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Chapter 352: Chapter 176: Steamrolling to Level, Horrifying Efficiency

A single sentence, like a thunderclap from the highest heavens, exploded in everyone’s minds.

The expressions on Dongfang Zhen and Zhang Daoxuan’s faces froze instantly.

Lin Ye?

They had just survived a life-or-death battle against an Undead Army that was all but invincible.

And now, their chief instructor was telling them that this very army was Lin Ye’s handiwork!

Horror seized Dongfang Zhen.

’During our battle, he didn’t even use this ability...’

’I originally thought that while there was a gap between me and Lin Ye, it couldn’t be this huge.’

But only now did Dongfang Zhen realize with a shudder that what he had seen was perhaps just the tip of the iceberg.

...

「Three days later.」

Nirvana Tower, Doomsday Volcano Core Area.

A lone figure moved stealthily through the sweltering hellscape.

The ground glowed with an ominous, dark red light, and the air warped from the intense heat. As far as Lin Ye could see, the landscape was a purgatory of not-yet-fully-cooled lava flows.

The charred ground was covered in a web of cracked lava fissures. Searing hot magma, like the very blood of the earth, snaked through them.

Steam vents of various sizes intermittently spewed toxic, superheated gas.

Not a single blade of grass grew here; all life had withered away.

Lin Ye took a step, and a faint CRACK came from the ground beneath his foot.

Alarm bells rang in his mind. Before his foot could fully land, he abruptly powered his leg, trying to pull back.

The rock crust underfoot shattered, and a tongue of scorching fire shot out from below, lunging for his calf.

At the critical moment, a deep purple crystalline wall instantly materialized beneath Lin Ye’s feet.

The instant the crystal wall blocked the fiery tongue, he tapped his toes hard against its surface. Using the repulsive force, he floated backward seven or eight meters before landing steadily.

Where he had almost stepped, a hole over two meters in diameter rapidly collapsed, revealing a roiling pool of magma below.

Lin Ye had already reached the outer region of the Doomsday Volcano a day and a half ago.

Unfortunately, the environment here was far harsher than he had imagined.

Just by entering this area, the constant high temperatures were continuously chipping away at his health bar.

Not to mention the natural traps of seemingly solid ground that were, in fact, nothing more than a thin crust of rock. One careless step could land him in a magma bath.

These factors had greatly slowed his progress.

But his gains over these three days had also been unprecedented.

Lin Ye’s current level had already reached LV. 38.

He had gained six levels in three days.

This rate of leveling was something Lin Ye wouldn’t have even dared to dream of before.

He closed his eyes, his consciousness sinking into the Spirit network formed by black fungal hyphae.

Within his perception, the number of individual puppets he could connect to and control at any time had officially surpassed the five-thousand mark.

Initially, Lin Ye had thought the attrition rate of the puppets he’d sent out would likely be higher than the rate at which he could create new ones.

But he was wrong.

He had underestimated just how terrifying the snowball effect of his enhanced Silk Puppet skill was.

At first, the size of his puppet army had indeed hovered around six or seven hundred, neither growing nor shrinking.

But everything changed when he discovered through his puppets’ vision that he wasn’t the only one causing mass slaughter throughout the entire Celestial Abyss Fragment Realm.

Any corpses left behind by other students, or from infighting among the Alien Tribes, were instantly parasitized by the fungal hyphae as his puppet legion passed by.

From that moment on, Lin Ye’s Dead Legion began to expand at a viral rate.

Even now, system notifications would pop up in his mind from time to time, informing him of what his legion had killed and how much experience he had gained.

The only downside was that targets not killed by his own hand could not trigger the [Taotie] mechanism to acquire attribute points and skills.

’It has its pros and cons, I suppose.’

’If I had to do everything myself, there’s no way I could have achieved such astonishing efficiency.’