Chapter Seventy-Eight, The Ancient Tree of War

Now if someone asks Ning Yuan, what is the most precious thing to him?

Ning Yuan will definitely answer without hesitation: It's the army.

In this game of the jungle, a strong army is the guarantee that a lord can live in, if there is no strong army to support, then even if he builds the territory beautifully, it is nothing more than making a wedding dress for others, and one day, those greedy invaders will reach out to him.

And if you want to have a strong army, it is useless to have people alone, and the lords must also let this army pass the baptism of war, so that they can become a steel army.

And war is never inseparable from death, and no one can guarantee that they will be able to come out of the battlefield alive, so if you want to train a group of elite soldiers, sacrifice is inevitable.

In the era of cold weapons, the death rate of soldiers was very high because of the limited medical conditions.

Many soldiers are wounded and have a chance to survive, but in the end they still die of excessive blood loss or various infections, which is a very serious loss for a country and an army.

Because as long as those soldiers can survive, then they who have already experienced the test of life and death have great hope of becoming elite soldiers in a hundred battles.

Although Ning Yuan doesn't pay much attention to things in life, he still attaches great importance to these Condor warriors under his hands.

Whenever he saw the corpses of his own dead soldiers after the battle, he would feel very worried, if it was put in modern times, many of those dead soldiers could actually survive, but in this era, Ning Yuan could only watch them die due to excessive blood loss.

Obviously, they only need to stop the bleeding from the wound to survive, but the backward medical level of the Condor tribe can't even stop the bleeding of some deep wounds.

In the end, many soldiers could only watch the blood flowing from the wounds take away the vitality in their bodies little by little, and they saw the victory of the war, but they could no longer enjoy the fruits of victory.

For this result, although Ning Yuan was very unwilling, he couldn't do anything, so every time he fought, he would rush to the front line frantically, he hoped to kill a few more enemies by himself, and let his Condor warriors lose less.

He doesn't know how effective it will be, but that's the only thing he can do now.

The appearance of the muscle-building hemostatic powder formula once brought hope to Ning Yuan, but because the pharmacist of the medicinal materials and alchemy had never been found, he could only let this formula be dusted at the bottom of the box.

Well, the appearance of the old elves has made him see hope again, because the elves not only have hemostatic herbs in their medicine fields, but also another main medicine on the formula.

As long as the old elf who is proficient in alchemy can successfully refine the birth muscle to stop bleeding according to the formula, then there will be a large number of Condor warriors who will be able to survive the war, which is of great significance to the development of the entire Condor tribe.

In fact, it's not just muscle-building and hemostatic dispersion, many other pills can save the lives of a large number of Condor warriors.

Therefore, for the sake of the safety of the lives of those Condor warriors who were fighting on the front line, Ning Yuan was ready to tilt all the resources of the Condor Tribe to the old elf pharmacist.

No matter what the old elf wants, as long as there are people in the Condor tribe, then he can come first, anyway, the entire Condor tribe is Ning Yuan's alone, and even if others are dissatisfied, they will hold it first.

In addition to the refining of muscle-building and hemostatic dispersion to be put on the agenda, the production of the elven short bow and the force of nature cannot be left behind.

Force of Nature Blueprint: The blueprint of the bow, gold level, according to the process on the drawing, you can make a gold level bow - Force of Nature.

The blueprint of the force of nature was exploded by Ning Yuan from Murong Yan's body, although Murong Yan died by suicide, but according to the rules of dimensional warfare, after her death, all the special props on her body belonged to Ning Yuan, so during Ning Yuan's invasion, no matter how she died, those special props on her body had to belong to Ning Yuan.

Murong Yan can be said to be Ning Yuan's goddess of luck, because she not only gave Ning Yuan an elf civilization, but also gave Ning Yuan three special props.

Ning Yuan has fought so many battles, this is the first time that he has seized special props on the player lord, compared to Murong Yan, the other player lords who were killed by him are simply a group of poor ghosts, so many people don't even have a special prop on them, and they can't be compared with other little girls at all.

In fact, you can't blame those people entirely, after all, not everyone is as crazy as Ning Yuan.

And after they get any special props, they must use them directly on the spot, and if they don't use them, they either sell them or hand them over to the guild, after all, they are not like Ning Yuan who is alone, as a member of the guild, they also have due obligations.

Even Murong Yan was the same, but the little girl was more lucky, and before she could hand over the things to the custodian of the guild, she met Ning Yuan, so except for herself after using a gold medal for exoneration, everything else was cheaper than Ning Yuan.

Of the three special props that Murong Yan contributed to Ning Yuan, the most precious of them was this drawing of the power of nature.

The Force of Nature is a gold-level bow, and while the drawings don't say how powerful it is, isn't that what a bow is all about? It is nothing more than more power, longer range, greater accuracy, and more durable.

After all, barbarism and civilization are war games in the era of cold weapons, although there will be some fantasy things in it, but there will definitely be no weapons with their own skills, if there is really a scene of falling apart with an arrow, then other people are still playing a fart.

Therefore, the weapons in Savage and Civilization have no description of their attributes, and even if they do, they are stronger, more wear-resistant, sharper or something.

The so-called weapon making drawings only teach people how to make these weapons, as for whether people can make them, and what the quality of the production is, it all depends on the personal level.

According to the old elf who developed the Elven Shortbow, the Elven Shortbow is still only a semi-finished product, and there are many things that need to be improved, while the Force of Nature has a complete process, as long as it can be made, then it is a finished product that does not need to be improved.

Compared with the Elven Shortbow, the Force of Nature requires a higher level of strength for the user, so it is also stronger than the Elven Shortbow in terms of power and range, which is more suitable for male elves to use.

Although the elven shortbow is not as powerful and ranged as the force of nature, it is better than small and light, the elven shortbow shoots ten arrows in a row, and the force of nature can shoot seven or eight arrows at most, the elven shortbow is specially developed for the elves to fight in the forest terrain, suitable for all elves to use.

After answering Ning Yuan's questions, the old elf refused Ning Yuan's request to let him create the power of nature on the grounds that he needed to continue to research and improve the elven shortbow and didn't want to be distracted, and it was the kind of refusal that left no room for error.

That's right, this old elf is such a personality, although he surrendered to Ning Yuan with his clansmen, he still has his own persistence in personal pursuits.

Ning Yuan couldn't force the baby bumps in these tribes, so he found another old elf who liked to make furniture, and after promising this old elf that the iron could be used casually, the old elf reluctantly agreed to help him develop the power of nature.

Since the force of nature and the elven short bow are very good, Ning Yuan plans to make the two bows together, anyway, there is some high-quality wood around the camp, and the beast tendon and condor tribe of various beasts have also hoarded a lot, enough for the two old elves to tinker with.

As for him, a layman who doesn't know anything, just wait to use the ready-made one directly.

Muscle building hemostasis and bow and arrow, as long as Ning Yuan is willing to invest resources, then there is basically as much as he wants, but there is another thing that Ning Yuan can't control if he wants to.

War Tree: The War Tree is an ancient tree species that can move on its own, it can absorb a large amount of nutrients in a short period of time to accelerate its growth, and it can also keep itself alive by trapping itself in a long dormant period.

The War Tree has the special ability to root and root freely, it can pull the roots out of the dirt, and then slowly move to other places, after the final destination, it can make the roots of the root re-rooted into the soil, each time the roots are pulled out and rooted, a lot of energy in the body of the War Ancient Tree will be consumed.

The War Tree has the hardest body in the world and the most powerful self-healing abilities, and because of the large amount of water stored in its trunk, it is not very afraid of fire.

The War Trees are asleep most of the time, they only obey the call of the Shepherd, and no one else can command the War Tree.

The War Tree hates the approach of any higher beings other than the Spirit Race, and if it approaches a reviving War Tree, it will entangle the intruder with its roots that suddenly emerge from the soil, and then pull the intruder deeper into the soil to become its nourishment.

Tree Shepherd: Elves favored by the goddess of nature have the ability to communicate with the War Ancient Tree from birth, they can grow an Ancient War Tree by themselves, or they can communicate in the wild, domesticate an Ancient War Tree to obey their own command, and each Shepherd can only command one War Ancient Tree.

If it weren't for the fact that the number was too scarce and the cultivation conditions were too harsh, the War Ancient Tree would have been the best thing that Ning Yuan had harvested during this invasion.

When Ning Yuan broke through the third elven tribe, he found a very special tree species in the camp of the tribe, this is an ancient tree full of vicissitudes, although it is actually still very young, but the bark of the tree is like the skin of an old man in his twilight years, full of traces of time.

The ancient war tree discovered by Ning Yuan was more than one person thick and more than five meters high, although it already had a certain lethality, but its lethality was very limited. Ning Yuan estimated that with its current ability, it would be able to kill some small animals such as rabbits and rats, and it would not be able to pose any threat to human warriors.

The reason why this ancient war tree is so weak is entirely because the shepherd who nurtured it was only an underage female doll.

Alice Yufeng is twenty-four years old this year, but the elves are only thirty years old, so she is still a minor.

As a female elf favored by the goddess of nature, Alice's life as a tree shepherd has only just begun.

Because of her young age, the little girl could not leave the safe elven camp to hunt with the ancient war tree.

And the resources that the elven tribe she belongs can provide to the war ancient tree are very limited, so even if the war ancient tree has a strong ability to defy the sky, but because it can't get enough nutrients, it can only accompany Alice to be a good baby in the elf camp.

At the same time, it is precisely because this ancient tree of war has not yet grown that Ning Yuan can take down this elven tribe, otherwise in the face of a war fortress that is invulnerable to swords and invulnerable, it may be Ning Yuan's side that is captured.

Alice Yufeng was like a baby bump in the original elf tribe, and after arriving under Ning Yuan's hands, Ning Yuan even treated the little girl as a little ancestor, in order to ensure Alice's absolute safety, Ning Yuan equipped the little girl with a luxurious team of bodyguards to protect the little girl's safety 24 hours a day.

This luxury bodyguard group is composed of humans and elves, on the human side, Ning Yuan has drawn fifty Condor warriors from his bodyguard group, these fifty Condor warriors are all absolute elites who have experienced a hundred battles, and if the enemy wants to be unfavorable to the little girl, he must pass them first.

On the elf side, there are also fifty warriors, although the little girl is still young, she is a woman after all, so thirty of these fifty elven warriors are female elves.

These female elves are elven archers with elven bows on their backs, and they are mainly responsible for keeping the little girl safe and providing long-range fire support to the warriors in front of them at all times.

Among the more than 6,000 elves, there is such an elf with the talent of a tree herder, so it is impossible for Ning Yuan not to pay attention to the little girl, if it were not for the limited conditions now, Ning Yuan would even want to configure an exclusive army for the little girl, like Alice, a lone seedling, it is really impossible to protect it.

Of course, it's useless to protect Alice alone, the reason why the shepherd is so precious is entirely because she can cultivate and command the war ancient tree, without the war ancient tree, the shepherd is worthless, so if you want to give full play to the ability of the herdsman, you must also have a real war ancient tree.

The reason why the War Ancient Tree is precious is not because it is so scarce, but because there are many wild adult War Ancient Trees, who sleep most of their lives.

No one but the Shepherd could wake them up, and of course, no one dared to wake up an adult war tree except the Shepherd.

War Trees have a near-infinite lifespan, and when they reach adulthood, they spend most of their time sleeping, so they usually only give birth to offspring once when they reach adulthood.

After that, they will not easily give birth to offspring unless there are some special circumstances, because that will consume most of the energy in their bodies.

An ancient war tree can give birth to fifty seeds at a time, and these seeds are so powerful that even after being placed for thousands of years, they can take root and sprout if they are buried under the soil.

However, in the wild, it is difficult for many juvenile war trees to survive to adulthood, because they need too many nutrients to grow to adulthood.

In nature, it is very difficult to get enough nutrients, after all, animals are not stupid, they do not rush to give their lives for the ancient trees of war.

If they can't absorb enough nutrients to sustain their lives, some juvenile war trees will also die, because only adult war trees have the ability to sleep indefinitely, although the vitality of juvenile war trees is also very tenacious, but compared to adult war trees, they are too far behind.

Compared to higher beings such as humans, the mark of adulthood of the Ancient Tree of War is not limited by age.

If they don't absorb enough nutrients, they probably won't reach adulthood for the rest of their lives, and if they are surrounded by nutrients, it may only take a year or two for them to grow into a real war tree, which is the main reason why the Shepherd is able to appear.

Although the Wild War Trees hate the approach of other higher beings other than elves, they do not restrict the approach of those wild animals, and they never actively attack those wild animals that come close.

Contrary to their attitude towards other higher beings, they will actively attract some small animals to settle on them, and in order to attract these small animals, the Ancient War Tree will produce a sweet and juicy fruit in the canopy of the tree, so as to attract those animals who like to eat fruit to settle in their place.

Because this fruit can only be picked by elves except for animals, people are used to calling this fruit elf fruit.

Rich in nutrients, it can bear fruit all year round, and is loved by animals and elves, and it attracts many creatures to settle on the ancient war tree, and each wild ancient war tree is a small zoo.

The Ancient War Tree will take the initiative to produce elven fruits to provide food for the animals, and although this behavior seems to be very selfless, it is actually a symbiotic win-win relationship.

It is difficult for the war trees to grow to maturity with only those nutrients absorbed from the soil, which is why they come up with such a symbiotic win-win solution.

While the War Tree consumes some of its energy by producing elven fruits, the critters that are attracted to it to settle in it are able to provide it with more energy.

Animal droppings are the best gift they give back to the Ancient War Tree, and many creatures will leave their corpses to the Ancient War Tree when they die after they settle on the Ancient War Tree.

Although the War Tree will not attack the living critters, it will never let go of the dead animal corpses, once an animal dies and falls to the ground, the War Tree will use its roots to purify the animal's corpse, and this purification is the way the War Tree feeds.

Compared with those elven fruits paid, the War Ancient Tree undoubtedly got more, which can be summed up in a big vernacular, that is, the small animals do not lose, and the War Ancient Tree earns blood, so it is said that this is a win-win symbiotic relationship.

If a juvenile war tree can grow to the stage where it can produce elven fruits, then it has basically passed the most dangerous juvenile stage.

If there are no accidents in the future, then it will definitely be able to grow into a real ancient tree of war, but it is difficult to say when this time comes, it may be decades, or hundreds of years, or even tens of thousands of years, anyway, no one can say.

The ancient war tree has a mysterious bulge at the top of its trunk, and this bulge is where it gives birth to its seeds, and the scientific name is called the breeding room.

After the Ancient War Tree has given birth to its seeds, it will not spill its seeds directly on the ground, because it already exists here, and it is difficult for its offspring to grow in this area.

Therefore, unless it is willing to migrate to other places, it will not release the seeds, and at this time, the War Ancient Tree will need the help of other creatures.

Although the War Tree itself is a small ecosystem, its canopy space is limited after all, so the number of creatures that a War Tree can support is also limited, and when the offspring of those creatures reach adulthood, they must leave the War Tree to find a new territory.

At this time, the War Ancient Tree will open the breeding room and release the tree seeds.

There is a thin layer of sugar-coated substance on the surface of the tree species, which can attract the departing animals to come and eat, and as long as the tree species is successfully eaten by the animals, then they have a chance to follow those animals to distant places, because so far, no living thing has been able to successfully digest the species of the ancient war tree.

Of course, there is also a possibility that the species of the War Ancient Tree will be eaten by the animals that settle on the Ancient Tree, and if they do not leave the Ancient Tree's sphere of influence, then even if the seed successfully lands, it will not be able to grow in the end, because it will not be able to compete with its mother at all.

Therefore, in order to avoid this risk as much as possible, the War Ancient Tree will only release one seed at a time, and fifty seeds will be released once a year, and they will be released in fifty years, so that even if some seeds are lost, there will still be many seeds that can be taken away by the animals in the end.

However, there is another situation in which the War Tree will release all the seeds at once, and that is when a Tree Grower visits.

When the Shepherd encounters a war tree, they will take the initiative to communicate with the tree, and then the tree will give all the tree species to the tree herdsman, and ask him to spread the tree seeds to distant places.

Alice Whisper's War Tree was cultivated by visiting an adult tree and obtaining seeds.

Although the Shepherd can domesticate the ancient war tree in the wild, Alice is still too young after all, although her people very much hope that she can domesticate the adult war tree for the use of the tribe, and she herself has tried her best to do so, but in the end she still failed.

Because the ancient tree of war was unwilling to waste too much energy and migrate to the elven tribe, after all, the elven tribe could give it far less than what it lost, so although it liked the tree herder in front of it very much, it still refused her request.

Although the War Tree refuses Alice, it gives the little girl all the species in the breeding room, hoping that she will be able to spread them far and wide.

Alice got a total of seventeen ancient tree seeds, except for the war ancient tree she cultivated, the remaining sixteen seeds were in the little girl's backpack, but unfortunately, the little girl had already licked the layer of sugar coating on the outside of all the tree species, which made Ning Yuan's desire to try it directly frustrated.

Although he couldn't taste the wonderful taste of the sugar coating of the tree seed, Ning Yuan still had to help the little girl to cultivate her ancient war tree.

Although this ancient tree of war only obeys the orders of the little girl alone, the little girl also has to listen to Ning Yuan, so this ancient tree of war is actually Ning Yuan's, and of course he will be willing to pay for cultivating his own things.

Animal manure is a precious nutrient for plants, but if you want to rely on fertilization to cultivate an ancient war tree, I am afraid that Ning Yuan's great-great-grandchildren will not be able to see that day.

The main reason why the wild war tree came up with such a symbiotic win-win solution was to survive. If there was a better way, they were not willing to wait thousands of years to reach adulthood, so if Ning Yuan wanted to cultivate the War Ancient Tree to an adult state as soon as possible, he would have to invest a lot of money.

According to the elves, if you want the War Ancient Tree to grow into an adult state quickly, you must provide it with some nutrient-rich "food", and what contains the most nutrients? Of course, it's the body of a higher being.

The flesh and bones of higher creatures are the favorite "food" of the War Ancient Tree, and if you want to quickly raise a War Ancient Tree to its adult state, you need to provide it with a large amount of such food.

Because it likes to eat the corpses of high-level creatures, the War Ancient Tree is also known as the Man-Eating Tree, although this is not the will of the War Ancient Tree itself, but some herders still choose this shortcut for their own interests.

Ning Yuan is obviously also this kind of person, it is impossible for him to passively wait for the War Ancient Tree to slowly grow to adulthood by itself, he doesn't have that time, and he can't afford to wait, so he will definitely choose to take the shortcut of the Cannibal Tree.

While the name Man-Eating Tree sounds evil, whether or not it's really evil depends entirely on what the Shepherd does.

As a Terran lord, Ning Yuan would definitely not sacrifice a human being to the War Ancient Tree, even if it was a human corpse, because as a human being, he couldn't get over the hurdle in his heart.

However, barbarism and civilization are not only human beings, but elves, dwarves, and orcs are also a type of higher beings.

Elves and dwarves look similar to humans, so they can't either, but the orcs are different, as the only civilization that Ning Yuan doesn't want to plunder, the orcs are the best to sacrifice to the War Ancient Tree, because their flesh and blood are inedible, and it is better to use it as nourishment for the War Ancient Tree than to throw it away in vain.

Of course, Ning Yuan only wanted to sacrifice the corpses of the orcs who died in the battle to the ancient tree of war, and he was not so mad that he wanted to sacrifice the orcs alive.

In fact, as long as it is not the corpse of your own tribe, it can be sacrificed to the ancient tree of war, after all, those corpses must be disposed of in time, otherwise it is likely to cause an epidemic.

And the War Ancient Tree is undoubtedly a master of dealing with these corpses, it can dispose of all the corpses in a short time, and it is much stronger than humans in terms of efficiency and safety, so using the War Ancient Tree to deal with the corpses on the battlefield should be a good way to kill two birds with one stone.

Thinking of this, Ning Yuan was a little shaken again, because whether the human corpse was buried or cremated, it was actually not much different in essence from being disposed of by the ancient tree of war.

Those corpses will eventually slowly decay and then decompose into all kinds of primitive substances, so instead of spending a lot of manpower and material resources to dispose of the corpses, it is better to directly cheapen the war ancient tree, it seems that he has to think of a way, a way that is acceptable to himself and everyone.