Chapter 143 Sun Jellyfish and Mysterious Dragon Corpse

  When Rosen walked out of the studio, he felt like he was alive again.

  It took him three full months to finish drawing 13 sets of elemental four-phase bombs.

  But this time it was really worth it. His strength has changed dramatically compared to three months ago.

  If he were to face Count Fritz again, he would not need the virus contained in the Poor Man's Rose, he would not need to use the mysterious study to avoid Count Fritz's lose-lose tactics, and he would not need to rely on a little bit of luck to kill Count Fritz.

  With nine elemental four-phase bullets fired in a row, it would be hard for Count Fritz to survive.

  Rosen had just spent three months painting without sleep or food, but now he didn't miss those ladies at all.

  Instead, he couldn't wait to find a suitable prey to try out the gun.

  Killing and conquering are sometimes more fun than sleeping.

  Rosen searched for information in the Hunter's Guild for a long time and successfully locked on a prey that interested him.

  Shortly after leaving the Adventure King City, he released the Alchemy Dragon and disappeared from reality into the spirit world.

  The Dungeon Kingdom did not build a city in the spirit world, but it occupied many resource-rich places in the spirit world and built outposts.

  One of the mines that produces spiritual crystals, the outpost there reported a discovery a few days ago.

  Every night, a little sun rushes into the mine to snatch the spiritual crystals.

  The extraordinary people stationed at the outpost were defeated several times and had no choice but to ask for help from the Adventure King City.

  The Dungeon Kingdom is the underground world, but entering the spirit world from here is not the underground world.

  It is a huge island. Twenty thousand years ago, the Underground Kingdom was not underground, but on the surface of a huge island. However, when the World Government sealed the Demon, it sank the entire island deeper underground than the bottom of the sea.

  The spiritual world retains traces of history from 20,000 years ago, and there are no ashes here so you can directly see the blue sky and white clouds.

  Compared to the real world, the spirit world often looks more like the normal world.

  Because the spiritual world is mainly composed of spirit and supplemented by matter, even if the environment is damaged, it will soon recover to its original state.

  But in reality, the world has changed so much that it is impossible to go back to the past. The beautiful giant island 20,000 years ago has now turned into a dark underground kingdom.

  Rosen rode the alchemical flying dragon at a very fast speed and covered tens of thousands of miles in less than half an hour.

  He now came to the edge of a giant island, where there was a cliff with a drop of several hundred meters. The mine of spiritual crystals was on the cliff. As for why he did not dig from top to bottom, it was mainly to facilitate the washing of slag.

  The main body of the mine outpost is a spirit world watchtower that can be moved at any time.

  If an invincible spiritual life form is discovered, the spiritual watchtowers and miners in the mines will be relocated immediately.

  The situation was not that serious this time, and the Sequence 7 Warcraft Knight stationed at the watchtower happily received Rosen.

  Rosen waited in the watchtower from day to night, and indeed saw a small sun appear in the sea.

  The God Hunter's Demon Eye instantly magnified thirty times. The Master of Light and Shadow made the God Hunter's Demon Eye ignore the shining light around the target and directly see the true face of the spiritual life deep in the light.

  "It's really a sun jellyfish..."

  Rosen happily stopped because he was planning to capture the sun jellyfish alive.

  So we can't take action today, we have to be prepared to capture him alive tomorrow.

  The sun jellyfish rushed into a mine and ate a large amount of spiritual crystals, then returned to the sea and disappeared at dawn.

  Rosen anchored the coordinates of the spiritual world on the sea surface at the bottom of the cliff and moved the divine territory over.

  Then, under the magnificent lighthouse, he piled up the millions of spiritual crystals that he had left but was reluctant to spend.

  Then he began to set up space traps, each of which was superimposed with a freezing trap.

  After making preparations, Rosen began to wait for the prey to take the bait at night.

  However, before nightfall, several Sequence 6s had already arrived at the outpost.

  Rosen was not surprised by this. The sun jellyfish is a rare species that is almost extinct in reality. Seeing the little sun rising from the sea, someone would definitely associate it with the appearance of a sun jellyfish.

  It's just that these people had to prepare to catch and kill the sun jellyfish before setting off, so they arrived half a day later than him.

  Fair competition, the winner depends on one's own ability.

  The Sequence 6 members scattered along the beach and soon arrived one after another also laid bait and prepared to wait for nightfall.

  Someone also found Rosen and tried to persuade him to join forces to catch the sun jellyfish.

  But he declined all of them. He had the ability to eat all the sun jellyfish alone, so why should he give up half of them?

  The day passed quickly, and late at night the only sounds left on the beach were the sound of the tide and the whistling sea breeze.

  The sun suddenly rose from the sea, but this time it did not immediately approach the shore and enter the mine.

  The sun jellyfish is not very smart, and its hesitation now is only because there are too many baits.

  It wanted to eat every bait, and finally hesitated for a moment before flying towards Rosen's divine territory.

  In order to strengthen the bait, Rosen also took out his treasured top-grade spiritual crystals.

  Seeing the Sun Jellyfish approaching his divine territory, several Sequence 6s lying in ambush nearby became restless.

  As long as the sun jellyfish has not entered Rosen's divine territory, taking action at this time will not be considered a break.

  There is no chance to catch it alive, but killing the sun jellyfish is better than getting nothing.

  Whether capturing it alive or killing it, the first thing to do to deal with the sun jellyfish is to prevent it from escaping.

  If faced with deadly danger, the sun jellyfish will transform into light element.

  Although it cannot reach the speed of light, an ordinary Sequence 4 cannot intercept the escaping sun jellyfish.

  Therefore, light elementalization must be prevented, or at least suppressed.

  Rosen did not directly launch the capture of the divine territory last night because he had not prepared such means.

  Now those who have these means have taken action. In just a few breaths, the light elements within a radius of dozens of miles were completely dispersed. Even the space within a radius of dozens of miles was confined, the elements were suppressed, and the spirituality was subjected to intense chaos and interference.

  The sun jellyfish has sensed the danger and wants to leave but is reluctant to leave the bait in front of it.

  Seeing that the time had come, Rosen activated the Quetzalcoatl transformation while standing in the lighthouse keeper's room inside the Magnificent Lighthouse.

  However, it was not his real self nor his self-portrait that transformed, but the Glorious Lighthouse.

  Mechanical spirit transformation can bring territory buildings back to life, and also allow the lord of the divine domain to use the territory buildings to release his own abilities.

  Rosen used the Quetzalcoatl transformation at this time, and the Glorious Lighthouse also turned into a Quetzalcoatl that was dozens of feet long.

  The giant Quetzalcoatl flapped its wings and flew towards the lighthouse jellyfish, unfolding a brilliant barrier to protect its own safety.

  No matter how many Sequence 6s chased after them and tried to intercept them, they were unable to stop themselves from diving towards the sun jellyfish that was floating dozens of meters above the sea.

  At this time, the sun jellyfish wanted to turn around and escape, and the giant Quetzalcoatl opened its mouth to reveal the barrel of the God-killing Crossbow.

  Since the God-Slaying Crossbow has to adapt to the size of the Glorious Lighthouse, it is no longer a gun but a cannon.

  A giant one-meter-long four-phase sealed element bomb was instantly launched and accelerated to more than ten times the speed of sound to approach the sun jellyfish.

  The sun jellyfish failed to transform into a light element, and its body suddenly heated up and formed a fireball that burned everything.

  The elemental four-phase bomb was ignited the moment it approached, but the sealed element inside had already undergone two fissions and two fusions.

  The sealed element does not have the high temperature and continuous burning of flames, but it has instantaneous suppression and continuous confinement.

  The sealed element released by the final fission instantly caused the sun jellyfish to lose control of the light element.

  Although the seal had been lifted after two seconds, the Sun Jellyfish could not immediately regain control of the light element because the continued confinement of the sealed element was still in effect. It would take at least ten seconds to fully recover to its peak.

  The brilliant barrier completely blocked the damage from behind, and the giant Quetzalcoatl stepped forward and bit the sun jellyfish.

  Then they turned around and rushed back to their territory, which forced several Sequence 6s to join forces.

  However, the Sequence 8 Brilliant Lighthouse can deploy a Brilliant Barrier that can block damage from Sequence 6 for at least one minute.

  Just as the Brilliant Lighthouse was about to return to the Divine Realm, a Sequence 6 noble in the darkness finally got his chance.

  In the divine territory to which he had moved ahead of time, the Thunder Cloud Tower in the territory, which was ready to release a thundercloud, was in the territory.

  Thunderclouds appeared out of nowhere right above the Glorious Lighthouse, dropping lightning bolts. The lightning bolts did not penetrate the Glorious Barrier after hitting it, but they did not disappear either. Instead, they formed an electric snake like a sea snake and entangled the giant Quetzalcoatl.

  "Sequence 8 attacks territory buildings."

  Rosen realized the enemy's strength and used the Glorious Lighthouse to perform Shadow Escape without hesitation.

  The Glorious Lighthouse teleported directly back to the Divine Realm territory, causing both Thundercloud and Thunder Snake to lose their original targets.

  Normally, with such strong energy interference, it would be difficult to transfer a huge object like the Brilliant Lighthouse through space.

  You need at least LV5 Shadow Escape to teleport back to the Divine Realm with the Glorious Lighthouse.

  Rosen was able to succeed because he set up a space trap in advance.

  The space trap can transfer the existence that falls into the trap away from space, and it can also transfer the existence with space coordinates from the outside world into the trap. Dozens of LV4 space traps are superimposed, and this is how the Glorious Lighthouse can be transferred in one fell swoop.

  Several failed Sequence 6s in the darkness couldn't help but curse, but they didn't leave yet.

  In addition to transforming into light element, the sun jellyfish has another means when it is forced into a desperate situation.

  If that person cannot be restrained, they may still have a chance to kill the sun jellyfish.

  At this time, after the Glorious Lighthouse fell into the space trap, it immediately spit out the violently resisting Sun Jellyfish.

  Dozens of freezing traps were triggered and the sun jellyfish was frozen for several seconds.

  At this time, the God-Slaying Crossbow had made all preparations to inflict heavy damage to the Sun Jellyfish.

  A total of eight ice element four-phase bombs hit the sun jellyfish at a distance of less than a hundred meters.

  Endless frost spread in all directions, and finally froze the sun jellyfish inside an iceberg with a diameter of several hundred meters.

  Forced into a desperate situation, the Sun Jellyfish launched the Sun Bomb without hesitation.

  The hundreds-meter-high iceberg was instantly burned by the high temperature, and the size of the sun jellyfish also shrank from ten meters in diameter to one meter in diameter. This was self-destructive damage caused by converting its body into light elements. The eight ice element four-phase bombs could no longer freeze it.

  He successfully escaped from the frozen sun jellyfish and transformed into a light element in an attempt to escape from the divine territory.

  However, at this time, Rosen used four abilities at the same time.  

  The extraordinary five senses deprive the sun jellyfish of its vision. When life loses its vision, its spiritual perception becomes more sensitive.

  Rosen then used the mind canvas to project a mental painting depicting various nightmares into the consciousness of the sun jellyfish.

  He continued to use Freddy's nightmare control, pulling the spirit of the sun jellyfish into the nightmare in the painting.

  Finally, he used the mind prison properties of the painting technique to imprison the spirit of the sun jellyfish within the painting.

  Without the spiritual power to control its body, the sun jellyfish fell from the sky and hit the ground, losing its ability to resist.

  If the sun jellyfish is not forced into a desperate situation and uses the solar bomb, the sun jellyfish's spiritual power will not be drastically depleted.

  Rosen also had no way to imprison the Sequence 6 spirit in the painting. This time, although he seemed to have easily captured the Sequence 6 solar jellyfish alive, in fact, he had tried his best and exhausted all the methods that could be effective against the solar jellyfish.

  At this time, the Glorious Lighthouse, which had not yet released Quetzalcoatl's transformation, stepped forward, bit the sun jellyfish and ate it.

  Then, with the help of the power of gluttony, he forcibly decomposed the body of the sun jellyfish and integrated it into the brilliant lighthouse.

  Rosen also gradually released the imprisonment on the spirit of the sun jellyfish and gradually released the spirit of the sun jellyfish.

  At this time, part of the soul of the Sun Jellyfish had already been merged into the Brilliant Lighthouse with the help of gluttony and mechanical soul transformation. The spiritual being that had escaped from its imprisonment was like a rootless source, and could only unwillingly enter the Brilliant Lighthouse and merge into it.

  After a few hours, the Sun Jellyfish had a new body, and the Glorious Lighthouse also had a soul and became a complete mechanical life.

  [Glorious Lighthouse: Divine Architecture]

  [Level: Sequence 8]

  [Attribute: Light]

  [Form: Lighthouse, Sun Jellyfish]

  [Skills: Light Elementalization, Solar Bomb, Sun Ray, Brilliant Beam, Brilliant Barrier]

  [Divine Characteristics: Mechanical Spirit Life - Fusion of Mechanical Spirit Alloy to Gain Mechanical Spirit Intelligence]

  [Mythology Feature: Spiritual Anchor Point - Can help the God's Territory anchor two spatial coordinates in the spiritual world]

  After successfully integrating with the Sun Jellyfish, the properties of the Brilliant Lighthouse have undergone tremendous changes.

  The stationary beacon form does more damage, but transforming into a sun jellyfish grants super-fast maneuverability.

  And there are several more skills. Light elementalization can only be used in the solar jellyfish form. Solar bomb replaces the brilliant flash and gains super close-range damage. The sunlight ray is not as durable as the brilliant beam, but dozens of them can be fired at the same time.

  With just the help of the Brilliant Lighthouse, it is already possible to hunt down some Sequence 6 creatures on its own.

  Rosen packed up the divine territory and rode on the alchemical dragon to leave.

  The few Sequence 6s in the darkness could only watch unwillingly as the Alchemy Dragon left.

  Rosen went around for a long distance and quietly dived back from the sea to the offshore waters where the sun jellyfish appeared.

  He successfully integrated the soul of the sun jellyfish into the Glorious Lighthouse, and he also knew why the sun jellyfish attacked the mine.

  It turns out that the former base of the sun jellyfish was taken away by a sea dragon not long ago.

  Even another sun jellyfish was eaten by the sea dragon.

  The Sun Jellyfish was eager for revenge, so it seized the spiritual crystals from the mine in order to quickly increase its strength.

  Rosen put away the Alchemical Dragon and released the Razorback Shark into the underwater pressure chamber.

  The razor-sharp shark quickly reached the bottom of the sea and quickly found a cave among the reefs on the seabed.

  The entrance to this cave is very small and can only accommodate creatures with a diameter of less than one meter.

  However, this downward-sloping hole is bottomless, and from here you can enter the underground world of the giant island and reach an underground lake.

  A layer of space fog attached to Rosen's body, and then he teleported out of the underwater pressure chamber.

  Isolated by the space fog, the water pressure at the bottom of the sea could not cause any harm to him.

  Rosen put away the Razorback Shark and went into the cave, following the flow of the sea water and going deeper into the cave, which was at least dozens of miles long in a straight line.

  For such a long underwater cave, its actual length would increase several times due to its twists and turns.

  Half an hour later, a fork appeared in front of Rosen.

  At one of the forks, the sea water flows here and falls into an unknown world like a small waterfall.

  As for the other fork, you can go to the underground lake from here.

  Anyway, there is plenty of time, and Rosen is also very interested in where the sea water goes.

  So he continued to go downstream. The sea water in the small waterfall became hotter as he went down, and he could see thick white mist and a faint red light. After quickly passing through the mist, Quetzalcoatl wings appeared on Rosen's back and he hovered.

  The thickness of the earth's crust is roughly proportional to the size of the world.

  The Blue Star is about the size of the Principality of Chiying, and the thickness of its crust reaches an astonishing tens of kilometers.

  The Principality of Blazing Shadow is like dust in the eyes of the whole world, which shows how amazingly thick the earth's crust is.

  There was once a Sequence 1 demigod who explored the thickness of the earth's crust, but ultimately did not get a concrete answer.

  But one thing is certain, it is absolutely impossible for any magma layer to appear more than a million miles above the surface.

  Therefore, the red light below is definitely not magma. Rosen released the God-Hunting Demon Eye and kept approaching the source of the red light.

  Through the God Hunter's Demon Eye, Rosen gradually saw the giant mushroom forest covering a dozen miles at the bottom of the cave.

  An unknown species of red mushroom, each cap is dozens of meters in radius.

  Moreover, flames were burning all over the body. The falling sea water was directly evaporated by these flaming mushrooms. The salt in it was absorbed by these mushrooms, and the evaporated water vapor gathered into rainwater, finally forming a small river running through the mushroom forest.

  Rosen released the gray rat, who might recognize these mushrooms.

  The gray mouse shared the vision of the Hunter's Demonic Eye and couldn't help rubbing its eyes with its paws as it watched.

  "Dragon Blood Mushroom, how is this possible?"

  The gray mouse squeaked in disbelief.

  When Rosen heard Gray Rat talking about Dragon Blood Mushroom, he instantly thought of the records of this kind of fungal life that he had seen before.

  If the corpse of a dragon is placed in a dark and humid environment, then as the body decays bit by bit, special dragon blood mushrooms may grow. If there are a large number of dragon blood mushrooms, it is possible to extract the dragon's extraordinary bloodline from them.

  However, the Dragon Blood Mushroom recorded in the book has a cap that is the smallest basin-sized and has a maximum diameter of no more than ten meters.

  Moreover, dragon blood mushrooms do not burn flames, nor do they absorb salt, and it is impossible for the umbrella cap to reach a radius of dozens of meters.

  No matter from which angle you look at it, these mushrooms cannot be dragon's blood mushrooms.

  The gray mouse calmed down and started to explain without Rosen's questioning.

  It turns out that there are actually two types of dragon blood mushrooms. The first type grows on the rotting corpses of dragons after their death, and the second type grows on the rotting corpses of dragons while they are alive. The second type of dragon blood mushroom is rarer and its value is many times greater than the first type.

  Because under normal circumstances, how could a living dragon allow its body to rot?

  Unless the body of this dragon is still alive, but the dragon soul has been destroyed and turned into a motionless plant dragon.

  This situation is very rare, and Gray Squirrel has only heard of it as a rumor.

  The underground mushroom forest is more than ten miles in radius, which means that if there really is a plant dragon underneath, the rotten part of its body alone would reach a radius of more than ten miles. The true size of this plant dragon is at least tens of kilometers.

  For a dragon of this size, the weakest one would conservatively be no lower than Sequence 3.

  Of course, now is not the time to be happy, because the mushroom forest below is very likely a mirage.

  If the dragon clan died in reality, it is very likely that the thing underneath is a mirage formed by historical traces from 20,000 years ago.

  On the contrary, if the dragon finally died in the spiritual world, the mushroom forest below might be real.

  Rosen released his self-portrait clone, and his real self escaped into the void gallery.

  He flapped his wings like a Quetzalcoatl and slowly descended. When he approached a mushroom, he was instantly struck by a stone hammer.

  These dragon blood mushrooms were real, and the gray mouse couldn't help but jumped down and started picking mushrooms.

  However, when the gray mouse was picking mushrooms, he couldn't help but take a bite, and suddenly he was petrified on the spot.

  The gray rat took another bite, and in a rage, he bit the dragon blood mushrooms that he had not yet collected.

  He spat out the last bite, unable to believe that such a thing could happen.

  Rosen quietly communicated with the Nightmare Chain, sensed the gray mouse's thoughts and immediately knew what was going on.

  It turns out that although these dragon blood mushrooms are real, their size and value are completely different. They are not the legendary second-class dragon blood mushrooms of super high quality. The dragon blood contained in them is so thin that even gray mice are unwilling to eat them.

  The value of these dragon blood mushrooms, which look strong on the outside but are actually weak on the inside, is completely different from what one might expect.

  It used to be a precious treasure for refining the extraordinary blood of the dragon clan. Now its value is at most to be crushed and used to fertilize the fields.

  The greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment.

  Rosen's mood also took a sharp turn for the worse, but it was better to use the money to fertilize the fields than to get nothing.

  And if the dragon blood mushroom doesn't work, maybe the plant dragon below has some unexpected surprises.

  Rosen dug out a large number of slimes. The slimes all over the mountains bit off the stems of the dragon blood mushrooms. The scavenging space immediately took away the fallen dragon blood mushrooms. Half a day later, all the dragon blood mushrooms within a radius of ten miles had been collected.

  He continued to release the crypt demons to start digging the soil, and then collected the soil containing dragon blood into the scavenging space.

  After digging for hundreds of meters, Rosen finally found the plant dragon in the middle part of the mushroom forest.

  There was no demigod dragon that was hundreds of miles long as imagined. Instead, there was only a baby dragon that was a dozen meters long and no more than Sequence 7. There was a rotten wound the size of a wheel on the back of this baby dragon, and rotten flesh and blood spurted out like a fountain from it.

  With such a horrific amount of blood gushing out, it should only take a few minutes to turn the young dragon into a mummy.

  But judging from the situation, the rotten flesh in the wound had been gushing out for at least 20,000 years before those huge dragon blood mushrooms could grow. What kind of recovery ability did they have to survive for 20,000 years without dying?

  Rosen was wondering when he found that the rotten wound was gradually spreading.

  Judging from the spread rate, the entire dragon's body will rot in half a day.

  After much thought, Rosen came up with a possibility: the mushroom forest might have formed a symbiotic relationship with the young dragon.

  The dragon blood mushroom absorbs rotten dragon blood and dragon flesh, and then condenses pure dragon blood.

  Then, the young dragon somehow plundered the clean dragon blood from the dragon blood mushrooms, which prevented his injuries from getting worse. This symbiotic cycle was interrupted after he collected all the dragon blood mushrooms.

  (End of this chapter)