Chapter 291 Great Increase in Strength
The Snow Region is still just a prototype, and there are many things that Shi Yan needs to do personally. //www.??//Shi Yan transported the large amount of materials to this place through a secret channel, which was actually built by Ye Yier.
This channel belongs to the two brothers Bai Zhimu and Bai Shenlin of Shuangcha Pavilion. Using their channels, Shi Yan acquired a lot of supplies, the most of which were various materials and energy mines.
Energy ore is mostly used for Qianzu, while materials are prepared to improve the Snow Region.
On this day, Shi Yan received a message from Qian Zu and came to the back hall of the Ice and Snow Palace. There was a cave here that led directly to the back of the snow mountain. When he came to the back of the snow mountain, the back of the snow mountain was now the world of Qian Zu. It was full of energy ores, cloud energy crystals, and purchased energy ores, piled up like small hills. After bypassing seven or eight hills, he came to a huge open space, and Qian Zu stopped here.
There were two fat worms here, vaguely resembling dragon beard worms. The two dragon beard worms had obvious black stripes on their bodies, and their bodies were even bigger. Shi Yan couldn't help but ask curiously, "What spirit beast did you use to create these two cute things?"
Qianzu smiled and shook his head, saying: "This is not fusion evolution, this is our dragon beard insect clan, this is what I want to show you today."
"Are they your people?" Shi Yan looked at the two fat and silly bugs in surprise and said teasingly, "I wonder how much they have to eat to grow into this shape."
Qianzu ignored Shi Yan's words and said, "During this period of time, I absorbed a lot of energy. I didn't expect that I would unlock a potential ability hidden in my genes. Look, these two are the result of this ability."
Shi Yan circled around the two fat dragon whisker worms and said, "No matter how I look at these two fat worms, I feel that they have no other function except eating." Shi Yan felt depressed after he said this, as if there were a bunch of foodies living in his house, people like Lao Zu, Xiao Hei, Xiao Bai, etc., all of them only knew how to eat, and the food they ate was extremely precious.
Qianzu smiled mysteriously, "You really misjudged this. The effect of these two dragon whisker worms is so great that you will be surprised. Whether the thing you wish for can be realized depends on them."
Shi Yan's eyes lit up, "You mean... the Soldier Breeding Tower?"
Qianzu didn't waste any words and directly ordered the two larger dragon whisker worms to crawl towards the mountain-like cloud energy crystal. Shi Yan's vision was very accurate. These two were really foodies. As soon as they climbed onto the cloud energy crystal, they devoured it wantonly and their size increased rapidly. When each dragon whisker worm devoured a cloud energy crystal about the size of a small mountain, its size had expanded to about six or seven times its previous size.
Then the two dragon beard worms separated, each finding a wide area to quickly spin silk, forming two huge golden cocoons on the ground, with two black stripes circling upwards. The cocoons were planted into the ground like seeds, and in an instant, golden silk threads gushed out from the surface, attached to the ground, and spread wildly, finally covering the entire open space, and then stopped growing.
The two black stripes broke away from the golden thread and climbed high up, like two vines growing toward the sky. The two vines continued to grow and intertwine, forming a thick tree trunk. When the tree trunk grew to its limit, the golden thread began to flow into it, and finally covered the surface. Then with a bang, the golden thread turned into fragments all over the sky, glittering and covering the top of the vine, like golden clouds and golden leaves.
A huge golden tree appeared in front of Shi Yan.
"This..." Shi Yan was so surprised that he couldn't speak, "This is..."
"The tree base is produced only by the queen dragon beard worm!" Qianzu explained, "This is why I left so many energy mines. The tree base can decompose energy more systematically and fully act on any organ building. It is like a queen worm, but it has no self-thinking."
"Although this function was unlocked accidentally, with its existence, the plan I made for you will be easier to execute." Qianzu said, "The spore tower and the evolved spirit beast eggs are managed by the tree base, which can more effectively stimulate the potential of the spirit beast."
"Now, put those evolved spirit beast eggs that have not hatched here and let the tree base take care of them." Qianzu said.
Shi Yan nodded, brought the rocks and mountain spirit eggs here, and placed them under the body at the base of the tree.
Suddenly, the tree base stretched out
The thick tree roots are actually the tentacles of the dragon beard worm. The tree roots entwine the spirit beast eggs and lift them under the golden "leaves". The golden "leaves" surround the spirit beast eggs, and the spirit beast eggs flicker rhythmically with their breathing.
Then two huge tree roots broke through the ground and appeared in front of Shi Yan, forming a small tree. It was small only relative to the base of the tree. The small tree produced huge "fruits", the surface of which was covered with extremely thick dark yellow veins, and inside it could clearly see a strange-shaped dragon beard worm sleeping peacefully. The small tree was entrenched on the ground steadily, giving a feeling of taking root.
"Is this the Soldier Breeding Tower?" Shi Yan asked blankly, looking at the two small trees.
"No, but it's almost the same. The energy required for the Soldier Breeding Tower is too huge, while the energy required for the Soldier Planting Tree is much smaller. Similarly, the soldier insects it produces are relatively weak. But it is enough to execute the plan." Qianzu explained.
Shi Yan looked at the two soldier trees with joy, his heart leaping with happiness.
In the next few days, due to the appearance of the tree base, the demand for cloud energy crystals was much weaker. Shi Yan mostly used the second-rate energy minerals he acquired and put away the cloud energy crystals. Crystals with rich energy were used less and less in this world, so Shi Yan began to store a large amount of these crystals.
In this way, the team members can free up a lot of time for training. The old team members are already used to high-intensity training and can complete the training quota ahead of schedule every day. The new team members seem to be much more strenuous. One month of training has not allowed them to adapt to this kind of high-intensity training, but they all grit their teeth and persist, and their psychological quality is better than these old team members. Perhaps because of the examples, these new team members have made every effort to complete the training no matter how hard or tired they are, just to get rid of the status of slaves and become an upright person.
Fainting during training was a common occurrence, but gradually, this phenomenon became less and less common. In the end, there was no one fainting except those who fell to the ground due to exhaustion.
The old, weak, sick and disabled were all safely placed in the rear. There was no such thing as providing free meals in the regiment, and they all used their own labor to exchange for the right to live here. Farming and growing vegetables were not tiring and were colorful. Compared with the previous life, these days were simply a paradise and a hell.
At the same time, Mo Zixuan applied the previous Huajian Sect's contribution reward system to the battle group, exchanging contributions for materials. With this contribution reward system, everyone's enthusiasm was high. Because this can get some things that you dare not even think about in normal times, including flying swords, spells, magic weapons, elixirs and spiritual materials, and even spiritual beast eggs!
Shi Yan selected the nineteen most meritorious people from the Rock Brigade and gave them the Mirage Eggs.
They fed them with their essence and blood every day in the back mountain, and the original rocks were distributed to the new team members.
At the same time, Shi Yan also transferred a batch of spirit beast eggs from Zimu Liuhua Territory, and also a group of experts in finding spirit beast eggs. Shi Yan was touched, that old man Mo Lao really regarded him as his own.
Finally, the spirit beast eggs at the base of the tree hatched, and after their potential was stimulated, the rocks and mountain spirits changed dramatically.
The rock was two or three times larger, shaped like a ball, with layers of stone armor on top, thicker and stronger. Its limbs were strong, especially its legs, which were unusually strong due to its weight, with solid muscles and full of explosive power.
The mountain spirit became more ghostly, with smoother lines, and extremely elegant, like an elf in the dark. It has a pair of small wings under its abdomen, which prevents it from flying, but it can glide for a short distance. At the same time, because of the existence of the small wings, it is more balanced and faster when moving. Its slender ears are like antennas, and it can detect any movement. The sharp claws hidden in the pads of its limbs are like flying swords, which can easily cut gold and break stone.
After the potential of the rocks and mountain spirits was stimulated, their realm was greatly improved, and after fusing with the human and beast souls, they could even reach the stage of Qi Condensation. As a result, the average combat power of the regiment was significantly improved.
What was even more surprising was that after being stimulated, the spirit beasts were actually easier to fuse with human beast souls. On the first day, there were more than ten examples of fusion. On the second day, almost all the team members were able to fuse with the spirit beasts. This was equivalent to nearly a hundred cultivators in the early stage of Qi Condensation.
The nineteen selected team members were given mirage eggs. Mirage eggs hatched three days later than rocks and mountain spirits. Their shapes did not change much, but they became more ethereal. After the nineteen team members merged with the mirage, they could disappear silently and were difficult to capture. Therefore, Shi Yan planned to make them into a group of assassins, walking in the void and taking the heads of enemies.
This is the dreaded White Death of the future!
However, they were still inexperienced and had many flaws. Shi Yan had no good solution for this, because he preferred direct confrontation, and it seemed that he could only gain experience through fighting.
Seeing that their predecessors all possessed such powerful spirit beasts, the new team members trained even harder.
On this day, the Shanmei Brigade was patrolling the border of the snowy region. Their eyes, sharper than an eagle's, could see things five miles away in the endless wilderness. At this time, a team member suddenly discovered that a group of about a hundred people were heading this way.
The leaders were the four people who spied on the snowy area that day: a short man, a bearded man, a tall man, and a silent man in black.
The bearded man shouted in dissatisfaction, "I said these people have no background. If we had just rushed in and killed them without leaving a single piece of armor, we would have taken back the miners long ago. Why would we have to wait until now?"
The short man didn't seem to get along well with the bearded man. "Fool, if we hadn't investigated for a few days, would we have known this? If everyone was as reckless as you, our Changxing sect would have been wiped out eight or ten times over!"
"What do you mean, shorty? Do you want to taste my axe?" the bearded man said angrily.
The short man's eyes sparkled, "Humph, if you're brave enough, let's see who can kill more people later!"
"Humph, am I afraid of you?" The big man blew his beard and glared.
The man in black remained silent, while the tall man said with a smile: "Old Wei, you have fallen into the trap of the old butcher. The old butcher's puppets are deadly weapons in this wilderness. You are going to lose."
"Huh, I'll lose? My two axes are not vegetarians either!"
"Okay, no more jokes." The tall man's face turned serious, and no one spoke immediately. It seemed that the tall man was the commander of this operation. "Although the opponent is a small force with no background, they dared to touch the majesty of the fifth-grade Tianxing Sect. We must not let any of them escape, and we must kill them all. Do you understand?"
"I am enough." The man who had been silent all of a sudden said.