The world enters the fungal world

Chapter 210 Crimson Flame (Thanks to ricky007 for the donation)

With these dense sounds, countless strange insects crawled out of the black mist. These insects were about one to one and a half meters long. At first glance, their bodies looked like a rotten, hollow tree trunk with dry, cracked, and black bark, and fine gray-black mycelium wrapped in the crevices.

It has eight woody arthropod legs on its body, with the tips of the legs covered with a sticky fungal membrane, leaving shiny fungal trails as it crawls.

It has no independent head, and its torso has a flesh-colored fungal membrane mouthpart split open at the front, with tiny wood-spiky teeth embedded inside. On its back grows a black barb that looks like a scorpion, which sways slowly like a tail as it crawls.

When Li Yu saw it, the encyclopedia bacteria in his left eye activated automatically, instantly capturing information about this strange insect.

"Deadwood Reptile, a C-rank elite beast, is proficient in perfect camouflage. When stationary, it can completely blend into the environment of dead branches, and at first glance, it looks like a piece of rotten dead tree."

It crawls at a rapid speed and has great strength. It mainly relies on the fungal hooks on its back to launch attacks. These fungal hooks can usually be retracted into the body, but when it moves, they can extend to attack enemies. At its limit, it can attack enemies two or three meters away.

Their weakness is that they are extremely vulnerable to fire damage; they are flammable and can be easily ignited by flames, burning them to ash.

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Li Yu sensed the data and quickly stood up from the ground. The resting people were all awakened. The withered wood crawling insects that had emerged from the surrounding black mist appeared from all directions and launched an attack on them.

The thick black fog around them had begun to dissipate, and Li Yuming knew that the sky was gradually brightening and a new day was dawning.

This deadwood crawler can make a hissing sound from its mouthparts, and it crawls along the tree roots and mycelium all over the ground at an extremely fast speed. It extends fungal hooks from its back and attacks people.

A series of angry shouts rang out, and everyone retaliated.

Overnight, another person successfully broke through from the top level to the peak, and the number of these people who have reached the peak of the spore stage has exceeded fifty.

Although the deadwood reptile is said to possess strength close to the peak of the spore stage, it is still far inferior to the true peak powerhouse.

Even some powerful top-tier spore-stage monsters can kill them.

In the blink of an eye, at least dozens of deadwood crawlers were killed. The hissing sounds grew louder and louder. Li Yu noticed that behind this group of deadwood crawlers, an even larger monster emerged.

They are over two meters long, their bodies are covered with tiny animal bone fragments, they have twelve arthropod legs, and hard fungal spines grow from the tips of their limbs.

The mouthparts expand into a split, revealing two rows of serrations covered with wriggling hyphae and tentacles, and three flexible hooks grow from the back.

When they rushed out, they were much faster than ordinary deadwood crawling insects, quickly overtaking them. The three fungal hooks on their backs suddenly extended, like three giant pythons pouncing out.

During the spore stage, the top-level fungus doesn't have time to dodge and gets hooked on by the fungal hook, then suddenly pulled.

The spore-stage apex let out a cry of surprise, was pulled into the air as if riding the clouds, and then flung into the swarm of dead wood crawling insects behind it.

These deadwood reptiles swarmed up and immediately overwhelmed the man, their mouthparts tearing at his flesh and blood, quickly devouring him into a pile of bones.

"This is a Bone-Crushing Insect Beast, a rare C-rank beast. Everyone be careful."

Someone in the crowd shouted sharply, reminding everyone.

At the same moment, Li Yu's encyclopedia bacteria also captured information on these bone-crushing insect beasts that rushed out of the dead wood crawlers. They were rare beasts of the C-rank, said to be stronger than the peak of the spore stage, and ordinary peak stages were no match for them.

It would take at least several peak ordinary spore stage cultivators working together to stop one. Among them, only those with peak strength like Bai Yan, Lu Wei, Nan Muyu, Wu Xiuchun, and the man in the black hat could barely kill one by one.

This time, a large number of bone-crushing insect beasts rushed out from all sides, putting great pressure on everyone. Bai Yan and the others rushed out one after another.

Li Yu quickly picked up the backpack containing the fungal eggs, put it on his back, and rushed out with Fang Mingxuan, Lin Muying, and the others.

The left hand, wielding the Mushroom Umbrella, launched the first attack, striking from afar.

With a loud "boom," the opened Death Mushroom Umbrella smashed a bone-crushing insect beast into the air.

Li Yu's figure flashed past like lightning, and with a clench of his right hand, the 1.7-meter-long Heavenly Wolf Giant Blade appeared.

The Sirius Giant Blade, fused with crimson crystal, had its originally dark blue blade covered with blood-red patterns, faintly radiating a terrifying aura. When Li Yu snatched the Sirius Giant Blade, a slight sonic boom was faintly produced in the air.

With a "whoosh," the three fungal hooks that had just appeared in front of him were suddenly severed and flown away by the giant blade of the Heavenly Wolf.

Li Yu swung his giant sword downwards, slicing a deep crack in the ground, and the bone-crushing insect beast that had just pounced in front of him was split in two.

There were faint traces of burning from the high temperature at the wound site.

This is the energy of "Crimson Flame". Although Li Yu did not actually activate it, the energy of the Crimson Flame permeating the surface of the blade was already enough to cause damage.

The three bone-crushing insect beasts opened their mouths, revealing two rows of ferocious serrated teeth, and made a hissing sound as they pounced on Li Yu.

The mushroom hooks on its back swung wildly, like giant pythons, all aimed at Li Yu.

Li Yu's eyes narrowed slightly, and he suddenly took a step back to create distance and avoid the attacks of the fungal hooks.

With a flick of his wrist, the Sirius Greatsword in his right hand suddenly glowed with a bright light, revealing the previously dull, blood-red patterns on its surface.

He wanted to test the power of "Crimson Flame".

As soon as the "Crimson Flame" was activated, Li Yu felt a violent force surging back and forth along the blade of the Heavenly Wolf Greatsword, filling the entire blade and transforming into burning crimson flames that couldn't be contained.

With a low growl emanating from his throat, Li Yu swung the Heavenly Wolf Greatsword and charged forward with a sudden, horizontal thrust.

He slashed the Sirius Greatsword in a beautiful fan-shaped arc in front of him, the crimson flames burning on the blade bursting out and shooting outwards like a giant burning fan suddenly opening, or a giant crimson crescent moon, flying horizontally and sweeping past the bodies of the three bone-crushing insect beasts in front of him.

With a soft "hiss," the three ferocious-looking, seemingly madly pouncing bone-crushing insect beasts jolted and stopped in their tracks.

The crimson, burning crescent moon passed horizontally through their bodies, its momentum undiminished, sweeping past several more withered wood crawlers before finally exhausting its energy, dissipating into the air and disappearing from sight.

A hint of surprise flashed across Li Yu's eyes.

The next instant, the three bone-crushing insect beasts in front of them and the several withered wood crawlers behind them suddenly flipped over and fell to the ground, their bodies split horizontally in the middle, becoming two halves.

Fluids splattered from his body, and the wounds appeared burnt and black.

With a single strike, he killed three bone-crushing insect beasts and several withered tree crawlers. The power of this attack stunned Li Yu.

He hadn't expected the "Crimson Flame" to be so powerful.

Not far from him, Bai Yan had just blocked a charging Bone-Shattering Insect Beast. The fungal hooks on the Bone-Shattering Insect Beast had entangled her, but Bai Yan was not afraid at all. She had just pulled off these fungal hooks and was about to unleash her Iron Fist to smash the head of the Bone-Shattering Insect Beast in front of her when she suddenly saw Li Yu's amazing attack.

Her eyes betrayed her shock.

Li Yu quickly rushed over and picked up two enhancement crystal cores from the ground.

Among the corpses of the bone-crushing insects and withered tree crawlers that he had slain, one intermediate-level enhancement crystal core and one basic-level enhancement crystal core were found.

Li Yu put the enhanced crystal core he had picked up back into his pouch, grabbed the Heavenly Wolf Greatsword again, and charged towards the swarm of bone-crushing insect beasts that appeared in front of him.

However, he did not unleash "Crimson Flame" again.

After activating the Crimson Flame, Li Yu discovered that although the Crimson Flame was extremely powerful, it was different from the automatic fungal technique "Sky Wolf Slash" of the Sky Wolf Blade.

Each time "Crimson Flame" is activated, the crimson energy that fills the Sirius Blade will be completely consumed, and it will take time to recover the crimson energy.

Unlike "Sirius Slash," although its power is not as terrifying as "Crimson Flame," it can be activated at any time without needing time to recover energy.

More and more bone-crushing insects appeared all around, and countless more were hidden in the surging black mist. Li Yu realized something was wrong and immediately activated his Yin power to increase his speed and strength.

With the power of Yin empowered, he wielded the Heavenly Wolf Greatsword, and with almost every strike, a Bone-Shattering Insect Beast was killed. He led Fang Mingxuan, Lin Muying, Qian Lili, and Zhou Xigang, slowly advancing forward.

The deadwood crawlers that appeared were left to Fang Mingxuan and his group of four, while he focused solely on dealing with the bone-crushing insect beasts.

Soon, he picked up three more primary enhancement crystal cores.

Following closely behind him, Fang Mingxuan and the others were also going all out. Fang Mingxuan, in particular, was very strong. Even without relying on the silver-purple mycelium, he could easily kill the withered wood crawler and even threaten the bone-crushing insect beast with the power of his amplification fungus and lightning spear.

Although he is only at the top level, his current performance is already stronger than many ordinary peak-level players.

On the other side, Bai Yan and her team also led their troops in a full-scale charge forward.

In the past two days, they have killed countless fungal beasts. It can be said that everyone who is still alive has gained a lot, especially the large number of strengthening crystal cores that have appeared, which have allowed everyone to gradually strengthen their symbiotic bacteria.

Although none of them have yet broken through to the peak level, as the symbiotic bacteria's enhancement level increases, everyone's overall strength is also gradually improving.

Fang Mingxuan not only strengthened the amplification bacteria three times, but also strengthened the Nether Flower Bacteria that he fused with in his left hand to level two.

Occasionally, after launching a lightning spear attack, he would activate the Netherflower Cannon in his left hand. This Netherflower Cannon was quite powerful, especially its sudden close-range attack, which was difficult to defend against and could easily shatter the head of a fungal beast.

Qian Lili also successfully enhanced the Bone Shadow Bacteria on her right hand to level three.

Lin Muying fused the enhanced crystal core she obtained into the Ghost Eye Fungus, enhancing it to level two.

The enhanced level 2 Ghost Eye Fungus's "Ghost Eye Illusion" is becoming increasingly wondrous.

As long as she activates "Ghost Eye Illusion," the dead tree reptiles may fall for it. Once they are hit by Ghost Eye Illusion, their reactions will be slightly delayed, allowing her to kill them.

With the "Ghost Eye Illusion" of the "Ghost Eye Fungus" and the Ghost Crow Sword, Lin Muying has reached a top-level level and now possesses the strength to kill the withered tree crawler.

Even occasionally, bone-crushing insects can be affected by "Ghost Eye Illusion".