Chapter 11 - 10: Breakthrough, Third Talent!

Liu Jun hid in his room, reading, nurturing his spirit, and seeing his own growth step by step with remarkable clarity, it was truly captivating:"Mushroom Soup grows mushrooms, the next talent is about to arrive."

But the troubles of reality always come unexpectedly, Liu Jun, who was deep in his studies, received a message from Si Anhe at noon, saying he would visit to check up on him.

Logically speaking, it shouldn’t be that soon.

He shouldn’t even be coming for a house visit, considering I only took ten days off; the schools in this world aren’t that strict.

His original plan was to continue taking leave for a dozen more days, and then would be when they would come looking for him.

Why not play by the rules?

Until Liu Jun heard from the other end:

"I am visiting Xu Changsheng’s place, and will drop by yours along the way."

Great, he was implicated.

But Liu Jun wasn’t too afraid.

In terms of level, Si Anhe as a teacher is just at the tenth layer of the Rain Realm.

Only two minor realms above him.

Essentially, she’s just a former student of the 13th Rehe High School who graduated to work in Rehe City, earning resources as a teacher, preparing to break through to the third level like everyone else.

Moreover...

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"I’m about to break through! Teacher? Soon my level will be lower, won’t notice my anomaly." Liu Jun eagerly opened this pot of Mushroom Soup, which floated three freshly produced mushrooms.

First talent mushroom.

It looks like an invisible flat transparent balloon mushroom.

[Vanish]: You can blend with the surroundings, making it hard for ordinary people to spot your presence.

That day, people found the world as usual, yet didn’t know the entire city had already been overgrown with mushrooms.

How can one see the world of mushrooms without breaking through the barriers of the heart?

...

Second talent mushroom.

A melancholy mushroom that weeps like rain.

[Deep Love is not Long-lived]: When you’re extremely emotional, you unleash potential, with the side effect being life consumption.

When you ignite a sea of mushrooms in the world, at the cost of mushroom genocide for a one-time strike, it results in dramatic upheaval, as a gigantic mushroom rises in the world.

...

Third talent mushroom.

A plump mushroom brain shaped like a butterfly, with each butterfly wing resembling the left and right brain of a human.

[Middle Wisdom]: Possesses the intelligence of normal life.

...

"These three talents are quite valuable."

Liu Jun thought quietly.

Vanish, an advanced talent from Low Symptoms.

Highly practical.

It’s a crucial developmental type that upon a glance, Liu Jun decided the third talent would be it! First, maximize the concealing ability and develop to survive!

The second mushroom talent, Deep Love is not Long-lived, is certainly intriguing.

If I use it, it’s merely an explosive life-saving talent.

But what if this talent continues to develop, expanding to the entire mushroom colony, leading them to burn their life and commit suicide?

I would then hold a destructive large mushroom, having the qualification to negotiate with the world.

The nuclear weapon of mushrooms.

Because if combined with other mushroom toxicity, the power is bound to surge, directly explode, making it a super dirty bomb number one.

Yet, this increasingly didn’t sit right with Liu Jun, as if heading towards nuclear peace.

This Golden Finger originally was designed for combat with humans.

In-game, I am a plague virus mushroom, gathering resources through human destruction and war, infection and plague, snowball-style.

If I start infecting, just eliminating this civilian neighborhood might instantly fill several progress bars, producing a large amount of mushroom talents...

Waging war to sustain war, the main storyline of the plague planet.

But I truly don’t want to self-destruct!

On to the next talent.

Middle Wisdom, an upgrade from Low Wisdom.

After a brief contemplation, Liu Jun chose Vanish.

After all, Middle Wisdom is best left to the Amber Swallowtail Butterfly.

To see if it can merge with the second talent mushroom.

Swish.

Upon decisively choosing Vanish, the transparent mushroom in the Mushroom Soup fused into his body.

A wave of motion caused Liu Jun’s entire mind and spirit to merge into his shell, rapidly retracted, concealed.

He quietly felt his body, truly finding significant differences:

"In my situation, just using telekinesis, it is indeed hard to scan my consciousness waves."

And in the next second, his form changed, turning into a mushroom.

Soon after, his entire form began to woodenize, like those unobtrusive rotting wood on the roadside, becoming the material of wooden furniture.

Can it be actively initiated?

Liu Jun’s eyes lit up, finding it very interesting.

Is this camouflaging as wood?

The practical use of this ability is strong!

He immediately thought of a strategy; if pursued, he could turn into roadside wood or wooden furniture, tables and chairs, conceal his spirit and breath, most others unlikely to discover.

Hmm, Mushroom Invisibility Skill!

As long as the realm gap isn’t too exaggerated.

This way, his safety issues are largely resolved.

Moreover, a novel idea emerged immediately after: perhaps, this concealing breath ability could be used to make money!

[Name: Liu Jun]

[Species: Fungus]

[Realm: First Layer of Thunder Realm, Telekinesis Master]

[Talents: Low Consumption, Low Symptoms, Vanish]

[Mushroom Soup: Low Wisdom, With Light and Dust, Clear Day and Fresh Wind, Clear Moon Shining Spirit, Deep Love is not Long-lived, Middle Wisdom]

Third level Thunder Realm.

This is the greatest surprise!

Thunder Realm, telekinesis like thunder.

He already has a standing in this city, achieving the ultimate dream of generations.

And the second surprise is, there were two more newly floating talent mushrooms in the Mushroom Soup, added two Divine Treasures in the Butterfly Era.

Originally, Liu Jun still wanted to check the situation in the Mushroom Soup, but then received a message from Si Anhe saying already downstairs.

No time to delay.

Liu Jun could only tidy up the room a bit, ensure no issues, then went to the living room, heading downstairs.

Outside, the drizzle continued, Rehe City’s weather almost never clear, talking about heavy industry indeed uses much water, the industrial water discharge from Rehe Heavy Industry daily could let the entire city drizzle lightly.

A woman in black uniform was waiting under an umbrella.

"You..." she glanced at Liu Jun, seemingly felt something different, but couldn’t pinpoint it.

"Hello, teacher." Liu Jun greeted.

"Go upstairs." Si Anhe said softly.

In the living room.

Liu Jun handed Si Anhe two cans of energy drink.

Si Anhe glanced at Liu Jun, "Haven’t given up on studies these days, right?"

"No, I seriously read last night, reviewed ’Amber Swallowtail Butterfly’, and even broke through."

Just as Liu Jun wanted to open the drink ring, Si Anhe snatched it, "Drinking junk drinks, and you say you haven’t been slacking off?"

Si Anhe took the drink away, picked up an empty cup from the table, went to the windowsill, reached out to catch a cup of rainwater, then turned around and said:

"Drink this, a gift from nature, the city’s welfare, divine nectar, truly wasting resources."

"I just visited Xu Changsheng, you know what he was doing? Drinking water! Guzzling down, he even uses rainwater to cook, I even saw him set up a distiller, concentrate the rainwater, that’s the spirit of realizing one’s shame and then courage!"

Xu Changsheng is that diligent?

Liu Jun was startled, took the water cup, and silently drank a sip.

The mouthful of sour and rusty taste, mixed with pharmaceutical remnants from factory discharge, the taste of home.

"Not bad, enduring hardship to enjoy blessings."

Si Anhe nodded with satisfaction, then opened a functional drink herself, "I already suffered enough back then, now I needn’t suffer more, because it would hasten my aging."