Deep Area, within the Old Mushroom Garden.

The space rift continues to grow slowly and steadily.

Just yesterday, a crack appeared without any warning, instantly slicing a hard-working Puki in half!

Its upper body, along with a B Level Demon Crystal, fell into the silent rift, disappearing without a trace.

Lin Jun witnessed the birth of a rift for the first time; overall, it wasn't without warning.

Before a rift unfolds, the space slightly distorts and violently fluctuates with magic power, which is quite noticeable to Lin Jun with her Magic Perception.

This is undoubtedly an important piece of information. At least now Lin Jun doesn't have to worry about being suddenly beheaded by a rift.

In the center of the large Snail Wood, nearly a hundred Puki quietly surrounded the awakened Norris.

These were all used by Lin Jun to test the limits of his spiritual control ability.

However, at this moment, most of the Puki were idle, with only 36 under Norris's mental control in action.

You could say there was no improvement, but it did increase from the original control capacity of 20 to 36.

But what kind of improvement is this? Better than nothing?

Spiritual Integration Level 7!

Lin Jun managed to expand the control capacity to 3000, what's going on with Norris?

However... there were indeed other changes.

The group of Puki surrounding Norris no longer resembled a rigid whole as they used to.

At this moment, some Puki are lightly bouncing in place, some are circling a fixed track, each executing distinctly different commands—this implies Norris gained the ability for precise micro-manipulations down to individual units!

And Norris seemed to have sensed deeper changes.

"Boss!" he exclaimed, holding a Puki, his tone brimming with the excitement of discovering a new continent, "I seem to be able to receive their perceptions now! Just by making contact like this... but the feeling is very vague."

Feeling vague?

"Norris, try switching to this one!" Lin Jun directed a scouting Puki to the node beneath Norris.

Once in Norris's hand, he immediately felt the difference!

"This... This is sound wave detection?! And... the flow of magic? I can even perceive tiny disturbances in the air!" he exclaimed, vividly experiencing the unprecedented influx of sensory information.

However, after just about a minute, Norris's face turned pale. He abruptly dropped the Puki and clutched his buzzing head tightly: "I can't take it! Boss... the information... it's too much! My head is going to explode..."

He reached his limit after maintaining four sensory perceptions for only one minute.

Subsequent tests showed that if he maintained no more than two sensory channels simultaneously, Norris would generally not experience discomfort.

This was already quite an improvement compared to when he first used Sound Wave Detection and quickly developed a headache.

Spiritual Integration brought about several changes, though still far from what he had initially envisioned.

From the looks of it now, micro-manipulation is possible... shared perception is possible...

Hmm?

Lin Jun quickly generated a Puki, which only had one skill—Assimilation Absorption Level 6.

Lin Jun controlled it, along with a few other ordinary Puki, as they lay on the Fungal Mat.

As Assimilation Absorption activated, the surrounding mycelium was drawn in as if it were alive, wrapping around layer by layer.

The mycelium not only enveloped this core Puki but also entwined and merged the several nearby Puki together!

A moment later, a giant "mycelium man" formed, about four meters tall, with ten Puki as its "skeleton." Its "head" was the scouting Puki.

Control of these Puki was handed over to Norris.

"Norris, try getting in." Lin Jun's voice carried a hint of anticipation.

"Huh? Get in..." Norris was puzzled as he gazed at the strange construct in front of him, "How do I get in?"

No sooner had he spoken when the scouting Puki at the "head" twisted its body, slowly "popping" out from the top, revealing a dark hole with just enough space to fit a person inside.

Norris, following instructions, cautiously climbed up and squeezed into the hole. His sharp claws accidentally tore a few strands of entwining mycelium, prompting Lin Jun to repeatedly remind him through her thoughts: "Careful! Keep your claws in!"

Inside the narrow space, Norris could only scrunch up his limbs awkwardly. He felt like he was sitting on something soft and round underneath him.

Looking down, it was the mushroom cap of the Puki with Assimilation Absorption.

Once he entered, the scouting Puki wriggled back into position, its mushroom cap snugly locking into place outside as the "head," while its bottom... pressed directly on Norris's head.

Through the scouting Puki's perception, Norris instantly "saw" the surroundings.

"Norris, now try to control Jida to stand up." Lin Jun gave the command.

"Jida? Boss, what's Jida?"

"It's what you're inside of right now, just try controlling the Puki within to make it stand up!"

"How do you control this..."

With two Puki in each limb of Jida, under Norris's control, Jida awkwardly writhed its limbs on the ground, scraping off a lot of the outer mycelium without managing to stand up.

Lin Jun didn't rush him, just silently observing this debut of the biological mecha.

After half a day, Norris finally... grasped the trick to making Jida crawl on all fours!

Watching Norris, filled with excitement as he controlled Jida to crawl back and forth nonstop, Lin Jun had no choice but to remind him: "Norris, evolve it to walk upright quickly!"

"Oh oh! Got it, Boss!"

With the experience of crawling as a foundation, the speed of this "evolution" was much faster.

Using the Snail Wood wall for support, it gradually stood upright, then, after adapting a bit, it took its first shaky step... and then a second...

Plop—

Two dull explosive sounds suddenly rang out!

The two Puki at the "feet" couldn't withstand the sudden increase in pressure, instantly being crushed and burst open!

Without support, "Jida" collapsed with a loud crash, tumbling down like a pile of scattered blocks, with mycelium flying everywhere.

In a heap of chaotic mycelium, Norris coughed as he climbed out, his face covered in fungal debris.

"Boss?" he asked, his tone carrying a trace of confusion and innocence.

"Hmm..." Lin Jun's mental waves calmly scanned over the mess, "Not bad for a first try. Go rest and recover your spirit. Later... we'll try again with a new batch of materials."

The collapse wasn't really Norris's fault; after all, they were just base Puki.

Later on, Lin Jun tried using some Elite Puki, generating a layer of shell on the surface, then equipping the hands with a Mushroom Cannon or Rock Armor Shield, which made it seem somewhat plausible.

With previous "training," Norris had indeed become much more adept at controlling it, no longer limited to crawling, and could even clumsily swing its arms, making simple blocking or shooting gestures.

However, after a series of tests, Lin Jun had no choice but to make a disappointing conclusion about the nearly all-day-consuming "Jida Project": it's just useless nonsense.

The Elite Puki could indeed assemble together, and after practice, the control issues became more skillful for Norris.

But... was there an increase in combat power?

Thanks to the Chitin Shell skill of the core Puki, it did provide protection to the other Puki, which had very little defense capability to begin with, but it essentially only saved on the cost of adding defense skills to each individual Puki.

These Puki were merely stacked physically together; their power, speed, and magic attributes neither fused nor increased!

The Mushroom Cannon from the composite unit had the same power as a single Puki's Mushroom Cannon; the heavy punch from Jida contained less kinetic energy than a full-speed charge impact from a single Elite Puki.

This intricately pieced-together behemoth was nothing more than an empty shell in the end.

Puki Gundam... it's not that easy after all!

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