[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed":3,"chapter-how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-chapter-235":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","How Do We Play If This Boss Isn't Nerfed?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1618010,2083,"Chapter 235 - 140: Late Stage of Meridian Opening, Speedrunning the Forest","how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-chapter-235",235,"\u003Cp>The dense, pitch-black mist wasn’t a poisonous gas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment Lin Ye held his breath, he realized something was wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black mist was, in essence, composed of billions of minuscule particles, almost impossible to distinguish with the naked eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if they had lives of their own!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The instant the particles touched the Shadow Scale on Lin Ye’s body, they were like sharks that had smelled blood, frantically burrowing into the gaps of his Scale Armor!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A scalp-numbing sensation, as if he were being continuously pricked by countless tiny needles, spread across his entire body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye immediately pulled back, creating distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battle entered a strange cycle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye couldn’t kill these monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their bodies, even when hacked into several pieces, would be stitched back together in the span of a breath by countless black threads pouring out, allowing them to charge forward again, fearless of death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they couldn’t harm Lin Ye, either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their claws and fangs were nowhere near as swift or sharp as they had been in life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black threads and countless dark particles were also unable to penetrate his body, covered as it was by the Shadow Scale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battle had reached a stalemate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Lin Ye continued to carefully observe this legion of Zombie Beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The coordination of these monsters was too perfect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It’s so perfect they don’t seem like beasts fighting individually. It’s more like they’re a single entity, directed by a single mind.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye launched a deadly surprise attack from the blind spot of a wolf-like mutant beast—directly behind it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, just as the tip of his spear was about to pierce the back of its head...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...the wolf narrowly dodged it, as if it had eyes in the back of its head!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, three other monsters from different directions attacked from three inconceivable angles, cutting off all of Lin Ye’s escape routes!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’This is no coincidence!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye’s gaze swept swiftly across the entire battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, he noticed something unusual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the four diagonal corners of the battlefield, four smaller mutant beasts stood motionless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They weren’t participating in the siege.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They just stood there, their hollow eye sockets watching every corner of the battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’They’re... lookouts!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye understood instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Through those four lookouts, these monsters have achieved a shared, 360-degree panoramic view with no blind spots!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thought of retreat surfaced in Lin Ye’s mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’There’s no need to keep fighting.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It’s pointless to get tangled up with these unkillable puppets.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I have to find the puppeteer hiding in the shadows!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye’s eyes suddenly turned icy cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, his figure blurred and turned illusory where he stood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Phase transition!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instant Body!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the center of the encirclement formed by dozens of undead corpses, Lin Ye’s figure popped like a bubble and vanished into thin air!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had completely disappeared!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a brief moment, the movements of all the monsters froze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had lost their target.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless hollow eye sockets began to turn wildly, searching for any trace of the human, but their field of vision was empty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dozens of meters away from the horde of corpses, in the shadow of a massive, gnarled tree...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...Lin Ye’s figure quietly reappeared. He held his breath, concealing his aura to the absolute limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had used Instant Body three times to cover the distance of over ten meters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He holstered the Star-Piercing Spear behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dim light was the best camouflage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, his Shadow Scale’s Mimicry Skill had surpassed the environment itself, allowing him to completely become a part of the darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The horde of corpses stirred for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After confirming that their target was completely gone, a bizarre scene unfolded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mutated beast corpses, which had been so ferocious just moments before, began to melt like wax figures scorched by high heat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They all dissolved into pools of pitch-black slime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless writhing black threads emerged from the slime and, like a receding tide, quickly burrowed into the ground and vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「A few moments later.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire forest clearing returned to its original state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Except for a few foul-smelling black puddles on the ground, it was as if the brutal battle had never happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The forest once again fell into a suffocating, deathly silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye stood in the shadows, lost in thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’A parasitic organism... absorbs Source Crystals... controls corpses...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’These abilities aren’t like an animal’s. They’re more like some kind of plant.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’No.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black mist that had formed after the porcupine corpse self-destructed flashed through Lin Ye’s mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’That black mist...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’It was a lot like the spores of some kind of fungus!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A more precise term surfaced in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Fungus!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’The mastermind behind this forest is very likely a never-before-seen Celestial Abyss Race with a vast mycelial network!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’If that’s the case, killing it is an almost impossible task.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Its mycelium has probably already spread through every inch of soil in the Black Silk Forest.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’As long as the mycelial network isn’t destroyed, it’s immortal.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’How can I, all alone, fight an entire forest?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’But... as long as it’s a member of the Celestial Abyss Race, it has a common fatal flaw.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’A deadly weakness they can’t possibly circumvent.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Source Crystals!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Without the energy provided by Source Crystals, no matter how powerful the creature, a member of the Celestial Abyss Race cannot survive for long in Earth’s completely different environment.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’In that case...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I’ll just have to cut off your food supply!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A bold and crazy plan quickly took shape and was refined in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moon reached its zenith.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was nearly midnight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, less than eight hours remained until the end of the selection trial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the heart of the Black Silk Forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A pile of Source Crystals glowed with a brilliant, ethereal blue light, illuminating the area for several meters around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye sat cross-legged beside this pile of Source Crystals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the past ten-plus hours, he had worked almost without rest, like the most efficient prospecting Hunter, scouring every inch of the Black Silk Forest’s soil.\u003C\u002Fp>",1024,"2026-06-06T10:31:47.882Z",1,"novelbin.me","1aa2957c5b20cd7ba1cd1f49a9410eb026cb5c2fa20e60aa6529d17deb9354d0","how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-chapter-236","how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-chapter-234",250,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fhow-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-cover.jpg"]