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

Chapter 55 Poison is also an antidote
Lin Ye retreated quickly.

His footsteps echoed faintly in the empty factory as he retreated dozens of meters in one breath.

Only when his back slammed against a cold metal pillar did the intense dizziness that churned his brain and the palpitation that made his heart almost leap out of his chest slowly recede like a tide.

He leaned against the pillar, panting heavily, cold sweat trickling down his face.

What it is?
Lin Ye steadied himself, his gaze fixed on the area on the ground in the distance that emitted a faint blue light.

The mere proximity triggered such a powerful psychological impact.

If I had taken a few more steps forward, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

His gaze froze on the deep blue light.

This scene instantly brought many things to his mind.

The LV8 mutated black panther had this strange blue crystalline powder extracted from its congealed blood.

And that LV9 mutated pangolin with its abnormally high defense, its corpse also had this kind of thing left behind.

Now, in the core area of ​​this abandoned chemical plant, there are so many intact crystals scattered around.

Is this the source?
Lin Ye suppressed the shock in his heart and began to examine the huge factory more carefully.

As his eyes gradually adjusted to the faint moonlight filtering through the hole in the dome, he witnessed an even more horrifying scene.

Inside the factory, besides the dark blue crystals, there were also a large number of animal carcasses scattered around.

They are scattered haphazardly, each with its own unique shape.

Some bodies were half-buried under thick dust, while others lay beside the wreckage of large machinery.

Their only common feature is that their corpses all have the same dark blue crystals growing on them to varying degrees.

These blue crystals, like eerie parasites, sprouted from their flesh and bones, shimmering with an eerie light under the moonlight.

Lin Ye's breath hitched.

His gaze was firmly drawn to one of the most intact corpses.

It was a feline, and its fur characteristics were quite different from those of modern tigers and lions.

It was curled up in the corner, its body covered in dark golden fur. Even in death, one could still tell that it must have been incredibly powerful in life.

It has a single, jet-black horn on its forehead.

It was extremely obvious.

Unicorn?
In this era, due to the catastrophe a century ago, the ecological environment has undergone drastic changes, and all sorts of bizarre mutated beasts have appeared.

But the unicorn lion is long extinct!

According to official statements, they were completely wiped out at least after the cataclysm!
How could there be the carcasses of animals that have been extinct for so long here?

Apart from the dazzling blue crystals on its body, the unicorn's fur and muscles are preserved so well that it seems to have simply fallen into a deep sleep.

Lin Ye fell into thought.

These blue crystals can prevent a corpse from decaying for hundreds of years?
Perhaps these blue crystals are poisonous!

These animals were likely killed by the toxins in the blue crystal after accidentally ingesting or coming into contact with it.

It is precisely because of this toxicity that their corpses have become a no-go zone for microorganisms, thus allowing them to defy the erosion of time and survive to this day.

But new problems arise.

Since the blue crystal is extremely poisonous, why were the mutated black panther and the mutated pangolin with the number [132] able to survive?
Not only did they survive, they even displayed special abilities far exceeding those of other mutated beasts of the same level.

Lin Ye frowned, completely baffled.

Just then, a mechanical notification suddenly exploded in his mind without warning.

[External energy input detected...]

You have gained 0.5 experience points.

Lin Ye froze on the spot.

External energy input? Experience points?
He did nothing!

He neither killed monsters nor cultivated; in fact, he even deliberately slowed his breathing to avoid that blue crystal area.

Where do experience points come from?

Lin Ye's gaze suddenly shifted to the distant crystalline area emitting a faint glow.

Is it...

A thought that made his heart race was growing wildly.

These things are radiating energy!

Lin Ye sat down cross-legged on the spot, closed his eyes, and focused his mind into his body, instantly beginning to circulate the "Five Qi Guiding Technique"!
The next second, Lin Ye opened his eyes in shock.

In his perception through his cultivation technique, the underlying structure of this world had changed!

If we say that the energy particles between heaven and earth in the school's gravity chamber are like faint starlight.

Here, they are the dazzling Milky Way!

The density of the source energy particles, which emitted five colors of light—gold, blue, black, red, and yellow—was several times greater than that of the school's gravity chamber!
As if drawn by some force, they converged from all directions, continuously flowing towards the blue crystal area in the center of the chemical plant.

Those deep blue crystals are like signal base stations, continuously radiating this extremely pure source energy outwards!
A guess formed in Lin Ye's mind.

These blue crystals have been here for at least a century.

This timeframe corresponds to the first year of the cataclysmic event.

Did these things appear along with Tianyuan?

Most living things could not withstand its toxicity and turned into silent specimens in this factory.

But there are always a very few exceptional individuals who, struggling on the edge of life and death, eventually overcome the toxicity and adapt to this energy.

Thus, deadly poison is no longer deadly poison, but a gift of evolution!
The speed of that mutated black panther and the defense of that mutated pangolin were both mutations induced by such extreme environments!

This place is hell for the dead creatures.

But for him...

Lin Ye closed his eyes again and began to try to induce Qi.

He carefully controlled his mental power, extending five invisible threads to simultaneously hook onto five different types of source energy particles.

This time, the process went incredibly smoothly!

The abundant source energy particles rushed towards him almost effortlessly.

Five streams of air, each a different color and of uniform thickness, were easily drawn into his body.

boom!
A perfect five-element cycle is instantly constructed!
A surge of immense energy coursed through his meridians, tempering his internal organs and nourishing every inch of his flesh and blood.

The system notification tone arrived as expected at that moment.

[You have gained 5 experience points from practicing the Five Qi Guiding Technique!]

5 points!
Inside the school's gravity chamber, he activated 1.5 times the gravity and exerted all his strength, but he could only gain 4.5 experience points in one cycle.

Here, you can easily reach 5 points!
This is not the most critical.

Most importantly, the frequency of cultivation!

[You have gained 5 experience points from practicing the Five Qi Guiding Technique!]

[You have gained 5 experience points from practicing the Five Qi Guiding Technique!]

The notification sound would ring out almost every five seconds.

At school, this time is seven to eight seconds!

With this shift in balance, the training efficiency here is almost twice that of the school's gravity chamber!
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