Wizard: I Can Refine Everything

Chapter 135: Chapter 35 Blue Strain

As the space rift opened, Richard quickly pulled Ali into the Secret Realm, casually dropping two Hearts of Annihilation to block the entrance.

Under the power of the Hearts of Annihilation, two Warrior Worms disappeared halfway, but terrifyingly, their remaining bodies kept trembling, as if they wanted to regrow from their maimed limbs.

Seeing Richard enter the Secret Realm, Ulysses somewhat relaxed.

He and Richard now shared both glory and losses; as long as Richard lived, he would eventually be able to return to divinity and perhaps even advance further.

Now that he no longer needed to protect Richard, there was no need to waste strength. He shrank his body, instantly transforming into the size of a sparrow, and the Annihilation Flame on him also vanished. He darted into the Mushroom Forest, silently observing those fungal creatures approaching.

He wanted to see what treasure had attracted these beings.

As for the remaining Soduo of the Suogu brothers, Ulysses glanced at him and saw that the youth had already started to flee during Richard’s battle; he was now nearly at the edge of the Mushroom Land.

“Ha, these Wizards really have unique ways of fleeing.”

Since Ali had entered the Secret Realm, the Curse Flame on the insect’s body instantly dimmed. The Secret Realm, unlike the Mushroom Land, which was a parasitic space on the world, was closer to another world.

The isolation between two worlds instantly severed the connection between Ali and the Curse Flame, and soon, the flames extinguished. With the help of the blood of the Insect God, the group of insects quickly recovered to their original state, and even their shells became thicker and their muscles stronger.

They felt the changes in their bodies with surprise, continuously emitting joyful chirps, but the Priest Insect was not as happy.

The Priest Insect stuffed the Blood of the Insect God back into its body, hoping to calm the Mushroom Land, but it did not notice a nearly imperceptible mycelium had already attached to the Blood of the Insect God.

Thud, thud, thud…

Dull footsteps came from deep within the Mushroom Land; a terrifying Fungal Spider, at least five meters tall, cleared a wide path through the Mushroom Forest like a bulldozer, followed by countless fungal creatures festooned with mycelium spreading like a tide.

“This… this…”

The Priest Insect watched in horror, having already reabsorbed the Blood of the Insect God into its body—why were these fungal creatures still charging at them?

Could it have enraged the Spirit of Nature?

But whatever the reason, they were now powerless to resist.

“Staro, take the Divine Gifted Armor and other insects and leave,” the Priest Insect decided quickly, pulling out a small shield and handing it to the Black-armored Warrior Insect.

“My lord, what about you?” asked the Black-armored Warrior Insect.

“Me?”

The Priest Insect shook its tentacles and knelt towards the direction of the Insect Nest.

The moment it took out the Blood of the Insect God, the injuries inside its body had already erupted. Although it had been temporarily clinging to life with the Blood of the Insect God, given the current situation, it surely couldn’t take the Blood with it.

“I am doomed.”

The Warrior Worm seemed to want to say more, but the Priest Worm had already removed the black crystal from between its brows. At the wound of the black crystal, streams of golden light seeped out, attempting to heal the wound, but to no avail.

“Praise the Mother Worm God.”

As the Priest Worm gave its last accolade, the black crystal transformed into a streak of light and disappeared. The other Warrior Worms slightly bowed to the Priest Worm and then left towards the direction of the Insect Nest.

Soon enough, fungal creatures swarmed in. A giant spider tore open the body of the Priest Worm and extracted a golden amber from within.

The amber emitted a faint golden light. Under its glow, the fungal spider’s mycelium dissolved like snow melting in spring, as if it had encountered its nemesis.

The fungal spider emitted a soundless cry, with mycelium spreading out a tentacle from its body, grabbing a nearby first-level fungal creature and hurling it at the amber.

The captured fungal creature didn’t even have time to react before the golden light disintegrated its body, just like the one before.

However, Ulysses in the woods noticed something significant.

“Ha, are they trying to wear down the seal bit by bit with numbers? Just like those Abyss riffraff.”

In his perception, the golden amber dimmed slightly after disintegrating a fungal creature, though barely perceptible. If there were enough fungal lives, the golden light of the amber could eventually be depleted.

After the fungal spider’s action, some of the stronger fungal creatures began to do the same.

One by one, fungal creatures were thrown near the amber, and the golden light of the amber gradually dimmed in this process.

As the fungal creature group dwindled down from repeated wearing down, only a few scattered beings remained. Among these few, Ulysses even spotted a familiar figure.

“Ha, this Lawrence has a tough life, to still be alive.”

In a corner of the Mushroom Forest, a fungal creature clad in a Wizard Robe lay quietly in ambush, shrouded in shadows that made the higher-level fungal creatures overlook its presence.

As an old wizard who had survived several Plane Wars and a wizard of the Undead School, Lawrence had numerous ways to save his own life.

If it weren’t for the Priest Worm’s use of a Sealing Skill, he would have had nine ways to escape.

After the sealing was lifted and he was thrown into the Mushroom Land as a sacrifice, he used a piece of Magic Equipment to protect his soul and evaded the invasion of the fungus. After the fungal reconstitution was complete, he enslaved this fungal body with Undead Magic.

For wizards undergoing Spiritual Evolution, the physical body isn’t that important. As long as the soul still exists, many wizards can switch bodies as easily as changing clothes.

Lawrence watched silently from the shadows as the golden light of the amber was disintegrated, feeling not the slightest ripple in his heart.

A long-lived Black Wizard surely possesses a virtue called restraint.

No matter how powerful or precious that amber might be, it wasn’t something he could obtain now.

His reason for coming here was simple: the blood of the Insect God awakened the instincts of his fungal body, making him lose control and involuntarily come here.

However, this had brought him an unexpected surprise. The traces of Richard and others fighting the insects hadn’t faded yet, and Lawrence easily discerned Ali’s traces from them.

This fungal body couldn’t step out of the Mushroom Land, and traveling by soul was far too dangerous. If he encountered any intense energy fluctuations, he wouldn’t even be able to return to his Life Box and would be utterly finished.

Richard’s arrival had just solved his big problem.

…

As a fungal creature disintegrated, the golden light of the amber finally vanished completely. The Fungal Spider picked it up with its tentacles and then forcefully snapped it in two.

The next moment, an extremely intense Life Energy burst from the amber, and nearly all the fungal creatures went into a frenzy at that moment.

They madly rushed towards the amber, or more precisely, toward the thing preserved inside it—a blue mushroom seed.

Bang!

The Fungal Spider swung one of its legs and smashed a second-level fungal insect into the air, its white mycelium floating down like willow catkins.

Yet even so, the remaining fungal creatures kept charging toward the blue mushroom seed.

In an instant, mycelium fell like snow.

But just as the fungal creatures were about to fight each other to death over the seed, a brash cry echoed from within the Mushroom Forest.

“Ha, a bunch of brainless fools. You think you’re worthy of this?” (Gods’ language)

A streak of black light shot out from the forest, swallowing the blue mushroom seed with a speed so fast that not even the third-level Fungal Spider could react.

“Roar!”

Some fungal creatures roared and chased after Ulysses, but after a few seconds, the group of fungal creatures suddenly stopped and then turned to walk deep into the Mushroom Forest.

Lawrence, hiding in the forest, sensed that the signal attracting the fungal bodies had disappeared.

All the fungal creatures returned to their previous life state.

“That raven is no ordinary creature,” Lawrence muttered to himself, watching the direction in which Ulysses disappeared. “Even though that mushroom seed was sealed so tightly, these fungal creatures detected it. Yet that raven completely blocked the seed’s attraction…”

Lawrence decided not to think further. As an old wizard, he understood that every wizard had their own secrets, and probing into these secrets would do no good but only bring trouble and hatred.

What he needed to do now was just wait, wait for Richard to appear, wait to obtain a new body.

…

Inside the Secret Realm, Richard sat on the ground, quietly looking at the pocket watch in his hand.

It had been three days since he had entered the Secret Realm.

There was no day or night in the Secret Realm, and Richard could only rely on his pocket watch to keep track of time.

Ulysses’ warning had made him enter the Secret Realm without a second thought, but he didn’t know why he had entered.

This also led to him being unclear about how long he would need to wait before he could leave.

“Boss, boss, don’t be sad. Fuzzy Ball Number Three offers you some nectar.”

A Holy Tree Elf flew up to him, delivering a petal dipped in nectar to his lips.

These Holy Tree Elves could sense that their boss was in a very bad mood, and their simple minds could only think of the best way to cheer him up—eating nectar.

Richard accepted the petal and gently touched the Holy Tree Elf that brought the nectar.

The nectar brewed by the Holy Tree Elves carried a faint whiff of Life Energy, although not as potent as the nectar Richard bought from the Wizard Commerce, it was still quite good.

Moreover, since there were no demonized plants in this Secret Realm, only ordinary flowers, producing such nectar already showed the uniqueness of the Holy Tree Elves.

In the past, he had never paid much attention to this nectar, but now he planned to plant some demonized plants in the Secret Realm to see if the quality of the nectar would improve.

Richard swallowed the petal, then put away his pocket watch and stood up.

“Ali, get ready, I’m going to open the rift now.”

On one side of the Secret Realm, Ali, who was reading a book, closed her book, picked up her magic wand, and came to Richard’s side.

“This Secret Realm of yours is really nice, much better than mine.”

“It’s decent, mainly because a bunch of little guys manage it.”

The rift opened, and Richard cautiously extended his spiritual power outside.

“Come on out, all is clear now!”

Sensing Ulysses’ Spiritual Message, Richard signaled to Ali, and they walked out of the Secret Realm.

The Mushroom Land had now returned to its original state, with their traces of battle covered by the fungi under the Life Energy of the Mushroom Land.

But Richard still spotted the shattered Insect God’s Blood immediately.

Richard walked up to the amber fragments. “What’s the deal with this amber?”

Ulysses’ eyes shifted. “Ha, there was something sealed inside the amber, destroyed by those fungal creatures.”

“And what happened to the stuff inside?”

“Ha, of course, it was taken by those fungal creatures.”

Richard turned to look at Ulysses, skeptical. “Are you sure?”

“Ha, I’m sure!”

But just as Ulysses finished speaking, a figure emerged from the Mushroom Forest.

“Richard, I have a deal you might want to hear.”

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