This is Swallowed Star, not Resident Evil.

Chapter 334 The Grim Situation, Removing the Mycelium

"He actually succeeded?"

A pair of beautiful eyes looked at Ye Yang in a corner of the observation deck with some surprise.

A girl dressed in white quietly watched the man in the distance, who was constantly manipulating countless mycelium, within a barrier that created its own space-time.

White, gold, and black mycelium, the three colors of which seem to be placed in a battlefield, their territories being pulled back and forth.

Finally, the white and gold mycelium joined forces to eliminate the black mycelium, achieving final victory!

All the mycelia changed again, turning into a deep blue-green color, like the sky.

"After that lecture, I contacted everyone present, but in the end, only he was left. It seemed that he was trapped in some kind of instanced world and could not be contacted."

"But I had a feeling that he was the one I was looking for—and I was right."

The girl whispered, turning the pages of the precious book in her hand, and her figure gradually disappeared.

A slight smile played on her lips: "Now that it's confirmed, that's enough."

"This guy is very wary; meeting him alone now would probably only scare him."

"No rush, there's plenty of time."

In one month, Ye Yang greatly improved his strength in the fungal form of the main world.

The fungal life form that devoured the world had its gene pool multiplied by tens of thousands, but only a small portion of it was usable in the main world; most of its genes became useless.

However, this also makes the fungal body no less strong and resilient than that of a true immortal!

"Finally, I've destroyed and devoured that clump of void fungus. Judging from the pressure it gave me during the reverse transcription, the void fungus that hasn't undergone law mutation has ten or even a hundred times the foundation."

"It is evident that even for such extraordinary life forms with super adaptability, traversing the world is a matter of life and death, and even if they succeed, it will result in a major deficit, with their foundation being lost by less than one-tenth."

Ye Yang sighed, and felt even more amazed by the Immortal Alliance's "Cultivation Theory of the Heavenly Immortal Path".

Once the Great Dao is perfected, it will be accessible throughout all the heavens. How powerful is that?

Building this theoretical framework for spiritual practice must have required an immense amount of inspiration and effort.

Ye Yang stood up straight and looked out at the Silver Core White Hole, where boundless and limitless energy burst forth.

He couldn't help but feel a surge of pride.

"With the foundation laid, the great path is within reach."

"Next, I will achieve perfect merit and attain enlightenment!"

The incarnation of the True Lord of Extreme Strength looked at the blue fungal carpet in front of him with some surprise: "You really succeeded so quickly?"

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"I thought I'd have to spend at least a hundred or two hundred years here."

Ye Yang grinned: "Master, why take so long? If it succeeds, it succeeds; if it doesn't, it fails."

After a two-second silence, the True Lord of Extreme Power said, "The Eastern Paradise has been cultivating the animals using the method of domestication for three years in a secret realm space at a speed ten thousand times faster, and it has only just begun to show some results."

"The Scholars' Association attempted a possession technique, resulting in the deaths of two Star Lords, one dead and the other crippled. The crippled one has yet to recover—"

His consciousness returned, and the power of the Great Dao dissipated, causing him to fall from the realm of immortals.

"A True Monarch of the Demon God's True Bloodline personally attempted to fuse with the bloodline, but as a result, his physical body went out of control, his Great Dao became unstable, and his vital energy was severely damaged."

Ye Yang was stunned: "Besides me, how come no one else has succeeded?"

He knew he was a good fit, but he didn't think he was the only one who could succeed.

This original strain doesn't specify "only for Ye Yang", so theoretically anyone can use it as long as the conditions are right.

Domestication, possession, splitting, merging bloodlines—theoretically, every path has the potential for success.

"That's just a matter of timing and luck."

Jili Zhenjun said, "If it weren't for dealing with this fungal crisis, everyone wouldn't be in such a hurry. If we used gentler methods, the success rate would definitely increase."

"The Eastern Paradise uses the gentlest and most time-consuming methods, but they have made steady progress and have not made any mistakes so far. It's just that in terms of speed, their progress is far slower than yours."

Ye Yang nodded.

He was able to quickly create fungal clones and devour void fungi by relying on the spacetime distortion power of the white hole to accelerate time.

In contrast, the Eastern Paradise launched a massive research project.

To domesticate a species of fungus with a soul, to make it fight for humanity, and to grow it to the level of a True Monarch—such a strange and high-level project has probably never been studied before.

Therefore, a large amount of materials, equipment, and personnel need to be transported.

It's impossible to conduct this in a spacetime-unstable area like near a white hole. Achieving a ten-thousand-fold time acceleration within the secret realm is already quite remarkable.

Ye Yang laughed and said, "If we lower the standards and only require that humans possess the original fungal species, or have an original fungal species clone like me, then we can select a group of talented young people and start cultivating in this direction from the very beginning. Most of them should be able to succeed."

The True Lord of Extreme Strength shook his head and said, "That's true, but what's the point?"

"Even if these geniuses succeed, how many of them have the ability to cultivate themselves into immortals within 200 years? Let alone control the true power of the primordial bacteria."

"We have now confirmed that the Void Fungus possesses the power of a True Monarch-level Great Dao, and its type is related to life processes such as 'evolution' and 'growth,' making it exceptionally well-suited to the Void Fungus's abilities."

Jili Zhenjun glanced at Ye Yang and smiled, "Your Dao aura is incredibly refined. If you were to transform into a true immortal, you would directly become a top-tier Star Lord."

"Now that you have a primordial fungal clone, once you become a Star Lord, with the help of the Celestial Venerables, there may be a real possibility of completely thwarting the Void Cult's conspiracy."

"Even if we can't completely defeat you, maintaining the stalemate and buying more time is certain. In the process, the entire Immortal Alliance will treat you like a treasure, hoping that you will quickly achieve the True Monarch status."

Speaking of which, even the Supreme True Lord couldn't help but exclaim, "You kid, you've practically cultivated to this point specifically for this disaster! Just like in those novels, you're reborn back to 18 years old, knowing there's a cataclysmic calamity in the future, so you start preparing many years in advance—"

Ye Yang was speechless: "Master, it is unknown whether the spacetime laws in the main world can support time reversal."

Even if it could be reversed, one would have to delve deep into the black hole and control the void.

"Do you think that if I really had a past life," I would be a great being who surpassed the Heavenly Venerable and refined the Great Void?

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He patted Ye Yang on the shoulder forcefully: "Haha, just kidding, you're taking this seriously."

"Walk!"

He led Ye Yang away from the White Cave Viewing Platform and headed to the Western Taiji Hall where Gouchen Tianzun resided.

On the way, True Lord Jili explained the current situation of the Immortal Alliance to Ye Yang: "During the 100 seconds you were in seclusion, the entire Milky Way galaxy has entered a state of emergency, mobilizing all True Immortals to block traffic —"

Ye Yang listened and couldn't help but feel a little strange.

However, he also knew that the time mentioned by the True Lord of Extreme Power was the Milky Way Standard Time, which was 10 times slower than the time in the outer void.

It is unknown how many billions of years it will take for the Milky Way to leave the vast void of the universe. During this long period, shrinking into one place will likely cause civilization to degenerate or even collapse. Therefore, time needs to be slowed down by 10 times.

All of this is controlled by the distorted spacetime created by the combination of a white hole and a black hole at the galactic center.

Naturally, in an emergency, the Immortal Alliance can also open special channels and special areas through the Star River Array!

The flow of time in special channels and special areas has returned to normal, and is 10 times faster than the standard time of the Milky Way.

In other words, within 100 seconds of standard galactic time, the Immortal Alliance members actually worked for more than 110 days.

"Large-scale random sampling has yielded a heat map of galactic infection, revealing a total of 45000 inhabited planets across 40% of the star regions, indicating a more severe situation than initial detections!"

Jili Zhenjun waved his hand and displayed a three-dimensional map of the Milky Way, in which one could see specks of green, yellow, and red.

This indicates that the level of infection in this area increases sequentially.

"Moreover, this only includes life-bearing planets. We have also discovered signs of Void Fungus life on some previously lifeless, barren planets. We have even found many Void Fungus spores in the interstellar void between stars."

"The Void Fungi hidden everywhere, even a single spore, poses a huge threat. Even if a True Monarch personally purifies a planet, prohibits teleportation, and seals its orbit, who knows when some will slip through the net and return to the planet for a secondary infection—"

"Even more serious is that we have discovered 3567 cases of True Immortals being killed. Not only were their immortal bodies seized, but Void Fungi also impersonated them and took advantage of their positions to spread spores everywhere. The Great Dao and the stars inhabited by these True Immortals' souls were also eroded and possessed, leading to their complete demise!"

Each and every one of the things that True Lord Jili mentioned made Ye Yang feel alarmed.

This void fungus is frantically infecting cultivators below the True Immortal level, but instead of killing them, it seems they intend to use it as leverage against the Immortal Alliance in the future!

But it becomes much more ruthless when it comes to dealing with true immortals.

As everyone knows, the star that a true immortal resides in after ascending to immortality is their true form. As long as the star remains and the Great Dao persists, even if the immortal's physical body dies countless times while traveling outside, they can be reborn countless times within the star.

But the void fungus had already silently invaded and possessed thousands of stars, eroding their Dao principles, killing over 3500 True Immortals, and stealing their identities, all for the sake of spreading its spores everywhere.

"Didn't those True Immortals have any room to struggle? They couldn't even send a message?" Ye Yang couldn't help but ask.

"Sigh," True Lord Jili shook his head, "That void fungus has evolved special solar hyphae. First, it silently infiltrates the atmosphere of the star, then absorbs the energy and matter within it to multiply rapidly, and soon it can seal off the entire star."

"At this point, if we suddenly launch an attack and seize the body of that true immortal, the true immortal's consciousness will be trapped in the star, like a turtle in a jar, completely at our mercy."

As the two were talking, they arrived at the Western Taiji Hall.

"Greetings to Gouchen Tianzun."

Ye Yang and his companion bowed.

"Reporting to the Heavenly Venerable, Ming Hong, the seventh-generation disciple of the Jili Dao lineage, has completed his mission and successfully transformed the primordial fungus into an avatar, acquiring all the abilities of the Void Fungus," reported Jili Zhenjun.

"Hmm." Gouchen Tianzun smiled slightly, looking at Ye Yang with considerable satisfaction: "It's done. No wonder you were so confident in recommending yourself."

"Your Majesty, my mother has been infected by the Void Fungus. There is no other way but to fight this battle," Ye Yang said with a determined look in his eyes.

"No wonder—" Gouchen Tianzun nodded and said, "We just brought back three infected immortal bodies from outside. True immortals are tougher, so you can practice on those three first."

"Yes." Ye Yang accepted the order.

Upon arriving at the side hall, he saw three True Immortals who were quietly waiting, separated by layers of restrictions and barriers.

Their faces were flushed, but one of them was so red that he looked black and purple and his breathing was disordered.

"His Majesty has said that the infection of your immortal bodies will be treated by this Fellow Daoist Ming Hong," the clerk who brought Ye Yang over said to the three of them.

Although this document only pertains to a third-level star official in the True Immortal realm, as the saying goes, "even a seventh-rank official is like a prime minister's doorman." Those who can hold positions in the four major halls of the Immortal Alliance's central headquarters naturally have a status that is incomparable to that of ordinary True Immortals.

Therefore, even though the three True Immortals were puzzled when they saw that Ye Yang was only a sixth-level junior, they had no objections.

One person even thanked them, saying, "Thank you for your help."

"Go in." The document opened half of the restriction for Ye Yang.

Ye Yang entered it, and immediately the restriction behind him rose again, while the restriction in front of him disappeared.

He approached the three people and first looked at the true immortal who was entirely purple-black.

His aura was the most chaotic. His body as a true immortal was different from that of ordinary people, containing a large amount of solar and lunar power.

Therefore, the weaker a normal physical body is, the weaker its aura becomes, while the weaker and more unstable a true immortal's body is, the more chaotic and violent its aura becomes.

"Fellow Daoist, please remove your hand," Ye Yang said.

All three of them frowned slightly. They were all True Immortals who had lived for millions of years, and it was indeed a bit uncomfortable to be addressed as "fellow Daoist" so disrespectfully by a sixth-order junior.

However, the overwhelming pressure emanating from Ye Yang the next moment startled them all.

"The Realm of Dao Laws—is it making me feel a little breathless?"

"What little monster?"

The three were secretly alarmed and quickly abandoned their contempt.

As Ye Yang touched the patient's hand, a large number of blue mycelia sprouted from his hand.

"What?!" The three True Immortals were so shocked by what they saw that they all suffered from PTSD.

They were people who had retreated from the front lines and witnessed the rampant spread of the Void Fungus. Seeing the constantly growing and wriggling hyphae now brought back the fear of being dominated by the Void Fungus.

"Don't panic, Fellow Daoist Minghong is currently the only one who has completely mastered the strain," said the clerk who was waiting nearby.

The three of them gradually calmed down.

Ye Yang's mycelium first clung to the patient's hand, then tried to burrow inside—of course, it failed. The body of a true immortal is flawless and pure; how could it be so easily invaded?

However, Ye Yang had already reverse-transcribed the genes of the Void Fungus, but it just hadn't been discovered yet.

With his eyes closed and focused on controlling the fungus, the mycelium changed three times in an instant, finally flashing a cold light and instantly injecting a batch of spores into the patient's body—which were then instantly annihilated by the solar and lunar immortal power within.

"I still need to get used to it—" Ye Yang frowned and began to try.

He also asked the four people present more about the mysteries of the immortal's body.

Ye Yang has not yet become a true immortal. His understanding of the mysteries of the immortal body comes mostly from books, and he has never practiced it in practice.

How can a doctor treat a patient if they don't understand the patient's physiological structure?

This question made the three True Immortals somewhat doubtful. This kid's power of the Great Dao looked impressive, but in the end, he was not a True Immortal. He didn't even understand these basic knowledge points that were extremely fundamental to True Immortals.

Can you really handle it?

However, Ye Yang quickly dispelled their doubts.

"By reverse transcribing the void fungus, the material foundation has been laid. Once I understand it, everything will fall into place!"

Ye Yang smiled. His hyphae changed multiple times in a short period of time, adjusting the range of recessive genes and controlling their expression, and finally successfully infiltrated the patient's body.

Furthermore, a large number of other hyphae were found hidden in the patient's body.

Because of reverse transcription, Ye Yang inherited all the abilities of the Void Fungus, which is equivalent to being from the same school. Therefore, he can also detect the Void Fungus hidden in the same way!

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