Mortal Mirror

At that moment, Li Ergou saw a dark shadow coming towards him from the darkness above. The shadow was incredibly fast and arrived in front of Li Ergou in the blink of an eye.

Li Ergou was shocked and immediately summoned his Xuanwu Armor.

"Boom!" The black shadow crashed into the armor. Li Ergou felt a tremendous force and was instantly sent flying.

Only then did he see clearly what it was—a small figure no more than two feet tall, but not an ordinary small person; it looked more like a monkey.

Its entire body was pitch black, with large, glowing green eyes and fangs protruding from its mouth, making it look extremely ferocious.

Although small, its hands were more than twice the size of an adult's.

Li Ergou was puzzled, wondering how such a creature could exist.

Before he could examine it closely, the small figure pounced on him again. It was fierce, but Li Ergou's Xuanwu Armor was even harder, and it couldn't break through it. Regardless, it frantically attacked Li Ergou non-stop.

Li Ergou didn't counterattack but instead watched the creature in front of him.

Ji Wuming snorted coldly and said, "I didn't expect it to be this thing."

Li Ergou quickly asked, "What is this thing?"

"This is a spiritual root nurtured by the big tree, but unfortunately, it has been corrupted by demonic energy. Kill it; this thing is useless. If given time, it might turn into a formidable monster."

Upon hearing this, Li Ergou didn't hesitate. He summoned his Fish Scale Sword and slashed at the small figure. Seeing the sword light, the small figure didn't fear but roared and charged forward.

Alas, it was just a spirit body; how could it withstand the sharpness of this treasure? In an instant, it was cut in half by the Fish Scale Sword.

The small figure's eyes were filled with disbelief. The upper half of its body suddenly darted away into the distance.

The lower half of its body fell to the ground, flickered a few times, and turned into something resembling a radish. Li Ergou sucked it into his hand and threw it into his Qiankun bag without examining it.

Then, he chased after the small figure. He had to eliminate the evil completely. Since he had already started killing, he couldn't let it escape.

He was incredibly fast and quickly saw the black half of the small figure suddenly disappear into thin air in front of him.

He was puzzled. He flew the spirit orb around, and after a moment, he saw a small hole in the tree trunk. The hole wasn't big or obvious, but it couldn't escape Li Ergou's eyes.

Ji Wuming, who was following behind, said, "Go in and take a look; there might be unexpected discoveries."

Li Ergou snorted coldly, thinking that he didn't help just now. Otherwise, he wouldn't have to work so hard. He felt quite resentful but didn't say it out loud.

He could only sulk as he arrived at the tree hole. He looked inside and saw a dark abyss, not knowing what it was like inside.

He could only control the spirit orb to fly forward into the tree hole. Then, he saw that the inside of the tree hole was quite large, more than a person tall and about ten feet in size.

In the corner of the tree hole, the black figure was trembling, looking at Li Ergou with resentment but not daring to come closer.

To Li Ergou's delight, several wood spirit mushrooms were growing on the walls of the tree hole. A unique fragrance of spiritual mushrooms wafted out, making people feel refreshed all over.

Seeing such treasures, a smile appeared on his lips. "Senior, there really are treasures. How did you know?"

Ji Wuming chuckled and said, "The birth of this kind of spiritual root must rely on the power of some spiritual objects, so I knew it would be like this.

That's why I didn't take action, just to let it run back to its place, and then the treasure would appear."

Li Ergou was contemptuous in his heart. This guy was really cunning. He just didn't know if he saw these things before he started忽悠 him. Regardless, the treasures were real. Judging by the age of the spiritual mushrooms, they should be quite old.

He narrowed his eyes and saw the small figure suddenly reveal a fierce glint in its eyes, opening its mouth and flying towards the spiritual mushrooms, seemingly wanting to destroy them.

Such vicious thoughts. Li Ergou originally intended to spare it, but now he could only say sorry. With a thought, the Fish Scale Sword hummed and rushed out with a half-foot sword light.

There were several swishing sounds, and the small figure was cut into several pieces in mid-air, dead beyond dead.

The small figure fell to the ground, turning into several pieces of root-like objects.

Li Ergou waved his hand and collected them all into his Qiankun bag, to be examined later when he went out.

He went straight to the spiritual mushrooms. There were three of them in total. The largest was more than half a person tall, the size of a millstone, with a faint glow on it. It must have been many years old.

The other two were the size of washbasins, with a layer of spiritual mushroom spores on them. These were all rare and good things.

Seeing these things, Ji Wuming couldn't help but exclaim, "These are really good. The largest spiritual mushroom is at least a thousand years old, and the two smaller ones are also five hundred years old.

These spiritual mushrooms are red in color and are very precious blood jade spiritual mushrooms. This thing can soothe the soul and has many uses. It's rare and valuable, and it's the perfect choice for blood spirit pills."

Hearing this, Li Ergou was even happier. If he sold them when he went out, wouldn't he become rich again?

He was feeling happy when he heard Ji Wuming slowly say, "It's not easy for you to follow me. I'll give you all these things as a small compensation for you."

Li Ergou was dumbfounded. He didn't expect this guy to be so generous. He couldn't believe it for a moment and hesitated, "Senior, this thing is precious and valuable. Even if I don't use it myself, I can sell it."

Ji Wuming raised his head, making a profound and unpredictable appearance, and said, "Now I'm just a wisp of divine soul. This thing is useless to me. If I really condense my divine soul into a physical body,

my cultivation will break through myself, and this thing will be even more useless to me. As for your so-called Daoist treasures and money, they are simply worthless to me.

You should put them away. As long as you follow me and work hard, I guarantee that not only will your cultivation improve this time, but there will be countless benefits."

Li Ergou was stunned for a moment, looking at Ji Wuming's eyes, which were full of sincerity. However, the more it was like this, the more Li Ergou felt that there was a problem. After all, it's hard to change one's nature. This person was extremely vicious, would he really be so kind?

After all, the current Ergou is no longer the silly Ergou he used to be. Now he has also learned to think.

He always felt that this guy had ulterior motives. But there was no use in guessing. In any case, he had to be three points wary of this guy.

With this thought, he immediately showed a face full of smiles, half-true and half-false, and said happily, "Then thank you, Senior."

Ji Wuming looked at Li Ergou's happy appearance, but sneered in his heart, thinking, "Stinky brat, let you be happy first. Anyway, when you go out, you will become a cold corpse, and everything on your body will be mine.

You first feel happy and wholeheartedly follow me to do things, so I can rest assured, right?"

Thinking of this, he just nodded lightly and said, "Okay, you clean up here, I'll go out and see if there's anything good."

With that, his body flashed and he left this place. Li Ergou looked at the three spiritual mushrooms, immediately harvested them, and then threw them into the bronze mirror to copy them first. This was already a habit he had developed. No matter what it was, it was always good to copy it first.

Didn't it immediately turn three into six?

After collecting the spiritual mushrooms, he took out the spiritual root that he had killed. He always felt that this thing might not be simple, and he would have to take a good look at what it was.