The hollow cave is straight, but after descending a certain distance, spiral stone stairs begin to appear. Here, Lin Xiao transforms from a drow elf back into the body of a true god.
If a true god changes his form into any race, he will gain all the talents of that race. For example, if he transforms into a dragon, he will gain all the abilities of the dragon, including the dragon language magic inherited from his bloodline. If he turns into a small mole, he will also use his claws to dig holes. If he transforms into an ant, he will also gain the ant's talent for great strength.
Of course, the weakness of ants will also be inherited. Even if an ant possesses divinity, it is still an ant and can easily capsize in the gutter.
Therefore, transformation is usually only used to deal with specific situations. When facing certain dangers, it is safer to transform back into the true form of God.
It was very dark in the spiral stone staircase, without any light. Even a true god with dark vision could not see too far. He snapped his fingers and summoned a ball of light that floated above his head. The soft white light sprinkled on the surrounding stone walls, illuminating the area within hundreds of yards clearly.
There was a lot of moss on the spiral stone staircase, and there were no traces on it. It seemed that no one had passed by here for a long time.
He followed the spiral stone staircase all the way to the bottom, until he stepped on the soft ground of the fourth floor. He didn't see a single living creature, and it was so quiet that it was a little scary.
Different from other levels of the Underdark, if the first layer of the Underdark is rugged hills, the second layer is rugged plains, and the third layer is composed of huge caves and wide plains, then the fourth layer is quite different.
The fourth floor is connected to the ground and the top of the fourth floor by countless huge stone pillars, forming a wonder like a stone forest.
There are wide open spaces between the stone pillars, covered with thin underground plants.
The tiny stems of this plant are covered with fine hairs, and it looks very similar to dogtail grass. It emits an extremely faint light that is almost invisible to the naked eye. However, the underground is almost entirely made up of this plant. Countless faint lights gather together, making the space on the fourth floor underground like a moonlit night. Although it is not bright, even mortals can see the scenery not far away with their naked eyes.
These underground plants grow through photosynthesis relying on the strange underground pulse energy of the fourth layer of the Underdark. As soon as Lin Xiao entered this layer, he keenly sensed that the ubiquitous strange pulses in this layer have the ability to affect the minds of living things. No wonder strange species like the Mind Flayer could evolve.
Lin Xiao walked slowly on the soft ground, carefully sensing the strange pulse, which was like waves of invisible tides coming from afar, endless.
Any living thing that stays in this environment for too long will be affected by this strange pulse.
However, after walking for a while, Lin Xiao suddenly sensed another strange wave that was colliding with the strange pulse, and a faint call appeared out of nowhere in his mind, calling him to walk in that direction.
Lin Xiao looked in that direction with some surprise. The distance was too far and he could not see anything. However, in the field of vision that only true gods could see, a huge distortion emerged from the strange pulse wave in the distance.
"interesting!"
Of course he was not afraid and walked in that direction with big strides. After about ten kilometers, he found a winding and rushing river between the stone pillars, which was extremely rare in the Underdark.
The river was more than a hundred meters wide and the water was rushing rapidly. He could even see some underwater fish species leaping out of the water. Occasionally, he could also see huge shadows passing by the bottom of the water, creating whirlpools of undercurrents. It was clear that the river was not safe.
At this time, a slightly larger silver-scaled fish jumped out of the water. Lin Xiao immediately cast a mind vision spell on the big fish. As the big fish fell into the water, a brand new picture instantly appeared in the mind of Lin Xiao who was casting the spell.
The clear water and the large number of fish of all sizes swimming around create a fantastic picture.
I tried to look down, but I couldn't see the bottom and I had no idea how deep this underground river was.
Suddenly, all the big and small fish around fled to the side quickly, and the big fish also jumped madly to the left like an arrow, rushing several meters away. Then, only a huge black shadow was seen opening its cold and sharp mouth to bite towards him, and the vision came to an abrupt end here.
Regaining his consciousness, Lin Xiao fixed his eyes on the huge black shadow that had just eaten the silver-scaled fish, and once again used his mental vision on the huge fish that was probably seven or eight meters long.
This big fish is probably the overlord in the river. It rushes around in the water and pounces on and bites any slightly larger fish it sees.
On the surface of the river, in the river, and even in the deep bottom of the river, they roam around and devour at will.
Lin Xiao's vision also entered the depths of the underground river, and he saw many different creatures that he had never seen before.
Speaking of which, for a true god, exploring unknown creatures in exotic lands is also a valuable practice. Knowledge itself is power. The more and broader your knowledge, the greater the benefit to your true body.
Anyway, there was enough time, not a day or two would make a difference. He sat by the river and shared his spirit with the big fish, exploring the mysteries of the river together.
Before I knew it, this monster-like fish had swum downstream for more than ten kilometers and came to a wide area with calm water, not sure whether it was a lake or the confluence of a river. When passing an inconspicuous riverbed, the mud and sand on the riverbed suddenly exploded, and a huge tentacle covered with sharp teeth popped out. The three huge teeth outside the top of the tentacle dug deeply into the body of the fish, clamped it, and dragged it to the bottom of the river.
"Bobbie bug?"
This thing reminded Lin Xiao of a famous strange insect, but it was many times larger.
The big fish was definitely dead, and Lin Xiao had no intention of saving it and retracted his spell.
After wasting some time here, he did not continue trying. He cast a flying spell on himself and flew forward.
It is worth mentioning that the magic net here is distorted by the influence of strange pulses. The strength of the mages who use the magic net to cast spells will be greatly weakened here. Lin Xiao does not use the magic net to cast spells, but directly uses his own power to cast spells.
Of course he didn't dare to communicate with the magic network. He was still an outsider. Once he communicated with the magic network, he would be immediately discovered by the God of Magic who controlled the magic network.
Not long after, he arrived near the place where he sensed the strange pulse that distorted the four layers of the underground. In reality, he only saw a stone pillar in front of him that was much thicker than the other stone pillars, hundreds of times thicker than the other stone pillars. From the surface, it looked no different from the other stone pillars, but in his mental perception, there was an extremely powerful will hidden inside it.
As he approached, countless tiny spots of light slowly emerged from the huge stone pillar, as if they had life, and gradually moved closer to the stone pillar as Lin Xiao approached.
At the same time, Lin Xiao sensed that weak mental forces were contacting him, but none of them could invade his mind.
"Is this the Mind Flayer?"
There are definitely more than one kind of creatures that can control other creatures with their minds, but the mind flayer is the one that best fits this ability in the fourth layer of the Underdark.
At the same time, as he approached the stone pillar to a certain distance, the huge stone pillar suddenly burst out with a dazzling light.
As the light slowly disappeared, a strange creature covered with tentacles suddenly emerged from the stone pillar.
This thing looks like a round head covered with soft tentacles like sea urchins, with a yellow eye on the top of each tentacle. Imagine hundreds of eyeballs staring at you at the same time, that scene would definitely scare ordinary people to death.
Lin Xiao looked at the mind flayer with great curiosity. Generally speaking, creatures with simpler organizational structures than the school should have lower IQs than the school, but the mind flayer completely broke people's view.
Throughout the history of encounters between humans and other races, mind flayers are known for their extremely high intelligence.
It's just that the mind flayer's talent for mind control is so terrifying and frightening that this race has been artificially distorted and discredited, causing ordinary people to believe that the mind flayers are terrible evil creatures without intelligence.
Of course, this race is indeed extremely evil and terrifying. No matter how intelligent they are, the way they control other creatures to lay eggs and hatch them in their brains proves that outsiders' evaluation of them is not unfair.
The mind flayer has two forms, one is a combat type and the other is a mind master type.
The combat type is also called the mind flayer. An adult mind flayer will implant a fully developed tadpole into the ear of a helpless humanoid creature. The mind flayer tadpole will drill into the victim's brain, quickly eat its gray matter and replace it with its own filthy body tissues.
Under its influence, the young will merge with the uneaten brain stem of the victim, erasing all remaining personality and soul. The young will then use this humanoid body as its own, and within a day the victim's flesh will begin to change in form, completing the creation process of an adult mind flayer.
As for the disgusting multi-tentacle monster in front of Lin Xiao, it is the Mind Master type of the Mind Flayer, commonly known as the Mind Flayer, and it looks like this.
The transformation process of the mind-thirsty monster is irreversible. As long as the larvae are implanted in the host for more than one hour, the host will be doomed. No matter how much disease is expelled, curses are lifted, the dead are resurrected, restoration, or complete resurrection, even the true God himself cannot reverse this process.
In addition, after the transformation, the mind flayer will not inherit anything in common with the victim. Whether it is a human, an orc or an elf, they will all become mind flayers after being sacrificed and will not retain any of the original racial characteristics.
Lin Xiao was quite surprised that there was only one mind flayer here but no psychic suckers. Normally, the habitat of a mind flayer should be guarded by psychic suckers with powerful bodies and spellcasting abilities.
But he didn't care about these. He only knew that he had found the Mind Flayer and his goal had been achieved.
He stretched out his hand and pointed, and an invisible force acted on the mind flayer floating in the air.
This mind-flayer seemed to be stimulated, and its tentacles tightened, and a powerful mental force hit Lin Xiao.
This is of course useless, how can a mere mind flayer shake the incarnation of a true God?
(End of this chapter)