Mushroom Man

However, the reality is not so simple...

This medicinal dish is not made from mushrooms, nor can it replace dragon blood mushrooms; the two are fundamentally different.

Dragon blood mushrooms are like medicine for diseases, alleviating so-called stubborn ailments by addressing the root cause.

While medicinal diets are said to suppress stubborn diseases, they are actually more about forcibly stimulating vitality.

This approach relies on a burst of vitality in a short period of time to resist the effects of the intractable disease, creating the illusion of suppressing it.

This is somewhat like a final burst of energy before death, allowing patients to temporarily ignore their pain and feel refreshed.

This shows that there is a price to pay for taking medicinal cuisine.

This is tantamount to prematurely depleting one's physical reserves and squandering them in the present.

The most obvious cost is a shortened lifespan.

That's why Ao Miaoyin kept her idea of ​​this medicinal diet a secret from her father.

Because Ao Miaoyin clearly knew...

Given her father's character, he would never allow her to use such a method that would shorten her lifespan to alleviate her chronic illness.

Overdrawing one's lifespan means a slow death; however painful a chronic disease may be, there is still a possibility of a cure.

However, if one's lifespan is exhausted, then there is almost no chance of survival except by resorting to unorthodox methods.

Of course, if possible, Ao Miaoyin would not want to suppress her chronic illness in this way.

However, she really didn't want her father to worry about her anymore.

The villains are still hiding in the Dragon Palace, and Father is extremely busy dealing with this matter.

As her father's daughter, she didn't ask to help him in any way, but at the very least, she couldn't be a burden to him at this critical juncture.

Moreover, in Ao Miaoyin's view, overdrawing one's lifespan is not so terrible.

She had already accepted that her chronic illness was incurable.

In this situation, it makes no difference whether one dies from overdrawing their lifespan or from the pain caused by a chronic illness; it's just a matter of dying sooner or later.

Moreover, lifespan is only useful when you actually live to that point.

If one dies young or from illness, then having a long life is meaningless.

If that's the case, it's better to live in the present moment while it's still young.

This way, not only will there be less pain, but it will also ease Father's worries...

"Gudong..."

Ao Miaoyin carefully drank the medicinal food, sip by sip.

In no time at all, the medicine took effect.

Ao Miaoyin's originally bloodless face gradually became rosy, and her eyes became brighter and brighter.

His energy and spirit became increasingly vigorous at a visible rate.

In the short time it takes to drink a cup of tea, Ao Miaoyin seemed to have just recovered from a serious illness, radiating vitality and regaining the energy a young girl should have.

At first glance, Ao Miaoyin looked even healthier than before, showing no signs of being sickly.

However, all of this is nothing more than a temporary, fleeting illusion, a last gasp before the sun sets.

If someone were to look closely, they would notice that Ao Miaoyin's once black hair had now been streaked with gray.

"We mustn't let Father and Young Master Wu see this..."

Having regained her health, Ao Miaoyin walked to a glass mirror and noticed her graying hair.

Her brows furrowed slightly; she was very concerned about it.

If my father saw my white hair, he would definitely ask me all sorts of questions, which would only cause more trouble.

And if Young Master Wu were to accidentally see her looking like an old woman...

Ao Miaoyin quickly shook her head, no longer wanting to think about it further.

Without hesitation, she immediately had an idea.

The next moment, a wind blade circled around the hair several times.

Immediately afterwards, she cut off any hair that had turned gray.

Fortunately, Ao Miaoyin had thick hair, so even if she cut off her white hair, no one could tell anything was wrong.

Otherwise, she would probably become the first bald dragon girl.

After Ao Miaoyin finished doing all this, she nodded slightly and then looked out the window.

"The villains have fled, and the human race has wreaked havoc in the Dragon Palace."

"Young Master Wu must be feeling quite uncomfortable being caught in the middle."

"I wonder what he's thinking right now..."

"Given Young Master Wu's kind nature, he probably feels guilty that Huang'er was kidnapped by villains..."

……

Demon-suppressing tower.

A few hours later.

"Jie Jie Jie!"

Wu Liang laughed heartily, his demeanor sunny, cheerful, refined, and easygoing.

At this moment, he was in a great mood!
Without a doubt, the mushroom frying process is progressing extremely smoothly!
Wu Liang waved his hand, and the blood pool churned and spewed blood like a fountain.

One, two, three...

Three mushrooms gushed out from it.

With a thought, Wu Liang grabbed the three mushrooms and instantly refined them.

That's right!

It's just three mushrooms!

Of course, these three mushrooms were definitely not cooked at the same time.

Even with Wu Liang's mushroom processing skills, he couldn't process multiple mushrooms at the same time.

Even a master of alchemy couldn't do that. Two of these three mushrooms, which are Soul Dao mushrooms, were refined by Wu Liang over the course of half a day.

The other one is the Blood Vessel Mushroom, which he began refining before Huang'er woke up.

This mushroom needs to be irrigated with blood, which is why it has been placed in the blood pool to settle until now.

Now it's just perfect, everything has come together.

"It seems that my mushroom refining skills are almost at the level of a master refiner."

"While I was refining the mushrooms just now, I had a vague intuition about whether the process was successful or not."

"Fortunately, my intuition helped me stop in time, avoiding a failure. Otherwise, I might not have been able to refine two Soul Dao Mushrooms."

Wu Liang narrowed his eyes, rubbing his chin thoughtfully.

As a master of bloodline, he naturally knew exactly what this intuition was.

As is well known, when a mushroom master reaches the level of a certain school of mushroom cultivation, they will naturally develop a kind of intuition.

This intuition is mysterious and inexplicable.

Once a mushroom master possesses this intuition, it can greatly assist them in deriving mushroom recipes, refining mushrooms, and constructing deadly techniques.

For example, if Wu Liang, as a master of the Blood Dao, were to deduce the Blood Dao Mushroom recipe, he could rely on his intuition to judge whether the recipe was feasible and where it needed improvement.

Alternatively, by constructing blood-path killing moves, Wu Liang could have more ingenious ideas than others, and his killing moves would be more profound and more effective.

The intuition of a master alchemist is more evident in mushroom refining.

It allows mushroom growers to use their intuition to judge where things are wrong in the mushroom cultivation process, whether it will fail, and how to optimize and improve it.

It is obvious that the intuition brought by masters of this school is extremely important.

Even during combat, intuition can be helpful.

Wu Liang had just touched the threshold of the Dao of Refining Intuition during the process of refining mushrooms.

However, he did not actually reach the level of a master of alchemy; he merely grasped this intuition by chance.

Of course, even so, it was a huge help to him.

At the very least, Wu Liang, who has experienced the intuition of refining the Dao, should be able to gradually master this feeling in the process of refining mushrooms in the future, and he should be able to reach the level of a master of refining the Dao faster than expected.

Wu Liang's eyes flickered, and he temporarily suppressed the distracting thoughts in his mind, no longer wanting to think about these random things.

"Unfortunately, the number of dragon-human materials captured this time is still too small, and there are only about ten usable souls."

"After careful consideration and combining the remaining soul resources, I was able to refine these two soul mushrooms."

"If I want to refine Dragon Soul Mushrooms and transform my soul in the future, I'll have to find a way to harvest more Dragonman mushroom materials..."

Wu Liang felt a little regretful, then opened his palm, revealing the two Soul Path Mushrooms.

First up is the Triple-Rank Dragon Soul Mushroom.

This mushroom was created by combining the soul of a dragon-man, some dragon-man mushroom materials, and a little dragon-fish mushroom material with two second-stage soul-path mushrooms that were secretly obtained from the Dragon Palace.

The function of the Dragon Soul Mushroom is to transform the soul of the mushroom master into the soul of a dragon.

However, Wu Liang did not refine this mushroom for the purpose of transforming the soul or refining the soul.

Although the Dragon Soul Mushroom can also preserve some of his soul's essence, it is worlds apart from the Dragon Soul Mushroom.

Wu Liang will naturally use the best, and will definitely not use anything backward compatible, such as Jiaohun Mushroom.

Although you can use the Dragon Soul Mushroom and then try to convert it into a Dragon Soul, it's too troublesome to do so directly.

Wu Liang refined this mushroom simply because it was one of the main ingredients for refining the Dragon Soul Mushroom.

The fourth-tier Dragon Soul Mushroom requires Fish Soul Mushroom and Flood Dragon Soul Mushroom, along with thousands of Dragon Human Souls, to be crafted.

Refining Fish Soul Mushrooms requires a large number of fish and mushroom beast souls, which is not difficult for Wu Liang to obtain.

After all, the Dragon Palace has no shortage of dragonfish...

It can be said that Wu Liang only needs a thousand more dragon souls to begin refining the Dragon Soul Mushroom.

As for where the dragon people's souls would come from, Wu Liang already had an idea, but he would consider it further once the plan was implemented.

Meanwhile, besides refining the third-stage Dragon Soul Mushroom, Wu Liang also...

He also used the leftover scraps, combined with some of the slave mushroom materials, to refine the three-turn evil ghost mushroom into a three-turn ghost messenger mushroom.

That's right!

Wu Liang gave up on the Ghost Mushroom.

While the Ghost Mushroom can indeed cause his soul to leave his body and possess a certain degree of lethality, its effect is ultimately too singular.

Moreover, he is not a Soul Master, and his soul can easily leave his body. If he encounters any means that can damage his soul, he will undoubtedly be delivering his vital organs to his doorstep.

For this reason, after much deliberation, Wu Liang decided to refine the Ghost Mushroom into the Ghost Messenger Mushroom.

Both the Ghost Mushroom and the Fierce Ghost Mushroom originated from the Celestial Venerable of Obscure Moon and have been passed down from ancient times to the present.

Compared to the well-known Ghost Mushroom, the Ghost Mushroom is much rarer.

Even the Blood River Ancestor only possessed recipes for Ghost Messenger Mushrooms from level one to four.

Compared to the Ghost Mushroom, which can be upgraded to the fifth-level Rakshasa Mushroom, the Ghost Messenger Mushroom's potential is significantly lower.

However, there's a reason why rare mushrooms are rare.

The third-stage Ghost Messenger Mushroom can not only cause the mushroom master's soul to leave the body, but also transform the mushroom master's soul into a ghost messenger.

As the saying goes:
The ghost messengers traverse the dark and mysterious paths, their black robes concealing their forms in the night.

The cold creak of chains startled the roosting birds; they snatched souls and led them to the underworld.

Ghost messengers are especially skilled at capturing souls and taking lives.

The third-stage Ghost Messenger Mushroom is undoubtedly equivalent to the Soul-Binding Mushroom, which can cause the Mushroom Master's soul to leave the body.

However, compared to the Soul-Binding Mushroom, the Soul-Binding Effect of the Ghost Messenger Mushroom depends on the strength of the mushroom master's soul.

Although Wu Liang's soul was riddled with holes, it was still a genuine soul of a thousand people.

Looking at those who have reached the third or even fourth stage of cultivation, few souls can compare to his.

Under these circumstances, Wu Liang's refining of the Ghost Messenger Mushroom couldn't be more suitable... (End of Chapter)