Soon, through repeated experience of the process of perceiving "sounds" from the outside world, Chateau successfully unlocked the touch of Xilin's body and "natural perception".
The former allows Xia Duo to feel the existence of Xilin's body, instead of being as empty as before. In addition, he can also perceive the outside breeze, land nutrients, etc., collectively called "touch".
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As for "natural perception", it is also a special perception named by Chateau himself.
With the help of Xilin's special tree body, Sha Duo can sense the surrounding life and even the flow of natural forces. This is somewhat similar to the drow's radiation perception, or the low-light perception that is more sensitive than humans.
Schilling's natural perception cannot see the specific appearance of living things, but he can perceive the vitality inside living things. As for the "power of nature", it is more like a special field jointly constructed between life and life.
As a human being, it was difficult for Xia Duo to fully immerse himself in the perspective of this non-human race. He found all kinds of novel experiences beyond his previous knowledge very interesting.
Even if none of the planned tasks were completed during this trip, Xia Duo felt that the trip was worthwhile.
The tree man's perspective has greatly expanded Sha Duo's horizons. Now he has countless sparks of inspiration in his mind, and he also has a new understanding of elf magic.
In the past, he had never been able to understand why elves would develop such a magic system that was close to the classical idea of unity between man and nature. It stands to reason that magic, a more technical theory, should be based on practicality.
Just like Nese Magic, Nese Mage gave up Elf Magic very easily, not only because it takes longer to learn Elf Magic, but also because of the practical principles of Nese Magic itself.
Isn't it more convenient to directly control the magic network than to work hard to fit the magic network and let the magic network cooperate?
That's what Xia Duo thought in the past, and of course he does now, but now that he has experienced the perspective of a tree man, he suddenly feels that the elves' approach may not be without merit.
More importantly, he guessed that the origin of elven magic was not like the Nese people who suddenly came into contact with a mature magic system and then created the current Nese magic system (Arcane Fire System).
Sha Duo speculated that Elf Magic might have originally been born from the tree-men who awakened naturally in the forest. Of course, it could also be that the elves and the tree-men gradually discovered the most primitive method of controlling the vitality of life and the power of nature during their long-term relationship.
After a long period of development and improvement, it became the elf magic system that Xia Duo is now familiar with.
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In this way, while exploring myself and trying my best to perceive the outside world, unknowingly, the time for "pruning and maintenance" mentioned by the elf before has arrived.
"Elder Schilling, Alvin is offended."
A respectful male elf voice awakened Sha Duo from his depth perception and asked him to pay attention to the appearance of more than ten special fields filled with vitality around him.
The elf who spoke had some decline in his life field, as if he was getting older. The other five were in their most perfect and powerful state, and the remaining three or four showed a sense of prosperity like the rising sun.
If nothing else, the "gardening team" that the elf mentioned before should be headed by the middle-aged elf Alvin, with five young elves as the core. As for the three or four who are obviously children, they are probably here to play.
Relying on the characteristics of the tree people, Shado didn't reply at all, but like the previous elf, Alvin's team seemed to be used to it. After greeting him, he called the team members to start their work immediately.
On the other hand, those elf children jumped up and down and took away many leaves that were still sentient from Xia Duo's body. This scene also allowed Xia Duo to unlock part of Xilin's memory again.
It's about Alvin.
I don't know how many years ago, when Alvin was a child, Alvin did the same thing, and was even brought to Xilin by his parents for a spanking.
Later, it was Xilin who asked for help and was spared a beating. As for why these children were picking up Xilin's leaves, it was entirely because Xilin's body was a weir tree that was very rare even in the elven kingdom. .
The leaves of the weir tree can be used as spell-casting materials, long-lasting text carriers, and even magic scroll materials.
Under normal circumstances, ordinary elves cannot approach Xilin's body without Xilin's permission. If leaves are needed, Xilin's gardening team will collect naturally fallen leaves.
But the elf children don't care about this. They will come over and pick it up a few times when they get the opportunity. The best opportunity is undoubtedly the annual pruning and maintenance time.
Schilling's body is very tall and has many branches. At the same time, there are only six gardening team members, which means that the annual pruning and maintenance will last about ten days.
So some children took advantage of the lax management during this period to follow and pick up some leaves to bring back to support the family. This was actually Xilin's tacit approval, otherwise it would not have become a tradition that lasted for hundreds of years.
Of course, in the eyes of children, maybe they are also helping Xilin take care of himself.
From time to time, Xia Duo could still hear these children saying innocently in their childish voices: "Grandpa Xilin, let me squeeze your arm."
Xilin has changed internally now, but Xia Duo doesn't want to argue with those children. They are just a few leaves. They don't even have complex perceptions, let alone pain. And the most important thing is that compared to the huge size of the main body, These are completely negligible.
In fact, even Alvin's team's pruning and maintenance will cut off some normal branches. Xia Duo doesn't know much about gardening, but through the changes in the life field before and after, it can be seen that this kind of pruning and maintenance is beneficial to Xilin's body. .
In fact, Xia Duo himself also likes these children crawling around on him. In addition to reminding him of the happy memories of running wild when he was a child, these elf children who almost never stop chirping also help him unlock more Xilin. memory.
Compared with these noisy children, the adult elves in Alvin's team are undoubtedly much quieter. Although they are doing the most professional things, it is difficult to please Xia Duo.
Now in front of Xia Duo, there are basically no problems with perception and cognition. What is left is the ability to cast spells.
If he could not obtain the ability to cast spells, he would have to return early even if he had the novel and interesting experience of transforming into a tree man.
As for how to cast the spell, there happened to be an elf child here, and he was going to try his bloodline ability first.
When entering the projection plane several times before, Xia Duo has discovered that as the bloodline awakens to a higher level, even in the projection plane, not his own body, he can still retain a certain bloodline ability.
This is actually easy to understand. Sha Duo awakens his bloodline through his soul being stimulated by the power of faith. His bloodline is not limited to his body, but also to his soul.
The astral projection brings a bit of soul essence, and under normal circumstances a certain bloodline ability should be retained. However, before the bloodline is awakened to a certain level, the bloodline ability of the projected body is more like a hidden talent, which is difficult to show.
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The power of nature perceived by tree people is different from the holy power of nature. The former is the law and phenomenon of communication and interference in the life fields between different lives, and is not a specific force.
The holy power of nature is related to God, or to some conceptual entity involving nature. It is a concrete and real force, or energy.
