[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-this-dungeon-is-growing-mushrooms":3,"chapter-this-dungeon-is-growing-mushrooms-this-dungeon-is-growing-mushrooms-chapter-35":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","This Dungeon Has Sprouted Mushrooms",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2219090,3995,"Chapter 35: 36 The Old Thing Dropped Loot","this-dungeon-is-growing-mushrooms-chapter-35",35,"\u003Cp>On the damp rock ceiling, the water droplets about to fall were trembling violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Infrasound attacks echoed within the cave, with a layer of Puji corpses piled underneath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That ancient crystallized bat, however, was exceptionally irritable, its rugged claws constantly scratching white marks onto the surface of the rock it was hanging from.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From time to time, it had to drop down and use its wings to sweep the Puji that got too close to the side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A wing bone spur accidentally scratched the cap of a certain fungus, and pale purple hallucinogenic spores immediately gushed out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old bat flapped its wings and retreated continuously, scrambling back to the rock ceiling, its chest heaving violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time it finally recovered, some of the Puji below had already repaired their bodies and started moving again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A new round of infrasound waves immediately exploded in the cave, knocking down the newly revived Puji again—this stalemate had continued for countless cycles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Puji killed by sound waves would revive, and the Puji crushed would explode with hallucinogenic poisonous mist at close range.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old bat could only drag out time like this over and over again, but the Puji were still getting closer and closer...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the last foothold was also shrouded in hallucinogenic spores, the old bat was finally poisoned into unconsciousness and fell from the rock ceiling, motionless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Jun had thought the old bat would go out with a bang at the end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But perhaps it was because the older one gets, the more one cherishes life; it just kept shrinking up there, not daring to come down and tear apart a few Puji even when death was imminent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The final combat loss ratio was much smaller than Lin Jun had expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the cave, two figures had been waiting here for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mushrooms had grown on the incomplete auricle of the half-elf, and the emerald wooden staff in the human woman's hand had fused with the fungal film growing between her fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both of these were parasitic puppets Lin Jun had made earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, the work of dissecting the old bat was completed by these two puppets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before that, the two puppets had to each drink a bottle of antidote.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, they would also be paralyzed by the hallucinogenic poisonous mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He always felt that after being made into puppets, they inherited both the weaknesses of mushrooms and the weaknesses of humans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After drilling into the cave, Lin Jun first controlled the two puppets to cut the throat of the unconscious old bat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmm?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why was there still a panel that could be pulled open?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn't dead yet?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, Lin Jun simply cut the bat's head off entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The panel still hadn't disappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Jun pulled open the panel with a puzzled look, only to find it wasn't the old bat's panel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Artifact: Sun Stone (Fragment)]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>???\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Jun didn't even have time to care about the S-rank magic crystals and hurriedly controlled the puppets to rummage through the old bat's corpse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After cutting open its chest, he finally found a Sun Stone fragment emitting heat inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Good fellow, no wonder the cave environment was so cold, yet the old bat had LV5 high-temperature resistance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It turned out it was roasted out by the Sun Stone fragment!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So the old bat's title of \"Transcending Death\" was also related to this Sun Stone fragment?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This artifact extended its life?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, there was still no information on the panel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to existing information, besides emitting light and heat, the Sun Stone might also be used to prolong life?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the question arises, what use is this to Lin Jun?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lifespan of mushrooms on Earth ranges from a few months to thousands of years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this isn't Earth either; having been here for so long, Lin Jun hadn't felt any aging problems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rather than worrying about dying of old age, it was more realistic to worry about whether his main body would be killed by a powerful monster or adventurer one day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This couldn't help but make Lin Jun think of another incomplete artifact he had seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That kind of artifact that could unleash high-power killing moves was what he wanted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three arm-sized S-rank magic crystals and that Sun Stone were finally sent to a secret space Lin Jun had hidden at the bottom of the swamp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the rest of the old bat's corpse, it wouldn't be wasted; the puppets were still working on cutting it up there, and it would be brought out after being turned into small pieces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the old bat had so many max-level skills that a large amount of proficiency could be plundered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking out his own Sun Stone fragment and studying the cross-section for a long time, he finally found the corresponding part and connected the two pieces of the Sun Stone together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fracture automatically bonded, becoming a seamless whole; this point did conform to Lin Jun's stereotype of artifacts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The more complete Sun Stone emitted even more light and heat, so hot that his LV7 high-temperature resistance could barely hold up, and he could only hold it a little further away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this thing were complete, wouldn't it really turn into a small sun that could burn mountains and boil seas?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the panel had changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Artifact: Sun Stone (Residual)]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly it had leveled up, but Lin Jun still couldn't think of how to use it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This feeling of it being a \"chicken rib\" really made the mushroom anxious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, Lin Jun knew what the three S-rank magic crystals were for; that 500% skill power bonus of the old bat made him drool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He prepared to tinker with it to see if it could be installed on his vehicle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>————\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two days after dealing with the old bat, a magic power tremor suddenly appeared throughout the entire fifth floor, immediately attracting Lin Jun's attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was transmitted from the lower floors, and not through the floor passage, but vertically transmitted from the underground, penetrating the floor walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn't the intense magic power tremor of a battle, but a more persistent, more regular magic fluctuation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was something he had never encountered before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The magic power fluctuation lasted for more than ten minutes before stabilizing again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had some change occurred in the dungeon that he wasn't aware of?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He asked Dilan, who was building a wooden house; as expected of a bottom-tier adventurer, he really didn't know anything about slightly higher-level questions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could only let Dilan put down his work and go on a business trip to the surface to find out the news, and it just so happened that he could also find out about Inanna.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having sent Dilan out, Lin Jun was still uneasy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such a large-scale magic power tremor must mean something had happened; the unknown always made the mushroom anxious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He planned to produce more Puji recently and send a portion to the lower floors to explore and see.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vehicle reinforcement plan, which was originally intended to be slow and meticulous, seemed to need to be sped up; he didn't want to put himself in potential danger due to lack of preparation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>————\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ya-Feng Town, inside the guild president's office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oberon had just finished listening to Helena's report about two Gold-rank beast-man adventurers who hadn't returned 10 days after taking the A-rank task on the fifth floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This young branch president rested his chin on one hand and tapped the table lightly with the other, hesitating whether to raise the task level or shelve it for now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Recently, many Diamond-rank adventurers had been invited to the capital; he learned from some special channels that there seemed to be a big move coming from above.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There weren't many Diamond-rank adventurers wandering outside now, and even if an S-rank task were issued, it wouldn't necessarily be taken in the short term.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And after all, according to current intelligence, these Puji wouldn't actively attack if not forced into the swamp, and wouldn't have a major impact on adventurers exploring the maze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Updating the official strategy to let adventurers stay away from the swamp area seemed to be a more cost-effective way to handle it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A series of urgent knocks on the door interrupted Oberon's thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come in.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The person who came in was the Intelligence Analysis Department Chief, Mirabelle; she got straight to the point as soon as she entered:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The detection crystals set on the seventh, fourth, and first floors have all detected magic power fluctuations, and they are decreasing floor by floor.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, everything about the fifth-floor Puji was thrown to the back of Oberon's mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He asked with a glimmer of hope: \"Are you sure it's not interference or a false alarm?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mirabelle didn't reply, but the meaning was self-evident.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sigh—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oberon also realized he had asked a stupid question; Mirabelle couldn't make such a low-level mistake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The time shouldn't be up yet? Why is it so much earlier this time? And it just happened to hit when the Diamond-rank ones were all transferred away...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oberon grabbed his blonde hair messily, and his originally neat hair stood up in messy arcs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pulled open the drawer abruptly and took out a bottle of Elven ice wine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the fine wine entered his throat, Oberon finally calmed down and said to Mirabelle:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Issue a magic tide warning, and at the same time, seal the dungeon entrance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I will report this to the headquarters and write letters to the surrounding cities to request support.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>May Ixion bless us; I hope there won't be any big problems this time...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 37 =====\u003C\u002Fp>",1621,"2026-06-17T15:02:37.041Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","11e57f11de5dabea74a3a0d6514afac7ce11256c4d968e012617f14b268d75de","this-dungeon-is-growing-mushrooms-chapter-36","this-dungeon-is-growing-mushrooms-chapter-34",165,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthis-dungeon-has-sprouted-mushrooms-cover.jpg"]