Final Lord

Chapter 204 The Corrupted Spring of Life
After the Swamp Eye Clan was wiped out, what they had concealed with mirages was exposed.

The spring appeared to be made of flesh and blood, but what overflowed from it was entirely dark red flesh and blood.

These fleshy strands are not evenly attached, but rather intertwined with the stone as twisted vine-like fibers, as if countless blood vessels were emerging from the depths of the spring, coiling and twisting to form the outer wall.

The fleshy stone wall is covered with protrusions resembling fern sporangia. Each sporangia oozes dark purple mucus, which congeals on the surface into a translucent gelatinous membrane. Inside, eyeball-like biological organs can be vaguely seen floating and rotating irregularly.

At the outlet in the center of the spring, there is a thick membrane resembling the throat of some unknown creature. What gushes out is not clear spring water, but rotten internal organs mixed with fragments of fluorescent fern leaves—greenish-blue intestines intertwined with half-dissolved lung lobes, with dark purple myocardial tissue still contracting adhering to the surface.

Most bizarrely, at the bottom of the spring, a large number of translucent fluorescent spores settled together with decaying organs, forming a constantly writhing, fluorescent swamp. On the fleshy layer at the edge of the spring, dark purple moss was proliferating at a visible rate, and protrusions resembling the facial contours of a fern spirit appeared on the surface of the moss, continuously emitting a whispered sound accompanied by a viscous churning: "Become nutrients...become nutrients..."

Wang Bufu frowned. The system had already told him the true nature of this strange thing.

The Corrupted Fountain of Life

Chaotic Spectacle
effect:

Corruption symbiosis (ecological cycle)
Spore Symbiotic Field: The Spirit Spring sprays "Corrosive Spore Mist" every 6 hours, increasing the growth rate of crops in the covered area by 300%. Upon maturity, these crops mutate into [Symbiotic Crops].

Root Workshop: The thorn roots automatically collect swamp silt and decaying biological remains, turning them into "decomposed building materials" or "symbiotic fertilizer" (restoring fertility to barren soil, but the organisms planted will decay).

Distorted incubation (production transformation)
When any organic material (wood/corpse/mineral) is added, the spiritual spring decomposes and recombines it into:
1. Fern Marrow Engineer: A semi-plant, semi-mechanical creature capable of performing construction/gathering tasks, transforming into a defensive thorny barrier at night.

2. Carrier of decay: Root transport insect (stores 20 tons of materials in its body), adapted to wetland terrain.

Eternal Corruption:

1. Corruption Sacrifice: By sacrificing 20 supernatural creature corpses each month, the "Overclocked Production" mode can be activated (all efficiencies +50%).

1. Root Resonance: Connecting 10 or more Chaotic Villages unlocks higher-level monsters.

It's something like this! A chaotic spectacle!

Wang Bufu stared in shock, his eyes wide. The chaotic wonders were all formed from the demonic transformation of natural wonders. They were the opposite of natural wonders.

Unlike natural wonders that help the gods protect the world's creatures, chaotic wonders are undoubtedly products of the chaotic alignment.

Its special abilities appear to have a certain order on the surface, but that is merely a disguise for chaos. If one covets the power of the chaotic spectacle and uses it for a long time, it will eventually transform into a chaotic node, skipping stages such as erosion and demonic tides, and directly dragging all surrounding areas into the chaotic zone.

Nix stared at the corrupting spring, his body involuntarily taking a step forward, muttering, "My lord, I smell a very sweet aroma. Just one bite of the flesh and blood from this spiritual spring will grant me immense power."

With the spring water, we, the Miasma Clan, can become as powerful as the Fern Marrow Clan.

"No! The Chaotic Wonder must be destroyed!" Wang Bufu grabbed Nix's head, dragged him on his hand, and said sternly, "Blind Cat, take the troops back and prepare for artillery fire!" "Wait! Don't!" Just then, a voice rang in Wang Bufu's mind.

Wang Bufu was so startled that he took half a step back and hurriedly asked, "Who are you?"

“I am right in front of you, child. I am the Spirit Spring, and the Spirit Spring is me.”

"You are the corrupted spiritual spring?! You have consciousness?!" Wang Bufu was greatly shocked. Natural wonders with consciousness are not uncommon, but he had never seen one that could still have consciousness after being corrupted.

"Yes. The chaos almost completely destroyed my mind, but thankfully I pulled through."

Suddenly, emerald ripples appeared in the mud deep within the mound of decaying bones, and the spring, entwined by vines, emitted a sticky sound. Wang Bufu turned around and stomped through the scorched earth, just in time to see a human face made of spores emerge from the blood and flesh spring.

“Young child… thank you for helping me rid myself of that damned Fern Marrow Clan. It was their greed and ignorance that corrupted me. They took over me, forcing me to use my power to clear away the chaos around me, to create a better living environment for them.”

In the process of clearing away the chaos, I became tainted by it all, ultimately succumbing to corruption. They, too, paid the price for their actions.

Every word uttered by the face was accompanied by the sound of mycelium rubbing together.

“I thought I would become a sinner condemned by the gods, but thankfully you have arrived. Just offer me two hundred thousand gold coins, and I can draw energy from them to cleanse myself of my filth.”

I sense that you carry the flame within you. Once I return to normal, you may build your territory around me. I will do everything in my power to bring you life and prosperity.

Wang Bufu stared at the spore-man's face, his fingertips secretly making a secret signal behind his back. He dared not use telepathy, but the long-standing tacit understanding between them still allowed Shanpao to understand immediately.

Shanpao retreated a step, leading the elite cavemen into the swamp, where some short figures dressed in black robes also mingled.

“Your Excellency Lingquan,” Wang Bufu said earnestly, “if two hundred thousand gold coins can truly help you purify, I am willing to give everything I have.”

He took off the money bag studded with rune gems, the clinking of gold coins on the scorched earth sounding particularly crisp. This was a gold coin bag, a treasure from the Church of Wealth, capable of holding an almost unlimited amount of gold coins. Wang Bufu had bought it on a whim when he went to Night City last time.

Hearing the clinking of gold coins, the density of spores around the face's eye sockets surged: "A wise choice! Once I recover, I will grant you the authority to banish corruption. You can use my spring water to purify the corrupted trees buried deep in the swamp. The corrupted building materials I purify will be enough for you to build ten fortresses."

“But I didn’t bring enough gold coins, and two hundred thousand is no small sum. Transporting gold coins takes time.” Wang Bufu suddenly interrupted Lingquan. He casually tossed three gold coins into the air. The light spots refracted by the gold coins in the air caused the spore-shaped face to tremble violently.

"It's okay, I'll take as many as you have now! It's always good if it can make things easier for me sooner."

“Very good.” Wang Bufu nodded in deep agreement and said, “But before I help you solve the corruption problem, I have one more question. Do you know about anti-fraud apps?”

(End of this chapter)