"She's cursed."

"What? Who? Fang Nuo reacted quickly, "Cursed by whom?" ”

"The Flower Emperor."

Kao ...... Fang Nuo silently recited the term in his mind, repeatedly tasting the mystery behind this simple set of words, and opening his mind to imagine the grandeur of existence to which they pointed.

In the space of a few days, he had heard the name more than once from different beings.

Xiong Zhen told him that the Flower Emperor was a divine beast that had long ceased to exist, and that the belief of a demon beast as a plant was constantly missed by them.

It's been boasting for a long time, and it seems that the fake can come true.

But...... Fang Nuo remembered the dryad he had encountered not long ago, and they swore that Xiong Zhen had offended their "Ka Huang", so he was targeted by the entire Dark Forest.

In the end, there were no corpses, no, even the traces of existence were devoured by the plants.

How he used to proudly draw spiritual power from plant-type demon beasts and devour soul crystals, and then how the plants recovered this blood debt from him and avenged the souls who died at his hands.

"Mr. Crow," Fang Nuo always shamelessly asked when he encountered a question that was not clear, "Flower Emperor, is he really still alive in this world?" ”

"I heard He was dead." He used the pronoun of the demon beast that specifically referred to the rank of "beast king" to show his respect and longing for the unknown king in his heart.

"He hasn't been here for more than a decade." Raven shook his head, indicating that he did not know the answer to his question, "The respected elders of our family are all inclined to the fact that He has fallen. ”

"But that doesn't mean that the treasures he left behind can't perform miracles on His behalf."

His meaning was clear: the Raven family believed that the "Emperor of Flowers" had left behind some kind of reflexive treasure that maintained his place in the hearts of the faithful.

"In that case, why is there a rumor that 'the Flower Emperor cursed the witch'?" Fang Nuo was puzzled.

"Maybe a high-ranking dryad, or other plant-based monsters, cursed that human with the power left by the Beastmaster." Raven's tone lacked a bit of confidence, "Wasn't the human you called 'Witch' a monster hunter in the past?" ”

"She must have offended a lot of demon beast families." "It's not worth feeling strange in the process," he said in no uncertain terms, "to carry even a deadly curse...... It's a miracle she's still alive. ”

Hearing that the demon beast in front of him didn't flatter the witch, Fang Nuo breathed a sigh of relief inexplicably.

But after thinking about it, this guy had pulled his tail before, and plucked a tuft of hair on his head, and the goodwill that had just sprouted was instantly cleared again.

Don't look at this raven acting so seriously now, maybe he will start causing trouble in the next second.

"So, what is the content of the curse?" While he was still on the rise, Fang Nuo asked aggressively.

The "curse" is also a miracle, but not all enlightened orcs have the ability to cast and control it.

If you don't pay attention to the wrong operation, there is a high probability that you will be burned, and instead of harming the object of the curse, you will be trapped in a quagmire and unable to extricate yourself.

In the past, Fang Nuo had heard his master and other elders he knew mention that in the outside world, the "curse" was called a "miracle caused by black magic", which was quite different from the spells used by the elders to summon the wind and rain, and it was also different from the magic of the witch's technique of manipulating the spiritual power line.

Miracles performed with the help of elemental power, such as making fire out of thin air, making ice, and reviving the parched earth, are two completely different types.

What is "magic"? This question was answered by one of Fang Nuo's teachers, and the remarkable (at least in Fang Nuo's opinion) Huang Xian defined it as a "'participation' activity of living beings".

It is more "advanced" than ordinary magic (or 'spell', in the language of the Yellow Immortals, the two words have similar meanings), and to put it simply, more "traditional" and "primitive", so it is more difficult to master and more "dangerous" without the improvement of generations of miracle performers.

The use of spiritual power inherited by the beast clan has evolved from the original "magic" to the current "hundred flowers blooming", and the demon beasts can use the spiritual power in the atmosphere in various ways, without the need to set the formula of "magic".

But the formula was born for its own reason, and the original beasts developed them to maximize the power contained in the atmosphere.

By mastering this formula, they will not only exert influence in reality and construct physical miracles, but also use the least amount of spiritual power to involve the emotions of all things and create miracles in the psychological and spiritual realms.

The symbolism behind the elements is also said to have been defined by the ancestors of the demon beasts through the study and expansion of magical formulas.

They discovered the advantages and disadvantages of different elements in targeting various spiritual miracles, so that the "miracle creations" in nature, that is, various herbs, could fully exert their effects.

Herbs that often contain the "wind element" or "fire element" are more healing - there is a theoretical basis for this claim.

Through the study of magic, the Orcs have summed up many ways of "participation", that is, ways of using spiritual power, in the course of millions of years of recorded development, the most important of which are three, and most of the miracles can be explained by them:

The first is the "transcendent way", which is the rarest of the three common ways, and it only exists in situations where higher things affect the beings below, and the beings below cannot change the existence of the higher things.

Fang Nuo could only barely recall the general concepts he had been taught, and his understanding of the method was very vague without being exposed to specific examples.

He had heard from his teacher that there were some inspired monsters or "capable people" from the outside world who could explain the fate and behavior of a group of beings based on the relative position and movement of celestial bodies.

They can even predict the future of other creatures, and the final result is extremely accurate.

Such a "miracle" is called "astrology", and it is an application of the "transcendent way".

Monsters may be able to think that the celestial bodies above their heads have shaped their lives and determined their own destiny, but they cannot influence the movement of the stars in the night sky, changing the star tracks that are eternal day after day, year after year.

This is the transcendent power, a one-sided, one-way influence, and the beings who have the ability to control the spiritual power are naturally able to understand them, adapt to their existence, and design one or more sets of systems to deal with them, and use their power to achieve their own great deeds......

But no living being, at least under "magic" and the miracle-building measures derived and built on it, nothing in the world has the power to change this force.

There may be exceptions, but the "exceptions" must also belong to the "transcendent forces", to be part of them, not to the creatures of this planet.

The second way is "transformation".

The Yellow Immortals believe that the greed of human beings is also manifested in the fact that they use their spiritual power on a large scale for "transformation".

"The first miracle that the original human beings wanted to perform after inheriting the method of using spiritual power from the ancestors of the beast clan was the miracle of 'turning stones into gold'." That's what his teacher said at the time.

"Transforming" ordinary stones and metals into precious metals; "Transform" the weeds that can be found everywhere into potions and elixirs that cure diseases and save people, or are highly poisonous; There are also the most common "transformations" among small monsters, as well as the "transformation" of ordinary creatures into their dependents by large monsters, and so on.

The "transformation" here is an unusually broad concept, the witch refining potion is a kind of "transformation", the Huang Xian clan is a kind of "transformation", and after the death of the high-ranking demon beasts, their soul crystals are precipitated in the shape of a certain item, which is also a kind of "transformation".

Many miracles that require rituals to construct are also inseparable from the way of "transformation".

The third way is "trading".

Too often, "transaction" and "conversion" are conflated, when in fact...... Not only that, but the way of "transcendence" often exists in parallel with the two of them, and they interact with each other all the time.

Influence each other, assist each other, and support each other's existence.

In Fang Nuo's view, the Raven Clan's "vigil" near the Eternal Tree was a "transaction", and they exchanged their respect and "time" for the favor of the forest and the admiration of other demon beasts...... But this obviously has nothing to do with "miracles", or rather, only a little bit of a connection.

The witch's protection of the mountain village is also a "trade", and she uses spiritual power in exchange for the peace of the village and her temporary residence.

Compared to "conversion", "transaction" seems to cover a wider scope.

The real "deal" that has to do with "miracles" should be the prayers and offerings of believers in exchange for the blessings and blessings of the sacred beasts (gods) they believe in.

There are also living beings who will put their lifespan and even their souls on the scales as bargaining chips, trading them for the attention of certain evil creatures...... This brings us to the realm of "black magic".

For beings who do not have enough personality to accommodate those who do not have enough spiritual power, this kind of "transaction" is an excellent channel to cast a "curse".

Most curses are closely related to the psychological condition of the spell caster, and the spell caster who is not firm in his beliefs and wants to teach the curse object a lesson rather than harm his life will be more ineffective.

In most cases, it is to make the target sick, and it will rarely lead to death.

There are also situations where curses are used in reverse, such as cursing your opponent for bad luck so that you can win against them, or cursing the weather for a downpour that causes something that would happen on a sunny day to no longer happen......

"Then again, magic has evolved into a spell or a spell, and black magic is...... Blamed on a particular subject, believing that only they are capable of using it? ”

Fang Nuo recalled that when he had previously listened to the chatter of the villagers of the mountain village, they had mentioned that in the outside world, "witches" were labeled as "often (only) using black magic", and then persecuted and crusaded.

"It's uncomfortable for the beast." He said to himself.

This morning, when he listened to the "lecture" of the young man named Noka, he learned that a few months ago, the witch had been despised and disgusted by many villagers.

At that time, the villagers thought that the potion she made was also a kind of "black magic...... These incapable humans have no idea the difference between different ways of performing miracles.

In a short moment, his mind rolled through the knowledge he had in the past and the knowledge he had learned recently, and finally, he came back to his senses and heard Mr. Raven's answer to his earlier question:

"The content of the curse is...... Perhaps, it is the inability to understand the words of the closest and most trusted beings in the heart. ”

"The reliable elders of the family are guessing like this, after all, it is very much in line with the common sense that 'curses are all vicious'." Mr. Raven said uncertainly, "Well, little one, you can't believe that, judging by your expression?" ”

"Huh?"

Fang Nuo was half a beat late, expressing his full of confusion.