Chapter 400 Hunting Sea Soul Beast (V)
"What kind of plant is this?"
Tang San was surprised to find that the leaves of the plant were actually light blue, similar to the blue silver grass.
Zhou Qing carefully examined the curled part of the plant stem and found that it was similar to the vein structure of the blue silver grass. He tentatively asked Ariel: "Could it be that the blue silver grass curled together to form a tree?"
"How could it be blue silver grass? Grass is grass, tree is tree, they are completely different!" Xiao Wu did not think that it was blue silver grass, but just an unknown tree species with blue leaves.
But Ariel was surprised by Zhou Qing's keen insight and nodded, "Yes, that's the blue silver grass."
Xiao Wu's eyes widened: "How could it be Blue Silver Grass?"
"Yeah, after all, it should be the Blue Silver Tree, right?" Romantina complained.
"It's not wrong to call it a blue silver tree, but in essence, it's still grass."
Ariel seemed to sigh with emotion, and her azure eyes were filled with an inexplicable color. "When the seeds of the blue silver grass fell on the sea heart stone, they began to take root and sprout, growing rapidly. However, without soil and surrounded by salt water, the blue silver grass growing on the sea heart stone had to change its form. Even the leaves of multiple blue silver grasses were entangled together, and the roots were also entangled together."
"In less than three years, the original leaves turned into black tree-like stems that could withstand the beating of the sea water, and on the top grew new oval blue leaves... But if you look more carefully, you will find that those leaves have no petioles and extend directly from the black branches."
"So, this blue silver tree only looks like a tree, but it is actually blue silver grass. The black stems and branches have only changed to resist the erosion of sea water."
Tang San could not help but stand in awe, and said: "Blue Silver Grass, although weak, is also tenacious!"
In this sea area, every reef containing sea heart stone has more or less blue silver trees growing on it.
The only other plants are some blue moss-like seaweed and algae that grow on the edge of the reef.
Why not other plants?
Zhou Qing guessed that it might be because the growth cycle of blue silver grass was short, and it could complete iterative evolution in a relatively short period of time, thereby quickly adapting to the current environment.
Other plants, especially trees, cannot evolve into a form that adapts to the reef sea environment in a short period of time, and naturally cannot survive.
Seeing that Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Romantina were all curious, Ariel drove the ship to a reef where a blue silver tree grew, allowing them to watch it up close.
"This blue silver tree is about 20 meters tall, right?" Romantina was surprised. "Can blue silver grass grow this tall?"
"Maybe it's the effect of the life energy in the Sea Heart Stone... Miss Ariel, is this blue silver tree a plant soul beast?" Zhou Qing suddenly asked.
“Someone had thought about it before, but no one knew about it.”
"why?"
Tang San was puzzled. To determine whether the Blue Silver Tree was a plant soul beast, wouldn't it be obvious at a glance if he cut it in half to see if a soul ring would emerge?
"You can try." Ariel did not answer, but waved to the sailor beside her, asking him to hand the scimitar at his waist to Tang San.
Tang San took the scimitar and realized that Alice wanted him to chop down the Blue Silver Tree, so he reached out and grabbed a handful of black branches extending from the Blue Silver Tree and chopped them down with force.
Ding!
The blade bounced back and even had a notch on the edge.
Looking at the black curled branches of the Blue Silver Tree, they were completely intact, not even a trace could be found. "It's so hard!" Tang San was incredulous, and tried to chop the light blue leaves, but it was very easy, without even a knife, just a little force and he grabbed a handful of light blue leaves.
"Do you understand now?"
Ariel smiled slightly, "This blue silver grass is weak, but when it curls up together, it is extremely hard and cannot be damaged by ordinary iron and steel weapons."
"It's not that humans can't cut it down, but this is a reef area after all, where sea soul beasts gather. It's too dangerous to stay here for too long. No soul master will waste time hunting soul beasts just to cut down a blue silver tree. Moreover, most of the humans in Hanhai City have sea soul beasts or aquatic soul beasts as their martial souls. It's impossible for them to waste their energy to cut down a blue silver tree that they don't know if it's a plant soul beast."
In short, no one in Hanhai City has a need for plant soul beasts, and hunting soul beasts in the sea is too dangerous and cannot be done for long, so no one has explored whether the Blue Silver Tree is a plant soul beast.
However, Zhou Qing seemed to understand why the Blue Silver Emperor had such a powerful attack soul skill as the Blue Silver Overlord Spear.
Look!
In order to survive, ordinary blue silver grass curls up and twists together, which can make the leaves black and harden. Ignoring the branches and leaves on the blue silver tree, just looking at the black stems, don't they look like not-so-straight gun heads made by second-rate craftsmen?
The Blue Silver Emperor is able to evolve into the Blue Silver Overlord Spear, which clearly means that it can form shapes similar to drill bits and gun heads through curling and spiraling blades.
This characteristic is not only possessed by the Blue Silver Emperor, but also by the most common Blue Silver Grass.
These blue-silver trees that grow on the sea heart stone and have to coil and entangle together to form a symbiotic body in order to resist the erosion of sea water are the best proof.
At most, the Blue Silver Emperor has reached the 100,000-year level and can control itself. However, after these ordinary Blue Silver grasses gather together to form a Blue Silver Tree, it is estimated that they can no longer be separated at the physical level.
[According to the description in the original book, each blue silver grass has its own soul. Which blue silver tree is dominated by one? Or, when they are combined together, all the blue silver grasses dominate together to form a new soul aggregate? ]
Inexplicably, Zhou Qing developed a strong interest in the specific situation of the Blue Silver Tree.
After all, this form is somewhat similar to collective consciousness... If this blue silver tree has spiritual attributes, then it is also suitable for Romantina.
But it is highly unlikely.
"That's true, but there must have been powerful spirit masters who cut down the Blue Silver Tree, right?" Xiao Wu asked.
"It is true that there were soul masters with great strength who cut down the Blue Silver Tree." Ariel agreed.
"Since it has been cut off, it should be easy to determine whether it is a plant soul beast, right? We can tell by looking at the soul ring."
If it has a soul ring, it is a plant soul beast.
Without a soul ring, it is not a plant soul beast.
Why is the answer uncertain?
"How should I put it? After cutting down the Blue Silver Tree, I could feel the fluctuations in my cultivation, but no spirit ring appeared."
Ariel shook her head and said, "So, no one is sure whether the Blue Silver Tree is a soul beast, because it has cultivation fluctuations, but no soul rings appear. It is really too strange."
"It is said that more than 200 years ago, the Spirit Hall was interested in exploring the roots of the Blue Silver Tree. However, it seemed that the Spirit Hall sent 2,000 spirit masters to the holy land of almost all sea spirit masters, Sea God Island, in an attempt to recruit the spirit masters there... The result was not satisfactory. In the end, less than 100 spirit masters returned empty-handed, and even lost two Titled Douluo."
"Since then, the Spirit Hall has given up exploring the ocean, as well as the plants, animals and spirit beasts on the ocean..."
(End of this chapter)
