There's a skull dungeon attached to my basement

The moment the multi-armed wall of flesh collapsed with a deafening roar, the flames created by the fire grenades also weakened, no longer able to restrain the agitated red-eyed rats.

The long run had to continue. Xiao Yang could only grab the debris from the fallen wall of flesh and continue his frantic sprint.

Without the obstruction of the multi-armed wall of flesh, Xiao Yang finally broke free from the endless looping tunnel, but still had to face the infinite horde of rats behind him.

After much turning and twisting, and panting for breath, Xiao Yang finally ran back to the location of the safe house. He yanked open the door, squeezed himself inside, and slammed the iron door shut. In that instant, the rampaging rats swept past the safe house.

Although the safe house in this sewer was really small, at this moment, this narrow space was truly a place where one could breathe a sigh of relief.

Xiao Yang, gasping for breath, uttered a sentence filled with a hint of existential doubt.

"Am I supposed to be dungeon crawling? How did it suddenly turn into real-life parkour?!"

Even with his stats boosted to such an extremely high level, these red-eyed rats still kept him in check.

Even though these rats couldn't actually break his defense, Xiao Yang couldn't imagine himself being exhausted in the middle of the rat swarm, being dragged down, with layers upon layers of rats pressing down on him, unable to struggle free or breathe.

How desperate would such a situation be?

Stats aren't everything, although extremely high stats can solve ninety-nine percent of the problems.

After catching his breath, Xiao Yang finally had the time to look at the loot dropped by the wall of flesh. There were two items in total, both blue and of excellent quality.

Effect: Consume it, and you may gain a large amount of stats.

Introduction: Eat it, talk to me, and you will receive a blessing.】

A strange scene appeared. The moment Xiao Yang's gaze landed on the description of this flesh essence, a series of garbled characters appeared, followed by a nonsensical sentence.

The God's Game began to sound an alarm.

【Detecting the taint of an Outer God. In order to protect the player, a defense protocol is being activated. The plane's transcendent power is too low, and the God's Game version is too low. The defense protocol has failed. Requesting branch intervention. Requesting main server intervention. Detecting the nearest branch server, God's Game (Penglai) is intervening. Detecting the existence of the Outer God's wielder of the Stars. Attempting to drive it away. Driving it away. Drive-away successful.】

【God's Game is forcibly restarting. Starting version update. Outer God firewall added. Player personal panel is updating. Player protection rules are updating. Adding Outer God protection module. Adding new stat ports.】

In a series of chaotic texts, a white flame rose in Xiao Yang's eyes. If he wasn't mistaken, this was probably the Outer God protection module newly loaded by the God's Game.

【Flame of Hope: The flame of light dwells within every normal heart. It is the key to dealing with Outer Gods. When it flickers, please stay away from corruption and rest quietly. Warning: Do not let it go out!】

In the end, this white flame transformed into a flickering flame icon fixed on Xiao Yang's personal panel. With its blessing, the piece of flesh in front of Xiao Yang completely changed its appearance.

【Flesh of the Outer God

Quality: Unique

Effect: Corruption, transformation, completely embrace chaos.

Introduction: If you don't want to give up your own will, then never touch an Outer God!】

Even though Xiao Yang had tempered a great heart, he still felt a bit stiff at this moment, as if he had touched something terrible.

This Outer God was unexpectedly sore loser, actually packaging a piece of its own flesh and shoving it into Xiao Yang's hand. If Xiao Yang had been even slightly careless just now and eaten this thing, he would probably be able to start ascending into a demon now.

The series of events hadn't ended yet, and the problem continued. Perhaps realizing that the disguise had been exposed, the piece of flesh in Xiao Yang's hand began to squirm. Tiny arms appeared on the flesh, wriggling rhythmically. Xiao Yang felt a ticklish sensation in his palm.

This Outer God was tickling him! No! It was the countless tiny arms on the Outer God's flesh stroking his palm! An eye opened on the piece of flesh in Xiao Yang's hand. It just glanced at Xiao Yang, just one glance, and the Hope Flame module that Xiao Yang had just installed instantly began to sway, becoming dim, about to go out!

Everything in front of Xiao Yang was instantly covered with a trace of blood.

This kind of experience was too terrible. He felt that the world in front of him was growing blood vessels, twisting, and becoming distorted.

In this critical situation, the Shadowbane Lantern placed on the table by Xiao Yang bloomed with a trace of light. In the lantern, the eternally burning warm yellow light suddenly rose violently, burning with all its might.

It saved Xiao Yang's life, pulling back Xiao Yang's reason that was about to fall into depravity for a moment.

But it was only a moment. The eye that opened from the Outer God's flesh was still staring straight at Xiao Yang. When Xiao Yang fell into depravity again this time, he probably wouldn't wake up again.

At this moment, Xiao Yang almost exhausted all his strength to let out a sharp shout to the only existence that could save him from the Outer God's gaze.

"God's Game!"

In this special situation, the God's Game's response was also obviously more flexible. In Xiao Yang's shout, the God's Game quickly gave a pop-up window.

【Dao Rhyme Shop God's Game (Penglai) Authorized Version is open. Do you want to sell the Outer God's flesh!】

At this moment, this voice was like heavenly music in Xiao Yang's ears. In the situation where his consciousness was about to fall into depravity again, Xiao Yang used his last strength to shout.

"Agree!"

In an instant, the Outer God's flesh in Xiao Yang's hand disappeared. Xiao Yang was saved, and he collapsed on the table in the small safe house, gasping for breath with a bit of trance.

It had to be said that this was really an extremely exciting experience. Of course, if possible, Xiao Yang didn't want to experience it again.

【Congratulations to the player for successfully selling a piece of God's flesh, gaining fifteen points of Dao Rhyme.】

【Congratulations to the player for successfully preserving reason under the gaze of the Outer God, gaining the achievement, Facing the Outer God.】

【Facing the Outer God: Spirit +10.

You have successfully gazed at the Outer God, but I think He seems to like you quite a bit.】

【Congratulations to the player for unlocking an additional stat, Spirit】

【Congratulations to the player, your Flame of Hope has been improved and has become more vigorous.】

Risk brings rewards. A series of prompts announced what Xiao Yang had gained in this Outer God's gaze, but if Xiao Yang had to say, he just wanted to shout fiercely at the bastard Outer God who wanted to inject his brain fiercely, especially when he saw the Outer God achievement note and his face became even greener.

"Go to hell, Outer God!"