My Divine Pet Enables Me To Become The Biggest Winner
Chapter 803 - 447: Interacting with You as an Ordinary Person_2

Chapter 803: Chapter 447: Interacting with You as an Ordinary Person_2

However, including those in the Fifth Great Domain, everyone stood there dumbfounded, mesmerized by the mushrooms, feeling that these creatures were incredibly beautiful. The patterns and colors on the mushrooms easily pulled them into an illusion.

In the air, there were microscopic spores wafting about, unseen by them. They entered their bodies with every breath, rooting in their lungs, growing unbeknownst to them.

In the process, they secreted toxins, intensifying their addiction.

Some mycelial roots had already grown from their bodies and penetrated the surrounding soil. In not long, they would become nutrients for new mushrooms.

At this moment, the sudden sound of a bronze gong rang out, piercing and loud, startling these cultivators awake! The leading female cultivator immediately felt intense pain throughout her body. In her panic, she wrapped herself in three circles of Red Lotus Flames, incinerating the mycelium inside her body to ashes. Then, she swung her Duster, its silvery threads winding around all her companions, forcibly pulling them up into the air and away from the ground.

The roots at their feet were pulled out, but the large mushrooms’ roots also crept up from the ground, entangling with the pulled roots and trapping these people.

These people gradually awoke to their pain, writhing and pounding their chests with their fists. They sought to sever the mycelium underfoot with flying swords and ice blades. However, these roots proved to be incredibly tenacious, impossible to break off.

The female cultivator forcibly unleashed her Red Lotus Flame, rotating to fly out and burn the roots. But the invisible spores in the air exploded with this action.

Boom—

A massive cloud of dust arose around the huge mushrooms, and the group of people spat blood as they fell. More mycelium roots stretched out from the ground, trying to entangle them again. They were swallowed by despair – when suddenly a dark yellow rope darted in, swiftly wrapping them all together one by one, escaping the entanglement of the new roots at the last second.

The enormous mushrooms trembled slightly and released more spores towards the direction of the rope. As the spores touched the ground, they quickly took root and grew, rapidly expanding the area of the Mushroom Forest.

The rope, too, contracted at high speed, and the race between the two sides was on.

With a gritting of teeth, the female cultivator unleashed her Red Lotus Flame one last time. Behind them, a wall of flame several hundred feet high rose, momentarily blocking the spores. The rope – acting like a nimble snake – swiftly carried them away in a flash.

Spores continued to pursue them from the sky, and the group saw the rope wrapped around a young man’s wrist. He held the rope in one hand, while the other led a timid girl. Levitating in the air, he moved as fast as lightning, dragging everyone out of the Mushroom Forest.

Tens of miles later, the young man landed on a mountaintop, stopping the female cultivator and the others from speaking: "Heal your injuries first."

The female cultivator gave a slight nod, swallowing a spiritual pill and sitting down to meditate.

Her teammates were each experiencing excruciating pain as the mycelium still lurked within them, being suppressed, only to resurface through their nostrils and ears again.

Shelia trembled at her first exposure to the eerie terror of the Extinction Domain. Amid a group of female teammates, one decided to amputate her own arm to survive, trembling as she levitated her hand, channeling a Radiance into her own chest and forcefully ripping out the mycelium – along with her entire lung.

She screamed in agony, discarding the lung mixed with twisted mycelium, only for Owen Bertram to burn it to ashes with a touch of his finger.

However, the female teammate also grew faint, the light in her pupils starting to fade. Shelia felt pity, gathering the courage to ask the "Great Evil Person" softly, "Can I help her?"

Owen Bertram nodded in agreement – he would have helped even if Shelia hadn’t offered.

Shelia walked over to the female teammate, took her hands in hers, and transferred an invisible energy. The originally weak and pained woman felt her condition improving, the light in her eyes regathering, as she looked at Shelia with gratitude.

"Don’t speak yet; you’re still very weak. Rest for a while," Shelia gently comforted her.

Owen Bertram cast another glance at Shelia, thinking in surprise that the girl had such abilities.

After the female leader recovered, she immediately removed the mycelium from her teammates using the thin Red Lotus Flames. A few Shichen (2 hours) later into the evening, the sky darkened at last.

The group who had escaped death stood on the mountaintop, gazing in the direction of the Mushroom Forest. The bizarre growth had expanded to cover a hundred miles now, a solid Tier-6 threat. Even during the pitch-dark night, a layer of hazy pink Radiance shrouded the sky above the Forest, with no animal sounds for miles around.

The female leader brought her team to thank Owen Bertram for his life-saving efforts, and he helped them up, saying, "Your lives were meant to be spared. My younger sister has unusual powers, which make her immune to such illusions. I happened to have a Bronze Gong in my Storage Brocade Pouch to awaken you, and an Immortal Binding Rope to bring you out. Otherwise, I would not have dared to enter the Mushroom Forest to rescue you."

He couldn’t remember when he had acquired this Bronze Gong as a war prize. Disregarded and consigned to the Storage Brocade Pouch, the Tier-3 Magical Artifact happened to come in handy for this occasion.

Shelia obediently hid behind the "Great Evil Person", playing the role of the "little sister" while she tried to overcome her fear.

Sighing in amazement, the female leader said, "My name is Cornelia, and I thought that with my cultivation level in Copper Gorge, I could at least ensure the safety of my companions. It seems I have underestimated the dangers here."