Mushroom Man

Chapter 286 A Sudden Increase in Strength, a Blood Path Prodigy

"Triple-turn Ghost Mushroom".

"Yan Zhaodi has indeed not disappointed me; she has actually managed to refine this mushroom."

As Wu Liang played with the Soul Path Mushroom, his regard for Yan Zhaodi deepened even further.

The recipe for the Three-Turn Ghost Mushroom originates from the memories of the Blood River Ancestor.

This mushroom was once widely circulated and is one of the earlier ghost-themed mushrooms in the Soul Path series.

As is widely known, the Soul Path was created by Huiyue Tianzun, one of the two sons of the Mushroom People, in ancient times.

It has endured through ancient times, the Middle Ages, and the early modern period.

The Ghost Mushroom series of mushrooms has been passed down from ancient times to the present day.

This mushroom isn't particularly powerful; its function is to transform the soul of a Soul Master into a ghost, granting it the ability to briefly leave the body and harm others.

Blood River Ancestor has dabbled in all the mushroom recipes, from the first to the fifth level.

They are: First-stage Vengeful Ghost Mushroom, Second-stage Fierce Ghost Mushroom, Third-stage Vicious Ghost Mushroom, Fourth-stage Evil Ghost Mushroom, and Fifth-stage Rakshasa Mushroom.

Among them, the Five-Turn Rakshasa Mushroom was once used by Abbot Shanren.

Back when Abbot Shanren was fighting against a hundred enemies in the Demon Suppression Tower, he transformed into a blue-faced, fanged demon, and that was the effect of the Rakshasa Mushroom.

While the third-tier Ghost Mushroom isn't as powerful as the Rakshasa Mushroom, it's still a decent means of killing among Soul Path Mushrooms of the same rank.

To activate this mushroom, the mushroom master must first possess a strong spiritual foundation.

The higher the spiritual foundation, the more ferocious the vengeful ghost it transforms into.

If Wu Liang were to transform the souls of a thousand people into vengeful ghosts, it would likely be enough to serve as a trump card.

The resources required for an ordinary mushroom master to refine this mushroom are extremely terrifying.

This mushroom requires a large number of souls as its material, but ordinary mushroom masters simply cannot find enough souls.

This is Wu Liang, who is currently in the blessed land of the Soul Path Mushroom Immortal. Soul Path Mushroom materials are everywhere, and there are also a large number of souls in Soul-Destroying Ridge that can be taken and used at will.

Under these circumstances, he could try to refine most Soul Path Mushrooms, as long as their Reincarnation level wasn't too high.

If he weren't worried that squandering the mushrooms here might attract Zhuge Huowang's attention and cause setbacks in his plans, he would have emptied Xiaohun Ridge long ago.

Originally, Wu Liang intended to refine this third-level Soul Dao mushroom himself.

Unfortunately, the Blood River Ancestor's achievements in the Soul Path were not great. Although he had some knowledge of it, he could not be considered an expert.

Even after Wu Liang absorbed the Blood River Ancestor's Soul Dao realm, he only barely reached the Soul Dao Apprentice realm.

Even with both Soul Path Apprentices and Refining Path Apprentices, the success rate of refining a third-tier Soul Path Mushroom is less than 50%.

That's why Wu Liang was worried that failure would waste time, so he entrusted the Ghost Mushroom to Yan Zhaodi for refining.

As expected, Zhao Di did not disappoint his trust...

Although he did not possess the Soul Dao realm, he still easily refined this mushroom thanks to his extremely high level of alchemy skills.

With this mushroom, his thousand souls would no longer be just for show.

Upon recalling this, Wu Liang instantly refined the Ghost Mushroom.

With a single thought, his soul materialized and transformed into a vengeful ghost.

The bloated, dark blue soul, under the influence of the Ghost Mushroom, became hideous and its size increased dramatically once again.

In less than a moment...

The originally bloated and swollen soul transformed into a fat, strong, tall, and robust vengeful ghost with a blue face, fangs, and blood-red eyes.

This appearance is extremely intimidating; just one glance at it can frighten someone into staying awake.

The surrounding temperature dropped as a result, as if it were the dead of winter, so cold that it made your bones shiver.

"This feeling……"

Wu Liang transformed into a vengeful ghost, his soul briefly leaving his body.

He was like a ghost within the Demon Suppression Tower, appearing and disappearing without a trace, constantly flying back and forth, silently adapting to the changes brought about by the Ghost Mushroom.

Before long, he figured out how long his thousand souls, after transforming into vengeful ghosts, could linger in the outside world.

"About ten breaths?"

Wu Liang's soul returned to its place, and he frowned, dissatisfied with the situation.

Back then, Chief Wu was also a thousand souls, yet he was able to linger in the world for so long after his soul left his body and his physical body died, while he could only linger for ten breaths.

The difference is considerable...

Ultimately, it comes down to his lack of skill in the art of soul manipulation.

He may have caught up with Chief Wu in terms of spiritual power, but he was far inferior in terms of spiritual techniques.

But it's not a big deal.

Anyway, he won't be focusing on the path of the soul in the future; as long as he has enough souls, that's fine.

Now that he can separate from his body for ten breaths, it will be enough for him to carry out his escape plan.

Thinking of this, Wu Liang carefully put away the Ghost Mushroom.

Of the eight mushrooms that Yan Zhaodi refined this time, apart from this Ghost Mushroom, the remaining seven were all Blood Path Mushrooms.

Currently, Wu Liang possesses only the most complete Blood Path inheritance, which points directly to the Seventh Rank Mushroom Immortal.

At the same time, because of the Blood-eating Mushroom, there is no shortage of Blood-eating Mushroom material in the Soul-Destroying Ridge.

After careful consideration, the priority should naturally be to cultivate the Blood Path to quickly improve one's strength.

Blood Path is recognized as one of the five strongest offensive techniques in the Mushroom World, and it is also the fastest to master. If Wu Liang wants to possess monstrous strength in a short period of time and catch up with those so-called Dao Bodies, he must focus on developing Blood Path and rely on the legacy of Blood River Ancestor.

That's why he had Yan Zhaodi focus all her attention on the blood path.

"Of the seven blood-path mushrooms, five were originally used by the Nine Clans to remove this killing move, but they have been modified."

"The Blood Curse Mushroom, Blood Compensation Mushroom, and Bloodline Mushroom, all of which were upgraded to the third level, have had their power greatly enhanced compared to before."

"The second-stage Blood Sensing Mushroom has been refined into a third-stage Bloodline Mushroom. As long as there is a blood relationship, a connection can be established."

"The original healing mushroom has been lost, so I had to refine a new one and upgrade it to the third level."

"The three-stage healing mushroom still has a better recovery effect than the life-restoring mushroom. It's a pity that it can only be used on myself, otherwise I could try it on Iron Slave."

Wu Liang combed through the modified nine clans' separations, his eyes gleaming with bloodlust.

The original Nine Clans Separation only had one third-tier mushroom, Blood Sacrifice Mushroom, which strictly speaking could only be considered a second-tier killing move.

If the White Horn leader hadn't been completely unprepared for this, and hadn't fallen victim to it at such a crucial moment, the impact would likely have been negligible.

Now, with the vision of a Blood Immortal, Wu Liang has improved this killing move, making it completely different from before.

The new killing move, Nine Clans Stripping, is composed of six three-stage mushrooms: Bloodline Mushroom, Bloodline Mushroom, Blood Curse Mushroom, Bleeding Mushroom, Blood Compensation Mushroom, and Blood Recovery Mushroom.

This set of killer moves is more complete than before.

The only drawback is that it requires a great deal of true energy and the ability to multitask because it needs to activate six 3rd-stage mushrooms at the same time.

Fortunately, neither of these two points were a problem for Wu Liang.

With his current thousand-man soul, he could easily command tens of thousands of mushroom beasts. Multitasking by activating six mushrooms was nothing to him.

As for true qi, needless to say, the Heavenly Origin Spirit Mushroom is enough to make him not need to worry about the consumption of true qi.

This killer move is already extremely well-developed, but there is still a great deal of room for improvement.

If it continues to improve, it might no longer be limited to one's own relatives, but could even wipe out the entire enemy's entire clan.

However, there is still a long way to go to achieve this.

If this move really succeeds, then probably few mushroom masters in the mushroom world will dare to provoke him.

After all, nobody wants to end up with their entire family wiped out while they're fighting, suddenly becoming a lonely figure.

Wu Liang sneered and then turned his attention to the last two blood fungi.

These two blood-channel mushrooms were specially made by Yan Zhaodi at his request.

These are the three-stage Blood-Cleansing Mushroom and the three-stage Blood-Sucking Fly Mushroom.

The effect of the Three-Turn Blood Purification Mushroom is extremely simple: it allows mushroom masters to purify their own bloodline, making it even purer.

This is a crucial part of his escape plan.

As for the three-turn blood-sucking mosquitoes and flies, they are there to supplement the means of killing them.

The third-stage bloodsucking mosquito flies, when refined to the fourth stage, become the bloodsucking demonic mosquito mushrooms.

Abbot Shanren once used this mushroom to deal with Abbess Wen and Wu Xingzhe.

It is said that this series of mushrooms all came from the ancient demonic mushroom master, Mosquito Taoist, in the Western Regions.

However, according to the Blood River Ancestor's memories, the series of fungi, including the Blood-Sucking Mosquito, actually existed as early as the Middle Ages.

At that time, there were five infamous and ferocious mushroom beasts in the mushroom world: the six-winged demon mosquito, the six-winged golden cicada, the six-tailed poisonous scorpion, the six-eyed golden centipede, and the six-headed worm.

The Bloodthirsty Demon Mosquito was actually refined from the Six-Winged Demon Mosquito of the Fairy Mushroom Beast.

Clearly, the mosquito Taoist from the Western Regions only obtained a copy of the Six-Winged Demon Mosquito's legacy by chance.

It was not him who developed this type of mushroom.

Wu Liang wanted Yan Zhaodi to refine this mushroom so that he could cultivate a six-winged bloodthirsty mosquito in the future.

At the same time, he also had a serrated golden centipede mushroom on his body.

With slight modifications, this mushroom could completely bypass the Electric-toothed Killer Centipede's refining path and instead follow the Multi-eyed Golden Centipede's refining path.

In this way, he would have mastered two kinds of mushrooms that were known as the five most ferocious insects in the Middle Ages.

"good……"

Wu Liang nodded slightly and casually collected all the mushrooms.

During this period, it wasn't just Yan Zhaodi who was working on mushroom cultivation; he was also busy.

For more than half a month, he endured loneliness to strengthen his soul while refining mushrooms, reaping a bountiful harvest.

In the past two weeks, he has only refined two mushrooms, one of which was the third-level Blood Hand Mushroom that he had used before.

As a common third-stage bloodline mushroom, the Blood Hand Mushroom was extremely easy to refine, taking him only one or two days.

He spent the rest of his time smashing another blood mushroom.

It was because of that Blood Path Mushroom that Wu Liang was able to digest a portion of the Blood Path Realm of the Blood River Ancestor.

That's right!

Currently, his Blood Dao realm has reached the level of Blood Dao Master.

A third-level mushroom master, yet possessing the cultivation level of a Blood Dao Master.

In some ways, he is already on par with Yan Zhaodi, the master of alchemy.

Of course, Yan Zhaodi relied purely on her own talent, while Wu Liang stood on the shoulders of his predecessors.

However, in Wu Liang's view, there is no such thing as predecessors or predecessors.

His attainment of the Blood Dao Master status was entirely due to his own efforts, and had nothing to do with anyone else!
(End of this chapter)