Survival at Sea: I Became Number One by Growing Mushrooms

If your entire body is sealed in an airtight underground environment, even a plant cannot survive. Moreover, there is an underground river below, and the air is humid. If it continues to be suffocated, mold will be the least of your worries.

Such a large creature would have a very large ventilation opening, which is her escape route.

These vines may not be very intelligent, but they won't cut off their own path to survival and suffocate themselves.

Having finally spotted the giant tree's weakness, Xu Jiawei's attempt to break through the defenses no longer seemed too difficult.

Even if they aren't afraid of the flames of the photon meteor, what about the flames of the light sacrifice? The flames of the light sacrifice are much stronger than the flames of the photon meteor. She doesn't believe these guys can be easily extinguished.

Xu Jiawei drank another bottle of Brightness Purification Potion, and then rushed towards the vines without hesitation.

There's no other way; if she doesn't drink another bottle, the dark energy in her body will hinder her from releasing light skills. Therefore, it's best to keep herself in a low-pollution state in order to better release the light sacrifice.

Xu Jiawei was instantly covered in golden light. Don't misunderstand, this was not the light of flames, but the light emitted by her golden body when her body was under mortal threat.

She sensed the energy within her body, then frowned. It wasn't enough; her current skill strength posed no threat to them. She had to become stronger. Xu Jiawei took out some more potions, all of them mana-restoring potions. She didn't care about the potion consumption and poured them into her mouth.

After drinking a large amount of the potion, the body was squeezed so hard by the energy that it felt like it was about to explode. The rate at which the Light Sacrifice burned its life force couldn't even keep up with the rate at which the body's energy expanded.

This time, she drank far more potion than when she faced the bishop before. If Xu Jiawei's body hadn't been modified by herself, it probably would have exploded by now.

Now every inch of her skin and every bone was filled with magic, and the light sacrifice burned it, turning the flames completely golden and increasing their height by a large margin.

As if sensing the threat, the vines quickly retreated, hesitant to move forward, seemingly wanting to make way for the passage. But before they could retreat, a cold snort was heard, and the vines dared not retreat anymore. In fact, even more vines surged out with a death-defying attitude, completely blocking the ventilation shaft.

Xu Jiawei was sure she hadn't misheard. Who was it?

She looked around warily, but there was no one in sight; only the river was churning more rapidly.

Could it be that the God of Darkness is observing me from the shadows?

Yes, they've gone to great lengths to intercept and kill me, so how could they not personally keep watch? Therefore, the God of Darkness is watching my every move from the shadows.

Xu Jiawei pondered where the Dark God might be hiding. The most likely place would be this river, since the river's power was too extraordinary, and it would be very reasonable for a wisp of the Dark God's consciousness to be hiding in the river.

The river grew increasingly turbulent. Despite the absence of wind, huge waves surged forth, roaring towards Xu Jiawei. This seemed to signal the start of a battle, and the vines immediately sprang into action, joining the river in encircling her.

At this moment, Xu Jiawei's face was calm, like a high and mighty god, looking at these ignorant enemies with only coldness and ruthlessness in her eyes, as if these fierce attacks had no effect on her at all.

Xu Jiawei was not as calm as she appeared. Her heart was filled with excitement, and she seemed to have been inspired to fight by these demonized creatures. Let's see if the black water is more powerful or her flames are more powerful!

The golden flames broke through the vines' defense first and collided with the black water. The intense heat caused the black water to boil and evaporate, stirring up bursts of black mist. The two collided and neither gained the upper hand.

The black water could still defend against the attack of the Light Sacrifice, but the vines were in a terrible state. Flames climbed up the vines and ignited a large area. They frantically beat their bodies and gradually withered and turned to ashes. Some of the vines that realized what was happening immediately plunged their bodies into the river, stirring up a cloud of water mist. The flames burned in the water for 3 seconds before slowly going out.

Seeing that some vines were being rescued, more and more vines plunged their bodies into the water. The water surface was heated by patches of flames and evaporated rapidly. Meanwhile, the black water that was fighting against Xu Jiawei gradually weakened and was slowly no match for the golden flames.

In an attempt to save themselves, these vines plunged their bodies into the water, but this was only a temporary solution. The black water could only extinguish the flames at the parts of the vines that were submerged, but the flames rose too quickly. Before some vines could even react, the flames had already reached the top of the canopy formed by the vines.

The vines were in a chaotic mess, their bodies twisting and turning desperately, while the golden flames spread along their movements to the other vines that were not yet scorched.

One infected two, and the flames burned even faster, spreading at an increasingly rapid pace. More vines were infected and scorched by the dense canopy formed by the vines. Some vines that were not burned by the flames struggled to pull themselves away from the fire.

The roof above gradually collapsed, and once the vines wrapped around the flames, none could escape. Even those that managed to escape by inserting themselves into the water to extinguish the flames were left to extinguish the flames. The flames on the other vines had already spread to the top and were now wrapped around the flames again from the roots.

They were burned off at the base and fell to the ground, like geckos with their tails cut off, the severed tails still twisting and writhing on the ground.

The cocoons hanging on the branches fell after being burned by the flames, hitting the ground one by one with a "bang, bang, bang" sound.

The originally airtight vine cover was dismantled by the flames, and sand seeped down through the gaps in the vines, falling onto the ground and into the river.

The flames spread faster and faster, and the sand seeped in faster and faster, piling up on the ground into the shape of a small hill.

Xu Jiawei's heart skipped a beat. Oh no, this place is about to collapse!

She was still fighting against the black water, and the ventilation shaft was gradually collapsing due to the vibration of the vines. Xu Jiawei couldn't care about anything else and immediately ran towards the ventilation shaft.

If they didn't run, they would be buried underneath, and the black river was also being buried by the sand falling from above, and the churning black water was becoming less and less.

The twisted vines burned fiercely, finally reaching the main trunk of the tree. Xu Jiawei heard a piercing scream as the entire giant tree trembled violently, its branches flying everywhere. However, the golden flames showed no mercy and completely engulfed it.

In order to survive, the giant tree frantically drew water from the Black River through its roots.

The water source was buried by sand and absorbed by the giant tree, causing the water level to drop lower and lower.

The roar of anger echoed from the river, but the giant tree, its life threatened, paid no heed and continued to absorb the river water until it had completely drained the black water. Unable to quench its thirst with poison, the giant tree was also completely consumed by the flames, gradually withering and turning into black ashes.

The sand, now free of the giant tree's support, immediately collapsed. Xu Jiawei took advantage of the fact that the ventilation shaft hadn't collapsed yet and ran straight out of the cave. Then, with a loud crash, the desert completely sank in.