A useless person with five spiritual roots? I sacrificed the proud daughter of heaven.

Soon, one cultivator after another arrived at the Spirit Spring. No one noticed the Flesh Spirit Mushroom. They fought fiercely over the Spirit Spring and the spiritual plants beside it, with the rising heat carrying countless spores floating in the air.

A short while later, they collapsed to the ground, utterly exhausted.

Jiang Xuanli waved his hand, and immediately several guards dragged these cultivators to the side of the fleshy spirit mushroom.

The shimmering white spiritual energy flowed continuously from the cultivators' bodies into the stem of the fleshy Ganoderma lucidum. Moments later, the cultivators turned into a pool of blood that flowed into the ground.

As it absorbed more and more cultivators, the fleshy Ganoderma gradually became plump and grew much larger. Its stem alone was as thick as a fist, and its cap faded from gray, slowly revealing a delicate and luscious light pink color.

"Almost there! Almost there!" Jiang Xuanli looked excitedly at the meat spirit mushroom. "How many have we absorbed yet?"

"Master, twenty-seven have already been absorbed."

"Twenty-seven..."

Jiang Xuanli murmured, "Then only Sheng He, Zhao Yanran, Shen Ci, and Jiang Yu are left."

"Master, another one has arrived!"

Jiang Xuanli raised his head and looked at the woman in white beside the spirit spring.

It's Jiang Yu.

Jiang Yu immediately noticed the giant mushroom and the faint, almost imperceptible smell of blood in the air.

Intuition told her that she should leave immediately, but she had been injured years ago, and no amount of methods her master had tried over the years could completely heal her. Her cultivation had also been unable to progress because of this injury.

She came to Dragon Island to try her luck, and now that the spiritual spring is right in front of her, how could she be willing to leave like this?

Jiang Yu didn't think about it for long before soaking in the spiritual spring.

A warm feeling instantly enveloped her entire body, and the wound in her dantian seemed to be healing. Jiang Yu leaned against the spiritual spring, feeling her mind growing increasingly dizzy.

Her vision began to blur, and the eerie pink mushroom seemed to be getting closer and closer. Jiang Yu subconsciously tried to take out her magical artifact, but her spiritual energy seemed to be sealed, and she couldn't lift her hand.

She finally realized something was wrong and tried to struggle away, but her body couldn't move at all. Just then, the giant mushroom sprouted a tiny tentacle, which pierced her arm. She felt a sharp pain, and the next moment, all the spiritual energy in her body surged outwards.

Soon!

Soon!

Jiang Xuanli stared wide-eyed at the fleshy Ganoderma, which was becoming increasingly plump, its pink cap so tender it looked like it was about to drip water.

Haha, he's about to become an immortal!

He will soon be able to live forever, and then he will no longer need to drink that disgusting human blood to maintain his youth!

Jiang Xuanli laughed loudly. He took out a Grade 9 Spirit Stabilizing Pill from his sleeve and swallowed it. He immediately felt his spiritual energy become abundant. Without hesitation, he grabbed the guards beside him and threw them one by one at the fleshy spirit mushroom.

Transparent little tentacles floated in the air, as if searching for prey.

Screams rang out as Jiang Xuanli frantically gesticulated, approaching the fleshy spirit mushroom step by step, preparing to enjoy the immortality he had always dreamed of.

With a loud "Bang!", a huge explosion was heard, and the shockwave forced Jiang Xuanli to take several steps back.

He hurriedly looked at the Ganoderma lucidum. Its cap had been shattered into several pieces, and all the tentacles extending from the cap had been blown off. Several palm-sized pink pieces of fungus fell to the ground and quickly rotted into a pile of decaying matter within a few breaths.

Jiang Xuanli was shocked. He didn't care about anything else and scrambled to the meat spirit mushroom.

Fortunately, the stem was not broken off, and a small piece of the fungus was still attached to the stem.

Jiang Xuanli carefully protected the fleshy Ganoderma, just about to swallow it whole.

A clear, crisp female voice suddenly came from behind me.

"Fortunately, I caught up."

The next moment, a cold light flashed before Jiang Xuanli's eyes, and a sharp pain came from his wrist. He looked down in disbelief and saw that his hand, along with the fleshy spirit mushroom in his hand, had been cut off by the longsword.

"No!"

"My fleshy Ganoderma lucidum, my fleshy Ganoderma lucidum!"

Jiang Xuanli hurriedly picked up the fallen Ganoderma lucidum and stuffed it into his mouth, but as soon as he picked it up, the Ganoderma lucidum quickly shriveled up. The originally plump flesh and stem withered in an instant, eventually turning into a hard, withered branch the size of a fingernail.

Jiang Xuanli felt as if his blood had turned cold. He covered his severed hand, turned around, and stared intently at Sheng He with murderous eyes.

"It's you again! You ruined my plans again!"

"You stole my mermaid, destroyed my flesh-like Ganoderma, Sheng He, I want you to die a horrible death!"

As soon as Jiang Xuanli finished speaking, a monstrous ghostly aura suddenly surged up behind her, and a figure slowly emerged from behind her.

A red rope was wrapped around Jiang Xuanli's fingertips. As the rope moved slightly, the demon roared and charged forward. At the same time, several puppets suddenly appeared from the shadows. The puppets were stiff, and their wolf-like green eyes stared unblinkingly at Sheng He.

"What, you're not pretending anymore?"

Sheng He took out a fifth-grade thunder talisman from her storage ring. She held the talisman between two fingers and, with a slight force, sent it flying towards the puppet that was gradually surrounding her.

"Boom!"

Thunder rumbled in the sky, and the thunder talisman spontaneously combusted without fire. In the next instant, several bolts of lightning struck down from the sky.

This kind of evil creature is most afraid of heavenly lightning.

The puppet's body was made of wood, and when struck by lightning, it quickly burst into flames. Even the demon was nearly destroyed when struck by lightning.

The Qi-stabilizing pill began to lose its effectiveness, and the feeling of powerlessness due to old age surged up again.

Seeing that things were not going well, Jiang Xuanli didn't bother to recall the puppet and the demon. He hurriedly tried to escape, but before he knew it, vines that had sprouted from the ground had already wrapped around his legs.

"You don't have a son, right?"

"Son? I...I don't have a son. Miss Sheng, Fairy Sheng, please spare my life! If you spare my life, I'll give you as many spirit stones as you want!"

Sheng He chuckled softly. It was indeed so. The so-called only son was just an excuse Jiang Xuanli made up. He had only found another way to prolong his life. In order to cover up the truth, he lied that he had died suddenly and took over the Jiang family again as Jiang Xuanli's only son.

"Fine, I can let you go."

"But I want the Jiang family."

Sheng He reached out his hand to Jiang Xuanli. Jiang Xuanli hesitated for a moment, and a long sword was immediately placed against his neck.

"Fine! Fine, I'll give you the Jiang family."

Jiang Xuanli lowered his eyes, a calculating glint in them, and slowly took out the jade pendant that symbolized the head of the Jiang family from his bosom.

"for you!"

Suddenly, a silver needle popped out of the jade pendant and shot straight into Sheng He's eyes.

Sheng He remained motionless as the seven-colored lotus platform slowly unfolded. The silver needles were gently bounced back the moment they touched the lotus platform.