Chapter 35 Ancient Tree
Boom!
A loud bang sounded from behind.
The wolves looked back and saw the big trees on both sides of the entrance move. They moved towards the center and completely blocked the only way out for Su Ming and the other wolves.
Su Ming forced himself to remain calm and work hard to find a chance of survival.
The ancient tree's goal of luring them here was already very obvious.
It wanted to absorb their flesh and blood and turn them into its nutrients.
The sharp-eyed Su Ming quickly discovered a large number of shriveled deer skin and the bones of many animals hidden behind the ancient tree.
Clearly, this place might have really had many deer as Father Wolf had guessed.
However, all of them were completely destroyed when the huge ancient tree in front of him awakened.
Su Ming speculated that the ancient tree had first completely absorbed all the deer that lived around it, only leaving behind their outer skin.
Then, it used the leaves to move the outer skin to make it look like a deer. In this way, it was able to lure the predators over before killing them.
Thinking of the way the two trees moved just now and how the figures of the deer could be seen from the periphery, Su Ming thought that perhaps this ancient tree also had the ability to control other trees.
Otherwise, with its size, even the longest branch should not be able to extend to the periphery. All of this must be caused by the ancient tree's ability to control the other trees.
It was no wonder that the deer he had seen previously was so light. It turned out that it had long lost its physical body.
Just from the large number of white bones behind it, it could be seen that this was not the other party's first time attacking. It was even willing to take out precious plants like the Fractured Weed to attract living beings.
Clearly, this was the second insurance of the ancient tree. It ensured that the other party would not give up halfway just because it was attracted. It also ensured that the other party could completely reach the ancient tree.
At this moment, Su Ming was still some distance away from the ancient tree and had not reached five meters. Therefore, he was unable to use the technology interface to check the other party's data.
He had to take the risk and give it a try. Only by knowing all the information about the other party could he plan his next battle.
Su Ming tightened his hind legs and suddenly rushed forward.
Behind him, Su Hui was about to follow Brother Su Ming when he was stopped by Su Yi.
It shook its head at Su Hui, indicating that it should not act casually.
Su Yi knew very well that Brother Su Ming must have his reasons for doing this. If they also attacked, it would only increase the pressure on him in vain.
Swoosh!
A long shadow quickly attacked Su Ming.
At the critical moment, with his outstanding reaction speed, Su Ming dodged in time.
Bang!
A deep pit was slapped in the ground, and the true appearance of the long shadow was revealed. It was actually a tree root of the ancient tree.
He did not expect the other party to be able to pull out the tree roots hidden in the soil and use it to attack him.
Since the other party could do this, there must be a large number of tree roots hidden under this land.
The other party still had the mentality of playing with its prey and had not used its true strength to deal with Su Ming.
This was a rare opportunity. Su Ming had to take this opportunity to obtain comprehensive information about the ancient tree.
Thinking of this, Su Ming did not stop for a moment and rushed forward again.
Swoosh!
Su Mingli landed and dodged. With his previous experience, he was already rather at ease with the long shadow attacking from the side.
As Su Ming approached, the other party's tree roots also became faster and more violent.
Unfortunately, Su Ming's body had already completely adapted to its attack. The tree root completely missed him.
Bang!
Three long shadows broke out of the ground and sealed the path in front of Su Ming.
Sensing the threat, the ancient tree no longer had the mentality of being playful. It began to get serious.
Su Ming's body leaned down and rolled out from behind, breaking through the blockade of the four long shadows.
At the same time, the technology interface appeared at the right time, dragging out all the information about the ancient tree.
Name: Ancient Sage
[species]: Snow Ridge Sprucea�"Ancient
[Level]: First Level Elite Realm
Strength: 13/25
Agility: 15/25
Abilities: Assimilation, Absorption, Strong Control, Rapid (root), Strong Arm (branch)
< Mutation > Movement (18%)
This was the first time Su Ming had encountered a species with so many abilities. There were a total of five of them.
In this way, not only could the other party control the other trees remotely, but it could also use a large number of tree roots at a close distance and the two strong arms to attack its opponent.
On careful look, the other party's level and age seemed to be different from Su Ming and the others.
What stage of life did Ancient belong to?
As far as Su Ming knew, there were only four consecutive stages of life: infancy, adolescence, youth, and adulthood.
Judging from its appearance, it was far taller than ordinary trees. Presumably, before it mutated, its size was also rather unique.
According to the principle that the older the tree, the bigger the body, the other party was definitely not young.
Su Ming estimated that the ancient tree should be more than a hundred years old, so this Ancient stage should correspond to an age above a hundred years old.
It was not difficult to understand why the ancient tree had the strength of the Elite Realm when it had just awakened.
This was the combat strength it had exchanged for with its accumulated age.
However, there was something else that Su Ming did not understand. He did not understand why the ancient tree could awaken under the strange energy, and why some other herbs had transformed into precious fruit-like existences and did not have their own consciousness to become new life.
Could it be that because this process was rather long, only plants that had been around for a long time could accumulate and awaken their consciousness?
Su Ming believed that his guess was very likely close to the truth.
At the same time, such plants with long lifespans also grew extremely slowly.
Just by looking at the ancient tree, one could understand that a lifespan of more than a hundred years had allowed it to obtain five abilities, but its level was only at the first level of the Elite Realm.
If it were an ordinary species, it would have long reached the fifth or sixth level of the Elite Realm or even the first level of the King Realm.
Therefore, the ancient tree needed flesh and blood to become new nutrients. If it relied on itself, it would still take a rather long time. Perhaps ten years, fifty years, or a hundred years.
However, by absorbing the essence of other creatures, it could quickly grow.
After tasting the benefits for the first time, the ancient tree could no longer stop. It completely abandoned its original growth method.
Swoosh!
After dodging four tree roots, Su Ming retreated and returned to the wolf pack.
Su Hui and Su Yi hurriedly leaned forward to protect Su Ming and carefully checked if he was injured.
Su Ming smiled at his two siblings, indicating that he was fine.
Then, he quickly walked in front of Father Wolf and completely told them about his plan.
Coupled with the information on the interface and his own observation, Su Ming discovered that the ancient tree had a total of three attack patterns.
Firstly, there were a lot of tree roots hidden under this lawn. Once the ancient tree started to attack seriously, it would be difficult for them to resist the wolf pack.
Secondly, if one paid attention, they would discover that the ancient tree had a total of four thick and huge arms.
One pair protected the Fractured Weed and prevented its aura from leaking. At the same time, it also prevented the wolves from eating it.
The other pair hid behind its body. Su Ming estimated that it was waiting for their opponent to approach before launching a sneak attack.
The threat level of these arms was not too high. It should be the easiest to deal with among the three attacks.
Third, it had the Tree Control Attack. As the name suggested, it could control the surrounding trees to attack Su Ming and the other wolves unexpectedly. Although it had yet to use this ability, it was very likely that it would attack together with the tree roots in the following battle. This was also worth guarding against.
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