Chapter 198: Blowing Snow Pillar
Spirit Beast.
It evolves from wild beasts. Even a sparrow may evolve into a spiritual beast over time if it can continue to prey on spiritual beings.
According to human research on spiritual arcana, it is determined that even the 9-ring dragon is just an ordinary creature at the beginning.
It is an evolution from generation to generation, and the bloodline continues to grow stronger, eventually reaching the peak of the 9th ring.
It's just that spiritual nourishment is subtle. Except for humans who can rely on cultivation to grow rapidly, any living thing can only complete the jump in bloodline level through reproduction. Often this kind of transition requires tens of thousands of years of iteration.
certainly.
Elf may be an anomaly, after all, it is difficult to define whether it is an animal or a plant.
As for the fantasy beast, it is also a variable, but it is related to humans after all, and is the result of humans' selective cultivation of spiritual beasts.
In short, the spiritual beast is derived from the wild beast, but it is its own entity.
"The evolution of a spiritual beast requires tens of thousands of years of iteration, but its degradation only occurs overnight. This is too shocking." Duke sighed.
Instructor Penrose, who was observing the human-footed owl, responded calmly: "It takes tens to hundreds of years for a spiritual beast to grow, but it only takes a few minutes for it to be hunted by us. So, what is there to be surprised about? Going back is always better than going forward. It's much easier."
"Having said that, mentor, don't you feel scared? If it is the complete shedding of an ancient evil thing, infecting this forest..." "
That is something Bernoulli and the others should worry about. What does it matter to me?" Penrose glanced at Duke who was making a fuss.
"Uh..."
"Go and do your business. Don't worry about things unfounded. The Storm Calendar has a history of more than 4,000 years. Only humans have conquered forests, and forests have never swallowed humans." He was kicked out of the Black Beetle by Penrose
.
Duke shook his head and laughed. He was just expressing his concern and the importance he attached to this investigation.
Since Penrose, the 3rd level arcane mage, doesn't care, why should he care if he is a 1st level arcane mage.
Just like Penrose's attitude - it's none of my business.
"Duke, come here for the bonfire party." Assistant Vikas came over. "I've been here in Cuihai Valley for research for several days, but we haven't had time to get together. It just so happened that everyone came back very early today, so let's have a bonfire party. Happy."
"Okay." Duke agreed happily.
The bonfire had been lit. Balza personally strung the meat of the spirit beasts he had hunted on tree branches and barbecued it. Orianna helped him.
Seeing Duke coming over, Oriana immediately said: "Bake whatever you want to eat. The theme of tonight's bonfire party is self-reliance, and you are not allowed to let others do it for you." Duke chuckled: "No one knows
barbecue better than me. "
So I found a suitable branch from the barbecue equipment that had been prepared nearby, and then found a rabbit leg. I stringed it skillfully on the branch and started to barbecue on the campfire.
Assistants Lidman and Vikas, as well as Bronk, are also very skilled in outdoor barbecues.
Only Kiriya, who had just come back from the shower, seemed a little at a loss. She clumsily picked up a branch and skewered a piece of spiritual beast meat.
"Where's the tutor? Tutor Vikas, didn't you call the tutor over?" Oriana asked.
"The mentor is still busy with the experiment. He said he would come over after a while and let us eat first." Vikas said, "Leave some snake meat for the mentor later. The mentor likes to eat roasted snakes the most." Around the bonfire, everyone was grilling meat
. , while chatting.
Duke turned the branch in his hand, glanced at Kiriya next to him, and reminded: "Turn over, and you have to get closer. First, roast it over high fire for a while to let the outside of the barbecue burn and lock in the moisture of the meat. Otherwise, If the meat is roasted for too long, the meat will be very dry."
"Oh." Kiriya put her barbecue close to the campfire.
"Turn over more to avoid burning."
"Okay."
Kiriya devoted herself to the barbecue seriously. When the shell of the barbecue was burnt, she touched Duke and asked, "Is this done? ?"
"Stay away from the fire and continue roasting for a while."
"Yeah."
Duke had already roasted his rabbit legs. He took out a dagger he carried with him and made a few cuts on the rabbit legs. .
"Duke, Kylia, there are condiments here. You can sprinkle some on the barbecue." Oriana reminded.
Duke smiled and refused: "I said no one knows barbecue better than me. Orianna, you should try my exclusive barbecue secret sauce." He took out
a small bottle and sprinkled it on his rabbit legs. A layer of secret material, and then handed it to others.
"What secret ingredient is this?" Assistant Vikas was the first to take the small bottle and imitate Duke in sprinkling his own barbecue.
After taking a bite, he immediately exclaimed: "Well, it smells good!"
He swallowed a mouthful of barbecue, then held up the small bottle and praised loudly: "What kind of spice is this, Duke? It makes the barbecue more delicious!"
"Let me give it a try." Oriana took the small bottle, put it under her nose and sniffed, "Well, it really smells good, but is it really as good as what you exaggerated under the guidance of Vikas?" "
You You will know after you try it yourself." Vikas said, then turned to Duke and asked, "What kind of spice is this?"
"I call it cumin powder." Duke said with a smile.
This cumin powder, cumin is not the cumin powder on earth. When Duke lived in Sheshou Town, he often ventured into the forest.
Of course, barbecue in the forest is indispensable.
However, he could not find cumin powder on the market, nor could he find barbecue condiments similar to cumin powder, so he searched for the spices he could find. After countless blends, he finally formulated a spice that could greatly improve the taste of barbecue. spices.
That is the secret ingredient he calls "cumin powder" now in the small bottle.
Assistant Director Vikas nodded in approval: "Cumin powder... this secret ingredient is sprinkled on the barbecue, which really makes the barbecue more delicious. You should all give it a try." Oriana has also taken a bite, and her eyes are filled with joy
. Guang: "It's true. The effect of cumin powder is really amazing. It not only makes the barbecue more fragrant, but also eliminates a lot of the greasiness of the barbecue itself when you eat it!" Under the praise of the two people,
everyone Tried them all.
and receive consistent recognition.
Even Kiriya, who is not very interested in barbecue and just wants to blend into the atmosphere of the campfire party, nodded: "The effect of cumin powder is more mellow than most of the spices I have tasted before, especially when combined with The barbecue is just right."
"What are you talking about, what kind of cumin powder can make the barbecue more fragrant?" Instructor Penrose joined the campfire party.
Oriana handed a piece of barbecue she had baked to Penrose: "Teacher, please try it. The cumin powder provided by Duke has raised the quality of the barbecue at this campfire party to a whole new level." After the instructor tasted it
, Agreed: "It's really good."
"Duke, how did you prepare the cumin powder? I can only taste four spices, fennel, small cloud beans, firewood and chicken bone flowers." Balza poured a little cumin powder into the palm of his hand. Then distinguish carefully.
Duke smiled and said: "This is supposed to be kept secret. I was still thinking of opening a chain of barbecue restaurants relying on cumin powder. But since you like it, I will share the recipe of cumin powder... Mangan grass, beef tongue tip The fruit... is mixed according to a certain proportion, and it becomes cumin powder."
"So complicated?" Oriana was stunned.
"I had no choice. I originally wanted to find a separate spice to relieve the smell of barbecue, but I couldn't find a suitable spice, so I could only try to mix the spices. Finally, after tens of thousands of attempts, I came up with the recipe. I got the ideal cumin powder."
"If you open a barbecue restaurant, I must apply for a membership card." Assistant Vikas said.
Tutor Leadman, who had not spoken much and was just eating barbecue in silence, gave a rare nod of approval: "I agree." Tutor
Penrose teased: "You have mastered a new skill, so I won't worry about you. After graduation, I will starve myself to death."
Kiriya also praised in a low voice: "I really can't tell, you know life well, you have tried so many times for a spice that can match barbecue. How many times does an average person try? After that, I should have given up, there is absolutely no way to mix cumin powder."
People who don't love life to the extreme cannot do this kind of thing.
Duke chuckled softly and responded: "It's not that I haven't thought about giving up, I just firmly believe that spirituality will guide me to find the flavor I want, and this flavor will definitely exist." "Yes, spirituality deeply cares about you
. You." Kiriya agreed with this point.
He was promoted to an arcane mage at the age of sixteen. At the age of seventeen, he had already learned how to make cards. He was also able to invent magical weapons such as portable lamps. Now he even mixes cumin powder for barbecue.
In Duke, Kiriya deeply felt what spiritual blessing was.
She quietly approached Duke's ear and whispered: "I originally thought your personality was very similar to that of Assistant Leadman." "When Assistant Leadman
heard this, he should be very sad. It sounds like It's like saying that he is a person who doesn't understand life." "
I didn't say that, don't accuse me wrongly." "
Don't explain, no one knows reading comprehension better than me."
"I won't admit it anyway. ."
The two of them sat next to each other, laughing and teasing each other. Compared to the previous unfamiliarity between colleagues, they now felt more close to each other than friends.
Oriana had been staring at the two of them for a while. When they stopped talking, she smiled and joked: "You two have been talking to each other for a while, and you didn't even bother to eat the barbecue. Are you talking about it?" We said bad things?"
Duke waved his hand: "But no."
"Yeah, no, no." Kilia responded with a smile.
"Then what are you talking about? You said it so quietly, obviously you don't want us to hear it." Oriana joked.
Duke smiled calmly: "The specific content is not convenient to disclose."
Vikas sighed with emotion: "I am old and there is a generation gap with the young people. Seeing Duke and Kiliya so energetic, I really feel that I Already old."
Instructor Penrose snorted: "You are old, so who am I?"
Vikas suddenly smiled.
He is sixty or seventy years old, but compared to the common life span of 150 years for a second-level arcane mage, he has not even reached half of it.
It's too early to say old.
A bonfire party, with the help of cumin powder, made everyone happy.
Duke went to take a bath on the black beetle, returned to his tent, sat down to practice, merged with the chicken, and performed the breathing method.
Once again, the 2-ring spiritual plant in Kylia's large shuttle was the focus of attention, and he observed the world in another way.
Crash.
You can see and hear Kiriya's hazy figure taking a bath, as well as the faint sound of water. This scene made his blood boil a little. The temptation was too strong, especially the hazier it was, the more suitable it was for brainstorming, which made it more exciting.
certainly.
Duke is a decent man, and the "Rainfall Breathing Technique" is definitely not for peeping, and you can't see the real appearance, it is just a special sensory experience.
He wanted to practice the "eye of nature".
With the blessing of the elf form, he called the ability to use the 2-ring spiritual plant as an "eye" to perceive surrounding details in this state of breath resonance as the eye of nature.
It means eyes formed by the force of nature.
"When my natural eye reaches its peak, I will be able to focus it on ordinary plants, which means I can easily see everything from hundreds of meters or even kilometers away." There is no doubt that the natural eye is powerful
. investigative methods.
It’s worth Duke’s hard work every day.
"I'm definitely not going for Kylia, it's just because there is a 2-ring spiritual plant on top of her large shuttle." "
That's it."
The integration lasted an hour and a half, and the exhausted chick condensed into a body. Once again, he gave Duke an "old-fashioned" look, and then returned to the sea of qi to rest.
Duke's face was indifferent and he shook his head: "How can Xiaoji understand my good intentions with such evil writing?"
He touched Xiao Dou, who was slowly waking up, and said, "It's still Xiao Dou who understands me."
"Chiji!" Kabuto nodded repeatedly, as if he really understood Duke.
"Then you should grow up quickly. The sooner you advance to the first-level spirit beast, the sooner I can break through the first-level knight and strengthen your fighting spirit."
Duke must admit that fighting spirit has the value of fighting spirit.
Especially when investigating some strange things, the defensive effect of the fighting spirit armor is first-rate, and it can provide absolute defense against explosions, pus, and blood splashes.
He is a hygienic person, and with the Dou Qi Armor, no matter how dirty the forest is, nothing can contaminate him.
The next day, during the investigation, he encountered something "dirty".
"What is this?"
In the pile of dead leaves in front of him, a plant about two meters tall and as thick as an adult's thigh grew. It also had an aura similar to that of fanged lichen and mutated konjac flowers, which were all evil. What grows after infection.
It's not an evil creature, at most it's an evil plant.
The fighting spirit armor wrapped his arm. He held the dagger and touched the straight evil plant, preparing to cut some samples.
The color of the plant is white with green in it.
Green is the color of its body, and white is the dense white hair that grows on its surface, as if dyed with a layer of snow.
When the wind blows, the white hair trembles like hair.
"The Snow Blowing Pillar, this thing is tentatively named the Snow Blowing Pillar." Duke said as he cut a knife on the Snow Blowing Pillar with his dagger.
The next moment.
There seemed to be countless red fingers growing out of the snow blowing pillar, and there were countless red little bugs, and then these little bugs sprayed thick juice at Duke.
Snap!
Under Xiaoyi's control, the fighting spirit armor quickly enveloped Duke's body, blocking all the juice.
"Sir, be careful!" Vivian and other senior knights quickly approached, preparing to chop off Fubuki's sword.
Duke raised his hand to stop him: "Stop, stop chopping and killing. Let me study Fuxuezhu, a disgusting evil plant." Although at this time,
red worm-like tentacles appeared all over Fuxuezhu, And it squirts juice, which is disgusting.
But Duke has been used to it since he has been investigating evil infections in the forest for the past few days.
This level of disgust was not in his eyes.
When Fuxuezhu's red insect tentacles stopped spraying juice, he continued to cut Fuxuezhu with his dagger.
Dig out a small insect tentacle.
The tentacles were really like little bugs, moving around in Duke's hands and trying to get into Duke's hands, but they were blocked by the fighting spirit armor.
"The vitality is very strong. Like the fang lichen, it has already activated the plant parts." Duke squeezed the little insect's tentacles and exploded them.
Then he poured spiritual energy into the dead insect's tentacles to explore.
He found that the spiritual power in the tentacles of this little insect was mixed, like a big spiritual dye vat: "Well, it's very interesting! This is a spiritual pool. You can find whatever kind of spiritual power you want in it."
Du Ke is overjoyed.
Slightly more complex spirit cards require a large amount of spiritual power with different attributes to draw energy lines.
These different attributes of spiritual power need to be extracted from different spiritual materials.
However, this small insect with tentacles blowing the snow pillar contains complex spiritual power, which is equivalent to opening a big gift package of spiritual power.
He immediately cut off some white hair and body from Fuxuezhu.
After careful perception, I found that there was no mixed spiritual power on these two things.
When he dug up a small tentacle insect again, he discovered after some exploration that only the tentacle structure of Fuxue Zhu contained complex spiritual power.
"Good stuff!" Duke collected some samples and put them into a glass test tube.
Then he said to Zina who was following behind: "This kind of snow-blowing pillar is definitely an important spiritual material resource. The next task of your mercenary group is to search for it with all your strength... It would be better if you can find a way to plant it. "
Yes, sir." Xina responded.
Duke looked up at the sky and combined the map information recorded by Xiaoyi to determine his current position.
After several days of research, we have crossed the mountains and entered the Cuihai Valley.
"This place is not far from the No. 3 well area. There are obviously more animals and plants infected by evil spirits, and their potential value is getting higher and higher... However, once these valuable evil plants and special evil creatures are wiped out, …”
The evil leakage in Well No. 3 will be solved sooner or later.
Once the support of evil energy is lost, things such as blowing snow pillars, tiger insects, and fanged lichens will probably die.
"I can't bear to leave!"
Duke sighed in his heart.
The day before yesterday, he was still worried about the existence of ancient evil things, which would resurrect in this land through shedding their shells, causing terrible effects.
Now I have begun to worry that if the evil spirit is not enough, the resources discovered will be short-lived.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but laugh at himself, and said in his heart: "Sure enough, Master Penrose is right, it is unfounded! Only humans have conquered forests, and forests have never swallowed humans. Spiritual beasts are no match for humans. In ancient times, Not even evil!"
After a full day of research and returning to the camp, Duke sent the collected samples to the Black Beetle vehicle and found Mentor Penrose.
He expressed his thoughts on the short-lived evil plants: "The snow-blowing pillar I discovered today is of great value. At least in terms of the value of the spiritual material for card making, it can greatly reduce the cost of card making... It is a pity that there is no evil energy support. , it is difficult to cultivate again."
"Evil energy is just an inducer." Instructor Penrose had a different idea, "The evil energy infected the snow blowing pillar, instead of letting it degenerate into a slime mold like Fangtooth Lichen, which means that the blowing snow pillar has been found. A new method of evolution."
"What do you mean?"
"Perhaps Fuxuezhu will degenerate after being freed from the evil influence, but its evolutionary prospects have already been opened up by resisting the evil influence." Penrose squinted his eyes and said, "You Didn't you open a farm? Why not try to cultivate Fuxuezhu."
"I understand." Duke suddenly had some thoughts.
Ancient evil spirits can be seen as the opposite of spirituality. Spirituality promotes the flourishing and evolution of all things, while evil spirits corrode spirituality and degrade all things.
For example, the third-ring spirit beast - the human-footed owl, gradually degenerated into an owl with an ordinary physique after being infected.
The same principle applies to plants. Under the infection of evil spirits, they will gradually degenerate into slime molds such as fang lichen.
But there is a balance between life and death among all things.
Although evil spirits will cause plants to degrade, plants can also gain new opportunities for evolution by resisting degradation.
For example, Fuxue Zhu stores all its spirituality in the tentacles of small insects while fighting against evil contamination, thus gaining new vitality and becoming a more valuable new species.
When the evil spirit melts away and the confrontation no longer exists, perhaps its evolution will also decline accordingly.
But as long as this new evolutionary direction is opened, it can be cultivated artificially and its red insect tentacles retained.
Over time, blowing snow pillars can multiply endlessly.
There is even targeted cultivation to cultivate specially-made red tentacles with different spiritual powers, thereby developing more value.
"This is the direction of spiritual plant science, but as an arcane mage, I am not limited to a single field." Penrose continued, "I teach students and never limit their interests. Card making is difficult, but you can find this way. , but you can also show your talents in other fields."
"Thank you, mentor, for clarifying my doubts." Duke decided to try to cultivate Fuxuezhu at the Duke-James Farm after he went back.
If the cultivation is successful, you might even get the title of Spiritual Planting Scholar.
The art of card making, the study of natural history, and the field of spiritual planting. Although Duke has been promoted to arcane mage for a short time, his research fields have already covered three directions.
"Another point is that I went to a meeting on Keystone's battleship yesterday and listened to the exchange of information from other Arcane Mage research teams. This incident of evil leakage and infection has a profound impact on Cuihai Valley, but the benefits brought by the new changes are also huge. ”
said Penrose.
As the arcane mage leading the team, meetings are naturally inevitable.
He continued: "Based on everyone's opinions, we held an emergency five-tower meeting to prepare to preserve the area around Well No. 3 as a base for evil research while cleaning up the evil pollution... In addition, your sealing order, It will be lifted soon.”
"Keep the No. 3 well area?" This was really an unexpected surprise. "It's just a mentor. The shedding fragments of ancient evil things will eventually dissipate, right?" Penrose said meaningfully: "As long as we don't remove them artificially
, , the evil energy will be generated continuously and never stop."
Duke also wanted to ask what kind of ancient evil things existed.
Penrose shook his head and said no more. Maybe he didn't know what the ancient evil thing was. After all, he was not involved in the battle in the forbidden area, and he had never seen the shell of the ancient evil thing.
...
Two days later, as Penrose announced the completion of the investigation into the mysterious changes in Cuihai Valley, the Loop airship slowly took off.
Return to Shenjiao City.
There was no crisis, as if the Black Jade Horseshoe Dragon deliberately hid, and even the Black Jade Scorpion never showed up again.
Although spirit beasts are not civilized, high-level spirit beasts have a certain IQ. They know that they cannot eliminate the evil in Cuihai Valley with their own abilities, so they hide so that humans can eliminate this crisis and protect the habitat of Cuihai Valley.
The Loop soon arrived at Wizard Penrose's Tower.
Penrose promptly announced that everyone would have two days off.
Saying goodbye amidst the cheers, the arcane mages left the mage tower one after another and returned to their homes to have a good rest.
Duke did not relax. He immediately went to Duke James Farm with a batch of collected snow blowing column samples.
"Ask your spiritual plant envoys to wear anti-corrosion protective clothing and cooperate with me to plant these snow blowing pillars in the fields." Duke directly ordered James, "In addition, you go to the Union Tower and continue around the farm. Buy five hundred acres of land."
"Sir, what kind of spiritual plant is this blowing snow pillar?" "
It's a very evil spiritual plant. I don't know yet whether it can survive. Anyway, I'll cultivate it first and take a look."
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