The world enters the fungal world

Chapter 154 Mossy Remains (Thanks to Crazy Peach for the donation)

Li Yu lowered his eyes slightly and said slowly, "Of course you can. Qian Lili, remember this: never panic when you encounter danger. Keep calm. Actually, the three of you are already quite strong. If you work together, you should be able to deal with a Burial Flower Corpse Beast."

Although Lin Muying, Qian Lili, and Zhou Xigang are only at the advanced level, Lin Muying possesses two special abilities that have amazing effects, enhancing their strength and speed.

Moreover, they all possess powerful fungal techniques, so as long as they cooperate well, killing a Burial Flower Corpse Beast is not difficult.

Lin Muying nodded slightly and hummed in agreement, her face somewhat pale, and said, "If it were just one, we wouldn't be afraid, but there are just too many of them."

Li Yu sighed softly and asked, "How far are you from breaking through?"

He was originally confident that he could bring Lin Muying, Qian Lili and the other two into Lingxu City, but the encounters along the way made him lose half of his confidence. The three of them, at the advanced stage of the spore stage, were too weak. It would be too difficult to bring them to Lingxu City. A better way would be for them to break through on their own.

Zhou Xigang looked at him and said, "It's probably still quite a bit short. It's hard to say right now. What's wrong?"

Li Yu said with a somewhat grave expression, "I reached the advanced level three days earlier than you. Judging from the current situation, the journey will likely become increasingly dangerous. You must also do your best and don't be afraid. If you see any monsters, attack them immediately. I won't stray too far from you. I will intervene if there is any danger. You must accelerate the growth of your spores and strive to break through as soon as possible."

Lin Muying nodded, her eyes showing determination. Qian Lili and Zhou Xigang also nodded slightly, their expressions showing some tension. For Li Yu to say these words, he must have felt immense pressure.

"Although the journey is fraught with danger, it is also a rare opportunity; in this situation, it is easiest to stimulate the growth of the natal bacteria."

Don't miss this opportunity.

In such a perilous situation where danger or even death is always at risk, the survival instinct of all the spores will be stimulated. Under this stimulation, if they can fight harder, the growth rate of their spores will definitely increase.

Li Yu himself felt the spores had grown significantly in a short period of time.

Now he vaguely understood why Bai Xiuluo said that if they wanted to reach Lingxu City, their team would need at least two or three top-tier experts to even have a chance.

Without sufficient strength, let alone entering Lingxu City, one would probably already be dead.

Suddenly, the front of the line stopped.

The people behind, unaware of what had happened, stopped when they saw the people in front stop as well.

Li Yu led Lin Muying, Qian Lili, and Zhou Xigang toward the front of the group.

Everyone else knew that Li Yu was a peak expert, even stronger than Tang Burou and Yi Han. When they saw him leading his people forward, they all made way for him.

The road ahead of the group was still wide, but on either side of the road appeared two enormous, deep pits.

At this moment, Yi Han and Tang Burou, who were at the front of the group, looked at the deep pits on both sides, and their faces showed solemn and ugly expressions.

Li Yu walked over and saw the deep pits on both sides of the road ahead, his eyes narrowing slightly.

In the billowing black fog, he couldn't see how vast the pits on both sides were. He could only see that there were rows of graves and numerous stone-built tombs in the giant pits. It seemed that this place had once been an ancient tomb complex, but now it was covered by countless mycelia.

He saw that most of the originally bluish-gray tombstones were buried in thick, dark green moss, and lichens crawled along the cracks in the stones, covering various broken stone tablets.

Clumps of brownish-red saprophytic fungi bulged outward from the collapsed tomb passage, and milky-white net-like mycelium entwined the rotting coffin. Countless tiny pieces of moss spread along the exposed coffin.

Between these cracked ancient tombs and rotting coffins, black mist billowed, and countless human-shaped shadowy figures roamed within it.

These dark figures looked like humanoid figures pieced together from the rotting remains of various wild animals, ranging in height from less than 1.5 meters to over 2 meters.

Its bones are exposed, its skin and flesh are ulcerated and black, and its body surface is covered with gray-green shell-like lichen and moss in the cracks.

Dark red saprophytic fungi grow in clusters on the chest, abdomen, and back. The stipes pierce the rotting flesh and bulge outwards. Most of the skin and flesh of the limbs are replaced by hyphae. The soles of the feet are covered with a thick layer of water-absorbing moss, and turbid putrid liquid drips when walking.

Most of the skull was peeled away, and the eye sockets were covered with small, fluorescent green fungi. There were no complete facial features, and a large number of fungal tendrils that were one or two meters long were emerging from the slits of the eyes, ears, and mouth.

These fungal tentacles, covered in thorns, extend and coil in all directions from the head as the central point, looking like a rotting corpse topped with a decaying jellyfish head covered in tentacles, which is indescribably bizarre.

The black mist obscured their exact numbers; at a glance, they appeared densely packed, all of these monsters.

They moved slowly, wandering among the deep pits and ancient tombs on both sides, seemingly unaware of the approaching group.

Li Yu took a deep breath, and Tang Burou whispered, "They are mossy skeletons. They have no eyes or ears, so they can't see or hear people. They rely entirely on their tentacles to sense living people within a certain range. As long as we don't get close to them, we'll be fine."

Yi Han raised an eyebrow and chuckled, "If we want to get over there, we'll definitely alert them."

Tang Burou frowned slightly, realizing that Yi Han was right, as the road ahead passed between the two deep pits.

If they keep going, the mossy skeletons wandering in the deep pits on both sides of the road will surely sense them.

Li Yu knew that these mossy skeletons were C-level beasts, with strength similar to the Burial Flower Corpse Beast. They were not difficult for top-level experts to deal with, but their greatest threat was their sheer number.

Dozens of people gathered here, looking at the dense mossy skeletons on both sides of the road. Many of the advanced spore stage people felt their scalps tingle. For them, any mossy skeleton could kill them.

Yi Han stretched out his right hand, and a crystal-clear jade ruler appeared in his hand.

This piece is five centimeters wide and about one meter long. It looks like it was carved from jade, with a lot of exquisite patterns on its surface.

"There's no point in talking nonsense, let's go for it!"

Yi Han suddenly let out a low chuckle, holding the jade ruler, and was the first to rush up the road.

Fang Ziming and Zhou Chengyuan followed closely behind.

The group that had been gathered there surged forward as the three of them charged ahead, with the others joining in.

Taking advantage of the fact that the mossy skeletons were only wandering around in the deep pits on both sides and had not noticed them, they wanted to seize this opportunity to rush over.

As Yi Han rushed out first, the mossy skeletons that had been slowly wandering in the deep pits on both sides of the road suddenly became like hungry wolves that had smelled blood.

They immediately turned their heads, and the fungal tendrils extending from the slits of their eyes, ears, and mouths explored towards them.

They sensed that there were living people moving on the road.

The body, which had been slow and sluggish, suddenly accelerated, and a strange "whoosh" sound came from inside the head. It immediately surged like a tide through the pits on both sides and rushed toward the road in the middle.

The pit was about four or five meters deep from the road surface, with long slopes on both sides. Yi Han, who was rushing the fastest, saw swarms of mossy skeletons suddenly emerge from the slopes on both sides and rush towards the road.

If he were to sprint at full speed, it wouldn't be difficult for him to overtake, but behind him are a large number of top-tier and high-level players who cannot keep up with his speed.

He didn't want to abandon his teammates for the time being, so he could only slow down and lead everyone forward.

Behind him, sixty or seventy people strode forward, especially the advanced spore stage members in the group, who were sprinting with all their might. In this perilous environment where anyone who fell behind would die, no one dared not fight back.

Lin Muying, Qian Lili, and Zhou Xigang followed closely behind Li Yu, all three of them running forward with all their might.

The first mossy skeleton finally rushed onto the road and appeared in front of Ihan.

Yi Han opened his mouth and let out a wild laugh, then swung his right jade ruler, sending out a beam of white light.

With a "plop," the mossy skeleton was struck by the white light, which pierced through its body, splitting the lunging body apart and causing it to fall heavily to the ground.

Then came the second one, the third one—

Soon, more than a dozen moss-covered skeletons collapsed.

On both sides of the road, countless mossy corpses rushed towards the crowd with a "whoosh" sound.

Their attack method is the numerous fungal tendrils that extend from their heads. These tendrils can be lashed out like whips or coiled around like snakes and pythons.

These fungal tendrils contain extremely powerful energy; once they entangle the body, the fungal technique "Corpse Entanglement" can be activated.

The power of the corpses within the fungus's tendrils erupts, easily piercing flesh and shredding it into countless chunks.

Fang Ziming and Zhou Chengyuan, who were following behind Yi Han, went all out.

Fang Zimo spread his hands, and countless rays of light appeared and disappeared in the black mist, intersecting with a mossy skeleton that rushed towards him.

With a sudden yank of both hands, the mossy skeleton that had charged forward suddenly shattered into pieces.

He is a top-tier fighter, with strength comparable to Zhao Wu. Once he goes all out, even a common C-rank bacterium beast is no match for him.

The group of sixty or seventy people consisted of top-tier experts on both sides.

These mossy, swarming corpses were blocked by more than twenty top-tier experts.

Forty or fifty high-level spore-stage cultivators were protected in the middle of the group.

Tang Burou fell behind to the right side of the group, her right hand whipping out unpredictably, each strike shattering any mossy creatures that tried to approach.

Besides her, the group on the right also included Zhao Wu, Fang Qinian, Zhou Dingfeng, and others.

Li Yu then protected Lin Muying and the others, appearing on the left side of the group. The left side of the group also had many top experts, such as Han Zichuan, Wen Jingming, Jiang Yuan, Xu Mengwan, and others.

Behind the group, top experts such as Fang Bo, Meng Suqing, and Peng Shaoan were also covering the rear.

In a short time, more than two hundred moss-covered corpses surged up from the deep pits on both sides, while more than twenty top experts guarded the area like an iron barrel, constantly breaking through along the road.

Once they break out of these two deep, ancient tombs and escape the lair of these moss-covered corpses, they will be safe.

Soon, the group moved forward along the road for thirty or forty meters. Suddenly, from the dark, mossy corpses on both sides, a giant skeleton with a body over two and a half meters tall appeared.

They pushed aside the mossy skeletons blocking their way and rushed toward the road at an extremely fast speed.

Seeing this from afar, Li Yu's heart sank slightly, and he gripped the Heavenly Wolf Blade tightly in his right hand, knowing that an even more powerful monster had appeared.

The skeleton of this giant carcass was completely reconstructed by mycelium, its trunk was as thick as a dead giant tree, and its surface had a lot of hardened rotten skin.

Leaf-like lichens are attached to the hardened rotten skin, and clusters of fungi of varying heights grow on the shoulders and legs.