Huh? Isn't this an adventure kingdom building game?!-Chapter 840 - 777: An Immortal Saves Me!

[Ling Di: What’s going on? Where did the master take you? Woof woof! I want to go too!]

[Yan Xuan: Stop messing around, it’s really dangerous here. The pollen is highly poisonous; breathing in a few more breaths could be fatal. Do you want to follow my method of cultivating Demon Beasts for ascension? As long as you refine both inside and out without flaws, you can withstand the toxicity no matter how strong it is. How about it?]

[Qing Niao: I have to admit, it’s really beautiful here! Even if it’s toxic, it still looks much better than the gloomy place I live in, makes me feel a lot happier.]

[Hu Zhile: I’ve never seen such towering plants before. Can the pollen’s toxicity be used in medicine? If it’s not too much trouble for the Venerable Family, could you collect some and bring it back? I want to try making it into medicinal powder.]

[Yan Xuan: No, absolutely not. I’m not joking, the poisonous gas here is very potent. Anyone below the Void Cultivation level is better off not touching it. I can endure its corrosive nature because my skin is thick. This thing feels a bit like the remnants of some sinister entity from the time of the God-Demon Wars...]

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Jiang Yuan wasn’t paying attention to the lively chat in the small courtyard group; he was contemplating the reminder before entering the dungeon instance.

If he hadn’t specifically looked at it, he wouldn’t have noticed—since planting the World Tree, he hadn’t actually set foot in, or explored, the real World Tree. The mine caves were merely byproducts of the World Tree’s growth process.

They had always used the branches of the World Tree as a stepping stone, essentially acting as intermediaries connecting to the caves.

And every time they leveled up, the dungeons formed from fragments allowed true contact with the essence!

In other words, he and his contract pet were now somewhere inside the World Tree.

Without detailed identification or tasks, they would have to explore on their own for now!

"Stop chatting for now and focus, we need to get to work." Standing here foolishly while being attacked by the poisonous gas, even a thick health bar couldn’t withstand it. They needed to survey their surroundings first.

Yan Xuan reluctantly put away the Communication Stone. To be honest, these chat groups really were fascinating.

Especially when he shared a unique experience, a special treatment that no other demon cultivator had received before, it gave him a subtle sense of superiority that felt great!

"It’s just a field of poisonous flowers and grass, watch me just..."

Just as he was about to shapeshift into his huge original form and destroy the flower field, Jiang Yuan quickly stopped him: "Stay like this for now; let’s get the lay of the land before making any moves. It’s really dangerous here; you need to be cautious and absolutely can’t act recklessly."

He grabbed a handful of paper effigies from his Storage Bag and blew on them. The colorful paper effigies elegantly rose and grew larger in the wind.

A few breaths later, paper cranes, a golden eagle, and a flock of paper butterflies flew off in different directions.

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh whoosh!"

The sound of breaking wind, tinged with a stench, flashed by, and none of the paper effigies that had just left the flower field were spared.

Yan Xuan’s eyes widened in surprise, covering his nose as he muttered, "What was that just now? It smells awful!"

"Seems like some kind of tentacle or something, covered in barbs," Jiang Yuan carefully recalled the fleeting image—the Paperman and Paper Horse Skill was soon reaching Level Ten, and the paper effigies he created were already able to synchronize their senses with him. The scenes they ’saw’ could be transmitted back to him in real time.

They were in a field with flowers, and the area to the right front seemed to be a grassy field, but all those ’grass’ were writhing, clearly not something to be trifled with; exotic trees were seen diagonally behind and farther away.

The barbed tentacles’ true nature was unknown, but it seemed they dreaded the poisonous pollen, not daring to enter the flower field to catch ’prey.’

No signs of any living creatures were discovered, and this initial landing area seemed not too large either... 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

"Is there really a need to be so cautious?" Yan Xuan was puzzled. He could just reveal his true form, trample everything heedlessly into a pulp, couldn’t he?

Another paper butterfly was released, disguised as a flower, to secretly ’snoop’ outside. Jiang Yuan: ...

"I know you’re strong, but we need to be steady and not rash, or who do you think will be responsible if you’re injured?"

"It’s on me!" It arrogantly patted its chest, shapeshifting into a small mountain form, and then a rumble and fierce beast roars were heard.

With poisonous pollen and foul odor swirling everywhere, in just a dozen seconds, Yan Xuan shrank back and became completely docile. "No way, it’s indeed something from the time of the God-Demon Wars, very bizarre!"

It lifted its left forepaw to show, "I have thick skin, it can’t harm me; but I can’t do anything about it either. It feels like... like it has some quick recovery ability, even after I cut that grotesque tree in half, it could immediately regrow.

Plus, that foul smell is too disgusting, I can’t stand it! What’s this place, anyway?"

"Sounds a bit like something eerie," Jiang Yuan didn’t answer its rambling questions, thinking that since this was a system-designated eight-star difficulty dungeon, forceful clearing probably wouldn’t work.

With a stroke of inspiration, he took a scythe from his Storage Bag and attempted to harvest the surrounding plants.

[Error with tool, unable to interact with current plant]

Oh? Error? That means there must be a correct tool to use?

He immediately pulled out the Golden Crystal Shovel and indeed, aimed at a nearby plant and dug it up, and a long-lost circular progress bar appeared.

"Swing, swing, swing!"

With great enthusiasm, he dug up a pink-flowered plant in seven or eight strokes.

The slender plant lost support from its roots and fell over. As it touched the ground, it turned into a series of glowing points, releasing a flower-like little monster with a long health bar, flapping its wings, dispersing poisonous pollen everywhere.

"Little thing, so it’s not a flower!" Yan Xuan immediately swung his tail, the serpent’s mouth at the tip of his snake-like tail snapped open, capturing it with a bite, and then whipped it forward, shredding it in half with his right paw.