Novel Full Chapter 456
[Inspiration] vision.
Lin Jun’s soul was cautiously wrapping around a faint pale-cyan wisp of soul—the remnant left behind by the puji he had just personally blown apart.
Honestly speaking, that bizarre scene just now had horrified Lin Jun as much as if his own right hand suddenly started chatting with him.
He had smashed it on instinct, and this tiny cyan soul wisp was what spilled out after its death.
The same color as Lin Jun’s.
Which made perfect sense. After a bit of examination, Lin Jun understood—it was actually a small piece peeled directly from his own soul!
Although it was part of his own soul, it possessed a consciousness different from his. This was obviously the complete Sunstone’s doing.
So… the artifact’s effect was causing split personality?
That was way too absurd.
But also… not quite that. Rather than a split personality, this soul wisp felt more like a “sub-consciousness” derived from his main consciousness.
Lin Jun could clearly sense that he could reabsorb and merge it at will, or he could…
His perspective shifted. He remembered he had created several cocoons earlier.
The one in the swamp zone had long since rotted away. The one in the fifth-layer cave had been destroyed by some adventurer who broke in…
Finally, in the deep-zone, he found two intact mycelium cocoons and brought them both here.
He tried swapping the pale-cyan soul wisp in his hand with the soul tendril belonging to him inside one of the cocoons.
Sure enough, before long, that cocoon began to twitch again.
A puji crawled out once more.
“Mo… ther…”
PAH—
Call who your mother?!
This time, without any hesitation, Lin Jun directly attempted to absorb it. That tiny soul wisp merged smoothly into his main consciousness without creating any separate thoughts. It simply added a memory fragment from the puji’s perspective—emotionless, like watching a recorded video.
So this was a controllable split consciousness.
Damn it, why did his split-off soul fragments always open their mouths by shouting “Mom”? Could they behave normally for once?
There were still many functions to study. Lin Jun turned his gaze to the last remaining cocoon.
…
Stone Fortress Dungeon, Mushroom Garden.
An ordinary-looking puji stood quietly at the edge of the mushroom garden, curiously observing the passing fungus-folk and pujis, experiencing the wonders of this new world.
Its name was “No. 1 Puji”—the name personally bestowed upon it by the Fungus Lord at its birth!
As the first puji created by the Fungus Lord to possess full intelligence, it carried a grand mission—
To go outside and take a walk.
Placed in the mushroom garden by the Fungus Lord, everything here fascinated it.
Although its innate knowledge allowed it to easily distinguish which of the fungus-folk were mushroomborn and which were demonic hybrids…
Seeing things personally was still very different from merely knowing them.
So this was the paradise the Fungus Lord created, and these were His mushroom servants?
How beaut—
Suddenly, a foot kicked No. 1 Puji right in the backside, sending it rolling across the ground several times.
Norris, rushing by with a crate of wine, hurriedly retracted his leg. He leaned forward, saw that the puji he accidentally kicked was unharmed, sighed in relief, and prepared to leave.
The boss’s eerie words from earlier in the deep-zone still echoed in his mind. He desperately needed alcohol to steady his nerves.
But just as he was about to leave, the puji abruptly kicked him back—sending him tumbling to the ground.
“Boss?!”
Norris nearly cried. Had accidentally bumping into a puji now become a reason for the boss to retaliate?
However, the voice that came through the fungal network was not the boss’s.
“You kick me and think you can run?”
Norris looked left and right, saw no one, then stared at the puji before him.
“You… you’re talking?”
The puji stretched out a tendril and poked Norris’s cheek-scales.
“Who else did you think you just kicked?”
Norris fell silent for a moment.
“Boss… please don’t play with me like this…”
“What boss? My name is No. 1 Puji!”
After a painfully confusing conversation, Norris finally understood a shocking truth—the puji before him actually had independent consciousness!
“You said you were created by the Fungus Lord?”
No. 1 Puji proudly bobbed its mushroom cap.
Norris understood immediately. The so-called “Fungus Lord” was probably the boss, and No. 1 Puji was clearly another new creation of his.
The boss constantly made new things. This time was just… more special.
After spending so long around Lin Jun, Norris had become very adaptable.
“So did the boss embed some kind of magical core into you? How are you this impressive—”
Norris lifted the puji for inspection.
“Im… impudent!”
No. 1 Puji angrily slapped away Norris’s hands, jumped down, and took a battle stance.
It was furious at the lizardman’s disrespect!
As the noble first heir of the Fungus Lord, how could it be defiled by a lowly non-mushroom creature?
Every mycelial tendril on its body trembled with its explosive anger!
“Wait, calm down, No. 1 Puji!” Norris realized he had offended it in his curiosity. He quickly stepped back, hands raised, trying to appease this unusual puji.
He absolutely didn’t dare lay a finger on the boss’s new creation. If he damaged it by accident, who knew what terrifying consequences awaited him?
However, No. 1 Puji—proudly believing itself to be the Fungus Lord’s firstborn—could not forgive this lizardman for insulting it twice.
Cold light flashed at the tip of its tendril. A blade popped out, and with a stomp of its short legs, it dashed toward Norris at full speed!
Suddenly, a huge black claw reached in from behind, grabbed No. 1 Puji’s cap, and lifted it into the air like a small toy.
Caught off guard, No. 1 Puji’s little legs kicked helplessly.
When it realized it had been sneak-attacked and was now held in such a humiliating way, its rage intensified to an explosive level!
Another disrespectful creature!!
Without hesitation, it slashed backward with its tendril-blades.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Every attack bounced harmlessly off.
The next instant, an irresistible force stuffed it into a gaping, fang-filled black mouth.
“Sis Gray, no!!” Norris shouted in horror.
But Gray, passing by, delivered puji-to-mouth like muscle memory. By the time Norris finished speaking, the puji was already inside her jaws, struggling helplessly.
Chomp.
As she chewed the puji, Gray tilted her head and looked at Norris with wide, innocent, confused eyes—as if wondering why he shouted just now.
Norris’s jaw dropped as he watched No. 1 Puji’s tiny legs go limp and hang out of Gray’s mouth.
Horror filled his heart…
…
Watching the pale-cyan soul orb roll all the way back—belonging to No. 1 Puji—Lin Jun felt a bit speechless.
Inside the Sunstone chamber, numerous mycelium cocoons were being nurtured under the Sunstone’s light. These special pujis born from fragments of his soul could not increase his total puji limit the way parasitizing humanoids did—but they could provide high-tier combat pujis with greatly enhanced autonomous combat capabilities.
Lin Jun had originally planned to mass-produce a batch and test them in real combat.
But seeing No. 1 Puji’s soul return “before its first mission even began,” and remembering the previous one that burst from its cocoon shouting “Mom,” Lin Jun suddenly felt deeply uncertain about this new batch’s intelligence.
Surely… they weren’t all idiots?