Chapter 218 Reincarnation (6100 words)

   "How do you think the crystal of the secret technique is carved?" Vivian did not directly answer the question about the forest spirit, but suddenly asked something else.

   "Crystalized..."

   Mu You was startled. The crystallization of secret techniques is theoretically a harmless magic circuit constructed by stripping away the principles of black magic and using the most primitive and bottom-level logic of black magic.

  This statement sounds simple, but the process of stripping the core of black magic and extracting the purest part is not easy.

"The pure black magic circuit is destined to require people to try it stroke by stroke, but black magic is not like ordinary magic, you can study it at will. Every time you try, you are dancing on the tip of the knife, accompanied by failure risk of getting out of control.”

   "In this case, the forest spirit, which has the power to absorb black magic pollution, can change its shape freely, and can completely simulate the operation of the human magic circuit, is the best choice for the test subject."

   "..." Mu You was silent, Vivian mentioned this at this time, and he already vaguely understood something.

"The forest spirits are a group that does not compete with the world. They are gentle and do not like to fight. Their daily work is to absorb all kinds of pollution for the earth. The core of each forest spirit can accommodate a large amount of pollution, and they also have the ability to dissolve The ability to pollute, general pollution, they can be eliminated on the spot when they are absorbed, and only a very small amount of pollution that is difficult to digest will be deposited, such as the pollution of black magic."

Vivian looked at the berserk forest spirit in the distance: "And this forest spirit is the one most polluted by black magic power among their group, because its natural 'detoxification' ability is very poor, resulting in its accumulated black magic power pollution being higher than There are many more of the same kind, and sooner or later it will go out of control if it goes on like this. And elves with unqualified abilities like it usually have to perish before they get out of control."

"I found it and made an agreement with it. I hope it will assist me in making mystic crystals. As long as I can make mystic crystals, I can use the power of the crystals to help it clear the pollution deposited in the body. If this idea can be realized, in the future It can also solve the elimination problem within Forest Spirit once and for all, and help the entire group survive better."

   "It agreed?" Mu You asked.

"Yes."

Vivienne nodded: "Spirit agreed, and I have gone through thousands of trials with it, and finally succeeded in carving out a complete pure black magic circuit. But countless times of loss of control have also seriously deepened the spirit of the forest. Abandoned by the ethnic group, it came to this fringe land alone, took root here, formed a black forest, and set up a labyrinth enchantment complex enough to prevent the black magic from passing through the forest after it rioted in the future The creatures in it leaked out."

   "Then Sen Ling handed over the severely damaged core to me and asked me to clean it up. Everything went according to plan, but..."

  Vivian didn't continue, but Mu You already knew what happened.

  After the crystal was created, Vivian and the others discovered that using black magic, in addition to the basic out-of-control curse, there is a deeper curse—a curse on humanity! Only fools who can ignore the curse of human nature can carry out this plan.

  So the purification plan had to be suspended midway, and Vivian stayed in the Black Forest before her death, waiting for the arrival of a new generation of successors.

  It's a pity that before the successor grows up, the forest spirit collapses first...

  Thinking about this, Mu You breathed a sigh of relief, but he didn't expect that behind the crystallization of the secret technique, there is such a secret.

   "Go out, leave this to me." Vivian said suddenly.

   "Huh? Are you sure?" Mu You was stunned.

   "Yes." Vivienne nodded: "Use the death contract to pass on my power, you go out to meditate to recover your magic power, the next magic power consumption will be very intense, you need to stay in a quiet place."

   "Okay..." Now is not the time to waste time, Mu You didn't talk nonsense, and immediately jumped up the cave above his head, and quickly returned to the ground.

   At this time, the original position of the hut in the forest on the ground has become a collapsed tiankeng, and it is pitch black when looking down.

   Mu You sat down more than ten meters away from the tiankeng, and he couldn't be too far away, because he still needed to keep the distance with Vivian within 100 meters.

  Mu You took out the card of the death contract, rubbed it into the crystal, and then released the contract mark on the spot. Standing on the mark, the power of the two secret art crystals immediately transmitted to Vivian underground.

   "Boom!"

   Immediately there was a muffled sound from below, followed by the angry howl of the forest spirit, as if a battle had already taken place.

  Feeling that the natural magic power and ordinary magic power in his body were being consumed rapidly, Mu You hurriedly sat down cross-legged, while meditating, while laying out various magic power recovery potions in front of him, taking drugs at any time.

Sure enough, as Vivienne said, the subsequent consumption of mana quickly became intense. The natural mana is okay, the concentration of black mana here is strong enough, and there are dozens of black crystals just collected on Muyou, which can guarantee The supply speed of natural magic power is sufficient.

  But the recovery speed of ordinary magic can't keep up. The same kind of potion also has a cooling effect. There are only a few kinds of recovery potions available to him now. Mu You almost drinks it as soon as the cooling effect is good, but it is still stretched.

  Mu You couldn't see the underground scene below, so he could hear a more intense muffled sound coming from below. The earth trembled from time to time.

  He thought that with such a fierce collision, the battle would end quickly, but the actual process was much longer than imagined.

  As time went by, Mu You's magic value began to drop at a speed visible to the naked eye. He had already used all available recovery methods, but he couldn't keep going if he couldn't make ends meet.

  Two hours later, his mana was completely exhausted.

  Mu You's spirit began to be a little trance, which was a symptom caused by excessive mental power consumption, but he didn't dare to cut off the magic connection at will. After all, Vivian was in the middle of a battle, so he could only continue to hold on.

   After persisting for another hour, Mu You also reached the limit completely. His head was dizzy, his consciousness hurt, and he passed out.

  …

   When Mu You woke up again, the surrounding sky was already bright.

  The dappled sunlight projected into the forest through the gaps in the canopy, making his eyes a little stinging.

  After two or three seconds of waking up, Mu You hurriedly raised his wrist to look at the time, and was shocked: It's already three o'clock in the afternoon the next day?

  He was in a coma for more than ten hours, and it was even close to closing time!

  Where is Vivian?

   Mu You hurriedly looked around, and there was still the huge tiankeng in front of him, but the noise from the ground had stopped, and the surrounding was quiet.

   Looked at the reminder in my mind again, the life consumption of the death contract had just stopped an hour ago, and it actually consumed a total of nearly 280 years of life!

  Combined with the 300 years spent on opening the six additional item binding positions before, at this time, the balance of the life span that was originally over 1,000 has dropped below the 500 mark, leaving only 443 years.

   "It's really fast..."

   At this time, Mu You had realized what it means to spend money like running water, but now he didn't have time to worry about it, so he immediately jumped down from the cave and went underground to check the situation.

   As a result, as soon as he landed, he saw a scene that stirred his heart.

  The underground is still the same as last night, full of dark purple tones.

And in the open space reflected by the purple fluorescent stone, a canary fell there, its legs were straightened, its body was distorted abnormally, and under its golden feathers, layers of tumor-like flesh **** grew wantonly. It is obviously the performance of being soaked in black magic and losing control.

   "Vivian?!"

Mu You rushed over in a hurry and picked up the canary, but at this time the canary was already stiff, its feet twitched, its eyes turned pitch black, and there was no life at all. Still spreading out a little bit.

  Vivian, dead?

   Mu You's pupils constricted, which is really incomprehensible. Before he left last night, he was so angry that he asked him to leave. When he woke up, he was already a corpse when he saw him again?

  Since it's so dangerous, why didn't they say it earlier, at worst they would give up the body and just leave at that time...

   "What kind of expression is that on your face, as if you want to die for me..."

   Right at this moment, a familiar voice sounded in his mind.

   Mu You was taken aback for a moment, then looked back, and saw a familiar crow flying from the other side and landed on his shoulder.

   "Uh, Vivian? Are you okay..."

  When Mu You saw the flying crow, he immediately understood that Vivienne's remnant soul didn't dissipate, but left the canary and moved into the crow's body.

"This bird's body is too weak to withstand the pressure of black magic, so I transferred it into the body of the black crow. The black crow is a familiar that I cultivated by myself. Its physical strength is much higher, and it can automatically absorb ordinary magic power. Your talent can greatly ease my dependence on your magic power." Vivienne said.

   "That's good..." Mu You heaved a sigh of relief, just now he really thought that he would say goodbye to master and student forever after waking up after sleeping.

   When he came back to his senses, Mu You had time to look around.

At this moment, more than ten meters away, Senling still maintains an elk-like appearance, rooted in the Fountain of Youth, but at this time, Senling has lost the tyranny of last night, and his blood-red eyes have returned to light blue The black air all over his body no longer spilled out, but began to absorb the black air from the outside world.

  The black energy of the entire black forest poured into the ground along the roots of the trees, hovered around the forest spirit, condensed into a gentle vortex, and finally sank into the forest spirit's body.

  Even the canary at Muyou's feet, under this kind of absorption, the black magic disorder in the body quickly calmed down, and the tumors on the surface of the body gradually subsided until they returned to their original appearance.

After absorbing all the black magic in the surrounding air, Sen Ling looked up and waved, a branch stretched out from the ground, bound the canary, and then the branch stretched, sending the canary to the Beside Sen Ling, plunged into the spring water exuding vitality.

The canary, whose body was already twisted and stiff, miraculously came back to life after soaking in the spring water for a while, took off with fluttering wings, flung water droplets from its feathers, and finally landed on Sen Ling's head, heading towards It pecked on the head twice, as if venting its anger.

  Spirit ignored Canary's presumptuous behavior, turned his gaze to Mu You, and looked him up and down: "This is the disciple you have chosen?"

  Spirit spoke, and it was still the mixed voice that seemed to come from the void, but compared to the tyranny last night, it was already too rational.

"Yes."

  Vivian nodded: "As you can see, I am no longer capable of fulfilling my promise, so I will leave the rest to my disciples."

   "Are you sure?" Sen Ling glanced at Mu You again, seemingly hesitant. The core is the foundation of a forest spirit. Obtaining the core of the forest spirit is equivalent to obtaining the power of the forest spirit. In particular, its core is still a core full of black magic pollution. If it falls into the hands of people with evil intentions, it will be a disaster for the world.

   "Of course. In your current state, you can no longer suppress the core, right? Give your core to him, and he will help you clean up the pollution of black magic." Vivian said.

  Sen Ling was silent for a long time before nodding: "Well, since he is your chosen disciple, I am willing to believe him."

As these words came out, within Sen Ling's body, a walnut-like shape was wrapped in a hollow wooden shell, but a spherical core as black as ink quietly emerged inside, and slowly floated towards this side, and finally hovered In front of Mu You.

   Mu You reached out and picked up the core, and immediately felt an extremely violent energy rolling in it, as if desperately trying to pour into his body along his fingers, but fortunately he blocked the transmission path of magic power in time.

  The crystal inside the core looks quite similar to the black crystals obtained before, but the concentration of black magic power in it is countless times stronger than the crystals obtained before.

  【Polluted Forest Spirit Heart: The core of the forest spirit has the ability to absorb and decompose various pollutions, but there is an upper limit on the decomposition ability and capacity, and it will get out of control after exceeding the upper limit of capacity. Contamination currently contained: 99.8%. 】

  99.8%... Sure enough, it has reached the brink of explosion.

   Vivienne's actions last night probably didn't defeat Sen Ling head-on or something, but helped Sen Ling undo part of the pollution and restore her sanity.

"Young man, I will hand over my core to you. Please keep it safe and not fall into the hands of others. If you can reduce the pollution of the core by more than 10% within a year, it will prove that you have really helped Sen. The ability of the spirit clan, at that time, I will give you this spring that has lived with me for a long time as a reward." The illusory voice of the forest spirit rang in his ears.

   At the same time, a timely reminder appeared in Mu You's mind.

  【Trigger the hidden task 'Entrustment of the Forest Spirit': within one year, clean up more than 10% of the contaminated core of the Forest Spirit, and do not hand over the Heart of the Forest Spirit to others on the way.

   Mission reward: Fountain of Youth. 】

【Whether to accept? 】

  One year, this is still a long-term task...

   "Okay, I accept."

   Mu You nodded without much hesitation, and accepted Sen Ling's commission.

   Not to mention that there are enough rewards waiting for him, even if there is no reward, this is the responsibility owed by Vivian. Since he, a disciple, has inherited Vivian's inheritance, he is naturally obliged to help her fulfill the promise she made during her lifetime.

   "What about you? What are you going to do next?" Vivienne looked at Sen Ling again and asked.

   "I have been discovered and need to be transferred."

  After entrusting the core and letting go of the burden, Sen Ling's voice seemed to be much relieved: "Maybe I will go back to the ethnic group to have a look, or I may find another quiet place and wait for your results."

   "As for the Black Forest... it was originally a place to prevent my black magic power from overflowing when I lost control, but now, it no longer needs to exist, let it be reborn in the fire."

  Accompanied by Forest Spirit's words, the roots of its body connected to the top soil layer broke, and the roots in those soil layers quietly ignited flames, and the flames quickly spread along the well-developed root network underground.

  The temperature in the entire crypt increased rapidly.

   "Did you see who killed you?" Vivienne took the time to ask.

   "No." Sen Ling shook his head: "The other party is very cautious, but through the perspective of the plants outside the forest, I vaguely saw a person dressed in church decoration passing by. The most conspicuous feature is a white cross in the other party's hand..."

   Is it the ghost of the church?

  Mu You was very surprised. Don’t all the churches believe in the Holy Light? Are they also interested in black magic?

  However, if the church behind the scenes is really the church, those residents infected with black magic can explain it. The church, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a pyramid scheme, and its best is brainwashing.

  At this time, the restraints on the burning frame in the distance had been automatically released, and Vivienne's body fell down without restraint, was entangled by the vines of the forest spirit, and was sent to Mu You.

"leave…"

  Seeing that Mu You took over Vivian's body, Sen Ling waved his arm, and the huge wooden palm lifted the two of them up, and sent them back to the ground in the blink of an eye.

  At this time, the black forest had already ignited a raging fire, and the scorching heat wave swept past, accompanied by the wailing of creatures, burning all living and dead things in the forest.

   "What will happen to this land in the future?" Mu You asked. Although this forest conceived by Sen Ling himself was soaked in black magic power, there are actually many other ways to deal with it. Sen Ling actually destroyed it in the sea of ​​flames without hesitation. He was a little surprised.

"Even if the wreckage eroded by black magic is burned, the black magic remaining in the land will not fade away so easily. In a short period of time, this place will become a polluted area where creatures cannot set foot until the pollution is gone. This process may take a long time , but it is only for the lifespan of the living beings, for the forest spirit, and for the entire star spirit world, it is just a flick of a finger." Vivienne said.

  Mu You nodded.

The power of the forest spirit is not only life and growth, but also decay and death. To be precise, it is the messenger of the balance of nature, the cycle of life and death, the alternation of new and old, endless wildfires, and spring breeze , In the near future, new shoots will emerge here again, reviving into a new forest.

  The fire became more and more intense, and the heat continued to sweep through. Mu You didn't have time to stop and stay, so he hurriedly set up a teleportation array on the ground, and teleported to the tomb of Misty Mountain.

   Then they went all the way to the secret room on the top of the tomb, opened the coffin in the center of the secret room that sealed Grandma Lin Xue's body, and stored Vivian's body in it.

   This coffin is not spacious, but it is enough to accommodate the remains of two women.

  Vivian looked at the two corpses leaning side by side in the coffin, one young and the other old. She couldn't help but think of the voices and smiles of the two, and sighed slightly.

"Let's go back."

"good."

  …

   An hour later, Mu You returned to the door of the Chamber of Commerce before closing the door.

  The steward who led Mu You in had been waiting behind the door for a long time. When he saw Mu You, he hurriedly greeted him through the door: "Mr. Mu You, you are back!"

The steward wiped off his sweat. The other ninety-seven people who entered the door at this moment turned back more than half an hour earlier, and there was only one left, Mu You, who had not returned for a long time. It is not a trivial matter for the people sent over there to enter the door through them but fail to come back in the end.

   Fortunately, Mu You returned at the last moment, which relieved the few people waiting at the door.

"Awaited."

   Mu You also apologized and said hello. He didn't expect to fall into a coma in the Black Forest, which caused him to come back late.

  When he came to the door, Mu You took out the fish tank and other things in his backpack, and moved them through the door one by one.

   Several members of Lin Hai's team hadn't left yet, and came in one after another to help carry them.

   "Master, do you plan to sell your fish fry in your shop?" Lin Hai looked at the magical fish in the fish tank, and looked at Mu You curiously.

  He knew that Mu You's family owned a pet shop, and at this time, he deliberately transported these magic fish fry back to Earth, and immediately made Lin Hai realize that this might be something that was going to be bred and sold.

"yes."

Mu You nodded: "After a while, my pet shop will reopen and will sell some magical creatures from the Astral World. If you have any needs, you can come and see them at that time. The address is Xiangjiang, K City Luqiqu Pet Shop…”

   Mu You took the opportunity to advertise.

"good!"

"no problem."

   "We must go and have a look..."

  …

   At this time, there were quite a few members of the business alliance who hadn't left yet. Hearing the words, they were very face-saving. Regardless of whether they were interested or not, they all politely agreed.

  Lin Hai's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he hurriedly asked, "Master, do you have chocobos for sale?"

  The previous experience in the forest of elves has already made him fascinated by the feeling of riding a chocobo, and he really wants to experience it again.

   "Chocobos are not for sale, but you can ride them on the spot and charge by time."

  Mu You said: "In addition to chocobos, there are other rare magical animals, such as mandrakes, treants, sluts, etc. They are not for sale, but they can be visited and fed on site."

  Mu You has already thought about it. When the magic pet shop opens, it will be divided into two parts, one is a normal pet shop. One is a ticket visit mode like a museum zoo, which provides the opportunity to get in close contact with those rare magical creatures. The biggest problem with this exhibition model is that it requires a huge space, but in today's era, with the existence of backpack space, the space is not a problem at all.

   "Oh? That's very interesting! Remember to call me when the master opens, and I will definitely join you!" Lin Hai was quite moved after hearing this.

  The same goes for the others, who looked over in surprise when they heard the words, and secretly wrote down the address that Mu You left just now, expressing that they would come to join them at that time.

   An ornamental shop for magical creatures, which is a novelty that has never appeared on Earth. If it was said that most of the people were politely agreeing for the sake of the members of the allied forces, but at this moment they really became interested.

   During the recent meeting, the starting point closed the comments and character cards, and only you can see the comments after the 15th.

  

  

  (end of this chapter)