The bluish-purple spots on the three Thousand-Ear Golden-Ray Rice stalks grew increasingly severe, as though they had contracted some kind of "skin disease."
The reason for this was exactly as the Spirit-Eroding Fungus King's name implied.
Spirit erosion!
The special spores, mycelia, and other secretions released by the Fungus King invaded spirit plants, producing these external reactions.
Some old spirit farmers would say that this was the spirit plant crying for help.
And to a certain extent, that was indeed the case.
One of the Spirit-Eroding Fungus King's abilities was continuously releasing tiny Eroding-Spirit Spores into the surrounding air. These spores could easily attach themselves to the leaves and stalks of spirit plants, even entering their interiors through pores and causing even greater damage.
To resist the erosion, spirit plants instinctively gathered more spiritual energy at the invaded areas for defense, causing the spiritual energy density there to surge abruptly.
The two sides were locked in confrontation, which was why the bluish-purple spots everyone saw had formed.
At times like this, experienced spirit farmers would immediately react—for instance, by increasing the number of fire-attributed items to raise the temperature.
Or they would set up an array to rapidly increase the spiritual energy contained within the spirit plants. Although this could not completely solve the problem, it could buy time.
Of course, the best method was to deal with the culprit, the Spirit-Eroding Fungus King.
But this thing was conscious, and exceptionally timid.
At the slightest stir, it would immediately turn and flee.
Since it moved underground, it was incredibly fast. Ordinary cultivators simply could not catch up to it.
If there had only been Xu Changqing, Rong Yan, and the others, capturing or killing it would have been nearly impossible.
But now, aside from them, there was also a Grain