Chapter 140: Chapter 138: Special Strata

What Louisa called intelligence, of course, was not just a statement that “The Holy Scripture is dangerous.”

She not only spoke of the abilities of the Yellow-covered Book that Lin Jun already knew, but also added the most important point — do not let the Holy Scripture absorb enough souls!

These souls refer to the souls of intelligent beings such as humans, the Demon Race, and even Tree Demons, excluding those low-intelligence demons.

As for the reason, even Louisa herself did not know.

It was just something specifically emphasized to her as a caution before she set out on her mission.

The method to prevent the Holy Scripture from absorbing nearby souls is quite simple; do not open its pages.

At this moment, Louisa is connected to the fungal network and is parasitized, so Lin Jun can tell that she is not lying.

However, to say that this matter is beyond Lin Jun’s expectations is not quite accurate; he never fully trusted the Yellow-covered Book, and what it said was only used as a reference.

Regarding Louisa’s so-called defection, Lin Jun didn’t care much.

This vampire merely wanted to improve her situation and did not genuinely wish to be under Puki.

Though granting some degree of freedom is not impossible, Louisa might be used as bait to make the Yellow-covered Book reveal more.

This matter is not urgent and needs to be well arranged…

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Recently, adventurers on each floor occasionally spot one or two Puki carrying some flowers and grass passing by.

The most bizarre was when someone even saw five Puki carrying an uprooted gray wood together!

Although some strange new actions by the Puki in the Purple Crystal Dungeon are not considered too novel anymore, moving an entire gray wood is still a bit outrageous.

Unfortunately, no one knows their destination.

If anyone tries to follow the Puki, the Puki would just keep going in circles until the person gives up.

How do the Puki know someone is tailing them?

And in hidden places unknown to the adventurers.

For example, a cave on the second floor usually blocked by mimic Puki; the underground space on the fifth floor; and behind the new Mushroom Forest on the sixth floor.

The transplantation planting plan is underway.

Hidden places don’t always fit for planting, so Lin Jun put in some effort to improve the environment.

If idle hands were to dig around on the second floor, they might find a mycelial water pipe buried in the soil, connected to groundwater.

Extracting water when lacking, moving soil when missing, Lin Jun even tried to control the temperature.

If it’s too warm, send an ice hockey Puki with [Path of Frost Lv3] for cooling; if it’s cold… well, let it be cold.

Lin Jun has skills to burn, but such consumption is unsuitable for long-term use.

Among all, the sixth floor requires the least worry.

Lin Jun discovered the greatest value of the Tree Demons!

The Tree Demons are practically plant experts; under them no transplanted plant has died, and they thrive much better than those on other floors, each a born plant expert.

With them managing, Lin Jun only needed to guide a bit of groundwater, everything else they would handle.

Lin Jun wished he could share Hero permissions with them, let them help manage the plantations on other floors!

In addition, Lin Jun moved the bud of the deceased giant Flower Demon to the back of the Mushroom Forest.

Because Lin Jun found that after the previous Flower Demon was defeated, a month later, a new Flower Demon had already started growing.

Though still small and immature, maintaining a dormant appearance, it clearly is only a matter of time before it grows back to its original size.

Since materials need to be collected from the Flower Demons, choose the rarest and biggest, as its material yield will be higher than other Flower Demons!

Much effort was spent by Lin Jun for the magic arrays.

Of course, he didn’t forget the place in the Purple Crystal Dungeon with the most arrays — the eighth floor!

Teleportation arrays, rare outside, on the eighth floor they are everywhere.

After confirming the seventh floor had no rift, Lin Jun naturally laid down the fungal mat.

However, this time he didn’t consume Firefly Grass, as it’s one of the magic array materials, some needs to be spared…

Yet before starting to research arrays, the laying of fungal mats encountered an epic problem!

What Lin Jun thought of as the eighth floor, turned out to be a massive maze, with countless dead ends, each connected by teleportation arrays, forming a complete maze.

The original plan to conquer the eighth floor included wall digging.

Directly open the paths to eliminate fungal network cutoff by teleportation arrays.

However, Lin Jun was naive, once the fungal mat reached the eighth floor, it was far from simple.

When a Puki walked into a teleportation array, it lost contact with the fungal network!?

Note, the controllable range of the fungal network is within 300 meters, with a vague sense within 1000 meters.

Direct disconnection shows the teleportation exceeds 1000 meters.

Lin Jun thought the eighth floor maze was too big, using [Subordinate Control] to control a Puki for teleportation, this time it didn’t disconnect.

Though there wasn’t a disconnect, Lin Jun still couldn’t sense the Puki’s position…

So… how big is the eighth floor anyway?

Lin Jun tried to dig the walls, after digging through 20-plus meters of soil, he hit the “transparent wall” encountered on the fifth floor.

Each direction is the same.

Lin Jun has human guides on the eighth floor strategy, nine teleportation arrays to reach the ninth-floor entrance.

The eighth floor can’t possibly be too big for [Subordinate Control] to sense direction, nor can it be tiny enough to dig a few dozen meters to reach the end.

Then there is only one possibility.

The eighth floor is not a whole, it’s not continuous!

Lin Jun suspects it consists of unknown-position fragmented areas, connected by teleportation arrays.

If this hypothesis holds, could some segments lie deeply buried under the Demon Race territory?

This means little to adventurers.

They don’t dig walls, using teleportation arrays, it doesn’t matter the actual location, to adventurers it makes no difference.

But to Lin Jun, it’s the worst possible news.

The fungal mat cannot connect through teleportation arrays!

Unconnected, how can my fungal mat be laid?

No fungal mat laid, how can the entire dungeon bathe in the fungal network’s glory?

How can the Mushroom Garden rise in grandeur?

Realizing this, Lin Jun lost the mood for observing magic arrays for learning.

Without fungal mats, large-scale Puki control is impossible, without the fungal sea’s advantage, sending a few elite Puki to conquer the next level?

Not possible! How ridiculous!

So who the heck designed this dungeon?

So annoying!

However, it hasn’t reached a dead-end yet.

Unable to bypass the eighth floor, Lin Jun still remembers the sixth-floor rift leading straight to the Deep Area!

Previously, due to the numerous Thyphra swarms blocking the rift, and that area being far from Lin Jun’s domain, the attack costs were too high to continue exploration.

Now it seems, there’s no choice but to go from there!

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