Volume 2: Wu Enters Witchcraft Chapter 76: Human Head Mushroom

  Ye Xusans followed the footsteps of Zongjia Wushi, but did not get close, instead watching from a distance, observing Zongjia Wushi's movements.

  Only in front, growing a piece of purple mushrooms more than one person high, as if a large purple umbrella, beautiful and extraordinary, appearing in the Eagle Gorge, blocking the way.

  These purple mushrooms grew in clusters, stretching for several hundred meters, their caps covered with dense small pores, emitting crackling sounds, spewing out fine spores, forming a purple airflow above the mushroom forest.

  "The things in Eagle Gorge are really strange, even the mushrooms are so big, they must be delicious. Just pick one casually and bring it back home to eat for several days." Zhou Shiwen said with a smile.

  Fang Chen narrowed his eyes, carefully examining it, and said in a puzzled tone: "It seems to be a Corpse Poison Pustule. I've heard of this mushroom before, it's said to be a poisonous fungus that grows from corpses, with one corpse under each mushroom. However, this Corpse Poison Pustule is different from the ones I've seen in books, could it be a variant? Brother Zhou, if you have an appetite for it, you can try...

  Zhou Shiwen shivered and quickly dispelled the idea of picking mushrooms.

  Ye Xiu smiled and said: "Let's have someone from the sect scout ahead first and see if there's any danger, then we'll proceed with caution."

  The three of them immediately stood on a high slope, watching from afar.

  Zong Kaiyuan was certain that it was a poisonous mushroom, and he immediately took the lead and walked into the mushroom forest. He sniffed hard and felt a fragrance hit his nose. After circulating his vital energy slightly, he felt unobstructed and said, "This miasma is non-toxic, everyone follow me, be careful!"

  Many Taoist priests and witches put down their minds, one after another, walking into the mushroom forest, heading deep into Eagle Gorge.

  "Dejie, your neck seems to have gotten thicker than before. Looks like you've been sneaking in a lot of good stuff on the way!" A young wizard joked with the chubby guy in front, laughing.

  Zong Dejie turned back and glanced at him, sneering: "Fu Bi, your neck is thicker than mine. Our big brother doesn't laugh at our second brother, it's mutual!"

  The young man listened in bewilderment and laughed: "How can my neck be as thick as yours? What a joke..."

  Several family wizards next to him hastily stopped in their tracks, looking at his neck with a strange expression.

  His neck is indeed thicker than before!

  Zong Fuhe also felt something was wrong and hastily asked: "What are you looking at? What's wrong with my neck?"

  As they spoke, his neck had become as thick as his head and was still getting thicker, becoming swollen and bulging, with dark purple blood vessels protruding out, looking extremely terrifying!

  "What's going on? My neck has also gotten thicker? And yours, yours is too!"

  "Have we been poisoned? Didn't the manager say that as long as we don't touch the poisonous panaeolus, we won't be poisoned?"

  "Not good, there must be poison in this purple mist!"

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  The clan's wizards went into a frenzy, not only did Zong Dejie and Zong Fuhe's necks show abnormalities, but the others' necks were also wildly swelling up, as if an invisible hand was grasping their throats, blowing air frantically!

  Even Zong Kaiyuan's neck was swollen like a balloon, making it hard for him to breathe!

  "These mushrooms' spores are poisonous!"

  Zong Kaiyuan was shocked in his heart, took out a white pill, just wanted to swallow it down, and immediately stopped, stuffed the pill into a young man of about twenty years old beside him, softly said: "Deyang, this is an antidote, can solve all poisons, you quickly eat it."

  That young man was his only son, named Zong Deyang. His neck also became thick and swollen, and he said, "Dad, what about you?"

  Zong Kaiyuan sneered and said, "This little poison can't harm me!"

  Zong De Yang put down his mind and swallowed the antidote pill.

  Zong Kaiyuan saw him take the antidote pill and felt slightly relieved. This pill was a gift from the master of the Zong family, extremely precious, with only one available. As long as he took it, any toxin would be expelled from his body, making him immune to all poisons.

  At this moment, many of the clan's wizards' necks had become so thick that they couldn't speak, and their faces were red with suffocation.

  Especially Zhong Fuhe, his neck was thick and swollen, his hands tightly grasping his own neck, a beast-like scream issuing from his throat!

  All that could be seen was his neck still swelling outward, getting bigger and bigger, as if a huge mushroom was stuck in his throat!

  Suddenly, with a loud bang, Zong Fuxi's head fell off his neck, and where his brain used to be, a purple mushroom umbrella grew out!

  Then, a thick root as thick as a finger flew out of his body at high speed and drilled into the ground. After a few pops, his clothes were torn apart, and all his flesh and blood were sucked away by the mushroom, leaving only a human skin wrapped around the outside of the mushroom, which was incredibly eerie!

  A cultivator of the fifth rank, in the blink of an eye, was burst open by a mushroom growing inside his body, and his body turned into a giant purple mushroom. This scene was something even Zong Kaiyuan had never seen or heard before, and all he felt in his heart was fear, nothing but fear!

  Bang! Bang! Bang!

  Again, several clan wizards' heads were forcibly torn off from their necks, mushrooms sprouted and absorbed all their blood and flesh. One of them didn't even drop to the ground, but was instead held in the center of the mushroom cap, his eyes bulging out in terror!

  In the distance, Ye Xuan saw the heads of the Zong family's wizards, one by one exploding, and from their bodies grew a cluster of purple mushrooms. The scene was extremely bloody and shocking, even he couldn't help but feel a thrill in his heart!

  "It's indeed a variant of the poisonous panaeolus, could it be the legendary 'human head mushroom'..."

  "Human-headed mushrooms are extremely rare, I didn't expect to find a large patch growing here. The spores of this mushroom don't contain any toxins, but its growth power is terrifyingly strong. As soon as it's inhaled into the throat, it will stick to it, take root and sprout, rapidly absorbing nutrients from the body, and then the cap will burst the neck..."

  "Unfortunately, these people were originally my nutrients, but they were all eaten by the fungus of human heads. What a pity..."

  His words and deeds have become more and more like a demon's, becoming incomprehensible to ordinary people.

  Ye Xue ignored him and fell into deep thought, then suddenly laughed: "It's good that the Zong family's witches were completely defeated. Without their obstruction, we can pass through safely."

  Zhou Shiwen's eyes lit up, and he clapped his hands with a laugh: "Indeed! As long as we bring out the Jade Tower and open the Yuanqi canopy, we won't inhale the spores of the human-headed mushroom. Passing through this mushroom forest will be a cinch! This mushroom forest is probably already deadly to many witches; there should be plenty of things they've dropped! This time, it's all going to come cheap for us!"

  The Zong family's wizards died one by one, even Zong Kaiyuan's son, Zong Deyang, turned into a giant purple mushroom. The antidote can indeed cure all poisons, but the spores of the human-headed mushroom are not toxic at all, so there is no poison to be cured, and he also couldn't escape the fate of being exploded by the mushroom!

  "How could this be? How could this be?"

  Zong's family manager, Zong Kaiyuan, personally witnessed his son turn into a giant mushroom, with a crazed expression. At this moment, only he was not dead, but he used his thick yuanqi to suppress the fungus in his throat!

  However, the fungi in his throat were still growing non-stop, and his vitality was already showing an unstoppable trend!

  "It's okay, this is not poison at all!"

  He suddenly thought of the key point, and immediately operated his vital energy to rush throughout his body. His vital energy had already shown signs of refining the false into the true, transforming it into true yuan. Burning the true yuan, his entire body instantly burst out with raging flames.

  This was no ordinary flame, but a true fire born from the essence of the universe. With a "sizzling" sound, it incinerated the person's head fungus in his throat into ashes!

  Zong Kaiyuan rushed forward and escaped from the mushroom forest.

  "The Taoist priest who escaped is a very formidable master."

  Ye Xue also noticed Zong Kaiyuan, and his heart skipped a beat as he said: "His yuanqi has transformed into true fire, I'm afraid that his cultivation has already reached the peak of Fused Yuan Ninth Rank, and may have even entered the True Yuan Period of the Three Realms!"

  Zhou Shiwen and Fang Chen's faces were also solemn, if they passed through the mushroom forest, they would inevitably meet Zong Kaiyuan again, and it was unavoidable that conflicts would arise.

  "Shao Bao, are we going into the mushroom forest or not?" Zhou Shiwen asked.

  Unconsciously, he and Fang Chen had already become the ones that Wei Yue and Ma looked up to, and even they themselves hadn't noticed this phenomenon.

  Ye Xue chuckled and said: "Wealth and honor are sought in danger, of course we must go in. With such a great master leading the way for us, where can we find such a good opportunity?"

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