Chapter 343: Subjugation Turns Into Rescue
“What is this thing?” Little Di Ting couldn’t help but be curious.
Wu Xian didn’t respond, instead chuckling lightly and asking in return: “Do you know how the first dog in the world was born?”
“I don’t know.” Little Di Ting was bewildered.
“It was because it coveted a big stick bone in human hands,” Wu Xian teased, “and this pill is that big stick bone of the fungal monster.”
Little Di Ting’s expression turned strange.
Suspecting Wu Xian was sarcastically targeting him, but without clear evidence.
“Pill?” Looking again at the Spirit Gathering Pill in Wu Xian’s hand, “Just this one small pill can make a fungal great demon set aside its pride? What a joke?”
Wu Xian smiled without speaking.
It was only because Little Di Ting had now become a painted spirit, but if it were still the former abyssal realm great demon, upon seeing the Spirit Gathering Pill, its tail would wag faster than anyone else’s.
Then, under Little Di Ting’s probing, they screened and locked onto a fungal monster.
“You’re sure it’s this mushroom’s fungal strain, right?” Wu Xian held a glamorous red cap mushroom and confirmed.
“Are you questioning this seat’s ability?” Little Di Ting raised an eyebrow.
Wu Xian was speechless: “What level?”
“Level 25, elite grade.”
“Wow~” Wu Xian’s eyes lit up slightly, “A mere level 25 elite can nurture such medicinal value, fungus baby~!”
He then hurried impatiently to the core area of the mycelium, where indeed similar red mushrooms were growing everywhere.
An elite monster always has some intelligence.
So Wu Xian didn’t waste words and directly threw the Spirit Gathering Pill into the mushroom cluster.
Moments later, the mushrooms around the pill’s landing point grew rapidly, brimming with vitality, and the faint hostility and tension in the air clearly weakened.
Then, another Spirit Gathering Pill was thrown over.
One after another, until the fungal monster completely let go of its vigilance and hostility.
“No… this…” Little Di Ting’s expression went from initial disbelief to utter astonishment, “Where’s your damn dignity? Your pride?”
At the same time, a glamorous flower-shaped mushroom grew out from the mushroom cluster, emanating goodwill amid gentle energy fluctuations.
“Are all the monsters in your Green Abyss so spineless?” Little Di Ting expressed contempt.
“Where do fungi get bones from?” Wu Xian teased.
“…” Little Di Ting had black lines popping on its head, utterly astonished, “Wait, how did this little mushroom reach level 26?”
Noticing the change in the little mushroom’s aura, Little Di Ting was dumbfounded, finally realizing the value of that pill Wu Xian had.
In the blink of an eye, it had leveled up?
No wonder the little mushroom seemed so excited and obedient.
“Little Red, I’ll call you that for now,” Wu Xian said kindly: “Interested in following me? In the future, I’ll provide you with more of those pills, and you provide me with the kinds of mushrooms you grow, how about it?”
The glamorous mushroom flower fell into a daze, seemingly digesting the information in Wu Xian’s words.
“Leave it to this seat.” Little Di Ting shook its head repeatedly at the sight, immediately negotiating with the glamorous mushroom flower using the method for otherworldly beings combined with Ting’s power.
Soon after, the glamorous mushroom flower released vast demonic power, with surrounding mycelium rapidly gathering toward the mushroom flower.
Ultimately transforming into a glamorous red mushroom flower, it hopped with a smack into Wu Xian’s hand.
“Haha, from now on, you’ll be called Little Red.” Wu Xian lightly patted Little Red’s fungal cap.
Little Di Ting’s expression was strange beside him, “So the question is, where do you plan to raise Little Red?”
Wu Xian smiled faintly, manipulating the Qiankun Bag to pack the surrounding humus soil and some plant debris together into the Qiankun Bag, specially partitioning out an independent space to store and plant Little Red inside.
Later, he’d set up an earth temple inside as the mushroom gardener.
From then on, this independent space would be his pocket mushroom farm.
Little Di Ting watched the whole process and remained silent.
Although it had witnessed all sorts of Wu Xian’s miraculous and heaven-defying feats during this time, today’s events still left it deeply shocked.
Following this human kid seemed pretty promising for its future.
Recalling its own past experiences of smooth sailing with heavenly destiny upon it, Little Di Ting suddenly had a thought.
Could it be that being made into a scroll painting by this human kid was its own opportunity?
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Green Abyss, area at ten thousand meters depth.
On the last day of the month, various clubs had already gathered in the vicinity and small-scale struggles and conflicts had broken out.
Among them, Nature Club, as a rising star under the Four Gods Version, was undoubtedly the protagonist of this special grade expedition.
In the dim and eerie expedition zone, atop a vast, petrified giant fungal cap, the Dolan Club main team led by Bai Shiqi was secretly observing the situation.
Determined to catch up to Wu Xian’s footsteps and lead his maternal grandfather’s family to rise with his own power, he naturally wouldn’t miss such an important link as the special grade expedition.
After all, for a club, the special grade expedition was the fastest way to improve club prestige or club points.
But now the “Four Gods Version” had stirred the situation into chaos.
Those originally unremarkable clubs were now like they’d been injected with chicken blood, each more ferocious than the last.
This caused his first step plan for Dolan Club to fall through.
He had aimed to elevate Dolan Club’s rank by ten positions within three months, but so far, it had only just risen five positions.
Not long ago, it had even been overtaken by one position.
Yesterday, the release of the Four Gods Ban made his scalp tingle and his body stiffen to the extreme.
Fortunately, their Dengfeng Dojo system was complex and varied in style, so they hadn’t suffered too much impact, at least adapting more easily than other clubs.
What truly concerned him was still【True God Tax】.
The entire Dengfeng Dojo, including him, was filled with complaints.
“Perhaps joining a True God system is also a good choice?”
Bai Shiqi looked at the astonishing combat power of those ragtag clubs around him, lost in thought.
Lately, he had indeed been considering whether to join one of the Four Great True Gods’ Divine Domain System.
After this wave of Four Gods Ban, his family and father had clearly also started thinking along those lines.
Because currently, the best way to counter【True God Tax】 was to join a True God system and thereby enjoy the benefits of the True God Tax.
“It’s worth considering,” Su Baiqin analyzed beside him: “The league situation is in chaos lately, and our normal gold scrolls are clearly struggling more and more.”
“By the way, what’s the situation with Underworld Club? Any signs of joining a certain True God?”
“No, they’re like us, still stubbornly persisting on their own,” Su Baiqin’s expression was strange, “Of course, their current pressure is a bit less than ours.”
Bai Shiqi wasn’t surprised by this.
Wu Xian’s gold scrolls were indeed superior to his, so holding firm was only natural.
Speaking of which, if he joined a True God system, would he have a chance to catch up to that freak Wu Xian’s footsteps?
“Huh~ the Abyss King Mushroom seems to be getting serious!” A teammate beside him exclaimed in reminder.
Bai Shiqi and Su Baiqin instantly got serious and charged toward that side to compete.
Fungal monsters differed from other monsters, having no clear main body at all, so all sides were essentially relying on luck.
This was also one of the core difficulties of this special grade expedition.
The contention that should normally erupt tomorrow might very well erupt ahead of time today.
Meanwhile, on the other side, the tardy Wu Xian was also startled by the on-site chaos.
“Already turned into a pot of porridge?”
While Wu Xian marveled, he began pondering his next strategy.
After all, his goal had shifted from expedition to rescue.
