Chapter 14: The Helplessness of the Civilian Soul Master
"So, which silkworm soul beast should I choose?" Sisi is not the kind of unrealistic woman, although she loves wealth and nobility, she can also accept the reality, if she can't get it, she can choose to spare, just make a living, "Silkworm soul beasts, except for the ice silkworms you said, generally like to eat mulberry leaves, and there don't seem to be too many mulberry trees in this Notting Forest." β
"Sister Sisi, you don't have to worry about this, because we just happened to be on the way." Tang San said with a smile.
Why did Tang San say that?
This also starts with the plant soul beast he needs, the Thousand Roots Banyan.
The canopy on the top of the tree is very lush, and the leaves are verdant, almost all insect soul beasts will eat it, and its sap can even help the insect soul beast grow.
Of course, it is only effective against plant-eating insect-eating soul beasts.
If the juice of these thousand banyan trees can improve the cultivation of soul masters, even if this plant soul beast is difficult to cut, it will be cut to extinction by the soul masters.
When the thousand roots of the banyan grow to the 10,000-year level, it is a whole forest, and it is a beautiful home for insect soul beasts.
It's just that a soul beast like a thousand banyan also needs to be protected before it grows up.
After all, its leaves are very delicious for insect soul beasts, and its sap can even improve their cultivation.
Insect soul beasts don't have human intelligence.
The human soul master mentioned earlier cut down the thousand roots of the banyan to extinction, but assuming the extreme situation in the [juice is effective for soul power enhancement], the real situation is that humans will collect it regularly, and there is a high probability that the Wuhun Hall will send someone to protect the thousand roots of the banyan, a plant soul beast that will not produce wisdom.
But insect soul beasts are different, they only have the instinct to grow, and their cultivation is not high before 10,000 years, and when they encounter things that are beneficial to themselves, they will devour them as soon as possible, regardless of whether they have grown up or not.
If this is the case, then it is not surprising that the thousand roots of the banyan are extinct.
But in reality, the thousand roots of the ficus are not extinct.
After Tang San learned the information of the Thousand Roots Banyan, he also had to praise the magic and magnificence of the natural world.
The thousand roots of the banyan did not become extinct, because the thousand roots of the banyan grew to a thousand years ago, there was a carnivorous silkworm soul beast named "banyan silkworm" to protect it.
There is no record of how the banyan silkworm appeared on the thousand banyan trees in the "Wuhun Encyclopedia", but every thousand banyan trees that are found under the millennium have a banyan silkworm.
Tang San had a guess about this, that is, when the Thousand Roots Ficus was still in seed form, the Ficus Moth, the adult form soul beast of the Ficus Silkworm, was looking for the seeds of the Thousand Roots Ficus all over the world, and laid eggs on it, growing together with the Thousand Roots Ficus.
The banyan silkworm is a carnivorous silkworm soul beast, which is not vegetarian, and the thousand roots of the fig cannot withstand the gnawing of other insect soul beasts before it grows up.
The two are accompanied, each taking what it needs.
Listening to Tang San's introduction to the companionship relationship between the Thousand Roots Banyan and the Banyan Silkworm, Su Yuntao, Ma Xiunuo and others were also eye-opening, and sighed at the peculiarity of the ecology between the soul beasts.
Mattheno asked the question: "Why under the millennium?" β
Tang San replied: "The "Martial Soul Encyclopedia" does not give a corresponding explanation, but it only says that the banyan silkworm that is more than a thousand years old, as long as it is not hunted, still exists, but it will no longer kill other insects that come to eat leaves and eat sap. I have two plausible conjectures about thisβ"
Su Yuntao was curious: "What conjecture?" β
"The first one, the banyan silkworm does not have the ability to kill all other insect soul beasts, because the thousand roots of the fiyan cultivated for thousands of years have stretched nearly a thousand meters underground, and the trunk above has a coverage area of nearly 100 meters."
Tang San talked eloquently, quite a kind of pointing out the country.
"With such a scale, a thousand-year-level banyan silkworm can't be managed."
"The thousand-year-old banyan will no longer lose its vitality because of that little juice, and those insect-eating soul beasts will also attract other carnivorous insects and animal soul beasts to suck the juice, and a complete ecology has been formed."
"To put it bluntly, the thousand-year-level Thousand Roots Banyan is a small soul beast forest."
Ma Xiunuo nodded: "It should be like this, in the north of the Heaven Dou Empire, there is a soul beast forest that is completely a thousand banyans, and no soul master can judge whether those criss-crossing and continuous thousand banyan trees are one or many... In fact, let alone 10,000 years, even if it is a thousand years, no soul master will hunt this kind of plant soul beast, except for hunting trouble, it is because this is equivalent to destroying a soul beast forest, no empire will let a soul master do this, and the Martial Soul Hall will not allow it. β
A forest of soul hunters, a plant soul beast.
Even if the soul masters of the Douluo Continent don't understand the truth of "sustainable development", they all know how to choose if they think about it with their butts.
"And the second conjecture is that the banyan silkworm has reached the maturity stage, and it will transform into a moth, and it will not bother to pay attention to other insect soul beasts."
"The first one is a little more likely, though."
During the discussion, the four of them had already passed through the large forest, and according to the map, they found the location of the thousand banyan trees.
The almost towering tree standing in front of Tang San was a thousand banyan trees.
The topography here is also different from other places in Notting Forest, with this 1,000-root ficus as the center, within a radius of 30 meters, there is no grass, and there are thousands of fig rhizomes that look like spider webs.
These rhizomes are not just on the surface, they are deeper underground.
It is rumored that even the Titled Douluo, who is known for his strength, cannot uproot a hundred-year-level thousand banyan trees, because it is connected to the earth, and if you want to pull up a thousand banyan roots, you need to have the power to lift the entire Douluo Continent.
Although there is an element of exaggeration in this legend, it may be true that Title Douluo can't pull out a thousand banyans.
Title Douluo has a thousand ways to destroy a thousand banyans, but to pull up a thousand banyans, it can still be described as "mayflies shaking trees".
Destructive power, and power, can be said to be two different things.
"Is this a thousand banyans? It's spectacular! β
Su Yuntao couldn't help but marvel.
Even though it is only more than 500 years old, the diameter of the trunk of this thousand-root banyan tree is more than 10 meters!
However, unlike ordinary trees, the trunk of the Thousand Roots Ficus is not round or oval, but hollow inside, intertwined with each other, like an irregular fishing net propped up, surrounded by two sides and forming a twisted ring.
The trunk is clean, with no extra foliage, except for a large canopy at the top, which covers an area comparable to the rhizomes on the surface.
The branches on the top have dense roots that grow downward and spread, some have touched the ground, tied their heels, and become hard, and some are still hanging in the air, and when the wind blows, they sway, and they are very soft.
Rigidity and softness are one, which is really peculiar.
This is how the 1000-root ficus spreads, with the rhizome growing from the top of the crown to the ground.
Ordinary trees can be roughly divided into crowns, stems, and roots, while the Thousand Roots Banyan is a plant-based soul beast, which actually has no stems at all, only roots and crowns.
Even, it can be thought that this is a peculiar grass, the grass that looks like a tree.
Rustling!
The leaves on the canopy of the tree trembled, and a blue-green insect with a big human head came out, the head was black, and there were two tongs underneath, which were trembling, as if warning Tang San and the others.
"Banyan silkworm, I didn't expect it to come out all of a sudden, I thought I still needed to cut down the tree before it appeared, looking at the appearance, it probably regarded us as invaders." Tang San was surprised, happy, and raised his fingers, and said to Sister Sisi, "Our luck is good, we can take it down first, and then we will cut down the tree." β
"Its attack is to spit silk threads, it can be forked, and I even think if it has human intelligence, it can weave it into a spider web or something."
"Is it toxic?" Su Yuntao is possessed by a lone wolf, incarnated as a werewolf, and is more concerned about whether this thing is poisonous or not, and Sisi's second soul ring can not be poisonous.
"Don't worry, the martial soul has a limit to poison, and I pointed it out to Sister Sisi first, how could I choose a poisonous soul ring for Sister Sisi?" Tang San pointed out the age of this banyan silkworm, "After absorbing the soul power of this banyan silkworm, I estimate that Sister Sisi's strength can be qualitatively improved, the silk thread of the banyan silkworm and the silk thread of the ribbon can be said to complement each other." β
"More than 400 years, isn't this a bit too old?" Su Yuntao was a little worried about whether his girlfriend could withstand the four-hundred-year soul ring, "Do you want to change it?" β
"No, that's it." Sisi didn't want to give up, "Isn't the limit of the second soul ring about seven hundred years?" It's only been more than 400 years, and you think I can't afford it? Don't underestimate me, when we had a PC war, the first person to lose physical strength was you! β
Su Yuntao: "Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·"
"Ahem! Pay attention to what you say, there are still children at the scene. Mattheuno couldn't stand it anymore and reminded him.
Su Yuntao was a little embarrassed, but he still didn't want to take any risks, so he got back to business and said, "That master's theory can't be believed, he's just a joke." β
In front of Yu Xiaogang, he naturally couldn't say this, but now, he could speak freely.
Masino also nodded frequently.
"Isn't your second ring also four hundred years?" Sisi snorted, "You can do it, why can't I?" What's more, Xiao San said that I have a very high match with this banyan silkworm. β
"Okay then."
Su Yuntao didn't dissuade him, the first soul ring lit up, and he jumped towards the banyan silkworm.
First Soul Skill: Hungry Wolf Pounces!
Naturally, he chose the name himself.
Soul Ring: White.
Apparently, it was the retired teacher of Notting College who took him to hunt for the once young man.
Xiao Chenyu's guy is the son of the city lord, and he is just a white soul ring, not to mention Su Yuntao?
And the effect of the soul skill is also very weak, that is, to let Su Yuntao fall on all fours in the state of martial soul possession, run like a real wolf, and pounce on the prey.
If he didn't know that this was a soul skill effect, Tang San would still think that Su Yuntao was playing with dogs.
In Tang San's opinion, wasting the position of a soul ring to bring such an attack method that could be done even without soul ring skills was really a bit of a "luxury".
The helplessness of the civilian soul master is nothing more than this.
Their first soul rings were mostly hunted by their teachers when they were studying at the Junior Soul Master Academy.
But the teachers of the Junior Soul Master Academy basically help capture and stun the soul beasts that they think are similar to the characteristics of the students' martial souls after encountering them, in an attempt to save trouble.
It's not about thinking about everything.
After all, soul hunting is not easy, if you can't meet a suitable soul beast for a long time, the patience of the leading teacher will be exhausted, and the students are not really apprentices, so they naturally won't be too careful.