Chapter 2392: Essence of Heaven

"The sky changed suddenly... that happened a long, long time ago."

"After that, we have been constantly cultivating ourselves, acquiring the essence of heaven, just for eternal life..."

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In fact, the tone of their speech is not like this, but Lin thinks it is appropriate to translate it this way.

These creatures were the second type of larger creatures that Lin had encountered on this gaseous satellite.

They also look like dragon fruit, but the color and other parts are almost exactly the same as the ones Lin had seen before.

When Lin's ball of fluff left the bamboo forest, she saw many of these creatures.

Although they were also creatures that would immediately attack Lin's fluff ball upon seeing it, they were more responsive to the fluff ball's captain's signal... Just a little signal would make them stop.

Then Lin asked them a lot of questions.

This blue bamboo forest... was created by them.

They mainly use special cutting techniques to cut the surface of this generation into large bamboo forests and cover them with their...secretions.

This makes the bamboo forest look blue like them, and it is their way of indicating that the bamboo forest belongs to them.

So the last time the red one came in here, it was considered an invasion of their territory.

The reason they pick these bamboos is to get the essence inside.

They call it the 'essence of heaven' because this essence does come from heaven, or more precisely, from the gas giants.

According to the description of this blue dragon fruit, they can mainly continuously absorb these essences to strengthen themselves.

After absorbing the essence, they will become faster, stronger, have tougher skin, and their lifespan will increase.

If they continue to acquire essence, they can reach the state of... immortality.

This can be said to be a perfect effect, and the main source of the essence is the storm on the gas star.

Every once in a while, a huge storm will appear on the gas planet that can also be seen here. When this storm emerges... the bamboo forest here will produce a lot of essence.

The essence is a large amount of dusty substance...the creatures here don't know where these substances actually come from.

Although they are generally believed to have drifted over from the storms of gaseous stars, the strangest thing is... this essence is only born in bamboo.

To be precise, it is an object that has been cut into the shape of bamboo.

Almost anything, when cut into a 'bamboo-like object' that is thirty centimeters thick, ten meters high, and hollow inside...it is possible for essence to appear inside after the gaseous storm.

The essence is not necessarily produced, but is randomly generated in the bamboo.

These dragon fruit creatures all have...great doubts about this phenomenon.

The essence was originally found in the nests of some small creatures, whose nests looked exactly like bamboo. After this discovery, all creatures began to imitate the shape of bamboo to collect the essence.

But where does the essence come from?

After all, if it fell from the sky... why would it be in these 'bamboos'? Why not somewhere else?

At the same time, Pitaya also stated that they have tried many other shapes of containers, but objects of other shapes would not contain essence inside.

Moreover, these bamboos are not made of any special material. They are generally cut into bamboo shapes from relatively solid rocks.

Over time...no one cares what the principle is.

Anyway, these creatures knew that they could obtain essence in this way, so they built large bamboo forests on the ground, which can be regarded as...'essence farms'.

They have a strict distribution system for essence. Generally, they collect the essence first, and then the leader distributes it.

However, some of them will secretly obtain the essence.

But not being able to obtain the essence does not mean that you cannot become stronger.

As long as they don't continue to absorb essence, they will slowly turn into...dust.

This happens some time after they have discovered the essence.

At some point in the past, an incident occurred in which many individuals in the colony suddenly turned into dust.

Turning into dust is a...relatively slow state. At first, a lot of debris will fall off the body, and slowly the whole body will 'collapse' over a period of time.

Not only them, but many other creatures are like this... This makes them feel very scared.

However, in their panic, they discovered that eating the essence could cure this condition, so they survived by relying on the essence.

They originally mainly preyed on many other species, but their original prey has almost all become extinct.

Therefore, they now completely rely on the essence to survive, and these essences can indeed replace all the original food.

Thus they form the environment in which everything revolves around the essence of life.

Initially they all competed for the essence with each other, but soon those who grabbed the most essence established order, and slowly it became a social environment similar to that of cultivating creatures.

To put it simply, the strongest person is the leader, and the others are ranked according to their strength.

Their strength is mainly related to cultivation, because eating the essence will not make them stronger immediately, they need to perform some cultivation movements to strengthen themselves.

So these creatures began to constantly strengthen their lives...but they said that this kind of life is better than the time when they were hunting before.

'Boom'

While chatting with them, suddenly...fire appeared in the sky.

I saw a huge spherical object falling from the sky, leaving a streak of fire in the air, and then landed with a loud bang in the distance.

This is the resident ball launched by Phoenix.

Because the diameter of the missile was thirty meters, its landing caused a violent tremor and also created a huge pit on the surface.

All the blue pitayas did not show any fear when they saw this. Instead, they all rushed towards the direction of the resident ball.

When they ran to the hole made by the resident ball, they saw the resident ball slowly...open.

It looked like a blooming flower, and within the unfolding sphere appeared many...troops.

Lin was standing on the platform and watching Phoenix stuff a pile of soil-like substance into the resident ball.

And now you can see... many mud troops crawling out from inside.

They looked like they were made of mud... various biological shapes.

And the moment they came out, they all pounced on the dragon fruit here.

The dragon fruit also waved its blade-like leaves towards these creatures.

The dragon fruit itself is a very warlike creature, which is mainly related to the essence.

Continuously absorbing essence and becoming stronger makes them very...confident, and in fact it is true.

They easily cut through these mud-like structures and quickly surrounded the dwelling spheres.

However, the key point is these inhabitant balls themselves...