Chapter 14 The helplessness of civilian soul masters

"So, which silkworm soul beast should I choose?" Sisi is not the kind of unrealistic woman. Although she loves wealth, she can also accept reality. If she can't get it, she can choose a backup and make do with it. " Silkworm soul beasts, except for the ice silkworms you mentioned, generally like to eat mulberry leaves, and there don’t seem to be many mulberry trees in Notting Forest."

"Sister Sisi, you don't have to worry about this, because we happened to be on the way." Tang San smiled.

Why did Tang San say this?

This also starts with the plant soul beast he needs, Qiangenrong.

Plant soul beasts like Thousand Root Banyan Trees have a very lush canopy and green leaves. Almost all insect soul beasts will eat it, and its juice can even help insect soul beasts grow.

Of course, it is only effective against plant-eating insect soul beasts.

If the juice of these thousand banyan trees can improve the soul master's cultivation, no matter how difficult it is to cut down this plant soul beast, it will still be cut down to extinction by the soul masters.

When the thousand-root banyan tree grows to the ten thousand-year level, it will become an entire forest, a beautiful home for insect-like soul beasts.

However, soul beasts like Qiangenrong also need protection before they can grow up.

After all, its leaves are very delicious to insect spirit beasts, and its juice can even improve their cultivation.

Insect spirit beasts do not have the intelligence of humans.

The human soul masters who chopped down the thousand-rooted banyan trees mentioned before are just an extreme case assuming [the juice is effective in improving soul power]. The real situation is that humans will collect it regularly, and there is a high probability that the Wuhun Palace will send people To protect Qiangenrong, a plant soul beast that cannot produce intelligence.

But insect soul beasts are different. They only have the instinct to grow. Their cultivation was thousands of years ago, and their wisdom is not high. When they encounter something that is beneficial to them, they will devour it as soon as possible, regardless of whether it has grown.

If this were the case, it would not be surprising if the Thousand-rooted Banyan Tree became extinct.

But in fact, the Thousand-Gandled Ficus is not extinct.

After Tang San learned about Qiangenrong, he couldn't help but praise the magic and beauty of nature.

The reason why the Thousand Root Banyan Tree is not extinct is because before the Thousand Root Banyan Tree grew to a thousand years, it was protected by a carnivorous silkworm soul beast named "Rong Silkworm".

The "Martial Spirit Encyclopedia" does not record how the banyan silkworm appeared on the Thousand-rooted Banyan Tree, but every Thousand-rooted Banyan Tree discovered that is less than a thousand years old has a banyan silkworm.

Tang San had a guess about this, that is, when the Thousand Roots Banyan Tree was still in its seed form, the banyan moth, the adult soul beast of the banyan silkworm, was looking for Thousand Roots Banyan Tree seeds all over the world and laid its eggs on them. , growing together with thousands of banyan trees.

Banyan silkworms are carnivorous silkworm soul beasts and do not eat vegetarian food. However, before the thousand-root banyan tree grows up, it cannot withstand the nibbling of other insect soul beasts.

The two go hand in hand, each taking what it needs.

Listening to Tang San's introduction to the companionship between the Thousand-rooted Banyan Tree and the Banyan Silkworm, Su Yuntao, Mathieu Nuo and others were also eye-opened and marveled at the strange ecology among the spirit beasts.

Matthew Nuo asked a question: "Why under a thousand years?"

Tang San replied: "The Encyclopedia of Martial Spirits does not give a corresponding explanation. It just says that as long as the banyan silkworms that are more than a thousand years old have not been hunted, they will still exist, but they will no longer treat other people who come to eat the leaves. All the insects that eat the sap will be wiped out. I have two more reasonable guesses about this——"

Su Yuntao was curious: "What guess?"

"First, the banyan silkworms are unable to drive out all the other insect soul beasts, because the roots of a thousand-year-old banyan tree have stretched nearly a thousand meters underground, and the tree trunk above has a coverage area of ​​nearly a hundred meters."

Tang San talked eloquently and had the air of giving guidance to the country.

"At such a scale, a thousand-year-old banyan silkworm cannot manage it."

"Thousand-year-old banyan trees no longer lose their vitality because of a small amount of juice. Those plant-eating insect soul beasts that suck the juice will also attract other carnivorous insects, insects, and animal soul beasts, forming a complete ecology.”

"To put it bluntly, the thousand-year-old Qiangenrong is a small spirit beast forest."

Mathieu Nodded: "That should be it. To the north of the Tiandou Empire, there is a forest of soul beasts that are entirely made up of thousands of banyan trees. No soul master can tell whether the crisscrossing and continuous thousands of banyan trees are one tree or another. Many plants... In fact, not to mention ten thousand years, even a thousand years, no soul master will hunt this kind of plant soul beast. In addition to the trouble of hunting, it is because it is equivalent to destroying a forest of soul beasts. An empire would let a soul master do this, and the Spirit Hall would not allow it."

A soul hunting forest, a plant soul beast.

Even if the soul masters in Douluo Continent don't understand the principle of "sustainable development", they all know how to choose if they think about it with their buttocks.

"And the second guess is that the banyan silkworm has reached maturity and needs to transform into a moth. It has no time to pay attention to other insect soul beasts."

"However, the first one is more likely."

During the discussion, the four of them had already passed through a large forest and found the location of Qiangenrong based on the map.

The nearly towering tree standing in front of Tang San was the Thousand Roots Banyan Tree.

The terrain here is also different from other places in Notting Forest. With this Thousand Banyan Tree as the center, within a radius of thirty meters, there is no grass growing, and there are thousands of Banyan Tree rhizomes that look like spider webs.

These rhizomes are not just on the surface, they are rooted deeper underground.

Rumor has it that even a titled Douluo, who is famous for his strength, cannot uproot a century-old Thousand-rooted Banyan Tree because it is connected to the earth. To uproot a Thousand-rooted Banyan Tree, you need to have the power to lift the entire Douluo Continent. the power of.

Although this legend is exaggerated, it may be true that a titled Douluo cannot pull up a thousand banyan trees.

Titled Douluo has a thousand ways to destroy a thousand-rooted banyan tree, but to uproot a thousand-rooted banyan tree, it can still be described as "a mayfly shakes the tree".

Destructive power and strength can be said to be two different things.

"Is this the Thousand Root Banyan Tree? It's really spectacular!"

Su Yuntao couldn't help but marvel.

Even though it is only more than five hundred years old, the trunk diameter of this Thousand-rooted Banyan Tree is more than ten meters!

However, unlike ordinary trees, the trunk of a thousand-rooted banyan tree is not round or oval. It is hollow inside and intertwined with each other, like an irregular fishing net held up, surrounded by two sides. It became a twisted ring.

Its trunk is very clean, with no extra branches and leaves. There is only a large crown on the top, and its coverage is equivalent to the scope of the roots on the ground.

The branches at the top have dense roots that grow and spread downward. Some have touched the ground, rooted themselves in, and become hard. Some are still hanging in the air. When the wind blows, they sway and are very supple. .

The combination of hardness and softness is really strange.

This is how the fig grows, with rhizomes growing from the crown branches toward the ground.

Ordinary trees can be roughly divided into crowns, tree trunks, and tree roots. However, plant-type soul beasts like the Thousand Root Banyan Tree actually have no tree trunks at all, only roots and tree crowns.

It can even be thought that this is a strange grass, grass that looks like a tree.

rustle!

The leaves on the crown of the tree trembled, and a green insect as big as a man's head emerged. The head was black, and there were two claws underneath, which were trembling, as if to warn Tang San and others.

"The banyan silkworm came out unexpectedly. I thought the tree needed to be cut down before it could appear. From the looks of it, it probably regarded us as intruders." Tang San was surprised, happy, and then He raised his finger and said to Sister Sisi, "We are lucky. We can take it down first, and then we can chop down the tree."

"Its attack method is to spin silk threads, which can be forked. I even think that if it has human intelligence, it can weave it into a spider web or something like that."

"Is it poisonous?" Su Yuntao was possessed by the lone wolf and turned into a werewolf. He was more concerned about whether this thing was poisonous. Sisi's second soul ring could not be poisonous.

"Don't worry, Wuhun has a limit to the poison it can withstand, and I should point this out to Sister Sisi first. Why would you 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 will be qualitatively improved. The silk threads of the banyan silkworm and the silk threads of the ribbon complement each other."

"More than four hundred years, isn't this age a bit high?" Su Yuntao was a little worried about whether his girlfriend could withstand a four-hundred-year soul ring, "How about changing to another one?"

"No, that's it." Sisi didn't want to give up, "Isn't the limit of the second soul ring about seven hundred years? This one is only more than four hundred years, do you think I can't bear it? Don't underestimate me, let's do PC During the battle, the first person to lose strength is you!"

Su Yuntao: “·······”

"Ahem! Be careful what you say, there are children here." Matthew Nuo reminded him as he couldn't stand it anymore.

Su Yuntao was a little embarrassed, but he still didn't want Sisi to take risks, so he got back to business and said, "You can't believe that master's theory. He is just a joke."

Naturally, I couldn't say this in front of Yu Xiaogang, but now, I can say it freely.

Matthew Nuo also nodded frequently.

"Isn't your second ring also four hundred years old?" Sisi snorted, "You can do it, why can't I? Besides, the mistress has said that I am extremely compatible with this banyan silkworm."

"Oh well."

Su Yuntao stopped trying to dissuade him. The first soul ring lit up and jumped towards the banyan silkworm.

The first soul skill: Hungry wolf pounces on food!

Naturally, he chose this name himself.

Soul ring: white.

Apparently, it was the retired teacher from Notting College who took the once-young him to hunt.

Xiao Chenyu is the son of the city lord, and he is just a white soul ring, let alone Su Yuntao?

The function of the soul skill is also very useless. It allows Su Yuntao to get down on all fours while possessed by the martial soul, run like a real wolf and pounce on his prey.

If he didn't know that this was the effect of a soul skill, Tang San would have thought that Su Yuntao was playing dog*play.

In Tang San's view, it was a bit "luxury" to waste a soul ring's position to bring about such an attack method that could be done even without using soul ring skills.

There is nothing more helpless than this for civilian soul masters.

Most of their first soul rings were hunted by their teachers when they were studying in the Junior Soul Master Academy.

However, teachers at the junior soul master academy basically help capture and knock out soul beasts directly after encountering soul beasts that they think have similar characteristics to the students' souls, in order to save trouble.

They don’t consider everything for their students.

After all, hunting souls is not easy. If you fail to meet a suitable soul beast for a long time, the patience of the leading teacher will be worn away. In addition, the students are not really apprentices, so naturally they will not pay too much attention.

Yu Xiaogang's optimal soul ring age is probably the highest number of years recorded in history that different soul masters can absorb at different levels.

However, the physiques of people cannot be generalized.