A strange and strange tree rises from the ground in the river bend and canyon below.
It is visually estimated that it is at least twenty meters high.
The trunk is quite wide!
It's daytime now, and it's three o'clock in the afternoon when the sun's rays are strongest.
Therefore, from the air, the canyon looks normal.
Only in the area shrouded in the shadow of the tree canopy can faint signs of activity of living creatures be seen.
However, just looking at it from the air, the scene in the canyon is still mind-numbing.
The huge ghost tree crown looks like a mushroom canopy when viewed from the air.
But it has leaves, branches, and all the characteristics of a 'tree'.
It’s just that these things are a bit scary!
The kind that normal people would have nightmares about!
The leaves of this 'Naga Ghost Tree' turn green in the sunlight, and when viewed from a distance, they look like pieces of snake scales.
There are traces of normal plant veins between these scales.
Xu Ji's eyesight is far beyond ordinary people.
It is comparable to holding a high-precision military telescope.
So he can see more details!
Especially when Xu Ji used his magic power to concentrate the power of the Golden Crow's sun into his eyes.
He saw that in the texture and veins of these leaves, there was a weak liquid fluid-like substance that was invisible to ordinary people flowing slowly.
They appear gray-green or pale green in Xu Ji's eyes.
It flows very slowly!
But they do flow!
Follow the texture and veins of the leaves and circulate throughout the canopy.
Moreover, from this perspective, it can be clearly seen that the tree crown itself is dark red, like blood clots that are about to solidify.
The reason why it turns green is because of the liquid fluid flowing in the texture veins of the leaves.
They change normal people's cognition.
It changes the color in people's eyes.
In addition, Xu Ji also saw those branches exposed to the sun.
The bark outside these branches also looks like snake scales.
Neat and fitting.
From Xu Ji's perspective, when these barks, which look like snake scales, come into contact with sunlight, some tiny, furry, hyphae-like objects appear on their surfaces.
These things are like drops of dirty blood, covered with scales.
Under the sunlight, the dirty blood was roasted until it sizzled and smoked.
Then it dries quickly and turns into a trace of green, pale green or gray-white smoke.
These green smoke curl up and are absorbed by the leaves of the upper canopy.
It was also at this time that Xu Ji discovered the source of the green liquid fluid between the veins of the leaves of this ghost tree - they were all smoke coming out of the branches, captured by the veins of the leaves and transformed!
In other words - this ghost tree is performing photosynthesis!
However, its photosynthesis is completely different from that of plants!
It uses the sun to burn the bloody hyphae that grow on the bark of the branches.
Through the power of the sun, some unknown reaction occurs in these hyphae.
The products after the reaction, that is, the gray-green, turquoise, pale green or gray-white smoke, will be absorbed by the canopy leaves.
Then converted into those liquid fluids.
Based on the photosynthesis of plants, Xu Ji speculated: "Those liquid fluids are probably something similar to carbon dioxide that is needed to maintain the growth and development of this 'Naga Ghost Tree'!"
"Plants perform photosynthesis, absorb the carbon element from carbon dioxide, and then release oxygen!"
"So, what does this 'Naga Ghost Tree' absorb? And what is it released?"
He murmured to himself, then rolled his eyes, activated his magic power, and concentrated the Golden Crow's divine power from his dantian to his eyeballs.
This is the trick that he has mastered in the past two days by imitating those earthly immortal monks in the mythical world, operating his magical powers, activating his Dharma Eyes, and mastering the method of "exerting Dharma Eyes" on Blue Star in the past two days. (He does not need to do this in the mythical world. As long as he has a thought, Dao Ancestor will
The Dharma Eye will wake up and see everything!)
However, when Xu Ji did this, the noise was a bit loud.
Especially on this helicopter, especially when he further activated his magic power and activated the Golden Crow's divine power.
His eyes seemed to be on fire in the eyes of the pilot and the accompanying Southern Offshore Oil staff!
The golden plasma flame replaced the original normal eyeball structure.
There was even a trace of golden light overflowing from the corners of his eyes.
Everyone on the helicopter looked frightened but excited at the same time.
"God!"
"This is so magical!"
In the golden eye sockets, the plasma flames are like flares on the surface of the sun.
The stream of light overflowing from the corners of the eyes is like matter thrown out from the sun.
After these streams of light left Xu Ji's eyes, they disappeared completely in the air, as if they had never existed.
The camera on the helicopter faithfully recorded this moment.
Other instruments also began to record and analyze the current airflow in and around the helicopter cabin.
But they are destined to be unable to detect any elements.
Most of the instrument values are normal.
Only the 'Ghost Warning Radar' installed on the top of the helicopter lit up the red light.
The numbers are getting higher and higher!
In just a few seconds, it has already broken through the highest record of 'demon spirit energy concentration' that humans on Blue Star can detect!
But Xu Ji didn't know this.
He looked intently at the ghost tree beneath him.
That so-called Naga ghost tree!
He stared closely at the ghost tree and everything around it, and then he 'saw' the shadow area cast by the ghost tree's crown.
The shadow area of the tree.
There seems to be something growing on the surface that only the 'Dharma Eye' can see.
These things are clumps of mycelium.
There seems to be something among these hyphae.
Xu Ji looked familiar, and after thinking about it for a while, he remembered it.
"Ghost!"
He thought of those demons and ghosts that were captured by the old gods and then transplanted or sealed into potted plants with magical powers.
This is what they look like after being extracted from the parasitic thing.
fluid!
Fluid without shape or weight!
Just like air and sunshine!
You can see it, but you can't touch it or smell it.
The same is true for the things in these hyphae!
What are they squirming, twisting, and scrambling among the hyphae, wolfing down what they are eating?
Xu Ji looked at this scene and inexplicably remembered the echinoderms he had seen in the aquarium when he was in college.
Those motionless creatures that grow on the seabed and rocks at the bottom of the sea filter and eat nutrients in the seawater in this way!
so……
"This ghost tree is an ecosystem in itself!"
"Belongs to the ecosystem of monsters and ghosts!"
"If that's the case..."
"I'm afraid... the birth and appearance of demons and ghosts on Blue Star are inseparable from these ghost trees!"
"These ghost trees could be the source!"
"It's even possible that the first demon ghost in Blue Star was the so-called ghost tree!"
