Chapter 344

Chapter 344: The Second Corpse Mushroom

"Cough, cough, Elder Guan, why not show some real skills!"

"Elder Du, why don’t you switch to another treasure?"

"Elder Yu, aren’t your two spiritual beasts a bit lacking as well?"

At this moment, the three of them spoke to each other, their words laced with dissatisfaction.

Among them, the other two elders had the most complaints about Elder Guan. They had at least summoned their treasures, while Elder Guan had chosen to use a spell, and that spell looked nothing like what a late Void Refinement stage grandmaster would unleash.

In all their years as elders, they had never seen a late Void Refinement stage cultivator cast the Water Arrow technique resulting in a mere foot in length; it was no different from what low-level cultivators could do.

At this point, the two elders even suspected that Elder Guan was intentionally going easy, wanting to let Ji Yang escape.

As Elder Guan faced the doubts from the two elders, his face turned completely red.

With a wave of his hand, he immediately unleashed his best earth-based spell, the Earth Spike Technique.

This time, Elder Guan put in all his effort, aiming to prove he was not slacking.

However, after casting the Earth Spike Technique, Elder Guan’s expression did not improve; instead, only a few paltry spikes appeared beside him when there should have been a vast number, and these spikes were short and dull, lacking any sharpness!

This was completely different from when he had cast it before.

The expressions of the other two elders darkened further upon seeing this.

This couldn’t possibly be going easy; it looked like an obvious fake effort.

No wonder they both sensed something was off; it turned out to be Elder Guan’s fault!

Looking at the few earth spikes beside him, Elder Guan froze for a moment, unable to suppress glancing at his hands; if he hadn’t just used all his strength, he would have thought he was actually going easy.

But he clearly hadn’t been faking it; how could he explain that?

At this moment, Elder Guan felt bitter but could not voice it. He directed the few earth spikes at Ji Yang, but the next moment, they were easily shattered by Ji Yang’s sword energy.

Elder Guan wanted to try casting another spell to experiment, but as he did so, he suddenly paused, then frowned at the two elders beside him:

“Elders, do you feel that the spiritual energy from the heavens and earth around us is a bit too weak?”

Upon hearing this, the two elders, who had been attacking Ji Yang relentlessly, paused as well.

This was something they had not noticed, but as the two elders carefully sensed the area, their expressions changed. The spiritual energy from the heavens and earth nearby was not just weak; it was incredibly sparse, nearly extinct.

With the spiritual energy thin, Elder Guan’s casting could not tap into the local energy to enhance its power, while the other two elders, managing their treasures, had not sensed this immediately but felt something was off today; their treasures’ power seemed diminished.

No wonder the three of them thought each other was going easy; they had not expected the problem lay here.

Yet, the three elders, now aware of the anomaly, were left puzzled.

This place was not some dead zone for spiritual energy; even if all three fought at full strength, they could not drain the area’s energy dry—there must be some hidden secret they were unaware of.

Without further thought, the three spread out their primordial spirit energy, carefully sensing the surrounding spiritual energy from the heavens and earth.

After a thorough examination, the three finally realized the reason behind the unusual lack of spiritual energy.

Not far away, something appeared to be continuously absorbing the spiritual energy from the surroundings, which was causing the energy in their battle area to become exceedingly sparse.

And this was certainly not a coincidence!

At that moment, all three turned their gazes toward Ji Yang, who was continuously wielding sword energy.

Under the gaze of the three elders, Ji Yang revealed a slight smile:

“Have I been discovered?”

Upon hearing this, the three elders immediately understood that this was Ji Yang’s doing!

Before the three could react, Ji Yang produced a white talisman in his hand.

It looked like an ordinary explosive talisman, but it usually communicated in both directions!

Before the three elders could grasp his intention, Ji Yang had already crushed the talisman!

As the talisman shattered, the expressions of the three elders changed dramatically; they sensed a powerful and dangerous energy wave rapidly approaching them.

The sense of crisis was even greater than the earlier eruption of the Calamity Clouds!

Ji Yang moved even faster; before the three understood what was happening, he unleashed a massive sword energy that repelled their attacks, while carrying the spiritual boat and quickly flying off into the distance!

Seeing Ji Yang trying to escape, the three elders hurriedly chased after him, momentarily setting aside other thoughts!

But before they could make another move, the force of the explosion struck from behind.

Feeling the power of this explosion, the three elders decided not to pursue further and chose to protect themselves!

With Ji Yang’s speed, even if he got a head start, they could effortlessly catch up; there was no need to rush and risk injury to themselves.

Moreover, they had no idea what had exploded behind them with such power, making them wary.

In contrast to the three elders, Ji Yang paid no attention to the explosion behind him and simply focused on fleeing as quickly as possible. When he saw that the three elders had stopped pursuing him, Ji Yang felt regret.

In truth, he had hoped the three elders would recklessly chase him, which would have allowed the explosion of the Corpse Mushroom to be even stronger.

Indeed, he had set a special Corpse Mushroom that he had cultivated with his powers far away before the three elders arrived, intending to drain the surrounding spiritual energy from the heavens and earth.

Although this would reduce the power of his sword energy, Ji Yang believed that his rich True Essence and strong body would counter the negative effects, while the three elders would suffer more consequences.

This way, he would have a chance to escape!

Currently, the three elders were focused on defense, so the power of the earlier detonated Corpse Mushroom would not be enough to heavily injure them. Furthermore, this was not the He Dao Sect, and the nearby spiritual energy from the heavens and earth would not be too abundant; coupled with the relatively short time of absorption,

the explosion of the Corpse Mushroom would definitely be weaker than one grown in the He Dao Sect, but even so, it could still give the three a good scare!

Ji Yang accelerated away from the explosion center of the Corpse Mushroom; behind him, the force of the explosion came crashing down like an avalanche.

Ji Yang did not attempt to use the spiritual boat to block this attack; he trusted his reinforced body more than the boat!

“Boom!”

With the sound of the explosion, dust spread for miles around!

In the clouds of dust, Ji Yang felt a tremendous force pushing him from behind, and it was then that he realized the terrifying power of this accidentally cultivated Corpse Mushroom!

Even with Ji Yang’s strong body, he felt vibrations throughout his internal organs!

After swallowing several pills, the vibrations quickly subsided, and Ji Yang sped away toward the distance!

Hopefully, the three elders were heavily injured by this attack and could not catch up to him!