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Chapter 672 The Missing Mother

Continuing along the Red Stone Plain, a relatively dense forest of ancient trees soon appeared in front of a group of people along with a lot of lush greenery appearing from the edge.

The reason why it is called the ancient tree forest is mainly because almost none of the trees here are below 80 meters, and basically all of them are towering into the sky, which is taller than the behemoth [Gaoxianren] village crab they encountered back then. Not a lot.

From a distance, it looks like countless sky pillars towering into the clouds, giving people an extra sense of shock.

This is not the level that ordinary tree species and tree ages can reach. Even considering the strange weightlessness near Sky Mountain, it is impossible for such a strange huge forest to be born without hundreds or even thousands of years.

"The area of ​​the Red Stone Plain is much smaller than we expected."

On the trunk of an ancient tree closest to the periphery, a special mark unique to the Blue Star team was engraved. Nia raised her head and looked at the countless huge tree crowns above her head that almost covered the sky.

"Is it because of these huge ancient trees?"

Guta shrugged his shoulders noncommittally, scanned the surrounding terrain with his perception, and took off a vine as thick as an arm from the trunk beside him, sensing the internal structure little by little.

"The age of these vines seems to be a little older than those of the ancient trees." Guta said with some confusion.

Weiwei was obviously not very interested in this, but she just lowered her head and glanced at the bare ground around, and looked at the ancient pagoda strangely: "It seems that there are no other plants here except for these ancient trees and vines?"

"It's a bit strange..." Qiao Qiao took over the conversation, nodded and agreed: "Normally, even in an extremely harsh environment, at least there will be vegetation such as weeds or shrubs."

Guta thought for a while, and gave a guess of his own: "Maybe it's because the nutrients in this land have been absorbed by those ancient trees and vines."

While they were talking, there was a sudden rustling sound above their heads.

Mieju's reaction was quick, and without even thinking about it, he took off his slashing axe and threw it fiercely straight up.

【Fury·Flying Blood Axe】

The dazzling red light was fleeting, and the blue-black slashing ax that was suddenly thrown by Miejin quickly turned into a red knife wheel under a layer of thick blood, and flew out at an accelerated speed.

Along the way, the trees were broken and the vines were torn. In the sea of ​​trees all over the sky, an unclear path was forcibly opened.

At the end of the road, a pitch-black flying dragon that couldn't dodge was hit by a chopping axe on one side of its wing. After shaking a few times, it smashed through the tangle of branches and fell crookedly from a high altitude like a plane crashed.

"Black erosion dragon? It's everywhere..."

Powerful perception swept across the monster's body, Guta said coldly.

As always, the pitch-black scales, the snake-like head without visual organs, and the winged quadruped skeleton with winged feet, the monster that was shot down by extinction in front of it is undoubtedly a black erosion dragon that is suspected to be an ancient dragon species.

However, for some unknown reason, the body of the black erosion dragon in front of him was extremely thin, and his body was covered with a layer of semi-solid turbid liquid with a pungent smell.

Nia frowned, and looked at the underdeveloped black dragon in front of her, which was only half the size of a normal body: "Is this size really a black dragon?"

"The liquid on its body should be amniotic fluid, and the larynx is not fully developed, in other words..." Activated the ability of [God Spirit], Guta quickly analyzed the composition of the liquid on the other party's body, and it was quite He spared no effort to analyze the physical condition of this black erosion dragon.

"This guy was born not long ago, and he is completely in the state of a cub."

The black erosion dragon that landed on the ground roared mournfully, while waving its wet wings, it slammed hard at the side, trying to get closer to the recovery of the weapon.

After a few dodges with Mie Jin's small body, he dodged the attack of the black erosion dragon.

boom!
The Winged Foot that fell into the air smashed a small hole in the ground, and then swept towards the surrounding area without losing momentum.

The gravel slapped on the armor worn by everyone, making a crackling sound.

"Even if it is just born, does it have this level of power?" Guta said thoughtfully, and then unconsciously compared the black erosion dragon with the black dragon that he encountered near Pale at the earliest time. Eclipse Dragon was compared. "The one that appeared first didn't seem to be so powerful."

"No, even the ones I encountered recently, they wouldn't have reached this level of intensity when they were just born."

Thinking of this, Guta didn't even take off his weapon, and took the initiative to approach the black erosion dragon that was unable to take off again because of its damaged wings.

I don't know whether it was faintly aware of the threat from the ancient tower, or it was instinctively aggressive towards other creatures. With a roar, the black erosion dragon opened its mouth full of sharp teeth, and bit forward.

"A newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, that's what it says."

As soon as the words fell, two muddy palms, which were a head taller than the black erosion dragon, suddenly rose from the ground on both sides of the black erosion dragon, wrapped in a patter of mud.

As the mud palms moved closer together, the black erosion dragon, who had no time to escape, fell into the imprisonment of the huge mud palms on the spot.

Although the latter struggled desperately, the mud palm created by Guta with the ability to resist earth remained motionless.

And as the black erosion dragon's movements became more violent, the outer layer of the giant palm also shook off the soil from time to time, exposing the dark brown stone inside.

The surface of this layer of palm seems to be made entirely of mud. Except for the outer layer of camouflage mud, the inner core is almost entirely composed of stones with a specially optimized structure and a hardness comparable to obsidian.

The [Earth Control] ability, which was once only used by a horned dragon to break through the sand and dive into the ground, has long since transformed into a terrifying ability that is completely different from the original version in the hands of the ancient tower.

With the power of [God Spirit] to quantify everything, the ancient pagoda that perfectly controls various abilities can not only imitate all kinds of sand and soil creations in a short breath, but also optimize the structure and density to make the mud of the imperial envoy The sand is sublimated into a high-density stone that is countless times higher in both hardness and strength.

"Did you see anything?" Guta turned around and asked the teammates who were approaching him, with a gentle face, not paying attention to the screaming roar of the black erosion dragon.

"This black eclipse dragon doesn't look very good?" Weiwei raised her hand with seriousness written all over her face.

"..."

Guta twitched the corners of his mouth, put on a hellish expression and said: "In a sense, your observation is in place."

Afterwards, he didn't try to be a joke anymore, and simply said directly: "This black dragon's organs are exhausted. Even if it doesn't meet us, it may not survive for 48 hours."

Nia reacted quickly, thinking of the amniotic fluid that Guta said before, and tentatively said: "Sounds like a symptom unique to premature babies?"

Nodding his head, Guta continued: "I've checked the surrounding area for two kilometers before, and I didn't find any traces of corpses or large monsters."

"But we all know that the Black Corrosion Dragon is most likely a parasitic breeding monster, so it is impossible that there is no mother around the newly born larvae."

"This means that the black erosion dragon in front of me was either spontaneously removed from the body by its mother, or there were other existences that stripped it from the mother, and then took away the mother's body."

Listening to Guta's analysis, a strange and incomprehensible feeling gradually brewed in the hearts of several people.

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(End of this chapter)