Mushroom Man

Chapter 144 A High-Ranking Buddhist Monk Who Survived a Great Calamity

"Boom!"

The deafening roar continued unabated.

The enormous Demon-Suppressing Tower groaned in agony, unable to bear the weight any longer.

Strangely, despite the Demon Suppression Tower swaying and teetering on the brink of collapse, it remained sturdy and did not collapse on the spot.

Anyone who saw this scene would be utterly astonished.

"thump!"

As someone loses consciousness and falls into the Mother River, the formless one bursts forth with radiant light.

In an instant, the Demon-Suppressing Tower, which had been making a rumbling noise, suddenly rose from the ground.

It spun around and transformed into a tiny, dilapidated pagoda, only three inches in size.

The small pagoda soared into the sky, heading straight into the Wuxiang Order, and sank into the Cimu River along with someone.

In an instant, the Wuxiang inheritance that everyone was scrambling for was left behind only a shocking deep pit.

Only then did the morning sun shine upon the chaotic town of Zhaodi.

Before anyone knew it, the chaos gradually subsided.

Overnight, the three families fell apart, and the Temple of Sending Children became a mere shell of its former self.

The rogue cultivators took advantage of the chaos and made a fortune.

These mushroom growers, who took advantage of the chaos to commit evil deeds, feared that the Buddhist community would purge them afterward, so they fled to other places without hesitation at daybreak.

All that remained was a devastated Zhaodi Town and its residents hiding in their homes, still in shock and fear.

"My Buddha is compassionate..."

"Looks like I'm a step too late..."

A monk dressed in white robes appeared in front of the deep pit at some unknown time.

He clasped his hands together, his tone tinged with regret.

"It's all your fault. You insisted on getting tangled up with that monk on the way."

"If we had arrived earlier, we might have been able to meet the successor of the Formless lineage before others."

The white-robed monk's expression changed, and he began to mutter to himself.

The next moment, he chuckled and said, "Heh, if I get it, I'm lucky; if I lose it, it's my fate."

"Being a step late may not be a bad thing. What if this successor of the Formless One happens to be the Formless Celestial Venerable among these eight people?"

"Then aren't we just courting death by running over here?"

After speaking, the white-robed monk shook his head again and said indifferently, "On the contrary, I wish he were the Formless Celestial Venerable."

"This way, we'll save ourselves the trouble of searching everywhere."

After he finished speaking, he turned to look at Zhaodi Town and murmured, his tone icy.

"This successor of the Formless lineage has revealed the most information and caused the biggest commotion."

"It's estimated that it won't be long before those Wise Mushroom Immortals will be able to completely uncover its origins."

"We must find this successor of the Formless One before everyone else."

"Otherwise, if it falls into the hands of others, we will inevitably be at a disadvantage."

The white-robed monk frowned, his face showing bitterness.

He sighed and said helplessly, "That's easy for you to say..."

"You all know that once these successors of the Formless Sect activate the Formless Order, those old fogies in the Hun Tian will cover up the secrets of heaven and confuse the deductions."

"It's not a problem to find out the background of these Formless successors, but to directly deduce their location is undoubtedly wishful thinking."

"Under these circumstances, the only way to find the successor of the Formless lineage is through a laborious method: searching bit by bit based on every clue."

"This is no easy task..."

At this point, the white-robed monk's expression changed again, as if he were seriously ill, talking to himself.

He looked impatient and spoke again.

"We still don't know how that guy left Zhaodi Town with such a huge bronze tower, or where he went." "Searching for it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. How are we supposed to find it?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly sensed something strange coming from the distant swamp.

In the swamp, a mud figure lay prone in the mud, using the two corpses as cover, barely daring to breathe.

He carefully observed the white-robed monk who stood before the deep pit.

"This, this eccentric monk who talks to himself, could he be the eminent Buddhist monk that the nun was talking about?"

Thinking of this, the clay figure hesitated, wondering whether he should run to ask for help.

Just as he was hesitating, he suddenly realized that the monk who had been standing in front of the pit had disappeared without him noticing.

The next moment, the voice of the white-robed monk came from above his head.

"How come there's a little mouse hiding here?"

"You cower and hide when you see us, could you be a treacherous villain?"

Upon hearing this, the clay figure was startled.

He quickly looked up and followed the sound.

The white-robed monk stood on a tree branch, looking down at him lying in the mud below.

"hiss!"

Seeing this person's ability to remain completely undetected, the clay figure became even more certain that this fellow must be a high-ranking Buddhist monk.

He stopped trying to hide himself, hurriedly pushed away the two corpses covering him, and then got up and bowed deeply.

“I am Wu De, the young patriarch of the Wu family. I have just escaped death and am still in shock. I have offended you, Master.”

"The master has an extraordinary demeanor; he must be a high-ranking monk from Buddhism!"

"We've been waiting for you for so long, please save our Wu family..."

That's right!

This clay figure is none other than Wu De, who miraculously survived!
Previously, when Chief Wu died, the mushrooms in the pot withered on their own.

This led to the long-standing resentment among the branch family members, who then sharpened their knives and turned against the main family members.

Although most of the main family members were mushroom masters with better aptitude than those from branch families, they were unfortunately poisoned by mushroom toxins.

Every single mushroom has been affected to varying degrees.

Furthermore, the usually aloof members of the main family never expected that the members of the branch family would suddenly launch an attack.

In this situation, the division of the family members was almost a one-sided massacre.

Wu De survived entirely because he was terrified in the face of death and abandoned his morals.

He used his parents as a shield, using their corpses to cover himself as he hid in the mud, which is how he managed to escape with his life.

Poor aunt and uncle, they gave all their love to Wu De their whole lives.

In the end, he was pushed to the top by his own son and died at the hands of those furious branch family members.

"The Wu family... Wu De?"

Upon hearing this, the white-robed monk raised an eyebrow.

It’s not a waste of time to break through the iron shoes.

Now, those wise mushroom immortals have already deduced the foundations of three of the eight formless successors.

One of them is the Wuxiang successor from Zhaodi Town, who caused the biggest commotion.

It is said that he also seems to have the surname Wu, and his name is something like... Wu Liang?
If this young man and that successor of the Formless lineage are both members of the Wu family, then he might be able to use bloodline methods to locate him.

The white-robed monk couldn't help but smile slightly when he thought of this.

He looked at Wu De, who was covered in dirt, and spoke with a smile.

"I can't save your Wu family, but I can save you."

"Young friend, would you be willing to join us and embark on this journey with me?"

(End of this chapter)