Chapter 584: Chapter 584

The group kept moving forward, yet they hadn’t encountered any major trouble. Although some animals attacked them, Du You didn’t understand how these creatures posed any threat to professionals at the second tier.

Suddenly, Du You stopped: "Wait, look ahead, doesn’t that seem different?"

Under Du You’s spiritual perception, he felt there was something off ahead. If it weren’t for his expansive range of spiritual perception, Du You wouldn’t have been able to notice. Du You stopped, and the whole team stopped as well.

"It does seem a bit strange, the reaction color of those mushrooms is different from the others."

Du You took a closer look but couldn’t spot any differences. After all, Du You’s night vision relied entirely on his dark physique, unlike Lin Yucha, who had a skill directly applied to vision called Dark Vision.

Suddenly, Lin Yucha activated the Little Demon Amulet, summoning a level 10 Little Demon which hopped towards the front. Demons are creatures inherently filled with chaotic evil energy, completely different from natural creatures. The moment the Little Demon appeared, the mushrooms started to become agitated.

That’s right, they were moving. Under Du You’s watch, these mushrooms suddenly uprooted themselves.

One by one, the mushrooms transformed into Mushroom Warriors. With a big mushroom head and weapons like swords and shields made from mycelium, they were fully armed and approached.

"Isn’t this supposed to be a Tree Person? How did it become a Mushroom Person, and aren’t mushrooms fungi?"

OperateAlthough Du You was complaining, there was nothing he could do. The Mushroom Warriors charged, surrounded the Little Demon, and dissected it with their swords.

However, the Little Demon didn’t go down without a fight. Its claws left marks on the bodies of the Mushroom Warriors. But these marks quickly disappeared.

"Not the most robust defense, but they have strong recovery abilities, huh." Du You muttered to himself as Lin Yushi and Lin Yucha leapt into battle. Lin Yushi, already greatly frustrated, didn’t hesitate to attack the enemy.

A downpour of thunder and lightning defense cascaded, leaving the scent of roasted mushrooms in the air as their bodies couldn’t withstand the magical or physical assaults.

Lin Yucha, not wanting to be outdone, shot out whirlpool arrows. Against these circumstances, the whirlpool arrow was the only suitable skill that Lin Yucha had. Each whirlpool reduced several Mushroom Warriors to shreds but unfortunately, the Mushroom Warriors were slightly too big.

The gravitational range of the whirlpool was insufficient. Had it been used against smaller and denser enemies, the whirlpool arrow would be extremely effective. Seeing the two sisters making their moves, Du You didn’t stand idle either.

The Summoned Beasts also started to attack, creating chaos in front. Du You unleashed a series of Dark Flame Arrow Arrays together; a large patch of Arrow Rain, more terrifying than what Lin Yushi created. Against these mindless creatures, Du You’s fighting tactics were more effective than the sisters put together, exterminating wave after wave of Mushroom Warriors.

An explosion "bang" — a mushroom burst open in the ground.

Du You turned his head and saw that it had been a Heavenly Disaster Demonic Dog that had negligently stepped on a mushroom mine. Spores scattered about, causing the Heavenly Disaster Demonic Dog’s body to react as if poisoned.

Soon after, Du You discovered mushrooms growing on the body of the Heavenly Disaster Demonic Dog.

"A parasitic type of attack?" Duo thought to himself. As soon as he considered dealing with these mushrooms, they suddenly withered. It seems they can’t keep growing indefinitely, and their rapid growth just sucked a portion of the life force from their host.

But that minor extraction doesn’t matter in the slightest. The Heavenly Disaster Demonic Dog itself can absorb the vitality of surrounding creatures to recover its own. Furthermore, they now also have the Hell Blood Demon Dog. The Hell Blood Demon Dog was constantly absorbing life force and magical power from the Mushroom Warriors and distributing it around.

With the Hell Blood Demon Dog, the two sisters’ and the Summoned Beasts’ magic and vitality were rapidly regenerating. As long as they kept their consumption in check, they wouldn’t have to worry about running out of magic.

This creature was indeed made right. Du You was quite pleased with his brilliant decision.

"Heavenly Disaster Demonic Dog, don’t rush too far forward. Death Scorpion, sandify the ground ahead and plough through."

The Heavenly Disaster Demonic Dog was too big. If it stepped on too many special mushrooms and got covered in mushrooms, even the Hell Blood Demon Dog wouldn’t be able to save it. With a large body comes obvious advantages and disadvantages.

Du You also noticed that those special mushrooms were planted by Mushroom Warriors. The Mushroom Warriors would periodically emit spores that, upon landing on the ground, would quickly grow into small mushrooms.

These small mushrooms turned out to be the landmine-like things. Though Du You had the Hellfire Thunder skill, it wasn’t very useful in this situation.

Also, using his highly damaging Hellfire Thunder to deal with these weak Mushroom Warriors – a skill that could only attack enemies within a range of ten meters – felt extremely wasteful.

The ground was rapidly turning to sand, with mushrooms regularly exploding in the sand. With the Death Scorpion’s attack, their journey became much smoother. The Mushroom Warriors were mostly at the first tier, with very few reaching the second tier.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been this easy. The group continued to advance, clearing out these mushrooms while tolerating their attacks. But in the area they had passed through, some mushrooms were growing at a high speed and gradually enlarging. Du You could tell that these mushrooms belonged to the same species as the Mushroom Warriors.

"This growing speed is really fast. It looks like we’ll need to fight our way out when we return. If given a suitable environment to grow, it would be endless. This is even more of a headache than the Undead Sea." ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵※𝖿𝗂𝗋𝖾※𝙣𝙚𝙩

Du You, observing the rapidly growing mushrooms, felt a bit helpless. If they couldn’t clear these mushrooms promptly, nobody could escape once they get caught up in the middle. A small team with insufficient abilities and low numbers would certainly find it difficult to get through here.

While thinking, Du You urged everyone to quicken their pace. As they moved forward, the cracks in the canyon above became larger, letting more sunlight in. The surroundings became brighter, and clearly, the number of Mushroom Warriors dwindled. These mushrooms indeed thrived in dim light; they couldn’t grow under excessive sunlight.