A white magic light source shone through, and the cave walls were wet. It was unclear whether it was dirt or something piled up on the ground. There were several strings of goblin footprints. In the corner were various chewed-up beast bones, and there was a weird smell floating in the air.
Fishy smell.
Theus covered his nose and lifted the hem of the mage's robe from time to time, with a look of disgust on his face. Wolf had to bow slightly because the tunnel of the goblin's lair was too narrow.
At this time, Xuanweizi had recalled Hengzhizi, waving the feather fan gently in his hand, and followed Akuma Matata towards the depths of the lair.
The construction ability of goblins is very poor. They can hardly effectively mobilize the tribe to build any projects or buildings. They often can only live in natural caves or abandoned buildings. Even if Akuma Matata serves as the tribe wizard, he cannot ask
The tribe fully complied with the requirements and could only rely on authority and magic to order the tribe to go out and collect materials.
Therefore, most of the few animal skin shacks and mole pens in this cave were built by Akuma Matata and the previous snow goblin wizards.
But at this time, these shacks and pens were empty, as if all living things had disappeared.
"Do you usually eat mushrooms?" Xuan Weizi glanced at the clusters of mushrooms in a corner. White, red, and brown mushrooms came in all sizes and thickness, and they grew very lush. It would be better to say they were too lush.
They were so densely packed in the corner that Theus shuddered even as he glanced at them.
"Yes, I also want to learn how to grow spike grass like the long-legged species, but the kids can't teach me how to do it," Akuma Matata said angrily.
Xuan Weizi nodded silently. The overall intelligence level of the goblin tribe was low. The occasional appearance of a tribe wizard like Akuma Matata only ensured that the tribe's life would be better. We couldn't expect them to do anything big.
Very difficult.
It can only be said that everything has pros and cons. Goblins have excellent environmental adaptability and the ability to rapidly evolve and iterate, but their brains and souls are seriously lagging behind, and their thinking and imagination abilities are weak, which also makes it impossible to establish efficient communities and organizations.
Although Xuan Weizi dare not completely copy the experience on earth, it seems that human beings in this world can rise rapidly in more than a thousand years and occupy large areas of livable areas. First there is the Holy Lord Church, and then
The existence of the Great Londinium Empire was obviously the result of the development of organizational capabilities.
In terms of basic physical fitness, humans are inferior to various sub-dragons, sub-giants and ogres; in terms of environmental adaptability and tolerance, humans are inferior to goblins and gnolls; in terms of spellcasting ability, humans can only be said to have taken advantage of the loopholes.
In the ancient times, when the giants and dragons died one after another, and the elves did not know where to go, it just gave humans the opportunity to rise. It was quite like "there are no heroes, so Zhuzi became famous".
However, the spellcasting ability of contemporary humans is more based on organizational capabilities. A single mage or church clergy cannot benefit the majority of people. Even though spellcasters are still an absolute minority in the population today, with organizational structure
, the ability of a spellcaster is not limited to shooting a few fireballs or treating three or five injured people, but can increase the upper limit of the ability of the entire human race.
Although the current organizational structure does not mean that most people in the ethnic group can live a good life. On the contrary, the exploitation and oppression dominated by mages is extremely cruel to most human beings and is a personal disaster.
But now it is impossible for human beings to abandon this kind of spellcasting ability and organizational system based on mages and arcana. After all, regardless of the old and new continents, various intelligent creatures are constantly growing in the long-term confrontation with human beings. Not to mention staying in place, human beings
If the progress is just a little slow, I am afraid that I will face counterattacks and sieges from other races - these are all things I learned from my recent exchanges with Theus.
In his previous life, Xuan Weizi wanted to spread Taoism widely. He had two thoughts. The first was to prove that Taoism could be practiced and learned by everyone, and he wanted to break the tradition of master-disciple teaching. The second was to see the prosperous world in the world.
But everyone just goes with the flow, coveting the desires of sex, sex, and food, and their sinking will never end. If they don’t practice Taoism and refine themselves, and don’t understand their minds and nature, all sentient beings will be in a sea of suffering and cannot escape.
To achieve these things, Xuan Weizi once believed that one must have power over all living beings, and all living beings also need his enlightenment.
If a Taoist cultivator does not teach Taoism or protect Taoism, then he or she still practices Taoism? Since he has succeeded in practicing alchemy, he will naturally become more determined in the Taoism he cultivates.
The heart becomes stronger.
"What the hell?!" Wolf's exclamation interrupted Xuan Weizi's thoughts. He raised his eyes and looked up. Under the faint light, there was a relatively empty cave in front of him, with nearly half of the wall length.
Full - mushrooms?
It was no longer a mushroom, but a cluster of some kind of organisms, spread out into a large blanket of fungi on the uneven cave walls, with red, orange, blue and green colors, strips, blocks, and deformed tumor-like mushrooms growing irregularly.
Crazy growth, and some are even pulsing like a heart. Along with the pulsation, a faint luster is transmitted, as if the entire biological cluster is "one" creature.
"I wish you a good mushroom harvest." Xuan Weizi patted Akuma Matata on the shoulder with a smile.
The snow goblin wizard screamed in fear: "No! We have never grown so many mushrooms! The cubs usually eat thick and long white mushrooms, and sometimes gray-headed mushrooms are used to cook mole soup.
, and red-headed mushrooms are poisonous, and I’m the only one who dares to eat them occasionally! I’ve never seen these before!”
Xuan Weizi stared at the colorful group of strange mushrooms, then raised his hand and fired a "flame beam", and orange-red flames spurted out. The cave was instantly filled with heat, and the mushrooms were burned to coke by the flames in an instant, and various sour smells billowed out.
Come floating.
"Stand beside me." Xuan Weizi reminded everyone. With a flick of his feather fan, the "Wind Wall Technique" was shaped into an airflow shield in the shape of a magic ball, blowing away the sour smell, while the "Flame Beam" in his hand did not move at all.
Continuously, burn the mushrooms and penetrate them.
The cave passage behind the mushroom group is covered with the same moist and slippery carpet, and there are even many fluorescent mushrooms growing everywhere, as if the original snow goblin lair has turned into a mushroom kingdom.
Xuan Weizi waved his feather fan lightly and stepped forward. The wind wall shield continued to move with him as the center. The other three followed him closely, being careful and vigilant. Wolf even put the double-edged giant ax on his shoulders, ready at any time.
fighting.
Looking at the shimmering blue mushroom on the wall, Xuan Weizi raised his hand and picked off a piece. After looking at it back and forth, he threw it into his mouth without hesitation.
"Doctor, what are you doing?! Are you dying?!" Wolf was startled, and Theus covered his mouth and almost vomited when he saw this scene.
Xuan Weizi ignored the panic on their faces, chewed it for a while, swallowed it in his stomach, and silently sensed it.
"Don't worry, the toxicity is not strong." Xuan Weizi said: "I just want to see how these mushrooms will react with the human body. Even if they are poisonous, I want to know how they take effect and which organs they act on. These mushrooms seem to
It can be used as medicine..."
While Xuan Weizi was looking at his internal organs, he began to think. His behavior of testing the medicine with his own body was quite similar to that of Shen Nong who tasted hundreds of herbs. It reminded him of the legend in the "Five Emperors Immortal Letter" about the "Heaven and Earth" created by Yan Emperor Shen Nong.
"Qiu" mentioned the fairy magic power of "whipping hundreds of herbs to understand the nature of things".
"The Great Weapon of Heaven and Earth" can be said to be the one with the most mentions of refining foreign objects and the most exquisite one among the "Five Emperors' Immortal Letters". It not only contains various ancient elixirs and medicines, but also describes the skills of refining magical weapons.
.In terms of content alone, "The Great Instruments of Heaven and Earth" has more content than the other four.
It is mentioned in "The Great Weapon of Heaven and Earth" that alchemy and weapon refining have similar principles, and even the process of alchemy and weapon refining is to refine people and themselves. Whether the external fire is used appropriately depends on whether the cultivator has internal fire.
Chongzheng.
In the end, "The Great Weapon of Heaven and Earth" not only refines the human body into a magical weapon, but also refines the mountains, rivers, wood and rocks into a magical weapon. Furthermore, all the objects in the heaven and earth, up and down, throughout the ages, inside and outside the universe, are transformed into weapons.
The so-called "Bian Baicao is used to understand physical properties", the mystery is that the instrument used by Bian Baicao is actually endowed with the magical function of observing the changes in physical properties. If Xuan Weizi has such a magic weapon, then of course there is no need to try the mushrooms in person to study its effectiveness.
Although this world also has spells to "detect poison", it cannot show the specific details of the poison's effect. Taoist elixirs emphasize that all plants, trees, metals and stones can be used as medicine, and the combined prescriptions have monarchs, ministers and envoys, and the compatibility of the seven emotions, even if it is poison,
Used well it can save lives.
"Well, when the time comes, I'll ask Tar Valon for books on the Green Ring's herbs and the human body. I don't believe they don't have research on this." Xuan Weizi wiped the corners of his lips, turned his head and looked deep into the passage, and said:
"The target is very close...Huh, interesting, it's really a psychic power!"
Akuma Matata was a little scared and tugged on the hem of Xuan Weizi's clothes and refused to let go. Theus took out his spell book and glanced at it habitually.
The group of people went deeper along the environment that looked like the inner wall of the intestines. In front of them was a settlement of snow goblins. It was originally supposed to be a large cave with three-story circular stairs. At the moment, there was a two-story tree growing in the center. It was extremely fat and had a faint blue light all over its body.
Giant mushroom.
The middle and lower parts of this giant mushroom are also large and tumor-like, like translucent follicles of fluid. Groups of snow elves can be seen trapped inside, as if brewing medicinal wine.
On the surface of the mushroom umbrella above, there are countless lotus-shaped holes, which are spraying hot breath, and are extremely dense and terrifying. There are also dozens of soft and long tentacles extending out from inside, and the ends are actually the eyeballs of various creatures. See
Xuan Weizi and his party arrived, and dozens of eyeballs and tentacles looked over at them, looking as weird and weird as possible, and as disgusting as possible.
"Is it too late to call that magician over now?" Titus' chin trembled and he suppressed a strong sense of nausea and said, "It would be more appropriate for him to come for this occasion."
Xuan Weizi suddenly turned around and talked about something unrelated: "Remember this scene carefully, it might be an opportunity for you to learn psychic powers."
Theus was stunned and speechless at first, and then he felt happy. He suppressed the discomfort and concentrated on remembering the disgusting and weird scene in front of him.
Then Xuan Weizi took two steps forward and asked telepathically: "Is it you who used your psychic powers to control the snow goblins to dig down?"
The giant mushroom, which had no facial features or any sound-producing function, shook and answered telepathically: "Myon did it."
Xuan Weizi raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why are you doing this?"
"Maian needs to come to the surface to find the remains of ancient giants." The giant mushroom's eyeball tentacles stretched forward and glanced back and forth at Xuan Wei Zi, who was already less than ten feet away.
Xuan Weizi asked: "Maian is your name? Don't you have the first person expression?"
"Myon is myon." replied the giant mushroom.
"Why are you looking for the ruins of ancient giants?" Xuan Weizi asked.
The giant mushroom didn't answer, but shook its fat and disgusting body from side to side.
Xuan Weizi had no choice but to ask: "Who told you that there are ruins of ancient giants on the surface nearby?"
"Star Boundary." The giant mushroom replied without any fluctuation in his tone.
Xuan Weizi nodded slightly, unable to tell whether his face was satisfied or angry. Wolf asked from the side: "This thing doesn't seem to have any hostility?"
"Be careful, the thinking mode of this creature is not something that ordinary people can guess. Maybe it will dismember you in the next second and then throw you into a pool of strong acid." Xuan Weizi sneered.
"This creature... seems to be a myconid." Theus interjected: "But this is the first time I have seen it. It is said that they are fungal creatures living underground and can communicate with other creatures. But this myconid has already
There is no human form left.”
Xuan Weizi said: "Its psychic powers are very powerful, and I suspect that it devoured and fused many living creatures to become what it is now."
Theus still felt a little uncomfortable and asked: "There are actually creatures with psychic powers under the ground. This is a great discovery."
Xuan Weizi didn't say anything, because from the exchange with the giant mushroom, he already knew that this thing had a lot of background and must be related to the astral spirit warlock. It used psychic powers to induce and control the snow goblins to dig downwards, making it easier for them
Breaking through the ground and coming out.
The giant mushroom "Maion" should be born with psychic powers and have communicated with astral psychics. Its behavior near the surface revealed many things -
1. The astral psychics probably know a lot about ancient giant ruins, and even know their specific locations and uses.
Second, the act of communicating with the astral realm may be exposed to the specific location of the real plane. Otherwise, there is no reason to send this giant mushroom to the surface to search for ancient giant ruins. At least this is in the hands of people who can be sent by astral psychics.
, the closest to the ancient giant ruins.
Third, there are indeed living species that control psychic powers underground, and astral psychics can communicate with them without being affected by the barrier of the ground. Maybe the underground is the environment where they work compared to the surface.
"Are those psychics also interested in the ruins of ancient giants?"
It seems that even the self-awareness is a little weak. I wonder if those psychics are playing tricks on it... By the way, even they have begun to intervene, and all sorts of monsters and monsters are really going to appear one after another."
Thinking of this, Xuan Weizi said: "This is the settlement of snow goblins. Can you release them?"
"These are Maiang's food." The giant mushroom replied, but facing Akuma Matata's chirping shouts, the giant mushroom said: "Maion needs a more flexible body. If you can do it, Maiang