fifth form

Chapter 3339 Fruits and Magical Treasure Embryos

Zhang Xuezhou took over Donghua's secret territory, but he didn't fully understand it.

Like an explorer who ventures into the world, he can only explore step by step to become familiar with everything in this area.

The changes in the poisonous plants and trees were sudden, and those who experienced them underwent different transformations during his cultivation.

Normally, the changes in vegetation are nothing special, but this secret place is also connected to the seeds of the giant tree, and has also grown incredible strange objects like the Soul-Locking Pillar. All these factors are related to plants, and the poisonous herbs and trees in this secret place are not simple things either.

"This thing flowers and bears fruit way too fast, is it rushing to be reincarnated?"

Zhou Rihui said something to the poisonous plants he had previously gnawed on, and the small red berries on the plants began to fall off.

When they reached out to pick up the small fruits and touched the poisonous plant, many of the small fruits fell down like raindrops.

"This poisonous plant produces a large number of fruits with tight outer skin, which is in line with the plant's survival strategy in the face of crisis," Ren Anran said. "It's just that the speed of flowering and fruiting is a little too fast!"

"It should have some spirituality!"

Zhang Xuezhou brushed aside the leaves of the poisonous plant and felt that they were somewhat wilted, as if they had used up all their energy, and the plant itself was withered.

"What kind of plant is very spiritual?" Ren Anran asked.

"Zodiac was once considered a very spiritual plant!"

"It seems they possess a certain level of intelligence!"

Having figured out Zhang Xuezhou's description of spirituality, Ren Anran felt that everything in the world was indeed wonderful, and that living things could behave very differently in different environments.

"Is it edible?" Zhou Rihui asked repeatedly.

"This thing is too resilient to survive; I don't recommend eating it raw, lest you end up with grass growing in your stomach!"

Zhang Xuezhou squeezed the fruit. The fruit's skin was extremely smooth and somewhat woody. He could vaguely sense that the fruit contained an extremely strong vitality.

Zhang Xuezhou thought it would be helpful for Huang Daoxian to identify it. Huang Daoxian, who had once been a plant, had extremely high professional skills in this field and had even assisted in the gene catalytic synthesis that everyone found most troublesome.

Zhang Xuezhou didn't need to study whether the fruit was useful; he only needed to study Huang Daoxian's attitude.

After giving Zhou Rihui a brief warning, Zhou Rihui reluctantly put down the red berry he was about to put in his mouth to chew.

Starting from a small clump of poisonous plants, these plants were eaten and fought over territory. The remaining number of poisonous plants was extremely small, but the plants grew so lush that they reached half a person's height. A single plant could produce thousands or even tens of thousands of fruits.

They took a simple bag and collected a large number of fallen fruits into it.

Having experienced the trouble of collecting large quantities of fruit, the group became much more cautious and first laid a thin film on the ground.

"What can we do with these poisonous trees? They're not bearing any fruit!"

Poisonous weeds bear fruit, while poisonous trees lose their leaves and fall, leaving only bare trunks.

Zhou Rihui gained considerable strength from poisonous plants, but never from poisonous trees.

He looked at the dozen or so bare poisonous trees, then at the five or six bags of red berries he had collected, and then at Zhang Xuezhou.

"If the growth process isn't reversed, they'll leave something behind, more or less!"

Zhang Xuezhou looked at the nearly 100-meter-tall poisonous tree and then touched the trunk where the bark was peeling off with a pattering sound.

“If it weren’t propagated from seeds, it would probably have survived through cuttings,” Ren Anran said. “After the rhizome completely withers, what remains is the core that allows it to continue its reproduction!”

"It's withering too fast; we should be able to see its core soon!" Indistinguishable from poisonous weeds, this seemingly nearly 100-meter-tall poisonous tree is lurking at an extremely rapid pace.

Zhang Xuezhou patted the tree trunk and felt the massive tree rapidly withering and drying out.

If you were to light it now, the poisonous tree would definitely crackle and burn, quickly igniting the entire tree.

These plants, which wither and change rapidly and are different from those in the outside world, are poisonous weeds and trees that were able to survive in the harsh environment of the secret place. Their ability to adapt to the environment and survive is undoubtedly top-notch.

Zhang Xuezhou reached out and grabbed at the tree bark, which turned into powder. The tree seemed to tremble slightly, and the signs of drying out became more obvious.

"This thing has a very extensive root system; it's extremely difficult to pull it out!"

Seeing Zhang Xuezhou reach out and exert force, Zhou Rihui, who was stronger, then lent a helping hand.

Before he could finish speaking, he felt the poisonous tree he was holding suddenly tilt and overturn, no longer having the massive, unshakeable root system it had been before.

"What a damn tree, dying so quickly!"

The poisonous tree collapsed rapidly, like something rotten from being eaten by insects. After Zhou Rihui released the tree, he quickly turned around, and there was a dull thud as countless wood chips flew into the air.

"If it gets into flames, it will burn up very quickly!"

"Try lighting it!"

The poisonous plants in the secret place had withered like dry grass, leaving only many small red fruits to serve as seeds, and the poisonous trees were also withering very quickly.

A small flame touched the poisonous tree, and Zhang Xuezhou saw the flame spread to the entire tree in just a few seconds.

As if the tree had been coated with oil or contained some special igniter, the flames burned extremely quickly, spreading over a hundred meters to form a towering flame, before rapidly turning into black ash. Even the roots of the poisonous tree were burning in the soil.

“It burned down so quickly, this tree is no good,” Zhou Rihui muttered.

“The burning speed is much faster than the fuse, and this kind of burning doesn’t seem to care about external conditions,” Ren Anran said solemnly, looking at the burning roots in the soil. “I’ll ask around outside!”

"Do you think this type of wood can be used for research on firearms?" Zhang Xuezhou asked.

"A high-quality combustion material should have value. As long as there is a possibility of imitation and construction, there should be many applications. Military thermal weapons are indeed a very good application!"

Ren Anran nodded.

While the poisonous tree may appear to be hundreds of meters tall, the amount available for industrial production as fuel is far from sufficient. It serves more as a sample, with the aim of developing a second-generation product with similar materials to see if it can be used industrially.

Different worlds have different materials, and perhaps a simple collision can spark something different.

"Look at this wooden pole, isn't this the lifeblood of a poisonous tree's propagation through cuttings?"

Zhang Xuezhou and the others watched the burning of the underground roots of the poisonous tree, while Zhou Rihui rummaged through the ashes that had been burned to ashes and picked up a section of the tree trunk that was more than two meters long and had not been completely burned.

"This one……"

The slightly heavy tree trunk with its metallic sheen gripped his hand, as if he were holding a long metal staff. Zhang Xuezhou's eyelids twitched, and he almost thought that Donghua's scepter had returned.

The shape of this tree trunk was too similar to the shape of the scepter that released the 'Fast and Slow' domain. When Zhang Xuezhou grasped it in his palm, he even felt a certain sense of harmony and familiarity. He sensed that it seemed to be supported by the spirit wood staff of Fangzhang Island, which allowed Zhang Xuezhou to feel that his control and domain abilities had been extended.

The materials used to make this a domain treasure are undoubtedly top-tier. Donghua's scepter is comparable to treasures like Dingkui, and in terms of quality, it surpasses Montesparton's heirloom Ruyi Staff.

When Zhang Xuezhou glanced at the remaining dozen or so poisonous trees in the secret place, he couldn't help but gasp, feeling that there were too many top-tier magic weapon embryos being mass-produced.