Chapter 176 Exploding Insect Crystals and Entering the Shadow Realm.
For wizards, almost all living objects can be used as materials. The difference is only in the size of the effect.
Zerg is naturally no exception.
Zerg are famous in the multiverse, not only for their ferocious habits, but also for their insect crystals.
Insect crystals are a type of energy crystal, similar to magic stones, soul crystals, and soul crystals. The difference is that the energy structure of insect crystals is unstable. Once it suffers a severe impact, it can easily cause an energy explosion.
But this is not a problem for wizards.
The Star Alliance has long since developed technology to stabilize the energy structure of insect crystals, thereby turning insect crystals into a cheap energy source.
Therefore, the wizard civilization is one of the few plane civilizations in the multiverse that is not only not afraid of the zerg, but even often looks for the zerg in return.
In the eyes of other civilized races, zerg are like demonic beings, but in the eyes of wizards, they are just cheap energy that can walk.
It is worth mentioning that the energy contained in the insect crystals of different branches of zerg is also different.
For example, the insect crystals of Red Soldier Insects cost 10 to 30 magic stone coins each.
In addition, the red soldier insect's chitinous shell, fangs, insect cysts and other organs can also be used as enchanting materials and have certain value.
A complete red soldier insect corpse is worth at least thirty or forty magic stone coins, and may even be worth hundreds of magic stone coins.
As long as there are two to three hundred giant red soldier insect corpses, the expenditure on the wood spirit potion will be enough to recoup the cost.
After purchasing materials in the business district, Pei Ze immediately started refining the potion after returning to the mansion.
The wood spirit potion with weakened effect is at the second-order potion level at most, which is still a lower level among the second-order potions. It is very simple to refine.
The success rate was even higher than Pei Ze expected, reaching an astonishing 68%!
Nine days later, Pei Ze's space ring already contained three thousand bottles of wood spirit potion.
"Such a lot of potions should be enough for the Ancient Tree Deer Spirit Clan to use for a while."
Pei Ze smiled with satisfaction, put away the potions, and went to another room.
In the center of the spacious room stood a well.
This is the dark well that Pei Ze has taken the time to open up these days. It is surrounded by dense mysterious runes. In terms of specifications, it is only higher than the otherworld hotel.
Throwing it into the Dark Stone, Tinin's figure soon appeared on the water.
Seeing Pei Ze, the half-deer girl's face suddenly burst into a bright smile.
"You're here."
"Yes." Pei Ze smiled and nodded, "I have already refined the potion. Now I will send it to you. You can see the effect." "Really? That's great!
"
Tining cheered and stamped his hoofs left and right with a joyful expression. Then he seemed to react, blushed in embarrassment, and hurried to prepare for the transaction ceremony.
Pei Ze smiled and walked aside to draw the magic circle.
After the transaction was completed, Tining immediately picked up a bottle of wood spirit potion and waved in the distance.
Following the sound of hooves, an elk-like creature staggered into the water.
Its back, flanks and hind feet were all covered with shocking wounds, as if they had been torn apart by the claws of some kind of wild beast, and pale bones could even be seen in some of the wounds.
After just a few steps, the ancient tree deer spirit couldn't help but let out a low cry of pain.
Tining showed distressed eyes, knelt down, touched his companion's head gently, and said softly: "Don't worry, you will be fine soon." After saying that, he opened the cork and
fed the medicine to the injured person. The ancient tree deer spirit.
As the medicinal liquid began to take effect, the wounds on the ancient tree deer spirit healed quickly at a speed visible to the naked eye. Some minor wounds healed as before in an instant, and most of the serious wounds healed and turned into minor injuries.
In just a few blinks, the seriously injured ancient tree deer spirit regained its vitality, spread its hooves and ran happily back and forth a few times, then returned to Tining and rubbed her arm affectionately with its antlers.
Seeing this scene, Tining suddenly showed a happy smile on his face.
After calming the ancient tree deer spirit for a while and letting it play aside, the girl looked at Pei Ze, her eyes full of joy.
"That's great, Pei Ze. The effect of this potion is better than Moon Orchid!"
Tining's jewel-like eyes were shining brightly. What made her even more happy was that there were three thousand bottles of this potion, which was enough. It has been used by her tribe for a long time.
But when she came back to her senses, she showed a somewhat troubled expression, bit her lower lip, and said hesitantly: "I, I don't have that many magical biological materials to trade."
Pei Ze waved his hand and said, "No need for magical biological materials. , you gave me the corpses of those red soldier bugs as the reward for the transaction."
Tining was stunned and said in surprise: "Is this enough?"
"That's enough." Pei Ze smiled gently.
Hearing this, Tining's expression became more and more delighted, and he quickly said: "Then I will ask the tribesmen to move here." The
second round of trading ceremony followed, and to Pei Ze's expectation, five hundred insect corpses were transferred. Long and mostly full.
This gave Pei Ze a new understanding of the strength of the ancient tree deer spirit clan.
There were only so many complete insect corpses. The ancient tree deer spirit clan killed at least three to four thousand red soldier insects. This strength was not weak.
At the same time, Pei Ze sent another memory crystal ball.
"Information about the zerg is stored here. You'd better take a look now."
Seeing Pei Ze's serious expression, Tining was startled. Although he was confused, he immediately followed the instructions out of trust in Pei Ze.
Anyone with the ability to cast spells, whether it is spells or spell-like abilities, can use the memory crystal ball. Naturally, Tining can also use it. After releasing her spiritual tentacles, she began to browse the contents inside.
After a moment, Tining opened his eyes, his expression full of disbelief.
"Zergs are really that scary?" the half-deer girl said in a difficult voice.
Pei Ze said calmly: "You have already felt the fighting power of those red soldier insects, haven't you?"
Tining's eyes suddenly dimmed.
Just the vanguard of the zerg has already caused their family and the entire magical creatures in the Starry Jungle to suffer. How terrible would it be if it were an army of zerg?
Tining actually knew very well that if the zerg were really as terrifying as described in these materials, then the hope of defeating the zerg in the ancient forest plane would be very slim.
Thinking of this, her mood suddenly became very heavy.
Pei Ze saw this in his eyes and said in a serious voice: "I suggest you move your group and stay away from those zerg. Otherwise, when the zerg army comes, you will never be able to resist it." Tining's face became more and more ugly: "But the zerg
... The target is the entire plane. No matter how we escape, we will face them one day." "
If you don't mind, I can find a way to move your tribe to Dawn City."
As soon as these words came out, Tining was startled and looked up at Pei Ze in astonishment.
"Of course, I don't have this ability at this stage, but I will definitely be able to do it in two or three years at most." Pei Ze added.
Tining suddenly showed a heart-beating expression.
To be honest, she and her people don't have much affection for the ancient forest plane.
The ancient tree deer spirit clan spends most of their time in the dense forest of stars, with very little contact with outside creatures.
Had she not been in urgent need of help, she would not have used the Eye of the World to communicate with creatures from other planes. To use Pei Ze's words from his previous life, the ancient tree deer spirits are actually a group of squatters and social terrors.
As long as the environment is suitable, it doesn't matter which plane they are in.
After being silent for a while, Tining glanced at Pei Ze, his face was rosy for some reason, and he said in a confused tone: "Pei, Pei Ze, why do you want to help me like this?" Pei Ze was slightly startled and glanced at Tining's expression
. , suddenly realized in my heart, and felt a little dumbfounded.
It’s hard to tell that the half-deer girl is still a love brain.
The reason why he helped Tining was partly because he took advantage of the previous transaction, and he felt a little sorry and wanted to make up for it.
On the other hand, they also value the potential of the ancient tree deer spirit clan.
Yin Xue once said that the ancient tree deer spirit clan has the blood of ancient creatures in their bodies. If this clan can be recruited, they may be able to use the blood of the ancient tree deer spirit to make new bloodline marks. Moreover, the materials are in long-term supply. After they are used up, The kind that can be replenished at any time.
In addition, after being promoted to an elemental wizard, Pei Ze will inevitably build his own wizard tower, which will definitely require a lot of guardians.
And Tining and her people are undoubtedly a good choice.
The ancient tree deer spirit clan itself is very powerful in combat, otherwise it would not be able to block the attack of the Red Soldier Insect Swarm.
However, it was difficult to explain these reasons to Tin Ning, so Pei Ze had to pretend to cough and said vaguely: "We are friends, of course we have to help each other." Naturally, the
half-deer girl didn't believe such a lame reason, and just thought Pei Ze was trying to cover it up. On the contrary, it became more and more rosy.
"Then I believe you!"
"I will take my tribe out of the Starry Forest tomorrow!"
"Okay." Pei Ze coughed lightly and changed the subject, "By the way, I am going to the Shadow Realm next. There may be many Since I haven't been here in Chenxi City for a long time, I will leave you the aura imprint of the housekeeper in my mansion. If you need Huiyuelan, you can contact her. I have already given her instructions." After hearing that I won't see Pei for a long time
, Ze, a trace of reluctance flashed in Tining's eyes, but he still nodded in agreement.
"I understand."
After the meeting, Pei Ze took the Red Soldier Insects filled with insect corpses to the underground square, took out all the insect corpses, and then used the hands of the mage to start dissecting them.
He planned to sell the red soldier insect's shell, claws, insect cysts and other organ materials to shops in the trading area.
But the insect crystals have to be retained.
In the future, there will be many places where energy crystals will be needed, such as building wizard towers, making golem corps, etc. Naturally, insect crystals cannot be sold at will.
More recently, he can also use the unstable energy structure of insect crystals to create powerful 'bombs'.
In fact, wizards have invented this technology a long time ago.
This was mentioned in the information previously reviewed in the Library of Truth.
Although he already has a lot of trump cards, Pei Ze doesn't mind having another backup player.
"Omniscient, it is estimated that the technology for refining insect crystals to refine magical items with powerful explosive power must at least reach the level of severely damaging a third-level crystallized wizard." [The task has been created and the technology for refining insect crystals has been calculated. It is estimated that it will require 2394.5 energy levels
. Mental Power]
"More than 2,000 energy levels, it will take about eleven days."
It didn't take long, and Pei Ze immediately made a calculation.
It’s not too late to refine two or three explosive insect crystals before going to the Shadow Realm.
Eleven days passed in a blink of an eye.
After the technical calculation of the explosive insect crystal was completed, Pei Ze immediately started making it.
One explosive insect crystal requires the extraction of almost a hundred Red Soldier Insect Crystals, and many rare materials for neutralization. In the end, the cost of one explosive insect crystal is nearly 25,000 magic stone coins.
But compared to the power of the explosive insect crystal, this cost is nothing.
Before the change, Pei Ze faced a third-level crystallized wizard, and it was necessary to burn multiple alchemical marks to kill him.
It costs thirty to forty thousand magic stone coins to carve one alchemical mark, and the cost of three alchemical marks already exceeds one hundred thousand magic stone coins.
Now, if an exploding insect crystal falls down, it can directly severely damage the third-level crystallized wizard, which is not very cost-effective.
Of course, real combat is definitely not that easy.
After all, third-level crystal wizards generally have many trump cards. It would be difficult for an explosive insect crystal to deal with a strong person of this level.
But if one is not enough, just add a few more. Anyway, it is more cost-effective than burning alchemical notches.
Pei Ze finally produced a total of four explosive insect crystals.
"Everything is ready."
Looking at the explosive insect crystal in the space ring, Pei Ze nodded with satisfaction.
Now that all preparations have been made, it is time to set off for the Shadow Realm.
Arriving at the front courtyard, Su Ya and Peng Yan were already fully armed and waiting.
Pei Ze smoothly sent Xiao Yi, who flew over, into the goblin hut, and then walked out of the mansion.
"Let's go."
Su Ya and Peng Yan looked at each other and followed with solemn expressions.
Among the many outer planes, the Shadow Realm can be said to be one of the planes that wizards enter most frequently.
Because of this, there are seven or eight hundred entrances to the Shadow Realm in Chenxi City, not one thousand.
Some wizards even opened an entrance directly to their residence for easy entry at any time.
It is precisely because of the entrances that can be seen everywhere that some of the Pei family wizards were able to easily escape into the Shadow Realm during the purge operation.
Pei Ze took Su Ya directly to the Tower Academy.
With Mo Weng's relationship, plus his fame and identity, it would be a trivial matter to borrow the entrance to the Shadow Realm of Tower Academy.
He had already communicated with the college and went directly to the underground hall of the General Affairs Building.
After looking at the three characters "Shadow Realm" on the stone tablet, Pei Ze walked straight into it.
The layout of the room is similar to that of the room where the Dark Well is placed. It is also a woodland environment, except that in the middle of the room stands a flashing silver light door, with a slowly rotating vortex of light in the middle.
Pei Ze took a deep breath and strode into it.
Su Ya followed closely, and finally Peng Yan.
The eyes were filled with a silver halo for an instant, and the field of vision was filled with silver light, but it quickly faded away the next second, and the feeling of weightlessness that enveloped the whole body also disappeared.
Pei Ze opened his eyes and found himself in a desolate wilderness.
Looking up, the sky is gloomy. There is no sun, moon, or stars in the sky. There is just a gray nothingness.
(End of chapter)