Chapter 1320

"It's different, it's different, there are restrictions on its body." Everyone quickly discovered the difference.

On the body of this little fire person were restrictions composed of individual marks; they were connected to each other, firmly binding the little fire person's movements, allowing it to be fixed only within a certain range. As long as it left this range, the marks would immediately generate a strong pulling force, violently pulling it back to the starting point.

The restricted little fire person seemed to have become accustomed to this kind of binding; it would forcefully step out a certain distance, be pulled back by the marks, and then forcefully step out an even further distance, again and again, as if it were exercising.

With every step, the temperature and brightness of the hot spot would increase to a certain degree.

The Guman Snake's tail curled to the front and smoothed the bristles on its body, just like a human wiping cold sweat from their forehead, but it was in an ideological state at the moment, so the bristles on its body wouldn't be singed; it was just a subconscious action, which showed that it was also under quite a bit of pressure when facing this restricted little fire person.

"Stop playing, get me ten equivalents of Star Flame," the Guman Snake said.

The restricted little fire person didn't even look at it, saying, "Why are you asking me? Can I refuse?"

"No," the Guman Snake said.

The restricted little fire person rolled its eyes at it: "So why are you asking me? To express that you have already sought my opinion? You are stripping me of my Star Flame, isn't that just to limit my strength? What difference does it make whether you ask or not? It's meaningless."

The Guman Snake chuckled; it was indeed quite meaningless, but these ten equivalents of Star Flame were not a routine stripping, but were being taken to serve as payment, which had a special significance, so it had said a few extra words.

Without further ado, the Guman Snake pointed its tail at the restricted little fire person, and the marks on the restricted little fire person's body immediately lit up and floated to the surface of its form, combining into a circle. The center of the circle exactly overlapped with the Guman Snake's tail, and an energy channel was immediately established.

A steady stream of Star Flame was drawn into the Guman Snake's form, and then it kept 'dripping' onto the ground.

Wherever each drop of Star Flame landed on the ground, a flower grew, and the flowers produced transparent crystals, inside which a leaping Star Flame surged.

Negris whispered: "It's sealing the Star Flame, how amazing, to think it can use plants to crystallize crystals and then seal the Star Flame."

Anthony said: "Very normal, remember the Chaos Stone? Isn't that the product of a Chaos Tree crystallizing and sealing Chaos Power?"

"Uh, that's true, Star Flame is essentially a higher-level Chaos Power; the Chaos Stone seals the Chaos Power in sunlight, while this kind of plant directly seals the Star Flame; perhaps these two plants are even of the same family," Negris said.

Regardless, sealing the Star Flame was very useful. After the crops bloomed and bore fruit, they withered, and the Star Flame crystals fell all over the ground, all gathered together by the Guman Snake extending another tail.

For a full two hours, the Guman Snake finally drew enough of ten equivalents of Star Flame. The restricted little fire person appeared a bit listless, but it still stubbornly stepped forward, causing the restriction marks to flash incessantly.

However, having lost ten equivalents of Star Flame, the restricted little fire person could no longer step out as far as it had at the beginning.

Seeing that the Guman Snake's side was almost finished, Negris hurriedly said: "Ang, can you use pollen to mark this place? After we leave, we can teleport back at any time."

Ang shook his head: "Alien pollen, easy to discover."

Negris translated: "You mean the Little Sapling's pollen belongs to an alien plant, and marking it makes it easy to be discovered?"

Ang nodded.

"Then if we find one of the same plant, wouldn't it..." Negris had a thought and turned to the Little Tree Person: "Can you mark it?"

The Little Tree Person nodded, extended a finger, and a small flower grew from the fingertip, which it gently shook toward the outside, and pollen invisible to the naked eye scattered rapidly.

After shaking it, the Little Tree Person suddenly turned the flower on its finger toward the Little Sapling.

Negris's heart tightened, and he grabbed Anthony's arm.

Anthony was stunned for a moment, but once he reacted to what this action by the Little Tree Person represented, he also couldn't help but become nervous.

The Little Sapling tilted its head, went 'ya', and looked down at Ang.

Ang nodded.

The Little Sapling extended its true leaves, continuously extending, and when it reached in front of the Little Tree Person, it bloomed into a flower with a 'ding'.

The flowers of both sides touched, then each retracted; the Little Sapling crawled back onto Ang's head, and the Little Tree Person crawled back onto the Little Zombie's head.

Negris whispered: "Can these two little ones be considered married?"

Anthony said: "Not really. For tree people, if this counts as marriage, then their spouses could form a forest. You forgot that the Old Tree had to exchange pollen with every tree person it met on the road; the Old Tree refused and was even thrown a stinky fruit."

"That's true, especially those wind-pollinated plants; once the breeding season arrives, the sky is full of pollen, and the entire forest is its spouse," Negris also said.

If viewed according to the moral standards of humans and dragons, plants are the scummiest of scum plants; the flowers on one tree can be pollinated by the pollen of all the nearby trees, and those with both female and male flowers on the same tree can even self-pollinate.

Just then, Ang suddenly said: "Seedling, not using pollen, reproduction, they are exchanging pollen, it is entrusting a sub-plant."

"Ah? Entrusting a sub-plant? You mean, the Little Tree Person is entrusting its sub-plant to the Little Sapling?" Negris asked in astonishment, because it was the Little Tree Person who took the initiative to propose exchanging pollen; if this was a form of entrustment, then it was the Little Tree Person who took the initiative to entrust it.

Ang nodded: "In the future, their sub-plants can receive the other's protection."

That's right, the World Tree of Ten Thousand Realms doesn't reproduce through pollination; the act of exchanging pollen is equivalent to exchanging tree vein marks. From now on, my World Tree is your World Tree; your sub-plants will receive my protection, and my sub-plants will also receive your protection.

For the World Tree of Ten Thousand Realms, this is a mutually beneficial move.

"It's coming, be careful." Urusman suddenly interrupted everyone's conversation. They saw the Guman Snake curling up a ground full of Star Flame crystals and walking back. Seeing that the Guman Snake was leaving, the restricted little fire person didn't do any useless work and directly drilled back into the original hot spot.

Looking from Ang's vision, the hot spot began to spread ripples of thermal radiation again.

Sending the Star Flame crystals into the Little Vine's head, the Guman Snake drilled into the Little Vine's body, controlled it to grow vines to fix the Star Flame crystals in place, and then began to shrink backward.

Soon, the Little Vine's body retreated from the tree burl. When it retreated past the innermost layer of the energy film, everyone clearly saw the energy film close rapidly in front of them, and the flowing light of the barrier's operation flashed by.

Completely retreating from the tree burl, the hole that had been drilled open grew and healed rapidly, forming a thicker tree scab.

At this point, the Little Vine's mission was considered complete. The Guman Snake emerged from the Little Vine's body, curled up all the Star Flame crystals, and flew downward without looking back.

"What a pity, we didn't manage to get a single Star Flame crystal. Even one would have been enough to study how it was formed," Negris said with regret.

Ang tilted his head, picked everyone up, turned ethereal, and followed the surface of the Little Vine's body to the place where the Star Flame crystals had just been piled. Most of the Star Flame crystals had already been taken away, but in the corner of the skin layer, a single Star Flame crystal revealed a tiny bit of light.

(End of chapter)