Chapter 176: Elven Past

"The elves are only considered adults at the age of fifty, and the dead girl was seventeen years old, twenty-four years have passed, so it shouldn't be stupid and naΓ―ve, right?"

"For twenty-four years, she has been spreading rumors, if she can use this perseverance in her cultivation, I am afraid that she will already have a good cultivation. ”

Although it is very unpleasant to be pointed at everywhere he goes, and it is very unpleasant to be called ugly and bad, Chen Han is too lazy to bother with those little children.

A short time later, just as we were about to reach the center of this forest village, a loud and pleasant flute suddenly sounded.

The onlookers on the road all showed joyful expressions, and no one paid attention to Chen Han anymore, condensed into a pair of transparent wings with magic power, and flew towards the southwest at the fastest speed.

What's the situation?

He didn't know much about the elves, but he didn't know the meaning of the flute, so he simply opened his legs and followed the direction of the elves.

He ran down like a wild buffalo, and I don't know how many flowers and plants were scattered into mud, so that the nearby elves cast angry looks. For the elves who prefer nature, it is absolutely unforgivable to spoil plants like this, if it weren't for the patriarch's thousands of instructions, saying that Chen Han is the best friend of the elf clan, they would have gone crazy on the spot.

Ten miles away, a 100-meter-tall towering tree stood tall, and thousands of elves surrounded the tree.

The skin of the tree is extremely old, as if it has been baptized by countless years, but it exudes endless vitality. This kind of big tree, which has never been seen before, is surrounded by a layer of pale green air currents, and the branches are full of dark green colors, the largest is two circles larger than a basketball, and the smallest is only the size of grapes.

Evelyn stood less than ten meters away from the big tree with a solemn expression, and the eight elders of the elf clan had also arrived, and Ji'er, who had not seen a little less green for more than twenty years, and her appearance was even more beautiful, standing beside her mother.

"Patriarch, I don't think this tree is simple, what's the origin?" Chen Han came over from his own ripeness.

"Ugly Baba...... Bad guy ......" Ji'er glared at someone and muttered quietly.

"Hey, little girl, don't hold a grudge so much, okay?"

Chen Han was really annoyed by her, and said a little angrily and helplessly: "It's been more than 20 years, you don't have to spread rumors all day long, right?

Ji Er snorted and turned her head, looking disdainful of talking to him, if Chen Han stood on the other side, he would find that her small mouth that made men want to kiss was still those two words.

As the patriarch of the elf clan, Evelyn naturally would not be like those underage children, she turned her head to look at Chen Han and nodded and smiled, which made people feel like a spring breeze.

Suddenly!

The smile froze suddenly, and she said in surprise: "Chen Han, you ...... Twenty-two years ago, when you came here, you were only distracted, how could you ......?"

Chen Han's understanding of the elves is relatively limited, and vice versa, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't know at all. Evelyn had long known that he didn't have the energy, so it was impossible for him to fuse the essence of the earth's spiritual vein, and in this case, if he wanted to complete the breakthrough from the distraction period to the merging stage, even if he was a talented innate Dao body, it would be impossible to do it without a hundred years.

"Huh...... It's just a bit of luck. ”

Pretending to be embarrassed and scratching his head, he didn't want to say more on the issue of cultivation, and asked, "Patriarch, I remember the last time I came over, I didn't see this tree, what is so different about it?"

It was also evident that the special heart method was his biggest secret, and Evelyn didn't want to embarrass him, and said softly: "This is the source of life of our elven race, without it, there would be no elven race, its name is the tree of life." I told you before that our clan has paid a great price for you, not that the people of the clan have come all the way, but the most important thing is the migration of the tree of life. ”

The migration of the tree of life is not just a matter of digging up and transplanting, a place to grow is determined, and the only way to transfer it is to reverse it into a seed.

It will take five years to reach its original state when it comes here from the Forest of Flower Language, and these five years are a great loss for the elves.

Cause?

This is the contradiction between the dark elves and the forest elves, and the history goes back to an extremely long time.

Everyone knows that the elves and the cyclops have one thing in common, that is, the reproduction speed is far from comparable to that of humans, and Chen Han is also very clear about this, but he doesn't know another thing, that is, the way the elves reproduce is completely different from all races.

They do not reproduce the next generation through the opposite sex, the process is done by the tree of life, and the fruit on the tree of life is effectively equivalent to the embryo of a human being.

When a new fruit is born, it is decided which female elf owns the fruit according to the order that has been drawn up in the clan. After that, the female elf will fuse her own eggs into it, and when the melon is ripe, the elf born will become the child of the female elf.

Therefore, the status of men in the elf race is lower than that of women, not only because the female elves have stronger comprehensive strength, but most importantly, because the reproduction of this race completely depends on the tree of life and the female elves, and the male elves cannot play a role in reproduction at all.

In other words, the elves are born with only their mothers and no fathers.

The Tree of Life can only produce ten ripe fruits per year, and at the same time give birth to ten new fruits, which means that the entire forest elf clan can only add ten clansmen every year, and this kind of reproduction speed is really not flattering.

As the race war continues, there will be a certain amount of consumption every year, and it is rare that even the elven clan can maintain it unabated.

The relatively low status of male elves, coupled with the slow reproduction rate of the elves, led some elves to have other ideas in their hearts.

Years ago, a male elder tried to break the pattern and reproduce by mating between men and women.

Not only can it solve the problem of the slow reproduction speed of the elves, but once successful, it can also greatly improve the status of male elves, but the affairs of men and women are the biggest taboo in the elves. For the elves who are extremely close to nature and have pure hearts, that kind of thing is the dirtiest behavior, and there have been elves who have done that kind of thing, and all of them have been executed.

With the help of his identity and power, the elf elder secretly had a relationship with a female elf, and the female elf successfully became pregnant.

Thus, an internal dispute began to play out.

The speed of reproduction of the elves is the biggest flaw of the race, but physical communication is also a big taboo, and the dilemma directly leads to the division of the whole clan into two factions. The patriarch was naturally opposed, and the faction led by the male elder was on the opposite side, believing that this was the best way to strengthen the elven race.

The dispute between the two factions did not last long, and as the first elf born by a female elf grew up, a big problem arose.

This child, who was not conceived by the Tree of Life, although he has the appearance of an elf race and has an affinity for the magic of life, he must cultivate to have the ability.

Elves, like Cyclops, have great abilities as they grow naturally, but this is not the case with elves conceived through their mothers.

As a result, the elves bred in this way had drawbacks, and the patriarch of the time used this as an excuse to completely overthrow the opposing factions.

It's a pity that the elder saw the opportunity, he thought that although the elves bred in this way had lost the natural ability to improve, they could completely make up for the deficiency through cultivation, which was enough to increase the reproduction speed of the elf race.

In the end, with irreconcilable contradictions, the elves were divided into two parts, one was the forest elves who adhered to the ancestral teachings, and the other was the dark elves who were seen as rebellious. There was only one tree of life, and the power of the rebellious dark elves at that time was obviously not as strong as the forest elves, so naturally they failed to take the tree of life, and their race reproduced in the same way as humans.

The disadvantages of that method can be completely compensated for by the day after tomorrow, and the advantage is that the speed of reproduction is far faster than that of the forest elves, and as the years have passed, thousands of years have passed, and the originally weak dark elves have developed to an astonishing extent enough to compete with the forest elves.

Chen Han didn't ask Evelyn why the forest elves didn't know how to be flexible, he knew very well that saying this sentence would cause unnecessary misunderstandings.

It's a tradition that has been formed by a race for countless years, and no matter how weird you may feel it is, it just exists.

"Today is the day of the multiplication of the clan, and ten new members will be added to the clan, and as the most loyal friend of the clan, you can stay here to watch the ceremony. ”

After Evelyn finished speaking, she shifted her gaze to the ten largest fruits on the Tree of Life, where small lives were born and the hope of the forest elves.

Feeling the pulse of life faintly coming from the fruit, Chen Han frowned and said, "Why can the Tree of Life only give birth to ten clansmen a year, is there any way to make it give birth to more?"

"It relies on absorbing the power of natural life and condensing it into a young life, and ten people a year is the limit, unless it is ......" Evelyn stopped talking and shook her head helplessly.

"Unless what?"

"Unless you can find the Fountain of Life, watering the Tree of Life with it will speed up the gestation. ”

Evelyn chuckled helplessly and sighed, and changed her words: "That's just a legend left by the ancestors, what the Fountain of Life looks like and where it is, there is no guidance at all. ”

Suddenly!

A huge fruit emitted a green glow, and the vigorous breath of life was stirred, and several tiny cracks appeared on the surface of the fruit.

Suddenly, a female elf flew out of the crowd with a happy face, and the transparent light wings behind her flickered and floated to the side of the fruit, her expression was full of love and tenderness: "Child...... My baby is going to be born, he's going to be born, hopefully a lovely little girl......"

In a race completely different from the traditional patriarchal preference of Yan and Huang, girls are favored and have a better status in the future than boys, and she naturally wants her child to be a girl.

When all the elves were cheering for the arrival of the new life and celebrating the female elf who had a child, Chen Han silently frowned and thought about his thoughts: "I don't know what the spring of life is, but the tree of life gives birth to elves, and it has to absorb life force from other plants, isn't it just to speed up its absorption?"

A bold idea came to his mind, and if this method worked, it would be better to return the favor of the elves, he didn't like this feeling of indebtedness......