There's a skull dungeon attached to my basement

The day for the Corpse Tax Large Dungeon to reopen arrived, and all the preparations that needed to be done were mostly complete. As the time displayed on the Dungeon Gate dwindled to nothing, there was no hesitation. Xiao Yang chose to continue his advance.

During the brief wait after confirming his decision, he recalled something the Dungeon Gate had given him earlier.

【Invitation to the Homeland of the Green Elves】

"When can I go take a look?"

In future world travels, one thing might be very important to Xiao Yang, and that is an invitation permit for the destination world. A sudden, unannounced arrival might result in being beaten up by the world's will.

This Invitation to the Homeland of the Green Elves was his only world invitation.

Although he always felt that the Dungeon Gate was up to no good when it gave him this thing, perhaps... perhaps it's full of eye-pleasing green-haired elf girls.

Thinking like this, a simple portal appeared before Xiao Yang, the teleportation was ready.

He pushed open the Dungeon Gate in front of him, took a step, and in an instant, he had already arrived at his destination.

Twisted old trees with only a few scattered leaves, black crows startled into flight, and a sun that had already set for the most part, leaving only a sliver of dim yellow afterglow.

Looking down, his gaze fell on the corpses at his feet. Corpses piled up haphazardly, mostly with empty chests, and some even had faint white fur growing on them.

"Caw!"

The black crow perched on Xiao Yang's head looked at Xiao Yang and made a curious call.

"Woo ah!"

But a strange cry suddenly rang out. He stopped his movements, raised his head, and the strange sound came from a pile of corpses not far away. His gaze landed on it, and Xiao Yang took out his own rusted great axe, which was also becoming increasingly red.

In the continuous battles, this great axe, which had its stories and legends buried by time, was also able to shed some mottled rust, using the blood and flesh, or slime, of various monsters.

It and the Dragon Hunter Armor were both becoming increasingly red in Xiao Yang's hands. Perhaps it could regain new vitality and acquire new stories and legends in Xiao Yang's hands.

Under his gaze, a corpse, most of its body covered in fine white fur, slowly crawled out of the pile of corpses with difficulty.

Its awakening was because it sensed the aura of the living.

But before it could push away the corpses piled on its body with difficulty and do anything, the mottled heavy axe that was swung down arrived first. With a single strike, this stiff corpse that had just crawled up fell down again.

The world returned to silence.

Xiao Yang prepared to claim his advancement reward again.

Then, once again, his actions were interrupted. Not far away, several emaciated black dogs seemed to have discovered Xiao Yang's existence.

Sporadic barks rang out.

Xiao Yang, whose actions were interrupted again, felt a bit resentful. He grabbed his rusted heavy axe and strode towards the black dogs.

Looking up a little, Xiao Yang was on a desolate hill. There was nothing particularly outstanding on this hill, not many trees, no grass, no water.

There were only haphazardly piled corpses and large pits that had been dug or were half-dug.

Little Bone's figure appeared where Xiao Yang had just stopped. The little guy squatted down, reached out his hand, and groped on the white-haired corpse that had its head chopped off.

Before long, a piece of gray meat was pulled out of the corpse by Little Bone.

With Xiao Yang's current state, the second layer of this Corpse Tax posed almost no particular problem for Xiao Yang.

To put it simply, it could be described with one word.

"Slaughter!"

The terrified barking of dogs and the noises made by Xiao Yang disturbed the sleeping corpses here.

One by one, the zombies awoke. They began to crawl out and stand up one after another.

Those with white fur, those with black fur, those who hopped, those who moved like the wind, densely packed, from the piles of corpses, from the half-buried earth pits, or directly from underground.

The zombies that crawled out gathered together, raised their heads, and looked at the living person who had disturbed them.

Compared to these densely packed zombies, Xiao Yang's solitary figure seemed a bit thin.

But in terms of momentum, Xiao Yang was not behind. Tall and wearing scarlet armor, a pair of eyes pulling out scarlet light in the red setting sun, standing at the top of this hill, holding a scarlet great axe with mottled rust.

The battle began.

The zombies rushed to Xiao Yang.

Xiao Yang was constantly making these guys who were already dead die again.

Chopping off heads, severing bodies, rotten corpses splattering everywhere, the movements did not stop, facing the constantly surging zombies.

During the chaotic intervals of the battle, a pile of messy zombie corpses accumulated in front of him.

Xiao Yang's eyes lit up. He found a good thing from these messy zombies, something that he could use.

【Corpse Tempering Fluid

Quality: Excellent

Negative: Use to acquire Corpse Poison

Effect: Briefly gain 10 points of Defense, small probability to gain 1 point of permanent Defense, small probability to gain Hardened Skin trait

Introduction: Temper the skin like gold and iron, hmm, good material for refining corpses.】

A small black gourd appeared in his hand, his eyes lit up. Xiao Yang didn't care about the poison effect in it. He had poison resistance, which he got from eating the spider gland last time.

Although he didn't know if he could withstand the corpse poison brought by this Corpse Tempering Fluid.

He poured a mouthful into his stomach.

Unsurprisingly, Xiao Yang couldn't withstand the toxicity of this Corpse Tempering Fluid. The weak level of poison resistance was still too weak. A miserable green Corpse Poison Erosion label popped up on his head.

But it wasn't a big problem. Being poisoned only meant a deduction of fifteen points of health every ten seconds, which hadn't exceeded the upper limit of his high recovery. Even if he resisted it head-on, Xiao Yang could still handle it.

Even with this corpse poison state, Xiao Yang was still in the mood to comment on this Corpse Tempering Fluid.

The taste was as strange as ever, like water mixed with a lot of oil, along with a strange fishy smell.

If he could, he would definitely not try such a taste a second time.

Thinking like this, he turned his gaze to the personal panel.

What he wanted to see appeared. On the personal panel, the defense attribute jumped up a bit, current attribute.

【Defense: 139】

Now Xiao Yang's rank had changed to Lord after the second advancement, but the worst situation had not occurred.

Excellent quality enhancement potions could still have an effect on him, and his attributes had been improved, which was a great thing for him.

Xiao Yang raised his eyebrows at this discovery, and a look of joy appeared on his face.

Under the hill, zombies were still crawling up one after another, but this time, Xiao Yang's gaze on these stiff corpses was a little more fervent.