Douro Searle

Chapter 9 Centennial Blood Rose
The sun was shining brightly, shining through the gaps in the dense forest into the dark and damp forest.

In the forest at the bottom of the cliff, Searle shook his humming head and opened his eyes.

Fortunately, the cliff was only more than 20 meters high. After passing through the forest under the cliff, Serre's injury was not serious, and he only consumed [-]% of his soul power to recover his body.

After looking at the completely unfamiliar environment around him and finding that he couldn't feel the breath of the soul beast, Searle secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

"The group of Gale Wolves didn't come after them, so it seems that they are safe for the time being."

"But I can't go back now. The group of Galewind wolves are probably still nearby and haven't gone far." Tang Mu looked up at the cliff above him and stood up.

"There is still time now, as long as I walk in another direction, I can leave the Star Dou Forest before night falls. And once it is night, as long as I am still near the Star Dou Forest, the group of Galewind Wolves probably won't let me go. Come to the door."

After reconfirming the direction, Searle looked for the way out of the forest while looking for Blood Rose...

Ten minutes later, Searle stopped in front of a withered and yellow century-old tree.

This is an evergreen tree, a kind of plant soul beast with evergreen leaves all year round, but now, the leaves on the evergreen tree have turned yellow, showing a half-dead state!
And on the withered evergreen wood, Searle found the century-old Blood Rose!

A large blood-colored net made of blood roses covered the entire tree. On each trunk of the ancient tree, a large number of blood-colored filaments were entangled, like protruding blood vessels, terrifying and hideous.

These blood roses have already invaded the ancient tree, parasitic on this withered evergreen tree, absorbing the nutrition and energy for their own survival.

Searle slowly approached the century-old evergreen tree, and saw black trunks stretching towards Searle, trying to catch the creature that broke into his territory.

After growing to a hundred years old, plant-type soul beasts will almost always have a certain degree of aggressiveness, and ordinary plant-type soul beasts like evergreen wood will generally only use branches to entangle their prey.

However, due to its own withering, yellowing and aging, the attack of this evergreen tree is not strong, and Searle's speed is enough to avoid the entanglement of the evergreen tree.

The body jumped onto the evergreen tree nimbly, Seer grabbed the trunk with one hand, and climbed onto the huge evergreen tree in two or three moves.

Looking at the most bloodshot part, Searle pushed the bloodshot away, and saw the bloody sac wrapped in bloodshot.

At this time, Xue Luosi sensed the invasion of creatures, controlled a large number of blood threads to wind towards Searle, and hid her small pouch again.

Seeing that the sac was about to be wrapped in bloodshot again, Searle jumped up decisively and grabbed the sac with one hand.

Unexpectedly, the tenacity of this blood thread was stronger than the ten-year-old blood rose that he had encountered before, and Sel immediately hung on the evergreen wood.

But at this moment, the branches of the evergreen wood suddenly exploded at an extremely fast speed, entangled Searle who was holding the bloody sac!
Once this kind of plant-type soul beast with strong defense and toughness entangles its prey, it is almost impossible to break free.

The evergreen branches crazily wrapped around Serre's body, strangling his body tightly!

But at this moment, Searle still held the blood-colored sac in his hand, and refused to let go.

But there are more and more branches wrapped around his body, if this continues, he will really be unable to escape!

Once it's time to face death, Searle's heart will inspire a fierce force!
He suddenly raised the dagger in his right hand, and stabbed fiercely into his left hand that was holding the bloody sac tightly!

The bloody filaments squirmed wildly, and the evergreen branches on Searle's body strangled him even tighter.

The body was squeezed by a huge force, Serre's body could no longer breathe, and the dagger in his hand fell to the ground because he couldn't grasp it.

"Are you really going to die? It seems that I am still too reluctant to obtain the soul ring. Even if I am outside the Star Dou Forest, I will face danger at any time, and even lose my life..."

"I'm not reconciled, what will the main body think? He doesn't have the memory of my experience. After he finds that he can't sense the martial soul, he will gather the martial soul again, and then send a consciousness to go here again, right? As long as it doesn't work , he will divide his own consciousness again and again until he succeeds, and his own consciousness is as if it has never existed..."

Feeling his body being squeezed and deformed, Searle's consciousness still hasn't disappeared, and just when he thought he couldn't escape anyway, the feeling of squeezing outside his body suddenly disappeared!

Slightly stunned, Searle was a little confused.

"Am I saved? Could it be that my luck hasn't run out?"

After thinking too much, after consuming almost all his soul power, Searle finally repaired his body, but when he broke free from the withered and yellow tree trunks, he saw the scene in front of him...

The ground was covered with withered yellow leaves, and on the dry evergreen wood, a yellow soul ring condensed. The soul ring was somewhat dark yellow, showing signs that it was about to transform into a thousand-year soul ring.

Searle paused slightly, and he looked at the yellow soul ring condensed by Xue Luosi under his feet, as if he wanted to understand what was going on.

Evergreen wood, a common plant-type soul beast, is generally difficult to reach a thousand years. This kind of plant will leave seeds in almost 500 years, and then wither and die naturally.

However, the evergreen tree in front of me actually has a lifespan of 900 years, completely breaking through the limit that this ordinary plant can bear!

What makes an evergreen tree have a lifespan of nearly a thousand years?

The reason is the blood rose growing on the evergreen wood!

The blood roses that are usually seen are usually parasitic on plants, absorbing the host's nutrients to support themselves, and only benefiting from one side.

But the Blood Rose that Searle killed was not just parasitic!There is also symbiosis!
This is why the evergreen tree prevented Serre from killing Xue Luosi. Without the blood net, this evergreen tree, which has exceeded the life limit, would not be able to survive!
Generally speaking, if the evergreen tree reaches its lifespan and dies, then the blood rose parasitic on the evergreen tree will also die due to the death of the host.

And now there is another situation that allows both parties to continue to survive.

In order to survive, Xue Luosi consumed her own energy and nutrients to maintain the lifespan of the evergreen wood, allowing the evergreen wood to continue to survive.

In this way, Blood Rose will be able to avoid the death of the host and die.

But now, Searle killed Xue Luosi, without the energy supply of Xue Luosi, this evergreen tree also withered because it reached the upper limit of its lifespan.

Pieces of dead leaves fell, and the trunk of the evergreen tree in front of Searle was already bare, and the ground was covered with dead leaves. At this time, the evergreen tree and the blood net were dead, and two yellow soul rings floated quietly in the air.

Without thinking about it, Searle looked around and found no danger, then sat cross-legged in front of the soul ring condensed in the blood net, guiding the soul ring with consciousness and merging the soul ring.

At the same moment, Tang Mu, who was lying comfortably on the bed, suddenly sat up, ran out of the dormitory as if flying, and found a place where no one was there to sit cross-legged.

Consciousness buzzed, and in his conscious space, Tang Mu felt that he had become a cell, and above his conscious, a yellow soul ring was floating quietly!

Seeing this scene, Tang Mu knew what to do, gather his consciousness, and guide the fusion of the soul ring and his own martial soul!

Because it was the first time to fuse a soul ring, and Tang Mu didn't know the situation of his martial soul Searle at all.

Without mental preparation, Tang Mu was very nervous at this time, his face and back were already covered with sweat.

Nearly half an hour later, the bodies of Tang Mu and Searle, who were in different places, trembled at the same time, and a yellow soul ring slowly rose from their bodies!
(End of this chapter)