National Gardener: I can choose the evolution path of spiritual plants.

Chapter 71 Seven Sin Demonic Insects
Lin Zhi looked past the giant turtle's majestic head and towards the altar on the ground in the distance.

It looked similar to the altar that Lin Zhi had in mind, with three floors built from unknown gray rocks.

The first level of the platform is about the size of a county town. It has an octagonal base inlaid with densely packed gems.

Lin Zhi could tell at a glance that these gems were precious. They were pyroxenes that could only be precipitated from underground lava through volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.

The value of such a large amount of pyroxene is inestimable.

Looking upwards, on the second level of the platform, there are five circles connected by a five-pointed star. Inside each circle, there is a substance the size of a football field.

Lin Zhi identified them one by one, and a hint of greed appeared in his eyes, but then he wiped away this emotion.

These five football field-sized pieces of material are the extremely precious East Yi Qingmu, West Geng Ruijin, South Ming Lihuo, North Xuan Kanshui, and Central Shentu.

These are five precious main materials used to strengthen the divine environment and spiritual plants.

Well, as far as Lin Zhi knows, a fist-sized piece is enough to strengthen a spiritual plant. With a football field of this size, I wonder how many times the spiritual plants can be strengthened.

He reluctantly glanced past the materials and looked towards the top of the altar.

At the top of the altar is a round platform with the image of a black tortoise carved on it by divine patterns.

"The strong men back then used the roots of the world tree and the spirit of our race as materials to set up the seal. That's why we found a way to destroy it. Fire and water can't coexist. As long as the blood of the Vermilion Bird drips onto the seal of this altar, it can destroy the altar and release the Seven Sins Demon Insects."

The giant turtle suddenly spoke.

"destroy?"

Lin Zhi was stunned. He originally thought that the wild beast's position was to protect the altar, so why did it start by destroying the altar?
The giant turtle did not give a direct answer, but continued, "Because we need to guard the suppression altar, we, the wild beasts of the divine environment, basically hide from the world and sleep in the forbidden land. The remaining wild beasts that have not been contaminated are outside the secret realm."

“At first, the orcs believed in the Holy Advent Church and gained some rationality, while the wild beasts believed in the Illuminati that was spread by that person later and gained the ability to resist infection.

The two sides waged a thousand-year war, and later we discovered that once a being with combat power beyond the divine ring was born on either side of the war, it would ascend to heaven."

"Is there such a thing?" Lin Zhi was curious. As far as he knew, there was no such thing as a lower world or an upper world in the universe.

The world is divided into civilizations, and will only upgrade with the level of civilization. There is no such thing as ascension.

"We thought it was normal at first, until a war a few decades ago destroyed the altar belonging to the Molin tribe, which was located in the sea, where your human light gate is located.

After the altar was destroyed, the Seven Sins were released from suppression.

However, strangely, they did not continue to infect us, but instead created a wormhole and left this world."

"On the other side of the wormhole is our human civilization?"

Lin Zhi asked.

"Yes, less than a year after the Seven Sins Demon Worms escaped, you humans expanded the space through this wormhole, unsealed it, created a light gate, and invaded the Wild Beast World. Then a large number of Half-Step Legends arrived and completely confused us."

"We then realized that the divine ring was not the end point, and that there were very serious problems with the previous metamorphosis. Therefore, the sages of our tribe studied the knowledge and history of human civilization, and only then did they discover the strangeness of our history."

"Weird?"

"That's right. Through the changes that have taken place in your civilization's World Tree throughout history, we finally understand that the infection that appeared in the World Tree before means that our civilization's dominance in the Wild Beast World is being handed over, and the race that is taking over is not the orcs, but the Seven Sins Demon Insects that parasitize the orcs."

"In other words, when the World Tree is completely infected, your civilization will become the nest of the Seven Sins?" "Yes, that should be the case. Later, the apostles of the Holy Advent Church guided us to speed up the erosion process. And later, the apostles of the Light Life Society seemed to help us, but in fact, they also coveted our civilization."

The giant turtle suddenly smiled bitterly and said, "But later, the battle between the two sides caused the World Tree to break, and our civilization lost its value to be eroded and transformed. So, they adopted a new strategy, which is to raise Gu, and use our civilization as a Gu bowl, and become a breeding ground for them to cultivate Gu worms."

"Then what benefit will it bring to you if you destroy the altar?" Lin Zhi wondered.

"It can be said that there is no benefit. But we have run out of options."

The black tortoise suddenly asked, "Do you know the secret of grafting?"

Lin Zhi nodded quickly.

Of course he knew the secret art of grafting, which was a very practical secret art that could graft two closely related spiritual plants with compatible properties to obtain a spiritual plant that was better than the original one.

Of course, if the branches of the world tree are used as the main body of grafting, there is no need to consider issues such as attributes.

"The war between our civilizations is also a war between world trees. If a war is won, the civilization will annex the world and gain resources and wealth. The world tree will annex the world tree and grow."

Black Turtle said, "When the World Tree grows a little taller, the world's sky will be a little higher, and thus the world's spiritual energy will be a little more, and the upper limit of the level that the world can accommodate will be a little higher.

In addition to being able to swallow up other world trees, the World Tree can also graft the seedlings of other world trees onto the World Tree to become one of its branches."

"Grafting, branching?"

This was the first time Lin Zhi heard this statement.

"Although the trunk of our civilization's world tree has been cut off and only the roots remain, it is not dead. Although it has lost the potential to continue growing, it is easy to make it sprout again. Take its new buds and graft them onto the world tree of your human civilization, and they will grow into new branches."

Black Turtle said, "The altar seals the Seven Sins, which is actually also a seal on the World Tree. This seal prevents our World Tree from being reborn, and it will forever be trapped in the struggle between the Holy Advent Church and the Illuminati until the orcs and the wild beasts decide the winner."

"So your goal is to destroy the altar, release the Seven Sins, and then let the World Tree grow new buds?"

"That's right! Therefore, we, the orcs and wild beasts who were temporarily awake, guided the war and finally sent the key to destroying the altar - the red bird - into this secret place."

"An orc who is temporarily awake?"

"Yes, you have to understand that the Seven Sins Demon Worms do not have their own thoughts and consciousness. They erode the souls of living beings by relying on the seven emotions and six desires of life itself. In addition to the orcs and wild beasts who have converted to the Holy Advent Church and the Illuminati, there are also a very small number of wild beasts and orcs who are as clear-headed as me."

Black Turtle said, "We have been communicating secretly, taking advantage of the war between the orcs and your human race to find an opportunity, and sent the Vermilion Bird here just for this moment."

"No, I'm a little confused. Why did it take so many detours for such a simple matter? Also, why would the Ji family members who were parasitized by the devil worm stand with you?"

"Just like the complicated intertwining of forces among you humans, our civilization is the same! There are those who believe in the Holy Advent Church, those who believe in the Illuminati, those who are full of ambitions, those who lie low, those who are neutral, and so on.

Many forces do not want the altar to be destroyed, and the war with you humans is not something we can lead as we wish. There are many constraints involved.

As for the Ji family you mentioned, we don't know them. They should be the group of seven sins that escaped from the Molin Altar, right?
They themselves have no conscious thinking, and I have no idea what will happen after they parasitize and infect you humans."

Lin Zhi chewed over Xuan Gui's words. There were many differences between Xuan Gui's statement and Ji Wuming's statement. One of the two parties must be lying, or even both of them were lying.

At this time, the black tortoise continued, "Okay, the next step is to kill the Vermilion Bird and let it be reborn from the ashes and become a true Fire Phoenix!"

(End of this chapter)