This dungeon has mushrooms growing on it.

Chapter 260, page 259: The Demon King's Club also has Puji!

Is the magic circle unable to draw enough magic power from the ground?

Lin Jun looked at the mycelium network that had spread throughout the underground of the demon tribe... Ha, this is really strange, I have absolutely no idea what's going on...

Lin Jun swore to Dylan's broken tombstone that he really didn't do it on purpose!
With his rudimentary knowledge of magic arrays, he couldn't even manage to create a single third-order magic array. He couldn't understand the complex combination array in the cradle at all. Who knew that its operating principle relied so heavily on the earth's ley line magic?

But...it's just right.

Hearing the voice in his mind, Shou's heart sank slightly, but he still asked, "Do you have any ideas?"

The sound of flapping wings came from the sky, and a bat wobbled down, landing precisely in the natural curve of the hunter's horns—there was no way around it, the curvature of those two horns was just too convenient for stopping!

"Can I come in?" Lin Jun asked.

Xinghuo stared blankly at the suddenly appearing Puji. As an important new priest, he had never been to the mushroom garden to "work" or been parasitized by mycelium. This was the first time he had seen the legendary mushroom spirit in person.

However, many of the other demons noticed the suddenly appearing Puji, but they still didn't understand what had happened.

Shou glanced at Xinghuo and the other tribesmen, thought for a moment, and then walked towards the stone house with his hair sticking out.

When entering, I made a point of lowering my head to avoid bumping into it.

Inside the stone house, the newborn demon-born boy lay quietly on the ground. Deep blue demonic runes spread from the faintly glowing demonic core on his chest, but stopped abruptly at his arm.

The ritual was clearly interrupted before it was completed; the remaining magic runes were dull and useless, at least on the character panel, there was no [Cold Resistance] at all.

To Lin Jun's slight surprise, the demon was born already in a teenage form.

As expected of a species that can reproduce asexually like mushrooms, their efficiency is much higher than those hermaphroditic creatures that need to reproduce slowly!
The boy did not wake up, but his body trembled instinctively from the cold.

The health bar on the panel has already started to drop, and soon this newly born demon will die in its slumber.

Wrapping him in a leather blanket and warming him by the fire might keep him alive temporarily, but it would be pointless and only prolong his suffering. He wouldn't be able to endure the journey to escape the far north.

But for Lin Jun, this critical problem was simply adding a skill to a blank board.

But before that...

There was a slight commotion outside the stone house, and soon a few more puffy creatures squeezed in.

Unlike the bat-like creature, this is a burrowing creature that Lin Jun temporarily created for warmth, of course, it's just pretending to run in from outside the tribe's gate!

The Puji surrounded the newborn demon boy, but didn't start heating him up immediately... his health still needed to drop a bit more.

Hunting stood in the center of the stone house, silently shielding the cradle behind him, and quietly watched the actions of the Puji.

After a while, when the health dropped to about a quarter, the four burrowing creatures started operating at the same time.

With a buzzing sound, the temperature inside the stone house quickly rose, and the life force of the newly born demon gradually stabilized.

At that moment, the bat that had been stuck on the hunting horn hopped down lightly and landed on the boy's chest. It shook its mushroom cap, and fine spores scattered evenly.

Hunt realized what was happening; every tribesman connected to the fungal network was being sprinkled with spores.

But... so being sucked by a vampire wasn't a necessary step after all...?

Parasitism complete.

Then it has to be connected to the fungal carpet...

One of the creatures darted nimbly to a corner of the stone house where no magic circle was drawn, and began to burrow down.

Hunter subconsciously raised his hand, seemingly wanting to stop them, but ultimately chose to acquiesce, letting the Puji do as they pleased. More than ten minutes later, mycelium appeared at the cave entrance.

A few minutes later, a fungal carpet had grown in one corner of the stone house.

This scene made Hunting's eyelids twitch.

Having worked under Puji for so long, he naturally knew how creep spread and that creep existed outside the dungeon.

But he didn't expect that the fungal carpet could be spread throughout the tribe in less than half an hour, which means that there must have been a large area of ​​fungal carpet underground for a long time!

Everything happening before his eyes reminded him that although their tribe appeared normal on the surface, they were probably already surrounded by the Puji, and even the lack of magic power just now might be...

Lin Jun didn't care what Shou was thinking, and even if she knew, she wouldn't care.

After thoroughly understanding the so-called "cradle" and "newborn ceremony," Lin Jun became certain that the demon descendants would absolutely need her in the future, as long as she showed them the power of this "gift"!

The Puji dragged the newly born demons onto the fungal carpet, and the mycelium connected to them on its own, with magic flowing into the demons' bodies along the carpet.

The incomplete ice-blue magic runes on the boy's body suddenly lit up for a moment, then dimmed again.

Lin Jun didn't know what the sudden flash of light meant, but just now, [Cold Resistance LV8] was applied!

The amount of magic consumed is negligible, even less than the magic required to create a mushroom, since this newborn demon has no skills yet.

The burrow stopped heating, and the warmth inside the stone house gradually dissipated, causing Shou's heart to leap into his throat.

However, the boy on the ground did not flinch; instead, he relaxed his brow and breathed steadily in his sleep, as if he were in the most comfortable environment.

"This...?!" Hunt's voice trembled with disbelief.

Lin Jun's voice was like a gentle whisper, carrying a perfectly timed allure, and it rang directly in Shou's mind: "It's nothing serious, it's just that I... happen to have mastered some little tricks for bestowing power upon 'followers'."

“Followers…” Hunting chewed on the word over and over again.

“Of course,” Lin Jun said frankly, “Don’t be fooled by how easy the process was; the price we paid was considerable. Why would we go to such lengths to help someone who isn’t truly one of us? But don’t worry about it, I didn’t mean anything by it. You’ve all helped me a lot recently, so this is just a small token of my appreciation!”

……

Holding the newborn demon, Shou walked out of the stone house. He looked around at the tribesmen who had gathered around him, their faces filled with worry, and took a deep breath, announcing, "The ritual... was a success! We have new members of our tribe!"

After a brief silence, deafening cheers erupted!
The demons hugged and jumped excitedly, and some even spontaneously broke into a sacrificial dance.

The large pot that had been prepared long ago was set up, and the mushroom soup, mixed with insect meat, mushrooms, and a small amount of delicious mushrooms, began to boil—a celebration of the birth of new life, the only festival of the Demon Tribe.

Only Xinghuo's face was filled with shock and confusion.

They carried the newborn demon back to the main tent and placed him on a relatively comfortable bed.

Generally speaking, newly born demons need a few days of slumber to gather their consciousness; just let them sleep.

Xinghuo followed closely behind and carefully examined the still incomplete magic runes on the boy's body. He asked in bewilderment, "How did you manage to do that?"

"This... is Puji's ability,"

"Puji's ability?"

Shou did not continue to answer, but slowly took out the magic core that the elder had given him before his death from his bosom, and pondered in silence.

He thought about many things: the current state of the tribe, the tribespeople who had already coexisted with the mycelium, Qiong who loved to eat delicious mushrooms, the large amount of fungal carpet that might exist underground in the tribe, and even more so, Puji's methods, which were comparable to those of the legendary Demon King!
After a long while, he finally raised his head and looked at Xinghuo, the only remaining senior warrior and priest in the tribe besides himself, and said, word by word, "Xinghuo, let's... throw mushrooms!"

(End of this chapter)