"What’s going on?"
At the entrance between the fifth and sixth floors, a group of adventurers were forced to stop their descent because the stairs were crowded...
The Pukis were swarming down the stairs in batches, completely blocking the path, leaving no room for the adventurers to squeeze through.
People’s tolerance for strange occurrences always seems to be constantly refreshed. Previously, adventurers were amazed to see Big Black Mushrooms traversing the stairs, but now they weren’t even surprised to see Pukis descending in groups.
It’s just that...
An adventurer glanced at the long line of Pukis behind them and complained:
"How long is this going to take to finish?"
...
On the sixth floor, the Mushroom Cannon in the southwest corner hadn’t stopped for more than half a day, causing quite a few Pukis manning the cannons to exhaust the threads and beco silent.
The cannon on the bottom level of the cliff wall suffered the most, as it was directly taken out by a large Sli that surged over, digesting the cannon completely or partially dying within the rocky shell.
The Sli even attempted to engulf the cannons higher up, but as the slope turned steeper, climbing beca increasingly difficult for it. In the end, it was blasted back by the remaining cannons’ barrage.
Unfortunately, the remaining cannons on the cliff were too far to accurately bombard the area below, limiting their effectiveness.
Lin Jun was commanding this sudden grand battle against the Slis.
The Rock Pit had long been breached, so Lin Jun had to order the Pukis to retreat first. After regrouping with the first batch of reinforcents from the fifth floor, they established a quarantine line.
Over two hundred Mushroom Cannon Pukis surrounded the corner where the small mountain was located, trying to prevent the large Slis from spreading out.
At one end of the defensive line, more than twenty Pukis were retreating while fighting under the pressure of three Slis.
The nearest Sli, having been hit the most, had its fluids splatter extensively, reducing its size to less than the height of a person.
Another volley of Mushroom Cannons burst forward, and without enough sli for defense, the core hidden within was affected and destroyed, causing the Sli to instantly dissolve into a liquid puddle.
However, the situation wasn’t good. The two more distant Slis were still about two people tall, and several volleys of Mushroom Cannons only slightly reduced their size, while their health bars remained lengthy!
One of the Slis leapt several steps forward, catching up with the trailing Puki and enveloping it, thus engaging with the Pukis.
Lin Jun had no choice but to order the Pukis to spread out, at least preventing the Sli from killing two with a single jump.
Even so, the number of Pukis rapidly dwindled, and the two Slis were only slightly weakened, on the verge of an all-out demise.
Thump-thump—thump-thump—
A heavy sound, different from the usual Pukis, approached as a Big Black Mushroom charged out of the woods.
With one punch, it smashed into a Sli, bursting it like a water balloon!
Accompanying the explosion were four Pukis, but unfortunately, none could be saved.
The other Sli didn’t last a few more seconds, getting stomped by Xiao Hai and exploding on the spot.
A splatter of Digestive Mucus glued a nearby Puki to the ground, struggling for a few monts before succumbing.
Xiao Hai licked the mucus off her hands; the Slis were imbued with ample Magic Power, and their taste wasn’t too bad.
However, Xiao Hai couldn’t stay for long, as Lin Jun directed her to other areas needing firefighting.
Only five Pukis survived on the spot, not enough to form a defensive line, but fortunately, a new batch of reinforcents was arriving from the stairs, doubling the numbers to a full 400.
With the powerful Xiao Hai, the previously pushed-out encirclent was forced back step by step.
Frankly, it’s a good thing the Slis erging from the small mountain weren’t infinite, judging by the pressure on the encirclent.
After the Rock Pit was breached, another wave of large Slis erged, but there were no further reinforcents.
This was correct; there can’t be truly unlimited respawns!
In fact, it’s already absurd enough that the underground water source within the small mountain could hide so many large Slis.
Although the situation had stabilized, this Sli rampage had caused devastating damage to the ecosystem within the southwest corner encirclent of the sixth floor.
Once a large Sli sat down, it didn’t matter whether it was a Flower Demon or a vine; everything got digested.
Coupled with Lin Jun’s Mushroom Cannon fire shower, this area quickly beca barren under the twin blows!
Thankfully, it was just one corner, so the overall impact on the sixth floor wasn’t severe.
After another half day, the battle line was finally pushed back near the Rock Pit, with dozens of Mushroom Cannons eliminating the last visible Sli.
Xiao Hai didn’t follow; she got tired halfway through the fight and started eating with a Puki, using Sli mucus as seasoning. She’s probably just finishing now.
Lin Jun controlled the Pukis to reach the opened Rift, ignoring the corrosive Sli Mucus on the ground, and sent a few Pukis into the breach.
Once inside, they discovered that the mountain’s interior was almost hollow, explaining how it could contain so many Slis!
Lin Jun soon found traces of the underground water, and by following the stream upwards, located a peculiar Sli at its end.
This Sli was about the height of a person, not small, but compared to the ones that had charged out, it seed underdeveloped.
Its body was a mix of red and green, looking as if two Slis had rged into one.
When Lin Jun saw it, it was struggling to split another Sli from its body.
After the split, its size shrunk a bit.
The Sli that split off was a pure red Sli, unlike the bicolored original, and as soon as it landed, Puki killed it on the spot.
[Core Split Level 9]
This is definitely not a common skill.
You should know that normal Slis are directly ford by the environnt and magic power, not by reproductive splitting.
No wonder there are Slis here far exceeding the natural limit of what the sixth layer’s environnt can hold, turns out they are produced unnaturally.
But that still doesn’t explain how these Slis grew so large!
Lin Jun noticed sothing strange.
This Sli... was constantly spraying water...
It was ejecting large amounts of clear water from both sides of its body, looking like an underground water source?
Is this a joke?
Lin Jun didn’t see a skill in its skill bar that allows it to create unlimited water.
Is the place it’s sitting producing water?
Two Pukis rolled a thin slab of stone, trying to push this Sli away.
Since they hadn’t decided whether to kill it directly, the Pukis didn’t use too much force, fearing they might accidentally kill it.
However, the bicolored Sli, which hadn’t shown any aggression since they t, was desperately resisting the stone slab, not wanting to move at all.
Puki’s strength wasn’t much, and they couldn’t push it away for the mont.
But Lin Jun had more than two Pukis, and with more joining in, the Sli was reluctantly pushed aside.
As expected, there was a water-spewing crack in the rock beneath it.
Once the Sli was moved, a faint trace of magic power was dispersed from the erging water!
This water was actually rich in magic power!
This was the first... no wait, there was more in the Treasure Chest Room, and the magic concentration was much higher there.
But the water volu in this crack was large!
Overall, the total amount of magic power here was still greater.
No wonder the Sli was unwilling to move, and how those Slis managed to grow so big, they’ve been sitting here filtering and absorbing all the magic power for themselves!
If the Sli can filter magic power, so can Lin Jun!
Although it’s not particularly needed now, one can never have too much magic power.
In ti, using mycelium to set up several layers of filters here, this small mountain cavity could serve as a hidden space, later on just fake the outer opening...
[Corrosive Curse]
Huh?
What is this?
All of a sudden, this curse effect appeared on the panels of all the Pukis present, and they started losing blood volu...
Lin Jun reacted quickly, and before the Pukis’ blood volu fell by half, hurriedly moved the bicolored Sli back to block the water outlet.
The returning Sli let out a satisfied bubble.
Sure enough, the curse disappeared shortly after.
How can Lin Jun not understand now that the water contains a curse!
But why?
This can’t be left unexplained!
While controlling the bicolored Sli, Lin Jun sped up the production of so Pukis with higher blood volu and corrosion resistance.
Once ready, they again kicked away the bicolored Sli, and the digging Pukis began to open the crack.
Even with this preparation, they still had to bring the bicolored Sli back once.
The longer this Corrosive Curse lingered on the panel, the higher the damage, only a Sli immune to corrosion damage could withstand it.
After half a day of work, the Pukis finally opened the crack, revealing the truth behind it—
A Rift!
A very small one, but just like during the Demon Tide, connecting to another Underground City!
What’s going on with this Underground City, has maintenance been neglected for years?
Does the other side know their pipes are leaking sewage over here?
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