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Chapter 224 - 137: Instant-Kill the Scale Chief, Total Extermination
[Ding! You have slain the Lord: Scale Leader Galasha!]
[Slaying a higher-level enemy has triggered a bonus experience reward. Experience gain increased by 150%!]
[You have gained 48,000 experience!]
[Ding! You have reached Level 28!]
[You have gained 2 free attribute points!]
[You have gained 1 skill point!]
A surge of delight went through Lin Ye.
’I finally leveled up again!’
But at the same time, Lin Ye also felt a tinge of regret.
He knew full well that if the grade of the Five Qi Guiding Formulas he was cultivating wasn’t so low, it wouldn’t have caused such a drastic reduction in his experience gain.
The experience he just received would have been at least double what it was.
’What a shame.’
With Galasha’s death, the formless power that had maintained the valley’s unnatural weather also dissipated.
The howling gales began to subside.
The yellow sand that filled the sky gradually began to settle.
Expressionless, Lin Ye withdrew his Star-Piercing Spear. With a flick of its tip, he flung away the filth caked upon it.
His gaze swept across the valley.
The Shadow Scale Warriors, thrown into a panic by their leader’s death and preparing to scatter, shuddered violently the instant his gaze met theirs.
It was as if they were being targeted by a ferocious beast, and their very souls trembled in fear.
’Trying to run?’
A bloodthirsty smirk touched the corners of Lin Ye’s lips.
While in his [Frenzy] state, his killing intent was boiling over.
The next moment, he vanished.
Like a black bolt of lightning, he charged directly into the horde of panicked Shadow Scales.
The slaughter began.
It was a one-sided, utterly predictable reaping.
[Horizontal Slash]!
The Star-Piercing Spear in Lin Ye’s hands became a black whirlwind of death.
Every sweep unleashed a gale of blades, slicing several Shadow Scales in half at the waist.
Every thrust that pierced a Shadow Scale sent out a shockwave of force, shredding its nearby companions to pieces.
The sounds of blades sinking into flesh rose and fell, merging into a continuous, gruesome chorus.
Severed limbs and dark green blood rained down, drenching the entire valley.
These fiends, who had just moments ago menacingly surrounded him, were now as fragile as wheat before the scythe.
Lin Ye weaved through the mountain of corpses and sea of blood.
He was like a silent, efficient grim reaper, precisely harvesting every single life.
「A few short minutes later.」
Not a single cry from the fiends could be heard within the valley.
Lin Ye pulled his Star-Piercing Spear from the skull of the last Shadow Scale. He paid no mind as warm blood splattered onto him.
The world fell completely silent.
All that remained in the air was the nauseatingly thick stench of blood and the low whistle of the subsiding sandstorm.
The ground was littered with dismembered corpses.
Standing atop a pile of corpses, Lin Ye’s chest heaved as he felt the frenzied power within him slowly recede.
He manually deactivated his [Frenzy] state.
It was over.
The Shadow Scale tribe—a menace entrenched deep within the Northern Great Rift Valley that had struck fear into the hearts of countless Hunters from Linchuan Market—had been utterly wiped out as of today.
Lin Ye didn’t rest immediately.
He began to clean up the battlefield.
With a series of precise flicks of his long spear, he stabbed into the skull of each corpse, prying out the Origin Life Crystal that emanated an ominous aura.
Then, he absorbed them completely.
Soon, a pile of over a hundred diamond-shaped crystals of various sizes, now drained of their black light, lay at his feet.
Finally, he walked over to Galasha’s enormous corpse.
It took some effort, but he managed to crack open Galasha’s tough skull.
Before him appeared a diamond-shaped crystal the size of a grown man’s fist. It was pitch-black, and across its surface, countless minute, dark shadows seemed to swim about, devouring all light.
Just by holding it in his palm, Lin Ye could feel a cold, chaotic, yet immense energy that seemed to have a life of its own, trying to burrow into his skin.