Free Web NovelChapter 145: Chapter 145: Silver Bone Forest
Floor 27 opened beneath a pale moon.
The team stood at the edge of a forest where every tree was made of white bone and silver bark. Wind passed through hollow branches, creating flute-like sounds. The ground was covered with ash-gray leaves that cracked like thin shells underfoot.
The mission panel appeared.
[Floor 27: Silver Bone Forest]
[Main Mission]
Find the Moonbone Spring and cleanse the forest root.
[Sub-Missions]
1. Defeat 30 Silver Bone Beasts.
2. Collect 10 Moonbone Leaves.
3. Prevent bone curse accumulation from exceeding 40%.
4. Discover the source of the bone corruption.
[Warning]
Dead bones may imitate living growth.]
Qin Mo looked at the bone trees.
"I dislike forests that used to be skeletons."
Qin Lian crouched and picked up a silver leaf.
"It is not dead."
Qin Yuchen frowned.
"Not alive either."
Qin Yuheng activated Law-Thread Severing Eye, then closed it. This was not a law-thread floor. The aura here was more physical and spiritual: bone, moonlight, corruption, and growth twisted together.
Moonbone Spring immediately caught his attention.
Moon.
Bone cleansing.
Potentially useful for Qin Zhengyuan’s wound, especially if Blood Sun Corrosion had damaged marrow or spiritual bone channels.
They entered carefully.
The first Silver Bone Beast emerged from the ground like a deer assembled from white ribs.
[Silver Bone Deer]
[Level: 28]
[Type: Bone-spirit beast]
[Weakness: Moonbone core at spine base]
It moved gracefully, almost beautifully, then charged with antlers sharp enough to pierce armor.
Qin Yuchen deflected its charge. Qin Lian struck the spine base. Qin Yuheng shattered the core with thunder.
The beast collapsed into clean bone fragments and one Moonbone Leaf.
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The forest reacted not with anger, but with sound.
The hollow branches sang.
Bone curse accumulation began slowly.
[Bone Curse Accumulation]
Qin Yuheng: 3%
Qin Yuchen: 4%
Qin Lian: 4%
Qin Mo: 5%
Qin Mo immediately consumed a minor cleansing pill.
"I am being proactive."
They moved deeper.
Silver Bone Forest tested endurance and perception. Some trees were harmless. Some were sleeping beasts. Some paths were rib cages disguised as arches. Some leaves whispered names of dead relatives, trying to slow the mind.
The team’s layered soul protections helped greatly.
The True Soul Guiding Lantern pointed toward the Moonbone Spring, but its flame flickered whenever corruption grew dense.
By the sixth hour, they found a clearing filled with kneeling bone figures.
At the center was a pool of silver water.
Moonbone Spring.
But black roots had grown into it, staining the water gray.
A boss slept beside the spring.
A large wolf made of silver bones and black root veins.
[Corrupted Moonbone Wolf King]
[Level: 34]
[Floor Boss]
[Status: Bound to corrupted forest root]
Qin Mo inspected the spring from a distance.
"We can cleanse the root without killing it? Maybe."
Qin Yuheng looked at the wolf.
"It will not allow that."
The fight began when Qin Lian stepped within twenty meters of the spring.
The Wolf King rose silently.
Its howl did not sound like a beast.
It sounded like bones cracking under moonlight.
Bone curse accumulation jumped.
Qin Mo activated a Moon-Cleansing formation using prepared Mirror Ice Hearts and Memory Anchor Water. Qin Yuchen held the wolf’s frontal attacks. Qin Lian targeted black root veins. Qin Yuheng struck the spine core when it appeared.
The Wolf King regenerated using the corrupted roots.
Qin Mo shouted, "Root first! Otherwise it keeps healing!"
The root entered the spring beneath the wolf.
To reach it, someone had to get close to the pool while the boss attacked.
Qin Yuheng activated Gate Thunder Command Field.
"Yuchen, hold. Lian, root veins. Mo, cleansing pulse on my mark."
He dashed forward.
The Wolf King turned, jaws opening.
Qin Yuchen intercepted its foreleg.
Qin Lian cut three black veins.
Qin Mo prepared the cleansing pulse.
Qin Yuheng reached the spring and drove the Moon-Cleansing Clear Spring Lotus Root essence he had prepared into the corrupted water.
The spring flashed silver-blue.
The black root screamed.
The Wolf King staggered.
"Now!"
Qin Mo activated the formation.
Cleansing light spread through the spring.
The root surfaced, twisting like a snake.
Qin Yuheng cut it with thunder.
The Wolf King’s regeneration stopped.
The final phase was brutal but straightforward. Without root healing, its attacks became desperate. The team broke its leg joints, shattered its rib guard, and finally destroyed the moonbone core.
[Corrupted Moonbone Wolf King defeated.]
[Moonbone Spring cleansing in progress.]
[Forest root corruption weakened.]
But the source was not the Wolf King.
Beneath the spring, a black bone shard remained.
Panel:
[Black Sun Bone Shard detected.]
[Foreign corruption source.] freёweɓnovel.com
[Compatible with Blood Sun / Crimson Eclipse residue.]
Qin Yuheng’s eyes turned cold.
Blood Sun again.
Or something older than Blood Sun.
He used the Vow-Cleansing Law Crystal and True Soul Guiding Lantern to isolate it, then stored it in a sealed container.
The spring cleared.
[Moonbone Spring cleansed.]
[Hidden Objective completed.]
[Final Evaluation greatly increased.]
Qin Mo stared at the sealed black shard.
"Can we have one floor without them?"
Qin Yuheng looked at the silver spring.
"Not anymore."
Floor 27 was complete.
And the Crimson Eclipse clue deepened.
