There's a skull dungeon attached to my basement

After a bout of shivering, Xiao Yang chugged bottles of life potions while exploring the temple square.

The first things to catch his eye were the still-living mummies, these wailing symphony orchestras. They seemed to exist in a very special state, having no health points but still alive, only able to swing their arms unconsciously and utter desperate wails.

Xiao Yang cast an appraisal spell on these mummies.

【Wailing Handmaiden

Description: Just as you see, these are a group of pitiful fellows who can never close their eyes.】

The information on the panel made Xiao Yang's expression even more surprised. Before him, in the dark ashes, a shriveled corpse slowly raised its body, waving its arms at Xiao Yang with a狰狞 face.

Xiao Yang saw a wisp of charred long hair on its head.

As it waved its arms, a golden bracelet rolled down and came to Xiao Yang's feet.

He picked it up.

【Damaged Golden Ring

Quality: Inferior

Effect: Triggers a soul screech check every once in a while after being held.

Introduction: This is my former glory, and it is all I have left!】

The sharp wailing started again, but it quickly stopped because the golden ring was once again placed on its hand. Xiao Yang carefully put the golden bracelet back on this pitiful fellow.

The undead corpse stopped its painful wailing, and all the undead corpses stopped their painful wailing.

While exploring this empty temple, Xiao Yang discovered good news: the spiders that had fled in panic had not all run away. A considerable number had retreated back into the remaining spiderwebs.

【Cave Spider

Rank: Common

Level: 18】

These spiders, mostly level 18, were now gathering in large numbers in that not-so-large spiderweb, densely packed, layer upon layer, a dark mass that would make anyone with trypophobia tremble.

But Xiao Yang was very happy about this.

What was this? This was the endless cycle of life! The red-eyed rats had successors!

Xiao Yang felt a noticeable strain in this third level of the Skeleton Dungeon. In this situation, it was time to improve himself.

"It's time to grind levels!"

For the next two days, Xiao Yang relentlessly slaughtered these cave spiders.

He didn't continue to burn them with fire, partly because he was afraid that these cave spiders would scatter everywhere after losing the protection of their webs, and partly to leave some semblance of dignity for the wailing handmaidens.

Fire could not kill these restless, pitiful fellows; it would only make them black.

During this time, cave spiders turned into experience points for Xiao Yang, but disappointingly, the spiders' yield was still not as good as the red-eyed rats.

"The missed opportunity back then, the rest are like you but ultimately not you!"

Raising his head, Xiao Yang looked at the layered spiderweb that was now completely empty and could not squeeze out another spider, and said this with emotion.

Behind him, countless cave spider corpses were piled up together, densely packed, layer upon layer.

Although he had grinded a lot, Xiao Yang was not too happy when it was all over.

Not everything in the dungeon is refreshed in a fixed time limit. Elites and monsters above the elite rank are unique in the dungeon, and each death reduces the number. Moreover, not only these elite monsters, but also some special monster groups follow this rule.

Other gains included a large number of various spider fangs, spider silk, pointed feet, and a pile of miscellaneous small garbage for sale.

Xiao Yang now had twenty spider glands in his hand. This number was probably enough for Xiao Yang to grind out the poison adaptation trait. If he couldn't grind it out, Xiao Yang would give up.

To do a simple calculation, Xiao Yang would have to drink fifty bottles of life potions to recover the life attribute lost from one spider gland. If all twenty spider glands were used, Xiao Yang would have to drink a thousand bottles of life potions, and just drinking these life potions would be a jaw-dropping process.

Thinking carefully, it seemed that poison adaptation was not indispensable. If Xiao Yang hadn't already chewed two down and spent a hundred bottles of life potions for them, then he would definitely give up.

Xiao Yang also found a delicate box in these dense spiderwebs, containing a beautiful sachet.

【Lavender Sachet

Quality: Excellent

Effect: Releases a cleaning spell "Brand New!" once a day.

Introduction: This is a "private" sachet with a lavender scent.】

【Brand New: Removes dirt, sweat, rust, and dust from the surface of objects】

This sachet was a bit useful. For Xiao Yang, who often had to travel in various wonderful places, this sachet was still very practical, but the introduction was a bit subtle.

But it was not a big problem. For a pure player like Xiao Yang, as long as the attributes were good, he could even wear the goddess-blessed underwear on his face as a mask.

This lavender sachet was included in Xiao Yang's list of backup items for dungeon survival. Now, the items on this list were: a wild short-handled axe that could cut trees, a murloc staff that could create water, the former Holy Grail that could purify liquids, and this newly acquired lavender sachet that could clean oneself.

The appearance of the lavender sachet was a small cloth bag with a light pink color embroidered with a small flower. Xiao Yang held it in his hand, and when his nose got closer, Xiao Yang really smelled a faint lavender scent.

"It smells pretty good!"

When he made this action, Xiao Yang caught a glimpse of Little Bone looking at him, coughed, and put the sachet in his personal backpack.

In the process of grinding cave spiders non-stop for the past two days, Xiao Yang felt a trace of fatigue.

Since entering the third level of the Skeleton Dungeon, he hadn't stopped much, and he had tossed around a lot, plus the mental rollercoaster that had jumped back and forth several times.

Today was the day when the Myriad Realms Trading Zone was open. Taking a temporary rest, Xiao Yang prepared to purchase a batch of calming props, buy some things, and get a large batch of life potions.

The new dungeon was about to open tomorrow. The exploration of the third level of the Skeleton Dungeon had just begun, and Xiao Yang would have to take the time to go back and see the gem bugs in a while.

Feeling like there were so many things to do, he suddenly became busy.

While thinking, Xiao Yang suddenly frowned, and in surprise, a sentence blurted out.

"Why am I suddenly a workhorse!?"