After all the spirit lotus erupt with their most powerful attack in expense of their lotus petals, the dungeon boss and mobs instantly enter a weakened state.

As a matter of fact, except for the lotus boss, the other mobs turned limp, completely defenseless and powerless.

Although Cole has the intention to train his minions, after basically defeating all the region monster, he decided to annihilate this wave himself.

With that thought, Cole summon his fan and wave it towards the spot of the remaining monsters. With one gust, all the mobs including the boss explodes into moths of light. With the number of monsters he annihilated, the light effect produce a grandeur sight.

Then, golden bubbles of light appear out of thin air and flew towards his spatial ring. With the luck buff given by Lucky, it was another rich harvest.

"Alright, it seems that all the monsters in this field are all been killed. Get ready, we'll be going to another field."

Since the dungeon itself were designed according to the secret realm he recently explored, Cole knew the basic layout of this dungeon.

And without a doubt, this place have circle layout where it was divided into several regions with different environment suitable for some medicinal plant needs.

As for the center that was supposedly protected with strict restriction, it was only suitable that it'll be gone. Otherwise, the dungeon will lose its value if it requires a phoenix flame everytime.

And upon thinking of the layout, Cole can't help but assume that it don't really need to clean all the regions of its field mobs. Instead, it was possible to directly challenge the dungeon boss to finish the dungeon.

However, apparently, by doing so, challengers will lose a great deal of the dungeon benefits. After all, not only battling the dungeon mobs increase the battle experience, they also drop precious resources.

In the end, despite its possible shortcut, it was a choice that needs to be disregarded; or unless the challengers' main intention is the dungeon boss's loot drops.

After recieving Cole's instructions, the two Nascent Soul-Stage cultivator immediately took out a different sword. It was called [Kinesis Sword] that its main and only purpose was to give flight ability.

Unfortunately, the two Core Formation-Stage cultivator don't have any of that. Upon seeing that, the two seniors invite one each. In this matter, they don't want to bother their master.

With the intention of leaving the lotus pond, Cole made himself float in the air and Celia and the four followed afterwards.

However, looking at the perspectives on the sky, a ridiculous thought enter Cole's mind.

In the original virtual reality game, unless the game system explicitly identified so, everything else is nothing but appearance and props with no value and use like water, soil and trees.

However, this wasn't a game and this wasn't a simple dungeon. Everything is real and not a simple simulation. This dungeon space were like a piece of true world.

It means that everything inside were real...

In the game, this props can be easily disregarded but it wasn't the same now.

This dungeon was called [Forgotten Garden] of renown alchemist. Everthing inside was planned and valuable, including the water of the lake. And the fact that it could support and nurture many medicinal plants including an Emperor-Rank means that it wasn't normal but a treasure on its own.

It'll be extremely valuable if taken outside.

Thinking that his ridiculous thought is feasible, he smile before he toss his Black Ring into the pond.

Plop~

And through his mental connection to his bounded equipment, he ordered the equipment to suck all the spiritual water in inside.

Whoosh—

The moment he finish the command, a whirlpool appear on the position where he drop the Black Ring. Then, the water level of the lake decrease in volume visible to naked eye.

The powerful suction ability of Holy-Rank equipment is insanely ridiculous. It only takes several minutes before the lake turn into dry land. The lake water were truly absorbed inside the Black Ring.

After that, he summon the ring back into his hand. Although the lake water were absorbed, he don't know whether he'll be able to bring it out in outer world.

Then, he check the contents inside.

Immediately, the same as before, all the golden bubbles were there. It didn't take him long before he found the water lake he just absorbed.

Surprisingly, the water lake he absorbed inside were also covered with golden bubble film.

Cole smile. This only means that since the lake water were covered with golden bubble, it was also considered by the dungeon rules as loots and could be taken outside.

Cole smile widely at the prospect of this matter. After all, every inch of this massive garden is a treasure and valuable. This shows since the land were capable of supporting and growing high-grade medicinal plants.

Furthermore, eventhough it was the mechanism of the dungeon to produce sentient plant mobs, this only signify that the land and the environment itself were capable of doing this so since this characteristics were based on the rules of the real world. The process of awakening spirituality might take hundred or thousands of years, its still a great news that it was capable of doing so.

If he take out all the things inside this place, it'll be a great asset for the outer world, specially for the faction he intend to built.

Although the dungeon is a great source of resources, he still have to show something in the outside world as appearance for the source of those resources.

With the initial plan forming inside his head, Cole can't help but nod in satisfaction as he took out his consciousness inside the spatial storage.

Seeing his smile, Mikoes immediately know what it signify.

In the end, due to the same excitement, he can't help exclaim, "Master, let us dig the water soil too! After being soaked with spiritual water, it also means that it contains rich amount of spiritual energy! It will be a great soil for planting medicinal plants!"

This presumptuousness gain a glare from Celia.

However, it was apparent that Cole don't treat them as slaves and mere object as he answered nonchalantly, "No need. As I said before, this dungeon run only has [Normal] difficulty. It's best if we do that in [Hell] difficulty."

Yes, although it was apparent that he can also acquire the soil, water or anything inside the dungeon, he won't do that for the meantime.

Instead, it'll be best to do that in [Hell] difficulty where the monster will be more powerful and the grade of the garden is more higher. That is because something capable of supporting those levels of monsters means that the garden are more higher in quality.

And most importantly, the main reason why he won't bother to plunder this run is because he don't want to spend more time inside. Perhaps he'll bother to do that should a situation where he have to guard the other again when they were experiencing soul cleansing but for now, its better to end this challengeless dungeon run.

But while he was being overwhelmed with happiness, Cole remember that the golden bubble that contains the lake water seems to have a tinge of red color. It looks like plundering the things inside the dungeon has its consequences in the end. He have to look out on this matter.

But then, a ridiculous idea flash in his mind again.

In the game, every dungeon also has natural resources that can be harvested. For instance, fire essence crystal in volcanic environment dungeon that formed because of the rich fire energy in the place.

And normally, those kind of things were mostly hidden and can only be found by professional players or those with appropriate skills.

There were also those 'hidden room' which contains more lucrative rewards.

But for Cole, he has a special beast that is expeert when it comes to sensing and finding hidden resources!

With undeniably greedy intention, Cole summoned one of his contracted beast again!

Squeak, squeak ~~

After getting out of summoning circle, his contracted beast, the Treasure Hunter Rat whose named by him as Hunter, greets him with excited cry.

"Alright, alright, I want to finish this run as soon as possible. You have to be fast and look for hidden treasures."

Squeak, squeak ~~

Hunter release a cry again before it instantly vanish in Cole's hand.

The latter didn't travel far from their position but just dive directly under the ground. It looks like there was a hidden treasure buried under the ground.

Seeing that, Cole can't help but smile wryly. His [Heavenly Eyes] are great and all and could even see through the secrets of formations but it can't even see through to simple obstruction like walls, the ground, or even a piece of paper.

Due to that, he don't feel the presence of something extraordinary underground, which is definitely protected by another several formations and being blanketed with soil.

Fortunately, Hunter solve this deficiency.

It only takes a minute before Hunter came out of the ground and reapper on Cole's left shoulder.

Squeak~ Squeak~

"Oh, thank you." Cole said after hearing the little creatures request.

He then stretched out his hand and Hunter took out the thing he acquired underground.

It was a crystal with three colors of green, blue and brown. It was also covered with golden bubble film with a tinge of red. Its information then is revealed by his [Heavenly Eyes].

Swamp Forest Heart Crystal [Emperor-Rank] A special crystal formed by the Mother Tree of virgin swamp forest. It contains the rich amount of wood energy produced by the whole forest and the earth and water energy of the swamp. This crystal can deepen the comprehension of wood, earth and water-type [Concept].

Without a doubt, this Swamp Forest Heart Crystal is the main source of nutrients of the whole lotus pond. It was probably hidden and protected with extremely powerful formation that even the powerful boss can't penetrate. It was unfortunate that Hunter is a powerful thief and a bane of formations.

Nodding in satisfaction, Cole and his party finally leave the area and visit the other.

This time, everytime they arrive in another area, he'll let the other four human to bear the brunt of mobs first. It was only when they were near to be killed then Celia and him would make a move.

The EXP given by the dungeon monsters might be low for Cole and Celia but it wasn't the same for the other humans.

And the fact that everytime they killed a monsters and warm current fill their body and increase their cultivation makes them madly excited.

As a matter of fact, the two Core Formation have reach the Peak and can make a breakthrough to Nascent Soul-Stage.

However, Cole specifically command not to do so. That is because he knew what'll happen if one continue to recieved EXP when they reach their full level without breakingthrough to their bottleneck.

It is not they won't receive EXP anymore. Instead, those EXP will try to mend those deficiencies left behind in their cultivation journey.

In other words, the excess EXP will improve their cultivation's foundation.

And Cole, among many others, knew the impact and importance of cultivation foundation.

Secondly, Cole has the intention for them to replace their main cultivation method. Since they were a former bandit, it is only natural that their main cultivation method is trash or otherwise those powerful families will hunt them down to acquire it.

Unlike Beast Race who rely everything from their blood, cultivation method is as important as talent for humans. It impacts the entire cultivation journey of cultivators.

Therefore, if he want to train a formidable martial power, he have to do it all the way.

And fortunately, he has a powerful cultivation method that can be pass down with almost nothing as requirements. It was considered as universal!

And it was the [Heavenly Beast God] cultivation method!

...

After several days, they have finally visit all the areas of the dungeon, defeat all of its mobs and bosses, and acquire many hidden treasures looted by Hunter.

Without wasting anymore second, the party flew towards the center of the garden.

A familiar sight greets Cole and Celia.

It was another spirit lake with single tree and thick vines crawling on it.

According to the description of the dungeon, the dungeon boss will be randomly generated in [Normal] difficulty.

However, perhaps because this was the first run, the boss they encounter were almost the same as True Dragon Spirit Vine.

Fortunately, except for the Spirit Gathering Tree, the spirit vine is not exactly the one they knew but more of inferior version.

Flood Dragon Holy Vine [Holy-Rank] (Dungeon Boss) Level : 50 (Peak-Level Tier-4) Affinity : Wood, Dragon Skills : Hydra Dragonbody Vine, Flood Dragon Spirit Cry, Great Elemental Resistance [Introduction : A Flood Dragon Spirit Vine that gain sentient. It gain all the characteristic of Holy-Rank Flood Dragon through the fruits it bore. It has powerful and hard dragonic body that is resistant to both physical and elemental damage but unfortunately limited by its plant body.]