Survival at Sea: I Became Number One by Growing Mushrooms

"Our Emotional Bird clan will also participate in this battle. To reclaim the temple, even if it means death, we will not let the Dark God get away with it. We will fight to the very last moment!"

The chieftain spoke with a resounding voice. After he finished speaking, the other emotion birds flew out of the rainbow's beak one by one and landed in various places.

Some flew onto the roof beams, some landed on the tables, and some perched on the players' shoulders. These emotional birds instantly filled the space, turning a human meeting into a bird meeting.

Their silent yet resolute gaze upon the clan leader was the best response.

The chieftain's voice resounded throughout the space, and everyone fell silent, unsure whether it was out of admiration for the birds' awareness or respect for the deity they spoke of.

But to have so many loyal messengers is a source of pride for a god.

Seeing everyone remain silent, the clan chief continued, explaining the layout of the temple and the secret passages in detail. He even suggested which side to attack from, outlining the tactics clearly. It seemed he had long anticipated this day and had been thinking every day about what tactics to use to defeat the Dark God.

The base leader sidled up to Xu Jiawei and whispered, "Is this 'emotional bird' group reliable? Can we believe what they're saying?"

Xu Jiawei nodded without hesitation and said, "You may not believe in its bird behavior, but you cannot question its faith in the gods."

These guys are willing to die for their gods without hesitation.

The base leader's lips twitched. What a terrible character! But he still believed Xu Jiawei's words.

Li Ming looked hesitantly at the affection bird perched on his shoulder. The bird seemed to like him a lot. It was so cute. Could he keep it as a pet?

He looked to Xu Jiawei for help, but Xu Jiawei was talking to Lao Bai, the base leader, and didn't have time to pay attention to him.

It seems that Xu Jiawei never asked the names of the base leaders, only calling them "leader" as they were. She was too lazy to ask their names, but since she was number one on the combat power list, whether she wanted to remember them or not was just a matter of opinion.

Li Ming then turned his pleading gaze to Si Yunming. Since Xu Jiawei wasn't around, he trusted Si Yunming's judgment, so it wouldn't hurt to ask for his opinion.

However, Si Yunming was speechless. Within a five-meter radius around him, no emotion birds landed, creating a vacuum zone. These emotion birds seemed to dislike him and kept their distance.

He and Li Ming were two extremes; one was favored by the Emotion Bird, and the other was disliked by it.

The key point is that these emotion birds are all of the dark attribute. Why do they dislike him, a person of the dark attribute? On the contrary, Li Ming, who is not of the dark attribute, is very popular with the emotion birds.

Even when Li Ming approached him, coming within five meters of him, this emotional bird could tolerate it.

Could it be that I've been implicated by the God of Darkness again, and these birds have rejected me?

Si Yunming sighed. The little octopus perched on Si Yunming's shoulder and patted his head with its claws, seemingly comforting him. "Don't think about it. They've rejected you. Don't worry, I'm here with you. We'll rely on each other. Hurry up and thank me."

Si Yunming brushed away the octopus's claws that were pulling at his hair and responded to Li Ming's gaze, "Go ask their chief if he's willing."

Li Ming then turned his gaze to the clan leader at the front, but the clan leader was completely unaware of it. It continued to answer the questions from the commanders. With the clan leader's help, the leaders quickly formulated a plan. They could set off as soon as the potion was ready.

Today's meeting ended unexpectedly quickly.

Even Xu Jiawei never imagined that the next center of pollution would be the temple of the god of emotions.

Wait a minute, if the Dark God likes to build his pollution centers in other people's temples, then is the Water God's temple that she encountered underwater also in the process of becoming a pollution center, except that the Dark God's plan was stopped by her as soon as it began?

No wonder the source of pollution in the temple was so difficult to defeat. She only survived because of the system's help. Perhaps it was another pollution center.

Wouldn't that be a loss for me? I solved a pollution center, but the reward was given as a high-level pollution source.

Well, the system did a lot of work back then, so I can't ask for too much. She quickly comforted herself.

Xu Jiawei continued to ponder, which meant that every temple was being corrupted by the Dark God, but some were being corrupted faster than others.

Just like the Ice God Temple she had seen before, the Dark God was almost there. His main purpose was not to erode the ice crystals; that was just a side effect. His real purpose was to erode the temple and turn it into his own territory. Of course, it was also probably to absorb energy.

His main purpose in doing these things was to resurrect himself, possibly by absorbing the energy of living beings or temples to provide the energy he needed for resurrection.

Therefore, what players are doing now is only slowing down the Dark God's energy absorption. Even if the sources of pollution are destroyed, the Dark God can still continue to absorb energy in places with dark energy. So the Dark God's resurrection cannot be stopped, only slowed down, giving players room to develop.

Xu Jiawei instantly felt a heavy responsibility pressing down on her, making it hard for her to breathe. The thought of the arduous tasks that awaited her in the future made her feel suffocated.

I can't think about it anymore, otherwise I'll scare myself sick before the fight even starts.

Xu Jiawei took a deep breath and looked at Si Yunming, asking, "Brother Three O'Clock, are you going out again?"

Si Yunming nodded. Just now, Grace said that it would take another day to finish refining the potion, so they had another day to level up.

Xu Jiawei then asked Si Yunming to take Little Grey Grey along to level up as well. This pollution center was probably the opportunity for Little Grey Grey to break through to level 80. Since they were going to Little Grey Grey's hometown anyway, they could take the opportunity to break through to level 80 and increase their combat power.

Si Yunming said, "Alright, you go into seclusion and I'll take care of Little Grey."

The two parted ways before exchanging more than a few words. Xu Jiawei went back to her seclusion, while Si Yunming, Xiao Fen, and Hong Qiuyin went to train Xiao Huihui.

However, Little Grey and Little Pink Earthworm were still resting, so Xu Jiawei could only hang the three pets on Si Yunming and let him take them away. She really felt bad for the three of them, but the situation was urgent and it wasn't time to rest. She should go level up.

Xu Jiawei continued her boring seclusion. She sat cross-legged for two hours but still couldn't get into the state. Xu Jiawei opened her eyes. Why did she get into the state so quickly last time? Was it because she had eaten a lot?

No way, the method to enter that state can't be that abstract, but... what if? Maybe the fact that you have to eat to enter the state is a bug you've exploited, a method of unorthodox cultivation.

Xu Jiawei decided to give it a try. She took out the food she had packed yesterday, heated it up a little, ate her fill, closed her eyes again, and this time entered that state in less than ten minutes.

Wow? It really works! I wonder if it's the high-energy food that's effective, or if all foods are effective?

Xu Jiawei immediately began to grasp the true meaning of this world.