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Looking at Rod's flickering eyes, Qing Ling smiled bitterly,

"The reproductive ability of our elf clan is too weak, and the average female elf can only give birth three times in her life, and she can only give birth to one at most at a time, and there is no situation where you humans have multiple children. ”

Is the ability to reproduce too weak?

Hearing this, Rod shook his head slightly, no, it can't be just because of this, this kind of fertility ratio is actually about the same as on the earth, and it will not reach the point of extinction.

"In fact, this is enough for our elves to reproduce in peace, however, it is also because of the mutation of the tree of life, the reproduction ability of our race has become weaker, female elves can only give birth twice in their lifetime, and for every ten elves born, almost seven are female elves. ”

Is there a 3 out of 10 chance of giving birth to a male elf?

Hearing this, Rhodes suddenly understood why Qing Ling was so worried about the problems with the elven barrier.

There are fewer and fewer male elves, more and more female elves, and in the long run, the entire elf clan may only have female elves left, and the entire elf clan may be extinct at that time, after all, the elf secret realm is not a daughter country, and there is no spring water that can get pregnant if you can drink it.

"What the hell is going on with this tree of life? ”

Rod's brows furrowed slightly, and after being silent for a while, he said,

"Haven't you all explored it?"

"Absolutely. Over the centuries, our ancestors and we have all searched the Tree of Life for countless times, but nothing has been discovered. ”

Qing Ling's face changed slightly, and then he said in a deep voice,

"But just three years ago, we finally found out what was going on. ”

As Qing Ling was talking, Mavi on the side took out a small wooden box and placed it on the round wooden table of everyone.

The emerald green color, there is no superfluous decoration on the surface, and it faintly exudes a strong breath of life.

"What is this?"

Rod was slightly stunned, with his ability, he couldn't even feel the things in this wooden box.

"Smack"

Qing Ling bowed slightly, only to see Ma Wei pinching the wooden box slightly, and then pressed it lightly, and the wooden box opened.

Unlike the breath outside the wooden box, the breath inside the wooden box was extremely decadent, and even a little sluggish and rotten.

"Hey, it's disgusting. ”

Xia put down the teacup in his hand, and his body turned, as if he didn't want to see the contents of the box.

Rod and Jelf also frowned slightly, the contents of this box were indeed quite disgusting.

It was a small bug, about the length of a little thumb, with no hands or feet, white and slightly wriggling, with a viscous liquid left in its path, very similar to maggots on earth.

"This worm is the root of everything?"

Looking at the disgusting insect in front of him, Rod frowned slightly, he didn't feel much powerful aura from this bug's body, but it made him feel an indescribable disgust.

"That's right, that's the bane of the Tree of Life, the Soul Eater. ”

Qing Ling looked at the insect in the box coldly, her eyes were full of resentment, and she could only hear her say slowly,

"The Spirit Devouring Worm, as the name suggests, is a magical beast that can devour aura, this is an extremely uncommon magical beast, but it is extremely harmful. ”

Soul Eater?

Rhodes was slightly stunned, and then looked at the insects in the wooden box, and for a moment, his body trembled slightly.

He found that the worm was slowly devouring the life breath of the wooden box as it wriggled, and continued to grow stronger.

It's only a penny, but it's growing, and if it's allowed to grow, the worm doesn't know how far it will grow.

"Great Elder Qingling, since you know that this Spirit Devouring Worm is the cause of the Tree of Life's mutation, wouldn't destroying it restore everything to normal?"

Suddenly, Rod seemed to think of something, and asked with some confusion,

"Could it be that there are still some variables in this?"

"Look, Pope Rhodes. ”

Qing Ling smiled helplessly, and then gently lifted the cane in his hand and poked at the Spirit Eater Worm, this time, the Spirit Eater Worm turned into two, but the Spirit Eater did not die, its two bodies squirmed, as if it had shrunk, and the length became only half of the original.

However, the Soul Eater Worm turned into two, and with another poke, the two Soul Eater Worms became four, and as before, the bodies of these four Spirit Eaters turned into four Soul Eaters after some shrinkage.

Two in one life, four in four, four in eight......

Looking at the scene in front of him, Rod's brows furrowed, the vitality of this soul devouring insect is a little amazing, but if it can't be eliminated physically, can it work with magic.

"Fireball. ”

Just as Rod was thinking in his heart, the green spirit on the side had already seen the thoughts in his heart, and nodded slightly towards Ma Wei, only to see that Ma Wei pinched the magic trick slightly, and a ball of fire had already fallen on the four spirit devouring insects.

"Zizi~Zizi~~"

There was a slight noise, and I saw the four soul eaters wriggling in the fireball, as if their bodies had been ignited.

"Wait, something doesn't seem right. ”

Jelf's expression changed slightly, he leaned closer to the fireball, and his face became a little ugly.

"Zizi~"

The sound was still coming, but these Soul Eaters showed no signs of destruction, but grew stronger and stronger, and soon, the fireball disappeared, and the four Spirit Eaters had already fattened up several times.

"Pope Rhodes, this is the Soul Eater, whether it is a physical or magical attack, it cannot be completely destroyed, but this Soul Eater will not grow indefinitely, when it reaches a length of about ten centimeters, it will decompose into two Soul Eaters on its own, but continue to grow, but continue to decompose......"

Asking Mavi to put the four Spirit Eaters back into the wooden box, Qing Ling sighed and said,

"Since we discovered this Soul Eater three years ago, we have conducted a thorough search of the Tree of Life, and we have caught hundreds of Soul Eaters in vitro alone, if it weren't for the speed at which this Spirit Eater Devouring Spiritual Qi to grow itself is really slow, it would take several months to grow to ten centimeters, otherwise this number would probably be even more. ”

Rod frowned, the horror of this soul eater was a little beyond his imagination, although the growth speed was extremely slow, but even if there was only one of these things, if it was allowed to develop, it would brew into an extremely terrifying disaster.

"By the way, Great Elder Qingling, since neither physics nor magic can destroy this Spirit Devourer......

As if he remembered something, Rod's eyes changed slightly, and he looked at Qing Ling and asked in a deep voice,

"And how did you deal with this Soul Eater?"