[Earth Vein Power required to create next floor: 65,000]
The eighteenth floor was still a jungle swamp.
Compared to the seventeenth floor, the air temperature was lower, and the fog in the dense forest was thicker.
Within the thick fog drifting through the forest, in addition to the miasma of decay, a special icy power had emerged.
The vegetation in the forest was covered in a layer of persistent white frost.
Just as Dalun Li had suspected, the temperature dropped further the deeper one went into the swamp floors.
Dalun Li confirmed the total area of the floor and its general topography, but he didn't delve any deeper into those details.
Instead, he began to carefully scout the floor.
The Goddess's holy light and the God of the Foundry's Foundry Battlefield fragments had already been swallowed by this floor.
However, Dalun Li wasn't sure what those two divine powers would become after being integrated through Earth Vein Power and spatial power during floor creation.
He quickly began manipulating his power to search the eighteenth floor thoroughly.
Above ground, in the sky, and below the surface...
Beneath the mire, Dalun Li discovered several mineral veins.
Within the woods, two precious magic plants gave Dalun Li a pleasant surprise.
He even found a complete skeleton buried deep under the swamp.
This time, it wasn't as exaggerated as the giant snake skeleton on the seventeenth floor, but its size was still astonishing.
It was nearly a hundred meters long with thick bones and a pair of horns growing from its skull.
Although the flesh had completely vanished under the corrosive power of the rotting swamp.
The thick, hard skeleton still radiated a powerful aura.
That strong, pure power seemed to be mixed with a special energy.
“A sub-dragon... an earth dragon?”
Sub-dragons were a special branch of dragons. Generally, monsters born from the union of a dragon and another creature were called sub-dragons.
At the same time, descendants of sub-dragons could also evolve into sub-dragons if they happened to awaken their dragon bloodline.
Dragons were the most legendary and powerful species in the magical world.
Monsters possessing dragon blood were both high-status and precious.
Usually, dragon descendants would strive to evolve toward becoming true dragons, finding ways to increase the purity of the dragon blood within them.
The earth dragon before him had ferocious horns, thick bones, and was brimming with dragon qi.
The concentration of dragon blood in its body while it was alive was not to be underestimated; even among sub-dragons, its bloodline had been quite pure.
Its size was also a testament to that power.
Unfortunately, a sub-dragon was still just a sub-dragon. The earth dragon before him had reached the limit of its bloodline; aside from lacking wings, its form was very close to that of a true dragon.
Yet, before a true dragon, it remained nothing more than an earth dragon.
“Does this rotting swamp yield skeletal materials this easily?”
Looking at the massive earth dragon skeleton, Dalun Li was delighted, but he couldn't help but wonder.
At the same time, he began to think about how to use this skeleton.
Its value was naturally far below that of the giant snake on the seventeenth floor.
That giant snake was undoubtedly an angelic grade life form, and likely not just a common angel, but an archangel or something even higher.
Therefore, even though the quantity of the giant snake's bones was staggering, Dalun Li was reluctant to use them casually.
He only dared to use death power to revive it bit by bit, fearing he might damage the integrity of the skeleton and waste such excellent material.
This sub-dragon skeleton was different.
While it was incredibly precious, it wasn't so rare that he had to enshrine it and never use it.
Dalun Li was very interested in dragons, the strongest species in the magical world, and their bloodlines.
The fire-resistant wyverns he had created might have "dragon" in their name, but they had absolutely nothing to do with true dragons—they weren't even sub-dragons.
This dragon bloodline might allow him to create monsters that adventurers would enjoy even more.
After carefully storing the sub-dragon skeleton, Dalun Li continued exploring other areas of the eighteenth floor.
The sub-dragon skeleton was just an unexpected bonus; Dalun Li's primary goal was the power of the Goddess and the God of the Foundry.
“This is...”
Dalun Li's gaze froze on a vine.
Then, with his orb attached to the pedestal, he teleported right in front of the vine.
The vine before him grew on a hidden rock wall and was entirely golden.
It wasn't an ordinary gold, but a gold that looked like it had been cast from molten metal.
On the surface of the vine, a golden luster shimmered as if light were flowing through it.
The roots of the vine were connected to the rotting swamp, yet it wasn't affected by the decay power at all, possessing a sense of holiness that remained untainted by the mud.
The leaves of the vine were also gilded, with faint golden veins running across their surfaces.
This power, this inviolable aura of holiness.
Without a doubt, this was the Goddess's holy light power!
Dalun Li looked at the gilded vine in surprise, never expecting that the Goddess's holy light would take this form after being swallowed by the floor.
Dalun Li tried to touch the vine, but before he could, he felt a powerful holy light burst from its surface, instantly purifying the power he used to reach out.
“It actually purified it directly.”
“I've never felt such pure holy light power before.”
Bathing in the holy light, Dalun Li felt that it had purified more than just the energy he used to touch the vine.
It had also purified his heart.
It was a sense of cleanliness and liberation he had never experienced before, like washing away a century's worth of grime all at once.
It felt like his first true cleaning since arriving in this world.
Dalun Li quickly composed himself and pondered the vine's abilities.
“Purification, mental soothing, mental damage repair, and negative status removal.”
The power of this vine was the power of pure holy light purification.
All curses, mental attacks, and powers related to negative statuses would be swiftly purified before the holy light of this vine.
For instance, if the undead monsters he created were even slightly exposed to this vine's holy light, they would likely be reduced to ash.
“Good stuff. This is useful.”
He would no longer lack high-status, high-quality holy light.
If such high-status holy light power were integrated into his Forbidden Fire, it might even raise the fire's abilities and uniqueness to another level.
It could also be used as material for creating monsters.
Since adventurers were so devoted to the Goddess of Light, they would likely feel a strong affinity for monsters with the holy light attribute.
Furthermore, the holy light from the Goddess had been transformed by the dungeon's power into a vine that could grow.
What would have been easily consumed as one-time-use holy light had become a renewable source of holy light that could grow.
This perfect fusion of holy light and plant life attributes made Dalun Li's eyes light up with excitement.
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