How Do We Play If This Boss Isn't Nerfed?-Chapter 56 - 55: Poison Is Also an Antidote
Lin Ye retreated at top speed.
His footsteps echoed faintly in the empty factory as he backed away for dozens of meters.
His back slammed into a cold metal pillar. Only then did the intense dizziness churning his mind and the heart palpitations that threatened to burst from his chest begin to recede like a tide.
He leaned against the pillar, gasping for air as cold sweat trickled down his cheeks.
’What was that?’
Lin Ye steadied himself, his gaze locked onto the area on the distant ground that was emitting an eerie blue glow.
Just getting close had triggered such a powerful spiritual assault.
If he had taken a few more steps, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
His gaze fixated on the eerie blue light.
The sight instantly reminded him of several things.
That LV8 mutated black panther—this same bizarre blue crystalline powder had formed from its coagulated blood.
And that LV9 mutated pangolin with its freakishly high Defense Power—the same substance had been left beside its corpse.
Now, the core of this abandoned chemical plant was scattered with so many complete crystals.
’Is this the source?’
Lin Ye suppressed the shock he felt and began to examine the huge factory more carefully.
As his eyes gradually adjusted to the faint moonlight filtering through a hole in the ceiling, he saw an even more horrifying scene.
Inside the factory, besides those eerie blue crystals, were a large number of scattered animal corpses.
They lay haphazardly, in all shapes and sizes. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦
Some corpses were half-buried under thick layers of dust, while others lay beside the wreckage of large machinery.
Their only common feature was that the same eerie blue crystals had grown, to varying degrees, on their bodies.
These Blue Crystals, like bizarre parasitic fungi, emerged from their flesh and bones, glinting with a sinister light under the moon.
Lin Ye’s breath caught.
His gaze was captivated by one of the most intact corpses.
It was a feline, but judging from its fur, it was very different from modern tigers and lions.
It was curled up in a corner, its body covered in dark golden fur. Even in death, one could tell it must have been magnificent in life.
A single, pitch-black horn grew from its forehead.
It was impossible to miss.
’A one-horned lion?’
In this era, due to the cataclysm a century ago, the ecosystem had changed drastically, giving rise to all sorts of bizarre mutated beasts.
But one-horned lions had gone extinct long ago!
According to official records, they had been completely extinct since the cataclysm!
How could the corpse of an animal that had been extinct for so long be here?
Aside from the dazzling blue crystals on its body, the one-horned lion’s fur and muscles were so perfectly preserved it looked as if it had just fallen asleep.
Lin Ye fell into thought.
’These Blue Crystals... can they preserve a corpse for a century without decay?’
’Perhaps these Blue Crystals are poisonous!’
’These animals were likely killed by the poison after ingesting or coming into contact with the Blue Crystals.’
’It must be this poison that turned their bodies into no-go zones for microorganisms, allowing them to defy the erosion of time and remain preserved to this day.’
But that raised a new question.
’If the Blue Crystals are so toxic, how did that mutated black panther and the mutated pangolin with the designation [132] survive?’
’Not only did they survive, but they even displayed special abilities far surpassing other mutated beasts of the same level.’
Lin Ye’s brows furrowed. He couldn’t make heads or tails of it.
Just then, a mechanical notification sound, without any warning, exploded in his mind.
[External energy source detected...]
[You have gained 0.5 EXP.]
Lin Ye froze on the spot.
’An external energy source?’
’EXP?’
’He hadn’t done anything!’
He hadn’t killed any monsters, he hadn’t cultivated, he had even deliberately slowed his breathing to avoid the area with the Blue Crystals.
’Where did the EXP come from?’
Lin Ye’s gaze snapped toward the distant, glowing area of crystals.
’Could it be...’
A thought that made his heart pound began to grow wildly in his mind.
’These things... they’re emitting energy!’
Lin Ye sat down cross-legged on the spot, closed his eyes, and submerged his consciousness into his body, instantly beginning to circulate the Five Qi Guiding Formulas!
The next second, Lin Ye’s eyes flew open in shock.
Through the senses of his Cultivation Technique, he perceived that the very foundation of this world had changed!
If the Source Energy Particles in the air were like sparse starlight inside the school’s Gravity Chamber...
...then here, they were a brilliant galaxy!
Countless Source Energy Particles, glowing with the five colors of gold, cyan, black, red, and yellow, were several times denser than in the school’s Gravity Chamber!
As if drawn by some unseen force, they converged endlessly from all directions toward the Blue Crystal area in the center of the chemical plant.
And those eerie blue crystals were like signal towers, continuously radiating this incomparably pure Source Energy!
A theory formed in Lin Ye’s mind.
’These Blue Crystals have been here for at least a century.’
’That timeline matches up with the first year of the cataclysm.’
’Did these things appear along with the Celestial Abyss?’
’The vast majority of creatures couldn’t withstand their inherent toxicity and became silent specimens in this factory.’
’But a very small number of special individuals struggled on the brink of life and death, ultimately overcoming the poison and adapting to this energy.’
’And so, the deadly poison was no longer a poison, but a gift of evolution!’
’That mutated black panther’s speed, that mutated pangolin’s defense—they were all mutations born from this extreme environment!’
’To the creatures that died here, this place was a hell.’
’But for him...’
Lin Ye closed his eyes again and tried to draw in the qi.
He carefully controlled his Spiritual Power, sending out five invisible threads to simultaneously hook onto the five different types of Source Energy Particles.
This time, the process was unbelievably smooth!
The dense Source Energy Particles required almost no effort to guide; they actively surged toward him.
He easily drew the five streams of qi, each a different color and uniform in thickness, into his body.
BOOM!
A perfect five-element cycle was instantly established!
Vast energy surged through his meridians, tempering his internal organs and nourishing every inch of his flesh and blood.
The system’s notification sound arrived right on cue.
[You have cultivated the Five Qi Guiding Formulas and gained 5 EXP!]
EXP!
In the school’s Gravity Chamber, even at 1.5 times gravity and exerting all his effort, one Circulation of the Celestial Cycle only netted him 4.5 EXP.
But here, he easily reached 5 EXP!
That wasn’t even the most crucial part.
The most crucial part was the speed of his cultivation!
[You have cultivated the Five Qi Guiding Formulas and gained 5 EXP!]
[You have cultivated the Five Qi Guiding Formulas and gained 5 EXP!]
The notification sounded almost every five seconds.
Back at school, it took seven to eight seconds!
All things considered, his cultivation efficiency here was nearly double that of the school’s Gravity Chamber!
