CHAPTER 739: CHAPTER 738: THE MUSHROOM THAT BECAME A SPIRIT

"Don’t talk to strangers, even a three-year-old child knows that," Lu Zixun naturally understood as well.

The appearance of Carl Dinger was already quite strange.

Before, Lu Zixun had deliberately used the word "world," and Carl Dinger’s response was very interesting,

"Bad luck, coming to this civilization."

Life from higher dimensions is always filled with danger, and now Blue Star has already welcomed a Lord of Sin—it can’t withstand any more trouble. So...

The Night Evil Sword was unsheathed and directly penetrated Carl Dinger’s heart.

With an unbelieving expression on his face, Lu Zixun cracked a smile, "Slipped my hand, sorry."

Carl Dinger’s body dissolved into a wisp of evil energy and dispersed in the air.

Seeing this, Lu Zixun pondered, no wonder he couldn’t detect Carl Dinger’s traces; so, he was an energy entity all along.

However, Lu Zixun felt very strange; it’s odd that this evil energy could even take on a human form.

Continuing deeper into the Dark World, Lu Zixun became more cautious and careful, to avoid capsizing in a ditch.

After walking for an hour, Lu Zixun felt eerily odd.

The Dark World, other than being full of evil energy, lacked other living creatures, which didn’t quite make sense.

Moreover, Yue Sichen still hadn’t appeared to stop him. Lu Zixun narrowed his eyes—this world was strange.

At that moment, beneath Lu Zixun’s feet, two Mushroom Men glanced at each other and nodded fiercely before charging toward the soil above.

While pondering whether to return first, Lu Zixun felt the ground beneath him collapsing and deployed Magnetic Field Control to float in the air.

The two Mushroom Men, seeing that Lu Zixun could actually fly, were shocked and began to burrow back into the ground.

Unfortunately, Lu Zixun’s Ice Chain had already been thrown.

After binding the two Mushroom Men, one of them bit the other fiercely.

The bit Mushroom Man instantly shrunk in size and escaped through the gaps in the Ice Chain.

Before Lu Zixun could act again, the Mushroom Man had vanished.

"Interesting."

The Mushroom Man becoming a spirit was unexpected enough for Lu Zixun, and this peculiar escape method was even more so.

He pulled the captured Mushroom Man up to his face with the Ice Chain.

Lu Zixun looked it over and asked, "Can you understand what I’m saying?"

The purple Mushroom Man remained silent with its eyes tightly shut, assuming a posture ready to meet its fate.

Amused by this, Lu Zixun couldn’t help but laugh, the expression on a mushroom’s face could be so vivid and animated.

It seemed the creatures of the Dark World were quite amusing.

But since it could make such an expression, it should be able to hear.

"Such a big mushroom would probably make a delicious soup. Since this one doesn’t talk, I might as well boil him."

After repeating himself in different languages, Lu Zixun noticed the mushroom’s body began to tremble.

"Dreadful being, our King will not let you go!"

Question, what’s it like for a mushroom to speak Void Language?

Online waiting, quite urgent.

"Hmm, looks like you can talk."

Responding in Void Language, Lu Zixun raised his hand and lit a fire with Spiritual Fire beside him, "I’ll ask you some questions now. Play dumb, and you’re going into the pot."

In the instant Lu Zixun summoned the Spiritual Fire, the inherently fire-fearing mushroom’s body shook even more violently, a liquid flowing down the Ice Chain onto the ground.

Lu Zixun’s mouth twitched slightly, his eyes a bit strange. Had the mushroom pissed itself in fear?

As a Mushroom Spirit urinating in fear, then the composition of this liquid...

Was it mushroom juice?

Coughing lightly, Lu Zixun’s unserious expression faded and became serious.

That line of thought was too lowbrow. Having received a good education, he was a proper person.

"What has happened to this world? Are you the only kind of creature here?"

When Lu Zixun asked this question, the expression of one ready to meet death appeared on the Mushroom Spirit’s face again.

To which, Lu Zixun had nothing to say.

He simply took out a large cauldron from his stored talismans and placed it over the fire.

After throwing in a few ice cubes and melting them into water, he suspended the Mushroom Spirit above the cauldron.

"This world wasn’t like this before. But one day, a being even more powerful than you appeared. His energy, once spread throughout this world, made many of the creatures on the surface start killing each other. Only we, the subterranean creatures, managed to escape that fate."

It had to be said that sometimes, applying the right medicine for the illness was the best solution.

Hearing the full story from the Mushroom Spirit, Lu Zixun’s eyes narrowed.

The powerful entity the Mushroom Spirit mentioned must be Beta. But with so many creatures dead, why were only the Mushroom Spirits like him still alive?

Lu Zixun deliberately used his Spiritual Energy to sense the Mushroom Spirit.

He found no trace of Evil Energy, meaning it couldn’t invade the Mushroom Spirits. That was interesting.

Could it be that consuming Mushroom Spirits could prevent the corruption of Evil Energy?

As this idea rose in his mind, Lu Zixun remembered the previously mentioned mushroom juice and promptly dismissed the notion.

"Why aren’t you affected by the Evil Energy? Is it because you are mushrooms?"

"Evil Energy... corruption?"

Confusion appeared in the Mushroom Spirit’s eyes; he seemed to have no concept of what ’corruption’ meant.

As Lu Zixun pondered how to simplify his explanation for the Mushroom Spirit,

A crowned Mushroom Spirit emerged from the earth, holding a wooden sword and shouting loudly, "The King shall prevail with unstoppable might!"

...

Looking at the King hanging beside him, the Mushroom Spirit shed tears of emotion; dying alongside the King fulfilled his fungal life.

"Do you have a name?"

Staring at the Mushroom King, Lu Zixun quietly asked.

"I am the greatest Mushroom King... the Second, Ji’erbis. Mighty one, I admire your strength, and you have won the respect of us Insulation Mushrooms."

Insulation Mushrooms?

That term was intriguing.

Lu Zixun addressed Ji’erbis: "As a King, you should know how you are unaffected by Evil Energy. Tell me how you do it, and I’ll spare your life."

Hearing that Lu Zixun actually had a request for him, Ji’erbis rolled his eyes, cleared his throat, and said, "As a King, one needs dignity and face. If we are to be friends, then we should converse as equals."

Lu Zixun stared at Ji’erbis for a while and, in silence, lowered the Ice Chain a bit.

Allowing Ji’erbis to feel the boiling water’s steam up close.

"Ahhhh, no, I’ll tell you everything!"