Mushroom Man

Chapter 271 The Eight Banners of Beihai: Breaking the Mold and Extending Life
Blood River Ancestor, Eight Banners of the North Sea, Lord of the Red Banner!
Although it is now in the past, we can still get a glimpse of how glorious it once was.

If it were merely an ordinary sixth-level mushroom fairy, it would naturally be unable to achieve this level.

The reason why the Blood River Ancestor was able to occupy the title of the Red Flag Master was entirely because he was actually an old monster who had lived two lives.

That's right!

Before being trapped in the Demon Suppression Tower and becoming a demon beast, the Blood River Ancestor had actually lived two lifetimes.

His first incarnation was his most spirited and peak period.

The Blood River Ancestor rose from humble beginnings, but after the death of the Old Mushroom Master, he began to show his prowess and seize the Blood Spring Blessed Land.

With the help of the Blood Spring Blessed Land, he ascended to immortality in one fell swoop, becoming the Blood Path Mushroom Immortal.

Then he advanced triumphantly, slaughtering his way through the North Sea, and with the cultivation of a seventh-level mushroom immortal, he seized the title of Red Flag Master.

Unfortunately, the Blood River Ancestor was later besieged and killed by the righteous Mushroom Immortals.

However, he had a backup plan. Using blood-based methods, he severed his tail to survive and began his second life.

In his second life, he was forced to give up everything because he used the method of severing his tail through the blood path to survive.

All his cultivation and Dao traces vanished, leaving him no choice but to start from scratch.

Furthermore, his original second-grade aptitude, and even his later forced upgrade to first-grade aptitude through bloodline methods in order to become an immortal, was thus reduced to third-grade.

Those with a grade C aptitude are not qualified to ascend to immortality.

However, the Blood River Ancestor had already prepared a backup plan.

He found his birthplace, a small fishing village, and used the Blood Skull Mushroom to sacrifice his entire clan, thus transforming himself back into a first-class aptitude.

Having accumulated experience in a previous life, the Blood River Ancestor was able to rebuild his Blood Path effortlessly and ascend to immortality again, returning to the sixth level of cultivation.

The mushroom immortals in the North Sea were unaware that the Blood River Ancestor had already resumed his cultivation.

Relying on his previous infamous reputation, no one dared to challenge his title as the leader of the Red Banner.

This allowed him, with his cultivation level of a sixth-level mushroom immortal, to seize control of the Red Banner, one of the Eight Banners of the North Sea.

Unfortunately……

The Blood River Ancestor's mistake was that in his second life, when he retraced the path of the Mushroom Immortal and slaughtered a village to refine mushrooms, he was momentarily soft-hearted and wanted to emulate the old mushroom master, so he took on an apprentice.

In the end, everything he had became a gift to his apprentice, and he was even driven out of Beihai, ending up in this state.

Of course, no matter how wretched the Blood River Ancestor was in his later years, he was still an old monster who had lived two lives and ascended to immortality twice.

Zhuge Huowang is still a notch below the Blood River Ancestor at his peak.

Before the Blood River Ancestor, or rather, before Wu Liang in his current state...

Zhuge Huowang really was just a child.

However, just because he's a child doesn't mean that Wu Liang can definitely control Zhuge Huowang.

After all, he is not the Blood River Ancestor at his peak now.

On the other hand, Zhuge Huowang is a true mushroom master.

Therefore, for Wu Liang, the situation he is facing now is not much better than before.

At most, it's an unsolvable deadlock with no chance of survival, but it offers just a tiny sliver of hope for breaking the deadlock.

"Break the situation..."

Wu Liang walked slowly inside the Demon Suppression Tower, his mind racing.

Using the accumulated knowledge of the Blood River Ancestor, he began to silently deduce and plan his own path to survival.

The Blood River Ancestor's life's accumulation was undeniably substantial.

He knew how to refine various Blood Path Immortal Mushroom recipes, as well as the Immortal Mushroom of Fungi that was widely circulated in the Middle Ages but has now completely disappeared.

Although limited by the half-baked man-made wonder of the River of Oblivion, he was unable to fully inherit the Blood River Ancestor's school of thought and realm.

However, since the memories are in his mind, he can definitely improve the level of some schools of thought in a short time with just a little bit of time.

Of course, it might be a bit of a pipe dream to think that one could completely reach the level that Blood River Ancestor once was.

However, after he becomes familiar with those memories, he should at least be able to advance his Blood Path Sect to the level of Master, and it's not impossible for him to even glimpse the Grandmaster level in the future.

With the cultivation level of a Blood Dao Master, combined with Yan Zhaodi, he was able to refine the powerful Blood Dao mushrooms from his memories.

only……

It's completely useless right now.

Now he is trapped in Zhuge Huowang's blessed land, and the biggest problem he has in refining some powerful blood-path mushrooms is that he has no mushroom materials.

The Soul-Destroying Ridge is made of flesh and blood, so perhaps some Blood Path mushrooms can be found there.

However, this amount of blood fungus material can only be used to refine some relatively common blood fungi.

Those rare blood fungi that would truly help him all require corresponding blood fungus materials.

In this situation, it's clearly impossible to open up the mushroom refining process and break the deadlock using the blood-path mushrooms from the Blood River Ancestor's memories.

"Pity……"

"If only I had been willing to risk everything earlier and digest all of the Blood River Ancestor's memories before Zhuge Huowang captured him."

"I now have at least two or three ways to prolong my life and break through this predicament."

Wu Liang frowned and shook his head, his words filled with undisguised disdain for his former self.

As he said, the Blood River Ancestor's memories contained quite a few methods for prolonging life.

And each one is much better than the so-called "deformed ghosts".

The Blood River Ancestor was a man who cherished his life, and in his later years he devoted himself to researching how to prolong life. As a result, he had explored many of the life-prolonging methods that were common in the medieval period.

Among them, the Blood River Ancestor researched the most about bloodline life-extending methods, slumber life-extending methods, and rebirth life-extending methods.

As the name suggests, the Bloodline Longevity Method is a longevity method researched by the Demonic Immortal during the Middle Ages when the Bloodline was flourishing.

This method draws on the humanistic school of thought of the Taiping Heavenly Venerable.

Taiping Tianzun once said: "A person will experience death three times in his life."

"The first death is when a person stops breathing, the physical body perishes, and the soul returns to the underworld."

"The second death is after a person dies, when all their possessions, wealth, status, and position from their lifetime have vanished."

"The third death is when everyone in the world has forgotten you, and all traces of your existence have vanished."

The ancient venerable one of humanity, the Taiping Heavenly Venerable, proposed that there are three kinds of death for humans. In fact, this was to pave the way for the continuation of bloodlines and to promote the reproduction of people.

In the ancient times of Taiping Tianzun, people generally believed that procreation and leaving bloodlines were for their own survival.

As long as their bloodline continues to flow in the world and they have not died out, then they are considered to still have traces of themselves in the world and cannot be considered dead.

This is why, in the peaceful and prosperous times of ancient times, everyone took pride in having many children and grandchildren.

Even now, the influence of Taiping Tianzun remains deeply ingrained in people's hearts.

Those families and tribes, large and small, were able to prosper because of this influence.

The Taiping Heavenly Venerable's original intention in doing this was to make the human race more prosperous and to establish the concept of blood relatives.

However, later generations of Bloodline Mushroom Masters were inspired by this, misinterpreted the meaning of the Taiping Heavenly Venerable, and created the Bloodline Longevity Method.

This bloodline longevity method involves having someone else replace one's own descendants to extend one's lifespan.

This act is contrary to the natural order and disregards human ethics; it is intolerable to Heaven and Earth.

Once the bloodline longevity technique is used, the person will be completely childless and lose their fertility.

Therefore, the Bloodline Longevity Method can only be used once per person.

Even so, it is still much more sophisticated than the so-called transformation of zombies and ghosts.

At the very least, mushroom masters can prolong their lives through their bloodline, so they won't lose their dantian (energy center). Apart from their luck plummeting to rock bottom and their lineage dying out, they are basically no different from normal people.

only……

Wu Liang chuckled and shook his head.

This method is not suitable for him.

He has no descendants in this world.

Even if one were to find a child now in order to prolong life, it would be too late.

The only person who can bear him offspring is Lady Red.

It is said that Zhao Di is not human; as a beast, she is reproductively isolated from humans and cannot reproduce.

Lady Red is an option, but by the time she's ten months pregnant, the grass on his grave will probably be taller than a person.

Wu Liang decisively abandoned the bloodline life-extending method and instead began to consider the possibilities of the dormant life-extending method and the rebirth life-extending method.

The method of prolonging life through slumber was created by the Celestial Venerable of Longevity.

This method requires a person to use means to fall into a long period of slumber, thereby delaying the passing of lifespan.

The mushroom master believes that this method of prolonging life is the simplest; he only needs to freeze himself.

Of course, this is on the premise that the freezing method is sophisticated enough; otherwise, it is very likely that after thawing, the person will never wake up again and will become a piece of frozen meat.

As for the Mushroom Fairy, extending her lifespan through slumber is much more complicated than for the Mushroom Master.

First of all, mushroom immortals are different from mushroom masters. Mushroom immortals not only face threats to their lifespan, but they also have to face all kinds of calamities.

For Mushroom Fairy, these calamities were both dangers and opportunities.

After the mushroom master ascends to immortality, his true energy will transform into immortal energy.

However, if the Mushroom Immortal wants to improve his cultivation, he doesn't rely on refining immortal energy, but rather on increasing his Dao traces.

Calamity is the main way for Mushroom Immortals to increase their Dao traces.

Calamities are categorized into geological calamities, celestial calamities, catastrophes, and great calamities.

The traces of the Dao and the dangers they bring are all different.

Normally, the Mushroom Fairy cannot prevent calamities from happening and can only accept them.

Therefore, mushroom immortals often die and their cultivation dissipates because they cannot withstand calamities.

Therefore, if the Mushroom Immortal wants to prolong his life, he also needs to consider how to delay the calamity.

According to Huang Ting's method of prolonging life through slumber, the solution he proposed was to merge the Mushroom Immortal's blessed land into Huang Ting's own, thereby averting the calamity.

That's right!

The Yellow Court within the Yellow Heaven is actually a grotto-heaven, and it is also the grotto-heaven of the Venerable One of Humanity, the Great Peace Venerable.

In later generations, most of the Yellow Court Immortals would merge their blessed lands and grottoes into their Yellow Court in order to prolong their lives, and then go into a deep slumber.

This method is naturally inapplicable to those mushroom immortals who are not affiliated with the Yellow Court.

However, there are plenty of methods; the world is full of geniuses and never lacks ingenious ideas.

Like the Blood River Ancestor...

His method of prolonging life through slumber and resolving calamities in blessed lands involves stripping away one's own blessed land and giving it to others!

(End of this chapter)