novelones Chapter 220 - 136: Who Is the Real BOSS?
Chapter 220 - 136: Who Is the Real BOSS?
Its 5,000 Life Value from Phase 1 had hit rock bottom!
Lin Ye didn’t press the attack. He kicked off the ground and leaped back several times in a row, putting distance between himself and Galasha.
He glanced down at his abdomen.
A horrific wound gaped there, so deep it nearly pierced through his entire abdominal cavity. The flesh was grotesquely peeled back, and he could faintly see his own organs squirming beneath the peritoneal lining.
Lin Ye’s brow furrowed, and with a mere thought...
A thin layer of purple crystal rapidly spread from the edges of the wound, acting like surgical sutures to forcibly seal the torn flesh.
While it was only a stopgap measure, it would staunch the bleeding for now and prevent his combat effectiveness from dropping due to excessive blood loss.
"Go... to... shit!!!"
Blinded in both eyes and with most of its teeth knocked out, Galasha had lost every last shred of its lordly dignity. It was completely consumed by rage.
With the gaps in its teeth, it couldn’t even properly speak its broken Great Xia anymore.
However, in the next moment,
A searing, bone-deep, and all-too-familiar pain shot through it from behind once more!
It felt its rear end, which was already covered in wounds and even had intestines beginning to prolapse.
And now, it was being viciously impaled once more by some sharp, hard, and cold object radiating endless malice!
Lin Ye never passed up an opportunity to kick a man while he was down!
Even though Galasha was now in a berserker-like frenzy, its every move causing immense destruction.
But in Lin Ye’s eyes, an enemy that had lost both its sight and its sanity was the perfect target!
BANG!!
Lin Ye’s body was once again sent flying by a swat from the furious, giant tail.
He felt as if all his internal organs had been violently rearranged. A sweet taste rose in his throat, and he coughed up a great spray of blood in midair.
But his cold gaze remained locked on Galasha.
He knew that Galasha’s injuries were even more severe than his own!
This time, he had even seen a length of some dark-green organ—be it an intestine or something else—which he had brutally torn from Galasha’s body!
"AARRRGGGHHH—!!"
Galasha’s roar no longer held any of its previous triumphant spirit, only endless pain and humiliation.
Lin Ye noticed that the four elite Shadow Scale guards in their masterfully crafted bone armor, who had been protecting Galasha, were finally making their move.
Their eyes gleamed with a suicidal resolve to avenge their king as they charged at him from four directions.
Unfortunately for them, even though Lin Ye was heavily injured, he was still far out of their league.
Lin Ye’s body was still falling from the last blow, and he crashed heavily to the ground.
He didn’t even have time to get back on his feet. Facing the combined attack of the four elites, he simply raised his Star-Piercing Spear with one hand.
CLANG!
With a tremendous ringing sound, he parried all four bone blades with his spear alone.
Then, he infused his legs with Qi and Blood. His muscles tensed, and he kicked out viciously!
The two Shadow Scale elites closest to him took the blow directly to the chest.
The terrifying force passed through their bone armor and instantly permeated their bodies!
Still in midair, the two Shadow Scale elites felt their internal organs get pulverized by the kick. Great mouthfuls of dark-green blood spewed from their mouths!
They crashed heavily to the ground, twitched a few times, and then fell still.
Lin Ye executed a perfect kip-up, springing to his feet.
The other two were struck by a deadly arc drawn through the air by his Star-Piercing Spear!
Two hideous heads flew into the air!
Lin Ye was now bathed in blood, his body covered in gruesome wounds. Yet, from his powerful frame, wisps of blood-red steam rose as if they were tangible.
He stood between the two headless corpses, spear in hand, like an undefeated War God emerging from a sea of blood!
The sight instantly stunned the ordinary members of the Shadow Scale Race who had been restlessly circling the perimeter.
The animosity and killing intent in their eyes vanished, replaced by a bone-chilling fear.
But in the next moment, Lin Ye’s pupils constricted.
He realized that Galasha, which had been roaring madly on the spot just a moment ago, had vanished without a trace.
WHOOSH...
WHOOSH...
At some point, a wind began to stir in the once still and silent valley.
The wind was strange and sudden.
In the blink of an eye, it had become a howling gale.
Vast quantities of yellow sand were swept up from all corners of the rift and funneled into the gourd-shaped valley.
Instantly, visibility on the battlefield plummeted. The environment became a swirling, bewildering mess.
Amid the sandstorm, Lin Ye could only extend his Spiritual Power to its absolute limit, remaining vigilant of his surroundings.
He knew Galasha possessed the ability to control wind.
But he never imagined its power was great enough to change the weather in an entire valley!
However, though Lin Ye remained on guard in the sandstorm for a long time, the attack from the hidden Galasha never came.
Just as Lin Ye began to wonder if it had used the chaos to escape...
He suddenly saw dazzling, ghostly-blue trails of light appearing within the swirling sand.
Like a meteor shower, these trails of light converged from all sides of the valley before crashing to the ground.
They were...
Source Crystals!
And they were top-grade ones at that—incredibly pure, of the highest quality, each one emitting astonishing fluctuations of energy!
In the blink of an eye, these Source Crystals, carried in by the gale, rained down and completely covered the battlefield around Lin Ye.
The Source Crystals thudded dully as they hit the ground one after another.
Lin Ye could even see the unconcealable greed and desire in the eyes of the nearby Shadow Scale Race.
THUD!
THUD!
Two incredibly heavy footsteps echoed through the sandstorm.
Lin Ye looked toward the sound.
He saw Galasha’s enormous figure slowly emerge from the swirling sand.
Its right claw was clutching a cluster of Source Crystals that gave off a ghostly blue glow.
Then, right in front of Lin Ye, it brought the cluster of Source Crystals—a deadly poison to humans—straight to its massive mouth.
It chewed, then swallowed.
The next moment, Lin Ye clearly saw the gland in Galasha’s throat, which had previously shriveled, swell up again at a visible rate after it swallowed the Source Crystal. It began to pulse with a dangerous, ghostly blue light.
At the same time, the flesh around the deep, bloody holes that Lin Ye’s spear had pierced through its body began to violently writhe and squirm.
Fine, crystalline layers of Source Crystal began to precipitate from its very flesh, acting like natural bandages to seal the wounds and staunch the bleeding.
Its injuries were recovering at an astonishing speed!
Galasha’s more heavily injured right eye remained tightly shut.
But its left eye could now just barely see.
The corner of its mouth twisted into a vicious smile as its hoarse voice echoed on the wind.
"Human..."
"These things... are deadly poison... to you...!"
"Being surrounded by it... will greatly weaken... your combat strength...!"
"It’s a pity. If we were... anywhere else... I would have lost."
"But here... this is my home turf!"
Lin Ye instantly understood Galasha’s plan.
It had whipped up this furious sandstorm not just to utilize the Shadow Scale Race’s innate Mimicry and Disguise Skill to play a game of cat and mouse with him.
Its greater purpose was to use the wind to transport all the Source Crystals its kin had plundered and hoarded from the fallen territories over the years—and bring them all right here!
It was turning this battlefield into a highly concentrated Source Crystal radiation zone—a death trap for any ordinary human Martial Artist!
It intended to use this environment to wear Lin Ye down and kill him!
Galasha’s plan was undeniably vicious.
It believed victory was already in its grasp.
However, something happened that it could never have predicted...
After hearing its clumsy declaration of victory, Lin Ye’s face showed not a hint of despair. Instead, a look of excitement spread across it.
He mimicked Galasha’s earlier action and bent down.
He casually scooped up a large handful of the glowing blue Source Crystals from the ground.
Then, as Galasha watched with its one good eye, its gaze slowly filling with confusion and shock...
Lin Ye slowly brought the handful of Source Crystals to his mouth.
And swallowed them in one gulp!
"Is that so?"