There's a skeleton dungeon connected to my basement.

Chapter 179, Countdown to Return

The Hanging Locust Tree is a very special BOSS. Its abilities are concentrated on the zombies that it controls and controls, and the tree itself has no combat power.

As Xiao Yang dragged the rusty giant axe closer, a large number of gray-white vines suddenly emerged from the ground of the square courtyard. These gray-white vines that emerged from the ground began to wave violently.

This posture looks a bit scary.

It's a pity that it looks good but is useless. The silver-plated spear head is very useless. Xiao Yang just casually swung the rusty giant axe in his hand and easily cut off these gray vines in pieces.
The rustling sound never stopped, and the locust tree was constantly shaking its trunk.

This action is actually a means of calling. The hanging locust tree is calling on the surrounding zombies to approach it actively. Although its body does not have much combat power, it can be more difficult to deal with than powerful monsters in special environments.

For example, in this corpse dumping ground.

As soon as the call begins, countless zombies will swarm in and kill the invaders. This is how the script should have been.
But why! Why did it keep calling out, but not a single zombie responded?
"Where are the zombies at the corpse dumping ground?"

“That’s where they all went!”

"Where are your corpses?"

If this locust tree with the corpse hanging on it could speak, this is what he would want to say now.

Finally, Xiao Yang came step by step to the locust tree where the corpse was hung.

Along the way, he did not wait for any more zombies, nor did he see the hanging corpse locust tree. Of course, the reason for this was Xiao Yang's fault.

The zombies in the corpse dumping ground either died at the hands of other people, or were killed by him not long ago.

Swinging the rusty giant axe in his hand, a series of bang sounds were heard in the despair of the hanging locust tree. Soon after, the hanging locust tree was cut down by Xiao Yang and fell to the ground in its original place.

The experience points given are not enough, he is only level 22...

The experience gained from killing is getting less and less.

With the fall of the corpse-hanging locust tree, the exploration of the second level of the corpse tax also came to an end.

It is a pity that there are no enemies with high intelligence in the second level of the Corpse Tax, and the advanced task of Justice Comfort has not progressed.

[True Justice: Use deception, coaxing, or sneak attacks to kill three powerful evil monsters with high intelligence.

Current progress: 1/3

Two more unsportsmanlike kills to go.

In fact, Xiao Yang has the opportunity to complete this advanced task during this period. The two highly intelligent evil monsters can fall on the Archon of Violence and the sorcerer who stole the name.

But unfortunately, the Brutal Archon was too strong, and Xiao Yang had no energy to be distracted when fighting him. As for the sorcerer, this was indeed Xiao Yang's problem. He had just finished his inauguration and could not control himself, so he was crushed to death.

It's really a waste.

But it's not a big problem, there will always be a chance, and maybe later on, if you kill a few more powerful evil monsters with high intelligence to complete the advanced task, the Justice Comfort may be able to directly reach epic quality.

But if you can't get promoted, then there is nothing you can do.

Now an embarrassing situation has arisen. Xiao Yang's growth rate is a bit too fast, and his equipment iteration is also very fast.

The foundation of Justice Comfort is a short stick of excellent grade. It is very easy to use at the beginning. If the advanced tasks can be completed earlier, it can accompany him for a while.

But now, weapons of excellent quality are really not enough for Xiao Yang. If the equipment upgrade task is completed, the Justice Comfort will only be upgraded to blue excellent quality.

"Then this old friend who is very handy will have to retire."

This is also something that cannot be helped.

The hanging locust tree contributed two epic items, one treasure, and one material to Xiao Yang.

The material is a piece of purple old locust wood, and the treasure is a black wooden plaque.

[Quality of Soul-raising Corpse Card: Epic

Type: Treasure

Effect: Nourishing souls and bodies, embalming corpses, and raising corpses

Introduction: Embalming, settling the soul, living a second life! 】

He didn't find anything related to the evil god. The evil god's eyeballs did not appear among the drops from the hanging locust tree. He thought that the evil god's eyeballs were something that would definitely be dropped by the BOSS after clearing the corpse tax.

That's right, in this exploration of the second level of the Corpse Tax, apart from the scene of the Evil God's arrival that ended in an instant but with a whimper, there were basically no overly conspicuous Evil God elements to be seen.

But this is not a good thing. If possible, he really needs some evil god materials now.

"You need to invest more in developing more dependents!"

Xiao Yang was furious at the evil spirit for not fighting back.

However, he did not know that the reason for this situation was actually himself. His first visit caused great damage to the evil spirit.

The two eyes he pried away were the real source of power.

Evil spirits are indeed not at the level of evil gods, but they also possess some of the essence of evil gods. It can be understood that evil spirits are reserves that may transform into true evil gods.

In the exploration and plunder of the first layer of corpse tax, Xiao Yang forcibly took away part of its origin and part of the evil god's essence. Such a loss can no longer be described by the word "heart-wrenching".

Now, Xiao Yang, the shameless robber, has visited again, and it is right not to let him touch the safe.

Xiaogu was also unable to create a miracle.

The little guy took out a piece of purple old locust wood from the fallen locust tree where corpses were hanging.

After successfully defeating the final BOSS, the God Game prompt popped up.

[Congratulations to the player for completing the exploration of the second level of Corpse Tax. Will you return immediately?]

"no!"

As for whether this would be a return, Xiao Yang’s answer was definitely no, as he still had a small plan that had not been carried out.

[Player's remaining stay time: 15 minutes. The next opening time of the Corpse Tax dungeon: 12 days later.]

The prompts for the God Game no longer popped up, and Xiao Yang became even more eager to try.

"Fifteen minutes? That's enough!"

Of course, it wasn't about doing anything too dangerous or outrageous, it was just about completing an upgrade task for a strange object and digging a shovel.

After rubbing his hands, an ordinary shovel appeared in Xiao Yang's hand.

The numbers on the countdown began to slowly tick away.

He didn't immediately use the shovel in his hand to smash the wood. Before that, he had to complete a small commission.

As the corpse-hanging locust tree was cut down by Xiao Yang, the Taoist priest who was hanging high under the tree canopy also slowly withered.

Yes, it is withered. It is not a living person, not even a corpse, if you have to describe it.

He was made of the same piece of wood as the little red temple, a piece of wood that looked very much like a Taoist priest.

In this situation, a problem arises.

(End of this chapter)