Fungus Beast A Yin

After receiving Ning Rongrong's boost, Zhu Zhuqing surged forward just like that.

Her body was buffed with pale cyan wind elements, making her speed extremely fast.

The Netherworld White Tiger formed by the combination of Dai Davis and Zhu Zhuyun swiped a paw at her, but she easily dodged it.

Immediately afterward, Zhu Zhuqing leaped to the top of the Netherworld White Tiger's head and fiercely slashed down with a Gale Claw attack.

This single blow caused even the Netherworld White Tiger to let out a miserable shriek.

Of course, this also completely enraged the Netherworld White Tiger. Its eyes flared as it glared fiercely at Zhu Zhuqing, and letting out another tiger roar, it lunged toward her.

However, the gap in speed between the two sides was somewhat vast, and all of the Netherworld White Tiger's attacks were easily dodged by Zhu Zhuqing.

The other team members of the Botanical Academy were not just standing around idly either; aside from Dai Davis and Zhu Zhuyun, the Star Luo Royal Academy still had five people left.

Those remaining five were thoroughly out of luck. They were fiercely beaten up by the Botanical Academy's members and tossed off the stage.

When only a single Netherworld White Tiger remained of the Star Luo Royal Academy on the arena stage, Ning Rongrong spoke up, "Sisters, let's go help Zhuqing."

"Right! Everyone attack together and tie this big tiger up nice and tight."

The Botanical Academy naturally consisted entirely of plant-type spirits, and plant-type spirits primarily used vines for their offensive methods.

At this moment, the Netherworld White Tiger intended to pounce at Zhu Zhuqing again, but suddenly someone tugged on its hind legs, causing it to stumble violently.

Before the Netherworld White Tiger could snap the vines entangling its hind legs, even more vines emerged, tightly wrapping around all four of its limbs.

The Netherworld White Tiger struggled frantically; although it snapped a couple of vines, more and more vines appeared, binding its torso right along with them.

"Fourth Spirit Ability: Cross Wind-Rifting Claw!"

Zhu Zhuqing directly used her fourth spirit ability, slashing toward the head of the Netherworld Civet.

The cross-slash carrying a howling gale directly battered Dai Davis and Zhu Zhuyun, forcing them out of their Spirit Fusion Technique state.

"Zhu Zhuqing, you..."

Bang! Giving Dai Davis zero chance to spout nonsense, Zhu Zhuqing kicked him squarely in the abdomen, causing Dai Davis to instantly double over like a cooked lobster.

"Dai Davis, you actually wanted to drag me back. Ridiculous—you have to have that kind of ability first. You should thank your lucky stars that this is currently the Soul Master Tournament arena, otherwise, who knows, you might end up missing a few spare parts on your body."

Zhu Zhuyun's expression was also one of shock. She truly found it somewhat hard to believe that these words were actually coming out of the mouth of her own younger sister.

Directly following that, Zhu Zhuqing delivered another kick that sent Dai Davis flying straight off the arena stage.

"Zhuqing, I..."

Zhu Zhuyun still wanted to say something, but Zhu Zhuqing didn't give her this older sister an ounce of face either.

She kicked her off the arena stage just the same. This kick wasn't light either; just like Dai Davis, she doubled over like a cooked lobster, clutching her stomach and groaning.

"Zhuqing, you're ruthless enough. You don't show the slightest bit of mercy even toward your own sister."

"Hmph, she never showed any mercy when she bullied me either."

Zhu Zhuyun perhaps truly had her own hidden hardships, but the fact that she had been bullied by this older sister over the past few years was also real and undeniable.

Naturally, she wanted to exact payback for that, and right now this was just collecting a little bit of interest.

The entire roster of the Star Luo Royal Academy was eliminated, and the referee promptly declared the Botanical Academy the victor, advancing them to the next round.

The next round was the match of six down to three, and right after the results of this round came out, the drawing of lots for the groupings took place immediately.

The final grouping results went just as Huo Wu wished: the New Gale Academy drew the Botanical Academy.

Upon learning the grouping results, I made a special trip over to the Botanical Academy's side.

"Will you be taking the field in the next match?"

Hearing Huo Wu's question, Lan Yu shook his head. "No, I'll only take the field in the finals."

"Hmph, aren't you afraid an accident will happen and they'll lose the match?"

"There is no such possibility. Even if your Blazing Flame Academy and the Gale Academy join forces, you pose no threat to them."

"Then... are there any more green mushrooms? I can buy them with money."

"Haha, so this is your real purpose?"

Blushing red, Huo Wu didn't refute it.

"No problem. As long as you say the phrase, 'Praise the Sage Lord of Fungi, praise Lord Bifulong,' you can get what you want."

"Really? Well then, 'Praise the Sage Lord of Fungi, praise Lord Bifulong'."

"My lord the Sage Lord will reward every single believer."

Lan Yu spread his hands wide, exuding a thoroughly shamanistic vibe.

Immediately afterward, a ring of green mushrooms sprouted right beneath Huo Wu's feet.

"Huh? They really grew! How did you pull that off? I didn't see you use your spirit or spirit abilities at all!"

"I already told you this is a bestowal from Lord Sage Lord of Fungi. Please thank Lord Sage Lord once again."

"Oh, thanks for the bestowal, Lord Sage Lord."

Finishing her words, Huo Wu scooped up an armful of green mushrooms and scampered off.

Bifulong popped out at this moment. "Not bad, a little girl with some taste."

"Is thinking your mushrooms taste good considered having taste?"

"Of course. Only people with no taste would think my mushrooms don't taste good."

"Speaking of which, where did you wander off to this whole time?"

As the Mycelium Network spread further and further, Bifulong also grew increasingly free; his consciousness could travel to anywhere the Mycelium Network reached.

"Remember that place where you first went to school?"

"Notting College? What about it?"

"The Mycelium Network expanded on its own very quickly over there, and a strange soul got pulled into the Mycelium Network, so I specifically went over to take a look and incidentally took her in as my believer."

Lan Yu, however, found it sound stranger and stranger the more he listened.

"Wait a minute, near Notting City, a strange soul, and it could even get pulled into the Mycelium Network... Could it be..."

Lan Yu found a secluded spot and used the Fungification skill, summoning the strange soul in Bifulong's words out from the Mycelium Network in the form of a Fungus Beast.

Sure enough, the entity summoned this time was a humanoid Fungus Beast.

She was very pretty, wearing a blue dress, and her hair was blue as well.

It was just that her current height was only half a person tall, and there were many mushroom elements on her body—for instance, the hat currently resting on top of her head was actually a mushroom cap.

If one looked closely at the clothes on her body, they would discover they were actually woven from mycelium.

"It really is her, Tang San's mother A Yin. Bifulong, how did you turn her into your believer? Did you forcefully brainwash her?"

Standing only half a person high, A Yin blinked her clear eyes as she looked at Lan Yu, completely different from the mature and beautiful woman in his impressions.

"When I found her, her soul was already incomplete, so I specifically helped her repair her soul.

Once I helped her repair her soul, naturally she became my believer."

"So that's how it was. With a missing soul, her memories are missing too. No wonder her gaze is so crystal clear."

"Treat her well. In the days to come, she will become one of my formidable generals."

"Just letting her stay in the Mycelium Network will do."

"No good. She needs to study hard and do chores for me. When the time comes later, there will definitely be many places requiring me to show my face—how exhausting would that be!

Therefore, having one extra doppelganger to do the work is very important."