"The parasitic tree, it turns out this is the parasitic tree."
Parasitic trees actually exist in nature. They refer to the phenomenon of one plant parasitizing another plant.
The roots of a parasitic plant are not inserted into the soil like other plants, but inserted into another plant to absorb nutrients and water from the other plant to survive.
The "parasitic trees" of professionals are similar to those in nature in some respects.
"It's really outrageous to plant a tree on your body and let it achieve a symbiotic relationship."
In addition to parasitism, nature also has symbiotic relationships that are very similar to parasitism. In a sense, they are difficult to distinguish.
But many people think that as long as both parties can benefit from the results, it is "symbiosis", and if one party eats up the other, it is parasitism.
The third-level professional parasitic tree is to transform oneself into a parasitized or parasitic existence and achieve a symbiotic relationship with a certain plant.
But there is an obvious flaw in this theory. Plants cannot parasitize animals.
Under normal circumstances, plants need nutrients and water to grow. Even "carnivorous plants" like Nepenthes actually crave not the "calories" of insects, but the various nutrients including nitrogen in the insect's body, or Say, fertilizer.
Many animals need to hunt for the most important calories to maintain animal life. However, plants can use photosynthesis, which is not actually the key to survival. It is the various materials and elements needed to form limbs and grow.
The same is true for the magic plants in the other world, at least most of the magic plants that Lu Pingan is in contact with now.
What they crave is flesh and blood, but what really satisfies them is the water in the "blood" and the "pollution (nutrients)" necessary for growth.
They suck blood, not because blood is necessary for them, but because it is part of the blood that can accelerate their growth and become a necessary nourishment. There is no blood flowing in their bodies, so they are two different species.
Plants can absorb nutrients from animals. Since the "nutrient content" of the two sides is very different, the percentage after digestion is actually very low, and often only a few ingredients are beneficial.
The opposite is similar. Only by parasitizing the same kind (animal-animal, plant-plant) can we achieve "high-efficiency transformation" and achieve long-term parasitism.
If a plant parasitizes an animal, it is estimated that it will absorb too much nutrients and water in a short time and directly kill the animal.
If the two are not of the same kind (plants/animals), their internal cycles and nutrient needs are different, so it seems quite difficult to achieve symbiosis.
"So, there is a self-curse. From the beginning, I am not a human being?"
Self-curse is the only way to reach the third level.
Professionals who have reached this stage, in order to pursue power, have become somewhat unhuman. They need to change and completely change something about themselves in order to gain another aspect of improvement.
"Wang Hai's self-curse should be more than just his bones becoming lighter and more brittle."
Wang Hai, a third-level warrior of the Awakened family whom Lu Ping'an had come into contact with, had exchanged his "brittle bone syndrome" for lower quality and higher speed.
The premise of many professions is to complete the "self-curse" and complete a complete transformation.
There are gains and there are losses. Starting from the third level, you can't work part-time at will, also because many "self-curses" are too dangerous.
"Is the physical body transformed into a plant? This first step is quite dissuasive."
Lu Ping'an seemed to know why Professor Wen directly said that this "advancement package" was second-hand or even multi-hand goods. Maybe ordinary people had just looked through the detailed introduction of this profession and "cursed themselves" when they saw the premise of advancement. I would hesitate to return it directly.
Professor Wen himself said that if Lu Ping An doesn't want it, he can sell it back to him at the original price. This is already family-level treatment.
The "parasitic tree" can be roughly divided into three steps, and the first step of the advancement is three self-curses. Only the first one is a ritualized self-curse that lasts for a week - "turning the body into a plant".
Only plants can better parasitize plants and communicate with magic plants as the same kind. This is probably the root of Professor Wen's obsessive recommendation of this profession.
Of course, humans are always humans and cannot be completely plants. It is just a self-curse of "vegetation" through the "change system" ritual, so that your body has some "vegetative" characteristics.
For example, if you have the ability to "use your skin to perform photosynthesis to obtain energy", you may have more leaves and green skin on your body. Well, wearing clothes is useless, so many people in this profession are actually naked at home. of.
For example, physical pain, taste, and smell will be greatly blunted. The sensory organs are still there and can function normally, but you will take them less and less seriously, and will even ignore the pain and ignore the normal biological processes. sense of smell.
For example, you will have a new perspective when looking at other living things.
Lu Ping'an flipped through it a little, and found that there were more than three pages and more than 100 possible "side effects", and these were just common ones.
Of course, there are disadvantages as well as a range of benefits.
For example, the skin can harden and the vitality is greatly increased. For example, once injured, not only can the pain be ignored, but the self-healing ability will also be qualitatively improved. An opponent who can recover by drinking some water, eating an energy biscuit and sunbathing in the sun is quite difficult in all aspects. Tangled.
It is worth mentioning that due to the existence of the life bank, the outside world can basically regard Lu Ping'an's "life form change" as if it is lower than the rule level, or it can be broken away with a little effort.
But if it is a self-curse, the curse originating from the self is a life bank that ignores resistance. In the final analysis, it is also a self-curse. This kind of change from the inside to the outside is closer to a "self-ritual" than magic potions and magic chef dishes. The theory Safety on the right road can be effective.
Everyone's physique and situation are different, and the "side effects" in these data are also strange. Considering the existence of his life bank, Lu Ping'an is afraid that there will be some twists and turns.
The first step is to stop being a human being. This third-level profession is so evil that it’s no wonder that there are so few people working in it.
But "turning into a tree" is still just a means rather than an end. The next few "curses" are the key.
"Find a natal plant and regard it as half of your own body, completely and permanently assimilate and symbiosis."
Just by turning the physical body into a plant, the improvement is extremely limited, and "planting a tree" on your own tree is the power of this evil and weird plant.
In a sense, this is similar to "grafting", that is, apples and pears.
The two plants become one from now on, and the plant itself has no intelligence. It is controlled and raised by you. After using some gardener abilities, it will naturally listen to your command. Then, according to the magic you choose, Depending on the type of plant, you can get a "half body" with different abilities.
It is alive, so it can provide a "plant vision", which greatly increases the upper limit of the gardener's career.
Professor Wen chose the reticulated banyan tree and obtained a "root network" that stretched for several kilometers, gaining the ability to monitor an area and process countless intelligence at the same time.
The cultivator of the "golden apple" probably used himself as a petri dish for "grafting" to create all kinds of strange fruits of life.
Becoming a third-level parasitic tree is not the key. Which kind of magic plant you choose and what kind of abilities you acquire are the real upper limit of this profession.
After reading the basic information, if Lu Pingan regrets it, he can choose to repackage the information and send it back to Professor Wen.
But he is still watching with interest, but he has already made a decision.
(End of chapter)
