Mushroom Man

Chapter 173 Night Raid on Blackhorn, Dark-skinned Beauty

That night.

Outside the Blackhorn tribe.

Wu Liang, carrying a black coffin on his back, was all alone, hiding in the shadows and spying on the Black Horn Tribe.

The Black Horn tribe and the White Horn tribe are almost identical.

The mushroom growers coming and going were all burly and robust.

The only difference is that the mushroom masters of the Black Horn tribe wear black horns on their heads instead of white ones.

This horn comes from a mushroom-like creature called the Unicorn Rhinoceros near Bajiao Mountain.

This mushroom beast possesses immense strength, capable of shaking mountains and splitting rocks.

Female unicorns have white horns on their heads, while male unicorns have black horns on their heads.

It is said that the leaders of the Black Horn Tribe and the White Horn Tribe were sworn brothers.

They each took a white horn and a black horn, and swore an oath that their tribes would always advance and retreat together, and live and die together.

Thus, the white horn and the black horn became the symbols of the two tribes.

However, as time went by and decades passed, the two tribes, who occupied Bajiao Mountain, inevitably had some friction over their interests.

The relationship is deteriorating day by day, and if it continues like this, a conflict will break out sooner or later.

This may be one of the reasons why the Blackhorn chieftain and the Whitehorn chieftain wanted to merge the tribes.

The aim was simply to resolve the growing conflict between the two tribes.

Wu Liang collected his thoughts and focused his attention back on the Black Horn Tribe.

The Black Horn Tribe is also located halfway up the mountain, and at first glance it looks like a mountain village.

The fence was built around the perimeter using the bones of various mushroom-like creatures, giving it a rather savage appearance.

The village was brightly lit, and every now and then, black-horned mushroom masters would patrol back and forth, carrying torches made from the fat of mushroom-producing animals.

The main gate of the village was tightly closed, and the watchtower above was guarded by a mushroom grower.

In this situation, it could perhaps be described as impregnable.

If we rashly force our way in, we'll likely alert the entire Black Horn tribe's mushroom masters in an instant.

"It seems that the two leaders are nearing the end of their lives, which has led to the recent disturbances by rogue cultivators, making these tribal mushroom masters more cautious."

Wu Liang narrowed his eyes, then secretly rejoiced.

"Fortunately, I just used the last four hundred drops of silver water to buy a three-turn black coffin mushroom from the wealthy merchant caravan."

"This mushroom can be used to collect the Bone Immortal into the black coffin and suppress the death aura."

"Otherwise, with a hairy zombie exuding death energy, there would be no way to infiltrate the Black Horn Tribe."

That's right!

Wu Liang did not come alone this time.

At this moment, Bone Master was lying in the black coffin behind him.

The black coffin was as light as a feather; even with a corpse lying inside, Wu Liang could carry it with ease.

This is the third-stage Black Coffin Mushroom!

This mushroom can preserve the dead; if combined with the Death Mushroom, it can also be used to raise corpses.

In some ways, it's equivalent to a makeshift morgue.

At the same time, Wu Liang could even store the Black Coffin Mushroom in his dantian to hide the Bone True Man.

But unless he's mentally unstable, he wouldn't think of doing that.

Within Wu Liang's dantian, neither the Bodhi Seed nor the Lonely Mushroom are secrets that cannot be revealed.

If the black coffin is stored in the dantian, it will allow Bone Master to see the fungi inside the dantian.

Who knows if this guy will get greedy or have some other inappropriate thoughts?

Wu Liang dared not gamble on the ugliness of human nature.

Even though he is now a true master of bones, he has already been fooled and crippled.

Don’t be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of what happens.

For a mushroom master, the dantian is the foundation of everything, of paramount importance.

If Bone Immortal had any evil intentions and tampered with his dantian, Wu Liang would have no way to regret it.

If the black coffin is not stored in the dantian and is simply carried on one's back, it will undoubtedly attract too much attention.

If Wu Liang were to simply walk into the Black Horn Tribe like that...

I'm afraid that in no time at all, they will be discovered by those black horned mushroom masters and captured on the spot.

Fortunately for Wu Liang, concealing a black coffin was incredibly easy.

"it's time……"

Wu Liang observed and waited patiently.

Before long, several Blackhorn Mushroom Masters left the Blackhorn Tribe.

His eyes flickered, and his mind stirred.

The next moment, Wu Liang activated the Human Face Transformation technique, transforming himself into one of the Black Horn Mushroom Masters.

This is not finished.

He then activated the False Mushroom and the Image Mushroom, transforming the black coffin behind him into an inconspicuous white bone spear.

These large spears, forged from animal bones, are very common in the Black Horn and White Horn tribes.

The black-horned mushroom master he transformed into carried a large white bone spear.

Given his current appearance, even a fourth-level mushroom master might not be able to discern anything amiss.

After doing all this, Wu Liang swaggered towards the gate of the village.

"Open the door!"

Wu Liang shouted loudly at the gatekeeper.

The gatekeeper was taken aback when he saw him, then asked in surprise, "Zhang San?"

"Didn't you just go out to buy some drinks?"

"Why are you back so soon?"

As a 'master of discourse', Wu Liang naturally picked up the conversation.

He waved his hand and made up a bunch of nonsense with his eyes wide open.

"Don't even mention it, I just went out and realized I forgot to bring any money."

"Stop dawdling, those guys are waiting for me."

Wu Liang looked impatient and kept urging him on.

The gatekeeper, upon hearing this, did not suspect anything. He simply conducted a routine inspection of Wu Liang.

Wu Liang's appearance was unpredictable, so these ordinary mushroom growers naturally couldn't discern his true nature.

In no time at all, Wu Liang swaggered in and easily blended into the Black Horn Tribe.

"Hmph, nothing more than that..."

After infiltrating the Black Horn tribe, Wu Liang couldn't help but sneer.

Relying on the fact that he had an unpredictable face and could change his appearance at will, he moved freely in the Black Horn tribe as if it were his own territory.

Wu Liang sometimes transforms into the elderly, weak, women, and children of the Black Horn tribe, and sometimes into a patrolling Black Horn mushroom master.

He wandered around, but no one noticed him.

Before long, Wu Liang had a pretty good grasp of the situation of the Black Horn Tribe.

"The Blackhorn tribe is a force to be reckoned with..."

“One is the leader of Blackhorn, another is the Morobi who was adopted as a daughter, and the third is a high priest.”

"The Blackhorn leader had no children before, so the most likely successor is that high priest."

"However, now that there is an adopted daughter like Morobi, it will be quite difficult for this high priest to take over as leader."

“Nowadays, this Morobi and this high priest are constantly at odds, and I’ve heard that they’ve almost broken off relations more than once.”

"And that Black Horn leader, apart from announcing that he had adopted Morobi as his daughter, has not shown his face at all during this period of time."

"Even though the high priest and his adopted daughter were almost at the point of internal strife, he never showed up to stop it."

"It seems that the Black Horn leader is in a much worse condition than the White Horn leader."

"No wonder the Blackhorn tribe is so heavily guarded..."

Wu Liang rubbed his chin, sorting through the information he had gathered.

By comparing the two, he realized that the White Horn Tribe's situation was many times better than that of the Black Horn Tribe.

No matter what, at least the White Horn Tribe hasn't fallen into chaos internally.

Although the eldest and second young masters are vying for the Eight-Cornered Holy Battle, they haven't made any significant noise.

Even he, the 'Third Young Master,' obtained a Mao Jiang from the black market, threatening his two older brothers.

In the end, they merely sent people to investigate, rather than secretly carrying out sabotage.

Looking at it this way, it seems that the young leaders of the White Horn Tribe still have some kinship among them.

At least unlike the Black Horn Tribe, whose own people started fighting each other to the death before the Eight-Cornered Holy War even began.

Ultimately, this was because the Blackhorn leader had no children, and his adopted daughter was simply not capable of managing the situation.

Furthermore, the leader of Blackhorn has done nothing, allowing his mushroom masters to fight amongst themselves.

In this situation, it would be strange if things didn't get chaotic.

"Let's go check on that Moro maid first..."

"If we're talking about the entire Blackhorn tribe, who is most likely to be the successor of the Formless One, she's probably the only one left."

While Wu Liang was gathering information, he also mingled among the women of the Black Horn tribe and inquired around.

However, no trace of the successor of the Wuxiang lineage was found.

Of all the women in the Black Horn tribe, the only one he hadn't yet visited was Morobi.

If Wu Liang was only 40% certain before suspecting that Morobi was the successor of the Formless One...

So now, Wu Liang's suspicion of Morobi has reached 70%!

The remaining 30% was due to his misjudgment.

After all, that successor of the Formless lineage also possesses a copy of the Formless inheritance, so he might be able to change his appearance as well.

In this situation, she could also disguise herself as a man, becoming some unknown individual, and hide in the Black Horn tribe, or even the White Horn tribe.

This undoubtedly greatly increases the difficulty for Wu Liang to find the successor of the Formless One.

We could even consider giving up on finding the successor of the Formless One.

However, things are not yet settled, and anything is possible.

"I hope that Morobi is the successor of the Formless One..."

Upon realizing this, Wu Liang moved swiftly, transforming into a patrolling mushroom master and heading towards Morobi's tent.

Not long after...

Wu Liang easily deceived the group of Black Horned Mushroom Masters and found Morobi's tent.

Interestingly, the adopted daughter of the Blackhorn leader also had a tiger-skin tent.

It has to be said that the two are quite destined to be together.

It's worth noting that, in the entire Blackhorn tribe, only her tent was constructed using tiger skins.

Wu Liang narrowed his eyes and looked around.

Seeing that no one was around, he immediately tried to sneak into Morobi's tent.

But at this moment...

There was a loud "smack"!
Wu Liang felt as if he had bumped headfirst into something as soft as dough.

Caught off guard, he was thrown off balance.

"hiss……"

Wu Liang's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly looked up.

A tall, slender, and voluptuous dark-skinned beauty immediately came into view.

Just as this dark-skinned beauty stepped out of the tent, Wu Liang, by sheer coincidence, bumped right into her.

The atmosphere became incredibly awkward.

However, Wu Liang quickly calmed down and even subtly looked the woman up and down.

The woman's skin was dark yet translucent, like a black pearl, and her figure was exceptionally hot.

She was wrapped in a white wolf skin and wore a huge, black horn that shot straight up on her head; she had a wild and fierce demeanor.

His exposed skin revealed a clear muscle outline, making him appear quite muscular.

However, her muscles are not bulky, but rather just right.

Not only did it not ruin her beauty as a woman, but it also added a unique touch to that beauty.

Unruly savagery, and stunning beauty that surpasses all others.

At this moment, both of these elements are present in this woman, creating a striking contrast between beauty and the beast.

Clearly, this woman is none other than the adopted daughter of the Black Horn leader... Morobi!

(End of this chapter)