Chapter 771 - 766: One-Eyed Mushroom
"There’s a sense of oppression."
Leia glanced around, looking at the gloomy forest. The thick mist at the end of her vision made her feel very uncomfortable.
"Yeah..."
Salacia nodded, "I feel uncomfortable too... like an invisible eye is staring at my back."
Both of them are spiritual talent type Casters, with Spirit attributes over 200 points, their perception is more sensitive than physical professions.
Actually, Bai Pu also had a similar feeling. His Spirit attribute is his third talent, now up to 140 points, and with his outstanding spiritual power talent, the range of his Mental Scan is not inferior to those with spiritual talent.
Moreover, Bai Pu also has Celestial Human Attribute Points. He added 71 Celestial Human Attribute Points from Agility to Spirit, temporarily increasing his Spirit to 211 points, using a fingertip to tap his forehead to initiate a Mental Scan.
Leia and Salacia both looked at Bai Pu in surprise. Their Mental Scans were on, allowing them to "see" Bai Pu’s blue-golden spiritual power sweeping across a range of several kilometers like a raging sea.
"So strong..." Salacia muttered. It wasn’t that Bai Pu’s spiritual power was stronger than hers, but rather that a warrior possessed such spiritual strength, which was beyond Salacia’s understanding.
"Oh no, we’ve blown it! This time we’ll definitely be discovered by the spiritual talent demons." Leia lamented.
She silently blamed Bai Pu for not conducting the scan in a subtle way like she and Salacia, which might have allowed for secret reconnaissance.
"From your perception, the demon’s scouts have likely discovered us already, and this operation won’t be stealthy."
Rein said. Although he couldn’t see Bai Pu’s spiritual power surge, his cultivation in the mental realm was not low, allowing him to sense being "swept" by Bai Pu.
He supported Bai Pu’s approach, continuing, "Now we must find the demon scouts as quickly as possible and eliminate them!"
The next second, Bai Pu opened his eyes.
"Found them."
Before the words even finished, Bai Pu’s fingers were already rubbing together, shooting out red Fire Bombs towards the branches of ancient trees, under boulders, and a spot where tree roots were exposed.
"Brother actually practices magic and martial dual cultivation, what pure mana." Rein praised.
He genuinely praised, Bai Pu’s magic power purity is Lord Level, on par with Leia. This is truly amazing for a warrior.
Magic and martial dual cultivation is essentially the same as "Magic and Martial Dual Cultivation" in the Demon Fighting World. Mana is a term for caster energy, naturally including Bai Pu’s magic power.
Three Low-level Fireball Magics, under Bai Pu’s spiritual power control, instantly hit the target area, igniting scarlet flames!
This flame magic not only harnessed Bai Pu’s high spiritual power and pure magic power for damage and priority but also amplified damage and special effects from Red Flame Mystical Arts!
Amidst the screeching sounds, groups of foot-long, umbrella-shaped mushroom demons hurriedly fled. Some demons were already devoured by the red flames, instantly withering and falling to the ground.
These mushroom demons all had a large eye on top of their heads.
"One-Eyed Mushroom, a gregarious type of demon, individually very weak." Bai Pu said.
It seems the Corruption Forest, under the command of Emperor Qing, is indeed more systematically organized than the Red Annihilation River, which lacks command. These One-Eyed Mushrooms were definitely ordered by a Great Demon to monitor this Bone Dao exit.
As Bai Pu spoke, "Dark Steel" Muro had already made his move.
His figure was like a ghost, suddenly appearing above the fleeing One-Eyed Mushroom group, unleashing a Dagger Rain skill.
Energy-formed daggers, each precisely plunged into the single eye on top of a One-Eyed Mushroom.
Snap, snap...
The remaining One-Eyed Mushrooms’ eyes exploded one after another, oozing transparent liquid like clear water, with continuous wailing.
After clearing these One-Eyed Mushrooms, everyone’s expressions eased, the feeling of being watched temporarily vanished.
"Smart decision, I was wrong." Leia instantly changed her tone, complimenting Bai Pu.
Bai Pu waved his hand.
"Everyone, look at that dark river ahead."
Rein said, "This is a branch of the Miasma Spring. Walking upstream along the dark river, we can find the springhead of the Miasma Spring. Leia, you’ll now act separately from us. We’ll head out first to clear any potential demons, you follow and survey the surrounding topography of the Miasma Spring. Maintain a five-kilometer range, keep in contact!"
Rein, Muro, along with Bai Pu, and Salacia, proceeded along the dark river.
"Do you have any mature experience on how to destroy such a large landform as the Miasma Spring?" Bai Pu asked via telepathy.
He thought the Awakened in the Silver Heart Great World would have accumulated considerable experience from doing these Major General trial speed tasks.
Destroying a large landform requires the Awakened to have mountain-moving and ocean-filling abilities. But here, in the Spirit Realm Plane with a strength of 9.2, even a flower or a blade of grass, a tree or a stone, is astonishingly strong. Destruction is not a simple task.
Take Bai Pu, for example, his ordinary strike can topple a thousand-foot-high, several hundred-meter-wide hill on Earth.
But in the Plane World of Heart Demon: Black Heaven Descent, Bai Pu’s strike only leaves a depression tens of meters wide and several meters deep on the ground, its destructive power reduced by nearly ninety percent.
The Miasma Spring, as a large landform, spans at least several miles or even dozens of miles. Destroying such a landform would require significant effort on Bai Pu’s part, and for Leia, whose strength is inferior to Bai Pu, what special method would she use?
Rein replied via telepathy, "The Spirit Realm Will doesn’t issue missions that are impossible to complete. Generally, tasks like destroying landforms consider the energy traits and mystical arts traits of the Awakened themselves...
"Take Leia, for example, she excels in calculating earthen veins and making gnome engineering bombs. To destroy the Miasma Spring, she only needs to calculate the topography and structure of the nearby springhead, set the bombs at its weak points and detonate them, with a high probability of success. The Underworld is full of caverns, making this landform relatively fragile, and explosions can easily cause collapses."
Bai Pu nodded, then asked Salacia via telepathy: "If I help you remove the interference of Black Emperor and his demon subordinates, how would you plan to destroy the Tide Demon Mother Pool?"
Salacia’s spirit was lifted, and she also replied via telepathy: "My Wood Element Mystical Arts can create ’Earth-Splitting Tree Men’. The Earth-Splitting Tree Men can continuously absorb the pure water demonic power from the Tide Demon Mother Pool to grow, but the downside is that I can’t accurately control them... When the Earth-Splitting Tree Men grow large enough, the imbalance of energy within them will trigger an Earthquake Spell passively, cracking open the bottom of the Tide Demon Mother Pool."
"I see, water nurtures wood, and wood overcomes earth... using the Five Elements productive cycle to cultivate a tree-man powerful enough to destroy the Tide Demon Mother Pool."
Bai Pu understood.