Chapter 513 - 227: Breaking the Rules, the System Blew Up
Chapter 513: Chapter 227: Breaking the Rules, the System Blew Up
He unleashed all the Gang Sha in his body without a moment’s hesitation!
A layer of brilliant, solid-gold Gangsha Armor instantly materialized over his entire body!
This was his ultimate defensive trump card!
As for his phasing ability or the Curse Bone Transfer he’d gained from his "Power Over Life and Death" skill, Lin Ye didn’t use them.
His goal was to test his own limits!
SHIIING—!
The flash of the sword sliced through his body unimpeded.
In the spectator hall, everyone instinctively held their breath.
On the screen, a horrifying wound, deep enough to expose bone, appeared on Lin Ye’s body. It stretched from his left shoulder to his right hip, gushing blood, almost cleaving him in two!
A testament to the terrifying power of that single strike!
Lin Ye watched as his Life Value plummeted from over one million, finally grinding to a halt at a mere 8,753.
’That single strike nearly killed me.’
But regardless...
He had, in the end, withstood it.
At the same time, on the leaderboard, Lin Ye’s score shot up from over seven million to a staggering 17 million!
"Hiss—!"
A collective gasp echoed through the hall.
"He took that and didn’t die? What kind of monster is he?!"
"17 million points... Does that mean, with a base Life Value of 260,000, he used his various defenses to effectively withstand damage that would normally require a Life Value of 1.7 million to tank?"
"It’s not a perfect one-to-one calculation, but in this virtual test where everything is quantified, that’s more or less what it implies. His effective Defense Power is over six times his base Life Value!"
Zhu Mingyi couldn’t help but marvel at the score.
"If it weren’t for Xiao Lingchen, his score of seventeen million would have been enough to go down in the history of the martial arts admissions exam."
"But this should be his limit."
Everyone deeply agreed.
Lin Ye’s life was now as fragile as a candle flame in the wind.
Never mind the next round—any random attack would finish him off on the spot.
In the Virtual Space, the phantom of the White Emperor slowly dissipated.
In its place, another figure appeared—blurrier, yet somehow even more imposing.
The figure simply threw a single punch.
In that instant, the entire pure-white Virtual Space began to tremble violently. Dark spatial rifts flickered in and out of existence around the tip of the fist!
The Celestial Human Realm!
Although it was only a simulation of the Early Stage of the Celestial Human Realm, the might of this full-powered punch was absolutely not something Lin Ye could block.
Lin Ye felt the pressure from the punch, a force powerful enough to pulverize anything, and sighed to himself.
’An equivalent of seventeen million Life Value... that’s pretty much the limit of my current conventional defenses.’
Lin Ye’s gaze sharpened.
’Since I’ve already tested my limit...’
’Then...’
’...it’s time to make a run for that one-hundred-million-point ceiling.’
The next moment, under the stunned gazes of everyone in the spectator hall...
Lin Ye’s figure suddenly became illusory and transparent, like a mirage on the verge of disappearing.
BOOM!!!
The Celestial Human Realm expert’s punch, a blow powerful enough to tear space, landed solidly where Lin Ye had been standing.
However, the fist passed straight through his ethereal form without any resistance, inflicting no damage whatsoever.
For the first time, the calm expression on Zhu Mingyi’s face broke, replaced by a hint of astonishment.
"Just now... what was that?"
Yi Jiugao calmly commented from the side, "His body became incorporeal. It must be an ability similar to Xiao Lingchen’s Martial Arts Spirituality."
"But an ability like that most likely has significant restrictions, or can only be used once in a short period."
"Otherwise, he would’ve used it sooner."
Zhu Mingyi was stunned.
He hadn’t expected there to be more surprises in store.
’So Lin Ye had a cheat-like ability of his own!’
On the leaderboard, after withstanding the attack from the Celestial Human Realm expert, Lin Ye’s score skyrocketed again, jumping to over 35 million!
However, there was still a massive gap to the theoretical ceiling of one hundred million points.
Inside the testing space, two phantoms of the Celestial Human Realm appeared simultaneously this time!
One was a flash of a sword, the other a blast of Fist Gang.
Two terrifying attacks, each capable of making space tremble, locked onto Lin Ye simultaneously!
Just when everyone thought this was truly the end for him, that Lin Ye had finally run out of trump cards...
...the two attacks struck Lin Ye’s body squarely once again!
Except, this time...
...he remained standing in the same spot, completely unharmed and not moving a muscle.
[Power Over Life and Death] + [Curse Bone Transfer]!
...
Meanwhile, deep within the distant Painful Labyrinth, inside the newly rebuilt Soul Sacrifice Hall...
Ah Qiang, who had been sitting on his throne meditating with his eyes closed, suddenly snapped them open!
It wasn’t just him. At the foot of the throne, flanking the steps, Carlos and the other powerful members of the Curse Bone Race all felt a chill seep from the very depths of their souls at the exact same moment!
With a look of shocked uncertainty, Carlos couldn’t help but speak up. "My King... just now... I felt as if I were about to be offered up as a sacrifice..."
"But... it feels like nothing happened?"
Ah Qiang shot him a glance, his voice laced with a barely perceptible gravity. "It was our Master. He must have encountered an attack that far exceeds his current level."
"It wasn’t just you. Even I nearly had all my Soul Power drained to serve as the sacrificial price to transfer that damage."
He paused, his tone filled with a confusion he himself couldn’t comprehend.
"And yet, nothing actually happened... What in the world is going on?"
Of course, they had no way of knowing that if Lin Ye were in the real world, he would have truly needed to sacrifice nearly every member of the Curse Bone Race under his command to perfectly execute that Damage Transfer and withstand those two Celestial Human Realm attacks.
But this was the Virtual Illusion Realm!
The damage wasn’t real.
All the system had simulated was the *ruling* of real damage!
Thus, although Lin Ye’s ability had activated, the ones sacrificed as the price were merely countless *false* members of the Curse Bone Race, simulated by the system according to his ability’s effect!
He had, in a manner that was practically a bug exploit, used his own ability for free!
「In the spectator hall.」
Before the shocked eyes of everyone present...
...one of the two attacking Celestial Human Realm phantoms was instantly obliterated by the flash of its own sword.
The other was blasted into oblivion by its own Fist Gang!
Then, on the large screen’s leaderboard, the long string of numbers representing the score after Lin Ye’s name flashed erratically a few times, and then...
????????
A long string of question marks, signifying an unknown error, replaced all the original numbers!
The system...
...had been crashed!