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Chapter 167 The Birth Tree (for Subscription)
Several elf eggs appeared on the coast.

This is the junction of a sandy beach and the near sea. The waves are constantly beating from a distance, and the white waves are rolling.

The eggshell broke open, and a round, potted plant-like creature appeared.

On top of the body, reddish-orange sprout-like protrusions grow.

It floats into the sea, and gradually dives to the bottom of the sea with the waves.

The current and tide slowly slapped the body, bringing plankton, which is the main food of this creature.

Coral, in a certain sense, has two meanings.

One refers to the calcareous remains of reefs composed of calcium carbonate, brightly colored and shaped like dendrites.

This is a dead thing that can be used as decoration or medicine. It absorbs calcium and carbon dioxide in seawater and secretes hardened limestone.

The second refers to coral polyps.

Coral polyp is the most basic unit of composition and formation of coral, it is a kind of lower coelenterate, can grow exoskeleton.

On the basis of bones, continue to grow and develop, and continue to reproduce, from generation to generation.

During the growth process, limestone is secreted and glued together with the remains of other organisms, making the hard exoskeleton thicken layer by layer and continue to expand.

Although a coral polyp is an animal, it cannot move. It can only expand its territory through reproduction and growth on the body of its parents, thus forming coral reefs or islands.

The synthetic creature is a mutated coral polyp.

It is dominated by the gene of the bonsai tree, has its own body, and can move.

Li Yang named it "birth tree".

It is so named because it can continuously and autonomously secrete special calcified liquid to form cavity tentacles for "growth".

However, this is not the same as growth in the biological sense.

The essence of growth is the division and differentiation of cells and the metabolism of active substances.

But the birth tree, with its ever-growing red-orange bud-like protrusions above its body, is not alive.

It is softened lime cutin, or calcified tentacles, which have no cellular structure and are not active.

The Christmas tree gradually grew up in the sea, and the body did not increase, but the tentacles like antlers on the top of the head spread in all directions like trees.

It does not have the ability to attack, nor is it poisonous. Its tentacles are soft. Although it can grow and become longer to move, its strength is very weak, and it can only float continuously with the current.

Li Yang observed, from the outside, he could only see the tentacles waving above.

And their bodies, hidden under the ground, are difficult to find.

Sometimes, the main body will move when it comes out, and Li Yang finally saw what they looked like.

It is a little guy shaped like a spinning top with two short legs.

The round eyes are rolling, and the expression is very similar to that of a crab.

Their body structure, which is heavy on the top and light on the bottom, reminds Li Yang of a kind of elf, Pylast.

Plaster is a combination of insects and mushrooms. As the body of insects, the consciousness of the parasitic mushrooms is taken over, forming a tool man.

The birth tree is just the opposite. The potted rhizome as the body is the main body, and the tentacle coral growing above it is the tool.

The first generation gradually came of age, Li Yang used props to invite actors, and the challenge group they will face next can choose independently.

At the same time, another prop, sky performer, was also used, and the evolution direction chosen for them was [growth].

The competition group chose the smelly mud.

Smelly mud is the evolution of stinky mud, a purple dough-shaped mud elf, covered in mud all over, with an unbearable stench.

As soon as they came to this world, the stinky mud on their bodies immediately polluted the sea water.

Sludge attacks and sludge bombs are used, and the sewage gradually spreads, becoming cloudy and toxic.

Christmas trees are similar to corals and have high requirements for water quality.

For them, temperature, light source, water pressure and even water flow intensity must be kept within a specific range.

Otherwise, once the environment changes, it is easy to die.

With the arrival of the smelly mud, the purple mud gathered on the sea surface, blocking the sunlight, and all the photosynthesis in the seawater stopped.

Toxic substances pollute the water quality, and the toxicity has a strong lethality.

The plankton used as food is killed, and the most basic unit of the biological chain is disintegrated.

The inability to ingest food from seawater poses a fatal threat to all creatures in the sea.

Damaged by toxins and lack of food, the Christmas tree cannot survive in such a harsh environment.

Shaking Yi's tentacles stopped growing, lying on the ground, decaying rapidly like fallen leaves, and the bottom of the water was lifeless.

They were supposed to disappear in the polluted seawater, ending this deduction.

However, Li Yang used the Destiny group, and they will definitely win in this competition.

Evolution begins.

On the body surface of the birth tree, a special structure appeared.

is a symbiotic microalgae.

This symbiotic algae contains photosynthetic pigments and secretes fluorescent substances, making the dark sea covered by silt appear bright.

The density of algae increases, with the help of self-secreted fluorescein, photosynthesis is carried out, and nutrients are continuously produced for the birth tree.

In addition, toxins in the water begin to be decomposed, and this algae speeds up the metabolism of the water body.

For a long time, under the soft and bright light, the poison was dissolved, and the muddy floating objects in the water gradually settled to the bottom of the sea.

The toxins and silt released by the stinky mud are decomposed, and the sea water becomes clear again.

This kind of power is the embryonic form of new moves and fragrance therapy.

A decaying birth tree has been brought back to life with the help of evolved algae.

The birth tree is no longer a pure animal, but a community that coexists with algae.

With the appearance of chlorophyll, the fluorescein that can be secreted autonomously, under photosynthesis, makes the rhizome body and tentacles more lush.

The tentacles floated again, and the new plankton brought by the tidal waves grew more and more tentacles, which continued to multiply in the offshore area.

They appeared everywhere in the offshore area, with fluorescent-colored antler-shaped tentacles, like an underwater jungle, extremely spectacular.

The tentacles reached into the stinking mud and completely disassembled its body. The birth tree won the victory.

The power of evolution further strengthens the power.

They are different from other races. They do not reproduce through mating, but are hermaphroditic and split to continue.

There are cracks on the surface of the rhizome and tentacles, which are dead lime cuticles.

After the ectomorph breaks open, it reveals the inside and the mature endoderm.

A new generation of Christmas trees has emerged.

In a certain sense, they can grow continuously in this way.

That is longevity.

In the ocean, as long as the environment is stable, there are immortal creatures.

Like lighthouse jellyfish and polar sponges.

The former, capable of transitioning from a mature adult stage to an immature polyp stage, the lifespan of the lighthouse jellyfish is not limited by nature.

The polar sponge, because of the extremely slow growth rate, the oldest individual lives more than 1000 years.

The growing power of the Christmas tree is similar to that of the lighthouse jellyfish.

However, this power is far from enough.

It's not enough to just survive, to be able to dissolve the toxin and relieve the abnormal state.

As a support, in addition to the boosting effect of milk and purification, it must have a certain interference ability and be able to set up a shield.

Li Yang looked at the list of elves and began to think about choosing the next invasion group.

(End of this chapter)