Zhou Wen and Li Mobai looked at each other. If they wanted to go to the Valley of No Return, they could only go through the Flower River. However, without figuring out the situation in the Flower River, the chances of death were too high if they rashly entered.
"Master Gu, can you take us to the Flower River to take a look?" Li Mobai asked.
"No problem, but please forgive me. I can't take you into the Flower River." Gu Shanshui made things clear. Even if they reached the Flower River, he definitely wouldn't enter.
Li Mobai had promised Gu Shanshui that he would only take them to the vicinity of the Flower River. He wanted to take a look at the Flower River's situation first.
Zhou Wen also wanted to take a look at the Flower River's situation. It wasn't easy for him to come here, so he was somewhat unwilling to return.
Gu Shanshui led them to the Flower River. Along the way, they took a jungle path. There was no path at all. Gu Shanshui led the two youths from the Gu family ahead while Zhou Wen, Li Mobai, and company followed behind.
Zhou Wen kept Truth Listener's ability activated, allowing him to hear everything around him. Furthermore, he got Tai Sui to use its mimicry ability and transform into a chick.
After Tai Sui's mimicry, it looked identical to the chick, but it was white. It stood on Zhou Wen's shoulder with the chick.
Zhou Wen was afraid that the antelope would cause trouble if it came out, so he didn't bring it out. He had already contacted An Sheng to get someone to send it food to prevent it from causing trouble on campus.
According to Worm Dugu, the chick likely had a phoenix bloodline. It had a very good restraining effect on Gu. Tai Sui also had a strong restraining effect on microscopic dimensional creatures. This was an important reason why Zhou Wen dared to come to the South District.
"Put on your gas masks." Gu Shanshui stopped and took out the gas masks for Zhou Wen and company.
Zhou Wen and company put on their gas masks. Gu Shanshui glanced at the two birds on Zhou Wen's shoulders and said, "Put away all the Companion Beasts as well."
Zhou Wen placed them in his backpack and didn't take them back. Firstly, the chick wasn't a Companion Beast, so he couldn't take them back. Secondly, Tai Sui needed to stay outside to ensure that Zhou Wen wouldn't be invaded by microscopic Companion Beasts, so he naturally couldn't take them back.
Gu Shanshui naturally saw this scene, but he didn't say a word. Instead, the two youths from the Gu family curled their lips as though they despised Zhou Wen's actions, but they didn't say a word.
Everyone continued walking forward. Zhou Wen soon knew why Gu Shanshui wanted them to wear gas masks. There were many fungi here, and there were spores floating everywhere like fog.
These fungi were originally creatures of Earth. They had mutated due to the dimensional storms. Although they hadn't reached the level of dimensional creatures, the spores they emitted would cause great damage to the human body if they entered the respiratory tract. Most importantly, it was difficult to treat them in the body.
Tai Sui was naturally not afraid of these spores. It did not have much appetite for these spores. It was probably because the energy of these spores was too low, so Tai Sui was no longer interested in them.
The little bird was also unafraid of these spores. Any foreign microorganisms that entered its body would be refined by the phoenix flames within its body. If not for this, the phoenix would not be the nemesis of Gu insects.
Zhou Wen got the two of them to stay in his backpack obediently. As the group walked through the forest, their bodies were quickly covered in a layer of dust. It was actually a large number of spores.
On the ground and on the withered trees, all sorts of fungi could be seen. Many of the trees here had already withered, becoming a paradise for fungi.
Thankfully, the spores here were somewhat different from the parasitic spores in Dragon Gate Grotto. The parasitic spores were independent dimensional creatures, and these spores were only a part of the fungus parent body.
Even so, if an unprepared person entered this area and inhaled a large number of spores, their lungs and respiratory system would probably be finished.
Suddenly, Zhou Wen realized that there was a corpse on the ground in front of him. From the looks of it, he wasn't a native of Mong Sa. His corpse had already rotted, and there was a strange fungus growing on it.
They looked like egg-sized jellyfish growing on the corpse. They were transparent and colorless. Although the mushrooms looked beautiful, they made one's hair stand on end when they grew on the corpse.
"Don't move. Gu Lou, go take a look," Gu Shanshui said to a young man.
The young man responded and summoned a palm-sized black scorpion Companion Beast. He made it slowly approach the corpse and crawl onto it, arriving beside a jellyfish-like mushroom.
Gu Lou looked at Gu Shanshui. Gu Shanshui nodded slightly before ordering the black scorpion to stab the jellyfish-like mushroom with its tail.
Bam!
After the mushroom was stabbed, it exploded like a water ball. However, what burst out wasn't water, but countless transparent spores.
"Retreat!" Gu Shanshui grabbed Gu Lou and another young man named Gu He and threw them behind. He took a step forward and spat out a mouthful of flames at the spores.
When the flames encountered the spores, it rose like they had encountered gasoline. They instantly burned most of the spores, but a few spores still spread out.
Gu Lou and Gu He also used fire-elemental Companion Beasts to burn the spores that had escaped.
However, the black scorpion Companion Beast from before had already been invaded by the spores. It ignored Gu Lou's orders and crazily crawled towards the other jellyfish mushrooms, hoping to destroy them.
Gu Shanshui spewed out flames from his mouth and burned the corpse along with the scorpion Companion Beast to death. The jellyfish mushrooms exploded in the fire, and all the spores were immediately burned by the flames.
After confirming that no one had escaped, Gu Shanshui said to Li Mobai with a heavy expression, "Li, something's amiss. That person clearly died from being infected with the spores of a fungal dimensional creature. There must be a fungal dimensional creature mother nearby. Furthermore, it's not a low-level one. It's at least at the Epic stage. This has never been discovered before. Are you still going to Flower River?"
Li Mobai looked at Zhou Wen and asked, "What do you think?"
"Let's continue." Zhou Wen had been observing the jellyfish mushrooms and spores on the corpse. These things didn't pose much of a threat to him.
Even if Tai Sui didn't take action, he could deal with it himself. There was naturally no need to retreat.
"Master Gu, please continue leading the way. If you feel that you can't continue, please tell me in advance," Li Mobai said to Gu Shanshui.
"Alright." Master Gu didn't waste his breath and continued leading the way with Gu Lou and Gu He.
The most common method they used was a fire-elemental Companion Beast. However, this fire-elemental Companion Beast was very strange. The flames it spewed out were a bluish-white color. They were very effective against fungi and poisonous insects.
"Wait!" After walking a distance, Zhou Wen suddenly said. This was because he had already discovered with Truth Listener that there were many corpses ahead. Every corpse was covered in jellyfish mushrooms.
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