Huang Xiao Mi

After the black bear fight expends too much energy, the plague erupts earlier than the remaining two days. This plague is specific to mushroommen. A mortal girl picks the mushrooms from him, and every mushroom she picks decreases the cause of his falling vitality. ^{ch. 2143 ch. 2144}

Meng Qiu Zhen’s identity changes to the mortal girl Fang Tu. Behind her, the mushroomman Huang Xiao Mi, who was covered tightly, speaks in a low voice. His strength is barely enough. He helps set up mushrooms at the evening market and says proudly that they are fresh. He cannot endure a bald youngster molesting Fang Tu, shouts, and attacks at once. After several rounds he is at a disadvantage. In the heat of the battle his identity is exposed as a mushroomman variant human. Heavily outnumbered and captured, he is still shouting indignantly: “Despicable! If you are a man, fight me alone!” ^{ch. 2144}

Tied, he shouts that he deceived Fang Tu and threatened her, so as not to implicate his benefactor. The bald youngster leads him to Tu clan village’s prison. Fang Tu calls him Brother Mi and big brother Huang Xiao Mi. ^{ch. 2145}

A figure tied to the wall in the deepest part of the prison detonates into ash. That Huang Xiao Mi is fake, and the whole underground prison layer is fake. Two rank four elders plan to soul-search him to find and wipe out the nearby mushroomman tribe. ^{ch. 2145}

In the real cell he is curled up in a corner, asleep. If he dies, the dream realm fails. Meng Qiu Zhen, as Huang Wan, uses a poison path killer move to get rid of the mushroomman plague in his body, then gives him poison path Gu. He is overjoyed, asks that the tribe be saved, and can barely walk on his own. After failed runs in which the bald youngster kills him, Meng Qiu Zhen brings him away, knocks the bald youngster out, and stops him from taking revenge. ^{ch. 2146}

Meng Qiu Zhen becomes the mushroomman Huang Xiao Mi again. His injuries have healed, and Huang Wan’s secret treatment has healed the mushroomman plague. He also obtained poison path Gu from her, enough to form killer moves that can get rid of the plague troubling the tribe. He moves stealthily, then escapes the bald youngster’s pursuit while setting up traps. ^{ch. 2147}

The killer move he brings back heals the tribe. War follows. Champions appear: Tu clan village has the bald youngster, and the mushroommen have Huang Xiao Mi, a tribesman of Huang Wan. From their contest they reach rank four at the same time. They become the greatest enemies of each other’s lives. Acting as Huang Xiao Mi, Meng Qiu Zhen sets a trap and sows discord, then leads troops to encircle the bald youngster. ^{ch. 2147}

When Tu clan village surrounds the mushroommen, he shouts not to panic, that he has already requested help from the tribe and they need to persevere until it arrives. A Tu clan rank four elder later names him as the person Huang Wan saved, saying the elder’s brother died at her hands for that. The Huang Xiao Mi that Meng Qiu Zhen is portraying shouts among the pursuers but does not act. ^{ch. 2148}

Meng Qiu Zhen turns into Huang Xiao Mi again among the tribe’s elite Gu Masters. Fang Tu secretly receives him as Brother Xiao Mi. He and Le Tu, both rank four, join hands. Their alliance becomes the crucial element that can break the stalemate, and even Tu clan village’s head cannot resist them. The mushroomman tribe wins. Huang Wan, gone mad, grabs him, pats his chest, and calls him her son. Le Tu looks at him in a pleading gaze. He nods and acts along. ^{ch. 2150}