The Core needed a new floor but it didn’t think that it was done with the Second yet, it wanted to keep building, but it also saw that it was sufficient, it wasn’t perfect but with all the powerful bosses, deadly traps, and monsters, it was more than sufficient for now, it wanted another floor, this one was complete. [Floor Completion acknowledged, Floor Type Given, Calculating Performance, Calculation complete, Performance: Phenomenal, Floor Type Given, Ancient Azure Mountains, Monster Schemas Granted:

Galeb Duhr, Supreme Azure Dragon (Bloodline: Creation), Supreme White Tiger (Bloodline: Creation), Supreme Black Tortoise (Bloodline: Creation), Supreme Vermilion Bird (Bloodline: Creation), Minor Flood Serpent, Minor Snow Serpent, Minor Earth Serpent, Minor Wind Serpent, Earth Mole, Supreme Stoneborn Monkey (Bloodline: Nascent Monkey King), Greater Stoneborn Monkey, Golden Crow, Phoenix, Dragon Turtle, Azure Kobolds (Bloodline: Guardian), Fierce Ghost, Kitsune, Qilin, Elder Tempest, Derro, Duergar, Gnome, Leviathan,

Archetype Schemas Granted: Assorted Gu, Assorted Formations, Assorted Talismans, Assorted Pills, Assorted Spirit Herbs, Spirit Tools, Spirit Treasure, Spirit Relics

Ecology Schemas Granted, Mana Vein, Qi Vein, Immortal Cherry Tree, Heavenly Peach Tree, Spirit Fire

Treasure Schemas Granted,

Assorted Mortal Grade Cultivation Techniques, Assorted Profound Grade Cultivation Techniques, Assorted Earth Grade Cultivation Techniques, Assorted Sky Grade Cultivation Techniques, Assorted Spirit Grade Cultivation Techniques, Assorted Heaven-Grade Cultivation Techniques, Assorted Mortal Grade Martial Techniques, Assorted Profound Grade Martial Techniques, Assorted Earth Grade Martial Techniques, Assorted Sky Grade Martial Techniques, Assorted Spirit Grade Martial Techniques, Assorted Heaven Grade Martial Techniques, Mithral, Gold, Silver, Copper, Tin]

The influx of information that entered the Core’s mind was intoxicating, but the new floor would be difficult to build, fortunately, the Core already had a starting blueprint to work off of. It pulled its attention to the Third Floor, what it saw excited it. Ten vast mountains reached up to the sky in a ring, surrounded by a vast sea, the land in the center had seven rivers, and multiple large hills, but underneath the land was a large tunnel, it surrounded by miles of rock, this was where the Core assumed it would spawn the the Earth Monsters.

It created fifty Earth moles, which were around five feet long and three feet wide, they quickly began burrowing into the Earth creating small tunnels, when they had gotten five hundred feet away, the Core created ten Minor Earth Serpents when they tunneled away the Core created the Duergar, the Core knew what they looked like from the information the Schema had given it, but to see them in the flesh was disconcerting, they white hair and gray skin, piercing white eyes, and a faint aura of magic surrounded them, they had been created with pickaxes, dark black clothing, and a sword, they immediately began to follow one of the Earth Mole’s tunnels, they enlarged the tunnel and began to follow the trail.

On the surface, the Core created another mountain in the center of the ring, on it the Core at the top the Core placed a grove of immortal cherry trees, and a grove of heavenly peach trees, then it placed ten treasure chests, it set them to randomly generate a random technique, Gu, Pill, Spirit Herb, Formation, or Talisman. Then it began the most important part of this whole project, the new Veins that it had for “Mana” and “Qi”. It knew that the special herbs and plants that it could make needed, “Qi” to grow, so it created hundreds of thousands of Qi veins, they were translucent with fragments of powers leaping off of them, they looked like the veins of some great beast.

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It connected each of them until every single one was connected, the amount of Qi it felt in the area surged, it could practically taste the energy that emanated from the air, actually, what was taste, how did it know that, Core shoved that thought away, right now it needed to replicate what it had done but Mana Veins instead. Soon a perfect replica of the Qi vein network stretched throughout the floor, Mana and Qi danced through the floor, and the Core moved on to the mountain, the Monkeys would be perfect for it.

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Sun Wukong awoke from his chains, his armor was worn and tattered, Ruyi Jingu Bang lay on his lap, he was a Seven-Fold Heavenly Immortal, a Thousand Layer Body Cultivator, he had defeated the Dragon King Ao Guang, he had the powers of the 72 Earthly Transformations, he was a Buddha, a supreme being of heaven and earth. And he was chained, he knew the fates of each of his comrades, the Jade Emperor had been slain, the Dragon Kings of the Four Seas had been sealed away, the Three Sovereigns had been murdered, and the Five Emperors lay dead in the void, he had been the last of the Gods to be sealed he had fought for seven days and seven nights, in the battle his attackers had destroyed dantian, crippling him. He had fallen so very far from his peak. His bloodline had been hunted into extinction, at least that he had thought, but then he had felt a trickle of Karmic energy fall into his shattered dantian. That could only mean one thing, somehow the Stoneborn Monkeys had been revived. Soon he would be free. The Rot would be banished.

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The Supreme Stoneborn Monkey opened his eyes, and the first thing he could see was treasure chests, instinct took over and he rushed over to the chests, there were ten of them, it opened one of them, and inside the first was a manual describing a technique called the Earth Grade Dragon Vajra Fist inside, the next one had a Guandao sparkling with magical energy, its keen blade ready to kill, the next chest had golden armor with red accents, a red feathered crown, a red leather boots with ornate golden filigree. The next chest had another technique, the Profound Grade Nine Shadows Martial Technique, the next had a cultivation technique, the Heaven Grade, Seven Layer Immortality technique, the next had the Spirit Grade Stoneborn Giant Elephant Tempering technique, the next had useless herbs but the bounty was already enough. The Monkey retreated to a nearby cave, he noticed that hundreds of other monkeys had appeared, but they felt weaker than him. He would be their leader, their king. But he knew his master, his master was the Core.

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Tik-Bit the gnome was currently building a clockwork, it had only been a few hours since the Core had created him, and the Core had placed them in a large hill that had a sprawling cave network and rich copper, tin, iron, gold, silver and mithril, it a bountiful place giving them enough materials to construct the Clockworks which were magical constructs, all gnome instinctually knew how to build the Clockwork Scout, Clockwork Iron Serpent, the Clockwork Bolter and finally the Clockwork defender. As the cog went into place, the Clockwork sputtered to life, [Clockwork Scout created], the screen confirmed what he already knew, now he just needed to replicate it. The Clockwork would be the first of many, they would be their grand army

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Sun Wukong would be reborn, the Gnome Clockwork army would destroy the invaders, and the Duergar toiled away in their caves, waiting for the invaders to come.