Chapter 204: Gu Zhan's Propagation Venture

He scratched his stone head, recalling what Gu Yuan had taught him.

He cleared his throat, and in what he thought was the gentlest voice, he shouted loudly: "Um… hello! You look so spirited! Your heads are huge!"

Inside the valley, all the mushroom folk opened their eyes and stared in unison at this uninvited guest.

Waves of powerful divine sense swept over.

"An outsider!"

"His aura is really strange—not a spirit of plants!"

"Kill him! Turn him into fertilizer!"

"Wait,"

The leading Golden Mushroom King spoke, its divine sense tinged with doubt,

"This stone… seems harmless. Besides, he said we look spirited?"

The Mushroom King has lived three hundred thousand years, yet this is the first time hearing such praise.

Gu Zhan saw it working, and his courage grew.

He activated the Sincere Hoodwinking Skill and began his performance.

"That's right! I'm Zhan Tie Niu, a traveler! I've come from far away just to see the legendary Seven-Colored Divine Mushroom! Hearing about you is no substitute for seeing you—you're a hundred times more beautiful than the legends say!"

With the skill's aid, his rough flattery was automatically translated in the mushrooms' ears as:

【I am Zhan Tie Niu, a seeker of the Dao. I have crossed boundless time and space to pursue the ultimate splendor of the Great Dao of Life. Your very existence is the brightest manifestation of that Dao, filling my heart with reverence.】

The mushrooms instantly erupted in commotion.

"This stone… is so cultured!"

"He's right—we truly are the ultimate splendor of the Great Dao of Life!"

"I feel my mushroom caps are shining brighter!"

The Golden Mushroom King also felt a bit exalted, cleared its throat, and said: "You flatter me. I don't know why you've come so far."

"Here it comes!"

Gu Zhan felt a surge of joy and continued: "The place I come from is wonderful! It has sun and moon, soil so fertile it could flow with oil! Most importantly, we have an especially impressive old grandfather there who gives lectures every day—listening to one of his lessons is better than painstakingly training alone for ten thousand years!"

Automatic translation:

【The place I come from is a perfect great world. Within it, yin and yang turn, the five phases generate each other, immortal substances abound like the sea. Moreover, an Immortal King–level presence presides, daily opening altars to expound the True Explanation of Chaos.】

These words hit like a heavy bomb, exploding among the mushroom crowd.

"A perfect great world? Immortal King giving lectures?"

For these natives, trapped in one corner and with breaking through to True Immortal still hopelessly out of reach, this is nothing short of a deadly temptation.

The Golden Mushroom King's divine sense began to tremble: "Is this really true?"

"Of course it's true! I never lie!" Gu Zhan slapped his chest, and to boost his credibility he activated the All Things Growth Technique, forcing out a wisp of true immortal primal blood from his stone body.

That wisp of golden blood and qi floated toward the Mushroom King, which cautiously touched it.

Boom!

A stream of pure, extreme life energy surged into its body, and the bottleneck that had trapped the Mushroom King for a hundred thousand years loosened a bit.

It felt as if it were about to get drunk.

"I… I'll go with you!"

The Mushroom King then hammered out a decision,

"We, the Seven-Colored Divine Mushroom clan, are willing to follow you to that perfect great world!"

"Good brother!" Gu Zhan was so excited he almost smashed his stone body.

He succeeded!

He really just used his mouth to swindle a seventeenth-level peak and a group of seventeenth-level semi‑immortal grade great medicines!

…

And in the Gu Family Divine Island's Council Hall,

A huge Water Mirror Technique was live‑streaming Gu Zhan's wondrous adventure in the Myriad Medicine Great World.

When they saw Gu Zhan, with just a few words, lead away an entire mushroom tribe,

Inside the hall, everyone fell into silence.

On Gu Xue Dao's eternally icy‑mountain face, his muscles twitched uncontrollably.

Gu Lin Jiang supported his forehead, feeling that the worldview he had built over hundreds of thousands of years shattered.

So it turns out that expanding into another world can be played like this?

Gu Lin Tian watched the clumsy goofball dancing in the water mirror, then glanced at his son wearing the "everything's under control" expression, and finally couldn't help asking: "Yuan'er, how did you come up with this idea?"

Gu Yuan took a sip of tea, hiding his talent and fame.

"Maybe this is just talent."

…

Gu Zhan's publicity venture proceeded like wildfire in the Myriad Medicine Great World.

With the Seven-Colored Divine Mushroom clan's success as an example, his spiel became ever more practiced.

"Hey, Mr. Ginseng, I see your bone structure is astonishing, rosy light swirling around you—you're a one‑in‑a‑million alchemy genius! Too bad you're stuck in this little pond, a pearl covered in dust. Come with me; I'll show you what a real grand stage is!"

"Hey there, little sunflower sister, stop chasing the sun all day—our young master is far handsomer than the sun! Come back with me; I'll let you gaze at him to your heart's content!"

"And you! Yes, you, that bamboo stalk! You're almost an immortal medicine, yet you're acting aloof? We have an Immortal King Ancestor—go talk to him and I guarantee you'll attain enlightenment on the spot… no, I mean become an immortal on the spot!"

Relying on his silver tongue and occasionally dropping blood as bait, in just half a month Gu Zhan had behind him a vast army of plants and trees.

There was a radish spirit wielding a nine‑ring great saber, a willow tree immortal twisting like a water snake, and a bodhi ancient tree constantly chanting the monk's dharma name "Wukong"…

These all count as human combat power of seventeenth‑level, eighteenth‑level semi‑immortal and true immortal medicines.

Even, he even successfully coaxed into his possession a newly formed True Immortal‑grade Chaos Azure Lotus Seed, whose spiritual intelligence was low but whose strength had already reached the early stage of the 19th‑realm True Immortal!

Gu Zhan gave it a name, calling it Xiao Qing.

The whole southern part of the Myriad Medicines Grand World was almost swept clean by him.

The news returned to the Gu Family, and the entire Divine Island boiled over.

"Three thousand stalks of Nine Revolutions Returning Soul Grass… can be refined into Nine Revolutions Returning Soul Pill, which can restore life to the dead, flesh and bone."

"One hundred and eight Dragon Blood Overlord Body Fruits… when taken by those below the Supreme, they can directly forge a Dragon Blood Overlord Body."

"And this… Chaos Azure Lotus Seed? It sounds somewhat familiar."

"It is the Chaos Azure Lotus Seed!"

Gu Linjiang corrected, he looked at the name on the list, his breathing hurried,

"This is the lotus seed produced by the primordial supreme treasure Chaos Azure Lotus; although it is only one of them, if properly cultivated, it will become an innate supreme treasure in the future!"

Hiss—!

Inside the hall, a sound of drawing in cold breath rose up.

At the same time, the plan of the Hall of All Immortals also officially opened its curtains.

The first batch of bidding, amidst the eager gazes of countless Dao traditions, settled the dust.

As expected, the Ji Family and the Myriad Gods Hall of the True Immortal forces each successfully secured a quota.

At the Ancestral Dragon Nest, the Dragon Emperor personally went forth, paying the price of half his life, and exchanged it for a quota.

The Three Great Dao Traditions, under the gaze of all, dispatched their clan's top half‑immortal‑level experts.

The Gu Family's Divine Island, for a time, became the focus of the entire Primeval Immortal Realm.