Final Lord

Chapter 240 The Core of the Wonder
"Magic - Frost Arrow!"

Wang Bufu's Frostheart suddenly glowed, and blue magical light poured into the spear shaft, causing the restless spore sacs to burst one after another, exploding with rainbow-colored pus.

"Huh?" The blind chicken was dumbfounded. Is this...right?

"It's not over yet." Wang Bufu chuckled lightly, then suddenly abandoned his spear and jumped back. Just as the remaining tentacles of the fungal beast were about to leap up and attack, the spear embedded in its body moved deeper with its movements, getting stuck at several key joints, like a chain hindering its actions.

If it tries to stand up against the spear, the spear will tear its body in two.

When Wang Bufu landed, two short spears had appeared in his hands without his knowledge. He thrust wildly with both hands, dodging the tentacles as he went, piercing through the feet of the fungal beast, leaving icy blue frost on its feet.

Pfft!
After a series of dazzling maneuvers, the mycelial tentacles of the Mycelial Beast were all tied into knots, and the Extraordinary Tier 1 monster collapsed to the ground.

It wasn't dead yet; Wang Bufu's injury was too minor to be fatal, but it had already lost its ability to move.

It wasn't until then that the blind chicken, which had activated its protective stone skin, realized what was happening, its mouth, mimicking a rock, wide open enough to fit the entire mushroom ring.

"You...you...how can you be so good at fighting?"

Wang Bufu pulled his spear from the body of the mutated colony beast, flicked off the slime from the tip, casually tucked it back into his back, and said with a laugh, "What? You really think I, your lord, am a weakling?"

He kicked the spore colony beast and said with a smile, "I still have a little bit of fighting ability."

A tiny bit? You call this a tiny bit?

Excellent! As expected of the lord.

The blind chicken is completely convinced.

Suddenly, a rustling sound came from deep within the cave, as if surviving fungal-dwelling beasts were fleeing in panic underground.

Wang Bufu smiled and waved to the blind chicken: "Let's go, it's time to meet that temperamental wonder core—hopefully it's more sensible than this gatekeeper."

……

Deep inside the cave, the damp air was filled with the pungent smell of decay and fungal hyphae.

Wang Bufu and Xiaji walked forward on the sticky carpet of mycelium, each step sending up a string of fluorescent spores, as if they were crushing countless tiny stars.

A dozen or so fungal beasts lay sprawled on the road, their fungal armor pierced by short spears, their sporangia frozen into murky lumps of ice by frost. They were not dead, but they had all lost their ability to fight.

One of the monsters was scratching at the rock wall with its mycelial tentacles, making a sandpaper-like sound, trying to stand up.

"I'll hit you!" The blind chicken jumped over and delivered a follow-up kick, and the sound stopped abruptly.

"My lord, the mycelium is getting denser and denser; we are approaching the core."

Wang Bufu's body was covered with tiny spots of various colors, a result of the struggle between the spores in the air and the fungal layer on his body.

He's not blind, after all; he can cultivate the colony with his own body. If he can't find the core of the wonder in time, the mushroom colony that blind chicken transplanted for him will eventually be overtaken.

"Speed ​​up a bit."

Wang Bufu pinned down another fungus-dwelling beast, parted the curtain of fungal fibers hanging from the cave ceiling, and suddenly gasped in shock—

At the end of the cavern, the space suddenly opened up, revealing a mycelial throne over thirty meters in diameter standing in the center. The throne was woven from mycelium of seven colors, twisting and coiling like the roots of a giant tree, deeply embedded in the surrounding rock walls. At the top of the throne, a three-story-tall golden mushroom was slowly pulsating; the patterns on its cap formed natural runes of order, and each contraction caused the cavern to tremble.

"The core of the wonder!" Wang Bufu's pupils reflected golden light. The mycelium that had sunk into the soil was clearly drawing energy from the earth's veins, and the soil beneath the golden mushroom had crystallized into a translucent amber-like substance, containing countless unhatched fungal-inhabited beast embryos.

Just as he stepped onto the first step of the mycelial throne, a sudden change occurred!
Click!Click!Click!
The crystalline soil suddenly burst open, and two monstrous fungal beasts emerged from the earth! Their spore sacs glowed brightly, and their mycelial tentacles were entwined with seven different colored hyphae. Their bodies were being assimilated by the hyphae at a visible speed, instantly reorganizing into new weapons, the most striking of which were a pair of wings on their backs dripping with slime.

【Flying Mushroom Lord (Transcendent Tier 2)】

"They can fly?!" the blind chicken exclaimed in shock.

Just then, a flying mushroom lord suddenly lashed out with a long whip of mycelium, the tip of which precisely wrapped around his ankle. More monsters emerged from the mycelium on both sides of the rock wall, like soldier ants swarming from a beehive.

"So what if you can fly? Even if your rank isn't high, you can still fight."

Wang Bufu's spear drew a golden arc in the darkness. The spear tip deflected the first attacking monster, but got stuck as it pierced the second's fungal armor—the third monster's bone hammer was already hurtling towards his temple!
Wang Bufu fixed his gaze, about to dodge, when at the critical moment, the golden mushroom suddenly flashed violently. All the fungal beasts in the colony froze simultaneously, their mycelial tendrils turning strangely toward the core of the wonder, as if receiving some higher-priority command.

"How is this going?"

Wang Bufu looked in the direction of the golden mushroom with a puzzled expression, and found that all the mushroom beasts were lined up in front of the golden mushroom, kneeling on the left and right sides like soldiers, leaving a path leading to the golden mushroom.

The blind chicken excitedly said:

"I understand! Your Excellency's performance must have earned the approval of the Wonder Core, and the Wonder Core is showing its submission to you! As expected of Your Excellency! My lord, please go and receive your coronation!"

"Is that right?"

Wang Bufu stepped onto the central road with some doubt, but the moment he landed, the fungus beasts around him suddenly went berserk!

Their previously dormant hyphae and tentacles instantly tensed, their entire bodies gleaming with hostility, and a low, metallic hissing sound emanated from their throats.

"Roar--!"

Dozens of fungal-infested beasts simultaneously turned towards Wang Bufu, their sporangia on their chests contracting violently, ready to spray deadly poisonous mist at any moment. On the cave walls, the dense network of mycelium also wriggled like living creatures, as if the entire cavern was issuing a warning to him.

Wang Bufu immediately withdrew his foot, quickly retreated a few steps, and frowned.

As soon as he left, the mushroom beasts returned to their original state.

“Something’s not right…” Wang Bufu murmured to himself, his gaze sweeping back and forth between the golden mushroom and the fungus-dwelling beast.

These fungal-inhabited beasts had clearly been defeated by him, and logically, the core of the wonder should have submitted to the stronger force of order, yet they were filled with hostility towards him...

Just now, those fungal-infested beasts were trying to kill them, but suddenly they turned into this... something must have triggered their mechanism.

Suddenly, Wang Bufu recalled the scene of the mycelium wrapping around the blind chicken's ankle, and a flash of inspiration struck him!
“Could it be…” Wang Bufu suddenly looked at the blind chicken, a slow smile spreading across his face. “Blind chicken, come here.”

The blind chicken was taken aback, then pointed to itself: "Me?"

"Yes, go over there and get close to the golden mushroom."

"Ah! My lord, this won't do, I have to protect you!" The blind chicken was clearly a little scared.

"Just go if I tell you to. If it doesn't work out, you can always come back. I'm praising your courage, so don't let me down."

"Alright, Lord, I'll go then." The blind chicken was a little uneasy, but still carefully stepped forward. Surprisingly, those fungus-dwelling beasts that had just been baring their teeth at the king now ignored the blind chicken, and some even stepped back slightly, as if afraid of touching him.

"As expected!" Wang Bufu's eyes gleamed. "The core of this wonder isn't discontent, but rather... it only recognizes a specific master!"

The blind chicken walked up to the golden mushroom, nervously swallowed, and looked back. Wang Bufu immediately said, "Reach out and touch the mushroom in front of you."

(End of this chapter)