The fractured mountain range floating in the void was split into nine sections, but it was connected by the giant roots of the World Tree on the main peak of the mountain range.The floating mountain I am in is in the middle, floating in the turbulence of time and space, seven or eight hundred miles long, one or two hundred miles wide, and it has become a small world of its own.Meteorites float quietly through the void from time to time, and some fast meteorites will bring up a fiery red tail, which instantly lights up the sky.The huge valley is covered by a silkworm chrysalis-like atmosphere, but the air here is very thin, as if standing on the Pai Plateau, there is always a slight gasp when you breathe.There are no seasons or daylight here, it is warm as spring all year round, and it rarely rains, but the flowers and trees are evergreen.As far as the eye can see, there are a whole herd of argali's sheep and wild asses running in the endless meadow, the sound of tiger roaring is often heard in the dense forest, and the traces of wild boars and wild bears can be seen in the dense forest from time to time.A group of five of us came out of the cave of the giant tree, and when we raised our eyes, we saw the orc village built by the creek not far away, the clear stream meandered from the middle of the village, several simple wooden houses in the style of the orc tribe were surrounded by them, and the smoke of cooking smoke rose from the empty field in the center, floating straight into the sky.I remember the last time I came, this small orc village was still just taking shape, and now the simple style of wooden houses has been basically built, a few orc children are playing happily by the stream, and two older children are standing in the shallow stream, holding bamboo baskets in their hands, looking like they are fishing.Ella, the daughter of the orc Karantso, was also among them, and she seemed to be covered in wet, standing on the edge of the stream with a neat row of little white fangs baring a silly amusement.A group of orcs hoarded reeds like hills in the village's barning field, and these reeds were dried and woven into straw mats, and several young orcs were shirtless, revealing their toned wheat-colored skin, their faces were ruddy and shiny, and their nimble hands flew up and down, and the fine reed mats were woven in their hands little by little.A little farther away were rows of wooden shelves with some of the lowest magical herbs to dry, and Karantso and another orc girl were hanging some new magical herbs on the wooden shelves.The large braid on the back of her head swayed up and down as she bent down to pick up bundles of herbs from time to time.A few older old orcs squatted at the entrance of the village and basked in the sun leisurely, with the magic herbs they had just collected beside them, they chatted easily, while identifying whether these herbs were mixed with other weeds, the survival experience of the old orcs was relatively sophisticated after all.There was no trace of the young orcs in the village, it seemed that those orcs should have gone out to fight, Xinliu Valley was not short of food, but the goblins in the underground caves were struggling on the edge of life and death, they were very short of food, and they did not dare to get out of the cave, so as not to be punished by the gods.The newcomers have already established some connections with the goblins, who trade some food for the minerals in the goblins' possession.The little orc girl Ella was the first to notice our group, the tall body of the minotaur Ruka was particularly conspicuous in the crowd, the group of orc children ran towards us happily, the reason why they were so eager, mainly because every time Ruka came, he would bring a few pieces of maltose, but the number was always not enough, the last time the orc child who ran at the back did not get a delicious sugar cube, which made his eyes red.Seeing the thriving scene in front of him, Ying Li turned to me and said happily, "They seem to be very suitable for life here!"
”She knew that I had brought the orcs who lived in hardship in the civilian area of El City into the Valley of the Willows, and seeing that the valley of the Willows, which had been a little desolate, was well organized by this group of orcs, I knew that I had taken the right path to bring these abandoned orcs to the valley of the willows, and now that I had begun to make some gains, I saw the magical herbs and metal ores that had been pre-processed for me, these were the materials that the orcs had prepared for me, and I needed to bring them back to the city of Eyre."
These orcs have the most tenacious vitality, they are like the most ordinary alfalfa in the wasteland, as long as they are given a little living space and rain, they can grow and flourish!"
I said to Ying Li.Ruka the Minotaur took a few steps forward and picked up Ella with one hand, and put Ella on his shoulder with a cheeky smirk, and Ella's crisp laughter like a silver bell came from the four fields.The orc children who had been left behind looked at Ella with envy, and gathered around Ruka to dance happily on the plateau.The old orc Zewang greeted me from afar, saluted me deeply, and said earnestly, "Welcome back, my master!"
”"Even though you are my followers, I want you to call me by my first name, Jijia!"
I didn't stop, and continued to walk towards the orc village by the stream, and the orc girls who were busy working also came out together, standing neatly outside the village, their faces full of happiness and joy."
What about the orcs in the village?"
It was only then that I realized that there was not a single strong orc in the entire orc village, only a group of women, children, and old men."
It's been a long time since I followed Miss Su to the depths of the valley to find the branches of the world," replied the orc girl Karantso, standing beside me, nominally still my slave girl, and to the orcs here, she was my spokesperson here, not only did she think so, but everyone in the village thought so.The only bad thing about this is that there is no day or night, and if there is no hourglass of time, you can't remember how long it has been."
After Sister Su left, Ella was about thirty-two times hungry!"
Little Ella sat on Ruka's shoulder and added to me, apparently disdainful of her mother's vague notion of time, but unable to describe the time, so she had to use her meal as a time node.I did the math, and the orcs almost still continued the two-meal system, and the thirty-two that little Ella said was exactly sixteen days.It seems that the day after my last departure, Sue must have returned to the orc tribe, but she did not stop in the tribe, and set off again with all the men in the tribe, she had previously revealed to me that she was going to do one last thing for me in the Willow Valley, and then return to El City before her body was completely demonized, and she wanted to spend a few quiet days under the lemon tree in her backyard.But this time Karantso should know something, I heard some ancient elf words "World Branch" in her words, it seems that after Su came back, he must have had some detailed explanations with the orcs, I looked up and asked Karantso beside me: "What did Su say to you when he came back?"
Do you know where she went with the orcs?
Did she carry a Shadow Body potion?
”Helena and Becky were full of hostility towards Karantso, they were not friendly to this good-looking orc warrior, especially when they saw her wearing extremely simple orc leather armor, revealing a large toned figure, and a pair of plump wheat-colored pectoral muscles at the deep V neckline, as long as Karantso leaned down slightly, he could see the almost complete outline.Seeing this, Helena stared at Karantso's bare chest and spat out an elven word softly.Over the past six months, I have learned a lot of Old Elf phrases, and naturally I can understand a little bit that Helena is talking about cows, probably satirizing Karantso's full breasts."
Miss Su came back just to find some helpers and go to a deep valley to hunt a guardian beast, which is said to be guarding the world branch of this valley.I don't know the exact location, probably only Miss Su's pet can be found, she took all the Shadow Body Elixirs!
”Karantso said to me.Ying Li stood aside and repeated in surprise: "World Branch World Tree" I know that Ying Li's knowledge of magic is far better than mine, she usually has almost no hobbies, except for soaking in the library and reading those magic books.At this time, she was chanting repeatedly in the ancient elven language, as if she remembered something, and raised her head and said to me: "I remember, I saw such an introduction in a miscellaneous book about plane travels, and the magician predicted: Each small plane has an independent world system, generally speaking, any plane is supported by the World Stone or the World Tree, the Origin Water or the Fire of the Earth's Center, so the broken plane that is smaller than the small plane also has the origin power to support this small world, And the World Tree Branch that Su said in his mouth should be the original force that supports the world of Xinliu Valley. ”"Origin power?"
I repeated."
Probably right!"
Ying Li's eyes lit up, looking at the huge tangled roots outside the Floating Mountain, it was those thick roots that closely connected the nine Floating Mountains, she stretched out her hand and pointed to the roots of the giant trees in the void, and continued: "Those should be the roots of the World Tree!"
”"World Tree?"
I know very little about the World Tree, and Old Kuru rarely says anything about elves, orcs and elves are enemies by nature.I only know that the World Tree is the origin of the life of the elves, and where there is a World Tree, there will be the light of the elves.Ying Li said that the dead huge tree roots in the void outside Xinliu Valley were actually the roots of the World Tree, but I didn't see the elves here in Xinliu Valley!"
This should be a dead earth world tree, it should be due to the unexpected slow death of this world tree, so that the complete Xinliu Valley world will slowly collapse, the original Xinliu Valley should be at least hundreds of times larger than now, but unfortunately in the end it fell apart and shattered into countless broken meteorite fragments, returned to the void, the nine-section floating mountain we see now is just a few large pieces of land closest to the taproot of the world tree, tightly entangled by the roots of the dead world tree, The result is this small half-plane. ”Ying Li speculated about the origin of the entire Xinliu Valley, but I think what she said is still very well-founded."
As for the appearance of vital signs in these sections of the Floating Mountain Range, it is actually because there are still stumps alive in this dead World Tree, and the stumps of these Trees of Life are the source power of life in the entire Xinliu Valley."
Ying Li made the final inference, and then said to me, "Su should have gone to find the World Branch here!"
”"What is she doing with the World Branch?"
I blurted out a little strangely."
Because mastering the origin power here is equivalent to mastering the rules of this world, for example, the most basic restriction of this valley: restricting magic apprentices and warrior apprentices above level seven from entering this world, if the origin power of the world branch here is in your hands, you can try to change it" Ying Li said to me seriously.Hearing Ying Li's words, my heart suddenly beat violently, yes, it is the joy of suddenly having a great wealth, I clearly know how much wealth Xinliu Valley will mean to me, yes, there are natural magic herbs and magic ores here, this place is vast and rich.I pressed her shoulders with some excitement, looked into her eyes seriously and asked, "You mean to say that as long as you master the World Tree Branch here, you will be able to master the entire Xinliu Valley?"
”Ying Li nodded.All of a sudden, I felt like the whole world was revolving around me, and the wealth contained in it was self-evident.Yes, from the day I had the Space-Breaker Warhammer, I discovered that the Plan-Breaker had a deep connection to the altars on the Goshin Ruins, allowing them to create a space-time portal that could travel freely between the main and half-planes.What worries me the most every day is that when I wake up one morning, I find that I have become a seventh-level magic apprentice, using the Time and Space Breaker to create a space-time gate, but I can't walk in, that is my biggest worry, if it is really as Ying Li said, if I find the branch of the World Tree in this valley, changing the rules of this valley will mean that I will completely own this half-dimensional rich valley."
Do you know where Sue and the others went?"
I asked Kalancuo beside me.She put two fingers into her mouth and whistled loudly, the sharp whistle piercing the sky.The "roar" was like a thunderous tiger roar, and a group of birds were startled in the dense forest in the distance, and those trichromatic birds and finches flew away from the dense forest like a dark cloud, and several frightened and panicked wild roe deer ran away, got out of the jungle, and ran in a panic in the meadow.A white light flashed through the forest and ran towards us like lightning, and it turned out to be the white-light saber-toothed tiger beside Su, who ran in front of us at a gallop in just a few breaths, and let out a low roar at us.The orc children standing beside Ruka were so frightened that they sat on the grass and the orc girls who stayed behind in the tribe were also pale with fright, only me and Ying Li were in better condition, and in the previous expedition in Xinliu Valley, they killed more than a dozen saber-toothed tigers, and at this time they no longer have any fear of saber-toothed tigers.Karantso slowly approached the saber-toothed tiger and pressed his hand lightly on its forehead.