第17章 信徒再加二

Lan Yu agreed so readily that it actually caught Daming somewhat off guard, and he even began to believe Lan Yu's words a little.

"Do you see the green mushrooms around here? Eat them, and you will be able to see the Sage Lord of Fungi."

Upon hearing Lan Yu tell them to eat the mushrooms, Daming and Erming hesitated.

"What? Scared? You two are Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Beasts, surely you aren't afraid that these mushrooms are poisonous, are you?"

"All right, I'll try. Erming, if something happens to me, protect Big Sister Xiao Wu well."

With that, Daming opened his mouth and inhaled quite a few green mushrooms, prompting Lan Yu to mutter internally: You really are a glutton.

"Daming, how does it taste? It must be really good, I love eating them so much."

"The taste is pretty good actually, it's just..."

Before Daming could finish speaking, his eyelids drooped and he drifted off to sleep.

"Roar..."

Seeing this, Erming immediately lost his composure, letting out a furious roar as he glared at Lan Yu.

"Calm down, this is normal. Once he wakes up, you'll understand."

Inside Bifulong's Illusion Space, Daming had shrunk significantly, standing only half as tall as Bifulong, who looked down at him from above.

"I heard you wanted to see me. Now that you have, what do you have to say?"

"You... you are the Sage Lord of Fungi?"

"That's right, I am the Sage Lord of Fungi, the god who bestows food upon this world. Revere me, my subjects."

The Azure Bull Python fell silent, and Bifulong gazed over at him. "What, do you not wish to become my follower?"

"No, not at all..."

"No need to worry. Once you become my subject, I will naturally protect you. I am a man of my word, after all."

"Then what do you need us to do for you?"

"As for the things you need to do, my sage will arrange them for you. Out there, just listen to him. All right, get out!"

With that, he kicked Daming right out of the Illusion Space.

Daming woke up, opened his eyes, and said a few words to Erming. Following that, Erming obediently ate the green mushrooms and became a follower of the Sage Lord of Fungi.

Seeing that his objective had been achieved and that Daming, Erming, and Xiao Wu had all become followers of the Sage Lord of Fungi, Lan Yu was quite satisfied.

With things this way, the Star Dou Great Forest could basically become his mushroom plantation.

In time, he might even be able to create a symbiotic system between the mushrooms and the spirit beasts, turning all the spirit beasts into beings similar to the Fungus Pigs.

"Lord Sage, what do we need to do next?"

"Let's go take a look at your dwelling first."

"Alright, please follow me, Lord Sage."

Lan Yu mounted Daming's back, and Erming brought Xiao Wu along as they returned to the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Meanwhile, seeing that Tang Hao had not returned for a long time, Flender felt extremely anxious.

"No, we can't wait any longer. Everyone, evacuate the Star Dou Great Forest immediately and return to the town."

"Headmaster..."

"Tang San, although I hate to say this, since Haotian Mianxia hasn't returned after all this time... for your safety, pulling back is the best choice.

If Haotian Mianxia is fine, he will definitely come to Soto City to find you later."

Tang San knew that Flender was right, so he could only nod and agree.

By the next day, Tang Hao still hadn't returned, yet Tang San managed to break through to Level 30 amidst his worried state of mind.

Flender only brought Tang San and Oscar into the peripheral of the forest to hunt for a spirit ring.

In the end, Oscar harvested a Millennium Spirit Ring, and his spirit skill was one that increased strength: Power Big Sausage.

Perhaps Tang San was destined to be tied to spiders, as he once again encountered a Millennium Man Faced Demon Spider, though this time there were no Eight Spider Lances.

Tang San was quite satisfied with the spirit skill Spider Web Restraint.

After the spirit hunt, Flender and the others waited another day in the town, but still Tang Hao failed to show up, so they finally returned to Soto City.

Tang Hao, now with a broken leg, had only just regained consciousness. His severe injuries combined with his severed leg caused his strength to plummet time and again, leaving him at most at the level of a Spirit Douluo.

Tang Hao had no idea who had saved him, nor did he know where this place was. As soon as he recovered a bit of strength, he set off to find Tang San.

Hiding in the shadows, the Asura God cursed under his breath: Useless trash!

Over the past two days, Lan Yu had been remodeling the lair of Daming and Erming. The entire region was now paved with Mycelial Carpet, and mushrooms could be seen sprouting up everywhere.

Xiao Wu had also tested it out; cultivating on the Mycelial Carpet not only yielded twice the results with half the effort, but it also came with zero restrictions.

The tasks Lan Yu gave them were very simple: plant mushrooms in the forest. They didn't need to spread them out deliberately, as long as they didn't let humans or spirit beasts intentionally destroy them.

For Daming and Erming—two Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Beasts who could well be called beast kings—this was completely effortless.

On top of that, Lan Yu had modified the Eight Spider Lances. Using the Eight Spider Lances as the skeleton and weaving wing membranes out of mycelium, he forcibly remodeled the Eight Spider Lances into Eight Spider Wings.

Lan Yu deliberately tried them out, and paired with the spirit bone skill Dance with the Wind, his flight speed increased drastically.

Having finished experimenting with the Eight Spider Wings, Lan Yu said to Xiao Wu, "I must be leaving now. There are still people waiting for me."

"Are those two girls?"

"Mhm. They are Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing. Just like you, they are both followers of the Sage Lord of Fungi now."

"Oh, then when can I come find you?"

"My advice is for you to cultivate until you reach Title Douluo before heading out, but I figured you wouldn't be able to stay put anyway. Wait until your Maturity Period, when you can completely conceal your spirit beast aura, and then you can come find me."

"Okay, I'll step up my cultivation and raise my strength as quickly as possible."

"Great, I believe in you. Keep it up."

After bidding farewell to Daming and Erming, Lan Yu left the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest and made his way back to the periphery.

Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing were still waiting in the same spot and hadn't left.

Seeing Lan Yu return, Ning Rongrong couldn't help but complain.

"Why did you take so long to come back? To think you'd just dump two beautiful girls in the middle of nowhere like this, doesn't your conscience hurt?"

"I got held up dealing with some matters. You two haven't been slacking off over the past two days, have you?"

"No, I've already broken through to Level 30."

"Oh, so fast? Not bad, that shows you've been working hard. And you?"

"I—I've been working just as hard, too! But I'm Support System, my cultivation was slow to begin with."

"You definitely slacked off. Let me tell you, if you can't break through to Level 30, you can forget about returning to the city.

I imagine a pampered young miss like you isn't used to sleeping out in the wilderness all the time, right?"

"I—I get it, I won't slack off anymore, okay? Even my dad doesn't manage me this strictly."

"Heh, if I were your father, I wouldn't bother managing you either. Now, Zhu Zhuqing, I'm taking you to hunt for your spirit ring."

"I want to go too."

"Fine, just don't hold us back."

Lan Yu had already scouted out Zhu Zhuqing's Third Spirit Ring ahead of time: it was a Ten-Thousand-Year Gale Wolf.

"That's a Ten-Thousand-Year Gale Wolf, right? Can Zhuqing really absorb a Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring right now?"

"She can. The age limit of the spirit ring each person can absorb varies from individual to individual, and is mainly related to their physical fitness and mental strength.

Both of your physical constitutions have been strengthened, and your minds are even hooked up to the Spiritual Network of the Sage Lord of Fungi. Absorbing a Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring as her third ring is completely out of the question."

"I understand! Rongrong, let's go!"