[{"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-41":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},2219096,3995,"Chapter 41: 42 Precursors to Collapse","this-dungeon-is-growing-mushrooms-chapter-41",41,"\u003Cp>[Level Up LV50 -> LV51]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After fighting for most of the day, Lin Jun leveled up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It hadn't been long since the last level up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As expected of a magic tide, the experience was really high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the stairs, one Puji shot could affect six or seven monsters; where else would there be such a good output environment?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, as time passed, the strength of the monsters gradually increased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides some dragon beasts, Lin Jun also saw flesh monsters from the ninth floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These things were even more troublesome than dragon beasts—their vitality and recovery power were too strong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So strong that it made him feel sick.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if he blasted them to pieces, as long as the core part was still alive, they could absorb the surrounding flesh and reassemble a deformed body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, the stairs were covered in flesh chunks...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, the size of the body each flesh monster could control was limited, otherwise, if they assembled a giant, Lin Jun really wouldn't have a way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The situation now was that although the flesh monsters were hard to kill, they were suppressed and couldn't climb up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The situation on the rift side was much more difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no special terrain like the stairs where thousands of troops crossed a single-plank bridge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The firepower gradually couldn't keep up with the speed at which monsters poured out, turning from a siege into a chaotic battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Puji had no reinforcements, and it probably wouldn't be long before they couldn't hold on, but that was also within expectations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was unexpected was the dragon-man side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That giant rat that was fighting the dragon-man had turned into flesh chunks on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fighting to the end, the dragon-man also got angry, not only crushing the giant rat's throat but also tearing it to shreds after it fell before stopping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This battle clearly consumed a lot of the dragon-man's energy, to the point that she didn't intend to guard all the Puji anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just now, she seemed to have figured it out and directly packed up six Puji and flew to the forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without the dragon-man, the monsters were unimpeded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After entering the fifth floor, they started running around like headless flies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Large swaths of fungal mat were trampled, and mushrooms were crushed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thing he was worried about came true.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the monsters received instructions to rush out of the dungeon, this instruction clearly didn't include navigation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fungal mat that could finally be preserved intact on the fifth floor was probably only those hanging on the dome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, up to now, enough monsters had been killed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he couldn't stop the mushroom garden from being destroyed, he would try to reduce the time and cost required for reconstruction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nothing could accelerate reconstruction more than a large number of corpses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now all the monsters were thinking about rushing up, and wouldn't steal the corpses on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Except for the dragon-man, that freak, who was single-mindedly focused on gnawing on Puji.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rift couldn't be blocked anymore; if he continued to guard the stairs, he would soon be surrounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Jun commanded the two Puji teams to start retreating toward the swamp area while fighting; that terrain was most suitable for the Puji to make a final counterattack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In order to maintain maximum firepower during the retreat, Lin Jun even developed a jump-and-shoot tactic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The front-row Puji fired in unison, then took advantage of the gap to re-gather magic power and jumped to the back row.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This way, while jumping and fighting, the monsters left behind many more corpses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time the Puji entered the swamp area, the battle had entered the final stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Small monsters' mobility was greatly weakened after entering the swamp, so they were not to be feared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was truly threatening were those that could fly and those with huge bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The remaining less than five hundred Puji launched a final chaotic battle with the monsters rushing in from all directions...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The plan was executed about this much, and monsters were already wandering near the cave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Jun decisively detonated several self-detonating Puji at the cave entrance, sealing it off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the way, he also let that fat Puji in the forest, which was being held and gnawed on by the dragon-man, self-detonate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Really treating it like a buffet?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fat Puji was hiding in a cave at the edge of the forest, and she found it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Self-detonation certainly couldn't kill her, and it was hard to even hurt her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Jun had no way to deal with her now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The previous poisoning plan also went bankrupt; he didn't know if she could distinguish between different ones, but she only chose to eat cannon mushrooms or self-detonating Puji.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He only hoped she would leave the fifth floor quickly along with the other dragon beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But come to think of it, after the magic tide, wouldn't each floor be left with a large number of high-level monsters?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't know if they would automatically retreat to the lower floors, or if the dungeon itself would come to deal with them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He always felt that the problems in this dungeon were increasing, as was that suspicious voice that caused the magic tide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he was just a weak mushroom now and shouldn't consider so much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he reaches LV99 one day, he'll go and find out!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No longer thinking about the dungeon, Lin Jun squatted in the cave and watched the live broadcast outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the fungal mat and mushrooms on the ground were trampled into a mess, those on the dome weren't affected much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to them, Lin Jun could still observe the outside—it's just that the underground signal was a bit poor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The things rushing up from the lower floors were getting more and more outrageous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A snake monster with three heads left a trail of venom wherever it crawled; he didn't know if he could grow mushrooms on it in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A beetle burning with flames successfully set fire to Dilan's loving little wooden house.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was even a super-sized golem; with such a huge body, it was a wonder it could climb up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These monsters came out one after another, found the stairs and continued to rush up, or wandered around if they didn't find them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, no one was interested in the collapsed cave... except for a certain dragon-man...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Jun saw the dragon-man leave the forest, heading straight for the cave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What is she doing?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did she discover these Puji in the cave?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were Puji corpses all over the fifth floor; does she have to eat fresh ones?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, even if she sensed it, she shouldn't be able to dig in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But... just in case, preparations still had to be made...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>————\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No... it can't be blocked anymore!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the dungeon gate, from a certain moment, the strength of the monsters suddenly jumped by a big margin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flesh monsters, high-level dragon beasts...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The adventurers suffered heavy casualties when caught off guard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even two Gold-rank adventurers sacrificed themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it wasn't just this batch that was strong; the further back, the more powerful monsters there were!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By now, the casualties had reached the critical point that the adventurers could endure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many people had already thought of retreating and intended to find an opportunity to slip away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't retreat!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you retreat, are you going to let Ya-Feng Town suffer?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoever dares to flee, the guild will definitely revoke their adventurer status!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reinforcements will arrive soon, hold on for me!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the crisis, everyone's bounty will be tripled!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oberon actually came to the front line himself at this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, he couldn't help but come.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stood out now, making a gesture of fighting to the death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the loss, he could also win some sympathy points on the grounds of \"fighting to the end and breaking out with serious injuries.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the time comes for the guild to hold him accountable, maybe they will deal with him at their discretion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Oberon called out loudly, the gorgeous and exquisite magic staff in his hand burst into dazzling light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seventh-tier light magic—Arrow of the Firmament.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several arrows composed of light shot out, accurately hitting several small dragon beasts flying in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under Oberon's encouragement, the morale of the adventurers was finally boosted slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he knew that collapse was only a matter of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the so-called \"reinforcements arriving soon\" were actually a full day's journey away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And after a day, who knew how many of these adventurers would be able to escape with their lives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for himself?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Level 55, although he couldn't block the magic tide, it would be very simple to escape in the chaos after morale collapsed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slightly changed some titles:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sub-dragon -> Dragon Beast\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Calling them sub-dragons is a bit of an elevation for them\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Third-level magic -> Third-tier magic\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All spells have tiers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wind magic LV6, representing the ability to use up to sixth-tier wind spells.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 43 =====\u003C\u002Fp>",1513,"2026-06-17T15:02:37.041Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","575dc212f5f638e3e9eb22354d6c70990970271e53ab49e5f1b0c58cb417a7d3","this-dungeon-is-growing-mushrooms-chapter-42","this-dungeon-is-growing-mushrooms-chapter-40",165,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthis-dungeon-has-sprouted-mushrooms-cover.jpg"]