Chapter 240 Trapped (First Update)
As soon as Fang Yuxin and Fang Yuyang landed on the ground, Fang Yuyang instantly released five huge wind blades. This time the wind blades were even bigger than before, one meter long, shaped like a crescent moon, and also like a huge sickle.
The wind blade flew towards the ferocious spike, but the spike seemed to know how powerful the wind blade was. It did not resist it, but quickly retracted into the ground.
Fang Yuxin saw that things were not going well and quickly shouted, "Lan Ruo! Go underground!"
One of the methods used by cultivators is the art of earth escape, but she and Fang Yuyang are not very strong at the moment, and the underground is the home turf of the mutant rose. Not only will they not gain any benefit if they go in, but they will likely be trapped by the complex root system.
Therefore, Fang Yuxin did not rush to escape underground, but let Lan Ruo go to test it first. Lan Ruo was a mutant plant after all, and she got a lot of wood energy from her. Even if she was not a match for the mutant rose, she would not be easily trapped.
After receiving the order, Lan Ruo immediately turned into a beam of white light and shot into the ground, disappearing in the blink of an eye. As it disappeared, Fang Yuxin and Fang Yuyang both felt the vibration coming from underground.
The two retreated again, and at the same time released their spiritual consciousness to check the situation underground. After checking, they found that the underground had become a chaotic battlefield.
The mutant rose has a well-developed root system, and its roots are intertwined and complex underground. Compared with it, Lan Ruo is not as good. Lan Ruo is a mutant crystal orchid, a different species, and its root system is far less developed than that of the mutant rose. However, Lan Ruo is not a soft bun that can be easily bullied. It does not have a well-developed root system, but its body is as hard as jade, and it is also covered with sharp scale-like leaves that can shuttle underground.
The mutant rose had a well-developed root system, so Lan Ruo summoned all of her clones, and together with the original body, they tightly entangled the intricate root system like spirit snakes.
The roots are flexible, and Lanruo's body is no less flexible. In addition, it has sharp scales that constantly cut the roots.
The two sides were getting more and more entangled, but neither could do anything to the other. Although the complex root system was broken a lot by the constant cutting of the scales, the root system was too complex and huge, and the broken branches were unimportant, which was not a big deal for the mutant rose.
However, the huge wind blade released by Fang Yuyang caused it to suffer a lot! Countless leaves were cut into pieces by the wind blade, and even those beautiful flowers were not spared, and many petals were cut off.
But soon, the mutant rose had a response. The petals that were opened rolled up and closed into a bud. The branches contracted and the bud kept shrinking until it was the size of a soybean and hidden between the petiole and the branches. Not to mention that the wind blade could not hurt it, it could not even be found if you didn't look carefully!
"Brother, let me go and try it!" Those leaves and branches looked very tough. Fang Yuxin really wanted to try it out to see how tough these leaves and branches were!
Fang Yuyang was worried: "Xinxin, be careful! Don't forget, this thing is just one step away from being promoted to level three! I'm afraid it's planning to use us as fertilizer!"
Fang Yuxin knew that the plant in front of him was a mutant plant, not as harmless as ordinary plants. It could grow so fast, it must have absorbed enough energy. It was not easy to do all this, unless it was cunning and cruel enough.
So from the beginning, she did not take it lightly. She decided to give it a try after careful consideration.
Although she knew that Fang Yuyang's wind blade could cause damage to it, she would not be able to directly feel the defensive ability of this mutant rose unless she did it herself.
They still had a long way to go, and the enemies they would face might be all kinds of strange. She couldn't just hide behind Fang Yuyang and watch him do what he did. She had to try it herself to see how much damage she could cause to this mutant rose with her current strength.
She must be clear about her own strength so that when she faces the enemy in the future, she will have a plan in mind and not be too blind.
So she insisted, “Brother, I must try it myself.”
Fang Yuyang looked at her, but he couldn't bear to say no, so he said, "Then I'll follow you!"
Fang Yuxin felt warm in her heart, smiled at Fang Yuyang, and rushed towards the mutant rose with a clenched knife handle. Fang Yuyang followed closely behind her, releasing wind blades while running to prevent the other party from attacking.
Fang Yuxin walked and thought in her mind. She suddenly remembered a way to deal with mutant plants. Mutated plants are difficult to deal with, but there are many parasitic plants in nature, such as dodder. This plant is very lush, and its stems are intertwined. It can grow parasitic roots everywhere and pierce into the host body.
If she had a mutated dodder in her hand, it might be just right to use it to deal with this mutated rose.
But this was just her own guess after all, and she had never heard of dodder parasitizing roses. Moreover, she didn't have any mutated dodder, not to mention the seeds, so she could only think about it.
While she was thinking, she had already approached the mutant rose. At the same time, Fang Yuyang was not far from her, looking around vigilantly, ready to help her resist sneak attacks at any time.
As the two approached, the mutant rose seemed to become more alert. Its thick branches continued to grow and entangle, and its large and dense leaves overlapped together to form an impenetrable shield wall, ready to resist their attacks.
At the same time, at the base of the petiole, a flower bud that shrank to the size of a soybean quietly stretched out, with a slender flower stem attached to it, as if it could be broken with a slight pinch. The small flower bud gradually became the size of a thumb, with a small opening at the top, and a stamen stretched out from the small opening, opening an even smaller mouth, like a poisonous snake, hiding under the leaves, shrinking the flower bud and ready to attack at any time.
Fang Yuxin gripped the hilt of the knife with both hands and swung it hard. The long and narrow blade quickly cut through the air and slashed towards a large shield wall formed by overlapping leaves with a sharp sound.
"Duo!"
The sharp blade slashed against the shield wall, but the sound it made was not the "rustling" sound of leaves hitting each other, but a dull sound similar to that of a sharp blade hitting wood.
The leaf surface was scratched and green juice flowed out from the wound, but in the blink of an eye, the wound healed automatically.
Fang Yuxin narrowed his eyes, suddenly took a step back, avoiding the stabbing flower bud, and at the same time turned his wrist, and the blade chopped on the slender flower stem. The flower stem looked extremely thin, with a diameter of only about two or three millimeters, and it should have been easily cut off, but when the blade chopped on it, it actually made a sound of metal hitting stone!
The flower stem broke a little, then quickly shrank back and disappeared into the layers of leaves. Fang Yuxin used his spiritual sense to observe and found that the flower bud had completely retracted to the root of the petiole, shrinking again to the size of a soybean, looking like a tiny bud.
Fang Yuyang saw that Fang Yuxin's two attacks had not yielded satisfactory results. Worried that Fang Yuxin might be disappointed, he consoled her, "Xinxin, don't worry. This mutant rose is almost at level three, so it's reasonable that its defense is very high."
Fang Yuxin nodded slightly. After the two attacks just now, she had already seen that this mutant rose was really good. Especially those leaves, which had very strong defense and were very suitable for refining into armor.
Although the scales on Lan Ruo's body are also very good, the number of those scales is limited after all, and they cannot be easily taken. But the mutant rose in front of me is different. The rose grows very lushly and has enough leaves! Picking some leaves off will not harm it at all.
When Fang Yuxin thought of this, she became more determined to subdue this mutant rose. She stopped attacking and said to Fang Yuyang, "Brother, you help me protect the law, and I will subdue it!"
Fang Yuyang nodded. He would naturally not refuse Fang Yuxin's question.
Fang Yuxin no longer had any worries, so he tried to use his spiritual consciousness to contact the mutant rose's thoughts. However, the mutant rose was so large that it actually hid its thoughts. Fang Yuxin couldn't find it after searching for a long time, so he could only release more spiritual consciousness to conduct a carpet search nearby.
After a long while, Fang Yuxin finally found its intention. It was a ball of light only the size of a fist, pink with green, and the color was extremely beautiful.
As soon as Fang Yuxin's spiritual consciousness approached, the ball of light noticed it, and it shook violently, let out a terrified scream, and tried to escape. Fang Yuxin knew that if he let it run away, it would find another place to hide.
So she immediately rushed her spiritual consciousness forward, forming a cage and trapping the ball of light inside. The ball of light was very frightened and kept hitting her spiritual consciousness. Although it didn't hurt her, it was not pleasant.
Fang Yuxin frowned slightly, unwilling to delay any longer, and quickly used his spiritual sense to convey his meaning: "I am a wood-type mutant. If you recognize me as your master, I can help you advance."
The ball of light refused to cooperate at all. It struggled in the cage for a while, and seemed to know that it could not get out for the time being, so it stopped struggling. However, it did not pay any attention to Fang Yuxin, and just huddled quietly in the center of the cage, looking for an opportunity to escape.
Fang Yuxin felt embarrassed. It was very easy for her to subdue Lan Ruo at the beginning. She never expected that this mutant rose would be so disrespectful. She was hesitating about what to do when she heard Lan Ruo's message: "Master, let me... let me do it!"
Fang Yuxin thought about it and felt that Lan Ruo and the mutant rose were of the same kind. Letting Lan Ruo do it might help him get twice the result with half the effort, so he agreed and used his spiritual sense to guide Lan Ruo's thoughts into the cage that trapped the mutant rose.
Although Lan Ruo's level is lower than the mutant rose, it has benefited a lot from following Fang Yuxin since it recognized its master. The consciousness it has formed is stronger and more solid than that of the mutant rose. It is no longer a simple ball of light, and the shadow of the crystal orchid can be barely seen.
As soon as it came, the light ball of the mutant rose suddenly became excited. It seemed to be very alert and curious at the same time, with a pitiful look as if it wanted to get closer but didn't dare to.
Fang Yuxin suddenly became curious. How was Lan Ruo going to convince it?
(End of this chapter)
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