2443 Exclusive Skill: [Honesty Reflects the Heart] [Fey Name]: Engulfing Flames Heart Mushroom [Fey Species]: Parasitic fungus species/flaming fungus species [Fey Grade]: Bronze (3/10) [Fey Type]: Fire [Fey Quality]: Fantasy I Abilities: [Seeping Flames]: The flames will seep into the target’s mind, spirit, and soul through the heart and brain. The spirit and soul will begin to burn. If the flames begin to die out, it can absorb the energy from the heart and brain to reignite itself. Exclusive Skill: [Honesty Reflects the Heart]: The spores will host themselves deep within the target’s spirit and soul and determine the genuinity of the target’s exterior. [Crumbled Parasitic Cycle]: The bacterial strain will be sacrificed. After being sacrificed, the energy around it will crumble, along with other energy-containing entities. At the moment that he saw the Seeping Flames ability, Lin Yuan understood why Genius said that the Engulfing Flames Heart Mushroom’s dark red smoke targeted and took host within a target’s mind, spirit, and soul. The dark red smoke contained many of the Engulfing Flames Heart Mushroom’s spores. Once the Engulfing Flames Heart Mushroom activated the energy in the spores, it would be set alight. The flames would infect the target’s heart and brain before preying on the cores of the target’s body, namely its mind, soul, and spirit. If the flames were being extinguished, it could even use the energy within the heart and brain to revive itself and continue attacking the target. This ability was extremely ruthless. Lin Yuan believed that it was a curse ability that targeted the mind, spirit, and soul rather than a fire-type ability. It could target the heart and brain, which were the most important organs in a lifeform’s body, and also possessed powerful destruction effects. If the Engulfing Flames Heart Mushroom’s spores were breathed in or its flames were absorbed into the body, breaking free from its effects would be difficult unless a special method was used. Three exclusive skills had appeared when the Engulfing Flames Heart Mushroom evolved to Bronze grade. Lin Yuan evolved all the feys that were meant to be contracted by the white-clothed followers to Epic grade when they reached Elite quality. It went without saying that the same also went for feys that were spirit locked by Morbius. The three exclusive skills that appeared were ‘Paralysis Mycelium’, ‘Honesty Reflects the Heart’, and ‘Hidden Form Bacterial Strain’. Paralysis Mycelium would produce a paralyzing effect after the spores grouped together. This ability was not rare among poison-type feys. When such abilities appeared in poison-type feys, they were usually weak and thus rarely selected. Yet, it was extremely powerful when it appeared in the Engulfing Flames Heart Mushroom! This was because the Engulfing Flames Heart Mushroom targeted the lifeform’s heart and brain, the two most important organs. Once the heart was paralyzed, the blood circulation in the body would stop. Once the brain was paralyzed, the body’s functions would slowly shut down. After some time passed, the lifeform would lose consciousness, and there would be irreparable damage to its intelligence. Paralysis Mycelium was considered control-type. When used by the Engulfing Flames Heart Mushroom, it was a powerful lethal move. The second option was Honesty Reflects the Heart. This exclusive skill allowed the Engulfing Flames Heart Mushroom to gain an interrogation ability. The spores would take root deep within the target’s soul and spirit. When a lifeform was trying to deceive others, signs of the deception would show on their spirit and soul. Even if they forcefully suppressed their spirit and soul to prevent them from being triggered, soul and spirit fluctuations would still be released. More importantly, when the Engulfing Flames Heart Mushroom used Honesty Reflects the Heart, others would not become aware of its abilities, so they would be unable to shield themselves in advance. Lin Yuan had yet to come into possession of an ability that could effectively assess the authenticity of others. If Lin Yuan’s ambition was only limited to the main world and he had no desire to venture into other worlds, Honesty Reflects the Heart would have no use to him. However, Lin Yuan’s goal was the outside world. Given that he had no information about the outside world, Honesty Reflects the Heart would allow him to tell if those he encountered were being genuine. This would enable him to gain accurate information about the outside world without worrying about being disadvantaged by fake information. From this angle of consideration, Honesty Reflects the Heart was a strategic-class exclusive skill. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚 The third exclusive skill was Hidden Form Bacterial Strain. It was the most useless one of the three. Its effects would hide the Engulfing Flames Heart Mushroom’s spores so the bacterial strains would lose their form and be undetectable by the naked eye. The Engulfing Flames Heart Mushroom’s bacterial strains were not attached to the target’s exterior. Rather, they were attached to the heart and brain. So, it did not matter if the naked eye could detect them. It was impossible that anyone would try to claw out their heart and brain during battle to remove the attached bacterial strains. Lin Yuan’s choice had been between Paralysis Mycelium and Honesty Reflects the Heart. Eventually, he chose Honesty Reflects the Heart. Paralysis Mycelium would only increase the Engulfing Flames Heart Mushroom’s attacking power. Lin Yuan had many lethal techniques and had no urgent need for the Engulfing Flames Heart Mushroom. The best options would be functional-type abilities and exclusive skills. The exclusive skill Crumbled Parasitic Cycle that the Engulfing Flames Heart Mushroom gained when it reached Fantasy Breed was largely related to the Willpower Rune that was filled with the air of destruction. Crumbled Parasitic Cycle increased the Engulfing Flames Heart Mushroom’s combat abilities. When the Engulfing Flames Heart Mushroom used Seeping Flames to infect the target’s heart and brain, it could sacrifice those bacterial strains and destroy the brain and heart in the process. This ability made use of the lifeform’s weakest links. Targeting a target’s heart and brain was much more sinister and difficult to fend off than targeting the lower body. Lin Yuan could not be happier with any of the feys in the Spirit Lock spatial zone. If the Engulfing Flames Heart Mushroom wanted to evolve its grade, it needed pure fire-elemental energy and spirit qi. Although Lin Yuan had given the Moon Empress many resources, he still had sufficient resources to increase his feys’ powers. It did not take long for Lin Yuan to nurture the Engulfing Flames Heart Mushroom beyond Bronze grade. He needed top-grade spiritual ingredients such as top-grade strange flames in order to evolve the Engulfing Flames Heart Mushroom to Fantasy V. This was not something that could be accomplished overnight. Lin Yuan had given the task of evolving the Engulfing Flames Heart Mushroom to Genius. The Engulfing Flames Heart Mushroom would be able to reach Diamond X/Fantasy V in about a month’s time.