This dungeon has mushrooms growing on it.

Chapter 354 353. Ming

The newborn mushroom offspring was named "Ming" by Lin Jun.

He has a juvenile period of about half a month, after which he will enter adolescence and grow into a full adult within a year.

At this moment, he is enjoying a carefree childhood.

"Ming, charge! Take it down!"

In a specially dug pit, a Level 12 Rolling Beetle was wrestling with Ming.

The rolling beetle suddenly shrank into a hard ball, rolled at high speed along the pit wall, and then slammed into Ming, slamming him heavily into the earthen wall.

However, Ming quickly got up and pounced forward again, only to be knocked to the ground by the rolling beetle's size advantage, leaving him unable to move.

However, neither the insect legs nor the insect horns could inflict any damage on this weak little mushroom.

"Ming, stop struggling! Break its leg! Yes, that leg!" At the edge of the pit, the marshal stood on it, giving instructions from a distance.

Having received the prompting, Ming stopped thrashing about and instead grabbed a struggling insect leg tightly with both hands, twisting and pulling it back and forth with force.

Half a minute later, accompanied by a teeth-grinding "snap" sound, he finally managed to break off the first worm leg.

He did the same thing, and a few minutes later, the rolling beetle's last leg was also removed. Although it was still alive, the outcome was already decided.

[Level Up from LV4 to LV5]

Puji extended its mycelial tentacles and pulled the little mushroom offspring up from the bottom of the pit.

"Boss!" Ming gasped for breath, tilting his little face up to look at the marshal with anticipation.

Lin Jun naturally knew what the little guy was expecting.

Tentacles enveloped Ming's head and rubbed it vigorously: "Well done! Well done! Extra treat tonight, delicious mushroom and oyster stew!"

Before he finished speaking, the mycelial tentacles wrapped around Ming's ankle, swinging him around like a handy weapon into a whooshing "human windmill," before slamming him into a giant oyster that had been prepared nearby!
Since the seventh level of the dungeon became a shallow water area, this oyster has become one of the few surviving shellfish monsters.

Lin Jun now harvests a batch regularly and feeds them mushrooms to maintain their population, which can be considered semi-aquaculture.

With a crisp cracking sound, the hard oyster shell shattered!
Mingman got up despite his face being covered in shell fragments.

He chuckled as he pulled the plump oyster meat from the cracked shell, still pleased with the compliment.

He doesn't care whether he eats oysters or not, but he likes being praised by his boss!

Zuan Di Pu Ji quickly finished cooking the mushroom and oyster stew, and with a glass of mushroom sauce, it became Ming's dinner.

Ming held the scalding hot drill and sat down next to the marshal's drill.

Ming, who was born with mycelium, has a natural affinity for Puji.

In fact, he feels quite close to everyone.

Everyone around him, whether they were mushroom descendants or prisoners, had mycelium on their bodies, but Puji was just more approachable to him.

Even the green uncle who spends all day on the pole shouting is just a bit noisy in his eyes, not annoying.

In fact, according to convention, Ming should have been closely protected during his childhood, but Ming possesses the absurd innate characteristic of "physical immunity," so there is no need to be so careful.

Unfortunately, Lin Jun herself cannot acquire this powerful [physical immunity] property.

[Greed] cannot extract the skills that Lin Jun herself bestowed upon her.

Ming's physical immunity was created by Lin Jun first granting him physical resistance LV10, and then by using the "Cradle" rebirth ritual to seize and fuse another physical resistance LV10 from the sacrificial Galen.

Because this special skill is acquired through the "Cradle" birth ritual, each Mushroomborn only has the opportunity to obtain it at birth. This means that if a suitable sacrifice is found in the future, Lin Jun might be able to cultivate Mushroomborn with [magic immunity] or other amazing characteristics, but she will not be able to concentrate all these powerful skills into a single individual.

It's a bit of a shame.

Otherwise, with their physically immune army of Puppy... world domination is just around the corner!

In reality, even with physical immunity, the Mushroom Tribe cannot be mass-produced. After all, where would you find so many creatures like Galen with maxed-out resistance to sacrifice?

It's not that there aren't any...

I saw several on the battlefield of Crimson Spire that day, but unfortunately they were all wild and I didn't have a chance to capture them.

Therefore, not all Mushroom descendants can have such unique advantages as Ming.

This time, Xinghuo presided over several newborn ceremonies and successfully welcomed more than ten new members of the clan.

However, not all of these newly born mushroom descendants are as gifted as Ming, who was born with special skills that do not have a level.

What they obtain are mostly unremarkable basic resistances such as [Physical Resistance LV10], [Cold Resistance LV8], and [Magic Resistance LV8].

Giving these blank-slate newborns basic skills doesn't consume much of Lin Jun's magic.

The real problem is that it will take a considerable amount of time for them to grow up and develop into a formidable fighting force.

Apart from the special cases, all the newborn mushroom offspring are placed in a safe mushroom garden and carefully cared for by Xinghuo.

In the far north, at the original location of the demon tribe.

This place was first transformed into a fortress, and then completely destroyed in a self-destruction.

The captives and demons are now working with Puji here to build a new settlement.

Currently, it's understandable that half-demons, lizardmen, and others are still considered prisoners and crammed into shared wooden huts.

However, if they regain their freedom in the future and continue to live in such simple conditions, it will be difficult to retain their loyalty.

Lin Jun has never endorsed a reign of terror, so improving the living environment and quality of life naturally became a priority.

The initial plan was to build a city that could accommodate about 10,000 people.

After all, the fungal carpet in the far north continues to spread, gradually reaching the areas surrounding other tribes.

Following her usual strategy, Lin Jun planned to gradually infiltrate and assimilate these areas.

In the future, there will definitely be more people here, so we need to clear out some space in advance.

Originally, Lin Jun wanted to build an underground city.

The Puji can exert their greatest combat power in narrow, enclosed, and structurally complex underground environments.

The defenses of underground cities will be several times stronger than those of ordinary cities.

However, once the underground network was transformed into an underground city, a series of thorny problems arose.
Severe water seepage, unpredictable localized collapses, and troublesome poor ventilation...

Even Lin Jun's attempts to reinforce the supports, strengthen the rock walls, and dig more ventilation openings were to no avail.

An amateur will always be an amateur; you can't get into civil engineering just by thinking things through!

It seems that only dwarves and ratmen on the mainland have experience in this area, but unfortunately Lin Jun has not had much contact with either of them.

We had no choice but to settle for second best and build a simple residential area as a temporary solution.

(End of this chapter)