This dungeon has mushrooms growing on it.

Chapter 228, Question 227: Why is yours so big?
[Teared pages from my book?]
[Sit on me with your butt?]
[Lock me in a tiny, explosive dark room?]
[How do you feel now?] The words on the page were smug.

[Isn't the feeling of your soul being pulled and ripped out quite unique?]
[To be able to control thousands of individual entities, your soul essence must be incredibly vast... Perfect timing to slowly savor this profound, bone-deep dissolution sensation!]
While venting its pent-up resentment with venomous words, the sacred text relentlessly drove the souls that had accumulated intermittently over hundreds of years to continuously wash over and pollute the core crystal monument.

Soon, the gray-black souls occupied most of the space in the stone tablet and continued to spread.

[Ah! They're here!]
[Permission granted! I sensed it!]
The ring of light surrounding it suddenly accelerated its rotation, emitting a deep hum!
At the same moment, a blindingly large bolt of lightning struck the fifth floor without warning, which was still in the midst of chaotic fighting!
Lightning swept across the earth like a divine lash, leaving behind a massive, molten, and charred chasm!
Scarecrows, beetles, phosphorescent moths, venomous lizards... countless monsters turned to ashes before they could even scream, leaving only wisps of smoke and the pungent smell of burning.

[Heh, that's interesting!]
After playing around for a while, Shengdian calmed down from the excitement of having his wish fulfilled.

[Time to get down to business]
The Holy Scripture manipulated the star ring of light, carrying the aura of a controller, and flew straight toward the last tightly closed metal gate in the core area.

It invoked the core permissions it had just acquired and attempted to enable...

The gate remained completely still, without the slightest reaction!

[? ? ? ]
The sacred text flew back to the crystal tablet, and in an instant, it pinpointed the source of the problem—

On that crystal monument, which had been stained gray-black by the soul it had accumulated over hundreds of years, a spot shimmering with a blue light stood out conspicuously!
[Even if it's a cluster of souls, how come they haven't finished absorbing it yet?]
……

soul.

It's invisible and intangible; you can only briefly see its physical form when you tear off a page.

Although Lin Jun deduced from some information that her "greed" was to steal skill proficiency through the souls in corpses, she still knew nothing about the form of the "soul" itself or its place in the world.

And now, for the first time, Lin Jun felt this touch that originated from his soul—his soul... had been captured!
It's not a spatial connection, nor is it a signal transmission of the fungal carpet network; it's a deeper, more essential contact.

Even though he decisively severed all connections with the external fungal carpet, this invisible force of attraction targeting the soul itself remained firmly locked onto it!
In this invisible connection, Lin Jun clearly "perceived" her own soul for the first time!

It was like a viscous, shapeless liquid, being continuously sucked in by a vacuum cleaner called "Core"... sucked in...

His subordinates, in what appeared to be a random order, collapsed to the ground one after another, like puppets with broken strings.

The situation seems to have deteriorated to an abyss even more hopeless than the worst-case scenario in the contingency plan!

only……

On a spiritual level, I wonder if it's just my imagination, but the nozzle of this vacuum cleaner... seems a bit small?

The feeling was less like using a vacuum cleaner and more like using a straw to suck up that two-tone slime.

Moreover, after the soul was absorbed, it seemed to have formed some kind of connection with the dungeon, though it was very vague.

To use a controlled soul to flush out the core and seize control...

Since it was impossible to pull her soul out now anyway, Lin Jun simply squeezed herself inside.

……

The blue spots on the crystal tablet suddenly spread out rapidly!
No way...
The Yellow Book desperately wanted to stuff more souls inside and crush this thing completely, but it had run out of stock...

[No, no, no, what kind of soul could be so vast?!]
However, regardless of whether the Yellow Book accepted the facts, the cyan souls continued to spread rapidly within the crystal tablet, pushing aside the gray-black souls controlled by the Holy Scripture, forcing them into a corner, compressing and compressing them again, until finally—a soul screamed as it was forcibly squeezed out of the crystal tablet.

Like a signal of a dam breaking, countless gray-black souls followed closely behind, rushing out of the monument in a frenzy!

Instead of returning to the Yellow Book, they quickly dimmed and dissipated in the air, vanishing without a trace.

[No! No! My soul! My soul, accumulated over three hundred years!]
The thin pages of the yellow book turned in vain, unable to stop the soul from flowing away.

Before long, the massive crystal monument was completely stained with pure cyan, becoming crystal clear and without a trace of impurity!
But that's not all. Following the invisible soul link between the yellow book and the crystal tablet, the tentacles of the cyan soul quietly climbed onto the edge of its cover!
[! ! ! ]
The yellow book frantically tried to sever its connection with the crystal tablet, but it immediately understood what Lin Jun had just felt—once it was grasped at the soul level, physical barriers became meaningless.

[Wait! Boss! Boss! Let's talk this over!] Scraggly handwriting appeared in a panic.

[No...don't come in again!]
……

……

……

puff-

A cow and a horse, accompanied by a voice-activated creature, swaggered into the core chamber. This creature was generated nearby after Lin Jun reconnected to the amethyst's fungal carpet.

The two poops went straight to the bottom of the floating yellow book.

At this point, the cover of the holy book was covered with blue patterns.

The brilliance surrounding the Yellow Book gradually faded, and without support, the Yellow Book slowly fell.

I gently caught it with a soft plop, and the mycelial tentacles brushed across the book cover, wiping away the non-existent dust.

“Little Puji?” The voice Puji vibrated slightly, emitting a dry, hoarse voice that echoed in the core.

That's... a term of respect!
"You deliberately didn't tell me?"

[I... I admit my way of expressing myself was a bit inappropriate, but that was definitely not my intention!]
"Impressive indeed, our venerable Lord Holy Scripture who has endured so much hardship!"

[Spare me! Spare my life! I still have crucial information! Extremely important information!]
A thin but exceptionally dazzling arc of electricity appeared out of thin air without warning and struck the cover of the yellow book precisely!

[Awooooooo! A ...
With a faint crackling sound, a puff of black smoke rose from the last remaining page of the yellow book.

[Forgive... wrong... there is...] This time, it couldn't even type the complete word.

“It’s alright,” the voice was calm, even soothing, as the mycelial tentacles gently smoothed the charred pages that had curled up from the electric shock. “You have plenty of time… speak slowly.”

[Title Obtained: Dungeon Administrator #13 (Gains highest access to this dungeon)]

(End of this chapter)