Socially anxious people transmigrate to another world; living in seclusion is too difficult.

Su Yang switched to an A-grade Qi element bracelet, and his attack was upgraded to "Wind Wall Blade". Several tornadoes rose up and squeezed inward from all sides, cutting off the white threads and separating the fragments of snake grass.

After the storm subsided, looking at the scattered fragments, Su Yang thought that they couldn't possibly be revived, but things didn't go as planned. A few breaths later, red light shone everywhere, and red threads emerged from each fragment, dancing wildly. Then, they seemed to find their place with each other, growing rapidly and intertwining together, quickly gathering together with the pull!

Before Su Yang could launch his next attack, the snake grass was pieced together. With a violent contraction of the bulge on its body, the snake grass opened its eyes and emitted an ominous red light as if bathed in blood. Then, it launched an extremely frenzied attack on Su Yang and the others.

The group hurriedly dodged, but the snake grass's speed increased steadily, as if it had been upgraded after being resurrected. Seeing that one claw failed to hit Su Yang, it followed up with another claw, while its giant tail also attacked the weakest Charles simultaneously. Lin Anlan hurriedly shot an arrow, thinking that it could stop the tail's attack again as before, but just as the arrow was about to hit, the tail suddenly split open, and a mouth formed out of thin air, biting the arrow in half.

Seeing that the attack was blocked, Lin Anlan had no choice but to draw his sword and leap forward to defend Charles. However, Huang Lewei had already blocked the attack in front of him.

At this moment, the tail seemed to have taken control of the snake grass's body, dragging its massive body backwards. The scene changed to the tail chasing Charles, while Su Yang chased after the head and two claws to slash.

Huang Lewei blocked several attacks in succession, but gradually became a little tired. Fortunately, Lin Anlan arrived. The two were both fire elementals, and with Lin Anlan's help, the situation immediately reversed.

Su Yang repeatedly severed the snake grass's claws from behind, but its regeneration speed was too fast, and the attacks had little effect. On the contrary, Lin Anlan and Huang Lewei forced the snake grass's tail to retreat step by step, but they were also unable to cause fatal damage. Just when the two sides were gradually locked in a stalemate, another change occurred.

Two large claws suddenly extended from the tail of the snake grass. Then, the tail and head rapidly shrank at an incredible speed, and then the head and tail were transformed in an instant. The red threads also joined the attack and shot towards Lin Anlan.

In desperation, Lin Anlan was forced to use her close-range defensive skill, "Raging Flames." She ducked to dodge the incoming threads, then struck the ground with her palm. Huang Lewei reacted quickly, grabbing Charles and running away. The two had only run seven or eight meters when flames erupted from the ground centered on Lin Anlan, temporarily protecting her.

During the raging flames, the red threads that had passed over Lin Anlan's head fell off one after another. Lin Anlan took the threads off his head, intending to throw them away, but found that the red threads were being eroded by the fire elements attached to them at a visible speed, quickly fading and turning white, and then disappearing like ashes.

Lin Anlan suddenly realized and shouted from within the raging flame array, "Su Yang, we need to use fire element attacks on this thing, attack those threads! You cover me later!"

"What should I do!" Su Yang shouted back.

"Find a way to trap it and create an opportunity for me to attack!"

"Sister Anlan, I'll help you too!" Tang Wan shouted after hearing this. Although she was only at the fourth level and her water element attack power was not strong, she had learned many unorthodox techniques.

Tang Wan immediately activated her water element, which then spread out. The ground, which was not very hard to begin with, became even muddier after the water element was added. The snake grass's huge body sank into the mud. Seeing this, Su Yang also switched his element and controlled the mud to bind the snake grass's tail and claws.

Lin Anlan had already drawn her bow and nocked an arrow. A burst of red light bloomed and condensed at the arrowhead. She shouted, "Fire Slash!" With a "whoosh," the arrow flew swiftly into the bulge of snake grass and then fell silent.

Su Yang was hoping for a powerful explosion that would kill the monster, but after his arrow seemed to sink without a trace, he grew anxious: "What...?"

However, before the words were finished, a burst of red light suddenly erupted from the gaps in the snake grass scales, followed by a fierce flame that shot out from the gaps in each scale. The bulge was instantly shattered, and fire elements adhered to every thread, eventually burning the snake grass to ashes.

Amidst the billowing smoke, Su Yang warily watched the direction of the snake grass, fearing the monster might revive again. They waited until the smoke cleared, but the pile of ashes showed no sign of resurrection. Only then did the group approach to investigate. There was no trace of the snake grass in the ashes, only a withered red mushroom remained.

Su Yang: "An Lan, how did you discover that this ferocious beast is afraid of fire?"

Lin Anlan: "When we were defending just now, I accidentally discovered that after those threads came into contact with the fire wall, they kept burning and could not be restored. I thought that since other elemental attacks could not completely kill it, maybe these threads were the real thing. And if we used fire element to explode inside and burn all the threads, we could kill it completely."

Su Yang nodded, finding Lin Anlan's words quite reasonable. At that moment, Tang Wan was squatting down, poking at the red mushroom with a twig she had picked up, while Huang Lewei stopped her, saying, "Don't touch it! You dare touch the mushrooms here!"

The group gathered around the mushroom to study it. Although they didn't understand its purpose, they had made some guesses.

Lin Anlan: "These red mushrooms might be the culprit. I remember those snakes had a red mushroom on their heads before."

Su Yang: "Yes, I think this is a parasitic phenomenon."

Tang Wan: "Parasitism? What's that?"

Su Yang: "By using special means to control the snakes' movements to achieve their own goals, for example, if a mushroom wants to get close to a water source, it will control the snakes to crawl to the water's edge."

Tang Wan: "This...this...is this even possible? Just with this mushroom?"

Su Yang nodded and said, "This kind of parasitism is usually for food. The parasite is called the host. They control the host to find food. If they can't find food, then the host becomes their food. Think about those snakes after they ate the tentacle fragments. Although we don't know why they mutated, didn't they keep chasing after us after the mutation?"

Tang Wan swallowed hard: "So that means it wants to eat us?"

Huang Lewei: Of course, otherwise I would have given you a gift.

Charles: "Then...if we stay here, wouldn't we still be likely to encounter similar ferocious beasts?"

Su Yang: "It's possible. There must be other ferocious beasts in this forest, and maybe they've all been parasitized."