly, as if the life inside might break out at any moment.

Are these Shadowscale creatures oviparous?

Lin Ye didn't think much about it, nor did he hesitate at all.

He raised the Star Piercing Spear and tapped each of the giant eggs.

puff!puff!puff!
The hard eggshell was easily pierced, and the foul-smelling egg liquid mixed with the gradually forming Shadowscale Clan embryo spilled all over the ground.

To cut weeds, we must remove the roots.

After doing all this, Lin Ye turned and left.

He was like the Grim Reaper, silent and efficient.

He constantly traversed the periphery of this vast tribe, entering huts and stone houses.

Almost every time they infiltrated, they only stayed inside for a few minutes.

When he left, there was no one left alive in that room.

……

The temporary command post in the southern suburbs.

"Battalion Commander, we've sent the order to contestant number 37's wristwatch confirming the selection is over and that he's number one, but... there's been no response," a communications soldier suddenly reported.

"No response?" Wang Lingchuan frowned slightly.

"Was the signal interfered with? The environment of the Northern Rift Valley is indeed complex."

"No, the signal pathway is normal."

The communications soldier's expression was somewhat strange.

"But... it seems the other party didn't accept it, and..."

"Selector #37's points are still increasing!"

Soon, the score number representing Lin Ye was displayed on the main screen.

77891.

This number remained on the screen for less than three seconds.

Then it suddenly jumped upwards.

78391 (+500)!
Followed by.

+500!

……

The notifications of increasing points started refreshing the screen like crazy.

Moreover, this upward trend shows no signs of stopping!
"What is he doing?"

"Check what targets he's killing!" Wang Lingchuan ordered.

The data stream flashed across the screen at lightning speed.

Soon, kill notifications that had just been automatically verified by the system were listed out.

[Kill confirmed: Shadowscale Clan (male), points +500]

[Kill confirmed: Shadowscale Clan (female), points +400]

[Kill Confirmed: Shadowscale Clan (Elderly Individual), Points +350] [Kill Confirmed: Shadowscale Clan (Juvenile), Points +100]

……

Row upon row, all Shadowscale Clan!

Looking at these kill records, all the experienced officers present felt a chill run down their spines.

They certainly knew what the Shadowscale Clan was.

That is one of the most dangerous alien races of the Tianyuan, which is entrenched deep in the Great Rift Valley in the north and in the entire occupied area!

Each adult Shadowscale possesses strength comparable to a mid-stage Qi Refining Realm martial artist, and also has the ability to appear and disappear unpredictably through mimicry and disguise.

The kill information uploaded by Lin Ye included not only adult individuals, but also females, elderly individuals, and even juveniles!

Everyone present knew perfectly well what this meant.

"He found the Shadowscale Clan's lair?!"

"He's committing massacre! He's single-handedly slaughtering the entire Shadowscale tribe!!"

This seemingly insane conclusion caused an uproar in the entire command center.

"How could he possibly have single-handedly stormed into the Shadowscale Clan's lair!"

Everyone knew that the occupied areas were dangerous.

Furthermore, the danger primarily stems from the remaining alien races.

Furthermore, these alien races were deliberately preserved to increase the difficulty and unpredictability of the entire selection process, to provide more points to the stronger candidates, and to widen the gap between them.

In their imagination, even the best selectors would have a difficult time winning against the Shadowscale Clan, and at most they would try to hunt down any lone ones on the periphery.

The top-ranked contestant in the previous selection might even choose to avoid the competition and withdraw from this dangerous area.

They couldn't imagine it.

Lin Ye not only did not choose to withdraw, but directly stormed into the Shadow Scale Clan's lair!

Should I avoid him?
Furthermore, judging from the speed at which his points are increasing, it seems he's wiping out entire groups of enemies with a single strike!
"Hahaha! A monster... truly a monster through and through!"

Wang Lingchuan leaned back in his chair, feeling both surprised and somewhat worried about Lin Ye's terrifying strength.

This is no joke!
Now, Wang Lingchuan is no longer thinking about what the other participants in the selection process are like.

The real question is how to protect Lin Ye, the dark horse who has given them so many surprises!
"Assemble the troops and head to the Rift Valley to support him!"

……

Lin Ye had just stepped out of a low sandstone house, and he had lost count of how many Shadowscale Clan members he had killed.

All he knew was that he had also gained a lot of attribute bonuses through the Taotie mechanism.

He's still getting stronger!
As Lin Ye was preparing to head to the next house, the surroundings were still deathly silent.

next moment--

when!
when!
when!
Suddenly, three heavy and rapid impacts shattered the tranquility of the valley.

The sound was not like metal, but more like the buzzing of a huge animal bone being struck hard against a strange crystal that could resonate with the mountain.

The sound waves echoed repeatedly among the surrounding cliffs, lingering for a long time, carrying a primitive and austere charm.

This is... an alarm?!

Lin Ye's pupils suddenly contracted.

Discovered?

When was it exposed?

Lin Ye didn't have time to think it through.

“Guga——!”

"Sisaba—!"

Throughout the valley, from the earthen-yellow buildings, the angry and shrill roars of the Shadowscale Clan echoed one after another.

One after another, agile, dark figures surged out of their hive like a swarm of bees startled from their nest.

The next moment, a dense series of whooshing sounds came from all directions.

Before Lin Ye could even see where the attack came from, his fighting instincts drove him to roll to the side.

The spot where he had been standing was instantly covered with dozens of thin, dark green spikes.

Blowgun!

The arrow was coated with a ghostly green venom, gleaming with an ominous light.

I'm convinced I've been completely exposed.

Lin Ye had no more illusions and no desire to continue the fight.

He suddenly leaped to his feet, identified the direction of the valley entrance, and took off running!

"Provide the card!"

A Shadowscale warrior who was closest to him roared and pounced, its bone blade tracing a tricky arc as it aimed straight for his neck.

Lin Ye didn't even turn his head, and with a backhand motion, he drew his spear!
Cleave activated!
The Star Piercing Spear shattered the upper body of the Shadow Scale Clan member to pieces!

An invisible blade of wind spread out from the tip of the spear.

Another Shadowscale Clan member, who had just emerged from the stone house and was preparing to join the encirclement, suddenly froze.

A hideous bloodline suddenly split open on its chest, and dark green blood gushed out. Its body was thrown backward by the enormous force, crashing directly into the sandstone wall behind it.

One strike, killing two instantly!

Lin Ye didn't stop, his whole body like a heavily armored tank speeding towards the valley entrance, charging fiercely!

Along the way, Shadowscale warriors constantly emerged from the shadows of buildings, from the sand beneath the ground, and from the crevices of rock walls, attempting to stop him.

But these fearless alien races are as fragile as paper in front of Lin Ye now.

Lin Ye didn't even have time to use any marksmanship techniques.

It's the simplest and most direct sweeping and thrusting!

Every swing of the gun inevitably brings forth a storm of bloodshed.

With the blessing of Cleave, each of his attacks became a small-scale death storm.

Wherever the spear blade passed, limbs and severed arms flew everywhere, and dark green blood almost completely soaked the road in front of him.

However, the poisoned arrows coming from all directions became more numerous and denser.

Ding-ding-ding-ding!

A dense rain of poisoned arrows fell upon him.

With a thought, Lin Ye instantly covered his entire body with purple crystals.

All the poisoned arrows were deflected by the sturdy crystal armor, producing a series of crisp sounds.

Lin Ye's attack became increasingly fierce.

The valley entrance is right in front of us!
Once he breaks out of this gourd-shaped valley and enters the sandstorm-ravaged rift valley, he can use the terrain to shake off his pursuers.

However, just as Lin Ye was about to step out of the valley,

A chilling and heart-pounding feeling, originating from the depths of his soul, seized his heart without warning!

It was as if the path ahead was not a wide-open escape route, but a gaping maw of abyss capable of swallowing everything.

This strong intuition led Lin Ye to make an inexplicable move almost instinctively.

His forward momentum suddenly came to an abrupt halt at the peak of his charge!

His feet were firmly planted in the ground like nails, and the powerful inertia even plowed two deep trenches into the ground.

Surrounded by countless Shadow Scale Clan members, he actually stopped fleeing.

Just as he had guessed.

The instant after he slammed on the brakes.

The clear stream he was about to cross, that seemingly harmless body of water, suddenly shone with a dark, light-devouring brilliance!

A black streak, too fast for the naked eye to see, shot up from the water and swept past Lin Ye's nose!

The shrill sound of the air being torn apart by the black light finally arrived.

Whether it was a hard rock wall or a thick tree trunk, everything was sliced open like tofu in front of this black light.

In the distance, the mountain wall was ripped open with a terrifying, bottomless crack!
A bead of cold sweat trickled down Lin Ye's forehead.

If he hadn't stopped just now, he would have lost a lot of health points even if he hadn't been cut off.

Lin Ye stared intently at the "river" in front of him.

The stream turned into bubbles, and a suffocating shadow slowly rose from the water.

That's not a stream at all!
That's a creature's tail!

"Humanity……"

A hoarse, metallic voice rang out.

Speaking broken Daxia language.

"How dare you... come here..."

As the river receded to both sides, a gigantic creature, three or four meters tall and covered in jet-black scales, slowly straightened up.

The edges of its scales shimmered with a crimson metallic luster, like flowing lava.

Above its head, three menacing bony horns curved backward, like those of a demon.

What is most striking is its thick throat.

There, a gland emitting a ghostly blue light grew, flickering like a heart with each breath, creating an eerie atmosphere.

Its forelimbs are muscular and its claws are half a meter long, gleaming with a cold light.

Its hind legs are as thick as pillars, firmly planted on the ground.

The terrifying long tail that Lin Ye mistook for a river swayed slowly, longer than his body, with the end of the tail forked into two sharp blades covered with serrated barbs.

In Lin Ye's eyes, a glaring orange-red mark appeared above its head.

【LV.30】

【Scaled Garacha (Lord)】

[Evolutionary Level: 1.51]

The system has determined it to be Lord level!

At that moment, Garacha raised its thick right arm.

A simple gesture, yet it contains supreme majesty.

All attacks targeting Lin Ye stopped instantly.

The rain of arrows disappeared.

The entire valley fell silent once again.

Although their size was far smaller than Garacha's, they were still much taller and stronger than ordinary Shadowscale Clan members. Clad in fine bone armor, these elite warriors stood guard around Garacha like the most loyal protectors.

Meanwhile, the Shadowscale Clan, who had poured out from all parts of the valley, had completed their encirclement.

A dark mass of people completely blocked the entrance to the valley.

Lin Ye sighed inwardly.

He had anticipated this situation; after all, it was an almost impossible task for one person to infiltrate and assassinate an entire tribe.

But after glancing around at the menacing Shadowscale Clan members, he felt a slight sense of relief.

He overestimated the size of the tribe.

I originally thought there were at least three or four hundred, but now it seems that, apart from those he killed, there are only a little over a hundred that are truly capable of fighting.

Come to think of it.

If this Shadowscale tribe were any larger, how could the Ninghai military, with its control, possibly allow this enormous threat to grow and expand in the heart of the occupied territory?

The population size of one hundred to two hundred is probably the result of the military deliberately maintaining it.

"I admire...your courage."

Garasha's golden vertical pupils were fixed on Lin Ye.

"I enjoy...fighting...with...your strong ones."

It stared at Lin Ye, took a few steps, and each step caused the ground to tremble slightly.

Then, it let out a low roar in the language of the Shadowscale Clan.

Lin Ye couldn't understand.

But he saw that the four elite guards, as well as all the Shadowscale Clan members who had surrounded them, retreated in unison after hearing the roar, making way for a huge open space.

Lin Ye understood instantly.

The Shadowscale Clan Chieftain before him wanted to fight him one-on-one.

Garacha twisted its thick neck, making a cracking sound as its bones popped.

It opened its huge mouth, revealing a mouthful of fine and sharp fangs, and spoke the second half of the sentence in broken Daxia language.

"But I prefer... the feeling of crushing your skinny heads."

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