On this side, Long Yuandong and He Dali successfully advanced at the same time, and on the other side, Zhang Pei also successfully completed the upgrade, the purpose of this trip has been achieved, there is no need to stay in the Demon Flame Forest for a long time, He Xiaoduo and Wen Yanxin joined forces, chose the nearest road, and quickly went out of the mountain.

In the evening of this day, everyone set up their tents, and Wen Yan said in his heart: "This place is less than a hundred miles away from the forest border, and the Song guards and Dong Cripple are still waiting there to respond. Rest well tonight, leave early tomorrow, and try to get back before dark. ”

Long Yuandong roasted the hare pheasant that he caught on the road, and suddenly pinched out a palm-sized hedgehog from his backpack, and said with a smile: "When I camped just now, I picked it up in the crack in the stone over there." Isn't it good?"

"Ahh

Long Yuandong turned his wrist, bypassed the purple goose, and said: "This hedgehog is small and tender, but unfortunately there is no meat, otherwise it will be a delicious dish if you eat it." ”

"Don't kill it!" Zi Yan pleaded, "How old is this little guy, you don't have nothing to eat anyway, so you might as well let it go." ”

"Eat, I won't eat. But you don't know yet, the hedgehog's burr can be used as medicine, used to dissolve stasis and relieve pain, cool blood and detoxify, all effective. Its muscles, bones, and muscles have the miraculous effect of reastringency and hemostasis, and they are simply full of treasures. I dried it and crushed it into a plaster, and after a little injury, I made sure that the ointment healed without leaving a trace of scar. ”

Yun Tianjia saw the little hedgehog shrunk into a ball, shivering, its burrs were soft, and his eyes were still hazy, obviously he had not been born for a long time. I couldn't bear it, and pleaded: "Dragon shovel, wound medicine is sold everywhere, why do you have to hurt its life? And how much wound medicine can a little hedgehog make? This hedgehog has your breath on it, and after putting it back, it will definitely be abandoned by your parents, and in the end it will starve to death." Why don't you keep it for me?"

He Xiaoduo suddenly said: "Although the hedgehog is cute, it is too weak, even if you let it go at one moment, it will still die at any time the next moment." Even if it is lucky and has a peaceful life, after more than ten years, it will die of old age. It's just that an animal like a hedgehog can rarely evolve into a soul beast, and even if it evolves into a soul beast, it won't exceed the second order at most. Since sooner or later he will die, there is no need to be too compassionate. ”

"It turned out that it could only live for more than ten years, I really didn't expect it. Zi Yan's face showed regret.

"Mayflies, fungi, can only live for a few hours in a lifetime, mosquitoes, worker bees, life expectancy is only a few months, there are many small animals, spring and winter death, survival is difficult to survive for more than a year. Even so, they reproduce and rotate endlessly. They are so weak, and some of them occasionally evolve into soul beasts. Isn't the hedgehog much stronger than them?" Yun Tianjia said: "Even if it can't evolve into a soul beast, it can live in peace and happiness for more than ten years, and it will not live up to the kindness of God who nurtured it." Dragon Shovel, will you give it to me?"

"For such a small thing, you personally plead, can I not give it?" Long Yuandong smiled: "Actually, I often raised animals when I was a child, but I died when I raised them, and then I didn't like to raise them." ”

Yun Tianjia took the hedgehog from Long Yuandong's hand, held it in the palm of his left hand, gently stroked its brown-white burr, and suddenly felt a faint fluctuation of soul power in its body, at least three attributes of gold, earth, and darkness, and thought secretly: "This little hedgehog is probably not as ordinary as the county lord said, I am good to feed it, maybe it can evolve into a soul beast in the future, then it will live for more than ten years." ”

At that moment, he cut the rattan branches, made a small back cage, and then spread the dry grass and dead leaves, first gave the hedgehog a nest, and then fed it some minced flesh grass insects. Seeing that its breathing gradually stabilized, it fell into a deep sleep, and said in his heart: "Hedgehogs can only live for more than ten years, and human lifespans are much longer than hedgehogs, while soul masters have a longer lifespan." But if you live a few more years and a few years less, in the end, they will all disappear without a trace. I have lived seriously in my last life, and my only regret is that I didn't meet He Tingting earlier and get together with her. Now there is a chance to live again, say whatever you want to find her, and get married. Looking at the flames jumping in front of him, he was stunned.

He Xiaoduo added a few dry firewood to the bonfire, played with Mars lightly, and said: "Speaking of raising animals, the southwest border of our Tuhao Empire is rich in a kind of pet horse, because it is short, and even the fruit on the low tree cannot reach, so it is also nicknamed 'fruit off the horse'." The normal lifespan of this kind of horse is sixty years, from small to large, growing at a uniform speed, reaching the peak of life after the age of ten, it can be awakened to a first-order soul beast, and it has been in this state for the next fifty years, and there is no further progress. Because of this characteristic, people use the soul power that has increased each year in the first ten years of the fruit to measure the cultivation of soul beasts. Beasts that have not been promoted to soul beasts may have lived for fifteen years or twenty years, but they still say that their cultivation is less than ten years. If it has been promoted to become a soul beast, we say that it has three hundred years of cultivation and five hundred years of cultivation, not that it has lived for three hundred years or five hundred years, but that its soul power is equivalent to three hundred times or five hundred times the annual increase in soul power of 'Guoxiama' in the first ten years of its life. Do you know how soul beasts are divided into cultivation years from the first order to the twelfth order?"

Except for Wen Yanxin, Dai Zhong and a few senior guards, the rest of them were at a loss.

He Xiaoduo continued: "Soul beasts are divided into twelve orders from low to high.

From 11 years to 60 years of cultivation, it is a first-order soul beast, if it is divided into ten levels, then every other level, the difference in cultivation is 5 years.

61~260 years is a second-order soul beast, which is also divided into ten levels, so each level of cultivation is 20 years apart.

261~800 years is a third-order soul beast, with a difference of 54 years between each level;

801~2000 is a fourth-order soul beast, with a difference of 120 years between each level. The further you go, the bigger the gap at each level.

2001~5000 years for fifth-order soul beasts, each level difference of 300 years;

5001~10000 years are sixth-order soul beasts, with a difference of 500 years between each level;

10,000~20,000 years is a seventh-order soul beast, with a difference of 1,000 years between each level;

20,000~50,000 years is an eighth-order soul beast, with a difference of 3,000 years between each level;

50,000~100,000 years is a ninth-order soul beast, with a difference of 5,000 years between each level;

100,000 years ~ 200,000 years are tenth-order soul beasts, with a difference of 10,000 years between each level;

200,000 years ~ 500,000 years are eleventh-order soul beasts, with a difference of 30,000 years between each level;

500,000 years ~ 1 million years are twelve-order soul beasts, with a difference of 50,000 years between each level.

The cultivation of soul beasts is not like that of human soul masters, there is a clear distinction between different levels, or even if there is a clear distinction, humans do not know, so the specific cultivation period of soul beasts is not easy to accurately judge. For the sake of convenience, everyone directly used low-level, intermediate-level, high-level, and pinnacle to describe the same level but cultivating as different soul beasts. In fact, according to the number of years, it is the clearest. ”

"I used to hear stories from people, and I always said that a 100,000-year soul beast, a million-year soul beast, and I thought that the soul beast really lived for 100,000 years, a million years, but it didn't live that long, but the cultivation reached that level, in fact, it may only live for a year. He Dali suddenly realized, took a bite of barbecue, and feasted.

He Xiaoduo smiled lightly and said, "How can there be any monster in the world that can reach the cultivation equivalent of one million years of 'fruit dismounting' in one year? Soul beast cultivation is not as many methods as we human soul masters, they completely rely on natural growth. So for soul beasts, talent is especially important. Some soul beasts have good talents, and they can increase a lot of cultivation in a year, and some soul beasts have poor talents, and their cultivation will not increase after decades. For example, the hedgehog is an animal with extremely poor talent, and it can awaken to Amitabha, let alone reach a high-level level.

It is also extremely common for soul masters to domesticate soul beasts. But they all pick highly talented people to raise. In this way, after the soul beast grows up, it will also have a certain auxiliary effect on the soul master. If you spend energy on raising a soul beast that has no growth, it will inevitably be a little worthless. ”

Since Lucia took a knife and asked He Xiaoduo if she liked He Dali, He Xiaoduo often reflected on whether she really liked He Dali, if so, why did she feel very awkward and weird when she thought about it deeply, and if not, why did Lucia have such a misunderstanding.

At first, she didn't quite understand it, but later she was buried under the crack with Long Yuandong, and then she realized that her feelings for He Dali were not love, but cordial, just like the kind of cordiality between brothers and sisters.

Because of this, she was somewhat confused about He Dali's identity. He Dali is also surnamed He, could he really have some blood relationship with himself? And looking at his appearance carefully, he is three or four points similar to his father Shield King, I have to say that it is indeed a little strange.

"Tianjia, the county lord has a point. A little hedgehog, you can't bear to kill me, then release it, I promise to give you a better and more potential soul beast in the future. Long Yuandong found a knife out of nowhere, cut and scratched on half of the hardwood, as if he was about to carve a puppet, and echoed when he heard the words.

Yun Tianjia shook his head: "It doesn't take much effort to feed a hedgehog, just use it for fun." ”

Wen Yan saw that he had made up his mind, so he diverted the topic and said: "Although there are many soul beasts in the world, there are also many soul masters. From awakening to promotion, each soul master has to kill at least five or six soul beasts on average in his lifetime. Many soul masters, alchemists, and refiners still rely on hunting soul beasts to survive and make a fortune, so that they hunt indiscriminately without restraint, and over time, soul beasts gradually become scarce. People regard soul beasts as resources and take what they want, and soul beasts regard people as natural enemies, fearing and opposing them. The higher the soul beast, the more hatred it has towards people. In the past, it was only said that it was impossible to enter the center of the Demon Flame Forest, but now the outer part of the forest is becoming more and more dangerous every year. This is the reason why low-level soul masters like to choose soul beasts raised by humans to advance to the rank. Because if you are not accompanied by a master, even if you only go around the outer part of the forest, it is very dangerous. The promotion of the soul beast that is actually cultivated by it is more than a little worse than that of the wild one. ”

Lu Xia and Luo Erniang listened, glanced at each other, and recalled the endless hardships they had suffered from trespassing in the forest, and they were still afraid.

Later, everyone talked about the alchemist's use of soul beast flesh and blood as medicinal materials, and the refiner's use of soul beast muscles and bones to make weapons, and other gossips, Yun Tianjia, He Dali, and Long Yuandong, these young soul masters, all felt that they had benefited a lot.