Click......

Deep underground, at least 10,000 meters deep, the sound of rock and soil constantly squeezing and moving, a group of behemoths that have no light moving rapidly in it.

It was a long black strip of plant roots covered with branches, the thinnest roots were more than a meter thick, the thickest had even reached more than ten meters, and the length was even more than ten meters, at least Jiang Yan's ability could not detect the end of these roots for the time being.

Xiaobai's mimicry mode has lifted the original form of the 'Drilling Giant Snail Beast', and has switched to the 'Steel Slime' with outstanding defensive power, and the entire slime's body is like a huge fusiform iron block, which is firmly tied up by a circle of black roots three or four meters thick and dragged downward.

Now that it has fallen into the trap of the enemy, it is naturally unnecessary to maintain the form of the Ground-Drilling Giant Snail that focuses on stealth and stealth in the underground environment, and it is more beneficial to ensure its own survivability by transforming into 'Steel Slime'.

These black roots are very tightly bound, and the binding force is extremely strong, if only a person less than the second level is caught by them, that power will even crush the whole body of the bound person directly.

Fortunately, Xiaobai's strength is enough, and the defense of 'Steel Slime' is a few points stronger than that of real steel, and it is not a problem to withstand the current pressure of this strength.

Jiang Yan was still sitting in the driver's seat that had been transformed out of the Steel Slime's body, and at this moment he was silently releasing his ability to scan the black roots that were wrapped around the Steel Slime's body.

"It looks like it's a demonized plant, and the strength of its roots is comparable to the body of a second-level seventh-order phantom beast elf...... Well, there are magic particles circulating inside the roots, and the concentration is ......."

After scanning, Jiang Yan's eyes couldn't help but show surprise.

The concentration of magic energy particles circulating inside the black roots was very high, and the number was extremely abundant and active, Jiang Yan had seen only one with a similar energy level, and that was the primordial demonized mushroom monster in the center of the Nederlais, which was formed by countless demonic plants and shaped like a mountain.

Whether it was the body of the black root whiskers that were attacking him now, or the primordial demonic mushroom monster on the side of the Niddleles, not to mention the actual combat power of these two guys, but the energy reserves contained in their bodies could be called a massive level, reaching a terrifying level that Jiang Yan felt beyond his reach.

Fighting against this kind of enemy who crushes the opponent with brute force, if he is forced to fight head-on with the opponent, even Jiang Yan will feel an incomparably headache.

The size of this black tendril, detected with the ability, is enough to make ordinary people desperate, not to mention that according to the amplitude of energy detected in their bodies, the other party has more than just a size advantage.

As the black roots continued to drag downward, Jiang Yan could feel that he was getting closer and closer to the source of the invisible interfering force field. If it weren't for this, coupled with the fact that his side was ready to retreat at any time, and he still had the certainty of retreating with his whole body, Jiang Yan would never let the enemy catch him like this.

The speed at which the black roots dragged Xiaobai's steel mimic body was very fast, and he could dive a distance of hundreds of meters in the blink of an eye, which was much faster than Xiaobai's own diving.

Jiang Yan found that the rock and soil in this area should have been infected by some kind of force, and became a subjective activity similar to that of living organisms, just now when the black roots first attacked, these active rocks and soils suddenly and spontaneously acted to drag Xiao Bai, which allowed the black roots to grab them effortlessly.

At that moment, Jiang Yan clearly felt the breath of similar creatures from those rocks and soils, and the breath was somewhat similar to the black roots, but it was a pity that Jiang Yan did not perceive the soul consciousness fluctuations that could allow his own abilities to be parsed and linked, which was also very similar to the situation when he faced plants.

Jiang Yan guessed that since the rock and soil were located near the area where the black roots were rooted, they might have been infected by some kind of power of the black roots themselves, resulting in a certain degree of being given vitality and being manipulated by the black roots' body?

After analyzing this, Jiang Yan became interested in the ontology of this black root beard.

If he wants to obtain the exclusive authority of the realm master of this magical energy plane, the specific method he can think of is to use his own power to infect all living beings in this plane, including animals, plants, air, water sources, soil, and even the planet itself, and try to mark everything in the magical energy plane with his exclusive mark.

It is equivalent to refining the entire dimensional space.

Originally, Jiang Yan planned to use magic energy particles as a medium to carry out this huge refining process, but for the time being, how to implement the key points of the plan, there were only some drafts, and those drafts were still very time-consuming, and the efficiency was still a little too low in Jiang Yan's opinion.

Now, when he saw that these black roots seemed to have infected the surrounding rock and soil with their power, making it active and under its control, his mind came alive.

Jiang Yan found that most of the demonic plants surviving in this magic plane seemed to have the ability to absorb and refine magic energy particles, and while absorbing magic energy particles to nourish themselves, they basically also had the function of promoting the active operation of magic energy particles in the ecosystem. It is both a consumer and a producer of magic particles.

And the black root that is now attacking Jiang Yan is obviously a very powerful demonic plant.

This black root whisker contains extremely large magic energy particles in its body, and its ability to refine magic energy particles is definitely one of the top levels among all the magic plants on this entire planet!

If he could get the help of this powerful demonic plant, then Jiang Yan's huge project of refining the demonic particles of the entire demonic energy plane space would definitely be a big step forward!

It's just that having said that, it's very difficult to put it into practice. It is impossible for the other party to cooperate with Jiang Yan obediently, because in order to do that kind of thing, the other party must first surrender to Jiang Yan, and be willing to let Jiang Yan's power characteristics infect and transform themselves.

That is, it has become the "sub-machine" in Jiang Yan's ability system.

Only in this way can the magic energy particles refined by the demonic plants be indirectly marked with Jiang Yan's personal mark.

Not only the unknown powerful demonic plants now, even the weaker ones, as long as Jiang Yan can collect them into sub-machines, if they accumulate a sufficient number, the efficiency of refining is also very impressive.

But unfortunately, he can't collect "plants" as "children" now.

"So, is the question back to the difficulty at the beginning......" Jiang Yan scratched his face with some distress.

Jiang Yan believes that 'everything has a spirit', that is, whether it is animals or plants, or even just a mountain or a river, there is a "spirit", which can also be said to have some kind of "spirituality".

This statement is recognized by people in many cultivation systems, and it is not unreasonable. A typical example is that some people who are good at using weapons, even if they don't understand extraordinary powers, but after the top swordsmen/swordsmen have been nourishing the blades in their hands for many years, and repeatedly cultivating them with simple mental strength, the blades in their hands are likely to breed spirituality, as if awakening the machine spirit.

Jiang Yan's ability can link the "soul" of a creature, a function that was already available at the very beginning, and the power of this ability is growing simultaneously with Jiang Yan's strength, constantly 'updating and upgrading'.

So, in the beginning, the ability could be linked to the "soul" of a creature, but in the future, could it be linked to the "spirit" of a dead thing?

Even if it grows in the future, will it be okay if the target doesn't have a "spirit"?

Jiang Yan is looking forward to this. Even if his ability doesn't improve dramatically, it's actually been slowly evolving, and his data ability will be constantly developed by him to create new features, which is the best example.

In particular, when Jiang Yan has the obsession of deliberately developing the "data ability" in a certain functional direction, and keeps trying, the "data ability" itself seems to respond to his expectations and begin to transform and evolve.

Of course, this change is very slow, and it doesn't mean that Jiang Yan wants to evolve the "data ability", and the "data ability" will obediently and directly upgrade according to his mind, it is purely a dream.

The development and evolution of the function of this miraculous "data ability" must have a feasible direction and find the right opportunity to achieve it.

Every time Jiang Yan's cultivation was greatly improved, and the essence of life and the person in the underworld underwent a fundamental transformation, it was a rare opportunity. But this kind of opportunity is not something that he wants to have, Jiang Yan has only experienced it twice so far, that is, when he broke through from the first level to the second level, and from the second level to the third level.

Every time you break through at this time, your "Data Ability" will be upgraded at the same time.

Looking at it this way, I'm afraid the next promotion opportunity will not come until the third level breaks through to the fourth level.

But Jiang Yan couldn't wait that long, so he had to develop and improve the "Data Ability" on his own.

The crux of the matter now is that Jiang Yan's ability is currently unable to communicate with the "spirit" of plants.

As for whether there will be "spirits" in plants? Jiang Yan will not doubt this, although he has not yet been able to communicate with plants, but in fact, in recent months, after the true spirit has healed from his injuries and cultivated to the great advancement, Jiang Yan can already vaguely sense the 'emotions' of some plants, this kind of induction is not obvious in ordinary plants, and it is not effective from time to time, but it is clearly reflected in demonized plants with extremely high activity.

Even when Jiang Yan occasionally tried with his abilities, he had come into contact with the primitive will of some demonized plants that he had experimented with several times, and it was as if he had inadvertently encountered some kind of 'radio signal'. Unfortunately, although the two sides received the 'signals' from each other, neither could understand each other.

It seems that some kind of opportunity is missing.

Jiang Yan has long taken this problem to heart, and has also preliminarily formulated some methods to try to solve it.

After glancing at the black plant roots that bound the Steel Slime outside, there was no change for the time being, Jiang Yan contacted the mobile network: [Zhi Brain...... The people who issued an order to send to the Northern Continent before have not gained anything yet?]

Zhi's cold voice sounded in Jiang Yan's mind: "No, we have already made initial contact with most of the Great Wilderness Yuan Clan in the Northern Continent. Just this morning, he has also made contact with the target 'Wood Spirit Yuan Clan'. 』

[So, is the task completed?] Jiang Yan's eyes lit up when he heard this.

"Nope. The Mu Ling Yuan Clan's attitude was cold and xenophobic, and the negotiations were progressing slowly, and they did not seem to trust us and other envoys of the 'Dream Sect', and rejected our diplomatic request. 』

[Is it?] Jiang Yan frowned: [Doesn't the Wood Spirit Yuan Clan have any needs? For example, our unique "data program" transactions, they don't like it?]

"The patriarch of the Wood Spirit Yuan clan who met our envoy said that the 'Heart of Nature' is the treasure of their clan, and it is impossible to lend it to unknown people. 』

......Hearing this description, Jiang Yan squinted his eyes and sneered.

It seems that because the 'Dream Lord' has always been mainly limited to the Western Continent before, the tribes that have been cowering in the Northern Continent are not clear about the strength of his side.

There should also be the reasons of those tribes themselves, they have long inhabited the depths of the natural jungle that maintains the primitive style, living a self-sufficient life, and they have always been very repulsive to outsiders, not to mention, Jiang Yan asked for the treasure of their clan as soon as he went up.

If it were Jiang Yan instead, it would be impossible to easily agree in the face of this situation.

It's a pity that although Jiang Yan understands, he won't accept it.

Since peace negotiations are not possible, let's just go hard. If the rumored information of that Wood Spirit Yuan Clan was true, it would be very important for Jiang Yan at this stage, and he would not give up easily.

[No need to negotiate.] Jiang Yan canceled the initial plan and asked Zhi Brain: "Use a more direct method. Did you find a clue to your target?]

"Yes, when the negotiation just failed, we had already sent a large number of secret sentinels, and now we have found the entrance to the secret realm where the rumored core lineage of the Wood Spirit Yuan clan - the 'Druid' family lives in seclusion, but the secret realm seems to be in another small dimensional space different from the main material realm, and our people do not have the means to quietly break through the other party's plane barriers, so they cannot sneak in for the time being. 』

Zhi Brain introduced it, and then asked, "Although it can be forcibly broken through, I am afraid that there will be a lot of trouble, and it may cause hostility from the Wood Spirit Yuan Clan at that time. 』

[It doesn't matter. Jiang Yan sneered.

If it was against a top overlord-level force like the Dragon Domain or Heaven, because the other party had a fourth-level realm powerhouse, Jiang Yan would inevitably have to weigh it first, even if he wanted to do something.

However, the Wood Spirit Yuan Clan does not even have the strength to snatch a large plane outside the void, and can only occupy a pitifully small secret realm space inside the main world as the core base camp, and the pillar powerhouses in the clan are probably at most the strength of the third level and seventh order to the third level and ninth order.

In the face of this kind of enemy, today's Jiang Yan is completely true.

Of course, having said that, but the tribes of the Great Wilderness of the Northern Continent also knew that if their families fought on their own, they would be too vulnerable in the face of the oppression of other top forces in this world, so many times they would huddle together to keep warm.

Although Jiang Yan wanted to make a move on the Wood Spirit Yuan Clan, he had to think about it carefully, and it was best to be able to complete the goal without alarming the other clans in the Northern Continent.

Especially before the matter is completed, this matter has to pay attention to secrecy, at present, Jiang Yan has no strong people who can do this kind of task, although Zos and they are absolutely secretive enough, but most of their strength is below the third and fourth order, which is a little insufficient, so I am afraid that Jiang Yan will have to take action in person at that time.

[Let Zos and them stop acting rashly for now, and wait for me to go back.] 】

"Yes. 』

After Jiang Yan and Zhi Nao finished exchanging these few words, the situation in the outside world finally changed, and Jiang Yan immediately interrupted the call and turned his attention back to the outside world.

The ability perception spread outward through the shell of the Steel Slime, and Jiang Yan found that they had fallen into a shaft-shaped pit that was getting wider and wider vertically downward, and was being pulled down by the black tendrils, and the giant black tendrils tied to the Steel Slime extended from the bottom of the deep well.

Xiao Bai's steel shell on the surface of his body was deformed, and a metal eye with a structure similar to a periscope stretched out from between the cracks bound by the roots, and looked around the dark illusion of the deep well and looked at the bottom of the deep well.

There seemed to be light coming out there, getting closer and closer.

The picture that Xiao Bai saw was also directly transmitted to Jiang Yan's mind synchronously through the ability link.

"Looks like we're finally here. Feeling the force field signal source just below, a smile appeared on the corner of Jiang Yan's mouth.

It didn't take long for the light source below to quickly move from far to near, and soon hit the Steel Slime, Xiaobai's vision suddenly widened, and after a long period of darkness, it suddenly fell into the light zone, which inevitably made its vision a little uncomfortable.

After adjusting to the change of light, they were greeted by a giant tendril, suspended in the air for thousands of meters, and the surprisingly wide earth below.

It was an extremely large and majestic underground cavern estimated to be about 10 kilometers wide and more than 3,000 meters high, with a structure roughly hemispherical in shape.

Instead of a natural pillar to support the structure, the hemispherical cavern is a giant tree with dark red bark, dark leaves, and a trunk at least a kilometer thick.

Turning his gaze down the main trunk of the giant tree, even in the hollow underground, there were countless dense buildings that were neatly planned like square blocks, and the material seemed to be made of steel and concrete, and these buildings were arranged in a circle, with a large circle in the middle. In the circle was the giant tree, which rose from the earth like a pillar of heaven, and its dense canopy stretched out of the space of thousands of meters like a cloud like a sponge, and directly into the ceiling of the large hollow.

In addition to countless branches and leaves, the canopy of the giant tree also has a large number of roots extending out, covering almost the entire surface of the hemispherical dome of the large hollow above, and in many places even breaking into the depths of the soil layer above, as if to support and stabilize the large underground hollow structure of the scale of the city.

Jiang Yan looked at the giant tree that could be called 'standing up to the sky' in the true sense of the word, and gasped.

", this body type is a foul, right!?" I want to talk about "The Almighty Supreme of All Worlds" with more like-minded people, and pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~