chsdbacks Chapter 131 Mysterious Plants
Chapter 131 Mysterious Plants
Several hours later, the group arrived at the edge of the forest, where the plants gradually became denser and taller.
Gao Sheng frowned as he looked at the results of the detector and said, "We can't detect what level these plant life forms are at all."
Now, Gao Sheng's detectors can only detect some monsters in the forest.
Plant life is like this: computers and detectors cannot accurately detect its strength. Just like Gao Sheng wearing the armor of the conch flower, others can only detect Gao Sheng's level, but cannot detect the level of the conch flower, or even sense its existence.
Of course, that's because the chamomile has already recognized its owner and won't actively release its aura. In contrast, the plants in this forest can be sensed for their life force when you get close.
However, vitality is not the same as strength. Only when plant life actively attacks can its true strength be accurately detected.
"These plants look extraordinary, with a strong life force." A blade flew up beside Nan Si, cutting into a shrub more than ten meters away. Although it was tall, the plant had no main trunk, only large clumps of thin branches, and its crown was very wide. It could indeed only be considered a shrub.
With a soft sound, a thin branch along with some leaves was cut off. Suddenly, all the thin branches of the bush grew rapidly, carrying a large clump of leaves that rushed towards Nansi like a tidal wave.
A stream of water appeared around Nan Si, blocking all the branches and leaves from falling to the ground.
Before long, the shrub was completely lifted off the ground and quickly fled with its large roots.
Gao Sheng and Ji Qinglan both chuckled.
"It's planetary level 7 strength," Nan Si said.
"According to this map, this forest is mostly populated by planetary and celestial level plants, with very few cosmic level ones. Let's explore it carefully," Ji Qing said. "The more plant species we learn, the more we can roughly deduce their strength by their size without even getting close."
Next, the four ventured deeper into the forest, constantly exploring and recording the plants on the continent.
Over the course of several days, a great many plant species were discovered, most of which were not aggressive and would only retaliate when actively attacked.
A few plants will actively attack any life that gets too close; these plants are usually found in open grasslands.
What's rather strange is that humans have difficulty judging the strength of these plants, and these plant life forms also seem unable to judge the strength of Gao Sheng and his companions, only fleeing after being attacked and realizing they are no match for them.
There are many monsters and ferocious beasts in this forest. Some of the ferocious beasts will attack on their own initiative, and in the end, they will die. However, when the monsters sensed the approach of these few cosmic-level humans, they all fled for their lives.
More than ten days later, the four of them entered the core area of the forest. The plants here were already quite huge. Some trees were kilometers tall, and some vines were tens of kilometers long.
Stepping on the thick layer of fallen leaves, Gao Sheng led the way forward slowly, his gaze piercing through the dense forest to a towering tree over a kilometer tall in the distance.
"Look at that tree, it's very likely that it has reached the cosmic level," Gao Sheng said.
Ji Qing said, "It should be. The one we encountered before was only a little over 500 meters tall, but it was already at the ninth level of the Hengxing level."
Nansi and Lanluo also looked delighted; they had finally found a mission target.
Suddenly, thick, five-colored vines shot out from the forest and surged towards Gao Sheng, trying to envelop him.
Boom! The fiery red domain was activated instantly. In this cosmic secret realm, the energy was abundant, and the domain's strength was even greater. It directly caused the colorful vines to feel as if they were trapped in mud. The scorching domain even baked the tiny leaves on the vines until they curled up.
"This is iron vine grass! A world-class iron vine grass!" Nan Si exclaimed.
Gao Sheng's heart skipped a beat.
Ironvine Grass can also be found on some inhabited planets. It is not an ordinary plant, but a kind of accessory plant life that can be captured to serve as an ally or armor!
However, the Iron Vine Grass is too low-end and its strength is very poor, at most it is only comparable to an ordinary human of the same level. Its only advantage is that it is large in size and has stronger vitality.
Moreover, if Iron Vine Grass is not specially cultivated, it can only grow to the ninth level of the Planetary level at most.
Unexpectedly, in this secret realm of the universe, something that grows on its own can reach the Hengxing level. Moreover, when the Iron Vine Grass exerted its power to attack, Xiao Ai naturally detected its strength, which was the ninth level of the Hengxing level.
"Eternal-level Ironvine Grass?" Gao Sheng's mind stirred, and dozens of double-edged blades from the Ash Divine Weapon flew up, directly slicing through the five-colored vines in front of him. At the same time, he commanded in his mind, "Little Snail, eat it."
Whoosh! Fifty-six vines stretched out from Gao Sheng's body, each with a rapidly expanding, blood-red maw in front of it. These were actually the flowers of the sluice flower, each over a hundred meters in diameter, which directly devoured the severed vines.
Whoosh! Blade slices, and the spiral pattern devours everything with incredible speed.
The iron vines contracted and retreated rapidly, but they were no match for the cosmic-level speed of the snail flower's pursuit. There was no need for Gao Sheng to cut them; he could simply follow behind.
Just seconds later, Gao Sheng had caught up to a distance of 60 kilometers, and the iron vine grass had been eaten down to its roots.
"Stop," Gao Sheng commanded, quickly following behind. The roots of the iron vine grass had already left the soil and were trying to escape, but they were tightly suppressed by Gao Sheng's mental power.
"Delicious." Gao Sheng felt a joyful thought from the snail flower in his mind.
In recent days, Gao Sheng has killed many ferocious beasts, but he did not let the Snail Flower come out to devour them. Since they were not human, it wouldn't matter if they were devoured. The main reason is that those ferocious beasts were not large, so it would be pointless and a waste of time to eat them. This Iron Vine Grass, on the other hand, is much larger. Although it is only at the Constant Star level, it is probably much stronger than eating a Universe-level ferocious beast. The Snail Flower can devour flesh and blood, as well as other plants.
Gao Sheng certainly wouldn't let this opportunity pass. One of the characteristics of the sluice flower is its strong digestive ability and faster growth than other plant life forms. Moreover, devouring other life forms does not affect its absorption of cultivation resources such as Lan Ke fruit.
Ji Qing and the other two quickly caught up.
"Lanluo, this iron vine grass is a plant life that can be tamed. Do you want it?" Gao Sheng asked.
Before Lanluo could speak, Ji Qing said, "I don't think it's necessary. Ironvine Grass is too weak as a secondary life form. It's already almost at the peak of the Hengxing level. Cultivating it further would be too costly and the strength would be too weak. It's not worth it at all. We're going to stay here for ten years. We should be able to find something better."
"Alright." Gao Sheng withdrew his mental power, and the remaining roots of the iron vine grass flew away in a flash, disappearing without a trace.
"It's a pity it's only at the static level. If it were at the cosmic level, a single Ironvine Grass vine would probably weigh tens of thousands of tons," Nan Si laughed.
"That's no use. The mission specifies the plant species, and this iron vine grass doesn't count."
The Butterfly Flower had consumed a large amount of Ironvine Grass vines, but before it could digest them, it could no longer shrink back into Gao Sheng's body. Gao Sheng directly ordered the Butterfly Flower to leave his body, and he put on his Force Suit. The Butterfly Flower then followed behind the four of them.
The current Brahma Flower is already at the sixth level of the cosmic level. If it were to return to its original size after being separated from the body, its main stem alone would be more than one kilometer thick and three kilometers high, with 56 flowers. Each flower would have an actual diameter of more than three hundred meters, and its flower stem would be thirty meters thick and more than ten kilometers long.
Although it can't stretch for hundreds or thousands of kilometers like the cosmic-level Cloud Vine, in terms of volume alone, the Brahma Flower is much larger! It's many times larger than the eternal-star Iron Vine Grass.
In less than half an hour, the snail flower completely digested the iron vine grass it had devoured, and its body quickly shrank back to Gao Sheng's body.