There's a skeleton dungeon connected to my basement.

Chapter 313, Heartless Fish
Feeling completely relaxed, Xiao Yang stretched.

All things considered, the gains from the third level of the corpse tax this time were not bad.

"The harvest was alright."

This is the conclusion.

"Keep moving forward."

He hoped he could work on the corpse tax strategy as quickly as possible; he had a strange feeling that once these few days of free time were over, he would become extremely busy.

The fourth level of the corpse tax.

This is a place similar to an underground palace, and the main monsters are some large, blood-red bats hanging on the rock walls.

Blood Bat

But it's not a big problem, and dealing with these things is not difficult at all.

Deep within the underground palace, Xiao Yang encountered a boundless bloodline.

The enormous underground cavity was filled with blood, and it seemed to stretch as far as the eye could see.

The dense, strange seal script and runes are engraved on every inch of the rock face.

Countless bright red bats hanging upside down.

The final boss of the fourth level of the Corpse Tax is a Blood Taoist who crawls out of a coffin floating on a sea of ​​blood.

This guy was much more cautious than the Taoist priest on the previous level.

Instead of immediately charging straight at Xiao Yang, after crawling out, it began summoning the countless scarlet bats that roamed the sea of ​​blood. They swarmed towards Xiao Yang with a whooshing sound.

However, such a scene is nothing special.

The crimson bats fell like raindrops as Xiao Yang casually swung his sword.

If Xiao Yang were to describe these blood bats, he would probably use the analogy of oversized blood-sucking mosquitoes.

Each kill causes a large pool of scarlet blood to explode.

He had only been killing for a short while, but he was already soaked in sweat, his armor was crimson, his weapons were crimson, and his vision was crimson.

The world was also a crimson expanse.

Such a group offensive did not weaken Xiao Yang in the slightest. On the contrary, with each swing of the Dark Slaughterer in his hand, Xiao Yang's aura grew stronger and stronger.

Amidst bloodshed and slaughter.

Crimson is not only the home ground of the Blood Taoist, but also the home ground of Xiao Yang, the killer.

The Dark Slayer inflicts continuous, cumulative damage.

The surface of the Crimson Slayer became increasingly crimson.

Soon, the blood-skinned Taoist realized something.

"This can't go on!"

In an instant, the scarlet bats scattered.

A guy wielding a blood-stained sword was almost instantly pressed against Xiao Yang's face.

This was a perfect surprise attack, but unfortunately, the opponent was Xiao Yang.

This Blood Taoist is still only a half-step epic level, so it's not a big problem.

A disintegrating ray suppressed him, rendering him immobile. Then, Xiao Yang used the stacked damage of the Abyssal Slaughterer, wielding an exaggeratedly large axe dripping crimson blood.

With just a single slash, it quietly fell, splitting in two.

This thing has a pretty good lifespan.

After a brief silence, it began to struggle and coalesce, trying to get back up.

Then came another axe blow.

This cycle continued for several rounds until finally, the thing stopped moving and dissolved into a pool of murky blood, thus disintegrating and dying.

"This is truly a tough battle!"

Such a lament was uttered after the massacre.

Compared to the densely packed, mangled limbs piled up in front of him, Xiao Yang was more concerned about something else.

"How much has the Deep Slaughterer's stats improved?"

Damage: 268
Armor Penetration: 268

The Deep Slayer's base stats are 200. Its damage and armor penetration increased by one point after killing the Rotten Commander, and then each stat increased by 67 points during this fight.

"This kind of improvement is quite good."

It wasn't just the Deep Slayer's tangible improvement; the Crimson Slayer also benefited greatly from this carnage.

The area of ​​the killing field has been expanded.

As expected of killing gear, almost everyone who owns it eventually becomes a killing maniac.

"The rewards for starting the killing are just too high."

As long as you kill, you can increase your power, even if this power does not come from yourself, but from the increasingly powerful killing equipment. It is a false illusion, but how many people can resist it?

Without self-control, depravity is inevitable.

This even includes Xiao Yang, although his situation is quite special.

In a few days, once he returns to the Rotten Lands, once the Well of Purity is dealt with, and once the Blood Moon begins, he won't even need to look for anyone else; the endless monsters will simply charge at him.

He didn't care at all whether the two massacrers in his hands had killed too many people.

As long as they can still eat, they'll always have something to eat.

"Being able to kill is a good thing. Kill more, kill even more, otherwise how am I supposed to survive in this damned world?"

Xiao Yang took out a Blood Relic from the Blood Taoist. Its function was simple: eating it would increase his attributes.

It randomly adds one or ten to a certain basic attribute, making it a legendary quality consumable.

Eat it directly, and your strength will increase by two.

【Strength: 222】

"Um……."

for such results.

Xiao Yang fell silent.

"At least it's not just adding one."

He said this while forcing a smile.

In truth, he also needed to find some stable channels to obtain epic-tier consumables.

The Church of Holy Light is currently too small for Xiao Yang. He needs to maximize his base attributes.

However, this matter is not easy to handle, as epic-level items are considered rare treasures in all the heavens.

The truly powerful forces may not lack these small sums, such as the Heavenly Court, the Pantheon, and the All-Heavens Magic Alliance.

These forces certainly don't lack the epic-level consumables that Xiao Yang needs, and they might even have legendary items. If the quality were to be upgraded by another level, they would probably be able to provide them.

But that's the problem: even if they have these things, why should they give them to you?

Do we really have to go and pay respects at a pier?

"But where would I find the time to build up my influence?"

Xiao Yang felt that a talented young man like himself would definitely not be unwanted, but he didn't have the time for that.

The many things happening in the Rotten Lands already made him wish he could split himself in two and work on them.

After thinking about it for a while, I feel a bit of a headache.

"Forget about that, let's deal with this huge dungeon of corpse tax first."

Xiao Gu and I picked up the pile of scarlet bat droppings in front of us.

I thought about it.

There are also some things that shouldn't be wasted.

With a flick of his wrist, a black sail appeared in Xiao Yang's hand. He couldn't bring himself to massacre ordinary people and other friendly intelligent races; he also felt somewhat reluctant to do so.

However, he had absolutely no psychological barriers to repurposing the souls of these monsters.

I'm just a little curious.

Do these dungeon monsters have souls?

As he waved the black sail in his hand, a thick fog instantly billowed out.

The answer has appeared.

"These dungeon monsters have souls."

One by one, hazy bat phantoms floated out from the pile of corpses in front of Xiao Yang, their ferocious faces filled with bewilderment, as they were swept into the black mist.

After waiting a while, the blood-robed man's soul was also dragged into the banner.

Soon, a dim humanoid phantom and many other bat phantoms appeared on the clean Soul Banner that came into Xiao Yang's hand.

"Now it should be usable for combat, right?"

With that in mind, Xiao Yang decided to test his newly acquired equipment.

Shake the banner.

Soon, a cluster of tiny, hazy bats appeared before them, surrounding a vague figure.

Out of curiosity, Xiao Yang reached out his hand towards these illusory soul phantoms. In an instant, these things exploded as if they had seen something unimaginably terrifying.

"ah,……!"

This drawn-out scream was the Blood Taoist's last words, and it exploded.

Xiao Yang's outstretched hand paused at that moment.

silence.

Well, it's a bit difficult to expect this thing to go to the battlefield right now.

"It's just a toy for now."

But it's not a big problem.

Having the Soul Banner in hand at least gives you more ways to use it against the strange creatures you encounter in the future.

Just as Xiao Yang was preparing to head to the fifth level of the Corpse Tax area.

Before him, some anomalies appeared in the crimson pool of blood.

A huge black shadow appeared from the depths of the crimson sea of ​​blood.

"A fish?"

It was frantically swimming towards the surface of the sea of ​​blood, then leaped out and charged towards Xiao Yang—no, not towards Xiao Yang, but towards the soul banner in his hand.

The moment the fish leaped out of the sea of ​​blood, Xiao Yang finally saw clearly what it was.

A large intestine that looks like a goldfish.

The front end is wide open, the middle section is bulging, with wrinkles that look like fat piled up, and the tail end spreads out like a peacock's tail.

The head of the intestine is wide open, and fine teeth cover every inch of the inner wall of the intestine.

It looks like a goldfish, but it's actually a large intestine goldfish.

Even though Xiao Yang was used to all sorts of twisted and bizarre things, at this moment, he still had to admit it.

"I still lack experience!"

This thing is still a bit beyond imagination, a bit too strange.

"Goldfish with large intestine?"

A soft murmur, tinged with a hint of daze.

At that moment, the giant goldfish suddenly opened its intestines and swallowed Xiao Yang's upper body into its body.

Well, it seems that the ultimate goal of this goldfish is not the soul banner in Xiao Yang's hand, but Xiao Yang himself.

This terrible experience jolted Xiao Yang awake.

Spread your arms wide and tear open the strange thing that's been inside you.

Once again, some sticky stuff appeared on his body.

The thick, sticky, and dripping blood that had stained the armor was cleaned off and replaced with a translucent mucus.

It feels even worse now.

However, Xiao Yang also firmly grasped this strange thing.

"One, a goldfish?"

Xiao Yang held his mouth firmly with both hands.

Xiao Yang can't catch anything when fishing in the real world, but he can always hit this strange thing with one shot.

Inexplicably subtle.

A detection spell is cast.

Heartfish

(End of this chapter)