Chapter 52: The Fourth Soul Bone
The thorn tree is different from other trees in that it has several main trunks, dense secondary trunks, and more branches with three-inch long tribulus terrestris.
Under the breeze, the thorn tree did not move like sand, it should have sensed Xiao Chen's threat.
What it does best, of course, is to wait for the rabbit. As a clump of trees, it does not have the ability to move, so it relies on its prey to crash into it on its own, and then launches a surprise attack with lightning speed, killing its opponent before it can react.
Although the thorn tree cannot eat meat like a wild beast, it can spread the dead beast** evenly on the roots, and after a period of time, these rotten pieces of meat can be converted into nutritious soil for it to absorb.
Humans divide beasts into six classes, but they have never divided aggressive plants.
Because in people's consciousness, plants are rooted in the earth, and even if they have attack power, if you don't provoke them, they will naturally not be dangerous, unlike beasts, which will launch active attacks for no reason.
But in Xiao Chen's view, the more inconspicuous things are, the more dangerous they are.
He is still quite good at dealing with plants, such as using the method of Jin Kemu to force the Ten Thousand Year Dryad to sacrifice golden leaves, and for example, a fire burns a piece of soul grass out of a path.
To deal with such a guy, you have to use fire.
He took out his fire sickle, and soon made a fire not far away, adding arm-thick dry wood to it, and in a moment it would be useful.
The fire grew stronger and stronger, and the still-standing thorn tree made the sound of thistles vibrating, perhaps realizing that danger was coming.
The little marquis picked up a piece of dry firewood, looked at the flames that kept jumping at the ding-end, and said with a smile: "The dim sum is here, look at the trick!"
With that, he threw it at the thorn tree.
Torch-shaped dry wood tumbled in the air and smashed over, and all the branches of the thorn tree subconsciously dodged to the sides, instead of trying to deal with stones, and directly pumped them with branches.
Call......
In the process of falling, the torches ignited the tribulus terrestris on the branches, these steel needle-like thistles do not have the same moisture as the branches, they are dry, and the most feared thing is fire.
The branches began to twist until the torches hit the ground and began to scorch the trunk.
Whoosh...... Puff puff......
A few branches bravely pulled over, and the thistles on them were quickly ignited, but they managed to extinguish the torches.
"Yes, then come again!" Xiao Chen picked up the second dry firewood and threw it over, then the third, then the fourth......
A dozen of them were thrown by him, and the thorn tree was panicked, although it was desperately whipping, but there were too many flames, and the branches were ignited one after another, and the thistle terrestris burned more and more.
"Yo drink, you can still hold on, I want to see how long you can last!" He raised his foot and kicked all the remaining dry firewood over, and the thorn tree was almost completely ignited.
The side trunks and branches fluctuate greatly, but I don't know that this practice can make the fire burn more vigorously.
In this process, Xiao Chen discovered a very strange thing, the trunk of the thorn tree has not moved at all, and it has not been affected by the flames, and the flames have not burned through their skins at all.
On closer inspection, he found that the outside of the main trunks was surrounded by a faint white mist, and there were still small droplets of water hanging on the cracked bark, no wonder the fire could not burn.
The problem must be on these trunks, he frowned, and said, "Two little ones, it's time for you to appear, can you cut them off?"
The two leaf martial spirits appeared out of thin air, and without making any stops, they rushed towards the thorn tree.
The branches of the thorn tree were fighting against the flames, and they had no time to pay attention to the two flying leaves, the sharp edges of which slashed at one of the main trunks, one left and one right, and cut it off in three or two blows.
Then came the next one, which also went smoothly.
It wasn't until the third one was cut off that the thorn tree reacted, but it was too late, and the branches that came from the whipping were directly cut off by the leaf martial spirit, and after they landed, they were ignited by the flames, and the fire burned even more vigorously.
Click...... Whew......
The six main trunks were all cut off, the secondary trunks and branches fell to the ground one after another, and the thorn tree at this moment no longer had any attack ability, so the little marquis walked over with confidence, picked up the main trunk, and threw it to a place where there was no flame.
The weight of the trunk is significantly greater than that of a branch of the same thickness, and it must have been grown for many years to reach its current thickness.
It's just that he doesn't know what a few sticks can be used for, whether they are used as a gun or a rolling pin?
While he was puzzled, two leaves flew back, and at the same time they enveloped a stick with green light, and a strange scene occurred: the root of the stick was facing upwards, about a foot and a half long, and a strange symbol jumped.
What, is this a soul bone, how is it possible!
For a long time, Xiao Chen thought that soul bones were obtained from beasts, and bones had no connection with plants.
He was stunned, those beating symbols were not strangers, and the real cut was the soul bones.
Ignoring their master's surprise, the Leaf Martial Spirits flew down on their own, cutting off the useless parts with sharp edges, and scraping off the bark very carefully, revealing the inner part.
Without the cover of the bark, it was a faintly jade-colored wooden stick, which looked like a bone.
He took a deep breath and walked over and bent down to pick it up, the familiarity of the soul bone coming over him.
I am sure that it is a soul bone, but if it is so long, which bone does it correspond to? Arm bone or leg bone, it seems that there are no bones that are so long except for a few limb bones.
Or maybe it's the ribs, which are a bit unreliable, long enough but definitely not that thick.
Directly refining, you will know the answer.
The little marquis sat down cross-legged a little impatiently, placed the soul bone between his palms, and revealed a trace of soul power into it.
With the entry of soul power, the beating symbols became more active, and under the attraction of soul power, they quickly entered Xiao Chen's right hand meridian and went up on their own.
After passing over the wrist, their speed decreases significantly, and some even stop in place.
Is it the arm bone?
Sure enough, more symbols converged on the lower right arm, and then began to merge with the arm bone.
Previously obtained the wrist bone, the strength of the right hand has increased significantly, and now it is the arm bone, and after the soul bone is fused, the strength of this arm will definitely become greater.
After a cup of tea, the soul bone disappeared completely, and his right arm flashed brightly, and then returned to its original appearance.
Xiao Chen opened his eyes, he felt that his right arm was full of strength at this time, and it was definitely not a problem to kill a cow with one punch.
Inadvertently, he looked down and was immediately happy.
It turned out that the two leaf martial souls took advantage of the time when he was refining the soul bones to get the remaining few thorn tree trunks, and obtained a total of five soul bones of the same thickness.
Haha, you can give one to grandpa when you go back, and as for who to give the rest, we'll talk about it then!