Studying Science in the Alternate World

spirit beast.

It evolved continuously from wild beasts. Even a sparrow may evolve into a spiritual beast over time if it can continue to prey on spirituality.

According to the research of human beings on spiritual mysteries, it is determined that even the 9-ring sub-dragon was just an ordinary creature at the beginning.

It is the evolution of generation after generation, the bloodline continues to grow stronger, and finally reaches the peak of the 9th ring.

It's just that the nourishment of spirituality is imperceptible. Except for human beings who can rely on cultivation to grow rapidly, any creature can only complete the leap in bloodline level through reproduction. Often this kind of transition requires iterations of tens of thousands of years.

certainly.

The elf may be an anomaly, after all, it is difficult to define whether it is an animal or a plant.

As for phantom beasts, it is also a variable, but it is related to humans after all, and is the result of humans' selective cultivation of spirit beasts.

In short, spirit beasts come from wild beasts, but they are self-contained.

"The evolution of spirit beasts requires tens of thousands of years of iterations, but the degeneration only happens overnight. This is too terrifying." Duke said with emotion.

Mentor Penrose, who was observing the human-footed owl, responded indifferently: "It takes tens or hundreds of years for a spirit beast to grow, but it only takes a few minutes for us to hunt and kill it. So, why is this surprising? Retreating is always better than advancing Much easier."

"Having said that, sir, don't you feel afraid? If it is a complete shell of an ancient evil that infects this forest..."

"That's something Bernoulli and the others should worry about, and it has nothing to do with me." Penrose glanced at Duke who was making a fuss.

"Forehead……"

"Go and do your work, don't worry about it. The storm calendar has a history of more than 4,000 years. Only humans have ever conquered the forest, and no forest has ever swallowed humans."

Get kicked out of the Black Beetle by Penrose.

Duke shook his head and laughed. He was just expressing his concern and the importance he attached to this investigation.

Since the 3rd ring arcanist Penrose doesn't care, why should he care as a 1st ring arcane mage.

Just like Penrose's attitude-it's none of my business.

"Duke, come over to the bonfire party." Assistant Vikas came over, "I've been in Cuihai Valley for research for several days, but I haven't had time to get together. It just so happens that everyone came back early today, so we'll have a bonfire party. Be happy."

"Okay." Duke readily agreed.

The bonfire had already been lit, and Balza personally skewered the meat of the hunted spirit beast on a tree branch for barbecue, and Orianna helped him.

Seeing Duke approaching, Orianna immediately said, "Gake whatever you want to eat. The theme of the bonfire party tonight is self-reliance. Don't let others do it for you."

Duke chuckled: "No one knows barbecue better than me."

So from the barbecue equipment that had been prepared earlier, I found a suitable branch, and then found a rabbit leg, strung it skillfully on the branch, and began to barbecue on the campfire.

Leadman and Vikas, as well as Blanc, are also very skilled in outdoor barbecue.

Only Kiria, who just came over from the shower, seemed a little at a loss, clumsily picked up a branch and put a piece of spirit beast meat on it.

"Where's the mentor, Assistant Vikas, didn't you call the mentor over?" Orianna asked.

"The instructor is still busy with the experiment, he said to come over after a while, let us eat first." Vikas said, "I will save some snake meat for the instructor later, the instructor likes to eat grilled snakes the most."

Around the bonfire, everyone chatted while grilling meat.

Duke turned the branch in his hand, glanced at Kiria next to him, and reminded: "Turn it over, and you have to get closer, and roast it with a high fire for a while, so that the surface of the barbecue will be charred, and the moisture in the meat will be locked, otherwise it will be small." If the fire is too long, the meat will be very dry."

"Oh." Kylia put her barbecue close to the campfire.

"Turn over more to prevent burnt."

"OK."

Kylia put herself into the barbecue seriously, and when the shell of the barbecue was burnt, she touched Duke and asked, "Is my roast done?"

"Stay away from the fire and continue roasting for a while."

"Um."

Duke had already roasted his own rabbit leg, took out a dagger that he carried with him, and directly cut a few cuts on the rabbit's leg.

"Duke, Kilia, here are the condiments, you can sprinkle a little on top of the barbecue." Orianna reminded.

Duke smiled and refused: "I said that no one knows barbecue better than me, Orianna, you should try my exclusive barbecue secret ingredient."

He took out a small bottle, sprinkled a layer of secret ingredients on his rabbit legs, and passed it to others.

"What kind of secret ingredient is this?" Assistant Vikas took the small bottle first, imitating Duke to sprinkle a layer on his barbecue.

After taking a bite, I exclaimed: "Oh, it's fragrant!"

He swallowed a mouthful of the barbecue, then held up the small bottle, and exclaimed loudly: "What kind of spice is this, Duke, it makes the barbecue more delicious!"

"Let me give it a try." Orianna took the small bottle, put it under her nose and sniffed it, "Well, it's really fragrant, but is the taste really as good as Vikas exaggerated for you?"

"You'll know if you try it yourself." Vikas said, then turned his head and asked Duke, "What kind of spice is this?"

"I call it ground cumin," Duke said with a smile.

This cumin powder, cumin is not the cumin powder on the earth. When Duke lived in Snake Town, he often ventured into the forest.

Naturally, barbecue in the forest is indispensable.

However, he could not find cumin powder on the market, nor could he find any barbecue seasoning similar to cumin powder, so he searched for the spices he could find, and after countless deployments, he finally formulated a flavor that can greatly enhance the taste of barbecue. spices.

That is, the secret ingredient he called "cumin powder" in the small bottle.

Assistant Vikas nodded and said in praise: "Cumin powder...sprinkling this secret ingredient on the barbecue really makes the barbecue more delicious. You should all try it."

Orianna also took a sip, and her eyes lit up: "Indeed, the effect of cumin powder is really miraculous. It not only makes the barbecue more fragrant, but also feels that when you eat it, it also eliminates a lot of the greasy meat itself. !"

Under the praise of the two, everyone tried it.

And get consistent recognition.

Even Ji Liya, who is not very interested in barbecue and just wants to blend into the atmosphere of the bonfire party, nodded repeatedly: "The effect of cumin powder is more mellow than most of the spices I have eaten before, especially when combined with Barbecue, just right."

"What are you talking about, what cumin powder can make the barbecue more fragrant?" Mentor Penrose joined the bonfire party.

Orianna handed a piece of barbecue that she had grilled to Penrose: "Taste, mentor, the cumin powder provided by Duke has raised the quality of the barbecue at this bonfire party by a whole level."

After the instructor tasted it, he agreed: "It's really good."

"Duke, how did you prepare your cumin powder? I can only taste four kinds of spices, fennel, chickpeas, firewood and chicken bone flower." Balza poured a little cumin powder into the palm of his hand, Then carefully distinguish.

Duke smiled and said: "This should be kept secret, I still want to open a chain barbecue restaurant with cumin powder, but since you like it, I will share the recipe of cumin powder... full of grass, beef tongue tip If mixed in a certain proportion, it becomes cumin powder."

"So complicated?" Orianna was speechless.

"No way, I originally wanted to find a single spice to relieve the smelly smell of barbecue, but I couldn't find a suitable spice after searching, so I had to try to mix spices. In the end, after tens of thousands of gropings, I came up with The ideal cumin powder."

"If you open a barbecue restaurant, I must apply for a membership card." Assistant Vikas said.

Leadman, who hadn't said much, just silently grilled the meat, gave a rare nod of approval: "I second."

Mentor Penrose joked: "You have mastered a new skill, so I won't worry that you will starve yourself to death after graduation."

Kiriya also admired in a low voice: "I really can't see it, you know life very well, you have tried so many times for a spice that can match barbecue. Most people should give up after trying a few times. No cumin powder."

People who are not passionate about life cannot do this kind of thing.

Duke responded with a soft smile: "It's not that I never thought about giving up, I just firmly believe that spirituality will guide me to find the taste I want, and this taste will definitely exist."

"Yes, spirituality cares deeply about you." Kylia agreed with this very much.

He was promoted to an arcanist at the age of sixteen, learned how to make cards at the age of seventeen, and invented a magic weapon such as a portable lamp. Now he can even make cumin powder for barbecue.

In Duke, Kylia deeply felt what spiritual care is.

She quietly approached Duke's ear, and whispered, "I thought your character was very similar to Leadman's assistant."

"Leadman's assistant should be very sad when he heard this. It sounds like he is saying that he is a person who doesn't understand life."

"I didn't say that, don't blame me."

"Don't explain, no one knows reading comprehension better than me."

"Anyway, I won't admit it."

The two sat next to each other, laughing and teasing each other. Compared with the unfamiliarity between colleagues before, now they are more close among friends.

Orianna had been staring at the two for a while, and when they stopped talking, she laughed and joked: "You two have been whispering for a while, and you can't even eat barbecue, are you saying Bad things about us?"

Duke waved his hand: "But no."

"Yeah, no no no." Kiria responded with a smile.

"Then what are you talking about? You said it so quietly, you obviously didn't want us to hear it." Orianna joked after her.

Duke smiled lightly: "The specific content is inconvenient to disclose."

Vikas said with emotion: "I am old, and there is already a generation gap with young people. Seeing Duke and Kylia so energetic, I really feel that I am old."

Mentor Penrose snorted: "You are old, so what am I?"

Vikaston smiled mischievously.

He is sixty or seventy years old, but compared to the 150-year-old life span of the second-level arcanist, he hasn't even passed half of it.

It's too early to say old.

A bonfire party, with the help of cumin powder, made everyone enjoy themselves.

Duke took a bath on the black beetle, returned to his tent, sat down to practice, merged with the chicken, and performed breathing techniques.

Once again, in Kiria's large shuttle, the 2-ring spiritual plant is the focus of attention, and observes the world in another way.

Crash.

You can see and hear Kylia's hazy figure taking a bath, as well as the faint sound of water. This scene made his blood flutter a little, and the allure was too strong, especially the more hazy it was, the more suitable it was for brain supplementation, and it was more exciting.

certainly.

Duke is an upright gentleman. Using the "Rainfall Breathing Method" is definitely not for peeping, and he can't see the real appearance. It's just a special sensory experience.

He did it to cultivate the "Natural Eye".

Blessed in the form of an elf, he called the ability to perceive the details of the surroundings through the 2-ring spiritual plant as the "eye" in this state of breathing resonance, which he called the natural eye.

It means the eyes formed by the force of nature.

"When my natural eye has been cultivated to great success, I can also condense the natural eye on ordinary plants, which means that I can easily see everything hundreds of meters or even kilometers away."

The Eye of Nature is undoubtedly a powerful detection tool.

It is worthy of Duke's daily hard work.

"I definitely didn't go for Kylia, just because there was a 2-ring spiritual plant on her large flying shuttle."

"That's it."

The fit lasted an hour and a half, and the exhausted chick condensed his body, gave Duke another "old-looking critic" look, and then returned to Qihai to rest.

Duke's expression was calm, and he shook his head: "You chicken, how can you understand my good intentions."

He touched Xiaodou who was slowly waking up, and said, "Xiaodou understands me."

"Chichi!" Xiaodou nodded repeatedly, as if it really understood Duke.

"Then you should grow up quickly. The sooner you advance to the 1st ring spirit beast, the sooner I can break through to the 1st ring great knight and strengthen your fighting spirit."

Duke must admit that grudges have value.

Especially when investigating some weird things, the defensive effect of the fighting spirit armor is first-class, and it can play an absolute defense against explosions and pus and blood splashes.

He is a person who pays attention to hygiene. With the armor of fighting spirit, no matter how dirty things are in the forest, he will not be polluted.

The next day, during the investigation, he encountered "dirty" things.

"What is this stuff?"

From the pile of dead leaves in front of him, a plant grew about two meters in height and the thickness of an adult's thigh. It also had an aura similar to that of fang lichen and mutated konjac flower. They were all things that grew after being infected by evil spirits. .

It's not an evil-born creature, but an evil plant at best.

Armor wrapped around his arms, he held the dagger, and touched the straight and strange plant, preparing to cut some samples.

The color of the plant is greenish white.

Green is the color of its body, and white is the dense white hair growing on its surface, as if dyed with a layer of snow.

When the wind blows, the white hair trembles like hair.

"Chuixuezhu, the tentative name of this thing is Chuuxuezhu." While speaking, Duke cut a knife on the Chuuxuezhu with a dagger.

The next moment.

There seemed to be countless red fingers growing on the blowing snow column, and it looked like countless red bugs, and these little bugs sprayed sticky juice at Duke together.

Slap!

Under Xiaoyi's control, the fighting spirit armor quickly covered Duke's whole body, blocking all the juice.

"My lord, be careful!" Vivian and other great knights approached quickly, ready to chop off Chuuxuezhu's chaotic sword.

But Duke raised his hand to stop it: "Stop, don't hack and kill, let me study the disgusting and strange plants like Chuixuezhu carefully."

Although at this time Fuxuezhu had red bug-like tentacles all over his body and sprayed juice, it was disgusting.

But Duke has been used to investigating the evil infection in the forest for the past few days.

This level of disgust is not in his eyes.

He waited until the little red bug tentacles of Chuuxuezhu stopped spitting out juice, and then he continued to cut Chuuxuezhu with his dagger.

Dig out a small bug tentacle.

The tentacles were really like small bugs, twitching in Duke's hands, and wanted to get into Duke's hands, but they were blocked by the fighting spirit armor.

"The vitality is quite strong, just like the fang lichen, it has already activated the plant part." Duke squeezed lightly, and the little bug's tentacles exploded.

Immediately, he poured spiritual energy into the tentacles of the dead bugs to explore.

I found that the spiritual power in this little bug's tentacles was mixed, like a big spiritual dye vat: "Well, it's very interesting! This is a spiritual pool. You can find what kind of spiritual power you want in it."

Duke was overjoyed.

A slightly more complex spirit card requires a lot of spiritual power of different attributes to draw energy lines.

The spiritual power of these different attributes needs to be extracted from different spiritual materials.

However, the tentacle insect that blows the snow column contains complex spiritual power, which is equivalent to opening a big gift bag of spiritual power.

He immediately cut off a bit of white hair and body from Chuuxuezhu's body.

After careful perception, I found that there is no mixed spiritual power on these two things.

When he dug out another tentacle bug, after some exploration, he found that only the tentacle structure of Chuuxuezhu contained complex spiritual power.

"Good stuff!" Duke collected a little sample and put it in a glass test tube.

Then he said to Zina who was following behind him: "This kind of blowing snow column is definitely an important resource of spiritual materials. The next task of your mercenary group is to search for it with all your strength... It would be even better if you can find a way to grow it. "

"Yes, my lord." Zina replied.

Duke looked up at the sky, and combined with the map information recorded by Xiaoyi, he judged his current position.

After a few days of research and rushing, they have already climbed over the mountains and entered the Cuihai Valley.

"This place is not far from the No. 3 well area. The number of animals and plants infected by evil qi has obviously increased, and the potential value has also increased... However, once these valuable evil plants and special evil-born creatures are wiped out ..."

The evil leak in the No. 3 well area will be resolved sooner or later.

Once the support of the evil spirit is lost, things like blowing snow pillars, tiger bugs, and fang lichens will all perish.

"I can't bear it!"

Duke sighed inwardly.

The day before yesterday, he was still worried about the existence of the ancient evil, which would molt and revive on this land, causing a terrible impact.

Now I have begun to worry that if there is not enough evil spirit, the resources discovered will be short-lived.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help laughing at himself, and said in his heart: "Sure enough, Mentor Penrose is right, worrying about nothing! Only humans have ever conquered forests, and forests have never swallowed humans. Spiritual beasts are not humans' opponents. Not even evil things!"

After a whole day of research and returning to the camp, Duke sent the collected samples to the Black Beetle and found Mentor Penrose.

He expressed his thoughts on the ephemerality of evil plants: "The blowing snow column I discovered today is of great value, at least in terms of the value of spiritual materials for making cards, it can greatly reduce the cost of making cards... It's a pity that there is no support from evil spirits. , it is difficult to cultivate again.”

"Evil Qi is just an introduction." Mentor Penrose had a different idea. "Evil Qi infection formed Fuxuezhu instead of degenerating it into a slime like fang lichen, which means that Fuxuezhu has found a new evolutionary method."

"what do you mean?"

"Perhaps the blowing snow column will degenerate after leaving the evil infection, but its evolutionary prospects have been opened up in the fight against the evil erosion." Penrose said with narrowed eyes, "Didn't you open a farm, why not try to cultivate the blowing snow column. "

"I see." Duke suddenly became concerned.

Ancient evils can be seen as the opposite of spirituality. Spirituality promotes the evolution of all things, and then evil qi erodes spirituality and degenerates all things.

For example, the 3-ring spirit beast, the human-footed owl, gradually degenerated into an owl with an ordinary physique after being infected.

The same is true for plants. Under the infection of evil spirits, they will gradually degenerate and degenerate into slime molds like fang lichen.

But the birth and gram among all things are in balance.

Evil aura will certainly cause plants to degenerate, but plants can also gain new opportunities for evolution in the process of resisting degeneration.

For example, Fuxuezhu, in the fight against evil infection, stores all the spirituality in the tentacles of small bugs, thus gaining new vitality and becoming a more valuable new species.

When the evil energy dissipates and the confrontation ceases to exist, perhaps its evolution will also decline.

But as long as this new direction of evolution is started, it can be cultivated artificially, keeping its small red bug tentacles.

Over time, Chuuxuezhu can reproduce endlessly.

Even directional cultivation, to cultivate special red tentacles with different spiritual powers, so as to develop more value.

"This is the direction of spiritual planting, but as an arcanist, I am not limited to a single field." Penrose continued, "I teach students, and I never limit students' interests. It is difficult to make cards. You can find this way , but can also develop its strengths in other fields.”

"Thank you, mentor, for clarifying the confusion." After Duke decided to go back, he tried to grow Xuezhu at the Duke-James Farm.

If the cultivation is successful, maybe you can get a title of Lingzhi scholar.

The way of making cards, natural history, and spiritual planting. Although it has been a short time for Duke to be promoted to an arcanist, his research fields have covered three directions.

"Another point is that I went to the meeting on Keyston's battleship yesterday and listened to the exchange of information from other arcanist research teams. This incident of evil leak infection has a profound impact on Cuihai Valley, but the benefits brought by the new changes are also huge. of."

Penrose said.

As the arcane mage leading the team, meetings are naturally inevitable.

Continued: "Based on everyone's opinions, we held an emergency meeting of the five towers, and prepared to keep the area around the No. 3 well area as a base for evil research when cleaning up the evil pollution... In addition, your gag order, It will also be lifted soon.”

"Keep the No. 3 well area?" This is really a surprise, "It's just the teacher, the shell fragments of the ancient evil, there will be a day when the breath will dissipate?"

Penrose said meaningfully: "As long as you don't get rid of it artificially, evil spirits will continue to be generated and never stop."

Duke also wanted to ask, what kind of existence is the ancient evil.

Penrose shook his head and said no more. Maybe he didn't know what an ancient evil was. After all, he hadn't been involved in the Battle of the Forbidden Land, nor had he seen the shed shell of an ancient evil.

...

Two days later, as Penrose announced the completion of the investigation of the mysterious changes in Cuihai Valley, the Loop airship slowly lifted off.

Return to Shenjiao City.

There was no crisis, as if the Black Jade Horseshoe Dragon deliberately hid, and even the Black Jade Scorpion never showed up again.

Although spirit beasts are not civilized, high-level spirit beasts have a certain IQ. They know that they cannot eliminate the evil spirit in Cuihai Valley with their own abilities, so they hide in order to facilitate humans to wipe out this crisis and protect the habitat of Cuihai Valley.

The Loop soon arrived at Penrose Mage Tower.

Penrose announced in time to give everyone a two-day holiday.

Saying goodbye to each other amidst the cheers, the arcane mages left the mage tower one after another, returned to their homes, and had a good rest.

Duke did not relax. He immediately took a batch of samples collected from the blowing snow column to the Duke-James farm.

"Let your spirit planting envoys wear anti-corrosion protective clothing and cooperate with me to plant these blowing snow pillars in the field." Duke directly ordered James, "In addition, you go to the Union Tower and continue to grow around the farm. Buy five hundred acres of land."

"My lord, what kind of spiritual plant is this blowing snow pillar?"

"A very evil spiritual plant. I don't know yet whether it can grow alive. Anyway, let's cultivate it first."

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