Su Changqing's hand was pinched painfully by Chu Batian, he apologetically said: "Junior brother, the situation was urgent at that time, and I had no other way, so I had to come up with this plan."
Chu Batian knew it was like this, but he couldn't accept it in his heart. He gritted his teeth and stared at Su Changqing, not saying anything for a good while.
This was the lesson the fog gave to the group of six. When they were still dizzy and couldn't even find the direction, one cultivator had already permanently lost one of his legs.
For a time, the atmosphere within the team became even more depressed and dull.
The few people stopped here for a good while before tidying up their mood and continuing to explore the unknown in the fog.
Although the process was not very pleasant, Chu Batian's body did not continue to disappear...
It was uncertain whether the so-called "toxin" was really cut off by Su Changqing, or the other party only "poisoned" the leg.
Chu Batian was still a Golden Core cultivator after all, and he practiced Qi cultivation. Losing a leg affected him, but not too much. He manifested another leg with his own magical power to barely support himself forward.
Then Qi Yun was kind-hearted and was around Chu Batian, occasionally helping him a bit.
Qin Ran walked at the back, leaving another magic stone with an array pattern.
He looked back at the bug that was stepped to death by Chu Batian, feeling a little reluctant and wanted to go back to collect it, but he was afraid of hurting himself as he didn't know the working mechanism of the bug, so he gave up in the end.
In the vast fog, the group continued on their way in silence again. They would stop every period of time to determine the direction with techniques, and every time Qin Ran determined the direction, he would leave a stone with an array pattern.
Qin Ran didn't know how long they had walked or how far they had walked. He only knew that they had stopped four times, and he had thrown array pattern stones four times. If they still couldn't get out, his array pattern stones would soon run out.
After they determined the direction for the fourth time and didn't walk far ahead, suddenly there was light in front of them, and they arrived at a place without fog.
"Have we walked out of the fog?" Bai Ruoxi's cheerful voice rang out, but soon stopped.
Because what they came to was just a very small blank space, not completely out of the fog yet.
It was a hemispherical space with a radius of about ten meters, like an inverted bowl, separating the fog. Moreover, it was a very standard hemisphere, looking a bit like a space deliberately opened up, which was very strange and sinister.
"F*ck, finally came to a place without fog!" Chu Batian cursed, "I almost f*cking suffocated!"
After saying that, he raised his hand and poked through the air bubble over his head.
Qin Ran didn't even have time to say "don't" when he just raised his hand.
"What the f*ck do you want to say again?" Chu Batian noticed Qin Ran's move and looked over with his loud voice, "Don't tell me there are bugs here again?!"
Qin Ran sighed and pointed to the center of this hemispherical space.
Everyone looked over and found that in the center of that circle, among the shallow grass, there was a very ordinary looking mushroom.
It was very small, about the size of a child's fist, yellowish brown in color, growing among the weeds. Originally there was nothing worth noting about it. But it grew in the land of the Immortal Ruins, right in the middle of this space in the fog... Very peculiar and sinister.
"What's that?" Su Changqing asked.
Qin Ran took a look around and roughly measured the distance from the mushroom to the edge of the space. He replied, "This space exists because of it."
"It dispelled the fog?" Su Changqing said.
Qin Ran shook his head, "It's not dispelling the fog, but destroying the fog."
Suddenly enlightened, Su Changqing displayed his eye technique to take a closer look in the air, and then exclaimed in shock, "Junior Brother Chu, cover your nose and mouth! Hurry!!"
"It's too late." Qin Ran sighed, looking at Chu Batian, waiting for something.
"What?" Chu Batian still hadn't reacted yet. Seeing Su Changqing's appearance, he even laughed and said, "The air here is fragrant, I shouldn't have worn that stupid air bubble early on."
"Let's take a rest here for a while, you guys should also poke holes in those air bubbles..." As he said that, he looked around and was about to sit down.
It was at this moment that he suddenly realized that the way the others were looking at him was a little wrong, as if there was fear and horror. They were backing away?!
"What's wrong with you guys?" Seeing this, he panicked a little, stood up, reached out his hand, and asked inquiringly, and then...
He saw that his hands were covered with dense tiny mushrooms!
Chu Batian then looked down at his own body and found that his entire body was covered with mushrooms, yellowish brown, dense and tiny mushrooms. From his feet to his hands to his body, he was already covered by mushrooms.
And these mushrooms drew nutrients from his body and grew rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, from dense speckles, they grew to the size of thumbs.
But as Chu Batian watched these mushrooms grow, he didn't feel anything wrong. On the contrary, he felt itchy and comfortable all over his body.
He realized his face was itchy, reached up to touch his face, but instead touched more mushrooms.
Mushrooms grew out of Chu Batian's nose, ears, and eyes. Mushrooms growing on his eyeballs blocked his vision so he couldn't see clearly anymore.
"Save...save me..." Only then did he realize something was wrong and thought to ask for help, but there were also mushrooms in his mouth, his gums, tongue and lips, making his voice blurred.
Seeing a Gold Core cultivator like Chu Batian covered by mushrooms in just a few breaths, Su Changqing was first shocked and scared, and then reacted to rescue him.
But before he could take action...
"Mushrooms!" Bai Ruoxi's voice came from behind. She screamed, "We are also growing mushrooms!"
Su Changqing was shocked to find that the exposed skin on his own body was also sprouting mushrooms.
However, it was not as terrible as Chu Batian. There were only a few sporadic mushrooms.
"Quick, retreat back into the fog." He urged urgently.
"Don't retreat!" Qin Ran hurriedly stopped them, but Jian Yuanjie who was walking at the back had already retreated back into the fog.
So then Jian Yuanjie's screams could be heard.
The people inside the mushroom space looked over and saw that as soon as the mushrooms on Jian Yuanjie's body came into contact with the fog, the two instantly dissolved... Taking with them the parts connected to the person's body.
The mushrooms and the fog were in opposition to each other. No wonder they could clear out a blank space here. Only then did Su Changqing realize this. He quickly performed techniques and flames burned away all the mushrooms on his body.
"Senior brother!" Bai Ruoxi shouted again, "The mushrooms can't be dispelled!"
Su Changqing hurriedly looked towards Bai Ruoxi and saw that when Bai Ruoxi drove her magic power, the mushrooms on her grew wildly.
These mushrooms not only used blood and flesh as nutrients, but also magic power!
"Sword qi!" Su Changqing quickly reminded her. He had burned them away with fire flames, which meant the mushrooms couldn't withstand intense energy.
Only then did Bai Ruoxi dispel the mushrooms on her body with sword qi.
After seeing that Bai Ruoxi had dispelled the mushrooms, Su Changqing then looked at the others. Jian Yuanjie outside the space used the fog to resist them, and although the price was heavy, at least there were no more mushrooms on him.
He looked again at Qin Ran... He was surprised to find that there were no mushrooms growing on Qin Ran.
"You don't have mushrooms growing on you?" He frowned and asked.
Qin Ran gestured to show him that not only did Qin Ran have an air bubble over his head, his whole body was also wrapped in an air bubble. That air bubble was like a thin film sticking to his skin and was generally invisible.
"Brother Qin is formidable!" Su Changqing praised.
He looked again at Qi Yun and didn't know what method Qi Yun had used, but the mushrooms were also cleared away.
After seeing that the others were unharmed, he then had the mind to deal with Chu Batian. But by the time they looked back at Chu Batian, they found that Chu Batian was already immobilized.
He stretched out his hand to the front with his body covered by yellowish brown mushrooms. He didn't look like a living thing anymore, but rather like a statue!
Chu Batian was already dead!!
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