[{"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-56":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},1618181,2083,"Chapter 56 - 55: Poison Is Also an Antidote","how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-chapter-56",56,"\u003Cp>Lin Ye retreated at top speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His footsteps echoed faintly in the empty factory as he backed away for dozens of meters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He leaned against the pillar, gasping for air as cold sweat trickled down his cheeks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’What was that?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye steadied himself, his gaze locked onto the area on the distant ground that was emitting an eerie blue glow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just getting close had triggered such a powerful spiritual assault.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he had taken a few more steps, the consequences would have been unimaginable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze fixated on the eerie blue light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sight instantly reminded him of several things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That LV8 mutated black panther—this same bizarre blue crystalline powder had formed from its coagulated blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that LV9 mutated pangolin with its freakishly high Defense Power—the same substance had been left beside its corpse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, the core of this abandoned chemical plant was scattered with so many complete crystals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Is this the source?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye suppressed the shock he felt and began to examine the huge factory more carefully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As his eyes gradually adjusted to the faint moonlight filtering through a hole in the ceiling, he saw an even more horrifying scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the factory, besides those eerie blue crystals, were a large number of scattered animal corpses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They lay haphazardly, in all shapes and sizes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some corpses were half-buried under thick layers of dust, while others lay beside the wreckage of large machinery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their only common feature was that the same eerie blue crystals had grown, to varying degrees, on their bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These Blue Crystals, like bizarre parasitic fungi, emerged from their flesh and bones, glinting with a sinister light under the moon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye’s breath caught.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze was captivated by one of the most intact corpses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a feline, but judging from its fur, it was very different from modern tigers and lions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A single, pitch-black horn grew from its forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was impossible to miss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’A one-horned lion?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this era, due to the cataclysm a century ago, the ecosystem had changed drastically, giving rise to all sorts of bizarre mutated beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But one-horned lions had gone extinct long ago!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to official records, they had been completely extinct since the cataclysm!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could the corpse of an animal that had been extinct for so long be here?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye fell into thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’These Blue Crystals... can they preserve a corpse for a century without decay?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Perhaps these Blue Crystals are poisonous!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’These animals were likely killed by the poison after ingesting or coming into contact with the Blue Crystals.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’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.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that raised a new question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’If the Blue Crystals are so toxic, how did that mutated black panther and the mutated pangolin with the designation [132] survive?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Not only did they survive, but they even displayed special abilities far surpassing other mutated beasts of the same level.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye’s brows furrowed. He couldn’t make heads or tails of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, a mechanical notification sound, without any warning, exploded in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[External energy source detected...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You have gained 0.5 EXP.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye froze on the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’An external energy source?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’EXP?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’He hadn’t done anything!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Where did the EXP come from?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye’s gaze snapped toward the distant, glowing area of crystals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Could it be...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A thought that made his heart pound began to grow wildly in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’These things... they’re emitting energy!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next second, Lin Ye’s eyes flew open in shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through the senses of his Cultivation Technique, he perceived that the very foundation of this world had changed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the Source Energy Particles in the air were like sparse starlight inside the school’s Gravity Chamber...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...then here, they were a brilliant galaxy!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And those eerie blue crystals were like signal towers, continuously radiating this incomparably pure Source Energy!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A theory formed in Lin Ye’s mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’These Blue Crystals have been here for at least a century.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’That timeline matches up with the first year of the cataclysm.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Did these things appear along with the Celestial Abyss?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’The vast majority of creatures couldn’t withstand their inherent toxicity and became silent specimens in this factory.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’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.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’And so, the deadly poison was no longer a poison, but a gift of evolution!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’That mutated black panther’s speed, that mutated pangolin’s defense—they were all mutations born from this extreme environment!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’To the creatures that died here, this place was a hell.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’But for him...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ye closed his eyes again and tried to draw in the qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He carefully controlled his Spiritual Power, sending out five invisible threads to simultaneously hook onto the five different types of Source Energy Particles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, the process was unbelievably smooth!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dense Source Energy Particles required almost no effort to guide; they actively surged toward him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He easily drew the five streams of qi, each a different color and uniform in thickness, into his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A perfect five-element cycle was instantly established!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vast energy surged through his meridians, tempering his internal organs and nourishing every inch of his flesh and blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The system’s notification sound arrived right on cue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You have cultivated the Five Qi Guiding Formulas and gained 5 EXP!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>EXP!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But here, he easily reached 5 EXP!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That wasn’t even the most crucial part.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most crucial part was the speed of his cultivation!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You have cultivated the Five Qi Guiding Formulas and gained 5 EXP!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You have cultivated the Five Qi Guiding Formulas and gained 5 EXP!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The notification sounded almost every five seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back at school, it took seven to eight seconds!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All things considered, his cultivation efficiency here was nearly double that of the school’s Gravity Chamber!\u003C\u002Fp>",1207,"2026-06-06T10:31:47.882Z",1,"novelbin.me","a04f273d19cc904cd88ec0cf5b73ac6ded4cf224ef53434372a0948725980746","how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-chapter-57","how-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-chapter-55",250,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fhow-do-we-play-if-this-boss-isn-t-nerfed-cover.jpg"]