Su Ze had previously severed the giant Chicken Mushroom’s hundred-meter stalk and large cap at its midsection, but the part hidden underground was even more massive.

Su Ze traced it back to its source, seeping deep into the soil to annihilate every last one of the giant Chicken Mushroom’s mycelia.

He had figured it out long ago. Once he stepped into this core area and was besieged by a horde of giant Mutated Fungi, his massive form would inevitably take damage and be continuously wounded.

His only option was to fuel the war with war itself: constantly killing these giant Mutated Fungi and devouring their flesh-and-blood energy to repair his body and maintain his combat effectiveness.

Therefore, his plan was to defeat these giant Mutated Fungi one by one. With every one he killed, the pressure from the siege would lessen, and his own power would grow as he devoured them.

As they weakened, he grew stronger. Naturally, his odds of victory would only increase.

That was why his first target was the giant Chicken Mushroom he had already roughed up once before. Best to pick on the weakest one first.

Su Ze could feel his form continuously shrinking under the assault of countless mycelia.

However, the mycelia’s devouring speed seemed a bit slower than before. He suspected the weakening poison he had injected earlier had taken effect.

He ignored everything else, withstanding the assault from the numerous Mutated Fungi. His sole focus was on finishing off this Tier Four Chicken Mushroom first.

Soon, his liquid form, having seeped deep underground, had completely mapped out the distribution of the Chicken Mushroom’s mycelia. He frantically unleashed a torrent of electricity, trying to destroy them.

The fine mycelial threads at the extremities were instantly destroyed by the current, but those closer to the main body were tenaciously resilient. The electric shocks alone were not enough to completely extinguish their life force right away.

Without hesitation, Su Ze used his ultimate move: Strongest Punch. This attack, a fusion of three skills, unleashed such terrifying power that the mycelia of the other surrounding Mutated Fungi immediately recoiled.

It was at this exact moment that the giant Mushroom finally struck again, spitting out several huge spores that took root in the torrent of Su Ze’s transformed body.

But Su Ze was prepared this time. The moment the giant spores took root, he decisively severed that part of his body.

The last time, the giant spores’ explosion had been so powerful because they had absorbed a large amount of the body mass Su Ze had abandoned. Now, however, he severed the connection the moment they took root, giving the giant spores no time to accumulate energy.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

In a series of explosions, the giant spores, unable to absorb enough energy, detonated prematurely. Their power was nothing compared to the last time.

Although the explosions dealt some damage to Su Ze, it was entirely manageable.

Su Ze powered through the explosions and unleashed a Strongest Punch, completely destroying the main mycelial body of the Tier Four Chicken Mushroom hidden underground.

A vast surge of energy flooded into Su Ze’s body, instantly replenishing all his recent losses and even allowing his power to advance another step.

’So this is a Mutated Fungus... they’re incredibly potent. The energy is much richer than what you get from a variant beast of the same tier.’ Su Ze was pleasantly surprised. He had never expected to be able to devour so much energy from killing a single Tier Four Mutated Fungus.

This made his plan to defeat them one by one all the more feasible.

’Huh? What’s this?’

Su Ze suddenly realized that after his Bloodthirsty skill devoured the Tier Four Chicken Mushroom, it hadn’t converted all the absorbed energy into flesh-and-blood energy.

The power of the Bloodthirsty skill lay in its ability to convert any energy it devoured into a uniform flesh-and-blood energy, which could be used to repair injuries, replenish stamina, and even temporarily boost his power.

But now, within the Mutated Chicken Mushroom, there was a stream of energy that could not be converted.

A stream of silver-gray energy appeared within Su Ze’s body.

Su Ze had encountered this before with the golden energy from the Sands of Time; it too could not be converted by his Bloodthirsty skill.

Su Ze guessed that any energy that couldn’t be converted was simply of too high a grade, exceeding the limits of his Bloodthirsty skill.