Chapter 213: Chapter 135: Scale Leader Galasha

The scale of the entire valley far exceeded Lin Ye’s expectations.

Primitive structures, built from sandstone and colossal bones, were scattered across the valley basin like massive, earth-yellow fortresses, stretching for several kilometers.

A light breeze swept through, carrying the strange, sickly-sweet scent of some unknown plant.

Lin Ye’s figure was hidden silently behind a massive boulder.

He made a rough estimate.

This cluster of buildings contained at least fifty or sixty settlements.

If each settlement was a family unit composed of five to eight members of the Shadow Scale Race...

Then the total number of the Celestial Abyss Race entrenched here was at least three to four hundred, and could even be as high as six or seven hundred.

Lin Ye wasn’t so arrogant as to think he could take on an entire alien army—one so large and skilled in tactical coordination—head-on.

Even if he had just completed his racial evolution and his strength had skyrocketed.

So, Lin Ye made no sound. He kept his body pressed low, sticking to the shadows cast by the dense vegetation along the canyon’s edge, and slowly crept toward a settlement on the far left of the valley—the one most isolated from the others.

The buildings there were the most sparse, with enough distance between them to make it the perfect place to strike.

He wouldn’t kill one family only to stir up the entire tribe’s hornet’s nest.

Soon, Lin Ye’s figure moved like a phantom, slipping into a crude hut constructed from giant banana leaves and some kind of plant fiber mixed with mud.

The light inside the hut was dim, and the air was filled with a nearly suffocating stench.

Excrement and the half-eaten, rotting carcasses of mutated beasts were piled haphazardly on the ground, sometimes less than a meter apart.

The moment he entered, two rough, violent snarls erupted!

Lin Ye’s gaze swept across the room. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

Two male members of the Shadow Scale Race, clearly more powerfully built than the ones he had encountered outside, were staring him down.

Without a moment’s hesitation, they let out menacing growls. Their limbs, covered in black Scale Armor, tensed with power, and they launched themselves at Lin Ye like two arrows loosed from a bow, their sharp bone claws extended!

At the same time, Lin Ye caught a glimpse of movement in the deeper shadows of the hut. Several more slender figures, clutching something, scurried behind a partition into an inner room amid panicked shrieks.

Lin Ye’s expression didn’t waver in the slightest.

Facing the two charging males, he flicked his wrist.

The Star-Piercing Spear, like a venomous dragon, shot out two spear shadows in an instant, too fast for the naked eye to follow.

Extreme speed and power merged perfectly in that moment.

The two males’ forward charge came to an abrupt halt.

The savage light in their eyes had yet to fade, but a bloody hole had already been punched clean through each of their throats.

A torrent of inky-green blood gushed out. They couldn’t even let out a cry of pain before their bodies went limp and collapsed. After a few twitches, they fell completely still.

An instant kill!

Without even a glance at the corpses on the ground, Lin Ye darted into the back room.

Several more shrill cries, filled with panic and terror, rang out.

The scene in the inner room came into view.

Three slender female members of the Shadow Scale Race were huddled in a corner, their eyes wide with terror as they stared at the uninvited guest.

Behind them cowered an even smaller, younger Shadow Scale whelp.

This whelp looked to be recently born. Its Scale Armor hadn’t even fully grown in, leaving large patches of fleshy pink skin exposed, making it look ugly and fragile.

Besides them, in the farthest corner of the room, an elderly female with a hunched back trembled all over. The scales covering her body were a faded, sickly white.

Lin Ye understood instantly.

These were the "women and children" of this Shadow Scale family.

Lin Ye’s gaze was as cold as ten-thousand-year-old ice.

He didn’t hesitate for a second.

The Star-Piercing Spear in his hand carved a cold arc through the dim room. With a whistle of air, it aimed straight for the three younger females, the ones who still possessed some fighting ability!

’Women and children? So what?’

An image of Zhang Fu’s face flashed through Lin Ye’s mind.

’He was from Linchuan City. He said his wife, children, parents—his whole family—was dead.’

’He was all alone, with no one left to care for.’

’Even so, at that moment, Lin Ye had seen the loneliness, the grief, and the bone-deep hatred in that cynical, shrewd man’s eyes.’

’When Linchuan City fell, did these invading members of the Celestial Abyss Race show any mercy to human women and children as they slaughtered them?’

’No!’

’Since they didn’t, he wouldn’t feel any burden on his conscience either!’

’From the moment they descended upon Blue Star, the feud between humanity and the Celestial Abyss has been a blood debt that can only be settled by annihilation.’

’Mercy for the enemy is cruelty to one’s own people.’

’Wiping out their race, slaughtering every last one—that was the only way to answer this war, the highest ’respect’ he could show these aliens!’

The spear’s shadow swept across, and three sprays of inky-green blood bloomed violently in mid-air.

The three females didn’t even have a chance to offer any effective resistance before they were sliced in half at the waist, their innards and blood spilling across the floor.

The thick smell of blood instantly filled the entire room.

"WHIMPER... WHIMPER..."

Seeing this, the elderly member of the Shadow Scale Race trembled even more violently.

It prostrated itself on the ground, letting out unintelligible pleas, its golden, slitted pupils filled with utter submission and begging.

At the same time, the whelp beside it, which was about the size of a human child, began to imitate the elder, repeatedly kowtowing to Lin Ye.

The tip of Lin Ye’s spear paused slightly.