Final Lord

Chapter 242 The Blind Chicken Will Win!

Wang Bufu suddenly coughed violently, spitting a mouthful of blood onto his palm. The blood froth contained fine, hair-like fungal strands. His legs buckled, and he collapsed forward.

"My lord!" the blind chicken exclaimed, quickly using his small body to support Wang Bufu. Trembling, he helped Wang Bufu to a flat rock, allowing the lord to sit on it. The blind chicken's hands glowed faintly as he carefully placed them on Wang Bufu's chest, closing his eyes to sense the spread of the fungus within Wang Bufu's body.

As the investigation deepened, Blind Chicken's expression grew increasingly grim. He could feel the mycelium coiling around Wang Bufu's lungs like a spiderweb, each breath sending more spores into his alveoli.

“My lord…” Blind Chicken’s voice choked, “The fungus has… has taken root in your internal organs, especially your lungs…” He trembled as he withdrew his hand, mycelia still clinging to his fingers from beneath Wang Bufu’s skin. “I can forcibly remove them, but that will tear your internal organs… Your constitution will be permanently weakened…”

Wang Bufu smiled weakly, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth: "It's just a decline in physical condition... just a slight decrease in maximum health... cough cough... slower recovery... and more prone to illness... it's nothing to me." His voice grew softer, yet he maintained a relaxed tone.

"No!" The blind chicken suddenly widened his eyes. "Under normal circumstances, fungi wouldn't spread this fast... It's the battle! Lord, your intense battle just now accelerated your blood circulation, making the spores spread even faster!" He pounded his head violently, tears welling up in his eyes. "It's all my fault! If I were stronger, you wouldn't have had to protect me personally... I'm such a useless piece of trash!"

Wang Bufu laboriously raised his hand and gently rubbed the blind chicken's head. His palm had turned an unhealthy bluish-gray, and traces of fungal hyphae could be faintly seen beneath his skin. "Silly boy, you've already done a great favor by controlling the Strange Mushroom King..."

"No! Absolutely not!" The blind chicken suddenly grabbed Wang Bufu's wrist with such force it almost crushed his bones. His eyes gleamed with unwavering resolve: "I have a way! Once I advance to the Transcendent level, I can perfectly control the fungi within your body! Even if they burrow into your heart, I can remove them without a scratch! Lord, please allow me to advance immediately!"

Wang Bufu frowned upon hearing this, forcing himself to sit up straight: "Nonsense!" he said sternly, "When you advance to the Transcendent realm, you can withstand a Tier 1 Epic mushroom. But right now we don't have a suitable one, and randomly picking a mushroom to advance will ruin your potential!" As he spoke, he coughed violently again, "How can my meager physique compare to your future?"

"Who says there aren't suitable mushrooms?" The blind chicken slowly opened his palm, and a dazzling golden light gradually emanated from his palm. A crystal-clear golden spore floated in his palm, radiating a heart-palpitating energy fluctuation.

Strange mushroom spores

Epic Tier 9 Spores

Effect: After planting, it can cultivate the Epic Tier 9 fungus [Strange Mushroom].

"This...was given to you by the Strange Mushroom King?" The king's pupils constricted, and his voice changed drastically. "Epic Tier 9?! Are you insane? The success rate of advancing with this is less than one in a thousand!"

The blind chicken's smile grew even brighter. He held the spore up to Wang Bufu's eyes, the golden light reflecting on their faces: "Lord, you told me that the key to advancement is faith. As long as you don't faint, you can succeed even if your health points reach zero."

His voice was as firm as if he were making a vow, "Now I am the only one who can save you. If I fail, you will continue to suffer, so my success rate is not 0.1%—"

He clenched his fist tightly, golden light bursting from between his fingers: "—It's one thousand percent!"

The cave suddenly fell silent, with only Wang Bufu's heavy breathing remaining.

After a long silence, Wang Bufu, his hands trembling, reached out and grasped Blind Chicken's hand tightly. Their hands seemed to merge into one in the golden light. "Good lad, commendable courage," Wang Bufu's voice was hoarse but firm. "Blind Chicken, victory is assured!"

"Victory is certain!"

Wang Bufu laboriously retrieved the advanced materials he had prepared beforehand and neatly arranged them on the ground. Xiaji took a deep breath and slowly pressed the golden spore, containing terrifying energy, against his chest. The instant the spore touched his skin, a dazzling golden light erupted, illuminating the entire cave.

The moment the golden spores touched his skin, the blind chicken's tense muscles suddenly relaxed. The expected excruciating pain of his internal organs tearing apart did not come.
Instead, a cool stream flowed through his veins and spread throughout his body. He looked down in astonishment and saw that the grayish-white mycelium beneath his skin was visibly shedding its rust-like impurities, gradually becoming crystal clear, like a spider web illuminated by moonlight. A dazzling golden thread was spreading and moving along the mycelial network, unhurriedly.

“This…” Blind Chicken’s fingertips unconsciously traced his chest, and his originally rough skin now shone with a pearly luster. What shocked him even more was that the three high-level fungi living in his body not only did not reject the newcomer, but instead actively contracted their hyphal networks, making room for each organ—the first to arrive, the Stone Mother Fungus, even gave up the most fertile ventricular bed, curling up itself at the edge of the spleen.

The mycelium of the strange mushroom spores is like a king inspecting his territory, and wherever it goes, his subjects bow down.

The digestive juices secreted by the large black umbrella mushroom automatically cleared a path for it, the mycelium of the bewildering flower mushroom wove a welcoming procession, and the stone mushroom huddled to the side, standing like a lackey.

Only when the golden mycelium finally takes root in the heart core does all the symbiotic fungi begin to spread again, taking root around the golden mycelium.

"This is simply unbelievable." The blind man was dumbfounded: "Fungi are exclusive. Logically speaking, when a new fungus enters your body, it should cause a fierce resistance."

The blind chicken vaguely heard the humming of mycelium rising and falling, as three kinds of fungi communicated with the strange mushroom using unique frequencies. The originally tense struggle for survival now presented a symphony of harmony.

The dormant mushroom grid on his back suddenly became hot, and the ordinary-grade edible mushrooms evolved at a visible speed, with golden patterns identical to those of the strange mushrooms appearing on the edges of their caps.

Upgrade!

All the mushrooms on the blind chicken are upgraded!
A rustling sound came from the depths of the cave. Wang Bufu forced his eyes open and saw countless wild mycelia emerging from the rock crevices, crawling and extending towards the blind chicken like pilgrims. The fungal beasts that had been subdued earlier had their sporangia on their chests flashing with golden light in unison, as if responding to some kind of call that transcended species.

The golden mushroom king suddenly shook violently, and golden light shone on its cap, entering the blind chicken's body and accelerating the changes in the fungus within it.

In just over ten minutes, all the golden light on the blind chicken's body slowly dissipated.

The advancement is complete! Not only has Blind Chicken's profession advanced, but also his personal talent!

(End of this chapter)