Chapter 594: Exploration
Xiao Bai's doppelganger maintained an altitude of several thousand meters according to Jiang Yan's order, and began to fly at full speed after locking a direction at random.
Although the power assigned by this doppelganger is not the limit, it also has the strength of the second and first order, and the flight speed is naturally not slow, just one minute is enough to cross a distance of tens of thousands of meters, and even has exceeded the speed of sound, but with the help of the skills of the airflow control system, it easily avoided the resistance from the atmosphere, so as not to cause major movements such as sound barriers.
The entrance and exit of the spatial passage to the Nederlais on the side of this heterotopic plane seemed to be a primeval jungle area, and after Xiaobai maintained a high-altitude flight for about five minutes, the jungle vegetation on the ground below finally began to become much thinner.
During this period, Jiang Yan asked Xiaobai to try to land in the black jungle. Sure enough, those black plants were all highly active demonized plants with aggressiveness and action comparable to that of fierce beasts, and when Xiao Bai had just descended to a height of hundreds of meters, they seemed to have sensed Xiao Bai's uninvited guest by some means, and the entire jungle was like a rage, and countless branches and vines were poking into the sky with their teeth and claws in an attempt to attack Xiao Bai.
However, because he had been mentally prepared in advance, Xiaobai maintained enough height and was not entangled by these demonized plants.
It's just that then these demonized plants showed a slightly surprising behavior.
The low plants such as rattan grass blades in the lower layers of the jungle were quiet for a moment after testing that they couldn't reach their prey, but the tall demonic trees didn't give up.
These demonized trees grow very strong, each one has a height of at least more than twenty meters, and the three or five big men on the main trunk may not be able to hug it together, and after they wave the branches but find that they can't touch Xiaobai, the branches and leaves at the upper end of the canopy quickly change.
The leaves on the branches, which had seemed to float in the wind, suddenly stood up like animal frying hair, as straight as a blade, and there was a strange dark red glow flowing around the edges.
Then, as the Demonized Giant Tree shook its branches into the sky, pumping the air out and exploding, these hardened blades were like throwing knives, instantly breaking away from the link of the branches, and attacked towards Xiaobai in the sky with a sharp sound of breaking wind!
Just one branch of the Demonized Giant Tree flicked at random, and at least twenty or thirty blades shot out, and the branches of a Demonized Giant Tree were more than ten, and in the Demonized Forest below, there were forty or fifty Demonized Giant Trees aimed at Xiaobai to launch an offensive at this moment!
Tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of black blades that were really dense like a rain curtain shot out from the demonic forest at this moment, and the overly dense knife curtain almost covered the sky above this forest. Every blade here has a lethality that is not weaker than that of a real steel knife, and if you are not mistaken, the layer of dark red light revealed on the blade's edge is probably the result of being strengthened by magical energy!
At the moment when the demonized giant trees attacked, Xiao Bai had already reacted, but it was too late to dodge, the barrage composed of the knife blades jointly thrown by the demonized giant trees not only locked it, but also shrouded it together with the space of hundreds of meters around it, and the attack speed of the knife blade was extremely fast, almost as soon as the branch was volleyed down, the edge of the knife blade had already pierced the atmosphere and came to Xiao Bai's body.
As a last resort, Xiaobai could only burst out of his spiritual power to build a defense in an instant, and at the same time urged the mimic skill to change his form with all his might.
In the blink of an eye, its originally snow-white body turned into a metallic iron gray.
Mimic Steel Slime!
This is the mimicry skill that Xiaobai acquired after devouring a metallic spirit that likes to eat metal minerals. In this mimic mode, Xiaobai's body will have the hardness and weight of steel, and the physical strength and defense are very high, but the disadvantage is that the limbs will become inflexible because of the mimic of hard iron, resulting in a decrease in speed and evasion ability.
However, in terms of pure defense, this Steelslime form is undoubtedly a very good choice at the moment.
Jiang Yan has conducted special training for all aspects of Xiaobai's abilities, so Xiaobai's mimicry speed is very fast, basically as long as it is not too special in some forms, it only takes less than a second at most to convert.
This time it was the same, and the transformation was finally completed before the Demon Giant Tree's blade attack really came to life.
The next moment, the clanging sound of gold and iron colliding continued to sound, because the attacks of the blades were so dense that they even sounded like a long, piercing sound that was not broken.
After a full three seconds, by the time the storm of blades had cleared, the iron-gray slime in mid-air had disappeared in place, replaced by countless irregular pieces of metal that were the largest fists and the smallest ones about the size of fingernails.
The pieces of metal were suspended in mid-air, as if pulled by some kind of traction, and instead exploded, they gathered together after the Blade Storm was gone, snapping together like plasticine, and finally returning to their original Steelslime form.
Obviously, Xiaobai's immortality makes it still not die even if it is chopped into tens of thousands of parts, but it just needs to spend a little spiritual power to repair its shredded body.
Glancing at his already intact body, Xiao Bai looked down at the demonic forest below, and couldn't help but have a look of surprise in his eyes.
You must know that in the form of this steel slime, its physical defense is even stronger than that of real refined steel alloys, and this kind of defense has actually been brutally smashed by the blade storm of the demonized giant tree
It is conceivable that if you face the attack just now with normal flesh and blood, I am afraid that it will be difficult to find even a piece of flesh and bones.
Based on the strength of the attack just now, the strength of this kind of demonic giant tree is afraid that each of them has reached the level of the limit of the first level and the ninth order, and even a few may already have the strength to reach the second level, if they are one-on-one, they will naturally have no threat to Xiaobai, but they obviously will not fight alone, judging from the number of people who are spread over the entire forest, if the ordinary second-level master is entangled, I am afraid that he will not be able to hold on for ten seconds and will be besieged to death.
This kind of demonic giant tree of strength is several levels stronger than those activated plants in the devil oasis in the main material realm.
The strength of the activated plants in the Devil's Oasis has been tested experimentally by the brains after occupying that land. Among them, only a few activated plants with more vigor and relatively close to the center of the oasis can reach the strength of the first level and the seventh order, and the average level is about the first four or fifth order.
Compared to the demonic giant trees here, it's too far behind.
Perhaps, because they are located in this plane, they are more deeply demonized by the high concentration of magic particles in the environment.
Don't look at this average combat power is not very high, but the point is, there are too many of them!
There were forty or fifty demonized giant trees besieging Xiaobai just now, but this small number was less than one percent for the entire demonized forest! Not to mention, there were even more low-grade demonized plants!
After having a general understanding of these demonized plants, Xiaobai didn't entangle with them any more, and decisively rose into the air to a high-altitude self-injury that was difficult for them to reach, and then recognized the previously selected direction to continue exploring.
After preliminarily confirming the environmental information of this plane, Jiang Yan activated the ability of data transmission and turned into a data stream and appeared on Xiaobai's back.
After personally feeling the rich magic energy particles in the atmosphere, Jiang Yan frowned.
For normal creatures, after getting used to the normal spirit child environment, suddenly changing to this strange environment full of magic energy particles is like suddenly the penguins in the Antarctic ice field running to live in the tropical rainforest.
Jiang Yan, who didn't install the magic energy particle adaptability program on himself, also felt a little uncomfortable, because the soul cultivation was very high, there was no problem in the true spirit aspect, but the physical aspect was more uncomfortable.
Jiang Yan scanned himself through his abilities, and found that a small number of cells in his body were infected by magic energy particles, as if they had been beaten, and their own activity was also mobilized, and the cell activity intensified, and even the gene chain itself began to show some signs of instability.
Looking at this situation, if he stays for a longer time and is infected by more magic particles for a long time, it is very likely that some unknown mutations will occur in the cell genes of his own body.
Fortunately, Jiang Yan's control was very strong, and with his subtle self-control, he controlled the spiritual power to exclude a small amount of magic energy particles that had inadvertently invaded his body from his body in an instant, which relieved that discomfort.
After carefully mobilizing his ability to set up a miniature isolation shield between the layers of skin and membranes on his body, isolating all the magic energy particles in the outside world, Jiang Yan put his mind at ease and focused his attention on observing this strange world.
This dimensional space full of magic energy particles has a strong suppressive force for the interference of ordinary perception abilities, and many of Xiaobai's remote detection skills, such as spiritual wave induction, clairvoyance, etc., have been suppressed to the point that it is not adaptable.
Even with simple visual observation with the naked eye, even if the eyes of the eagle elves with the best eyesight are mimicked, they still can't see too far, at most they can only see things within a kilometer range. Farther away, it was as if it was covered with a layer of fog, and the visibility of the line of sight was drastically reduced, and even the shadows of trees tens of meters high were difficult to discern. And if it extends five thousand meters away, it is even more impossible to distinguish the boundary between heaven and earth, and can only see a dim and blurred color.
Fortunately, the data detection wave launched by the data ability is still powerful, and even in this case, it still has a clear and effective perception distance of nearly 10,000 meters. Probably because there was no interference power of space distortion to make trouble, the interference caused by simple magic energy particles did not have too serious an impact on Jiang Yan's ability perception.
Therefore, soon, at a certain moment when Xiaobai was flying rapidly in the sky, Jiang Yan suddenly said to it: "Stop, hide for the time being!"
"Mi!"
Even if he didn't notice anything wrong, Xiao Bai trusted Jiang Yan's order unconditionally, and it immediately stopped flying, and then the slime's body turned from a bird to a form like a translucent jellyfish.
Jiang Yan, who was on Xiaobai's back, was directly wrapped in his body by the umbrella cover of the jellyfish incarnated by Xiaobai, looking like he was wrapped in a huge transparent bubble. Then, the jellyfish's already translucent body, even Jiang Yan in its body, gradually faded together, and completely disappeared into the air in less than two seconds.
Mimic phantom jellyfish.
The Phantom Jellyfish is a kind of elf with the ability to fly in plankton, and likes to inhabit high altitudes in large lakes or seawater and humid climates, and its frontal combat power is not outstanding, but it has a very good invisibility ability, which can completely transparent itself and converge all its breath, and is almost completely integrated with the surrounding environment, even if it is an energy detection such as a spiritual power scan, it cannot detect it in an invisible state. At the same time, they can also use their bodies as invisibility cloaks to hide everything else as well.
The body fluids of the Phantom Hidden Jellyfish can be used to make neutralizing potions for many potions in the field of alchemy, and it is also the main raw material for a certain invisible potion, and its skin and flesh can even be peeled off to refine into alchemy props such as invisibility cloaks.
For people with professions like NS, it can almost be said to be full of treasures. It has been recorded that a NS with a strength of only rank 1 successfully captured a phantom jellyfish and subdued it into a contract elf, and then with the help of its stealth ability, this NS person actually succeeded in skipping the level of NS to three targets that would normally be able to pinch him to death with one finger at the 2nd level of the military rank!
It's just that the skin and flesh of the phantom jellyfish have a more regrettable characteristic, after its death, although its skin and flesh can play an invisible effect through alchemy, but the effect will inevitably decline with the passage of time.
Because of this, the elven race of Phantom Jellyfish was hunted by many forces many years ago, and now it can be called an endangered species in this world. They can only be occasionally encountered in some inaccessible deep-sea areas and in high mountain areas with an altitude of at least two or three thousand meters leading directly to the sea of clouds.
Because they are so stealthy and don't have too aggressive habits, they are likely to retreat silently when they encounter strangers, so even if you are lucky enough to encounter them in some places, you are likely to miss them without knowing anything.
The one that allowed Xiaobai to obtain mimic skills was also discovered and captured by the intelligence brains of the sub-network when they occasionally explored the overseas regions of the Western Continent with the detection waves released by the data ability. At that time, the wise brains also followed the vine and found a total of more than a dozen large and small phantom jellyfish in that sea area, except for one that was given to Xiaobai as a devouring material, the others were all solemnly kept in captivity.
In the future, when the number of their clan is abundant, perhaps the Invisibility Cloak will become an important specialty of the Dream Sect's exports. Of course, the Dream Sect is not afraid of such an enemy, because even if the stealth ability of the Phantom Jellyfish can evade most of the conventional detection methods, it still can't escape the perception detection that Jiang Yan and Zhi Brain are born based on data abilities.
Otherwise, it wouldn't have been caught by the brains who opened up the wasteland in that sea area.
After Xiaobai switched the mimic mode and completed invisibility, it didn't take long for it to know why Jiang Yan suddenly let it hide.
A group of black dense fog swept from the distant sky, rolling in to cover the sky and the sun, and when they got closer, accompanied by bursts of buzzing sounds that were so dense that they could make people feel uncomfortable, Jiang Yan and Xiaobai really saw the face of this black fog and what kind of black fog it was, it was clearly dense, countless black strange insects with an extremely hideous appearance, and a huge sea of insects that stretched for I don't know how many kilometers!
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