After inquiring, the woodcutter told them that in the small village ahead, only the village chief's house had extra horses, and asked Guan Heng and others to go to the village chief to discuss buying horses. Moreover, the village chief was a hospitable person, and everyone could stay at his house.
late, and then continue on the road.
After bidding farewell to the woodcutter, Guan Heng said to Plan and Hoadley: "Our luck seems to be good. The horse purchase and accommodation have been settled. Let's move on!"
When Guan Heng and his party arrived at the unknown village, it was already dusk, so they inquired about the route and quickly found the village chief's house, where they received a warm welcome.
However, during dinner, the village chief told them some bad news.
"You want to go to Digong City?! I'm afraid it's a little difficult now." The old village chief said at the dinner table: "Because the road there is now blocked by some strange plants."
Meilu asked with some confusion: "What kind of strange plant?"
"Alas." The village chief sighed: "It's a tall and weird cactus that blocks all the roads."
Everyone present looked surprised, and they all thought in unison: "What kind of cactus can block all roads that humans can walk on?"
"Well, old sir." Guan Hengluo pondered and asked the village chief casually: "What do those plants look like? Have you seen them with your own eyes?"
"Well, no one in the village has passed by there in the past few weeks, but I ran on the road there a few days ago and took a look." The village chief recalled: "Each of those cacti is thirty meters high.
The strange thing is that they are not green in appearance, but gray-white!"
Hearing this, no one present had any reaction. Only Guan Heng and Pu Lang looked at each other and whispered a name: "White Thorn"
The white thorn plant is one of the seven spiritual trees in the Elf Forest blessed by the goddess of nature. It has strong vitality and a high survival rate for artificial planting. Therefore, this plant is not known for its preciousness, but is said to be...
It is synonymous with death.
If only a small amount of white thorn survives, it is also a precious enchanting material in the elven forest. It can be used to make arrow shafts and arrowheads for longbows. They are solid and durable, and their strength is not much weaker than steel.
In addition, white thorns are something that wind magicians like to use, and can be used to make various enchanting props related to wind magic.
However, the elves are very strict about the planting and supervision of this kind of white thorns, and they will never dare to let this kind of white thorns be planted in large quantities in places other than the elves. This is why the white thorns are called synonymous with death, because I don’t know when
Since then, this plant that was once blessed by the goddess of nature has been used by some people to do evil.
Hundreds of years ago, some magicians invented a method that could induce the growth of white thorns, allowing the plant to spread indefinitely and cover large areas of land. Greedy people used this method to harvest white thorns and make huge profits.
However, doing so will have extremely serious consequences. The more white thorns spawned by magic appear in places, the water sources there will quickly dry up and there will be a lot of desertification in the area.
When people became aware of these things, one-fifth of the Ashton continent had turned into a desert. This disaster directly caused countless civilians to lose their homes and land, and people continued to fall and die. This disaster,
In later historical records, it was called the "White Disaster".
"If it is really white thorn, it will be difficult to deal with. These things will dry up the water source and cause the land to lose its vitality." Pu Lang said to Guan Heng in a low voice: "It's strange, plants like this rarely appear.
Outside the Elf Forest, I don’t know why it appears in this remote place, and it’s also near the capital of Kauru.”
At this time, Guan Henggang explained the white thorn to Haide, Melu and Hoadley. He turned to Hoadley and said, "Isn't there a way to curb the crazy growth of the white thorn? Have you never heard of it?"
"I know." Pu Lang replied: "Just use a large area of fire magic to completely burn these white thorns, because after they come into contact with the magic flame, they will wither from the roots. This is how people in the past dealt with it.
"
"That's right." Guan Heng pointed to his nose and said with a relaxed smile: "Melu and I both use fire magic. I believe those white thorns can't block our way!"
"That's it, Brother Fuxing." As soon as Meilu said this, she saw Guan Heng glare at her, so she hurriedly changed her words: "Guan Heng is right, my Fire Wave Technique is indeed a large-area flame magic.
These white thorns should be fine."
The old village chief who was making tea and pouring water for everyone heard this and said happily: "This is great. To be honest, these weird and huge plants are giving us a headache."
"Our place was originally located in a remote place. We had many daily necessities, but we had to go far away to buy them, or wait until merchants came to the village to sell them." The village chief continued, "But after the road was blocked by huge plants, everyone
We have to take a long way out of the village, so if a few people can help get rid of the plants, that would be really thankful!"
"This is good. It not only helps us clear the obstacles to progress, but also does a good thing." Guan Heng said to Meilu with a smile, "Everyone is happy."
After dinner, everyone was silent all night. Early the next morning, Guan Heng and everyone, led by the village chief, came to the avenue covered with huge plants.
Raising his head, Guan Heng looked at it for a long time with his shoulders crossed, and then said to Pu Lang: "I have never seen the real thing, but these things do look exactly like the white thorns recorded in the book. What do you think?"
"I think it is indeed a white thorn." Pu Lang squatted next to a plant at this time, checking it carefully and said: "The gray-white appearance features are very similar, and the ground here has no moisture at all, and there are
It’s in a dry state with a lot of cracks, so that’s for sure!”
"Qiang!" Hoadley next to him looked a little irritable. He reached out hurriedly and drew out his sword, and slashed it on the gray-white plant. As a result, there was only a shallow white mark on the place where the sword was in the plant.
"What a hard thorn!" Hoadley exclaimed, "This thing is much harder than a rock."
"Let me give it a try." Meilu said, taking out her short-handled staff and gathering the fire elements with a snap. A fireball quickly formed and was then thrown into the thorns.
"Boom!" The place where the fireball exploded suddenly fell into pieces, and a few white thorns were instantly burned and crackled, but the flames quickly extinguished themselves.
Fifth update, good evening everyone, Lao Sha continues to pray for some tips o