Mushroom Man

Human hearts are like a play, with curtains rising and falling, ever-changing and unpredictable...

The river of true energy within Wu Liang's dantian evaporated instantly, and the unpredictable nature of human nature triggered its own actions.

In an instant, Ren Nixing stood there dumbfounded, and a saintly heart arose spontaneously within him.

Under the influence of the unpredictable nature of human faces, he actually felt guilty about his actions and voluntarily cancelled the explosive mushroom.

At that very moment, Wu Liang's true energy failed to maintain the unpredictable nature of human emotions, forcing him to abruptly halt his killing move.

The guilt and concern on Ren Nixing's face vanished instantly, replaced by his expressionless face as he once again looked like a mirror.

However, at this moment, even if they recover, it will be too late.

As the instigator, Wu Liang would certainly not miss such a golden opportunity.

The Tianyuan Lingzhi Mushroom spins around.

Wu Liang then refined some of the silver liquid, restoring a few wisps of insignificant true energy.

Although the amount of true energy temporarily condensed is small, it's enough for this critical juncture.

Without the slightest hesitation, Wu Liang made a bold move before his dantian collapsed, activating the Ghost Messenger Mushroom!

The next moment, Wu Liang's thousand souls transformed into ghost messengers, each holding a soul-hooking rope and detaching from their physical bodies.

Once the soul leaves the body and loses the dantian, the foreign true energy no longer affects him.

Furthermore, the Ghost Mushroom primarily consumes not true qi, but rather Wu Liang's soul essence.

"go with!"

After Wu Liang transformed into a ghost messenger, he successfully broke through Ren Nixing's deadly combo, and the situation instantly reversed.

He snorted coldly and threw out the soul-hooking rope formed from his own soul.

The Soul-Hooking Rope flew silently and swiftly toward Ren Nixing.

Ren Nixing had no soul-path abilities and couldn't see the ghost messenger that Wu Liang had transformed into.

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

While you might be able to easily defeat ordinary mushroom masters, you'd be helpless against ghosts.

With all his skills, whether using the cosmic or the qi-based methods, he rarely managed to affect the ghost messengers.

In this situation, Ren Nixing was powerless to resist and was caught by the Soul-Hooking Rope.

Wu Liang seized the opportunity and pulled hard!
Ren Nixing's body trembled involuntarily, and a faint, translucent soul appeared and disappeared.

Clearly, this is Ren Nixing's soul.

However, this is not real; it is merely a simulation created by the mirror maze.

Seeing this, Wu Liang wanted to press on and dragged his soul out.

However, at that moment, a golden light suddenly flashed on Ren Nixing's body...

Three-turn evil-repelling mushroom!
As the leader of a sect, Ren Nixing had some means of guarding against the Soul Path.

The evil-repelling mushroom emitted golden light, causing the soul-snatching rope to melt away inch by inch.

This soul-hooking rope was formed from Wu Liang's soul.

Therefore, what appears to be the Soul-Hooking Rope dissolving is actually Wu Liang's soul.

"Um……"

Wu Liang's soul trembled violently, and he couldn't help but let out a muffled groan.

However, the excruciating pain emanating from his soul only fueled his ruthlessness, his eyes filled with a murderous glint that seemed ready to devour anyone.

Ignoring everything else, Wu Liang actually went to face the golden light emitted by the Evil-Repelling Mushroom, attempting to forcibly pull out Ren Nixing's soul.

In this situation, it looked as if they were heading towards mutual destruction.

And it is indeed true...

Wu Liang possessed a full range of blood-based techniques, but because his true energy had been turned against him by Ren Nixing, he had no chance to use them at all.

For him, the only way to defeat Ren Nixing was through the ghost messengers formed from the souls of a thousand people.

It's all or nothing; it's a fight to the death.

Normally, he would never engage in combat with such an aggressive approach. However, now that he was in the Mirror Maze, everything was a false illusion.

Whatever he does here is just a simulation, a facade.

Even if the dantian collapses and the soul is shattered, everything can be restored to normal as long as the mirror maze ends.

Given this, Wu Liang had no need to hesitate any longer; he was ready to risk his life and get to it.

"Click..."

Perhaps because he was forcibly resisting the evil-repelling mushroom, Wu Liang's soul gradually developed numerous cracks.

However, he disregarded everything and desperately tried to extract Ren Nixing's soul.

Finally, hard work pays off!
Seeing that Wu Liang was about to be completely destroyed, Ren Nixing's soul was finally extracted at the last moment.

After Ren Nixing's soul leaves his body, the Evil-Repelling Mushroom loses its supply of true energy, thus ceasing its activity and returning to calm.

"Go to hell!"

Knowing that his soul was on the verge of collapse and could not hold on for long, Wu Liang struck Ren Nixing's soul with a soul-hooking rope as soon as it was captured, causing Ren Nixing's soul to be scattered.

Ren Nixing's body swayed from side to side, his pupils dilated, and his face lost its luster.

Just hear a "plop" sound!
Ren Nixing fell to the ground with a thud, exploding into a pile of mirror shards with a cracking sound.

"Won……"

"No, that's not right, to be precise, it's a draw."

Wu Liang looked at the shattered mirror image and couldn't help but shake his head.

The next moment, his soul dissipated and turned into wisps of green smoke.

Normally, at this point, he would have been completely annihilated and beyond dead.

However, when the sound of the mirror shattering rang out, everything around them was shattered.

Wu Liang opened his eyes, his consciousness already withdrawn from the mirror maze in front of him.

He looked down at his unharmed body, couldn't help but clench his fist, and then sighed.

"With my current strength, it's still a bit of a stretch to deal with Ren Nixing, who is at the fourth level."

"If Ren Nixing hadn't had a weakness in the path of the soul, I would have suffered a crushing defeat this time."

"Even in the end, when I tried to take advantage of the fickle nature of human nature and the ghostly messengers, I only managed to perish together with them."

Wu Liang was not very satisfied with this.

However, achieving such a result is already quite remarkable.

You should know that Ren Nixing is not an ordinary fourth-level mushroom master, but a mushroom master who follows both the Yu Dao and Qi Dao schools.

The Yu Dao inheritance he possesses comes from the immortal Xiaoyaozi.

Therefore, Ren Nixing's strength is definitely not something insignificant among fourth-level beginner mushroom masters.

Even with his dantian shattered, his true qi lost, and his bloodline techniques rendered unusable, Wu Liang was still able to perish together with Ren Nixing.

This demonstrates that his strength is already enough to rival a fourth-tier beginner mushroom master.

Even when he uses his unpredictable and devastating move, the vast majority of mushroom masters at the early fourth stage might not be his match.

However, Wu Liang clearly has higher expectations for himself.

"Terrible, really terrible. My practical skills need improvement."

"Next time, I will suppress Ren Nixing with sheer force without using the unpredictable nature of human hearts and the Ghost Mushroom."

Wu Liang's eyes were deep and thoughtful as he secretly made up his mind.

At that moment, as he defeated Ren Nixing's fourth-stage mirror image, a fragment of memory flooded into his mind.

Wu Liang was already very familiar with this, so he immediately closed his eyes and silently processed the memory.

About an incense stick later...

Wu Liang digested all the memories, raising an eyebrow slightly, seemingly somewhat surprised.

"There's an unexpected surprise this time?" (End of Chapter)