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Grimm continued to ask, "What else is capable of?"

As soon as Donghezi raised his right hand, a whip-shaped electric light flew out of his palm, hitting the 10-foot (about 3 meters) small shrub mountain, but like a shining tentacle rolled up a wooden branch and hung between the three of them.

Toheko smiled and introduced, "This is the strangest ability I have cultivated this time. Originally, the kind of secret art I studied was only related to thunder and lightning, storms, etc., but who knew that after practicing it, this kind of weird electric whip would appear. This thing may seem like electric light, but it can actually be transformed into an immovable elemental or power effect. For example, now its effect is similar to the power effect in your spells. Look again. ”

As he spoke, the hanging branch burst into flames, as if something had suddenly ignited it.

Tozyko said, "Now the electric whip has a fire effect on it. Currently it can be converted between lightning, fire, and force. But I just don't understand why this ability is happening. ”

"Your abilities are similar to those of the Bain Halley masters in Giffen," Grimm said, "and he has the ability to change the essence of elemental arcane arts." For example, it was originally a burst fireball, but when it was released, it could be transformed into electric balls or even ice hockeys! However, this ability can only change acid, cold, fire, electricity, and sound waves. Maybe he understands the secret. ”

Donghezi shook his head slightly and said, "But his is magic ability, and mine is supernatural power." The core is different, and it is difficult to say the same. But then he nodded again, "But then again, maybe I can get some clues from his transformation principle, so that I can explore the key faster!"

At this point, he was in a happy mood and asked Grimm, "Do you know this Bainhalle?" ”

"Of course I know!" Grimm was overjoyed, if Master Dongzyzi was stranded in Giffen City, he would have a strong backer. Then he straightened up and hurriedly said, "I know him very well, and I can introduce you as soon as I arrive in Giffen City! But he is greedy for money, and if you want to communicate with him, I am afraid that it will cost you some money?"

Toheko joked, "I'm curious - do all mages value money very much?"

Grimm smiled awkwardly and said, "No, some mages are quite rich themselves, so they don't care much about money. It's just that the vast majority of mages live a tight life, even some high-level mages are no exception. ”

The two sides began to digress as they talked, and finally discussed the mage's home decoration.

Le Lin, who was waiting stupidly on the side, finally couldn't help it, interrupted the conversation between the two, and asked Donghezi, "In addition to these supernatural powers this time, have your damage reduction ability and elemental resistance also improved?"

Toheko sighed and said, "I want to too." But in fact there are none. Those abilities are special abilities, which are very different from the supernatural powers of Lei Gongzhen. Maybe when my Lei Gong Seal is practiced to the extreme depth, it can have a promoting effect on those abilities. ”

After thinking about it for a while, he said to Le Lin: "Since your Nine Turns Yi Pulse ** practice is good, then I'll tell you directly." Your Nine Turns Pulse ** is actually a branch of my body-strengthening secret technique, which can produce damage immunity and energy resistance. But these two abilities are the same thing! Strictly speaking, they are just canceling out energy attacks. As long as you practice to a certain level, your body will have the ability to reduce the damage of a qiē energy, whether it is the power of the sword, an elemental attack, or a force attack. As long as it is destructive energy, it can be ignored by your body. ”

Le Lin was amazed, under normal circumstances, damage reduction and elemental resistance are completely different. The so-called damage reduction is only a reduction of some physical damage based on special body structures. For example, a monster with a strong body may have a high damage reduction ability, but it cannot resist the attacks of elements such as fire and acid. For example, some special ooze monsters have the ability to reduce damage because of their bizarre, soft, and casual bodies, but they have no effect on elemental attacks such as fire and ice. Because these attacks work differently, they require different abilities to resist.

So he asked about the transformation of the physique of the Nine Turns of the Yi Pulse.

Tohezi said, "I call this ability a total energy reduction. As the name suggests, its fundamental effect is not to make the body strong or weird, but to return the destructive energy that hits the body to heaven and earth. You should know that whether it is a spell attack or a martial attack, in the final analysis, it is to obtain the energy between heaven and earth, and then shape it into a form that you can use to attack the enemy. And our full energy reduction ability is to allow the energy that attacks on the body to return to heaven and earth. This is tantamount to going through the motions, so it doesn't affect you. Unless those energies are too much, and the level is too high. For example, the energy level of the third-order demonic weapon is too high, and this body can't take it. It doesn't work at all in front of it!"

Grimm interjected curiously and asked, "What about high-level spell attacks?"

Donghezi shook his head and said, "I haven't tried this, so I don't know." Personally, I estimate that spells above the 6th order, my body can't stop it now. ”

"You wait," Le Lin finally interjected, and asked eagerly, "Isn't martial art the ability of the body itself, how can it be counted as 'obtaining the energy of heaven and earth, shaping and attacking the enemy'?"

Higashiko laughed dumbly, and for a moment she didn't know how to explain this simple truth to her. After thinking for a while, he asked rhetorically, "No matter how strong a martial artist is, if he doesn't replenish food, will he have the strength to fight?"

Lelin replied, "Of course not. ”

Donghezi nodded and said, "Food contains the energy between heaven and earth, and warriors use food to obtain these energies." Then attack the enemy in the form of muscular force. The mage, on the other hand, uses the magic net to obtain the energy between heaven and earth, and uses the soul to shape it to attack the enemy. Although the form is completely different, the essence is the same. ”

Le Lin was just a martial artist with ordinary intelligence and a very low education level, and when she heard such highly generalized words for the first time, she couldn't help but think. For a while, I forgot to continue sighing.

Grimm on the side secretly laughed at her shallow knowledge, and she had to think about such a simple truth for a long time. It's just that Master Donghezi's face is not good for sarcasm, otherwise he would have opened his mouth to mock her.

So he leaned against the tree, knocked on the trunk again, and asked, "Master, I still have a problem - activating a plant can only make a tree man appear for a few minutes, and the stick method can only last a few hours. But this tree man of yours can stay in shape for days and nights, what is the 'secret technique' in this?"

"Absolutely. Toheko got up, walked over to the tree man, patted the trunk with a little pride, and said, "It has a rune specially made by our secret druids in its body. With its help, the tree man can stay in shape forever without changing. And that rune has other effects. For example, fire prevention. ”

Grimch said, "Really, is it to prevent ordinary fire, or to prevent fire formed by spells?"

Toheko smiled and said, "It's all right, I don't believe you can try." ”

"Then I'll use the Scorching Ray. Grimm half-jokingly and half-seriously came to the pitch and said, "Don't blame me if it burns out." ”

"Burn, burn," Donghezi waved his hand casually and said, "That rune has been successfully refined after more than half a year of unremitting efforts, and it is enough to withstand an ordinary bursting fireball. With your second-order scorching ray, if you can burn a little scorched, I'll give you 10 gold coins. ”

"Really?" Grimm suddenly came to his senses when he heard the word "gold coin".

"Really!" said Togoko, still unhurried.

Grimm immediately chanted the incantation, and a fist-sized wheel of light appeared on one finger, and then a fiery flash of light shot out, hitting the trunk of the tree.

There was no reaction at all.

Grimm stepped forward and looked left and right carefully, but he couldn't find the slightest place of charring. The entire bark is intact and has not changed in the slightest.

"That's weird!" Grimm exclaimed, "It's the first time I've seen trees have spell resistance." ”

"It's not spell resistance. Dongzyzi corrected: "In fact, it is a very special 'elemental resistance' effect. It can resist not only fire, but also frost, acid, etc. As long as their strength and level are not too high, they can be prevented. ”

Grimm asked, "Have you ever thought that it would be permanent, as long as the enemy's one-time attack is not exceeded, it can be prevented?"

"That's good!" Tohezi nodded, "My rune looks like a text, but it actually contains the effect of a magic circle. After refining my secret method, it now has a permanent resistance effect. Then I completely fused the rune with the body of the tree, and unless the tree man was completely destroyed, the effect would always exist and never fade!"

Grimm sighed, "With your level, I think Master Bainhalle will definitely be happy to communicate with you." ”

Two or three days passed day and night.

At this time, the terrain began to change dramatically - the hills became low mountain clusters, crisscrossed by the front. Countless hills about two or three stories high seem to be huge lumps, and they cover the vast land. The road was winding, steep, and full of potholes.

Grimm sat in the caravan and felt like his bones were really about to fall apart. As the car jolted violently, the contents of his stomach churned up from time to time, as if Ma Shan was about to squirt out of his throat. It makes my mind dizzy and my neck weak, which is really uncomfortable.

He had to shout to slow down, making the car slower than the ox pulling the cart. Just like that, he was still clamoring to get out of the car and walk.

Toheko, of course, didn't believe that he could really use those two slightly thin legs to get on the road, so he ignored his mutterings and sat down at the front of the car at ease, carefully observing the dense vegetation and the occasional animal.

On both sides of the mountain, there are lush one-man tall shrubs, and in between, sparse trees stand.

As the caravan slowly moved forward, Donghezi looked at the trees more and more attentively, as if he didn't want to miss any of them. After a long time, the car suddenly stopped. He jumped out of the car and walked straight to a large tree in the bush. Leaving the inexplicable Grimm and Lelin behind.

The shrubs and trees grew on the steep slopes of the hill, and there were countless horizontal branches blocking them, which was extremely difficult to walk up and observe. But I saw Tozyko striding up with both feet, like a well-balanced goat walking freely on the cliff, not only did not slow down, but quickly skimmed over the bushes as if he was trotting, and came to the bottom of the tree. There was an invisible path across the steep and uneven mountain, through large and small protruding rocks and dense roots that blocked movement, allowing him to pass lightly.

"It's called 'walking through the woods,' isn't it?" Grimm said to himself, "It's really interesting." ”

Le Lin next to him secretly glanced at him. Because he saw that Tozygoko's body showed a special shaking rhythm and some crouching movements in the process of crossing mountains and shrubs. From a martial arts point of view, it is to use the skillful coordination of the body and pace to move through gaps and weak blocking positions. A closer look reveals that his path is not straight but slightly curved. It was clear that he was deliberately trying to circumvent those difficult positions. But with the bushes obscuring his vision, how did he know where it was difficult to walk and where it was easy to walk?

Toheko frowned and looked around the strange tree - because it was actually a giant fern!

He looked around, and all the shrubs were angiosperms, and all the trees that stood tall were ferns—the same plants from the Carboniferous and Permian eras, when the little ancestors of the dinosaurs were still scavenging for scraps!

According to the law of the evolution and development of plants on the earth, first algae, then ferns, then gymnosperms, and finally angiosperms with the most complete evolutionary process. When angiosperms appeared, they dominated the earth by relying on their powerful water nutrient absorption mode, special pollination and reproductive mode, and diversified seed transfer mode, and pushed ferns into humble corners to survive.

But the tall trees here are all ferns, so why don't you see angiosperms? It stands to reason that angiosperms are the most advantageous in such relatively arid and cold conditions. How did primitive ferns prevail?

This is so abnormal!

Tozyko groped for the thick snake-scale bark of the tree, and performed a "plant conversation" on herself, so that she could communicate with ordinary plants or plant creatures. You can even ask a question to a plant and get an answer. However, ordinary plants have limited perception of the outside world and themselves, and can only provide some rough information.

But, that's enough.

Togoko's right hand pressed tightly against the trunk of the tree, allowing the magical energy to resonate strongly between herself and the tree.

"How did you spread the spores?" he asked from the depths of his mind, using the magic energy to apply to the tall fern trees.

A set of information "flows" backwards.

It was not words, but it was as clear as speaking in his ear, it was not an image, but it was as vivid as a picture, as if he had whispered through the process - he had "seen" what had happened to the tree in the past.

A pink flower as big as a buffalo blooms on the top of the tree, like a large trumpet stretching its mouth wide to show off. But the giant "flower" can be made up of delicate "petals", but is made of a tissue that is tougher than rhinoceros skin and as thick as half a forearm. Inside are dense stubby stalks and sporangia waiting to mature.

But these sporangia are as large as watermelons and have a peculiar structure, and there are some powdery substances on them, which in turn secrete nectar-like substances that attract a large number of insects to fly and collect in the huge flowers. After being covered with sticky powder, he flew out to find the next plant. Other bugs flew in after getting "powder" from other trees. As they crawl around the spores to feed on nectar material, the powder particles on their bodies stick to them as soon as they come into contact with the spores. After a while, it slowly submerged into the spores.

The "message" is becoming clearer and clearer—the seemingly calm spores are undergoing drastic changes inside. The so-called powder grains are actually a special genetic exchange material. Through guò they flow out and in, these ferns can exchange genes like angiosperms, revolutionizing the disadvantages of parthenogenesis.

But, ferns shouldn't have flowers!

Toheko hurriedly sent a question to the trees: "Why do you have flowers, and when did such things appear?"

However, trees do not have history books, and they cannot know what happened during the long evolutionary process. The message is still that the spores exchange genes with powdered grains and sweet substances, and so on, repeat, repeat, repeat.

He didn't want to give up, and once again his doubts went deep into the trees.

Another set of information came: when the spores acquired new genetic characteristics and gradually matured, their surface changed dramatically, and many moth-like tentacle-like "branches" grew. As soon as the wind and rain roared, the spores swayed up with the force of the wind, rose to a very high altitude in the air, and flew far away with the never-ending wind.

Fly, fly, it doesn't seem to be a time to come down. Even the slightest breeze can keep them afloat. It seems to be floating in the air forever.

Finally, after a few years of wear, the "branches" used to fly withered. The spores slowly descend from the sky and germinate and grow in new areas. The cycle of life begins again. These ferns, on the other hand, float in the air for long periods of time to spread to distant areas, and even across oceans. It is much inferior to the inferior sowing method of the earth's ferns, which can only be sown by relatively static water.

Tohezi sighed secretly, six points out of disappointment, because he didn't get the initial evolutionary information. The fourth point is emotion: who knew that plants from other worlds had broken through the laws of the earth's development and evolved new ways to adapt to the environment. It seems that a lot of knowledge has to be learned from scratch.

As he walked towards the caravan down the mountain, he wondered: If ferns can undergo such drastic changes, what about other plants?

Thinking a little further, will animals also have changes that violate the laws of the earth, but conform to the laws of this world?

After returning to the caravan with a heavy heart, and ordering the dwarf tree man to pull the cart on his way, he asked Grimm, "Look at the trees on the mountain, have you seen them anywhere else?"

Grimm was stunned by his question: "Of course I've seen it, it's everywhere." If you go a few hundred miles further east, you can see patches of these trees. ”

Toheko lowered his head and thought for a while, then suddenly asked, "Have you ever heard of lizards that can survive in ice and snow environments?"

"Yes. There are fewer of them in the western continent, but there are large frost monitor lizards living together in groups on the northern continent, and the more they are in the ice and snow environment, the more they like to catch prey. And there are many types, the smaller ones are quadrupeds, and the larger ones are hexapods. I've heard that some guys can grow to more than 30 feet (more than 10 meters) long. Grimm said with a strange feeling in his heart - isn't this kind of thing normal?

Higashiko let out an "oh" and stopped talking.

What will the ecology of the world evolve into when new ferns have matured and monitor lizards that can survive in cold environments?

Further, does humanity still have an evolutionary advantage in this world? Is it like the quilt shrubs under the fern trees, in fact, prostrate in the shadow of other races?

I'm really going to have to take a look around.

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