Xu Huo and Chi Xian exchanged a glance. Neither wanted to get involved, so they walked around the group of seven.
Unexpectedly, a few minutes later, they ran into the group again. It seemed they were all headed in the same direction.
The person they had captured was being controlled by an item and forced to lead the way. As soon as he saw Xu Huo and Chi Xian again, he lunged forward, dropped to his knees, and kowtowed to them, sobbing and pleading for them to save him.
The young man in sunglasses lifted his chin slightly.
Chi Xian immediately said, "Go on ahead."
The young man in sunglasses seemed pleased by their cooperation. He glanced to the side, and the Scarred Glasses accompanying him shocked the Poisoned Person three times in a row, until he collapsed and lost control of his bowels.
After teaching the man a lesson, the young man in sunglasses set off again.
"Should we change direction?" Chi Xian asked. "I think there might be trouble if we travel with them."
Xu Huo didn't mind either way. He was looking for a place like the mushroom caves in Clown City. Along the way, he had put some soil, tree bark, and leaves into a Potion bottle, but the King Fungus mycelium had quickly perished along with the poisonous fungi. It could barely survive for a few minutes, let alone reproduce.
The King Fungus had originated in underground caverns and flourished only thanks to the Nuwa Stone. Xu Huo guessed it might need a special mineral environment, but even after digging a meter or two down in this rainforest, all he found was soil. Rock formations were hard to come by.
But fungi that grew near rocks did exist here. He had seen them mentioned in