Chapter 140: A Special Class

The intelligence Louisa provided certainly wasn't just the single sentence, "The Codex is dangerous."

She not only revealed the Huang Pishu's abilities that Lin Jun already knew, but also added one more, and the most important one: Do not let the Codex absorb enough souls!

This "soul" refers to the souls of humans, demons, or even intelligent beings like tree spirits, excluding those low-IQ monsters.

As for why, Louisa herself did not know.

She had simply been specifically emphasized on this point as a precaution before her mission.

The method to stop the Codex from absorbing surrounding souls was actually very simple: do not open its pages.

With Louisa currently connected to the Mycelial Network and parasitized, Lin Jun could judge that she was not lying.

However, to say this matter was entirely unexpected by Lin Jun would be an exaggeration; he had never fully trusted the Huang Pishu, and everything the Huang Pishu said was merely for reference.

Regarding Louisa's so-called surrender, Lin Jun did not care much either.

This vampire simply wanted to improve her situation, not truly willing to remain under Pujji's command.

However, granting a certain degree of freedom appropriately was not impossible; perhaps Louisa could be used as bait to make the Huang Pishu reveal more things.

This matter is not urgent; it still needs to be arranged carefully...

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Recently, adventurers on various floors occasionally saw one or two Pujjis passing by holding some flowers and plants.

The most absurd thing was that someone even saw five Pujjis carrying a single uprooted Ashwood tree together!

Although the Pujjis' somewhat strange new actions were no longer too novel in the Amethyst Dungeon, carrying away an entire Ashwood tree was still a bit too absurd.

Unfortunately, no one knew their destination.

If anyone tried to follow the Pujjis, the Pujjis would only keep circling until that person gave up.

Nor did anyone know how the Pujjis discovered the followers behind them?

And in hidden places unknown to the adventurers.

Such as a cave on the second floor usually blocked by a Mimic Pujji; the underground space on the fifth floor; behind the new mushroom forest on the sixth floor.

The transplantation and planting project was underway.

Hidden places were not necessarily suitable for planting, so Lin Jun had to put in quite a bit of effort to improve the environment.

If a loafer dug around randomly on the second floor, they might dig up a mycelial water-suction pipe buried in the soil, connected to the groundwater.

Lacking water, pump water; lacking soil, move soil; even the temperature, Lin Jun tried to control it.

For high temperatures, send an Ice Pujji with 【Frost Path Lv3】 to cool it down; for low temperatures... then let it be low.

Lin Jun did have burning skills, but their consumption was not suitable for long-term use.

Among these, the sixth floor was the most worry-free.

Lin Jun discovered the greatest value of the tree spirits!

The tree spirits were renowned plant experts; under their care, transplanted plants never died, and their growth far surpassed that on other floors; they were all born plant experts.

With them managing things, Lin Jun only needed to guide a little groundwater, and they would solve all other problems.

Lin Jun almost wished he could share some of the Hero's Authority with them, letting them manage planting fields on other floors for him!

Additionally, Lin Jun also moved the flower bud of that dead giant flower spirit to behind the mushroom forest.

Because Lin Jun discovered that after the previous flower spirit was killed, a new flower spirit had already started growing a month later.

Although it was still very small and not mature, maintaining a sleeping appearance, obviously growing back to its original size was just a matter of time.

Since materials from flower spirits were to be collected anyway, then choose this rarest and largest one; the material yield would be higher than other flower spirits!

For the array, Lin Jun spent a lot of effort. Naturally, he would not forget that there was still a place with the most arrays in the Amethyst Dungeon—the eighth floor!

Teleportation arrays, things almost unseen outside, were everywhere on the eighth floor as if they cost nothing.

After confirming there were no rifts on the seventh floor, Lin Jun naturally spread the mycelial mat down.

However, this time it did not eat the Firefly Grass again; this thing was actually one of the array materials, so a little had to be kept...

But before even starting to study the arrays, the laying of the mycelial mat encountered an epic-level major problem!

Lin Jun thought the eighth floor was a large maze, with countless dead ends inside the maze, connected by teleportation arrays to form a complete maze.

One item in the original plan to clear the eighth floor was wall-digging.

Dig the path straight through, and there would be no problem of teleportation arrays cutting off the Mycelial Network.

However, Lin Jun was still too naive; only after actually laying the mycelial mat on the eighth floor did he realize it was far from that simple.

A Pujji entered a teleportation array and immediately lost connection with the Mycelial Network!?

It must be known that the controllable range of the Mycelial Network was within 300 meters, and within 1000 meters there could be a vague sense.

A Pujji losing connection immediately indicated that this teleportation exceeded 1000 meters.

Lin Jun thought this was because the eighth-floor maze was too big, so he used 【Kin Control】 to control a Pujji to teleport; this time it did not lose connection.

Although it did not lose connection, Lin Jun was completely unable to sense the Pujji's location...

So... just how big is the eighth floor?

Lin Jun tried digging walls; after digging over 20 meters of earth, he encountered the "transparent wall" he had hit while digging on the fifth floor.

It was the same in several directions.

Lin Jun had human guides for the eighth floor in hand; turning nine teleportation arrays could lead to the entrance of the ninth floor.

The eighth floor obviously could not be so big that 【Kin Control】 couldn't sense direction, nor obviously so small that digging a few dozen meters in all directions reached the end.

Then there was only one possibility.

The eighth floor is not a whole, not continuous!

Lin Jun suspected it was composed of fragmented areas at unknown locations, connected together by teleportation arrays.

If this guess holds true, then it is not impossible that a certain segment of the journey is actually buried deep underground in Demon Territory?

This had no impact on the adventurers.

They wouldn't go digging through walls anyway; through the teleportation array, it made no difference in the adventurers' perception whether this area was actually located here or there.

But for Lin Jun, this was the worst possible news.

My fungal mat cannot connect via teleportation arrays!

If you aren't connected, how can I spread my fungal mat?

If the fungal mat can't spread, how can the entire dungeon bask in the glory of the fungal network?

How can the Mushroom Garden become great?

Once he understood this situation, Lin Jun instantly lost all desire to observe and study the teleportation array.

Without a fungal mat, I can't control large-scale Pujis; without the advantage of a sea of mushrooms, how can I send one or two elite Pujis to conquer the higher tiers?

That's impossible!

So who the hell designed this dungeon?

It's so disgusting!

However, it hasn't reached the point of having no solutions yet.

Even if Floor Eight is impassable, Lin Jun still remembers the fissure on Floor Six that leads directly to the Deep Zone!

Previously, he abandoned further exploration because the fissure was blocked by a large number of 【Thousand-Axis Mayflies】, and that location was far from Lin Jun's homeland, making the cost of attack too high.

Now it seems he has no choice but to pass through that way!

(End of Chapter)