Teleport arrays.
Lin Jun had honestly never considered setting up teleport arrays in his own territory before.
There were many reasons.
The dungeon’s convenient spatial rifts, the ability to spawn Puchis on-site, and the fact that his sphere of influence wasn’t that large back then…
But now, it really was worth considering a few teleport arrays. He didn’t lack mana anyway.
Materials were expensive, but Lin Jun was now big and wealthy enough to afford them.
So with a wave of his tentacle…
“Little Yellow, you’re not going to connect the other end to some weird place, right?”
The sudden sinister question made the yellow-skinned book’s pages freeze.
[Boss… I’m still counting on you to shape my soul. How could I pull anything?!]
“Hahahaha, just kidding!” The Puchi’s tentacles encouragingly patted the cover. “You protected Norris this time and gave info on war golems and magic-crystal gear—big contributions. Of course I trust you.”
Then Lin Jun immediately notified Aidin through the mycelial network to come supervise the entire teleport array construction under the guise of “assistance.”
Though Aidin couldn’t independently build such a complex array, checking key nodes was more than enough.
Aidin had been obsessed with using the massive S-grade crystal chunk from last time to make a large-scale illusion device.
The feeling of pouring his life’s learning into it was intoxicating. The prototype was nearly done, but testing was the problem.
He couldn’t just activate it in Mushroom Capital, right?
It would cause chaos, and a trump card like large-scale illusion worked best when unexpected.
Perfect timing—the Boss gave a new mission. Aidin casually asked for a remote testing site.
Lin Jun agreed without hesitation. The north had endless uninhabited zones.
So under the pretext of searching for Inanna, Aidin brought his prototype device over.
After Aidin arrived, Lin Jun filled the passage to the deeper zone with massive mushroom trees, then flooded it with poison mist and corrosive aura, completely sealing the path down to prevent search parties from barging into his home.
…
While his subordinates were busy with their tasks, Lin Jun didn’t slack off either. He began his daily mission—exploring the endless starry-sea rune nodes inside the dungeon crystal stele.
Today was a memorable day. After a full year, Lin Jun was finally about to finish exploring the near-infinite stars in this crystal stele!
This meant he, the dungeon administrator, was about to go from temp to permanent staff!
As Lin Jun triggered the last star, a Puchi that had been lighting the way for an adventurer party suddenly vanished.
“Enemy attack?!”
Sudden darkness put the party on high alert. They instantly formed a defensive circle back-to-back. The mage cast light spells, remaining vigilant for a long time before realizing it was just the lighting Puchi that inexplicably disappeared…
In absolute darkness, a cluster of light suddenly appeared.
The lighting Puchi executing the preset “follow adventurers” command appeared in a completely unfamiliar space.
Having lost its target, it stood blankly until Lin Jun’s will descended, bringing it back to life.
Lin Jun looked around in shock and suspicion.
Familiar dark void… familiar floating cubes…
The solidified abyss space from the Divine Tree Dungeon?
No, not the same place—there was no massive divine tree piercing heaven and earth here.
So… Dungeon No. 13 came with its own abyss domain?
Did every dungeon have one?
Ignoring the countless info cubes for now, something reflective in the distance caught Lin Jun’s attention.
Treasure… mountains of treasure!
Weapons, potions, scrolls, equipment… and massive piles of gold, silver, and jewels!
All placed on a giant magic array over a hundred meters in diameter, composed of seven nested geometric patterns so complex Lin Jun couldn’t understand them at all.
The lighting Puchi tried to approach. The array suddenly glowed faintly.
With a mana fluctuation, Lin Jun sensed a short sword vanish from the treasure pile.
His suspicion confirmed, the chef Puchi currently hiding in a room preparing mushroom soup flipped open the treasure chest it was standing on for height—and sure enough pulled out that short sword!
So this was the source of dungeon treasure chest refreshes?!
Judging by refresh rates, Lin Jun roughly estimated this pile could last centuries!
But since he had seen it…
The lighting Puchi rubbed its tentacles and charged in.
*Pfft—*
It slammed face-first into an invisible barrier, flattening its mushroom cap.
[Access Denied]
Lin Jun knew this one.
The lighting Puchi didn’t give up—it pressed even harder against the air wall.
And didn’t disappoint Lin Jun.
[Hero, restriction lifted]
Barrier gone, the lighting Puchi dove into the treasure pile, tentacles and short legs flailing.
Short legs kicked away a gem-encrusted crown. Tentacles snatched a staff flowing with starlight. It even opened a fireball scroll and fired fireworks into the sky…
All this stuff was surnamed Lin from now on!
Hm?
What’s this?
While digging through the mountain of treasure, its tentacle touched something odd.
A gray-white human skull rolled out, empty eye sockets staring straight at the lighting Puchi.
Completely unfazed—fungal mats decomposed stuff like this daily. To Lin Jun it was no different from seeing a chicken bone.
What puzzled him was why there was a corpse in the treasure pile. Was it valuable?
He searched more and quickly found a few more bones.
Put together—no mana fluctuations. Just normal corpse, not treasure…
Unable to figure it out, Lin Jun set it aside but didn’t discard it. What if it was important? He had space.
Too much treasure, but scanning showed no divine artifacts—normal.
He’d move the gear out later and let Aidin and the others appraise slowly.
Only then did Lin Jun turn to the info cubes behind.
What would be inside?
Like the Divine Tree—records about the mist and another continent?
The lighting Puchi extended a tentacle and casually touched one.
[Subject Name: Sun Stone]
[Final Experiment Record]
[Following Blood Calamity, Heartwood of Yggdrasil, and Void Realm, the Sun Stone project has also failed]
[I still cannot create a new soul]
[Severing, twisting, alienating—this is the limit of the Sun Stone’s power]
[I must abandon this path and seek another]
[Ether compression is merely drinking poison to quench thirst. The current improvement is an illusion. We have little time left]
[The neighboring team chose the opposite direction: first mutate the soul, then let the body follow, finally duplicating souls through bodily fission]
[No good news yet; progress is clearly not smooth]
[But I will go observe. I hope to gain some inspiration]
…
[Universe, have mercy on your children! Must everything truly return to nothingness?]
[Ixyon]
The Puchi slowly retracted its tentacle, feeling it had just seen something incredible.
And that final signature looked really familiar…
The God of Light?!
(End of Chapter)
