There's a skull dungeon attached to my basement

And so it was.

After another round of fierce fighting, with a large pile of corpses accumulated around him, Xiao Yang used sub-dragon flames to heat his armor, and chewed on the dry, hard jerky he bought from the Myriad Realms Trading Zone, washing it down with water.

His face was full of listlessness.

If you were to say Xiao Yang's condition wasn't good, his attributes and health were full, but if you were to say Xiao Yang's condition was good, his expression was all twisted up.

He could actually temporarily retreat through the Dungeon Door, but after these days of torment, there was only one area of the sewers left unexplored.

"A little more effort, just a little more effort!"

Xiao Yang said to himself.

Summoning Little Bone, the little guy consciously began to stand guard around Xiao Yang, who leaned against the wall of the sewer and began to sort out the clues he had obtained from the sewers these past few days.

During these days of exploration, Xiao Yang had obtained a lot of useful information.

[Rena Shea has given away all the holy water from the temple, intending it for those mud-legs, truly foolish. The infected Baron Holden is willing to offer one hundred gold coins per ounce to exchange for holy water. Why should I give this holy water to those mud-legs?]

[There are more and more infected people in Black Rock City. It's only been a few days. Rena Shea must be crazy. She still wants to save those infected people. She's planning to put those infected mud-legs into the temple.]

[Damn it, those stupid pigs, told them to be patient and use the holy water sparingly. This Long Hand Disease cannot be solved by relying on holy water alone. Constantly using holy water will only make the disease more and more difficult to suppress. Forget it, this is also a good thing. Rena Shea is preparing the purification ceremony. Those swine will have to pay more for holy water during this time!]

[Perhaps this group of mud-legs is not entirely useless. Breaking open their bodies, the secret of this Long Hand Disease will be revealed before me.]

[The Long Hand Disease is getting more and more serious, but it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. Rena Shea's purification ceremony is about to be prepared, and there is also the blessing of the Goddess of Rest!]

In those three torture chambers, Xiao Yang found these fragmented words, revealing to him the reason why so many Long Hand Disease infected people gathered in this sewer.

If he wasn't mistaken, Rena Shea was the name of that saintess, which was also the name of the head on Xiao Yang's waist.

Fortunately, this time Xiao Yang's sleep was not disturbed, and his listless mental state was eased.

Xiao Yang was approaching the area where the Rat King of the Black Rock Prison sewers was located.

He still lacked information, but it wasn't without gains. Xiao Yang at least knew that a purification ceremony had once been held in the Temple of Rest.

In this area, Xiao Yang encountered the last type of enemy recorded in the blood-stained notebook, the Vortex Face.

The Vortex Face was the kind of Long Hand Disease infected who retained the most human parts. Their bodies and limbs had hardly undergone any distortion, without the grown nails, without the fingers breaking out of the flesh, and without transforming into pink slimes.

The most significant abnormality on them was their face.

The facial features disappeared, replaced by a huge vortex pattern. Looking closer, no, it wasn't a vortex! But a huge fingerprint!

Losing the facial features on their faces, replaced by a branded fingerprint, was somewhat bizarre, just not as weighty as the other Long Hand Disease infected.

The Vortex Face's attack method was the most unique among the mutated fellows. Being watched by them would temporarily reduce the upper limit of life. One Vortex Face could temporarily deduct one hundred points of life upper limit.

The first time he encountered such an attack, Xiao Yang was startled. Just by being looked at, Xiao Yang's health upper limit dropped from fifteen hundred to fourteen hundred.

Fortunately, the health upper limit would not be permanently deducted. As long as they were defeated, or kept away from, the lost health upper limit would slowly recover.

But even so, these guys were enough to be alarming. Such a strange method was really scary.

Theoretically, just fifteen Vortex Faces would be able to drain Xiao Yang's health.

But fortunately, there were not many of these guys. With Xiao Yang's careful pulling, he quickly killed all these Vortex Faces.

It is worth mentioning that although these guys' abilities were the most bizarre among the mutated fellows, the drops they gave were also the best.

Compared to the Corpse Repair Technique of those Finger Joint Summoners, the Mixed Solution of the Flesh Dissolvers, compared to these two useless things, the Vortex Crystal dropped by the Vortex Faces was obviously a level higher in effectiveness.

[Corpse Repair Technique

Quality: Excellent

Effect: Use one corpse to repair another corpse

Introduction: Perhaps a little lightning is needed]

[Mixed Solution

Quality: Excellent

Effect: Provides a random effect drawn from three effects: deducting health, poisoning, and continuous health recovery.

Introduction: What's in the jelly, syrup, corpse, or pus?]

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[Vortex Crystal

Quality: Excellent

Effect: Can store one hundred points of life, deducting five points of spirit when retrieved

Introduction: The vortex devours everything!]

Corpse Repair Technique, may be useful, but is currently useless. Keep one, others to be sold. Mixed Solution, useless, to be sold. Finally, there is the Vortex Crystal.

This was the first time Xiao Yang had seen an item that could store life. The exterior was a black crystal engraved with a vortex pattern. Holding one, Xiao Yang tried to invest one hundred points of life into it. His health bar immediately emptied a small section.

At the same time, the Vortex Crystal in his hand completed the storage of life. After completing the storage, a faint scarlet appeared in this Vortex Crystal.

Next was to retrieve the life.

With a thought, the stored life was successfully retrieved. While the spirit dropped by five points, Xiao Yang's health immediately returned to fifteen hundred points.

With a simple attempt, the value of this Vortex Crystal immediately became clear.

Xiao Yang had a total of five Vortex Crystals in his hand, which meant that he could store a total of five hundred points of health. Equivalent to, in times of crisis, and when life is needed, he only needs to expend twenty-five points of spirit to instantly raise his life by five hundred points, which is one-third of his health.

Moreover, the life returned by this Vortex Crystal is instantly restored, the significance and value of which are self-evident.

Now Xiao Yang even hoped that a few more Vortex Faces could appear, but unfortunately, after a round of killing, Xiao Yang never saw the figure of the Vortex Face again.

But after thinking about it, this is not surprising. The Vortex Face is the Long Hand Disease infected who retained the most human elements.

They wore gorgeous clothes, their skin was fair, and their identities were naturally obvious.

Those nobles who abused the holy water.

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