Chapter 328 The Way of Nature

Perhaps the shackles of the sea of ​​​​qi were broken, or maybe the shackles of the soul were broken. Duke felt that he suddenly merged into the wilderness.

  No longer a bystander, no longer a traveler.

Rather, it is to integrate with the wilderness and bathe in the power of the wilderness. The mind and body are freed from the shackles, and they can freely enjoy a new kind of power.

 “Xiaoyi, do you feel it?”

After Duke shouted, his surging heartbeat was finally released, but at this moment, his mind was still unrestrained, as if he had found his innocent heart, maintaining the most primitive and pure happiness, transforming into an elf in the wilderness.

 Free and at ease, every moment.

“Xiao Yi has felt the existence of the power of the wilderness through the master’s senses, and the position of the sea of ​​​​qi has changed. During the operation of the breathing method, the range of breathing resonance has become wider... The Dou Qi holographic screen has been updated.”

next moment.

The surrounding forest is like a 3D perspective, and the outlines of everything appear on the Dou Qi holographic screen. As Duke's eyes wander, these surrounding things fade away, and the things in the places where his eyes can see are condensed and lifelike.

 A small beast, a group of ants, stones and puddles, and even a feather falling from the sky are all clearly displayed on the Dou Qi holographic screen.

Every detail is visible, leaving nothing to hide.

“This is the power of wilderness, not just the power of plants, but also the power of all things, all integrated into it. If the power of nature is only possessed by plants, then the power of wilderness is shared by all things.”

 Duke took a greedy breath of the scent of the forest.

Then he said softly: "Ogham, thank you for your help. Then, let's cancel the combination. I think I have fully mastered the power of the wilderness."

"Okay, Lord Duke." Ogan quickly exited the combination and transformed into a big brown butterfly again.

  Duke has also returned to his normal body. Except for the slight weakening of the range of the Dou Qi holographic screen, there are no more changes. This also means that he has completely independently mastered the power of the wilderness and become a member of the wilderness elves.

With a wave of his hand, the surrounding trees come to life, and their branches extend like tentacles and twist into sunflowers.

 When Duke dissipated the power of the wilderness, these big trees recovered, but more or less retained their twisted shapes. It has become less natural than before, more like it has grown crippled, with crooked branches and missing leaves.

 Duke waved to the river again.

 The drinking water was cut off with a splash, revealing the riverbed mud underneath, with a few confused fish jumping freely in the mud.

“Compared to the control of rivers, I feel that I have stronger control over plants...perhaps because the wild power of natural living forms is more active, while the wild power of non-living forms is dull...but it cannot control wild beasts and bugs.”

 Perhaps beasts and bugs have their own wilderness power to protect them, and Duke cannot mobilize their wilderness power to counter-control them.

"Druids, Bard, and Owad imitate nature. Only by transforming into beasts can they master the power of the wilderness. And I, perhaps because of the relationship with the contracted elves, allowed the sea of ​​​​air to break through the restrictions and directly obtain the power of the wilderness. .”

 Elves, as Ogan said, are originally members of the power of the wilderness.

 Duke made a contract with the elves and naturally became a member of the power of the wilderness. There is no need to resort to the mimicry of the way of nature to control the power of the wilderness.

"This kind of power, the power of the wilderness, actually... seems to be more like a special life force... My current control of the power of the wilderness is about the same as Cuicui... This was obtained with the blessing of the contract of the three great elves. Level of manipulation.”

If you look at the elves aside, he is probably a wilderness elf who has just mastered the power of the wilderness, similar to the local human Owad.

  Amplitude between ring 1 and ring 3.

 But with the blessing of the three great elves, his wilderness power is equivalent to the wilderness angel, and is similar to the local human Bard.

  Between the 4th ring and the 6th ring.

Duke stood by the river and continued to meditate: "The power of the wilderness is very special, but in essence, it is still a change of spirituality... It is a special evolutionary structure of spirituality like spiritual energy and fighting spirit, and it is related to the sea of ​​​​qi." Same origin.”

Think of this.

He closed his eyes and meditated, and his thoughts had sunk into the sea of ​​​​qi. Suddenly, he found that the sea of ​​​​qi had changed drastically.

Originally, the air sea was shrouded in clouds and mist, and it was completely white. Except for a few spiritual seeds given by the King of Trees, no other colors could be seen.

Although the clouds are still shrouded in mist at this moment, the clouds and mist have gradually turned into colorful colors, and these clouds and mist have actually condensed all kinds of things that Duke has seen, sometimes turning into a flock of birds, sometimes turning into rampant crabs...

 Unpredictable, yet very agile.

Of course, a few spiritual trees are still standing firmly above the clouds, with lush branches and leaves, gradually gaining the momentum of the king of trees.

"The sea of ​​​​qi has changed greatly!" Duke looked at the unpredictable sea of ​​​​clouds and mist, and was very shocked. "Compared with now, the sea of ​​​​qi in the past seemed to be sealed... What was broken just now was the shrouded sea. The shackles above the air sea?"

 Perhaps the power of the wilderness rushed into the air sea and brought about all these changes.

“Oak Spirit and Little Chicken are not here. If they were, they would definitely be surprised by the changes in the air sea, especially Little Chicken, who is not allowed to jump up.”

Duke's mind turned into a flying bird, flying between the clouds and mists of the sea of ​​​​qi, feeling the infinite vastness of the sea of ​​​​qi.

 The power of nature has been upgraded to the power of wilderness.

Each cloud seemed to have a hint of elf agility, turning into countless cloud birds, following Duke.

 Flying.

 An idea flashed through Duke's mind.

“The sea of ​​qi…the sea of ​​qi…the sea of ​​blood…the spirit…the sea of ​​spirit…the spirit…the trinity of spirit, qi, and god. The three seas are not trinity!”

 He summarized the Three Seas system by drawing on the essence of the earth.

 Represents the spiritual sea of ​​God, which is the manifestation of spiritual power, or a kind of idealistic power. As big as the heart is, as big as God is, so is the world.

 Represents the sea of ​​blood of essence, which is the refinement of flesh and blood, or a power of life essence, extracted from food and evolved from blood.

 The sea of ​​​​qi represents qi, which is the aura emitted by all things.

  If we say that the sea of ​​blood is the dynamic essence of life, it is bound in the vital individual. Then the sea of ​​qi is static life radiation, escaping on everything. The combination of the two constitutes the material power corresponding to the spiritual sea.

certainly.

Idealism and materialism are just a superficial metaphor of Duke himself.

 The existence of the sea of ​​spirit, sea of ​​blood, and sea of ​​qi in this world is, in a certain form, all objective materialism.

“It’s very complex and lacks many variables. In short, this theory is not perfect enough.” Duke himself knew that this kind of mechanical operation could not explain the essence of the Three Seas System, but he still had a lot of time to improve it.

 One day, both the spiritual arcana system and the wilderness power system will be unified under one model.

“The earth has a unified model, and the wild world naturally also has a unified model.”

His mind exited the sea of ​​​​qi, and he suddenly opened his eyes. A divine light pierced out of it and shot straight into the sky: "Let me unify all of this!"

　　Containing his surging heart, Duke soon returned to his usual calm attitude.

Ogan landed on his shoulder and smiled softly: "Congratulations, Lord Duke, you have successfully integrated into the wilderness and controlled the power of the wilderness."

"Thank you more, Ogan." Duke reached out and touched Ogan's tentacles, "If you hadn't led me to experience the wilderness, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to integrate into the wilderness for a while... The wilderness, in fact, the wilderness is nature, it's just a Ecosystem."

And he also understood why this power was called "wilderness".

"Nature is human beings' understanding of the world, but if we regard human beings as a kind of wild beast, then forests, grasslands, mountains and rivers are all wilderness, and they are the wilderness corresponding to civilization. The freedom of the wild!”

 Civilization has restricted human beings and separated them from nature.

 So if you want to integrate into the wilderness and master the power of the wilderness, you must first get rid of the shackles of the mind and devote yourself to the wilderness.

It is a pity that human beings are of civilized origin after all.

“That’s why local humans have never been able to integrate into the wilderness, so they choose the way of nature instead. They control the power of the wilderness by mimicking flowers, trees, birds, animals, insects, and fish.” Duke already understood how local humans practice practice.

 Owad, Bard, and Druids all practice the way of nature in this way.

 “Duke, shall we go back?” Ogan asked softly.

“Go back.” Duke nodded, and then he took control of the power of the wilderness he had just mastered. The natural wind supported him and flew above the forest.

However, the power of the wilderness under control is not enough, and the flying speed is very slow.

 So he flew for a while, then became impatient, and started to run the "Duke Flying Feather" to condense the fighting spirit wings and fly quickly.

"Duke, you are back. Hey, you have blended into the wilderness!" Harpie, the big crow, could see Duke's state at a glance. "You are much smarter than those Owads. They have to learn for several years. , can we master the power of the wilderness!"

 “Thanks to Ogan’s help, I was able to integrate into the wilderness so quickly.”

“That big butterfly?” Harpie glanced at Ogham, “It has the aura of vajra oak, but it is not a wilderness elf.”

As one of the wilderness gods, Harpie can tell who is a wilderness elf and who is not.

 Obviously, elves do not belong to the wilderness elves, or in other words, elves do not belong to the wilderness power system, they are more magical.

Hearing this, Duke raised his eyebrows thoughtfully.

  He originally presided over the oak man manufacturing project with the purpose of studying and creating the way of elves, believing that elves would play a vital role in the cultivation path of spiritual planters.

However, now it seems that the elves are somewhat transcendent, closely connected with the air sea, and seem to transcend the boundaries of the air sea.

 The true path of Qihai cultivation should be the power of the wilderness.

Of course, to be precise, it should be the natural way studied by local humans - not every spiritual planter is like Duke and can integrate into the wilderness with the help of elves.

As for the elf envoys, whether they can integrate into the wilderness with the help of the elves, this will also be what Duke needs to study next.

"Chicken, Oak Spirit, Ogham, my air sea has changed. You may like it. Come in and have a walk." Duke called the three great elves into the air sea and let them feel the new atmosphere. Qi Hai, give back some feelings.

Soon the Oak Spirit flew out and expressed his feelings: "Master Duke, the Qi Sea is more beautiful, and resting in it will help you recover better than before."

Ogan thinks so too.

Only Chicken Little snorted and rolled his eyes: "No, I liked the previous Qi Hai, this Qi Hai is so fancy!"

"You always go against your will, little chicken." Oak Spirit tilted his head, "When we first entered, you still yelled that it was beautiful."

"Who said it, I didn't!" The chicken raised her head proudly, as if it had nothing to do with herself.

Duke naturally knew that Xiaoji's words had no reference value at all. After carefully asking Oak Spirit and Ogham about their feelings, he learned more about his Qi Sea.

Then he told Xiaoyi: "With the new Qi Sea, the corresponding breathing method must also be updated. You should improve a new breathing method as soon as possible."

 “Okay, Master.”

 Wait until Xiaoyi adds a new process.

Duke came to Harpie's bird's nest, sat on a dry branch, and said solemnly: "Harpie, I came to ask you for advice on how to practice the power of the wilderness. Now I feel my power of the wilderness." The level is only about the same as that of an Owad." "You are better than Owad, because you can be regarded as a wilderness elf now." Knowing that Duke has merged into the wilderness, Harpie seemed closer to him.

 It turned over comfortably in the nest and said, "I will give you all the wilderness power skills I have mastered!"

 After a pause, it continued: "But I think you should find a druid. Maybe the natural way is more suitable for you."

  “Why?”

“The power of the wilderness understood by the wilderness elves was given by the mother of all things. We are born with many abilities. But you seem to be unable to do so. The mother of all things allowed you to integrate into the wilderness, but did not give you new abilities.”

As he spoke, it quickly transformed into a humanoid form and flew into the sky to flap its wings: "The ability given to me by the Mother of All Things is to control the whirlwind!"

As it flapped its wings, the whole forest suddenly roared with strong winds.

That is not the power of arcane magic.

Rather, the power of the wilderness is flowing wildly, causing the natural wind to become violent, and even the clouds in the sky are surging.

"I am the God of Cyclones, and I exist wherever there is wind!" As he said that, Harpie disappeared in an instant. By the time Duke reacted, it had already appeared at the other end of the forest, with at least dozens of people there. kilometers away.

 The speed is extremely fast.

The most important thing is that the flight trajectory has no warning. In Duke's view, even the stars have difficulty predicting Harpie's flight through the arcane trajectory.

next moment.

 The wind continues to howl, and Harpie has returned.

"Haha, how about Duke, how fast am I?" Harpie flapped his wings triumphantly, "In just a few breaths, I can fly across the entire whirlwind forest. I patrol my territorial forest like this every day. "

 Harpie's ability is indeed strong, at least in the fields of escaping and rushing, he is absolutely first-rate.

Duke did not receive any special abilities from the Mother of All Things, and could only rely on the power of the wilderness to control plants, wind, water, stones, etc.

 He followed Harpie and spent a few more days in the Whirlwind Forest learning the power of the wild.

I have a new understanding of the control skills of the power of the wilderness. The control strength is much improved than before. Now it is at least the 3rd level Owad, and it is possible to break through to the 4th level Bard level at any time.

 But that’s all.

Harpie can provide no more guidance and experience. He is just a wilderness god, born and raised, not a teacher of the wilderness.

"Your ability has already surpassed that of Owad." Harpie lay back in his bird's nest. "I can't teach you more. Those Owads who asked me for advice always observed my every move... They said , Owad needs to imitate, and Bard needs to substitute, and as for the Druids, they don’t know either.”

Owad needs to imitate the wilderness elves and imitate every move of beasts and flowers to control the power of the wilderness.

Bard needs to step into it, as if he is really a wilderness elf.

Harpie looked at Duke and said: "You are better than those Ovalds, because you are a wilderness elf. Maybe soon, you will be able to break through and become Bard."

"Yes, I feel it too. There is a layer of window paper blocking my face. As long as I break it, I can see outside and see the power of the wilderness on the next level." Duke nodded, he indeed felt it. At this point, I'm waiting for an opportunity.

However, he prefers to take shortcuts rather than slowly exploring on his own.

So he asked: "Harpie, you are so fast, can you take me to find the humans of the Golden Goat tribe?"

The last batch of Owad who came to study were from the Golden Goat Tribe.

 “No.” Harpie shook his head.

 “Why?” Duke raised his eyebrows.

Even though Harpie is a vegetarian, he still gave him fresh fruit salad, squeezed juice and other delicacies in the past few days, and he thought he was already familiar with it.

Unexpectedly, Harpie was not even willing to do a small favor.

But Harpie soon gave an explanation: "I am the wilderness gods of the whirlwind forest. The mother of all things gave me abilities, but I can only use them in this whirlwind forest. I will not be so fast outside the whirlwind forest." speed."

 “Is that the reason?” Duke was relieved, but at the same time a little confused.

If this is the case, it seems that the gods of the wilderness are not as free as they imagined, and they can only stay in their own territory, otherwise they will be beaten if they go out.

 He expressed this doubt straightforwardly.

Harpie said nonchalantly: "Why should I go out? I can live freely in the whirlwind forest. What else is there to be dissatisfied about?"

“The world is so big, don’t you want to go out and see it?”

"In no mood."

 “Uh…” Duke was choked and speechless.

Harpie chuckled and said: "You humans are so interesting, Duke. Those Ovalds also said that they have to walk thousands of miles to practice the way of nature. But the wilderness elves don't need it. Look at those flowers, plants and trees. If I can’t move, I can’t live well.”

 Said.

It raised its head, and a sharp cry came out of the crow's mouth: "I am Harpie, the **** of whirlwinds, and I am free!"

 “Quack, feel free!”

 “Gugu, feel free!”

 “Be free, ah!”

 “Free and easy, croak croak!”

The crow angels under it were also going crazy, shouting and shouting constantly. Looking at their expressions, it seemed that they really felt free.

Seeing this, Duke sighed and said nothing more.

Perhaps Harpie and his crow angels are truly free. But if Duke was given a choice, he would never be bound to this whirlwind forest and enjoy the freedom of a small place. In his opinion, this is no different from a frog in a well.

certainly.

He did not despise Harpies, but rather envied them. As long as he felt happy and free, it didn't matter where he was.

"It's just that I have seen too many wonderful things in this world, and I can no longer stop for a forest... Maybe this is because the more you know and see, the more troubled you will be." Duke felt sad in his heart. He is a civilized person, ha. Erpiah and the others are wilderness elves.

 Although they stand face to face together, they are creatures of two worlds.

"Then." Duke cleared his throat and looked at Harpie with a smile, "Thank you for your teaching during this period. I will say goodbye to you next."

 “Quack.” Harpie nodded.

 I didn’t feel sad or reluctant about Duke’s farewell. To him, and to all the night elves, this seemed to be just a normal thing.

Since you are already an elf in the wilderness, why should you care about the sadness of civilization.

 After adjusting his clothes, Duke jumped down from the trunk of the oak tree, stretched out his fighting spirit wings, and flew into the air.

 Flying towards the direction of the Golden Goat Tribe guided by Harpie.

Flying a long way away, he couldn't help but turn around and look at the oak tree that was so far away that he could barely see it clearly.

 Vaguely, I seemed to see Harpie and his crow angels, singing and dancing.

 The day they parted from Duke was just an ordinary day when they lived freely, and it was also an ordinary day in the wilderness.

 Shaked his head.

 Smile at oneself.

Duke called softly: "Xiao Kabuto, come out."

"Roar!" The blood-colored light condensed into the armored mongoose dragon beast, carrying Duke and continuing to fly towards the direction of the Golden Goat Tribe.

 …

"Not pleased, not to have compassion."

Duke's earth clone used a brush to write a few large Chinese characters. After waiting for the ink to dry, he signaled to his assistant Ibuprofen: "Find someone to frame it and hang it in the tree house."

“Sir, should I hang it up alone, or replace the previous ‘The Greatest Good Like Water’?” Ibuprofen asked.

 Previously, Duke was hanging in his tree house a calligraphy and painting that read "The best is like water", which was also written by himself.

 “Replace it.” Duke casually ordered.

 The encounter with the wilderness elves made him have a different state of mind, and he had lost interest in the Supreme Good Like Water.

 Unfortunately, the earth clone is only a projection of the spiritual sea, so it cannot use the methods of the air sea. So he still doesn't know whether the power of the wilderness gained in the Whirlwind Forest can be used back in the Wilderness Continent. He has to continue to study the ways of nature.

 There is no return for the time being.

However, this did not prevent him from calling Franny Merganser and making a pot of tea for her. The two avatars chewed peonies together to taste the taste.

 “What do you have in mind again?” Franny Merganser asked.

"I have some ideas." Duke said bluntly, "I think the oak man manufacturing plan needs to adjust its ideas and goals. Starting from the Elf Tree King and analyzing the power in the acorns, it may change the originally broad road. It’s narrow.”

Originally, he thought that the future direction of Qihai cultivation was the way of elves.

 That is to say, the oak man eats acorns and has the power to turn into wood. He needs to obtain the power of plants from spiritual plants to grow stronger.

 But now that he traveled through the Whirlwind Forest and let the power of the wilderness and the way of nature lie in front of him, he suddenly became enlightened. The way of the elves is really a small way, and the way of nature can be the avenue of Qihai cultivation, the avenue that runs side by side with the way of the knight.

The Oak Man may not have gained the power to turn into wood after eating acorns.

But I have realized a little bit of the power of the wilderness, but there is no systematic way to practice the natural way, so I can only waste time.

 In other words, the oak people of the Asiba tribe are just a group of Owad who have just started.

 “Narrow?” Franny Merganser didn’t know why.

"Yes, I think we should not focus on the Elf Tree King. The power of Qi Hai is not just to communicate with spiritual plants and control the weak natural power." Duke said calmly, "Qi Hai, It should be the radiation of all things.”

 “The radiation of all things?”

“Yes, the radiation of all things. Of course, if you want to master the radiation of all things, you first need to integrate into the wilderness.” Duke directly copied the setting. “Only by integrating into the wilderness and feeling the radiation of all things, can we control this power through certain means.”

He said firmly: "This force is called the power of the wilderness, and this path of cultivation is called the way of nature!"

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