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"So, which kind of silkworm soul beast should I choose?" Sisi was not an unrealistic woman, although she admired wealth and nobility, she could also accept reality, if she couldn't get it, she would choose a backup, and make do with it. "Silkworm soul beasts, besides the ice silkworm you mentioned, generally like to eat mulberry leaves, but there don't seem to be many mulberry trees in this Nuoding Forest."
"Sisi sister, you don't have to worry about this, because we just happened to be on the way." Tang San smiled.
Why did Tang San say that?
This has to start from the plant soul beast he needed, the Thousand Root Banyan.
The Thousand Root Banyan is a plant soul beast with a very lush crown, green leaves, and almost all insect soul beasts will eat it, and its juice can even help insect soul beasts grow.
Of course, it only works for plant-eating insect soul beasts.
If the juice of the Thousand Root Banyan could improve the cultivation of soul masters, even if this kind of plant soul beast was hard to cut, it would be cut to extinction by soul masters.
When the Thousand Root Banyan grows to the ten thousand year level, it is a whole forest, and it is a beautiful home for insect soul beasts.
However, the Thousand Root Banyan needs protection before it grows up.
After all, its leaves are very delicious for insect soul beasts, and its juice can even improve their cultivation.
Insect soul beasts do not have human wisdom.
The previous mention of human soul masters cutting the Thousand Root Banyan to extinction was just a hypothetical extreme situation in the assumption [juice is effective for soul power enhancement], the real situation is that humans will regularly collect it, and the Spiirit Hall has a high probability of sending people to protect the Thousand Root Banyan, a plant soul beast that does not produce wisdom.
But insect soul beasts are different, they only have the instinct to grow, their wisdom is not high before the ten thousand year cultivation, they will swallow the things that are beneficial to them as soon as they encounter them, regardless of whether they have grown up or not.
If that's all, then the Thousand Root Banyan would be extinct, and it wouldn't be surprising.
But in fact, the Thousand Root Banyan did not go extinct.
After learning about the Thousand Root Banyan, Tang San had to praise the natural world for its magic and beauty.
The Thousand Root Banyan did not go extinct, because the Thousand Root Banyan had a carnivorous silkworm soul beast named "Banyan Silkworm" guarding it before it grew to a thousand years.
The Soul Encyclopedia did not record how the Banyan Silkworm appeared on the Thousand Root Banyan, but every one of the Thousand Root Banyans that were found below a thousand years had a Banyan Silkworm.
Tang San had a guess about this, that is, when the Thousand Root Banyan was still in the seed form, the Banyan Moth, the adult form of the Banyan Silkworm, searched for the seeds of the Thousand Root Banyan all over the world, and laid eggs on them, growing up with the Thousand Root Banyan.
The Banyan Silkworm is a carnivorous silkworm soul beast, it does not eat plants, and the Thousand Root Banyan cannot withstand the gnawing of other insect soul beasts before it grows up.
The two live together, each taking what they need.
Listening to Tang San's introduction of the symbiotic relationship between the Thousand Root Banyan and the Banyan Silkworm, Su Yuntao, Ma Xiunuo and others were also amazed, and marveled at the ecological peculiarities of the soul beasts.
Ma Xiunuo asked a question: "Why is it below a thousand years?"
Tang San said: "The Soul Encyclopedia did not give a corresponding explanation, it just said that the Banyan Silkworm above a thousand years, as long as it was not hunted, still existed, but it no longer drove away and killed other insects that came to eat leaves and gnaw on tree juice. I have two more reasonable guesses about this."
Su Yuntao was curious: "What guesses?"
"The first one, the Banyan Silkworm does not have the ability to drive away and kill other insect soul beasts, because the Thousand Root Banyan with a thousand years of cultivation, its roots have stretched underground for nearly a thousand meters, and the trunk above, covering an area of nearly a hundred meters."
Tang San talked eloquently, with a bit of a pointing-the-country attitude.
"With such a scale, a thousand-year-old Banyan Silkworm can't manage it."
"The Thousand Root Banyan with a thousand years of cultivation will not lose its vitality because of a little bit of juice, and those plant-eating insect soul beasts that come to suck the juice will also attract other carnivorous insects and animal soul beasts, forming a complete ecology."
"Without exaggeration, the Thousand Root Banyan with a thousand years of cultivation is a small soul beast forest."
Ma Xiunuo nodded: "It should be like this, in the north of the Tian Dou Empire, there is a soul beast forest that is completely made of Thousand Root Banyans, and no soul master can tell whether those crisscrossing and continuous Thousand Root Banyans are one or more. In fact, let alone ten thousand years, even a thousand years, no soul master would hunt this kind of plant soul beast, except for the trouble of hunting, it is because this is equivalent to destroying a soul beast forest, no empire would let soul masters do this, and the Spirit Hall would not allow it."
A hunting soul forest, a plant soul beast.
Even if the soul masters of the Douluo Continent do not understand the principle of "sustainable development", they would know how to choose with their butts.
"And the second guess, it is that the Banyan Silkworm has reached maturity, and it is going to molt and turn into a moth, and it has no time to deal with other insect soul beasts."
"But the first one is more likely."
During the discussion, the four of them had already passed through a large area of the forest, and according to the map, they found the Thousand Root Banyan.
The nearly towering tree that stood in front of Tang San was the Thousand Root Banyan.
The terrain here was also different from the other parts of the Nuoding Forest, with this Thousand Root Banyan as the center, within a radius of thirty meters, there was no grass, and it was covered with spider web-like Thousand Root Banyan roots.
These roots were not just the surface layer, they were deeper underground.
It is said that even the Titled Douluo, who is known for his strength, cannot uproot a hundred-year-old Thousand Root Banyan, because it is connected to the earth, and to uproot the Thousand Root Banyan, one needs to have the strength to lift the entire Douluo Continent.
Although this legend is exaggerated, the fact that the Title Douluo cannot uproot the Thousand Root Banyan may be true.
The Titled Douluo has a thousand ways to destroy the Thousand Root Banyan, but to uproot a Thousand Root Banyan, it can still be described as "a mayfly shaking a tree".
Destructive power and strength can be said to be two different things.
"Is this the Thousand Root Banyan? It's really spectacular!"
Su Yuntao couldn't help but exclaim.
Even though it was only over five hundred years old, the trunk diameter of this Thousand Root Banyan was more than ten meters!
However, unlike ordinary trees, the trunk of the Thousand Root Banyan was not round or oval, but hollow inside, crisscrossing each other, like a stretched irregular fishing net, surrounded by both sides, forming a twisted ring.
Its trunk was very clean, without any extra branches and leaves, only a large crown on top, covering the same area as the root stems on the ground.
The branches on top had dense roots growing and spreading downward, some of which had touched the ground, rooted, and became hard, while some were still hanging in the air, swaying when the wind blew, very soft.
Hard and soft in one, truly very peculiar.
This was the expansion method of the Thousand Root Banyan, the root stems grew from the branches of the crown to the ground.
Ordinary trees can be roughly divided into crown, trunk, and roots, but the Thousand Root Banyan, this kind of plant soul beast, actually had no trunk at all, only roots and crown.
Even, it can be considered as a strange grass, growing like a tree.
Rustle!
The leaves on the crown trembled, and a green worm almost as big as a human head emerged, with a black head, and two pincers below, trembling, as if warning Tang San and the others.
"Banyan Silkworm, I didn't expect it to come out so soon, I thought I had to cut down the tree first, and it would appear, looking at its appearance, I guess it considers us as invaders." Tang San was surprised, happy, and pointed, and said to Sisi sister, "We are lucky, we can take it down first, and then we cut down the tree."
"Its attack method is to spit silk, which can branch, and even I think if it had human wisdom, it could weave it into something like a spider web."
"Is it poisonous?" Su Yuntao, who was attached to the lone wolf, turned into a wolfman, and cared more about whether this thing was poisonous, Sisi's second soul ring couldn't be poisonous.
"Don't worry, the soul has a tolerance limit for poison, and this is what I pointed out to Sisi sister first, how could I choose a poisonous soul ring for Sisi sister?" Tang San pointed out the age of this Banyan Silkworm, "After absorbing the soul power of this Banyan Silkworm, I estimate that Sisi sister's strength will be qualitatively improved, the silk of the Banyan Silkworm, the silk of the ribbon, can be said to complement each other."
"More than four hundred years, isn't this age a bit high?" Su Yuntao was worried about whether his girlfriend could bear the soul ring of four hundred years, "Or change one?"
"No, just this one." Sisi didn't want to give up, "Isn't the limit of the second soul ring around seven hundred years? This is only over four hundred years, do you think I can't afford it? Don't underestimate me, when we had a PC battle, the first person who ran out of stamina was you!"
Su Yuntao: "······"
"Ahem! Be careful what you say, there are still children on the scene." Ma Xiunuo couldn't stand it anymore, and reminded him.
Su Yuntao was a bit embarrassed, but still didn't want Sisi to take risks, and said back to the point, "That master's theory can't be trusted, he's just a joke."
In front of Yu Xiaogang, this couldn't be said, but now, he could say whatever he wanted.
Ma Xiunuo also nodded frequently.
"Isn't your second ring also four hundred years old?" Sisi snorted, "You can do it, why can't I? Besides, Xiao San said that I have a very high compatibility with this Banyan Silkworm."
"Alright then."
Su Yuntao stopped persuading, the first soul ring lit up, and jumped towards the Banyan Silkworm.
First soul skill: Hungry Wolf Pounce!
This name was naturally taken by him.
Soul ring: white.
Obviously, it was the retired teacher of Nuoding Academy who took him to hunt when he was young.
Xiao Chenyu was the son of the city lord, and he only had a white soul ring, let alone Su Yuntao?
And the effect of the soul skill was also very chicken ribs, it just made Su Yuntao run on all fours in the state of soul attachment, just like a real wolf, pouncing on the prey.
If he didn't know that this was the effect of the soul skill, Tang San would have thought that Su Yuntao was playing dog*play.
In Tang San's view, wasting a soul ring position, and bringing such an attack method that can be done even without using the soul ring skill, was really a bit "luxurious".
The helplessness of the commoner soul master, nothing more than this.
Their first soul ring was mostly hunted by the teacher when they were studying in the junior soul master academy.
But the teachers of the junior soul master academy were basically those who encountered a soul beast that they felt was similar to a certain characteristic of the student's soul, and they directly helped to capture and stun it, to save trouble.
They wouldn't consider everything for the students.
After all, hunting souls was not easy, and it was hard to find a suitable soul beast for a long time, the patience of the leading teacher would wear out, and the students were not really apprentices, so they naturally wouldn't be too attentive.
Yu Xiaogang's best soul ring age limit was probably taken from the historical records of the highest age limit that different soul masters could absorb at different levels.
However, the physique of people cannot be generalized.