Jade is in his dark cave, cultivating when a blue orb of mana enters his core. A ding sound occurs.

Level 3

10 points

250 mana for level 4

Mana creation Level 1

Can create items and materials that have been previously absorbed

Dungeon expansion

Can expand territory of the dungeon.

Jade tries to spend some mana and claim some territory only to realize that there is no mana. Looking inside himself. A flushing sound occurred.

Dungeon Status

Level 3

Dungeon Type: N/A

Name: N/A

Titles: N/A

Achievements: N/A

Mana: 0/100

Points: 20

Floors: 1

Skills: Basic Dungeon Mana Gathering Level 1, Unknown Mana Gathering, Dungeon Mana Manipulation, Mana absorption, Mana creation Level 1, Dungeon expansion

Jade studies the menu. He can review the skills at anytime from the menu, the points have an unknown use, floor is number of floors in the dungeon, level is the level he was at. Dungeon type, name, titles and achievements are unlocked through actions that Jade will need to complete later. Moving on Jade cultivates for a day. He then uses the Dungeon expansion skill with all his mana. The dungeon territory was 15 meters in diameter was now 30 meters in diameter.

Jade decides to focus on that later and focus on improving his cultivation. Readjusting the Divine Jade Body to cause a resonance instead of breathing. This would normally not be possible, but with a stone body it doesn’t make sense to breath as a stone and a resonance could to act as a breath. It was a minor adjustment but it did increase the cultivation speed by 25%. Ding.

Level 4

10 points

500 mana for level 5

‘Nothing new’ Jade noted as he began to meditate more. Ding

Level 5

10 points

1000 mana for level 6

Store unlocked

Skills learned

Summon Monsters

Can summon monsters, buy monsters from the store or kill them in your dungeon

Summon life

Can summon plants, insects and animals. Buy different lifeforms from the store or kill them in your dungeon

‘The store. I wonder what is there?’ Jade asks himself as he opens the store.

Albino Dragon Blooded Snake 40 points

Twin Flame Water spider 45 points

Void Bird 50 points

….

A Flash of red light burns the store menu and a new menu appears.

Goblinoids

Insects

Birds

Mammals

Trolls

Undead

Jade looks at the list and sublist of the offered choices. Seeing nothing worthy of note right now, Jade reviews the skills he gained. The only point of interest is that animals summoned, given enough time will mutate into monsters. There is also a note that animal, plant life and monsters that die in the dungeon will automatically be added to the list of summonable life and monsters, materials left in the dungeon will be able to be absorbed and can be created. Jade after reviewing the store with a renewed interest keeps cultivating again.

Level 6

15 points

1500 mana for level 7

Level 7

20 points

2000 mana for level 8

Skill unlocked

Monster imbuement

Chance for monsters to learn skills from enemies slain, cost will depend on skill level and rank

Level 8

25 points

5000 mana for level 9

Skill unlocked

Monster Naming

Can name new monster types and special monsters that have earned some type of achievement

Level 9

25 points

10000 mana for level 10

Skill unlocked

Environmental Controls

Can modify the dungeon’s floor environment. Temperature, wind patterns, humidity and more can be change for a small upkeep of mana.

It took a long time for Jade to get to level 9. However as he is perfecting the Divine Jade Body, Dungeon core edition it has doubled his cultivation speed. Continuing for a while he reached a bottleneck in his cultivation at 5000 mana. Not wanting to waste the mana Jade expanded his territory. At 2400 meters there is another bottleneck, still using all his mana from his bottleneck to expand. Feeling a little frustrated he expands the dungeon vertically, and again another bottleneck at 37.5 meters, there was some resistance to expanding upwards but at the 37.5 mark it is 10 times worse.

‘Time to focus on one side. Damn, no coins to toss, or sticks to drop. Let’s go in bottleneck reverse’ Jade quickly rationalized.

Spending all his cultivation over and over to move the 37.5 meters to 40 meters, to 41, to … 49.999 to 50 meters. It was the limit, Jade could feel it as no more mana would cause the dungeon to grow more vertically. Beep

Achievement Minor Perfectionist complete (1/3)

Points + 125

Small increased in quality in creation

Can only earn this achievement for an unopened dungeon

‘Success. HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!’ Jade laughs in his mind.

Many mortals wonder why immortals sometimes act like children. There are a variety of reasons, like they never growing up mentally, living with the chance your enemies will kill and wanting to live to the fullest, and mortals live closest to the dao of the universe and to be like them is to be closer to the dao while going against the heavens are a few reasons. There are others but they follow the same principles.

Jade follows his plan reverse bottleneck plan and attacks the horizontally limit. Slowly the limit is reached. 2600. 2925. 3000. 3180. 3199.99. 3200. Beep

Achievement Major Perfectionist complete (2/3)

Points + 250

Major increase of creation quality

Minor increase in summoned life/monster evolution

Minor and Major can be switched

Can only earn this achievement for an unopened dungeon

‘2 out of 3 complete and now for level 10.’ Jade refocuses on meditating the Divine Jade Body.

Jade’s core if another person saw it would say that it is a light shade of green. When Jade was human, his skin would changing depending on his mood and the cultivation methods he was using, but always with the clarity of jade.

After 100 years of meditation Jade has gotten to 7500 of 10000 mana. Even with the improvement to the Divine Jade Body, Dungeon Core edition it is only rising 1 point of mana a month.

‘What to do. I have no idea how long dungeon cores live for but the divine jade body takes around 70 to 80 years for a human with the lifespan of 100 to 120 years to reach foundation establishment. If a dungeon can live for say a thousand years it would take 580 to 800 years. To bad Divine Jade Body speed is average at all the levels till the very end where it begins to take decades to improve. Since I practiced the Divine Jade Body I can’t switch my main cultivation method… I can supplement it. If I gather enough pure mana I can burn that to speed up my cultivation method. Normally this would not be possible, the amount of Qi that would be burned up would kill a cultivator below Jindan.However I am a dungeon core, it would only be 70 to 80 years of cultivation for a human, but it would a challenge for me in my current form to retain sanity for that long. I will go for it.’

Jade started to absorb all the stone, dirt and earth around him when a tremor of fear raced through his mind.

‘If I absorb too much and something gets in I am dead. I can do something else to protect me.’

The plan changed. Instead of starting to absorb all the stone and dirt around. He would set up a natural confusion formation to protect his core. It took only a little while to get the dimensions right so the formation would absorb the mana in the dungeon to protect the core room, with illusions and mental attacks. Then continued to rapidly absorb all the material in the dungeon except for a skin layer for the dungeon.

Mana rapidly was sucked and burned, 1000, 3000, 6000 12500, 60000, 100,000 thousand mana had been burned from rock which had absorbed so much that it had crystallized with mana. While mana was continually burned Jade worked the Divine Jade body to complete the foundation. Slowly the Dungeon floor grew hollow as mana was smashed together and used to complete the foundation of the Divine Jade Body. Crack, Ding, Beep

Dungeon Type gained:

Jade dungeon

Unknown effects

Level 10

25 points

25000 mana for level 11

Store extended

Includes traps and skills

Skill unlocked

Floor creation

Can create a new floor. New floors can be different from previous floor in every way. The subsequent floors increase in cost.

Achievement reached!

Perfect Perfectionist (3/3)

Points + 500

Double increase in creation quality

Double increase in summoned life evolution

Dungeon territory maximum range increased by 50%

Mana density in dungeon doubled

Double increase of loyalty of summoned life

Double Increase in fame gained

Can only earn this achievement for an unopened dungeon. Dungeon will automatically be increased in territory to maximum.

Congratulation dungeon, you have done what only a handful of dungeon have done.

Dungeon Status

Level 10

Dungeon Type: Jade

Name: N/A

Titles: N/A

Achievements: Perfect Perfection

Mana: 0/25000

Points: 1075

Floors: 1

Skills: Basic Dungeon Mana Gathering Level 1, Unknown Mana Gathering Level ???, Dungeon Mana Manipulation, Mana absorption, Mana creation Level 1, Dungeon expansion, Summon Monsters, Summon life, Monster imbuement, Monster Naming, Environmental Controls, Floor creation