Mushroom Man

Chapter 159 Jade-like Skin, Zhao Di Refining Mushrooms

"Let's take a look at Bajiaoshan and see what major events have happened there recently."

"I always feel that Bajiaoshan is a bit too peaceful."

"Logically speaking, now that a successor of the Formless lineage has appeared in this area, neither the mushroom masters nor the mushroom immortals in the heavens should sit idly by."

"We don't need to search every single house like a carpet search, we should at least make some noise."

"But lately I haven't heard a single word about it, which is really strange..."

Wu Liang pondered to himself, his brows furrowing slightly.

One of the reasons he has been keeping a low profile lately is that he doesn't want to attract the attention of the immortals.

But now everything is calm outside. Could it be that he is overthinking things?
Thinking of this, Wu Liang continued to examine the bamboo slips.

Soon, he learned about a major event that had occurred at Bajiao Mountain in the past two days.

As is widely known, the leader of the Blackhorn tribe had no children.

Now, that leader, in order to participate in the Eight-Cornered Holy War, has taken in an adopted daughter named Morobi.

This action instantly angered the mushroom masters of the Blackhorn tribe.

After all, even without Morobi, these mushroom masters from the Black Horn tribe would still have a chance to participate in the Eight-Horned Holy War and compete for the position of leader.

The entire Blackhorn tribe is now filled with complaints and curses.

"Morobi?"

Wu Liang murmured something, then shook his head.

"Unexpectedly, there really hasn't been any news about the successor of the Formless One."

"Well, no news is good news."

He put down the bamboo slips and turned his attention to himself.

He hasn't been idle these past two days, and his achievements are considerable.

Wu Liang rolled up his sleeves, revealing his fair and jade-like skin.

Clearly, after these two days of refining, he has successfully transformed his skin into Jade Skin with the help of the Jade Mushroom.

The first and foremost impact of this is a dramatic improvement in appearance.

As the saying goes, fair skin can cover up a hundred flaws.

Wu Liang was already very good-looking, and now with her fair and smooth skin, her appearance has reached an even higher level.

Nowadays, if he didn't want to work hard anymore, he could probably find a 'mother' willing to support him just by looking at his face.

Of course, Wu Liang doesn't care about the changes in his appearance.

After all, he can't show his true self to others; no matter how handsome he is, he can only admire himself in solitude.

What Wu Liang truly cared about was the defensive effect brought by the Jade Skin Essence.

"Whoosh!"

Wu Liang unleashed a wisp of sword energy from his fingertips.

In an instant, the sword energy landed on his arm.

However, this sword strike didn't even break Wu Liang's skin!
This is a second-stage Sword Qi Mushroom, a combined style of swordsmanship and qi cultivation.

Swordsmanship is one of the strongest offensive styles in the Mushroom World.

When rotating in the same direction, few can match its lethality.

Even so, it didn't even break Wu Liang's skin.

This shows just how worthwhile this rare, second-stage Jade Mushroom was.

Wu Liang narrowed his eyes, then unleashed another wisp of sword energy.

This time, however, the sword energy was no longer pure; it was mixed with a deathly aura.

The deathly aura was a pale gray, making the sword energy appear mottled and uneven.

With a "whoosh" sound!
As if electrocuted, Wu Liang instantly withdrew his arm.

The area was covered in blood, and a grayish-white scar stood out starkly in the eye.

Clearly, the jade-like skin did not block the sword energy mixed with death energy.

Death energy can cause life to wither, and when combined with the destruction caused by sword energy, the effect is surprisingly astonishing.

It not only makes the sword energy more powerful, but also causes the wound to be shrouded in deathly aura, making it extremely difficult to heal.

Wu Liang's eyes flickered and fell on the wound.

The wound was surrounded by wisps of death, constantly hindering any chance of life.

As long as the death energy is not eradicated, the wound will never heal.

"good……"

Wu Liang nodded slightly, then activated the Life Mushroom.

As the saying goes, there is always someone who can defeat you.

Anger and death are mutually restraining, mutually generating and mutually destroying each other.

With the gradual release of vital energy, the wound healed completely in no time.

"good very good."

"My current skin defense should have reached the peak of the second stage."

"Among those of the same level, I doubt anyone could break through my skin in one strike."

"If there is an opportunity in the future, I can replace the Jade Mushroom with the Ice Mushroom, and then get a Jade Bone Mushroom to make Ice Mushroom and Jade Bone Mushroom."

"At that time, I will no longer be a fragile piece of meat that breaks at the slightest touch."

Wu Liang felt no dissatisfaction at the breakage of his jade-like skin; on the contrary, he was quite pleased with it.

He smiled faintly, and his consciousness naturally sank into his dantian.

After these two days and nights of continuous practice.

Wu Liang's dantian has grown by eight-tenths under the nourishment of the true qi river.

Including the previous two plots of land, his dantian has now grown to nine acres in size.

With just one more acre of growth, Wu Liang can reach the peak of the second stage, and then naturally break through to the third stage.

However, this is not the end!

Wu Liang hasn't just been burying himself in cultivation these past two days. If someone were to peer into Wu Liang's dantian right now, they would discover…

In Wu Liang's dantian, there were several more mushrooms that he had never seen before!

That's right!

During these two days, Wu Liang took the opportunity to secretly follow Tie Nu to the cave where slaves were housed.

They wanted to give all those slaves to Yan Zhaodi to make mushrooms.

Wu Liang was worried that Yan Zhaodi wouldn't be able to bring herself to do it, so he even killed the slaves beforehand.

He specially processed those slaves into various blood-path mushroom materials, and sent them, along with candies and snacks bought from Bajiao Mountain, into the Demon Suppression Tower.

When Zhao Di saw those blood-path mushrooms, she wisely kept quiet.

She had known all along that her master was not some great philanthropist.

But so what?

To Yan Zhaodi, no matter how bad her master was, he was still a great person who saved her.

As long as her master treats her well, what does it matter to her, a mushroom beast, whether he is good or evil?

Therefore, Yan Zhaodi naturally followed her master's instructions and used the blood-path mushroom material for one hundred people to refine two blood-path mushrooms.

Firstly, it is the Blood Corpse Mushroom from the Blood Ghost Corpse Transformation technique obtained by Wu Liang from the Soul Searching Doctor Mo.

The second-tier Blood Corpse Mushroom requires a combination of second-tier Vampire Mushroom and Wandering Zombie Mushroom, along with Bloodway Mushroom materials.

Youjianggu was bought by Wu Liang from a wealthy merchant caravan for three hundred drops of silver water.

Although the Zombie Mushroom is a second-stage zombie, it is not cheap because it can turn people into zombies to prolong their lives.

Wu Liang spent so much silver to leave himself a way out.

If I can't find a suitable way to prolong my life, I might have to use the Blood Corpse Mushroom to transform myself into a Blood Corpse and survive in this world.

However, Blood Corpse Mushroom only has two evolutions.

If he could, Wu Liang would never have chosen this deadly path.

For him, he would need to refine the Blood Corpse Mushroom to the fourth or fifth level before he could transform into a zombie without hesitation.

Secondly, Yan Zhaodi also used the mushroom recipe given by Wu Liang to cultivate a three-turn Blood Sacrifice Mushroom.

That's right, it's the Blood Sacrifice Mushroom from the Blood River Ancestor's memory fragments.

However, the Blood River Ancestor slaughtered an entire island and refined a fourth-grade Blood Sacrifice Mushroom.

Wu Liang only had enough mushroom materials from a hundred people, which was enough to barely refine a third-level Blood Sacrifice Mushroom.

The effect of the Blood Sacrifice Mushroom is simple and straightforward.

It allows mushroom masters at level three or below to increase their cultivation level by one point for each person sacrificed.

However, improving one's cultivation level in this way obviously has some hidden dangers; it is a crooked and evil method used for quick success.

Wu Liang, with his promising Grade A Dantian, would naturally not resort to such unorthodox methods.

The reason he had Yan Zhaodi refine the mushroom was actually as a preparation for its potential use in training slaves in the future.

"Blood Sacrifice Mushroom, Blood Corpse Mushroom, is far from enough."

"However, we only bought a hundred slaves two days ago. If we buy more slaves in a short period of time, it will inevitably leave clues and arouse suspicion."

"If someone finds out that I, the 'Third Young Master,' am actually secretly cultivating the Blood Path, then things will be troublesome."

"So let's keep things quiet for a while..."

Wu Liang shifted his gaze from the two blood-path mushrooms to the two new mushrooms.

That's right, Yan Zhaodi has not only refined Blood Path Mushrooms for him in the past two days.

With the amnesiac third young master helping her out, her efficiency skyrocketed.

Yan Zhaodi, who was able to consistently refine three-stage mushrooms, used various transformed mushroom materials she bought to upgrade his appearance mushrooms to two-stage stages.

When the Surface Mushroom reaches level three, its concealment ability is greatly enhanced.

Now, Wu Liang is simply a person covered by a layer of appearance.

Ordinary mushroom growers could not see through his true nature at all, and could not see the truth beneath the surface.

Not to mention, beneath Wu Liang's outward appearance lies a layer of illusion, and the truth lies beneath that illusion.

In this situation, let alone ordinary mushroom masters, even a typical fifth-level mushroom master might not be able to see through Wu Liang's unpredictable demeanor.

As for the other mushroom that Yan Zhaodi refined, it is a three-turn image mushroom.

The so-called image is the concrete expression of a thing, its shape, appearance, etc.

This mushroom allows Wu Liang's image to no longer be confined to people, but to freely transform into the image of other things.

Previously, people's faces were ever-changing, so Wu Liang could only transform himself into other people in a lifelike manner.

However, if it transforms into a mushroom beast, such as the previous Ferghana dragon steed, it would be too rigid and its true nature would be easily noticed.

If Wu Liang hadn't been protected by the Tai Sui mushroom, Master Wen would probably have noticed something was wrong with the Ferghana Dragon Steed long ago.

However, now that Wu Liang has the Image Mushroom, it perfectly makes up for this shortcoming.

This makes his appearance ever-changing; he can not only transform into other people, but also into mountains, rocks, plants, and rare and exotic animals.

Of course, Wu Liang has not yet reached the third stage of transformation, so he cannot integrate the image mushroom into the ever-changing human face. He can only temporarily put it aside in his dantian.

"In just two days, my strength has undergone a tremendous change compared to before."

"But now is not the time to get carried away. I am far from reaching my limit..."

Wu Liang's lips curled up slightly. He immediately calmed his mind and decided to continue his secluded cultivation, striving to reach the third stage of enlightenment as soon as possible.

But at this moment...

For some unknown reason, Wu Xiangling suddenly and inexplicably shuddered!
"Om-"

A buzzing sound rang in Wu Liang's ears.

A mist gradually rose before his eyes.

Within the hazy mist, seven figures, appearing somewhat hasty, could be vaguely discerned.

Without exception, all these figures were blurry and indistinct.

But Wu Liang was absolutely certain that the owners of these seven figures were just like him.

They are all... successors of the Formless lineage!
(End of this chapter)