Chapter 129: Bold Guess! The Anomaly of the Hellblood Vine Flower!

"Since their souls were stolen, they only know killing and destruction, which is why Su Yang felt they had no true souls—hence they don't understand self-preservation, unlike complete living beings!" Su Su Liqun stroked his messy beard as he pondered. "Beasts, like humans, cannot exist without souls. That means Su Yang's guess is likely correct: those plant-type beasts we fought during the day are probably all clones of a single mother body—all puppets!"

Huo Kun also nodded in agreement with Su Su Liqun.

"Now that I think about it, those strange plants grew far too fast!" Huo Kun shook his head helplessly. "I didn't notice this during the day. Plant-type beasts naturally have high resistance to mental skills—I didn't even use the Azure Jade Moth, afraid it might malfunction!"

"It's fine—even if you'd noticed during the day, Xingcheng still couldn't have held out!" Su Su Liqun reassured him, then looked at Su Yang with approval. "You've done a great deed!"

"Is this really a great deed?"

"Absolutely!" Su Su Liqun affirmed. "If these plant-type beasts spread unchecked, all our southwestern cities might fall, leaving tens of millions homeless. I was completely at a loss—until you gave us a new breakthrough!"

"If these plant-type beasts truly stem from a single mother body, killing that mother might solve all our problems!"

Huo Kun murmured: "The only problem now is how to find that mother body—we can't tell them apart at all!"

"Indeed, how do we find the mother body?" Su Su Liqun was also at a loss. "We can't have you mentally communicate with every single plant!"

Su Yang spoke up: "My lord, do you think the mother body has intelligence?"

"It must. If its clones have reached Platinum rank, the mother body must be incredibly powerful—it couldn't lack intelligence!"

Su Yang pressed on: "Then, my lord, why would the mother body create so many clones? Why does it kill everywhere? What is its goal?"

Su Su Liqun turned to Su Yang: "What's your idea?"

Su Yang spoke slowly: "I'm thinking—if we rule out the possibility that this beast kills merely out of preference, the most likely reason is that it seeks nourishment. The mother body wants to grow."

"That's actually plausible!"

Su Su Liqun slapped his forehead, suddenly enlightened.

Then he clapped Su Yang hard on the shoulder, exclaiming loudly, almost losing composure: "You not only have exceptional beast-taming talent—you've got brains too?"

"It came to me when I witnessed that beast parasitizing a plant-type pet—it parasitizes and devours other plant-type beasts. Why not its own kind?"

That morning in Xingcheng, Su Yang hadn't just fought—he'd been analyzing the purpose of the Hellblood Vine Flower in his mind.

He believed his guess was most likely the truth!

"Let's go. I'll take you to Jian Jian Renhao."

Su Su Liqun dragged Su Yang into Jian Jian Renhao's tent.

Inside, Jian Jian Renhao's tent was packed with Xingcheng's strategists and high-ranking officials.

They were discussing how to deal with those terrifying plant-type beasts.

Seeing Su Su Liqun burst in, Jian Jian Renhao didn't get angry—he stood up and asked: "Liqun, what's wrong?"

"This is the genius from Qixing City. He's made a new discovery—and proposed a fresh theory!"

"What discovery?"

"Let him tell you."

Su Su Liqun patted Su Yang's shoulder, urging him to speak boldly.

Su Yang then recounted his experiment and his hypothesis in full.

At first, Xingcheng's high-ranking officers were dismissive.

But as they listened further, their expressions grew serious, and they began to scrutinize Su Yang closely.

When Su Yang finished his theory, every beast-tamer in the tent erupted.

Because Su Yang's reasoning was undeniably sound!

"Why didn't we notice this?"

"Those terrifying beasts have no souls of their own—perhaps they're just puppets?"

"To provide nourishment to the mother body—that's a bold yet logical explanation!"

"Why didn't we think of this…?"

"Truly, the younger generation is formidable! Truly formidable!"

"A true genius!"

"…"

Xingcheng was now in chaos, powerless.

Yet Su Yang had just given them a possible breakthrough!

How could they not be excited?

Jian Jian Renhao gripped Su Yang's hand warmly: "Young man, what's your name?"

"Su Yang!"

"Su Yang! Interested in joining Xingcheng? My deputy is gone—would you consider it?"

Jian Jian Renhao's smile made Su Yang's scalp tingle.

"Forget it, Jian Jian Renhao! How dare you poach my man right in front of me?" Su Su Liqun stepped forward, pulling Su Yang to his side to rescue him. "Let's get back to business! If you agree Su Yang's theory holds merit, we must act now!"

"Monitor the movements of those plant-type beasts?"

"Yes!" Su Su Liqun nodded. "We must watch them. If these puppets truly exist to nourish the mother body, and Xingcheng is now a dead city, I suspect they'll move soon."

"Then deploy all beast-tamers with flying mounts to monitor the plant-type beasts' movements?"

"Exactly!"

Hearing another mission was coming, Su Yang sighed.

But there was no choice.

If he was wrong, he might still find the mother body responsible for Xingcheng's fall by monitoring the Hellblood Vine Flowers.

Beast-tamers with flying mounts received their orders and set out again to monitor all Hellblood Vine Flowers within Xingcheng's territory.

Though some grumbled inwardly, all obeyed without hesitation.

Su Yang rode his Storm Eagle, scanning the ground for the mother body of the Hellblood Vine Flower.

Hours passed in a flash; night fell.

Above the ruins of Xingcheng, Su Su Liqun and Jian Jian Renhao stood atop the clouds, silently watching below.

Around ten o'clock at night, they suddenly heard a commotion!

In Xingcheng, the Hellblood Vine Flowers, regardless of rank or strength, all pulled their roots from the corpses and the soil.

Then, they all writhed and crawled southward!

The several platinum-grade Hellblood Vine Flowers raced like twisted snakes…

Su Su Liqun whispered, "That kid Su Yang actually guessed it right!"

"Let's follow them!"

Meanwhile, all the Beast Tamer patrols everywhere discovered that the Hellblood Vine Flowers, which had been standing motionless, all simultaneously retracted their roots and moved southward.

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