’Who was it?’

Su Ze already had his suspects.

It was either the Filth Earth Organization or the Evolution Divine Teachings.

Chen Suifeng had recently tailed members of the Evolution Divine Teachings and discovered them sending a large number of refugees from the Peninsula Country into the Lianshui Rainforest. Considering this, Su Ze was more inclined to believe this was the handiwork of the Evolution Divine Teachings.

The skeletons underground might just be those refugees from the Peninsula Country.

For one, Su Ze had accepted Chen Suifeng’s commission and promised to investigate. If he hadn’t stumbled upon it, he might have let it be, but now that he had, he couldn’t just pretend he hadn’t seen anything.

For another, as a human, he really didn’t like seeing people use other humans to grow mushrooms.

He decided to get to the bottom of it.

If it was within his power, he wouldn’t mind destroying this mushroom forest.

Su Ze and Mr. Ya first retreated from the core area of the mushroom forest.

"Did you catch the Invisibility Mushroom?" Su Ze asked.

"Not yet." Mr. Ya shook his head. "But I’ve marked it."

"Keep after it. Don’t let it get away, or it’ll be hard to find."

"But..."

"It’s fine. It’s just a mere Tier Five Mutated Fungus. I was just careless."

Su Ze didn’t let Mr. Ya stay and help. For Mr. Ya, catching the Invisibility Mushroom to complete his "Void" was the most important thing, and the opportunity was fleeting.

Now that he had identified his target, Su Ze would naturally make preparations before facing that Tier Five Mushroom again.

It wasn’t as if he’d never killed a Tier Five enemy before.

Mr. Ya had evidently recalled the scene of Su Ze fighting a Tier Five exotic beast by the sea. He said no more, simply nodding.

He had just switched places with his Shadow Clone to rescue Su Ze, but the clone’s existence was time-limited. If he didn’t switch back before it dissipated, he would completely lose the Invisibility Mushroom’s location.

SWISH! Mr. Ya vanished on the spot, replaced by a dark silhouette.

Su Ze also fled the core area of the Mystical Mushroom Forest, rushing toward the outskirts.

He had just sacrificed over half his body and was now severely injured. Even with the natural healing of his Regeneration Body, it would still take time to recover.

Moreover, Su Ze understood that if he wanted to deal with the Mutated Fungi in the core area—especially that Tier Five Mushroom—his current strength was still lacking. He needed a boost.

He decisively activated his Bloodthirsty skill. At full power, a violent current raged forth, turning the surroundings into an ocean of lightning.

These low-tier Mutated Fungi stood no chance against his electrical assault. The fruiting bodies on the surface, along with their connected underground mycelia, were instantly electrocuted into charcoal, utterly destroyed.

These dead Mutated Fungi were then consumed by Bloodthirsty and converted into flesh-and-blood energy for Su Ze to mend his injuries.

Any life form killed by Su Ze’s own hands could be consumed and converted by the Bloodthirsty skill, though he had only ever tested it on exotic beasts before.

He had never even tried it on a Spiritual Plant. In fact, attempting to consume the even rarer Mutated Fungus made him a little unsure.

But the effect of the consumption and conversion was surprisingly good. Compared to consuming same-tier exotic beasts, the energy stored within the Mutated Fungi was even richer, and the conversion and absorption effects were better.

This Mystical Mushroom Forest wasn’t exactly small, and countless Mutated Fungi of all sizes grew within it.

Su Ze began a massive slaughter on the outskirts, using his Thunder God Body’s electrical discharge to kill a huge swath of them with a single shock.

He could completely ignore the counterattacks from these low-tier Mutated Fungi.

The shared weakness of Mutated Fungi and Spiritual Plants was now starkly apparent: they were immobile. They couldn’t run, and their distant kin couldn’t rush over to help.

A moment later, Su Ze’s injuries were completely healed.

The energy converted from any Mutated Fungi he killed from then on would temporarily boost his strength.

However, as powerful as the Bloodthirsty skill was, it was also a huge money sink. The corpses of any life forms consumed by it—be they exotic beasts, Spiritual Plants, or Mutated Fungi—lost all their value. No extracts could be drawn from them, nor could they be used in medicine.

Previously, when he killed tens of thousands of exotic beasts by the sea in Lihai City, he couldn’t get a single extract from them.

So now he didn’t hold back, directly electrocuting these Mutated Fungi to charcoal.

Su Ze made a circuit of the outskirts. His combat power rose higher and higher, and he left only scorched earth in his wake.

Thousands upon thousands of Mutated Fungi died at his hands. He felt he had accumulated about enough power.

Compared to his last killing spree by the sea, his base strength had already increased significantly. He had absorbed an additional Bloodline Crystal and mastered a new Divine Skill Prototype.

Even without the boost from Bloodthirsty, he was now an invincible existence among the Overlord tier. He didn’t even need to stack Bloodthirsty’s power bonus to its limit to be able to fight and defeat a Sovereign!

Su Ze transformed again, swelling into a torrent that swept toward the surrounding Mutated Fungi, uprooting them one after another.

He didn’t kill these Mutated Fungi right away, instead saving them to extend the duration of his Bloodthirsty skill later.

His preparations were complete. The roiling torrent, stirring up terrifying waves, surged toward the core area.

The moment he entered the core area, he was besieged. Countless mycelia swarmed from all directions, frantically devouring the torrent that was Su Ze.

Innumerable spores sprayed toward him, but his Gravity Domain was an excellent counter to the tiny spores.

While launching various skills to counterattack and destroy the underground mycelia, Su Ze grabbed the nearest giant termite mushroom and began to seep downward along its stalk.