Chapter 319, Heart of the Earth
Most of the stones around him are older than him, most have lived for more than 100,000 years, and some have lived for tens of thousands of years.
And Zhou Mingyue's stone was only born less than 3,000 years ago.
However, the reproduction ability of the Stone Clan is very poor.
When the old stone has lived for 200,000 years, it will gradually die due to the aging of the soul.
When they die, the corpses will disintegrate and move towards the center occupied by the Stone Clan.
There, these stone powders gather together to form stone spores.
When these stone spores grow to a certain extent, they shoot out the stones that have been nurtured inside.
If a stone block is lucky enough to fly to the outside world and is not crushed, it will give birth to a spirit and become a new member of the Stone Clan.
Ill-lucked rocks are likely to shatter after flying a certain distance and smashing into the bodies of their predecessors.
And the fragments of these nascent stones will become food for the stone people, let them swallow them, and grow quickly.
Just looking at it this way, this stone clan is extremely comfortable in terms of survival logic and environment.
The only thing that makes people a little uncomfortable is that these stones eat their own kind.
Of course, if you start from a human point of view, those are just stones and sand after all, Zhou Mingyue feels okay, not too disgusting.
Because of the innate laziness of this stone clan, or the Buddhist lineage, Zhou Mingyue can not worry about revealing his identity to explore the secrets of this world, at least within the scope of the stone clan, there is no need to worry.
But the only thing that made Zhou Mingyue feel a little troublesome was: first, they used their own levitation talent to move, so the speed of the stones moving was relatively slow, and it took him three years to move from the peripheral area where Zhou Mingyue was to the center.
Second, when approaching a certain range of the central area, the number of stone spores that emanate from the central area begins to increase rapidly.
If he was not careful, Zhou Mingyue might be hit by those stone spores.
For a stone that has grown less than three thousand years, such an impact is dangerous.
After being hit twice, the stone that Zhou Mingyue descended on was half mutilated.
If this trend continues, two more times at most, and he will almost disintegrate on his own, becoming the stone powder used to reproduce the stone spores in the central area.
Zhou Mingyue also had to stop, and then his gaze fell on the stone next to him.
A pitch-black hole appeared out of thin air, swallowing the stone in an instant.
The current Zhou Mingyue is no longer the original Zhou Mingyue, and the split soul body is naturally not as weak as it was at the beginning.
It's not too easy to use the war furnace projection in this dark world.
As he had guessed, the stones were indeed a little too Buddha-like.
Even if one of their kind was devoured, they did not make the slightest move, completely ignoring the process.
But then again, the energy contained in these stones was so great that after only consuming more than a dozen stones, the projection of the Crucible of War overflowed.
Subsequently, Zhou Mingyue added a booster to himself, a shell.
Both of these are part of the biological starship, but they have no brains and are controlled by Zhou Mingyue.
After all, he didn't want to make a big mess for the time being.
With the booster, Zhou Mingyue's speed of progress doubled, and with the shell, those flying stone spores, if they wanted to smash him, the difficulty rose by more than one step.
With a simple modification, Zhou Mingyue easily entered the central area.
Here he saw the stone dust that filled the air and the stone spores in it.
Of course, at this point, the frequency of his hits skyrocketed.
Although he was already difficult to shatter with the shell, the stone spores that kept hitting him made his forward speed greatly reduced.
When he went to the innermost point with great difficulty, he saw a beating heart.
The heart is earthy yellow, about seven meters in diameter, and each beat of the heart releases a faint yellow aura.
And this yellow breath is closely related to the living environment of the stone clan.
It is impossible to sustain the entire family of stones by relying solely on the stone dust formed by those dead stones.
This point has long made Zhou Mingyue puzzled.
Even plants need sunlight in addition to water and soil.
And the yellow breath released by this yellow heart is the sunlight that the stone clan needs.
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Phantasm Name: Heart of Earth
Sequence Level: Element Sequence 3
Origin: Elemental Sequence 1 - Elemental Heart disintegrated by itself in an unknown accident, and some of its fragments are known as Elemental Sequence 3 - Heart of Earth. Warning: Due to the fact that the Heart of Earth has the corresponding rule permissions, the remaining elemental powers will be rejected and cannot take effect within a certain range around it.
Ability: Earth elemental power
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As Zhou Mingyue's gaze grew, the introduction of the heart of the earth began to appear in his mind.
It was so easy to find a Sequence 3 treasure, which really surprised Zhou Mingyue.
Of course, to be able to support the survival of an elemental race, the sequence level of this treasure is naturally not too low.
I just don't know if this heart of the earth gave birth to its own consciousness.
This is important.
You must know that after the sequence level rises to 4, with the passage of time, the treasures above this level are likely to produce some consciousness.
Like that, the goddess of harvest should actually be the consciousness formed by the high-level treasures of the harvest series.
And once this kind of Noble Vortex consciousness is born, it is naturally able to easily drive the abilities that Noble Vortex has.
And a treasure like the Heart of Earth, if a consciousness is born, its combat power is probably no less powerful than some ordinary Sequence 2 treasures.
What's more, Zhou Mingyue split his soul body and descended into this world.
Although the Crucible of War is already a supreme treasure in Sequence 0, the power of the Noble Phantasm that Zhou Mingyue can now bring into this world can only reach Sequence 3.
Besides, his current body is all stones, and he naturally has a disadvantage in front of the heart of the earth.
If the two sides fight, it is difficult to say how much advantage Zhou Mingyue can take.
Of course, if Zhou Mingyue is given time to use the clods of earth to create a group of troops, then the heart of the earth may only be able to admit defeat in the end.
But that takes time, and the Forge of War in Sequence 3 is naturally not as fast as Sequence 0 in terms of making armies.
Zhou Mingyue was a little hesitant, after all, this heart of the earth didn't seem to have consciousness.
But if its consciousness is very cunning and hidden, it is normal that it can't be seen by itself.