Full health is the kill threshold, no matter if you're a god or a demon!

First book:

【Name: Vast Mind】

[Type: Active Skill]

[Quality: Epic]

[Learning Requirements: Level 15, Melee Class]

[Effect (18-second cooldown, 240 mana cost): You unleash a roar, causing your basic attacks to deal additional physical damage equal to 10% of your maximum health for the next 10 seconds. During this duration, you cannot critically strike.]

For Liu Nian, anything that increases health is a good thing.

Once this skill is activated, his basic attack can deal 5356 damage in one hit.

The second book:

【Name: Lightning Kick Combo】

[Type: Active Skill]

[Quality: Excellent]

[Learning Requirements: Level 10, Melee Class]

[Effect (5-second cooldown, 60 mana cost): Unleash a swift triple kick on a single enemy, each kick dealing (45% Attack Damage + 50% Ability Power) lightning damage. The third kick inflicts Paralysis, reducing the enemy's movement speed by 40% for 3 seconds.]

This one is relatively inferior, but what Liu Nian values ​​is that the effect of the triple kick can be combined with the first one, which can deal 19000+ damage in an instant. The main thing is that the skill cooldown is very short, which can greatly make up for the damage output during the cooldown period of his other powerful skills.

After this fierce battle, the team members' levels increased by an average of 2 levels.

Liu Nian's updated data panel:

Name: Liu Nian

[Level: LV.22]

[HP: 33224/35406]

Energy: 2200/2200

Attack: 2157

[Faqiang: 207]

Armor: 486

[Magic Resistance: 354]

Attack Speed: 2.8

[Heart of Steel: 587 floors, provides 28414 health points] (Increases by 86 floors)

【Soul Drain Strike: 495 stacks, provides 2070 damage】 (Increases by 73 stacks)

[Hellish Curse: 208 stacks, grants 208 armor, magic resistance, and spell power] (Upgraded by 31 stacks)

[The Fang of Malice: Transformation grants 550 health]

[Ring of Paradox (Fang of Malice): Transformation grants 1323 Attack Power]

Liu Nian felt his health was still too low. Given the current monster health, he should have at least 100,000 health points to be considered normal. But there was nothing he could do; he was currently leveling up with everyone else and could only try to farm health whenever he had a spare moment.

Guided by the map obtained from inside the giant fungus, the Dragon Abyss Guild took a short rest and then set off for the next fungus stronghold without stopping.

After passing through a winding tunnel covered with glowing moss, the humidity in the air noticeably increased, and a stench of decay mixed with a strange fragrance filled the air.

When the team emerged from the tunnel, a completely different scene unfolded before Liu Nian's eyes.

This is no longer an open cave, but a huge underground swamp.

The murky puddles were scattered like stars, and large swathes of giant, lily-shaped fungi, emitting a ghostly purple glow, floated on the surface. They were the main light source here, illuminating the entire space in an eerie way.

Thick, twisted black fungal stalks emerge from the bottom of the water and the swamp, intertwining to form dangerous patches of woodland.

The buildings of the mushroom tribe were not the hardened fungal walls of the past, but living thorny fences formed by the natural intertwining and coiling of these black fungal stalks, with sharp thorns that constantly dripped viscous venom.

In the center of the tribe, instead of the towering giant mushroom, there was an extremely thick, deep purple, poisonous mushroom with a cap like a giant funnel. It pulsated slowly and rhythmically, and with each pulsation, a faint purple poisonous mist emanated from the edge of the cap.

The mushroom warriors here are also quite different from those before. They are more muscular and their colors are mainly dark purple and dark green. Most of their arms have been transformed into sharp venomous spikes or hollow tubular organs that can spray spore clusters.

They move more swiftly, silently lurking among the fungal stems or underwater in murky water, launching deadly attacks.

"The environment has changed, and the monster types have changed too. Everyone, watch out for poison and ranged attacks!" Wu Zhan quickly adjusted the strategy. "Ayun, Jiang Yi, you high-level ranged attackers should take down those poison-spitting mushroom towers first!"

The battle resumed, with high-level players taking the lead, precisely and efficiently eliminating the stronghold's defenses.

Yun Xiangrong's lightning magic once again proved to be a powerful tool for clearing the field. Under the raging lightning, the tribe's defenses were quickly destroyed.

Then, Wu Zhan led the players below level 40 into the breached defenses.

The mushroom men here are indeed more troublesome. Their venom can cause continuous damage and slow down enemies, and their ranged spore attacks are also quite troublesome. However, with close coordination, the battle line still advances steadily.

Liu Nian was still the brightest star, charging ahead into the enemy ranks.

The persistent poison damage that would be unbearable for others is much less effective for him, because the high level of damage reduction provided by the Unending Expedition is so powerful that these fungus people pose no fatal threat to him at all.

"I'll go pull the monster out!"

After leaving behind a single sentence, Liu Nian suddenly plunged into the mushroom tribe alone and disappeared from everyone's sight in the blink of an eye.

"Boss, is he alright?"

"Don't worry, he's not reckless; he knows what he's doing!"

Upon entering the core area, Liu Nian summoned his mount and began pulling monsters. However, just as he blasted a lurking venomous mushroom man that was trying to ambush him from underwater into dust, he suddenly stepped on a thin membrane disguised as ground. Then, his foot slipped, and he and his dragon slid into a tunnel.

There was actually a trap... Liu Nian was slightly surprised.

"Something's not right!" Liu Nian frowned quickly; he suddenly heard a prompt:

[System Notification: You have been marked by the Aquatic Bacteria King and are about to enter the solo challenge dungeon [Kiss of the Poisonous Swamp]]

At this moment, the giant, deep purple, poisonous mushroom in the center of the tribe suddenly stopped pulsating and began to slowly shrink...

Liu Nian immediately sent a message to Wu Zhan: "Don't advance yet, there are traps in here. Falling in will trigger a single-player challenge dungeon. I don't know if this is just the only dungeon I happened to encounter, or if everyone who falls into the trap will trigger a single-player dungeon. Anyway, I'll give it a try!"

Upon receiving Liu Nian's message, Wu Zhan immediately ordered everyone not to rush into the core area.

"Liu Nian, be careful. If you sense anything is wrong, back off immediately. Don't be reckless!"

"Understood, President."

After Liu Nian agreed, he felt a blur before his eyes, and the shouts of battle and the sounds of magic explosions around him instantly disappeared.

He found himself in a completely enclosed space made entirely of writhing, purplish-black fungal tumors. The air was thick with a nauseatingly sweet and cloying stench, and his feet were on a slimy, mushy carpet of fungi.

【Kiss of the Poisonous Swamp (Solo Trial Dungeon)】

Objective: Defeat the Guardian and gain the King of Fungi's approval.

This is a very simple dungeon, with little plot or puzzle-solving elements. You just fight your way to the objective and defeat the final boss.

Liu Nian had only taken a few steps when the fungal tumor wall in front of him suddenly cracked open, and a colossal creature, five meters tall and composed of countless poisonous fungi, emerged—[Poisonous Fungi Aggregate LV.30 (Elite)].

Countless poisonous thorns shot out from its cancerous body, raining down on Liu Nian like a storm!