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Chapter 316: Chapter 164: Passive Trait: Furious Gaze Demon Suppression

Before he even landed, a second purple crystal had already formed.

In just a few leaps, he crossed the several-hundred-meter-wide Magma Lake and landed steadily before the fortress.

The fortress was seamlessly integrated with the canyon walls, constructed entirely from massive black Basalt Pillars in a crude and savage style.

There were no intricate carvings or decorations. Instead, the massive stone pillars were covered in countless slashes and impact marks of varying depths.

’I wonder what happened here before.’

Lin Ye didn’t hesitate, striding into the fortress entrance.

The interior of the fortress was just as simple and direct. The passageways were wide, and glowing ore was embedded in the walls at regular intervals, brightly illuminating the inside.

A dense aura of Source Crystals permeated the air.

He extended his Spirit perception and only relaxed after confirming there were no living members of the Eight-armed Race left inside the fortress.

Lin Ye’s nostrils twitched. He followed the increasingly dense scent of Source Crystals on the air, heading deeper into the fortress.

After passing through several empty corridors and huge stone chambers that resembled barracks, he finally arrived at a core area deep underground.

A heavy alloy gate blocked his path. A fantastical, dream-like azure glow shone through the gap beneath it.

Lin Ye didn’t bother looking for a mechanism to open the gate.

He raised his right hand. The golden Gang Sha in his Dantian Qi Sea instantly surged forth, suffusing his five fingers.

HISS!

His fingers sank effortlessly into the half-meter-thick alloy gate, as if piercing through a sheet of damp paper.

Lin Ye’s arm muscles bulged as an immense force erupted.

SCREEECH—!!

Amid a grating shriek of twisting metal, he ripped the multi-ton alloy gate straight out of the stone wall by brute force!

BOOM!

Lin Ye casually tossed the deformed gate aside, where it crashed to the ground with a tremendous bang.

He looked at his completely unharmed right hand, feeling a surge of emotion.

’The Gang Condensation Realm truly is another level of existence.’

’The destructive power I can unleash with a simple gesture is something I never could have imagined back in the Vein Opening Realm.’

He stepped into the warehouse.

The next second, even with Lin Ye’s composure, his breath caught in his throat.

The warehouse was enormous, and at this moment, the vast space was filled with chests of Source Crystals.

Chest after chest, stack after stack, they were piled into small mountains of azure Crystal Stones.

The pure, azure radiance intertwined, making the entire warehouse look like a deep-sea Illusion Realm. The air was saturated with source energy so dense it was almost liquid.

What made Lin Ye’s heart race even more was that the quality of these Source Crystals far surpassed any he had seen before.

Every single one was flawless and translucent. The energy fluctuations within were so intense that faint blue halos were visible to the naked eye.

Clearly, these were the top-grade reserves that the Blood Slaughter Tribe had accumulated over countless years and then carefully selected.

’Perfect!’

’Source Crystals of this purity and quantity are enough to upgrade the [Furious Gaze Demon Suppression] I just got, maybe even bringing it to a level close to my other skills.’

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「Two hours later.」

Inside the warehouse, a third of the mountain-like pile of Source Crystals had vanished.

Lin Ye sat cross-legged in the center of the clearing, looking at his skin, which now faintly glowed with an azure light.

He could feel that every inch of his flesh, every cell in his body, was saturated to the point of overflowing with frenzied source energy.

This source energy was even beginning to radiate outward.

Lin Ye glanced at the time. He had been in the Nirvana Tower for over thirteen hours.

If he hadn’t, in a moment of desperation, flicked his combat wristband into the statue’s mouth to save someone, he would have long since been forcibly teleported out by the Power of Rules.

According to the training camp’s rules, he had already exceeded the time limit by a significant margin.

He hadn’t forgotten his agreement with Yin Liulan.

’If I can’t pay back the points I owe, my elimination is a sure thing.’

Lin Ye decided to rest for a moment and wait for the uncontrolled radiation of source energy from his body to subside before returning to the training camp.

Otherwise, if he went back looking no different from an Avatar, he’d probably be captured and dissected for research immediately.

He opened his personal status panel to review his gains.

After devouring a massive amount of source energy, the descriptions for his two skills, [Crystalization] and [Shadow Scale], hadn’t changed at all.

Lin Ye wasn’t surprised by this.

’The potential of these two skills depends more on my own development and application.’

The purple crystals and Shadow Scale had both reached a bottleneck after this enhancement.

’Any improvements would likely be in the crystal formation speed and hardness, and a stronger camouflage and stealth effect for the Shadow Scale.’

The real qualitative changes were in the other two.

After absorbing enough source energy, the activity and resilience of the mycelium from [Silk Puppet] had experienced explosive growth.

Now, he could even leave a portion of the milky-white Core Mycelium inside his puppets.

This Core Mycelium possessed higher intelligence and could execute Lin Ye’s commands more effectively.

At the same time, another qualitative change was that his puppets themselves had become sources for spreading the black spores, meaning he no longer had to implant the spores personally.

As for [Furious Gaze Demon Suppression], the new passive trait, its effect had also been significantly enhanced.

The word "weaken" in the original description had now become the more domineering "suppress."

Now, as long as an opponent’s strength didn’t exceed his by a full major realm, their power would be greatly diminished when fighting him.

A little over ten minutes later, Lin Ye stood up and walked out of the fortress.