Kill one monster, stack one poison, and I alone will poison my way across the world!

Su Chen didn't rush to leave, but instead turned his gaze to the plants in the center of the lake that were emitting a faint glow.

He waded through the muddy shallows and carefully uprooted the purplish-black herbs.

"One, two, three... five."

Su Chen counted the Abyss Corrupting Heart Grass in his backpack, his brows furrowing slightly.

"Just five? The Poison Granny wanted ten."

He looked at the deep, bottomless cave passage ahead and sighed.

"It seems that Gula is just a watchdog. The area of ​​the Ten Thousand Poison Cave is larger than I imagined."

Without hesitation, Su Chen poured himself a bottle of blue potion, picked up his staff, and continued to venture deeper into the area.

The further you go in, the more oppressive the surrounding environment becomes.

The water droplets seeping from the stone wall had turned into a viscous, dark green, and the air was filled with a pungent, sour smell.

"Shhhh—!"

Just then, an extremely dense friction sound came from the darkness ahead.

The sound didn't seem to be crawling on the ground; it sounded more like countless tiny things bouncing and colliding with the stone wall in the air.

With the help of the faint light from the tip of his staff, Su Chen finally saw the scene in front of him.

It was a swarm of insects that surged in like a thick green fog.

They bounced back and forth at great speed between the floor, stone walls, and even the upside-down stalactites in the passageway.

Reconnaissance tactics are activated.

【Saprophytic Locust (Normal Monster)】

[Level: 29]

【Strength: 40】

[Agility: 350]

[Stamina: 150]

【Spirit: 80】

[Skills: Swarm Mindset, Neural Reflexes, Thousand Locusts Devour Bones]

[Swarm Mindset: When the number of swarms exceeds 100, jump distance is increased by 100%.]

[Neural Reflexes: Possesses exceptional dynamic vision, enabling the prediction of the landing point of wide-range, non-targeting spells and allowing for preemptive evasive jumps.]

[Thousand Locusts Devour Bones: Each attack deals minor physical damage and forcibly applies 1 stack of [Locust Poison] (each stack deals 0.2 points of Spirit * Poison Magic damage per second, lasting 2 seconds, and can stack infinitely).]

……

"Wow, 350 agility? And he can even predict and dodge AOE attacks?"

Su Chen's eyes twitched as he looked at the dense swarm of insects, which numbered in the tens of thousands.

This monster's individual attributes are pitifully weak; it only has 150 health points, and it dies if you touch it once.

But their toxicity can accumulate indefinitely.

Once surrounded by this swarm of poisonous locusts, you can be covered in thousands of layers of poison in a second, which is tens of thousands of points of damage per second.

A protracted war is out of the question; even if Lu Qingyan were to arrive, she wouldn't last more than a few seconds.

"This is truly terrifying. It can predict and dodge large-scale AOE skills, and the poison can stack infinitely... It's hard to imagine how others can fight against it."

With a thought, Su Chen activated the [Ten Thousand Poisons Cloak] that he had just equipped.

Om-!

The blackish-purple energy flowing on the Myriad Poisons Cloak instantly boiled, enveloping Su Chen in a viscous light membrane.

[Notification: You have activated [Body of All Poisons (Active)] .]

[Note: You are immune to all poison damage.]

……

After the cloak was activated, combined with the original 20 points of damage from the environment, Su Chen's status bar now displays a "-70" damage number every second.

"Losing 70 HP per second in exchange for absolute toxin immunity."

Su Chen stood still and walked directly towards the swarm of insects.

"Shhhh—!"

Hundreds of carrion locusts instantly sprang up, raining down on Su Chen's shield like green raindrops, their dense mandibles frantically gnawing at the energy layer of the Abyss Dragon Language Robe.

"-4"

"-2"

"-2"

"..."

These locusts have very low direct damage.

Even though Su Chen's stamina was very low, they couldn't break through his defenses.

But next second.

[Notification: You have been infected with the [Locust Virus]. Current floor: 345.]

[Notification: You have been infected with the [Locust Virus]. Current floor: 1204.]

【…】

[Note: Triggered [Body of a Thousand Poisons], you are immune to 1725 points of poison damage.]

[Note: Triggered [Body of a Thousand Poisons], you are immune to 6020 points of poison damage.]

【…】

System notification sounds flooded the screen.

Despite enduring thousands of layers of poison powerful enough to instantly kill a max-level tank, Su Chen leisurely put Thunder Touch back into his backpack.

Instead, he pulled out the [Exploding Staff].

"Since you are so numerous and so densely packed..."

Su Chen glanced at the red-glowing staff in his hand and a smile appeared on his lips.

Previously, in the college entrance examination supplementary competition, he relied on the passive effect of the Explosive Staff to trigger a chain explosion with a single basic attack, directly wiping out a swarm of desert army ants.

Now that this swarm of locusts is crammed into this narrow passage, they're practically perfect targets for a series of explosions.

"Go on."

Su Chen casually waved his Explosive Staff, unleashing a basic attack towards the densest part of the swarm.

boom--!

The fireball exploded the moment it made contact with the first locust.

"-7920!"

The locust didn't even have time to scream before it turned to ashes in an instant.

next second.

A red shockwave from the explosion emanated from the dead locust and spread outwards.

Su Chen's smile froze before it could fully open.

Just as the fireball was about to hit the first locust, the swarm's disgusting [Neural Reflex] property was triggered.

"Swish! Swish! Swish!"

Centered on the landing point, all the saprophytic locusts within a two-meter radius around it jumped up frantically as if they had been electrocuted!

Using the increased jumping distance from the swarm's intelligence, they instantly drew green arcs in mid-air.

Some jumped onto the stalactites above the passage and clung to them tightly, some bounced into the crevices of the high stone walls on both sides, and some even stepped on their companions' bodies in mid-air to make a second jump.

Boom!

The shockwave from the explosion swept across the area.

However, because all the surrounding locusts jumped out of the explosion's detection range, what should have been a chain reaction of destruction instead... after killing the first locust...

broken.

Only a lone plume of black smoke remained in the air.

The locusts that had been hanging on the cave ceiling and stone walls scurried back after the explosion and continued to gnaw at Su Chen's shield.

Su Chen: "..."

He looked at the still-steaming Bursting Staff in his hand, then glanced at the poisonous locusts scurrying around him like fleas, and remained silent for a full three seconds.

"Damn it!"

Su Chen couldn't help but swear.

"Isn't this guy just disgusting? Predicting non-targeting skills is one thing, but he can even jump out of the explosion splash radius instantly?"

I was planning to clear the screen with a single basic attack and then leave gracefully, but now I'm completely bankrupt.

These monsters, which jump around randomly and can't gather together, perfectly counter the chain explosion mechanism of the Burst Staff.

"Okay, you guys can jump, right?"

Su Chen sighed, put the Explosive Staff back into his backpack, and took out Thunder Touch again.

"Then let's just fight a positional war."

Mana surged.

"Corrosive Serpent Guard".

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Hundreds of purplish-black snakes emerged from the ground on both sides of the passage.

puff!puff!puff!

Venom bullets rained down like machine gun fire.

Each venom bullet accurately hits a locust leaping in mid-air, knocking it down and turning it into a puddle of green acid.

[Successfully killed a level 29 Carrion Locust, experience +290]

[Successfully killed a level 29 Carrion Locust, experience +290]

[Successfully killed a level 29 Carrion Locust, experience +290]

Watching the experience bar slowly but steadily rise, Su Chen yawned.

"Something that could be done in five seconds was forced to leave my computer idle for five minutes."

Su Chen leaned against the stone wall, watching the snake guards clean up the insects that were jumping around everywhere, one by one.

"It's really tedious and boring, but the layering is still very satisfying. I can come back to this dungeon often in the future."