Mushroom Man

Falling!

An endless fall!
The Dragon Locking Well seemed to connect to a bottomless abyss. Lady Red's body fell weightlessly for a long time, and all she could see was darkness. She couldn't even see the shadow at the bottom of the well.

Panic gripped her heart instantly, and she instinctively reached for the soybean bag at her waist...

By scattering soybeans and summoning Hercules mushrooms, it might be possible to slow down the descent.

She knew all too well that if she kept falling like that, she would surely be smashed to pieces.

But the moment her fingertips touched the coolness of the soybeans, she froze, her mind going completely blank...

At this moment, Lady Red couldn't remember how to activate the Warrior Mushroom!
This feeling is extremely weird.

She clearly remembered what kinds of mushrooms were in her dantian, and could even vividly recall the appearance and effects of the Hercules mushroom.

But she got stuck at the most crucial "stimulating" stage.

No matter how hard she racked her brains, she just couldn't figure out how to activate the mushrooms.

In the past, this would have been impossible.

It should be understood that once a mushroom is refined, the mushroom master's will will fill the mushroom, making it as easy to control as an extension of its own limb.

With just a thought, a mushroom master can use mushrooms at will.

But at this moment, no matter how much Madam Red tried to rouse her thoughts, the mushrooms on her body seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep, showing no response whatsoever.

Only the fear of weightlessness, accompanied by the howling wind, amplified in her ears.

"Father, father..."

"Help! I'm so scared!"

"Mother... mother..."

After being cleansed by the River of Forgetfulness, Lady Hong only recognized Wu Liang and Yan Zhaodi in her mind.

Caught in the grip of the fear of weightlessness, she instinctively cried out for her parents.

But in the bottomless well, only the sound of the wind echoed, without any response.

In her panic, Madam Red suddenly remembered something and hurriedly touched her eye socket with her fingertips...

Her father had previously given her new eyes, saying he wanted to use them to see what was happening down in the well.

So, her father might be watching her right now!
As long as she lets her father know that something is wrong and that she can't activate the mushrooms, he will definitely try to save her!
However, the moment her fingertips touched her eye socket, Lady Red froze.

Instead of the expected sensation of eyeballs, there was only a sticky, warm blood smeared on my fingertips.

Her eye sockets were empty; not only were the blood-eyed mushrooms her father had given her gone, but even her own original eyes were missing.

The memory of digging out eyes to replace mushrooms is like a layer of fog, so blurry that it's impossible to grasp.

Lady Red frowned hard as she tried to recall, and fragmented pieces of information finally surfaced!
It turns out that after she gouged out her own eyes, she didn't even have time to replace them with Blood Eye Mushrooms before she jumped straight into the Dragon Locking Well as if she were possessed.

wrong……

She clearly changed into the Blood-Eyed Mushroom...

My thoughts were like threads tangled in a storm, a complete mess.

The more Lady Red thought about it, the more confused she became. Every time she tried to grasp a memory, even more bizarre ideas would pop into her head.

Thinking about Blood-Eyed Mushrooms, one moment I remembered I hadn't changed them, the next moment I felt like Blood-Eyed Mushrooms had never existed.

In the end, she even became confused and began to doubt whether she actually had a father.
Lady Red seemed to be trapped in a dream from which she could not wake up, with one idea after another popping up, but none of them could stand up to scrutiny.

One second she was still wondering about the whereabouts of the Blood-Eyed Mushroom, and the next second she began to doubt whether her father had sent her to investigate the Dragon-Locking Well.
Chaos, indescribable chaos!

Fear, unspeakable fear!

The two engulfed Lady Red like a tidal wave, completely swallowing her up.

Just as the popular lady was about to completely succumb to this endless chaos...

"Om-"

A familiar ringing sound suddenly exploded in her ears, abruptly halting Lady Red's chaotic thoughts. A thought flashed through her mind: "That voice... why does it sound so familiar?"

Yes!

This is clearly the sound of a Bodhi seed being activated!

The thought had barely formed when a strange sensation suddenly came from Madam Hong's dantian.

She subconsciously focused her mind to investigate, and was surprised to see a magical mushroom quietly standing in the center of her dantian...

The mushroom body shimmered with a lustrous indigo halo, its appearance as exquisite as if carved from glass—it was the Bodhi seed she had just remembered!
"Wait, how come I have a blue herb?"

Lady Red was completely stunned by what she saw, looking utterly bewildered and at a loss.

"Isn't this Father's magic mushroom?"

"Wait... how would I know that Father has this magic mushroom?"

The more Lady Red thought about it, the more absurd it seemed. Her previously chaotic consciousness was instead pierced by this sense of absurdity.

A sliver of clarity pierced through the fog, making her suddenly realize that something was wrong.

Wu Liang's 'Jian Shou Qing' mushroom had never been revealed to her, so she had no reason to know about its existence!
A chilling thought crept out through the crack, instantly gripping her attention...

"Am I... really the Red Lady?"

The moment those words exploded in my mind, all the confusion and bewilderment receded like a tide, and my consciousness suddenly became incredibly clear.

Just then, an anxious shout pierced through the howling wind in the well and clearly reached her ears.

"Father! Father, wake up!"

……

Trapped in a dragon's cage.

Wu Liang suddenly opened his eyes, as if he had just had a nightmare, and gasped for breath.

He immediately looked around.

Only then did he realize that he was sitting on the Dragon-Locking Well, with both of his legs already inside.

Madam Hong looked anxious and held his arm tightly to prevent him from falling into the well due to carelessness.

Upon seeing this, Wu Liang's pupils suddenly contracted.

Without a second thought, he quickly led Madam Hong away from the Locked Dragon Well as if avoiding a venomous snake.

By this point, he was fully aware that he had unknowingly fallen into the trap of the Dragon-Locking Well.

That's why he mistook himself for Lady Hong and almost fell into this trap, getting trapped in the Dragon Locking Well.

After Wu Liang moved several feet away from the Dragon Locking Well, he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that nothing strange had happened again.

He looked at the worried-looking Madam Hong, frowned, and asked, "What just happened?"

"Why did I suddenly run to the Locked Dragon Well? Tell me everything you know."

When her father asked, Madam Hong dared not hide anything and immediately recounted everything she had just witnessed in detail...

It turns out that Wu Liang had unknowingly fallen into the trap of the Dragon Locking Well from the very beginning when he approached it.

He released Lady Red from the Demon-Suppressing Tower and had just finished telling her to take the Blood-Eyed Mushroom when he fell asleep.

And he looked completely dazed as he tried to jump into the Dragon Lock Well.

Seeing this, Madam Hong guessed that her father might have fallen into a trap, so she desperately tried to stop him, which prevented Wu Liang from throwing himself into the well.

"What a magnificent Dragon-Locking Well!"

After hearing the whole story, Wu Liang was horrified, his face filled with lingering fear.

Fortunately, he noticed something unusual about Shouqing at the crucial moment; otherwise, he might have fallen headfirst into the Locked Dragon Well.

The consequences would be unimaginable... (End of Chapter)