Chapter 178 Another Perspective - Trees and Plants (3k)

"The weather is really nice today."

Li Yan observed the sky with some white thick clouds floating in it, and the clear blue sky was dotted with white clouds.

The mountain tops in the distance were covered with white clothes, and the continuous mountains seemed to have entered the snow country at this time.

But the temperature where the tree people lived did not change much. The huge mountain range they were leaning against blocked the cold current and surrounded this small mountain plain, forming a unique stable microclimate, a microclimate that would be slightly cold in winter, but still suitable for plant growth.

Li Yan stood on the tree canopy, and a high tower was woven in the canopy of the ancient tree of wisdom, allowing him to observe the nearby terrain with a better view.

The height of this tree man hero unit, which has been promoted to the ancient tree of wisdom, has reached nearly 40 meters, but the taller the body and the larger the volume, the less ideal its movement speed seems.

But the thick wooden structure and the nutrient transport structure in the body also allow it to grow extremely large and high. If Li Yan had not controlled it to stop growing, it could still take root in the earth and continue to grow to 50 meters.

But at that time, it could only extend its roots at an extremely slow speed to allow itself to move on the ground. A speed of 2km/h was considered as fast as the wind.

In autumn and winter, the green forests here began to shed leaves, turning from dark green to slightly yellow. Without the cover of the tree canopy, the effect of observation from a high place was quite good. Without the cover of the wide tree canopy, they could observe quite far away.

I don’t know when it started, but there were suddenly more jackals and wild boars with autonomous mobility near the territory. They always ran in groups to the gardens guarded by the tree people to steal fruits and destroy the trees that had not yet grown for timber.

Li Yan could not rely on the tree people for reconnaissance. Their movement speed was too slow, and it was extremely time-consuming to go back and forth. If he was caught by the jackals and wild boars, he might lose extremely valuable labor. The prosperous gardens built with the branches of the world tree also needed a large number of tree people to take care of them.

To this end, he followed the previous plan to deal with players, laying a large number of long-term vine traps and passively defending to build a defense line.

They don't pursue killing these invaders with traps, but just restrict their movements and slow them down. The tree people who come here later will use the purest power to teach these jackals and wild boars that they will pay the price of their lives if they break into other people's forests and destroy things.

Under the guidance of Ji Lin, Li Yan now turns to the route of cultivating auxiliary plants. He hesitated for a long time on enhancing his individual combat power. Because other tree lords don't pay much attention to these auxiliary plants, most people think that cultivating tree people themselves can get amazing combat power.

Ji Lin, who knows everything, pointed out a path for Li Yan that is not so weak in the middle and late stages of tree people, and quoted posts from other tree lords to strengthen his persuasiveness.

Li Yan can see that Ji Lin is giving him information in a way that he answers almost every question, and naturally wants to train him into an excellent collaborator.

He is not a treacherous person. The other party treats him sincerely. As a four-good young man with a very positive outlook on life, he remembers all these favors.

Even though the nursery now needs tree people to take care of it, he also maintains a group of tree people to mine iron ore and stone in the mountains next to him to maintain trade with the other party - if it weren't for the key information provided by the other party, Li Yan didn't know how many detours he would have to take.

Compared with the large amount of resources that these detours may consume, the labor spent on maintaining trade is nothing, not to mention that Ji Lin trades with him on a mutually beneficial basis.

Li Yan has no reason to refuse.

At Ji Lin's suggestion, he proposed that if Li Yan did not have great military pressure, he could now try to tilt resources to cultivate various special auxiliary plants.

If Ji Lin hadn't mentioned it, Li Yan would not have noticed that tree people can use their racial talents to catalyze the emergence of special plants.

Therefore, tree people have begun to cultivate offensive auxiliary plants. These plants that can grow in a few days and wither after a few weeks will be the main combat force of the tree people for a long time to come.

With their natural affinity for plants, tree people cultivate various special plants and can quickly create an awe-inspiring defense line.

Plants, spellcasters.

Only the elves and tree people, who are born with strong affinity for plants, can do this. Other species do not have this talent, so they need a lot of pre-technical preparation and several times of time to cultivate.

Well, the most effective offensive plants now are the root vines evolved from the spiked roots, which can be used as a trap for several months.

Unfortunately, the power is far less than the spiked roots directly launched by the tree people, but it is first-class in dealing with small animals.

Because of these root vines, Li Yan's daily meat needs can now be met without relying on the market. On weekdays, it would be best if the tree people could catch small animals to eat a few bites of meat. It doesn't matter if they can't catch them. He can't use the precious production capacity of the tree people to hunt for him.

Tree people are not good at hunting by nature. The sound of their movement can easily scare away the surrounding animals. They can only take root in the same place and wait for the rabbits, but the efficiency is not satisfactory.

Li Yan, who graduated from the Department of Economics, did a calculation. Tree people can buy nearly three times the meat they hunt in the market when they go mining or planting.

Since then, he never thought of letting the tree people go hunting again.

A horn sounded through the forest, shaking off several yellow leaves.

Li Yan, wearing tree armor, looked at the mixed army of gnolls and wild boars pressing towards him in the distance.

He smiled happily.

Just because he didn't go looking for these Orc camps didn't mean he didn't have the ability to kill them.

They really thought he was a soft persimmon that was easy to pinch.

They came at the right time, saving him the trouble of going out to look for these Orcs.

In order to survive this winter, these gnolls and boarmen who had formed their own small tribes naturally set their sights on the place with the richest food reserves in this area, the residences of these tree people.

Gathering food was too slow and too little.

Hunting was extremely unstable.

The fruits grown in several large gardens guarded by the tree people made them salivate. They were sweet and delicious and could also restore their energy very well. It was a pity that they only succeeded in a few sneak attacks, but these few sneak attacks also brought them enough food to feed the entire camp for a month.

They tasted the sweetness, but unfortunately the group of tree people stepped up their defenses later, and they never succeeded in sneak attacks again.

Now they have gathered all their living forces here. With a thousand people, it is more than enough to capture a human town, and a forest guarded by tree people is naturally not a problem.

Their shamans had learned some methods to deal with tree people. At this time, everyone brought kerosene and torches, and they specially built dozens of catapults that could attack with fire.

As for the clumsy-looking tree, they only needed to burn the other small tree people to death, and then surround it and set fire to its blind spot to solve it - at least that's what the priests among the gnolls and wild boars thought.

Until the giant tree inserted its hand into the ground, a ball of black mud and gravel appeared in the hand of the giant tree. It was an ammunition several times larger than the catapult, and the mud was temporarily mixed by the power of magic.

Death arrived earlier than the sound.

Shattered, rolled.

The loose stones rolled in the air, shattered with deadly kinetic energy, and turned into a violent rain of stones, like ten howitzers firing at the same target.

Destroy, tear apart.

Wipe out the living things near the catapult along with their siege equipment.

The rage from the ancient tree.

Death falls from the sky.

It is not only the gnoll priest who blows the horn of attack.

As the ancient tree casts the first scattered stone, the tree man who has been promoted to the level of a big tree also penetrates the energy from the land into the earth, shaping irregular spherical projectiles and grasping them in his hands.

Like the ancient tree, it projects at the various gnolls that are attacking, turning into a deadly rain of bullets.

‘Spell: Shaping Stone Bullet + Spiky Roots’

‘Can quickly shape a piece of soil, allowing it to temporarily maintain a high hardness, and bury various seeds for it to cast delay spells. Current seeds: Spiky roots. ’

‘Believe me, you don’t want to be the target of this thing. ’

The strength of the tree man in the early and middle stages is not only experienced in words.

There is no gorgeous magic, only the purest power.

Driving the body, using the flowing power of elemental magic to make the stiff arm part flexible, they can use this to complete a deadly and accurate projection.

The flame catapult driven by the wild boars could only bite the bullet and launch flame bombs at the target of the ancient tree of wisdom. Only that ancient tree could threaten them. Although the remaining big trees were powerful, the throwing distance could not reach the location of their catapults.

Even if they could interfere with this tree, it would be fine.

The vanguard troops struggled to withstand the rain of death bullets thrown by the tree people, crossed the difficult 300 meters, and finally reached the end of the route.

And what was waiting for them.

was a great wall built with trees.

The conflict ended quickly.

The jackals and wild boars suffered heavy losses, and the tree people also suffered a lot of losses.

Li Yan did not let the small tree people stand on the front line. The backbone of the front line was the medium-sized tree people, and the small tree people threw stones to assist in the back, so there were no casualties. But the three medium tree people were burned by kerosene because they were on the front line, and they were completely charred from the outside.

This was the first time Li Yan lost troops.

An inexplicable sadness surged up. He felt that he had lost a single soldier, and now he had lost three...

"No, it's not dead yet."

The wise ancient tree saw Li Yan's sadness, lowered its body, and comforted its lord with a hoarse voice. Li Yan was not even sure whether it lowered its body. It stretched out its palm covered with thick tree armor. The palm was wide enough to cover the entire tree man.

Li Yan saw that the shell of the medium-sized tree man, which was obviously burned into carbon by the flame, was peeled off layer by layer by the ancient tree, revealing the green tree core. It seemed that there was a soft green light flowing in the tree core, and it was not completely dead yet.

This was the first time Li Yan saw a tree man throw away the external tree armor, with only the structure of the tree core.

The palm of the wise ancient tree extended its roots to penetrate the tree core, extracting everything that was left of it and reshaping its body.

On one side was the tree core gradually turning white, and on the other side was a brand new green tree man forming in the palm of the ancient tree.

It was reborn.

It just took some time to recover to its original form.