Wizard's Journey

Chapter 316 The Ice Field on the Surface (Part 7)

Seven days later.

After the eerie canyon, Grimm, having found five more entrances to the World Nest, discovered the most magnificent and towering mountain range he had ever seen in the Nest World.

Most of the ridges in this mountain range are over 7,000 meters high, and some areas exceed 10,000 meters!

Its grandeur and magnificence are in no way inferior to the Human Will Mountain Range on the Wizarding Continent.

Because the Nest World is under the rule of ice and snow all year round, and the temperature is extremely cold, it is perfectly normal for the mountain ranges that Green crossed before to be covered with ice and snow.

But this majestic and magnificent mountain range is somewhat different...

Because this mountain range is so high, and the wind direction seems to be fixed all year round, without the cross-temperature changes between land and sea in the Wizarding World that cause the formation of monsoons, this mountain range has formed a phenomenon where one side is covered with ice and snow, and the other side is bare mountain rocks.

In other words, this creates the yin and yang sides of the mountain range.

The shady side of the mountain range is extremely cold year-round, and the ice is so thick due to the invasion of ice, snow and cold winds that it is unimaginable.

The sunny side, on the other hand, is exposed rock and sheltered from the wind. In some areas, the temperature can be kept above freezing.

This scene, while novel to Green, was within the normal wizarding knowledge system and not strange at all.

But some of the subsequent discoveries were rather unusual.

These trees...

A day and night in the Nest World is about seventeen and a half hourglasses in the Wizarding World, almost half as long.

In the warmest part of the valley on the sunny side of the mountain, only a sparse, slightly chilly wind blows. At noon, when the sun is at its strongest, it brings abundant heat, thus creating a peculiar situation where the temperature fluctuates around freezing point day and night.

In this very place, Green discovered some trees and plants that were completely contrary to the rules of the Nest World.

The trunks of these trees have grown a strange cuticle layer made of a mixture of crystal glass and metal. Obviously, such a cuticle layer can only resist physical impacts, but it does not provide much protection against temperature differences, and it may not even be a natural structure formed by the growth of these trees.

These trees have no leaves.

At the top of the stratum corneum was a huge, dark red sphere that appeared somewhat soft and showed signs of gentle wriggling, resembling the egg of some kind of creature.

Green believed that these plants did not conform to the rules and rhythms of the nest world because of the dark red color of their round crowns!

Based on Green's research into the knowledge of the wizarding world's wars against other worlds, all creatures with this dark red body surface have reproduced and been born in worlds with abundant heat, and would never appear in a world that is almost completely frozen.

If the Nest World had not frozen itself, increasing the solidity of the earth and preventing excessive erosion from flowing water and lava, the endless snow worms would not have been able to carve out this magnificent world that amazes even many wizards over the long years.

At least the Zhangma Tree Cave in the Shadow Mystery world is protected by a thick fleshy barrier!

Beneath the mask of truth, his eyes gleamed with deep thought as Grimm manipulated the Shadow Meteor to slowly descend into the valley.

Squeak!

The upper metal shield of the Shadow Starfall opened, and the myna bird stood on its shoulder. Grimm, holding the Ram Horned Nightmare, flew out of the Shadow Starfall and headed towards the nearest strange tree.

The base of this strange tree has a cuticle diameter of about three meters and a height of five meters. It is very thick and relatively short.

Its top, a "dark red canopy," is a perfectly round sphere about seven or eight meters in diameter, somewhat like the egg of a giant insect, and it wriggles slightly with a "gurgling" sound.

"Young...Young Master, do you think...something terrible might suddenly jump out of this big thing?"

The myna bird, perched on Green's shoulder, saw Green gently stroking the dark red bark of the tree canopy with one hand and couldn't help but shudder as it asked a question.

Shaking his head, Green said calmly, "No."

In this relatively normal environment, the second phase of the Grimm's Truth Project finally began to show some results.

At this moment, in Green's endless eye's cold and hot vision, against a blurry green background, there was a slight touch of pale red in the center of the tree canopy, and in the center of the pale red was an incomparably deep red.

It seems that something of high-purity energy is being nurtured inside this tree canopy.

"Fruit?"

Amidst suspicion, Green hesitated only slightly before his hand, which had been stroking the surface of the tree canopy, plunged in and ripped open the dark red canopy's water-bag-like surface.

"not good!"

"Oh my god..."

Green and the myna bird both cried out at the same time, and were drenched in a pale red liquid that gushed out from inside the tree canopy. Fortunately, it was all blocked by a layer of light, almost transparent wizard's shield.

These pale red liquids were just normal plant foliage and were not harmful. It was just that the sudden occurrence caught Green and the myna bird off guard and gave them a fright.

Gradually.

It seemed that the liquid pressure inside the plant's canopy was decreasing, and the pale red sap, which had initially been gushing out, began to flow slowly, filling the air with a fishy, ​​foul odor.

"Huffing and puffing..."

The myna bird was panting heavily, flapping one wing incessantly against its chest, and mumbled incoherently, "Damn it, you scared me to death, scared me to death..."

Meanwhile, in Green's hot and cold vision, the liquid flowing from inside the tree canopy was still just a blurry light green.

The pale red energy cluster that was originally condensing in the central area began to dissipate as the tree canopy broke open and liquid flowed out. Apart from the energy cluster that had already gathered in the very center, the surrounding energy stopped gathering and began to gradually dissipate.

Ignoring the myna's complaints, Green stared intently at the crack in the tree crown that seemed to be gradually drying out.

Let's see what appears in a moment!

Gradually, as the first wisp of pale red energy flowed out from the cold and hot vision, Green cried out in horror, "A soul?"

Apart from soul wizards, most wizards only pursue soul materials based on natural elemental souls.

Therefore, although Green was amazed by the soul that had emerged from the canopy of this strange tree, he didn't have much of a thought for the time being.

After all, unless one can reach the level of a world lord, having many ordinary souls is useless to oneself.

Even the souls that the Flame Giant usually devours during its evolution, the Demon Hunter Expedition battlefield, and the experimental materials it kills are more than enough.

Thinking this, Green shook his head and tore the already dried-out bark apart completely with a few quick tugs.

After the pale red sap had flowed out completely, Green's eyes flashed, and he found a jelly-like lump about the size of a fingernail inside the tree canopy.

"Huh? It can actually fuse souls together?"

Green held the condensed soul in his hand, observing it with astonishment.

Ordinary souls are beneath my notice, and collecting them is too much trouble, but such concentrated soul matter might be worth selling to soul wizards for wizard coins, magic stones, or even wizard spirits.

This small valley alone contains no fewer than a hundred strange trees...

"It stinks! Young master, you can explore here. I'm going to hide somewhere further away."

The myna bird could no longer stand the stench here and flew away quickly into the distance with a look of disgust on its face.

Ignoring the myna bird, Green excitedly stored the condensed soul into the dimensional rift, then flew towards another strange tree, all the while pondering.

"Are these strange trees using the unique geological environment and the temperature difference between day and night to continuously refine and concentrate their soul power? This is similar to the Second Ring Holy Tower, which has the longest sunshine hours and the largest temperature difference in the wizarding world, thus cultivating the most delicious fruits in the wizarding world."

Thinking this, Green was about to break open the canopy of the second strange tree when he suddenly froze.

"But where did these refined and concentrated soul materials come from? Clearly, the soul is one of the driving forces of living beings, and even the life source of elemental wizards... No! Concentration? Soul concentration!?"

Green's body suddenly trembled, as if he had grasped something crucial, and he excitedly shouted to himself!

The knowledge of synthetic beasts, which is the essence of life and death, is divided into four parts: Corpse Refining Synthesis Array, Heart of Life, Soul of Elements, and Activated Flesh and Blood.

The four parts are all key to upgrading a chimera, and they complement each other.

Upgrading the Corpse Refining Array requires a wizard's long-term accumulation of knowledge. This requires a long period of foundation, there are no shortcuts, and it is not affected by inspiration or creativity. It is the core part of a mature and stable knowledge system of the mysteries of life and death.

The Heart of Life requires wizards to hunt down high-level flesh-and-blood beings; the higher the level of the life form, the easier it is to obtain a Heart of Life that never stops beating.

While the Life Heart gained after hunting a target will typically drop by one or even two levels, some powerful dark wizards who study the mysteries of life and death possess the knowledge and ability to restore a Life Heart that has dropped in level.

As a result, some high-ranking wizards inevitably have to go to the Dark Domain to trade.

With the evolution of activated flesh and blood, each wizard has different opportunities and inspirations, leading to different directions.

As for Green, thanks to the opportunities and inspiration from the world of Enigma in the Shadows, he has already developed a direction for the evolution of synthetic beasts into flesh and blood through the Enigma digestion and replenishment system.

Thus, following the first Shadow Hedgehog experimental chimera, the most obvious experimental objective of Grimm's second experimental chimera was to add the Enigma Energy digestion and replenishment system.

So, the final problem that troubled Grimm in the chimera upgrade system was the Soul of Natural Elements.

In terms of the mysteries of life and death, besides directly hunting high-level natural elemental beings to obtain the Soul of Nature, another method is to synthesize it using low-level natural elemental souls.

This synthesis method, however, is itself a highly complex field of knowledge.

According to what Green knows about the synthesis price of the Seven Rings Holy Tower's Natural Element Souls, if Green wants to synthesize two Natural Element Souls, he will need about seven or eight Witch Essences.

But if there are three, then there are a hundred!

As for combining four elemental souls, that would amount to over a thousand...

This is the price of knowledge in the wizarding world. Although Green is confident that he can synthesize two elemental souls after hundreds of years of study, three is simply out of reach.

Green's original plan was to make up for the lack of synthetic beasts by hunting high-level natural elemental life forms or by working hard to earn witch essence, but this strange tree suddenly gave Green a burst of inspiration!

in case……

What if I replaced the ordinary soul in the canopy of this strange tree with the soul of the natural elements?

(End of this chapter)