Chapter 400

Without the malevolent entity that prevented them from turning their heads watching them like a tiger eyeing its prey.

The remaining mimetic arm mushrooms no longer posed much of a threat.

These arms danced wildly, quite like a dance of demons, but they only had to face a few arms at a time during the fight. Even if the arms deep inside wanted to attack, their roots were still in the stone crevices, so they could only wave demonically.

Wu Xian swung his saw, laboriously hacking off several arms.

Mushrooms had longitudinal fibers, so even though they had no bones, they were very tough to cut.

Fatty handled it much better, pouncing directly and pulling with force, plucking the arms off just like picking mushrooms. The other arms hitting him felt like nothing more than an itch.

But although fighting them wasn't dangerous, it was too time-consuming to wipe out all the mushroom arms this way.

Wu Xian hesitated for two seconds.

He called Fatty to back off and used the final Iron Tree Silver Flower Incantation.

Whoosh! Dazzling firelight erupted from Wu Xian's hand, and countless light spots like sparks scattered like flowers falling from the sky, piercing through the dancing mushrooms.

These mushrooms were just numerous and troublesome, but not strong.

About half of the mushrooms stopped moving after being pierced, and most of the rest were half-dead.

Wu Xian and Fatty took the opportunity to attack, and Huang Huang Debiao also assisted with his spider-leg spikes. After a fierce battle, all the mushroom arms in the patch fell to the ground.

Huang Huang Debiao's body temperature gradually returned to normal. He didn't dwell on how Wu Xian could use strange powers, but instead asked about Wu Xian's condition with concern.

"Are, are you okay?"

"I'm fine."

Wu Xian touched his face.

Half of his face was heavily bruised. Just now, to focus on controlling the Ghost Touches, he had abandoned his defense and been slapped repeatedly by those mushroom arms. Even with his naturally thick skin, it was still stinging painfully.

Huang Huang Debiao sighed: "Sigh, what a pity; the next exploration will likely be difficult."

Resources in the cave were limited. They had made a total of nine torches, but the three Xiong Gang had were taken away, and the six they had were almost consumed due to the delay caused by the mushroom arms.

Even if they returned to the cave to rest, the time for the next exploration would be too tight, and the remaining firewood in the cave probably wouldn't last long.

"This stuff should be burnable."

Just as Huang Huang Debiao was lamenting, Wu Xian held up an arm and dangled it toward him. When the mushroom arms were alive, they were soft and tough, but after they died, they became dry and hard; perhaps they really could be used as firewood.

So the two of them quickly collected the arms on the ground; there were dozens of them in total, all tied up with spider-silk rope.

After cleaning up the arms.

Wu Xian looked at the malevolent entity's corpse.

At first glance, the corpse looked like a human, but looking closely, one could see many wart-like protrusions on its skin, which made one's scalp tingle and feel nauseous.

Such a thing, whether eating its meat or using it to boil oil, would easily make people mentally unstable, so Wu Xian just found the malevolent incense on it and pushed the corpse aside.

Being able to kill this malevolent entity was entirely due to the precise control of the Ghost Touches.

Before entering this blessed land, the residual filth in Wu Xian's home had merged into the White Ghost poker cards, slightly improving their performance, which greatly increased the success rate of this operation.

"Let's go back quickly and tell them the news that Xiong Gang is a malevolent entity."

When Wu Xian and the others returned to the cave.

They saw an old woman with a hunched figure and a face full of gullies standing in the shadows; the flickering firelight made the old woman's face appear uncertain.

In front of the old woman, three human heads were placed on the ground, looking forward with lifeless eyes.

Upon seeing Wu Xian and the other.

The old woman slowly retreated into the darkness and gave Huang Huang Debiao a smile with an ambiguous meaning. Xia Xia Caoqing threw herself onto Huang Huang Debiao; while he was out exploring, she had been very worried, and only after seeing her husband return safe and sound did she breathe a sigh of relief.

But Huang Huang Debiao felt no joy, instead shivering uncontrollably.

"She's here, she's come to find me again!"

That old woman was none other than the one who wanted to buy Huang Huang Debiao's house as a tomb; seeing her figure, the shadow deep in Huang Huang Debiao's memory was dug up again.

The crazy woman breathed a sigh of relief and put away her dagger; Gong Gong Xiujuan also walked out from behind her.

"You're finally back."

The man and the tiger returned.

The women felt a sense of security.

The five of them sat around the fire and recounted everything that had just happened.

On the cave side.

Not long after the men went out to explore, they were attacked. The attackers were a group of human heads rolling on the ground. These heads were very fast, shuttling through lit areas, and before the firelight could cause them harm, they had already retreated into the darkness.

The three women spent a lot of effort to solve the three heads.

Then came that strange old woman.

After she arrived, those heads all withdrew. She didn't try to attack, just watched quietly until the men returned before retreating.

On the cave side.

Huang Huang Debiao told them all the results of this exploration.

Hearing that Xiong Gang was a malevolent entity, everyone except the crazy woman felt lingering fear. After hearing that Wu Xian possessed special abilities, everyone was very surprised, and time passed bit by bit.

Creak, creak...

During these few hours, a harsh sound of sharpening blades had been coming from the cave.

Wu Xian tried his best to find a rough stone to sharpen the thick saw into a blade. After several hours of grinding, this saw-blade knife couldn't be said to cut hair, but at least it could be used to cut meat.

He used the Melting Character on the saw-blade knife, and a flash of red light appeared on the blade, giving it special abilities.

If there were no better options, this knife would become Wu Xian's primary weapon in this blessed land. Additionally, he modified the spider-leg spikes, crafting them into two short spears that could be thrown, serving as a ranged weapon.

The dry, hard mushroom arms were more burn-resistant than imagined, with better combustion performance than ordinary dry firewood. These fifty-plus arms could support at least thirty hours of firelight.

As for food, there was still plenty of meat left from that large spider.

This way, for at least two days, there would be no need to worry about everyone's food, water, and lighting problems.

Wu Xian ate a piece of spider meat.

He prepared to continue exploring. At this time, there were still eight hours until the next storytelling, and this time could not be wasted.

But when Wu Xian invited Huang Huang Debiao again, he was refused.

Huang Huang Debiao hugged Xia Xia Caoqing and said: "Our supplies are temporarily sufficient; we can rest today and explore again tomorrow. I don't want to take risks for the time being."

His expression was relaxed as he spoke, with an irrepressible smile on his mouth and hope in his eyes, a completely different person from the one who had been scared out of his wits a few hours ago.

"Was he scared crazy?"

Wu Xian narrowed his eyes.

"No, he feels that he can survive and get out!"

(End of chapter)