Chapter 265: The Road Home
Duke let another little beast in with an eye of mind, and this time he saw clearly what kind of spiritual beast was hidden in the deepest part of the cave.
It's not a snake, it's a small beast that looks like a hedgehog but has a long body.
"The first-level spirit beast of an unknown species, well, it feels like its strength is average, and the fluctuations in its spiritual power are not very strong." Duke used the observation of the little mind-eyed beast to get a general understanding of the situation of this long hedgehog, "It is suitable to be brought here Give Kabuto some training."
He controlled the mind-eyed beast and came back with a flying snake fruit in his mouth.
Once the Flying Snake Fruit is in hand, the arcane hand will appear and then turn into thousands of strands, piercing into the Flying Snake Fruit and feeling it carefully.
soon.
A look of surprise appeared in Duke's eyes: "It's a very interesting energy, with a rhythm that echoes the sea of blood."
He lowered his head and glanced at Xiao Kabuto standing at his feet: "Maybe this time, Xiao Kabuto really has something. Opportunity to break through and evolve into a fantasy beast!"
"Jiji!" Xiao Dou held his head high, salivating at the flying snake fruit in Duke's hand.
It can also feel this magical fruit secretly, which plays a very important role for itself and should not be missed.
"You can't eat it now." Duke squinted his eyes, squatted down, and touched Xiao Dou's head, "Go and kill the long hedgehog in the cave. You can use the flying snake fruits in the entire cave as you wish. Enjoy it, go ahead."
"Chichi!"
With Duke's encouragement, Xiao Dou immediately jumped into the cave and ran straight into the cave.
Duke followed Xiao Kabuto while instantly using his mind-eye beast, and at the same time controlled the arcane weapon hand remotely and followed behind Xiao Kabuto.
The little beast with an eye of mind monitors the battlefield, and the hands of arcane weapons are ready to support you.
Dual-tasking was very easy for Duke. He even had time to take out a custom-made animal skin notebook and write and draw in it.
This is to publish a textbook, record some basic knowledge in it, and then let the Asiba tribe learn on their own.
It was fate that he came here, and he kidnapped the other party's great elf, so he had to leave some knowledge as compensation.
at the same time.
Kabuto in the cave has already launched an attack on the long hedgehog. The long hair on his body turned into spikes, making him look more like a hedgehog than the long hedgehog.
The arcane light flickered, and the two level 1 spirit beasts started fighting crazily without much probing.
Duke controlled the arcane hand, constantly stretching and expanding it to protect the flying snake fruit growing on the cave wall from being damaged.
"It's better to take it off first." He thought for a moment, and instantly summoned a small beast with an eye that transformed into a large-mouthed toad and jumped into the cave.
He opened his big mouth, extended and retracted his tongue, and then a flying snake fruit entered his stomach.
Before Xiao Kabuto and the long hedgehog could decide the winner, he had already picked all the flying snake fruits on the cave wall and sent them out.
"It is not accurate to say that the Flying Snake Fruit is not a fruit produced by a plant. To be precise, it should be a special energy crystal condensed on the cave wall." Duke glanced at the surrounding environment, "With the formation that I am not proficient in, It can be seen from the attainments that this is a natural formation."
Nature created this natural formation, condensed the surrounding spirituality, and stored it in the Flying Snake Rock.
"Then maybe the spirit beasts were fighting in the swamp, and the blood energy was absorbed by the natural formation, and merged with the spirituality in the cave of Fei Snake Rock, and finally formed this flying snake fruit with surging energy and blood power... let's just call it it Blood Spirit Crystal."
Blood Spirit Crystal is not the biggest gain. For Duke, this natural formation is the real gain of this trip.
Formation is a major area of spiritual arcana. This natural formation will undoubtedly expand Duke's understanding of spiritual arcana.
"Hmm."
Duke came back to his senses and found that in the cave, Kabuto and the long hedgehog had already decided the winner.
I saw Kabuto using the long hair on his body to turn the sharp thorns into the long hedgehog's throat, and the blood continued to spurt out.
"Hmph, hum..." The long hedgehog's breath gradually weakened.
But Kabuto panted heavily and screamed loudly to express his passionate mood - although it did not grow up in the wild, it was professionally trained, and its combat options were much more technical than ordinary spirit beasts. .
"Come back, Kabuto." The little heart-eyed beast opened its mouth and made Duke's voice.
"Chichi!" Xiao Dou let go of the long hedgehog, but with a flick of his tail, he directly used the long hair spikes on his tail to prick the long hedgehog and dragged it out of the cave.
After a while, the body of the long hedgehog was dragged to Duke's side.
Chirping like offering a treasure.
"Very good, after a killing, your energy and blood should have started to surge." Duke took out a few blood spirit crystals and fed them to Xiao Dou, "Eat it, take advantage of the surge of energy and blood, and take the blood spirit crystals , the surging energy and blood power in it may be able to help you!" "
Chichi!" Xiao Dou said unequivocally. He swallowed a blood spirit crystal in one gulp, chewed it, and found that it melted in his mouth, and he immediately transformed into a rice beast.
He ate the blood spirit crystals with big mouthfuls.
Seeing this, Duke silently prayed in his heart: "I hope that the spirit will really love me and guide Xiao Dou to evolve into a fantasy beast instead of a spiritual beast!"
Duke is not interested in the power of the fantasy beast.
He just hopes that Kabuto can have a better future. If he evolves into a spiritual beast, Kabuto will only be at level 2 for the rest of his life.
Only by evolving into a phantom beast can one hope to follow Duke and advance to a 3rd level advanced phantom beast, or even a 4th level dragon beast.
After a few minutes, Xiao Dou's belly became round.
Duke carried it to the top of the Flying Snake Rock and let Kabuto slowly digest the power of the Blood Spirit Crystal.
He silently continued to write and draw in his animal skin notebook. But most of the attention is still on Kabuto.
Through the knight contract, he can feel that Kabuto's body is now filled with the power of blood brought by the Blood Spirit Crystal. It is rushing through its body. Every impact can increase its body strength and bring about a slight evolution. signs.
Duke reached out and plucked away the hair on Xiao Kao's head, and found the mark of the knight's contract. The first and last ends of the second loop were almost integrated.
"Spiritual beast or fantasy beast, it all depends on this. Come on, Little Kabuto!"
"Chichi!"
Little Kabuto was shocked by the powerful force of Qi and blood, and felt uncomfortable all over, but feeling Duke's encouragement, it gritted its teeth persist in.
Soon the power of the Blood Spirit Crystal's energy and blood was revealed from Xiao Dou's body, causing Xiao Dou to bleed profusely all over his body. His fur was soon dyed from gray to red, like a red fire that was dripping with blood. fox.
"Jiji!" Xiao Dou yelled uncomfortably.
Oak Spirit, who had been watching silently, couldn't bear to say: "Duke, it seems that it can't suppress the power." The
power of qi and blood is still surging out. The power in Xiaodou's body is so great that not only qi and blood leak out of the body, Even the blood vessels were burst by the pressure.
This time it really started to bleed.
"No!" Duke threw away the animal skin notebook, "Xiao Yi, think of a solution quickly. Xiao Dou has been stimulated by the blood spirit crystal. If he is not careful, he is in danger of exploding to death. I must do it. Do something to help it suppress the power of qi and blood."
Xiao Yi quickly gave the calculation result: "Master, the only way you can help now is to run the blood refining method to ease the power of qi and blood in Xiao Dou's body." "Run!
"
The idea is issued.
Xiaoyi immediately started to hang up the blood refining method. As Duke's blood sea began to surge, the power of qi and blood in Xiao Dou's body seemed to have an outlet. With the rhythm of the blood sea, it rushed into Duke's body. Come.
"Well done!" Duke said fearlessly.
His body had gone through fellow practitioners Sanhai, and with the blessing of Sanhai's power, he had already reached a physique comparable to that of a spiritual beast.
Even the physical fitness of ordinary level 1 and level 2 spirit beasts may not be as good as Duke's.
The powerful force of Qi and blood rushed in, was accepted and guided by his body, and then merged into Dou Qi, surging towards his heart.
When it passes through the heart, it is swallowed up directly by the sea of blood in the void.
It is then fused and transformed into new fighting energy, which spurts back into the heart, continues to circulate and grow along the meridians, and bears the impact of this evolution together with Kabuto.
"Jiji!" Xiao Dou lay on the ground and looked at Duke gratefully.
Duke stretched out his hand and touched Xiao Kabuto's head happily: "Do your best to obey fate. No matter whether the attack is successful or not, you are my best knight partner." "
Chiji..."
Xiao Kabuto heard this and his eyes changed. There was a flash of excitement and determination.
Then he gritted his teeth suddenly, opened his mouth and roared loudly: "Chichi...roar!"
As if his vocal cords were torn, Kabuto, who could only chirp at first, suddenly turned into a tiger-like roar.
next moment.
The mark of the knight's contract on its head flashed red, mixed with the blood-red hair on its body, but it could not be ignored.
A small mark emits a big light.
The second ring suddenly closed together, forming a complete two-ring knight's contract imprint. With the completion of the contract mark, a brand new power rose from the boiling power of blood and quickly replaced it.
This surging force, like heating, evaporated all the blood-red light and blood from Kabuto's body.
The gray hair has returned to before, and the body size has not grown, still half a meter long.
It still looks so inconspicuous.
But Duke laughed happily, and Kabuto was promoted.
It was promoted from the 1st level to the 2nd level. Just from the appearance, it is not clear whether it is promoted to the 2nd level spiritual beast - the long-haired mongoose, or the 2nd level phantom beast - the hooded mongoose.
But the qualitative change of fighting spirit in Duke's own body clearly showed results. Kabuto was successfully promoted to a fantasy beast, which also caused a qualitative change in his fighting spirit. He was promoted from a 1st level knight to a 2nd level fantasy beast knight.
"Wonderful feeling!" Duke clenched his fists, and his fighting spirit changed rapidly, from gaseous to liquid in an instant.
The current fighting spirit is like blood flowing in the meridians.
"Roar!" Xiao Dou stood up with his head held high, proudly puffing up his chest, showing off his identity as a second-level fantasy beast.
"Congratulations, Duke." Oak Spirit danced and said cheerfully, "Congratulations to Kabuto too, for being promoted to a 2nd level fantasy beast." "
Ho ho!" Kabuto grinned.
Its appearance has not changed much, it is still a slender mongoose, but its voice is no longer as high-pitched as before and has become more powerful.
"It's really a moment worth celebrating." Duke calmed down his agitation in fighting spirit and sighed, "Since coming to Oak Forest, my practice in the three seas has successfully entered the next stage... Qihai has been promoted to the third level of the Great Elf Envoy, Linghai Promoted to Level 3 Arcane Mage, Blood Sea has also been promoted to Level 2 Fantasy Beast Knight."
Just as he was sighing, Xiaoyi sent an early warning: "Warning, a high-level spiritual beast has entered the reconnaissance range and is moving quickly towards Fei Snake Rock." "Uh-
huh . ." Duke raised his eyebrows.
First, he waved to the oak spirit: "You go back to the air sea first."
"Okay." The oak spirit flew into Duke's belly. The human air sea is always the best hiding place for elves.
Then Duke looked at Kabuto and raised the corners of his mouth slightly: "Kabuto, it's time to combine together!" "
Roar!" Kabuto instantly understood Duke's thoughts, and then pounced on Duke, with a new power It surged out from it and directly resonated with Duke's sea of blood.
Then.
It turned into a set of spiked armor, firmly fitting Duke's body.
"It's time to go." Seeing a flashing red dot approaching quickly on the Dou Qi holographic screen, Duke suddenly activated his new Dou Qi.
A line of pale white wings condensed on the back.
With a slight fanning, he flew straight into the sky, flew quickly towards the Axiba tribe, and left the high-level spiritual beast that he had not yet met at the Flying Snake Rock.
The arcane magic of the illusion covered his trajectory all the way, and he returned safely to the Asiba tribe.
When Duke returned to the treehouse, he was not in a hurry to dissolve the fusion with Kabuto. Instead, he released the 1st level arcane spell - Water Mirror Technique and admired the set of spiked armor on his body.
Gray-black.
It was similar in color to Kabuto's hair, and shone with a faint dark luster. It was definitely much less conspicuous than the fiery red or golden yellow.
However, the gray-black color, the densely packed spikes, and the flowing angle of fit all make this set of spiked armor show a strong sense of strength. It is low-key and restrained, and contains the aura of killing ready to move.
"Okay, cool!" Duke kept raising the corners of his mouth.
Following the 3-ring combination arcane-primordial armor, Duke added a thick layer of armor to continue to enhance the sense of security.
After encountering the fallen demon Miguel, his sense of security has been missing, but now he has been able to make up for it through successive promotions in cultivation.
"Retreat."
He communicated with Kabuto with his mind, and in the next second, the spiked armor flowed to the ground like water, and then condensed into Kabuto's figure.
"Ho ho." Little Dou wagged his tail nervously.
Duke pulled the rope in the tree house, and a bell rang outside, and then two oaken girls, who were as thin as bamboo poles, walked in.
"Lord God." The oak-man girl said with a stumbling Tawen, "Please give me your instructions." "
Go get some barbecue."
"As you wish, Lord God."
The oak-man girl quickly brought it. Duke himself wasn't hungry for the barbecue, but instead rewarded Kabuto with being promoted to a level 2 fantasy beast, which really drained Kabuto's energy.
So when he saw the barbecue, Kabuto started eating like crazy.
"Eat, eat, now you are a level 2 fantasy beast. When "Duke Feather" and "Duke's Leap" are popularized, the increase in fighting energy will continue to come. By then, little Kabuto, you will use the help of the increase in fighting energy. Work hard to advance to level 3 advanced fantasy beast."
"Roar." Xiao Kabuto raised his head and grunted, then continued to tear into strips of meat.
...
Half a month later, it was already the end of April.
Duke handed an animal skin notebook filled with writing to High Priest Abu Abu: "Here is what I recorded, the knowledge that the Asiba tribe can use, take it and learn it, and then Leave it to the tribesmen."
"Ah, Lord God, you are really too, too, too..." Abu Abu was so excited that he couldn't speak clearly.
"Without him, everyone just takes what he needs."
Not to mention that he abducted the oak spirit from the Asiba tribe, and also got the opportunity of Fei Snake Rock to help Xiao Du successfully evolve the fantasy beast. This is the relationship between the ancestor of the oak tree and the oak man. The continuation of power is also a discovery of great spiritual and arcane academic value.
It can be said that there are too many benefits from the Asiba tribe.
After sending Abu Abu away, Duke did not continue to stay in the climate-controlled tree house, but prepared to go out to find other tribes that might exist.
The oak people of the Asiba tribe first migrated from other places, and eventually became the oak people through the ancestors of the oak tree.
Duke believes that these oak people should be some kind of widespread indigenous people.
You might as well replace these natives with tree people. If you rely on the ancestor of the oak tree to gain strength, you can evolve into an oak man variety. If you rely on other tree kings to gain strength, you may evolve into other tree man varieties.
"Finding more samples may be of great significance for me to decipher the power of spiritual plants." He put on a newly cut arcane robe.
Living alone in a primitive tribe, Duke returned to the state of making enough food and clothing by himself.
This set of arcane magic robes was also designed and cut by him himself. The material is made of the bark fiber of a flax plant commonly found in the rainforest.
It is tough, breathable and very comfortable to wear.
"Gone."
Without saying goodbye or seeing off, Duke quietly left the Asiba tribe in a misty morning.
Head towards the chosen north direction.
Day after day, with Xiaoyi's on-hook breathing method as a warning, he moved forward in the jungle with ease. When tired, he would perch on a tree and dig out a tree hole to live in. When hungry, he would hunt some small animals or pick some wild fruits to satisfy his hunger.
Every four days, he enters the dreamland of stars and continues to light up the endless stars, looking for the direction of home.
I thought this journey would be bumpy and wandering for a long time.
However, on the twelfth day after he left the Asiba tribe, he inspired the star marks to enter the starry sky and quickly lit up the stars.
Suddenly discovered.
The tree king that he transformed into was a little different.
This is a cedar tree, at least three to four hundred meters high, but its upper part grows freely, and its needles greedily absorb the sun, rain and dew.
However, its lower part became the pillar of a palace, or this palace was built around the cedar trees.
"Human!" Duke almost shouted in surprise.
It took no effort to find it despite having worn iron shoes. I originally thought that I would have to light up countless stars before I could return to human society.
As a result, now, we have seen the tree king developed by humans.
"Don't be in a hurry, stay calm, let's take a look where we are here first." Duke couldn't completely observe the surrounding environment through the cedar tree, but he could get a rough sense of it.
It seemed to be on a snowfield, surrounded by palaces. There seemed to be many humans patrolling the palace, and there was also a place where many spiritual beasts seemed to be kept in captivity.
"Hmm." Duke thought, "The cities on the snowfield... are most likely to be the Grand Duchy of Broken Ice and the Ice and Snow Kingdom. It would be great if they were these two countries." The Ice and Snow Kingdom
and the Seven Towers Federation face each other across the sea. It covers a small inland sea.
The Grand Duchy of Broken Ice is adjacent to the Seven Towers Federation.
Both countries have friendly and close exchanges with the Seven Towers Federation, and they send teams to each other every year for exchange visits and study.
"But it may not be just these two countries. The environment of the Wilderness Continent is complicated. Even the Seven Towers Federation has many cities. They are located on plateaus and snow-capped mountains and are covered with snow all year round... But it is not like the Heavy Rain Empire or the Golden Empire. The country."
The Heavy Rain Empire is located in the southern rainforest, and the Golden Empire is located in the vast desert. Basically, there are no snowfield cities.
"No matter what, if I can return to human society, I will definitely go back!"
Duke took a deep breath and decisively chose the fir tree king as the place to descend.
He touched his belly and chest. The chicken and the oak spirit were resting in the sea of qi. As for Xiao Kabuto, after being promoted to the second level of fantasy beast, he successfully transformed into Duke's blood sea to practice - this is the illusion. One of the basic abilities of the beast.
"Let's go home!"
No matter which city it is in, as a third-level arcane mage, even if he cannot be treated as a VIP, he can still get some help to return to the Seven Towers Federation.
A spinning feeling came over him, and when he was waiting for the scene in his field of vision to calm down, he was already standing on a branch of the King of Trees.
And this branch is located two hundred meters high in mid-air.
"Should I leave invisibly now, or..." Duke was debating whether he should take the initiative to expose himself, but he was relieved the next moment.
Xiaoyi quickly established a breathing resonance with the king of the cedar tree, and then felt that the entire palace's guards were coming here. Obviously, Duke's appearance triggered some kind of early warning, which meant that he had already be found.
He jumped up, and when he was about to land, he cast the 1st level arcane spell - Wind Movement, and landed firmly in a circle surrounded by a group of knights wearing silver-white armor.
"I'm sorry to meet you under such circumstances." Duke did not panic, but smiled, "But it feels really good to see humans again." In fact, he was only two years away from
human society. It’s been months, but it always feels like it’s been a long time since I’ve seen a human being.
Oak people are not really human beings.
"You...what...Seven Tower Federation?" The commander of the knight team took a step forward and stared at Duke.
Duke's words were somewhat unclear, and he could only hear a few syllables.
"I am Duke, the learned sage of the Seven Towers Federation. Please take me to meet the master of your land." Duke bowed slightly and showed the courtesy of an arcane mage.
The knight commander turned around and gave a few instructions to several knights, then came over, holding the knight's sword, and urged Duke to follow him.
What he said seemed to be similar to Tawen, but he couldn't really hear clearly what he was saying.
Duke nodded indifferently and followed the knight commander outside the palace. Along the way, he looked at the palace curiously, but did not find the familiar Tawen Lingfa characters, but another type of horizontal and vertical symbolic characters.
"Well, it should be the Grand Duchy of Broken Ice." Duke knew clearly. He had seen this kind of writing in Offa Tower, called ice writing.
It is the official language of the Grand Duchy of Broken Ice.
Speaking of which, Bingwen was born out of Tawen. In order to separate from the Storm Empire, the Seven Towers Federation changed the language and established the Tawen and Spiritual script system.
The Grand Duchy of Broken Ice is too close to the Seven Towers Federation, and the country is very small. In order to prevent it from being assimilated by the Seven Towers Federation, it retained part of the pronunciation of the tower script, but replaced the spiritual words with ice symbols, forming the current ice script language system. .
"Xiao Yi, study the ice material and try to translate it for me." Duke ordered in his heart.
He had copied a lot of language materials in the Offa Tower before, and planned to use them to study when he had free time. It came in handy now.
"Learning... study completed." Xiaoyi had already learned the Bingwen language in just a few minutes.
So Duke blurted out: "I'm sorry to ask, are you here the Grand Duchy of Broken Ice?"
The knight commander turned his head, glanced at Duke in surprise, and then said viciously: "You actually know ice writing! Tell me, what are you? Man, do you have any ulterior motives for sneaking into the Snow Shirt Palace of our Grand Duchy of Broken Ice?" "Intrusion by
mistake, not infiltration." Duke corrected him, "I was experimenting with a brand new arcane technique and was accidentally teleported here. "
Duke chose to hide the stars' dream, which is his biggest trump card at the moment.
Encountering a sneak attack by the fallen demon Miguel, he realized that even the arcane instructors of the Seven Towers Federation were not worthy of trust.
Celsus's delay in showing up is the best proof.
"A brand new arcane spell?" The knight commander seemed to be thinking about something, "Who are you? Are you an arcane mage from the Seven Towers Federation?" "Let me
introduce myself again." Duke adjusted the collar of his arcane robe. "I am Duke, the learned sage and card-making sage of the Seven Towers Federation. I am also a third-level arcane scholar. I am conducting an experiment and accidentally entered your land." "Erudite sage? Card-making
sage " ?" The knight commander was shocked, "You are so young...well, the Arcane Mage's appearance does not show his age...no, no, no, no, no, no, no, what did you just say? You said you are...Duke, from the Seven Towers Federation. That Your Excellency Duke?"
Duke raised his eyebrows.
It turns out that his reputation has spread to neighboring countries.
Then he smiled and said: "Yes, that's right."
The knight commander quickly took back the knight's sword, and then solemnly performed knightly etiquette to Duke: "Chief of the Snow Shirt Palace Guard Knights of the Grand Duchy of Broken Ice, Chandler Crossbow , say hello to His Excellency Duke!"
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