Sandstone Dungeon, Ambush

"This is the place. Sandstone Dungeon."

Lu Yuan was no longer in the Graystone Forest.

He was now in a dry, cracked wasteland.

Before him was a hollow leading underground.

The hollow was only about four or five meters wide, with steps leading down. Torches were hung on the walls of the passage at intervals, constantly burning.

Below was the largest underground labyrinth in the Sandstone City area, the Sandstone Dungeon.

The strength of the fierce beasts inside ranged from weak to strong, and there were quite a few of them.

Not only that, but if one was lucky, one might encounter relics in the dungeon, which contained some precious treasures.

Of course, the main reason Lu Yuan came here was because the roads in the Sandstone Dungeon were very complicated.

After all, he had provoked the consortium before. Now that his strength was not strong enough, he would have more escape routes in such a complex area.

There were dozens of underground passages leading to the Sandstone Dungeon, and this was one of them.

The entrance outside the dungeon was bustling with many Gene Warriors lingering outside.

"Going to the northern district of the dungeon to hunt Rabid Lizards, need a control-type warrior! The harvest is split evenly!"

"Antidote potions! Selling antidote potions! Everyone knows the effects of Black Scorpion Poison, having an antidote potion will put your mind at ease! Limited quantity, buy now while supplies last!"

"Ordinary quality short sword, get it while you can! 180 Spirit Crystals, price is firm!"

There were all kinds of shouts, and the outside of the entrance was almost a small market.

However, Lu Yuan could understand.

The Sandstone Dungeon was one of the areas with the largest number of Gene Warriors in Sandstone City.

Where there are people, there will always be various business opportunities.

Lu Yuan's eyes swept over, and he found that most of the Gene Warriors who planned to enter the dungeon were in small teams of several people.

He only saw three or four lone wolves like Lu Yuan.

Each lone wolf wore leather armor or plate armor, held weapons in their hands, was fully equipped, and had an extraordinary aura.

The Sandstone Dungeon was not like the Graystone Forest, its danger far exceeded that of the Graystone Forest.

Most of those who could walk alone here had some skills.

Otherwise, going in would only be courting death.

Lu Yuan, being alone, naturally attracted the attention of some people.

Some Gene Warriors looked at him, but quickly looked away.

Lu Yuan didn't care, stepped into the passage, and went down the stairs.

In addition to Lu Yuan, there was also a team of four Cat People, and a team of two Elves and two Cat People.

The two teams and Lu Yuan, alone, were very quiet along the way.

Lu Yuan's gaze occasionally swept over the two teams, noticing they were also glancing at each other from time to time.

Everyone was wary.

After descending for a while, the hawking sounds from outside could no longer be heard.

Only the sound of armored boots hitting the ground echoed in the passage.

The atmosphere was silent.

After a while, the group arrived at the end of the stairs.

It was a small open space of about fifty meters in diameter.

On one side of the open space were four passages.

Lu Yuan's gaze swept over them, ignoring the opinions of the other two teams, and headed directly for the rightmost passage.

Only after Lu Yuan left did the members of the other two teams exchange glances and head into the other two passages.

After Lu Yuan entered the rightmost passage, he soon encountered several forks in the road. Lu Yuan didn't know the way, so he just randomly chose a direction.

The deeper he went into the Sandstone Dungeon, the wider the passages became.

After walking for a while, the passages of the Sandstone Dungeon widened from the original few meters to more than twenty meters.

However, Lu Yuan hadn't encountered a single ferocious beast after walking for so long.

Lu Yuan wasn't surprised by this.

After all, this was still an area close to the entrance. Even if there were many paths in the maze, people had probably already passed through here.

There was still a long way to go, and Lu Yuan wasn't in a hurry at all.

After passing a few more forks, the passage Lu Yuan was currently in was about thirty meters wide.

He looked around, still finding no traces of ferocious beasts.

Lu Yuan raised his eyebrows and continued forward.

Just as he passed a pile of rubble, a head-sized stone on top of the rubble suddenly flew up, striking towards the back of Lu Yuan's head at an extremely fast speed.

Lu Yuan felt the force of the wind coming from behind his head, and he was shocked. He stomped hard on the ground with both feet, shifting his body a distance to the side.

Immediately, a stone flew past the side of Lu Yuan's head.

Lu Yuan's pupils shrank.

"Where did this stone attack come from?!"

He had clearly looked around just now and hadn't found any ferocious beasts.

He turned his head to look in the direction the stone had come from.

Then his eyes widened.

In a pile of rubble in the corner of the wall, pieces of rubble were now floating in the air.

Then all the rubble gathered, forming a one-meter-eight-tall Little Stone Man.

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"There's actually this kind of creature?!"

Lu Yuan was a little dumbfounded.

Just then, he heard another whistling sound behind his head.

He quickly dodged again.

A head-sized stone flew past, eventually landing in the Little Stone Man's right hand.

The Little Stone Man raised its two sandbag-sized stone fists and howled.

Although Lu Yuan found it hard to understand how the Little Stone Man was making sounds,

he didn't have time to think about it, as the Little Stone Man was already waving its fists and charging towards him.

The Little Stone Man's heavy footsteps landed on the ground, making a thumping sound.

Lu Yuan frowned, his longsword appearing as he looked at the Little Stone Man with some gravity.

The Little Stone Man quickly arrived in front of Lu Yuan, waving its right fist and punching towards Lu Yuan.

The fist carried a whistling wind, its momentum astonishing.

Its speed wasn't slow, but it was still a little worse compared to Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan dodged the Little Stone Man's fist, then slashed his longsword at the connection between its head and body.

Clang!!

The longsword collided with the stone, making a clanging sound.

Then the longsword left a deep crack in the stone, and the great force caused the Little Stone Man's body to retreat a few steps.

Seeing this, Lu Yuan understood the strength of this Little Stone Man.

It was much stronger than the Graystone Beetle, but weaker than the Black-Striped Graystone Beetle.

If calculated according to Gene Warriors, it was about the same strength as an Apprentice-level warrior who hadn't engraved an Extraordinary Gene and whose tempering degree had reached about 40%.

Such strength posed no threat to Lu Yuan now.

The only trouble was that this Little Stone Man was a bit insidious, actually turning into a pile of rubble to launch a sneak attack!

You couldn't tell at all from the outside.

You can't judge a stone by its appearance.

After determining its strength, Lu Yuan launched a fierce attack with his sword.

Before long, he smashed the Little Stone Man's head.

After smashing the Little Stone Man's head, its body no longer seemed to be connected as before.

It directly turned into rubble and scattered all over the ground.

A flash of white light, and three Spirit Crystals condensed from the rubble.

Compared to the Graystone Beetles, this was quite a bit more.

Lu Yuan smiled and picked up the items.

Besides the Spirit Crystals, Lu Yuan also saw a white, pebble-like round stone.

Lu Yuan raised his eyebrows and picked it up.

Information transmitted to Lu Yuan's mind.

Little Stone Man's Heart: Ordinary quality material, can be used to refine Gene Armaments and Gene Potions.

Little Stone Man's Heart…

So this thing was the Little Stone Man?

Lu Yuan glanced at the rubble on the ground, a look of realization on his face.

When he was looking at the introduction of the Sandstone Dungeon, he had also seen the types of ferocious beasts inside, and knew about the Little Stone Man.

However, the post didn't have a specific introduction to the habits of the ferocious beast.

Lu Yuan never expected that the Little Stone Man would be so insidious.

Fortunately, his strength was not bad, otherwise he would have been tricked.

Having learned this lesson, Lu Yuan decided that in the next exploration, he must always keep the Black Iron Body activated to ensure his defense.

Lest he be ambushed by a ferocious beast that popped out of nowhere.

Then he would have no place to cry.

If it were someone else, it would be unrealistic to keep a battle skill active at all times.

After all, this kind of continuous defensive battle skill requires continuous consumption of spirit energy, and keeping it on all the time would be too much for the spirit energy to handle.

But Lu Yuan was different.

His speed of absorbing Spirit Crystals was fast, and he could replenish spirit energy at all times, so keeping the Black Iron Body active was not a problem at all.

Activating the Black Iron Body, Lu Yuan continued to go deeper into the dungeon.

This time, he began to pay attention to the piles of rubble on the side of the road.

Before long, he saw two piles of rubble not far away.

Lu Yuan raised his eyebrows and slowly walked over.

Sure enough, as he approached, two stones on top of the rubble piles flew towards Lu Yuan.

"Hmph! You still want to sneak attack me now?"

Lu Yuan easily dodged the Little Stone Man's sneak attack, and then killed the two Little Stone Men.

Each Little Stone Man dropped three Spirit Crystals.

But only one Little Stone Man dropped a Little Stone Man's Heart.

Clearly, this kind of material isn't dropped by every Little Stone Man.

Lu Yuan continued to go deeper.

He hadn't walked for long when he suddenly heard the sound of battle coming from the passage ahead.

Lu Yuan raised his eyebrows, frowning slightly as he looked at the passage ahead.

If he could, Lu Yuan didn't want to meddle in other people's business; it would be troublesome if he ran into some big shot he couldn't afford to offend.

But there were no other passages to detour around here, just this one path.

He had nowhere to hide.

Helpless, Lu Yuan could only step forward, intending to see what was happening.