Chapter 182 | Reincarnated as a Dungeon: Farming Adventurers to Survive

...Can I eat this?

I definitely can!

The parts drifting in the chaos had been eroded and completely merged with the chaotic space. Even the Chaos God had no way to utilize them.

Or rather, the effort required to extract these things back from the chaotic space far exceeded the power he would gain.

A god wouldn't deign to bend down and pick up these fallen crumbs of sesame.

But while they were mere crumbs to a god, to an ant like himself, they were treasures!

Dalun Li naturally had no way to retrieve these divine scraps from the chaotic space and bring them back to the dungeon.

Even for a god, separating these crumbs from the chaos would require specific methods.

But Dalun Li was a dungeon!

He could grow new floors within the dungeon.

As long as he grew toward the location of those fragments, he could transform the chaotic space where they resided into a new floor of his own.

In this way, the power of those gods would be directly devoured and accommodated by his new floor.

And once something was swallowed into the dungeon, even a god would have no way to influence the dungeon's interior.

That wasn't all.

Gods could not venture into the deepest depths of chaos.

But that didn't mean he couldn't.

Dalun Li could even grow toward the location where the Harvest God was imprisoned.

By extending downward layer by layer, he would eventually reach the site of the Harvest God's imprisonment.

Then, he could directly reconstruct the chaotic space containing the Harvest God into a new floor of his own.

In doing so, he could liberate the Harvest God directly.

Previously, the Well of Eternal Imprisonment had simply been growing randomly in the chaotic space, hoping to stumble upon some treasure by luck.

Now, a stable treasure trove was sitting right there; he just had to grow in that direction.

Dalun Li searched for a while and finally locked onto a direction within the chaos.

There was a trace of the Goddess of Light's holy light there, as well as a fragment of the battlefield forged directly by the God of the Foundry.

Although it was a very faint holy light and a small fragment of the forge, they were the closest to him.

He could reach them by opening just one more floor.

At his current speed, it would take less than three days to accumulate enough Earth Vein Power to open a new floor.

He was starting to look forward to it.

Dalun Li had never expected a battle to erupt from the chaos like this.

After all, he had always had Tongmu monitor the changes outside the Well of Eternal Imprisonment; he never imagined danger would burst forth from the chaos where he was rooted.

“It seems monitoring the chaotic space is also necessary. Having powerful vision in the material world isn't enough; I need to give Tongmu an upgrade.”

Dalun Li planned to grant Tongmu powerful vision that could be used even within the chaotic space.

However, he didn't have any good upgrade materials at the moment, so he had to keep waiting.

He shifted his attention to the cell imprisoning Withered Reincarnation.

The imprisoned Withered Reincarnation still had no idea how the god war in the chaotic space had turned out.

But he could sense that the Well of Eternal Imprisonment was no longer shaking.

He felt a bit disappointed.

This dungeon hadn't been directly destroyed; it had quite the luck.

If the Well of Eternal Imprisonment had been destroyed, he might have had a chance to escape.

But why hadn't it been destroyed?

What exactly was this existence before him—neither an evil god nor a living being?

Looking at Withered Reincarnation, Dalun Li felt a bit of pity.

This unlucky clone didn't know that after his main body had been turned into a cup, it had then been turned into a cage.

He truly wondered what this haughty evil god would think if he knew the truth.

However, the gap between the power of an evil god and an Orthodox God was truly vast.

In the eyes of the Chaos God, an evil god was just a tool to be handled at will.

Before an Orthodox God, an evil god was as fragile as thin paper.

They were both gods, so why was the difference so great?

The Dark Starry Sky held the authorities of space and concealment, while this Withered Reincarnation held the authority of death.

The Chaos God held the authority of chaos, and the Harvest God held the authorities of plants and life.

Logically, evil gods shouldn't be this pathetic.

Death and space—what impressive authorities. Usually, these were the powerful forces controlled only by protagonists, so how could they be mere tools before the Orthodox Gods and the Chaos God?

“Both evil gods and true gods wield authorities. Why is the gap between you so immense?”

Dalun Li chose to ask when he didn't know. Since the other was his prisoner, he might as well squeeze out some knowledge.

He no longer had to worry about the main body coming for revenge, so his guard had lowered significantly.

“Those true gods control complete authorities. We evil gods only possess fragments of divine authority.”

“Only by controlling a complete authority can one be called a true god.”

“The material world has seven complete authorities, and the chaotic space has four.”

Forbidden knowledge flooded into Dalun Li's brain.

“...Which ones are complete?”

“In the material world, they are: Light, Growth, Foundry, Life, Plants, Elements, and Power.”

“In the chaotic space, they are: Chaos, Disorder, Annihilation, and Devour.”

Withered Reincarnation truly was a useful asset; a little pressure had yielded so much knowledge.

“Can fragmented authorities not be restored?”

Only a complete authority could support the power of an Orthodox God, while a fragmented one could only support an evil god.

Was there no possibility of repairing a fragmented authority?

“They can be repaired, but the method to do so is known only to the true gods who already wield complete authorities.”

“Repairing an authority is the path to godhood.”

Dalun Li was stunned.

Repairing an authority was the path to godhood.

It made sense. Since one could become a god by wielding a complete authority, and all currently complete authorities were held by gods, the method to repair one was naturally the method to become a god.

Even though the being before him was an evil god, how could he possibly know?

Otherwise, wouldn't he already be an Orthodox God?

“Long before I was born, there were no true gods in this world, and there were no complete authorities.”

“Not until certain existences repaired complete authorities and became true gods.”

Listening to Withered Reincarnation's answer, Dalun Li felt it was all too distant from him.

He couldn't let himself start thinking at the level of a god just because he had witnessed a god war.

“What about dungeons? All extraordinary power in this world originates from dungeons.”

“When did dungeons appear, and why do they exist?”

Withered Reincarnation seemingly hadn't expected this unknown entity—who was clearly related to a dungeon—to ask such a question.

He thought for a moment before speaking.

“Dungeons are an accidental byproduct of the intersection between the material world and the chaotic space.”

“They only appeared after the god war.”

“The god war shattered the world. The God of the Foundry forged the corpses of the fallen gods into the material world to fill the cracks and used them to reinforce the foundation of reality.”