480: Corpse beetle metamorphosis, a new ability of the little fungi

Chapter 480: Corpse Beetle's Transformation, Little Junjun's New Abilities

"What's the rush?" Tang Tiaotiao said grumpily, "Little Xianzi wouldn't forget us, would he?"

"That's true, but it's better to mention it."

"Alright, got it." Tang Tiaotiao waved her hand impatiently, "Hurry up and arrange manpower, rescuing the Mayor is urgent."

The Mechanical Dojo members all took their orders and began organizing and mobilizing personnel.

Other factions were also enthusiastically organizing their manpower.

However, it was still unclear how the association would send them into the New Abyss.

Meanwhile, Wu Xian was attempting to establish a connection between the Corpse Ancestor Jiang Chen's divine scroll Law Veins and the Corpse Beetle Elder's Corpse Beetle divine scroll.

He also instructed the Corpse Beetle Elder to integrate some top-tier zombie concepts into the Corpse Beetle's background design.

Soon after, the Corpse Beetle Elder's Corpse Beetle completely transformed.

Its original matte black carapace, nourished by powerful Evil Qi and Evil Qi, became shiny and lustrous, vaguely revealing some mysterious ancient patterns.

The aura it exuded was even more ferocious than before.

The flesh and blood earth beneath its feet seemed like soft mud to the Corpse Beetle, which could easily burrow into it.

"This, this, this..."

The Corpse Beetle Elder was so excited he was incoherent.

Although he had anticipated it, the Corpse Beetle's transformation still left him in disbelief.

The Corpse Beetle was still the original Corpse Beetle, but it had ascended to a higher life level, and the Law Veins of its divine scroll had undergone earth-shattering changes.

"Interesting, it even shows a hint of an ancient exotic species," the God of Wealth quipped in his Sea of Consciousness.

"An ancient exotic species?" Wu Xian clicked his tongue and nodded, "It seems to have some inexplicable connection with the Corpse Ancestor, similar to your relationship with the Treasure-Spitting Mouse?"

"It does have a tendency towards being a dependent," the God of Wealth agreed.

In short, the Corpse Beetle Elder's Corpse Beetle was now developing in the direction of a Corpse Ancestor's dependent.

Similar to the ancient Corpse Beetles nurtured by Corpse Ancestor Jiang Chen with his own power, its status instantly rose.

You know, that's Jiang Chen, one of the Four Great Corpse Ancestors!

As the saying goes, a single louse on a True Dragon is no ordinary demon.

The same was true for the Corpse Beetles nurtured within the Corpse Ancestor's body.

"How is it, do you have confidence?" Wu Xian asked with a smile.

"Confidence?" The Corpse Beetle paused, then smiled, a strong sense of self-confidence welling up within him, "Young Master Wu, please observe."

With that, the divine scroll above his head, surging with Evil Qi, slowly unfurled.

Dense swarms of Corpse Beetles poured out of the divine scroll like a tide, spreading towards the giant tumor.

Wherever the Corpse Beetles passed, the flesh and blood earth instantly shriveled, seemingly inheriting a portion of Corpse Ancestor Jiang Chen's bloodthirsty abilities.

Soon, countless Corpse Beetles began to devour the flesh and blood alongside the gluttonous beast, continuously breeding and multiplying during the process of consumption.

Unbeknownst to them, a large pit had been devoured from the massive tumor, its interior filled with a dense swarm of black Corpse Beetles.

All parties on the front line watched everything, secretly clicking their tongues in amazement.

"It has already been devoured," the Corpse Beetle Elder rejoiced, "Roundworm Elder, you guide me on the route."

"No problem."

The Roundworm Elder smiled slightly, and the roundworms parasitizing the flesh and blood immediately connected with the Corpse Beetle swarm, using the roundworms' bodies as guidance to lead the Corpse Beetle swarm to burrow and devour into the internal cavity.

And as the Corpse Beetle Elder began to exert his strength, all parties had already assembled.

Even the Scions of Noble Families from various factions had been summoned.

There was no other way; the allure of the longevity pill was too great.

Bai Shiqi of the Dengfeng Dojo had naturally vaguely guessed something, and secretly communicated with Wu Xian via Divine Thought, asking, "Brother Wu, that longevity pill...?"

"Yes," Wu Xian said, half-truthfully, "but the cost is very high. Essentially, it just maximizes the medicinal properties of longevity Spiritual Plants."

"I see," Bai Shiqi was not surprised by this. "What's the utilization rate?"

"Anyway, it's much better than directly consuming Spiritual Plants, at least it can double the medicinal properties."

Bai Shiqi was startled, "Can you help my Dengfeng Dojo refine a batch? The price is negotiable."

"Let's talk about it after this is over," Wu Xian said calmly.

"Good!" Bai Shiqi took a deep breath and nodded solemnly, "Don't worry, our Dengfeng Dojo will do our best to rescue Mayor Chen."

Wu Xian nodded and smiled without saying more, waiting for the Corpse Beetle swarm to clear the way, and incidentally glanced at the Great King Fungus at the Mushroom Farm.

After the last "guidance," the Great King Fungus had completely understood.

As Wu Xian said, it had already left that broken place, the Green Abyss, so why bother with internal competition?

It could just peacefully research that useless development path with Wu Xian.

Using those useless powers to exchange for Cultivation resources and development space with Wu Xian.

Of course, the main reason was that the power of faith provided by humans was too delicious.

"How is your understanding of development progressing?" Wu Xian asked.

"Steadily improving," the Great King Fungus reported enthusiastically, "and I've found that this Law path seems to have more than just the effect of increasing Lifespan; it can also derive some other related effects."

"Is that so?" Wu Xian couldn't help but be curious, "Like what?"

"Probably abilities like healing and recovery. It should be able to help you humans solve some disease problems later," the Great King Fungus continued, "Besides that, it seems it can also develop a special attack ability, similar to absorbing the enemy's life force?"

Wu Xian's eyes lit up, "I told you this path would have a promising future if you accumulated slowly!"

"It's only effective for you flesh and blood creatures," the Great King Fungus shook its head, "For us fungal creatures, it's not that it has no effect at all, but rather that the effect is limited.

At most, it can help me decompose and devour plant life better and more efficiently."

In short, this ability to absorb the enemy's life force, seemingly powerful, was actually useless for their internal competition as fungal creatures.

"Your perspective is too narrow," Wu Xian teased, "I find that your mindset still hasn't changed. Don't always look at problems from your fungal perspective. Learn to step out of fungal thinking, and you'll discover a whole new world.

For example, your ability to absorb the enemy's life force is very useful to me. Perhaps in the future, you can be my enforcer or something."

"If you put it that way, it doesn't seem to be a problem."

The Great King Fungus pondered for a moment, then suddenly understood.

Yes, this ability was useless for internal competition among fungal creatures.

But its lethality against other creatures was very strong.

Simply put: weak in internal conflict, but incredibly strong in external conflict.

"By the way, what happens after absorbing life force? What are the benefits for you?" Wu Xian suddenly asked.

"Naturally, it strengthens my own life force, making my source mycelium more resilient and tenacious," the Great King Fungus said, "Oh, and it also has many benefits for the growth and development of this current Law path."

Upon hearing this, Wu Xian was both surprised and delighted, "So, it's not good for your fungal spirits, but it's quite useful for all other types of creatures, right?"

"Yes, why?"

"Can this thing decompose and absorb?" Wu Xian immediately placed a piece of Evil God flesh into the Mushroom Farm.

"Evil power?" The Great King Fungus's voice was slightly serious, and fine mycelial threads tentatively attached themselves, "This life force is a bit strange; it doesn't seem like normal life force. It can be absorbed, though, if you force it."

Wu Xian further confirmed, "What about the evil power? Will it affect you?"

"It seems you still don't know much about us fungal creatures," the Great King Fungus's tone was slightly playful, "Our Green Abyss is the only place that doesn't fear evil erosion. That stuff can't affect us."

"What?" Wu Xian was greatly startled, "You're not afraid of evil power?"

"I thought you knew?" The Great King Fungus teased.

"No, this..." Wu Xian found it inconceivable, "Why is this?"

"I don't know, but we are naturally not afraid of that kind of power," the Great King Fungus pondered, "We can even decompose and absorb evil power, developing a special development path. We have some mycelium in our Green Abyss that rose through evil power."

"..." Wu Xian's expression was strange, "Isn't that still being assimilated by evil power?"

"No, no, no, it's different," the Great King Fungus explained, "Other creatures are controlled by evil power, while we turn evil power into a part of our own strength.

How should I put it, our fungal intelligence is inherently special, completely different from your other creatures.

You could say that we fundamentally eliminate the possibility of being controlled by evil power, so we can even, conversely, use evil power for a special kind of development and growth."

Wu Xian was completely confused, "Your intelligence and consciousness are different from ours?"

"Haven't you noticed that the Great Demons of our Green Abyss generally don't transform into human forms?" The Great King Fungus said, "This can also be considered a flaw of ours. No matter how powerful we Cultivate, we cannot transform into human form.

At most, we can simulate a human Puppet with our fungal body, which looks like a person, but in essence, it's just a moving mushroom."

Wu Xian clicked his tongue in wonder, feeling somewhat as if his worldview had been refreshed.

Perhaps, just as the scientific community in his previous life defined fungi, they belonged neither to plants nor animals, but were a species existing entirely independently of other species.

The Will of the God of Wealth was also piqued.

He directly entered the Great King Fungus's source mycelium to sense and investigate.

"What is True God Your Excellency doing?" The Great King Fungus exclaimed in surprise.

A moment later, the Will of the God of Wealth emerged from within the Great King Fungus, his expression strange, "It truly is a completely, entirely different form of consciousness, dispersed among every microscopic structure, yet integrating into a whole in a special way."

To put it this way, the God of Wealth searched for a long time but couldn't find a way to perform Possession, or rather, didn't know where to start.

Wu Xian couldn't afford to study the uniqueness of fungal consciousness right now.

Since evil power was ineffective against fungal creatures, the Great King Fungus could absolutely participate in this great battle, and with miraculous effects.

"Come out for some fresh air," Wu Xian said without thinking, "I've encountered some trouble here; see if you can lend a hand."

Saying that, he released the Great King Fungus without caring if it was willing or not.

"Whoa, such dense Evil Qi and flesh and blood aura." The Great King Fungus extended countless fine mycelial threads to probe its surroundings, "Where did you run off to, which Otherworld? No, why does it look a bit like your human world?"

"No need to doubt, this is our human world." Wu Xian explained, "It's just currently being invaded by a Flesh and Blood Demon God, and everything is being assimilated into this bizarre flesh and blood by him."

"Evil God?" The Great King Fungus paled in shock, its countless mycelial threads instantly retracting, "You want me to deal with an Evil God?"

Yes, they fungi were not afraid of evil power erosion, but they could still be killed by an Evil God, right?

"Don't worry~ this Evil God's current situation is rather awkward, otherwise we wouldn't be standing here alive."

"Is that so?"

The Great King Fungus was half-skeptical, and only then cautiously extended a portion of its mycelial threads again.

"The most troublesome thing about this creature right now is its endless flesh and blood. I'll plant you here for now, and you can decompose and absorb as much as you can. I'm just afraid you won't be able to absorb it all."

Saying that, he temporarily placed the Great King Fungus at the front-line position, entrusting it to his Maternal Great-Uncle Feng Xu who was on guard.

"This is...?" Feng Xu's expression was strange, "A fungal Great Demon from the Green Abyss?"

"Yes, a fungal Great Demon named Great King Fungus that I subdued by chance," Wu Xian briefly explained, "Please trouble Maternal Great-Uncle to look after him for me. He also seems to be able to help decompose and absorb the Evil God's flesh and blood."

Then, he added via Divine Thought, "Remember to protect him well, and don't let him escape. This guy's mushrooms can be used to refine longevity pills."

Upon hearing this, Maternal Great-Uncle Feng Xu was secretly alarmed and immediately regarded the Great King Fungus as a key protection target.

Good heavens, it can even be used to refine longevity pills?

There was actually such a "sensible" fungus in the world?

No wonder his Little Grandson could refine so many longevity pills; it turned out he had such a treasure hidden away.

After entrusting the Great King Fungus to his Maternal Great-Uncle, Wu Xian set off directly.

At this moment, the flesh and blood tumor had been torn open by the gluttonous beast and the Corpse Beetle swarm, exposing a part of the Dimensional Rift.

All the representative teams were also ready to go, preparing to delve deep into the New Abyss to initially ascertain the situation inside.

Before departing, the Roundworm Elder released countless tiny roundworms, "Please everyone, implant one. It's a bit disgusting, but it's convenient for future contact and liaison, and it might save your life at a critical moment."

Facing the wriggling "noodles" before them, everyone's faces were filled with disgust, and their eyes with refusal.

But there were also many calm individuals who didn't mind the disgust and directly guided them to parasitize inside their bodies.

Although others were resistant, they all gradually implanted the Roundworm Elder's small roundworms.

After all, it was a life-saving measure.

It was equivalent to a special GPS positioning, allowing the Roundworm Elder to sense everyone's status and location in real-time, and to control the combat roundworms parasitizing and developing within the New Abyss to provide assistance and rescue.

It could even provide some auxiliary abilities, temporarily stimulating various potentials of the human body.

Most importantly, through the Roundworm Elder, a portion of spiritual power could be remotely supported and transmitted.

So it was disgusting, but it was also genuinely useful.

After learning that roundworm parasitism could remotely transmit spiritual power, Wu Xian decisively left a Laurel Tree rubbing for the Roundworm Elder, to facilitate his subsequent logistical work.

It must be said, the Roundworm Elder's roundworms were truly incredibly useful for large-scale combat logistics!

The only downside was that it was a bit disgusting.

Even the God of Wealth praised the various miraculous abilities of these roundworms, "Since coming here, I have truly broadened my horizons and seen the world."