Spirit animals.

It is a beast that continues to evolve, and even a sparrow, if it can continue to prey on spirits, it may evolve into a spirit beast over time.

According to human research on spiritual arcane, it is believed that even the 9-ringed wurm was just an ordinary creature at the beginning.

It is the evolution of generation after generation, and the bloodline continues to grow stronger, and finally reaches the peak of the 9 rings.

It's just that the nourishment of spirituality is imperceptible, except for human beings who can rely on cultivation to grow rapidly, any living thing can only complete the jump in bloodline level through reproduction. Often, this kind of transition requires tens of thousands of years of iteration.

Of course.

Elves may be an outlier, as it's hard to tell whether they're animals or plants.

As for the phantom beast, it is also a variable, but it is related to humans after all, and it is the result of the selective cultivation of spirit beasts by humans.

In short, the spirit beast comes from the beast, but it is self-contained.

"The evolution of spirit beasts takes thousands of years to iterate, and the degradation is only overnight, which is too terrifying." Duke sighed.

Mentor Penrose, who was observing the human foot owl, responded indifferently: "It takes dozens of hundreds of years for a spirit beast to grow, but it only takes a few minutes to be hunted by us, so what's so surprising about this, it's always easier to go back than to move forward." ”

"Having said that, don't you feel scared, mentor, if it's a complete molt of an ancient evil thing, infect this forest......"

"That's what Bernoulli should worry about, what does it have to do with me." Penrose glanced at Duke, who was fussing.

"Forehead ......"

"Go and get busy with you, don't worry about it, the storm has a history of more than 4,000 years, and only humans have ever conquered forests, and no forest has ever engulfed humans."

Kicked out of the Black Beetle cart by Penrose.

Duke shook his head and smiled, just to express his concern and the importance he attached to the research.

Since the 3-ring arcane mage Penrose doesn't care, he's a 1-ring-arcane mage, so why care.

Just like Penrose's attitude - it's my business.

"Duke, come over for the bonfire." Vikas came over, "I came to Cuihai Valley for a few days to investigate, but I didn't have time to get together for a small gathering, and it just so happened that everyone came back early today, so let's have a bonfire party." ”

"Okay." Duke readily agreed.

The bonfire had been lit, and Balza personally skewered the meat of the hunted spirit beast on the branch of the tree to barbecue, and Orianna helped him.

Seeing Duke coming, Oriana immediately said: "Bake whatever you want to eat, tonight's bonfire party, the theme is self-reliance, and no one else is allowed to do it for you." ”

Duke smiled, "No one knows barbecue better than I do." ”

So I found a suitable branch from the barbecue utensils that had been prepared on the side, and then found a rabbit leg, skillfully skewered it on the branch, and began to grill it on the bonfire.

Leadman and Vikas, as well as Bronke, are also very skilled at barbecue.

Only Kilia, who had just come from a bath, looked a little overwhelmed, and clumsily picked up a branch and skewered a piece of spirit beast meat.

"Where's the mentor, Vikas Mentor, didn't you call the mentor?" Oriana asked.

"The instructor is still busy with the experiment, and he said come over for a while, let's eat first." Vikas said, "I'll leave a little snake meat for the mentor, who likes to eat roasted snakes the most." ”

Around the campfire, everyone chatted while roasting meat.

Duke turned the branch in his hand, glanced at Kiria next to him, and reminded: "Turn over, in addition, you have to get closer, first roast it with high heat for a while, let the roast meat burn the outside, and lock in the moisture of the meat, otherwise if you roast it on low heat for too long, the meat will be very dry." ”

"Oh." Kiria took her own barbecue, close to the campfire.

"Turn it over more to prevent it from getting burned."

"Okay."

Kiria threw herself into the barbecue, and when the crust of the barbecue was already burnt, she touched Duke and asked, "Is this one of my done?" ”

"Stay away from the fire and continue to bake for a while."

"Hmm."

Duke had already roasted his rabbit legs, took out a dagger from his body, and made a few cuts directly on the rabbit's legs.

"Duke, Kiria, here's the condiment, you can sprinkle a little on top of the roast." Oriana reminded.

Duke smiled and refused, "I said no one knows barbecue better than I do, Orianna, you should try my exclusive barbecue secrets." ”

He took out a small bottle, sprinkled a layer of secret ingredients on his rabbit legs, and handed it to others.

"What's this?" Vikas was the first to take the vial, learning to sprinkle a layer on his roast.

took a bite and suddenly exclaimed: "Hmm, fragrant!" ”

He swallowed a mouthful of the barbecue, then held up the small bottle and exclaimed, "What kind of spice is this, Duke, it makes the barbecue even more delicious!" ”

"I'll give it a try." Oriana took the vial, put it under her nose and sniffed, "Well, it really smells, but does it really taste as good as Vikas helped you exaggerate?" ”

"You'll find out if you try it yourself." Vikas said, turning to Duke again, "What kind of spice is this?" ”

"I call it cumin powder." Duke said with a smile.

This cumin powder, cumin is not the cumin powder of the earth, and when Duke lived in the town of Snakehead, he often ventured into the forest.

Naturally, it is indispensable to eat barbecue meat in the forest.

However, he couldn't find cumin powder on the market, nor could he find barbecue condiments similar to cumin powder, so he searched for the spices he could find, and through countless blendings, he finally blended a spice that could greatly improve the taste of barbecue.

That is, in the small bottle, he called the secret ingredient "cumin powder".

Vikas nodded in approval, "Cumin powder...... This secret ingredient is sprinkled on the barbecue, it really makes the barbecue more delicious, you should all give it a try. ”

Oriana had also tasted it, and her eyes lit up: "Indeed, the effect of cumin powder is really magical, not only makes the barbecue more fragrant in the mouth, but also feels that when you eat it, it also eliminates a lot of the oiliness of the barbecue itself!" ”

Under the praise of the two, everyone tried.

And get consistent recognition.

Even Kiriya, who is not very interested in barbecue and just wants to blend in with the atmosphere of the bonfire party, nodded again and again: "The effect of cumin powder is more mellow than most of the spices I have eaten before, especially with barbecue, just right." ”

"What are you talking about, what kind of cumin powder makes the barbecue more fragrant?" Mentor Penrose joins in the bonfire.

Oriana handed a piece of barbecue to Penrose: "Mentor, try it, the cumin powder provided by Duke has raised the quality of the barbecue in this bonfire party by a whole grade." ”

After tasting it, the instructor agreed: "It's really good." ”

"Duke, how did you make this cumin powder, I can only taste four spices, fennel, small cloud beans, chopping firewood grass and chicken bone flower." Balza poured a little of the cumin powder into the palm of his hand and carefully distinguished.

Duke smiled: "This should be kept secret, I still want to open a chain of barbecue restaurants with cumin powder, but since you like it, I will share the recipe for cumin powder...... Full of grass, cow's tongue and fruit...... Mixed according to a certain proportion, it becomes cumin powder. ”

"So complicated?" Oriana was staggered.

"No way, I originally wanted to find a separate spice to relieve the fishy smell of the barbecue, but I couldn't find the right spice after looking around, so I could only try to mix the spices, and finally after tens of thousands of explorations, I made the ideal cumin powder."

"If you open a barbecue restaurant, I must go and apply for a membership card." Vikas said.

Lidman, who hadn't spoken much all the time, just silently roasted and ate, nodded his head rarely: "I seconded it." ”

Mentor Penrose quipped, "You have mastered a new skill, so that I don't have to worry that you will starve to death after graduation." ”

Kyria also whispered in admiration: "I really can't see it, you know life very well, and you have tried so many times in order to match a spice that can match the barbecue." After a few attempts, the average person should give up, and they will never be able to mix cumin powder. ”

People who don't love life to the extreme can't do this kind of thing.

Duke replied with a soft smile, "It's not that I haven't thought about giving up, I'm just convinced that spirituality will guide me to the taste I want, and this taste will definitely exist." ”

"Yes, spirituality favors you deeply." Kiria agrees.

At the age of sixteen, he was promoted to an arcane master, and at the age of seventeen, he had already learned to make cards, and he was able to invent the spiritual weapon of the portable lamp, and now he even mixed the cumin powder for barbecue.

In Duke, Kyria deeply felt what spiritual favor is.

She whispered close to Duke's ear and whispered, "I thought your personality was very similar to Leadman's mentor." ”

"Leadman should be very sad to hear this, it sounds like he is a person who doesn't understand life."

"I didn't say that, don't wronged me."

"Don't explain, no one knows reading comprehension better than I do."

"I'm not going to admit it anyway."

The two sat next to each other, laughing and teasing each other, and now there was more closeness between friends than before.

Orianna had been staring at the two of them for a while, and only when the two stopped talking did she laugh and joke: "You two have been talking to each other for a while, and you can't even bother to eat barbecue, are you talking badly about us?" ”

Duke waved his hand: "But no. ”

"Yes, no, no." Kiria responded with a smile.

"Then what are you talking about, speaking so quietly, obviously not wanting us to hear it." Oriana chased.

Duke smiled indifferently: "The specific content is inconvenient to disclose." ”

Vikas sighed: "I'm old, I already have a generation gap with young people, and seeing Duke and Kiria so vibrant, I really feel that I'm old." ”

Mentor Penrose snorted, "You're old, so what am I?" ”

Vikaston smirked.

He was sixty or seventy years old, but he hadn't even gone half of it compared to the common lifespan of one hundred and fifty years for the 2nd Ring Arc Mage.

It's too early to say old.

A bonfire party, with the help of cumin powder, made everyone happy.

Duke went to take a bath on the black beetle, returned to his tent and sat down to practice, merge with the chicks, and perform breathing techniques.

Once again, in Kiria's large shuttle, the 2-ringed spirit plant is the focus of attention, and the world is observed in another way.

Bang la blah.

You can see, and hear, the hazy figure of Kiria bathing, and the faint sound of water. This scene made his blood a little nervous, and the temptation was too strong, especially the more hazy it was, the more suitable it was for brain supplementation, and it was more exciting.

Of course.

Duke is a gentleman, and the "Rain Breathing" is not performed for voyeurism, and he does not see the real appearance, but just a special sensory experience.

He is in order to cultivate the "Eye of Nature".

With the blessing of the elf form, he called this breath resonance state the ability to perceive the surrounding details through the 2-ring spirit plant as an "eye", which is called the eye of nature.

It means an eye formed by the forces of nature.

"When my Natural Eye is cultivated to the fullest, I can also condense the Natural Eye on ordinary plants, which is equivalent to hundreds of meters or even kilometers away, I can easily perceive everything."

Nature's Eye is undoubtedly a powerful investigative tool.

It's worth Duke's daily hard work.

"I'm not going for Kiria, it's just that there's a 2-ring spirit plant on top of her big shuttle."

"That's it."

After an hour and a half of merging, the exhausted chick condensed its body, gave Duke another "old pervert" look, and then returned to the sea of qi to rest.

Duke's face was indifferent, and he shook his head: "How can you understand my good intentions with this bad pen, little chicken." ”

He touched the little pocket that woke up slowly and said, "Xiaodou still understands me." ”

"Tsk!" Xiaodou nodded repeatedly, as if it really understood Duke.

"Then you can grow up quickly, and advance to the 1st ring spirit beast one day earlier, I will be able to break through the 1st ring of the Great Knight one day earlier and strengthen my fighting spirit."

Duke must admit that vindictiveness has value in vindictiveness.

Especially when investigating some strange things, the defensive effect of the Douqi armor is first-class, and it can play an absolute defense against explosive pus and blood splashing.

He is a hygienic person, and with the armor of vindictive spirit, no matter how dirty the forest is, it can't pollute him.

The next day, during the investigation, he encountered "dirty" things.

"What is this?"

In front of him, a plant with a height of about two meters and a thickness as thick as an adult's thigh grows, and has an aura similar to that of fanged lichen and mutated konjac flowers, all of which grow after being infected by evil qi.

It's not an evil creature, it's an evil plant at most.

Douqi armor wrapped around his arm, and he grasped the dagger and slammed it towards the straight evil plant, ready to cut a sample.

The color of the plant is white to green.

Green is the color of its body, and white is the dense white hair that grows on its exterior, as if dyed with a layer of snow.

When the wind blows, the white hair trembles, like hair.

"Snow Blowing Pillar, this thing is tentatively called Snow Blowing Pillar." Duke said as he slashed the snow pillar with his dagger.

The next moment.

There seemed to be countless red fingers growing on the blowing pillar, and it looked like countless small red bugs, and then these little bugs sprayed sticky juice at Duke together.

Smack!

Under Xiao Yi's control, the Dou Qi armor quickly enveloped Duke's whole body, blocking all these juices.

"Be careful, sir!" Vivien and the other great knights quickly approached, ready to cut off the Blowing Snow Pillar Sword.

Duke raised his hand to stop: "Stop, don't chop and slash at every turn, let me study the disgusting evil plant of the blowing snow pillar." ”

Although at this time, the blowing snow pillar has small red bug-like tentacles all over its body, and it sprays juice, which is very disgusting.

But Duke has been researching evil qi infections in the forest for the past few days, and he is used to it.

This level of nausea is not taken into his eyes.

Only after the small red bug tentacles of the blowing pillar no longer squirted squirting juice, did he continue to cut the blowing pillar with a dagger.

Dig out a small bug tentacle.

The tentacles were really like small insects, moving around in Duke's hands, and they wanted to get into Duke's hands, but they were blocked by the armor of Douqi.

"It's very vigorous, and like the fanged lichen, it has partially activated the plant." With a slight pinch, Duke pinched the tentacles of the little bug and exploded.

Then he looked at the tentacles of the dead little insects and injected spiritual energy to explore.

I found that the spiritual power in the tentacles of this little insect was mixed, like a spiritual dye vat: "Hmm, it's very interesting!" This is a spiritual pool, and what kind of spiritual power you want can be found in it. ”

Duke rejoiced.

The slightly more complex spirit cards require a large number of spiritual powers of different attributes to draw energy lines.

These spiritual powers of different attributes need to be extracted from different spiritual materials.

However, the tentacle bug that blows the snow pillar contains complex spiritual power, which is equivalent to opening a gift package of spiritual power.

He immediately cut off a little white hair and body from the blowing pillar.

After careful perceiving, it was found that there was no mixed spiritual power on these two things.

When he dug up a tentacle bug again, he found that only the tentacle structure of the blowing snow pillar contained complex spiritual powers.

"Good stuff!" Duke takes a sample and puts it in a glass test tube.

Then he said to Zina, who was following behind: "This kind of snow blowing pillar is definitely an important spiritual material resource, your mercenary group, the next task is to search for it with all your might...... It would be nice if we could find a way to grow it. ”

"Yes, sir." Xena replied.

Duke glanced up at the sky, combined with the map information recorded by Xiaoyi, and judged his current position.

After a few days of research, we have crossed the mountains and entered the Cuihai Valley.

"It's not far from the No. 3 well area, and the number of animals and plants infected by evil qi has increased significantly, and the potential value is getting higher and higher...... However, once these valuable evil plants and special evil creatures are exterminated, ......"

The leakage of evil gas in the No. 3 well area will be solved sooner or later.

Once the support of evil qi is lost, I am afraid that things such as blowing snow pillars, tiger insects, and fanged lichens will all die with them.

"Reluctantly!"

Duke sighed in his heart.

The day before yesterday, he was still worried about the existence of ancient evil things, which would revive in this land through molting, causing terrible effects.

Now I have begun to worry that if the evil spirit is not enough, the resources found will be short-lived.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile self-deprecatingly, and said in his heart: "Sure enough, Mentor Penrose is right, and people are worried!" Only humans have ever conquered the forest, and there has never been a forest devouring humans, spirit beasts are not the opponents of humans, let alone ancient evil creatures! ”

After a long day of research and back at camp, Duke sent the collected samples to the Black Beetle Cart and found a Penrose mentor.

He said his short-lived thoughts about the evil plant: "The snow blowing pillar I found today is of great value, at least in terms of the value of the spiritual materials of card production, it can greatly reduce the cost of card production...... It's a pity that if you don't have the support of evil energy, it's hard to cultivate again. ”

"Evil spirit is just an introduction." Mentor Penrose had a different idea, "The fact that the evil qi infection formed the Snow Blowing Pillar, instead of letting it degenerate into slime molds like fanged lichens, means that the Snow Blowing Pillar has found a new way to evolve." ”

"What do you mean?"

"Maybe after leaving the evil qi infection, the blowing snow pillar will degenerate, but its evolutionary prospects have opened up in the fight against the erosion of evil qi." Penrose squinted his eyes and said, "Didn't you own a farm, why don't you try to cultivate a snow blowing pillar." ”

"I see." Duke suddenly had a plan.

Ancient evil things can be seen as the opposite of spirituality, and spirituality promotes the vigorous evolution of all things, so evil qi erodes spirituality and degrades all things.

For example, the 3-ringed spirit beast - the human-legged owl, after being infected, gradually degenerated into an owl with an ordinary physique.

The same is true for plants, which will gradually degenerate under the infection of evil qi and degenerate into the slime fungus form of fanged lichen.

But there is a balance between all things.

Evil qi will certainly degrade plants, but plants can also gain new evolutionary opportunities in the process of resisting degradation.

For example, the blowing snow pillar is to store all the spirituality in the tentacles of small insects in the fight against evil qi infection, so that it has new vitality and has become a more valuable new variety.

When the evil energy dissolves and the confrontation ceases to exist, perhaps its evolution will also fall.

But as long as this new evolutionary direction is opened, it can be artificially cultivated and its small red insect tentacles can be retained.

Over time, the blowing pillars will be able to multiply.

Even targeted cultivation cultivates red tentacles specially made with different spiritual powers, so as to develop more value.

"This is the direction of spiritual planting, but as an arcane mage, I am not confined to a single field." Penrose continued, "I teach students, I never limit their interests, it's hard to make cards, you can find it, but you can also do it in other areas. ”

"Thank you, mentor, for your doubts." When Duke decides to go back, he tries to breed Snow Blowers at Duke James Farm.

If the cultivation is successful, maybe you can even get the title of Spirit Plant Scholar.

In the fields of card making, naturalism, and spiritual plants, although Duke has been promoted to an arcane mage for a short time, his research field has covered three directions.

"Another point, I went to the battleship in Keystone yesterday for a meeting, and listened to the information exchange of other arcane mage research teams, this evil qi leakage infection incident has a far-reaching impact on the green sea valley, but the benefits brought by the new changes are also huge."

Penrose said.

As the arcane mage who leads the team, it is naturally inevitable that he will have a meeting.

He continued: "Based on everyone's opinions, we convened an emergency meeting of the Five Towers to prepare to preserve the area around Well No. 3 as a base for the study of evil qi when cleaning up the evil qi pollution...... In addition, your gag order will be lifted soon. ”

"Keep the No. 3 well area?" This is really a surprise, "It's just a mentor, the molting fragments of ancient evil things, there will always be a day when the breath will dissipate, right?" ”

Penrose said meaningfully: "As long as you don't go to artificially expel it, evil qi will continue to be generated and will never stop." ”

Duke also wanted to ask what the ancient evil creatures really were.

Penrose shook his head and said no more, maybe he didn't know what an ancient evil thing was, after all, he hadn't been involved in the battle of the forbidden land, and he hadn't seen the shell of the ancient evil thing fade off.

……

Two days later, as Penrose announced the completion of his investigation of the mysterious changes in the Green Sea Valley, the Ring airship slowly lifted off.

Return to Shenjiao City.

There was no crisis, as if the black jade horseshoe crab dragon was deliberately hiding, and even the black jade scorpion never showed up again.

Although the spirit beasts are not civilized, the high-level spirit beasts have a certain IQ, and they know that they can't clear the evil qi of the Cuihai Valley with their own ability, so they will hide, so that humans can erase this crisis and protect the habitat of the Cuihai Valley.

The Loop soon arrived at Penrose Mage's Tower.

Penrose announced in time that he would give everyone a two-day holiday.

Amid the cheers and farewells, the mages left the mage tower one after another and returned to their homes to rest and rest.

Duke didn't relax, and he immediately went to Duke James Farm with a batch of snow blowing column samples he had collected.

"Let your spiritual envoys wear anti-corrosion protective clothing, and cooperate with me to plant these snow blowing pillars in the field." Duke instructed James directly, "In addition, you go to the Union Tower again and continue to buy five hundred acres of land around the farm." ”

"My lord, what kind of spirit plant is this blowing snow pillar?"

"A very evil spirit plant, I don't know yet, whether it can be planted or not, in short, let's cultivate it first."

If there are dates or not, hit a shot first.

Ask for tickets~

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