Meiyu snorted coldly, "That's easy to say."
Not only Meiyu, but everyone else also showed extremely embarrassed expressions.
William explained: "The racial essence of the plant family is extremely important to us and cannot be produced casually.
If we create racial essence at will, regardless of the quality of the racial essence we create, our strength will also be damaged.
Continuous production in a short period of time will cause a serious decline in strength, and may eventually endanger one's own life.
We gather ten years' worth of racial essence at once and then use them separately.
The last time the racial essence was gathered was two years ago, but unexpectedly it was stolen after only being used once.
The new race essence is ready, and this time our strength has dropped more than last time."
Lilith agreed, "Yeah, last time I used up my energy to create the essence of my race, I fell asleep in the bud for a week. This time, I fell asleep for two weeks."
"We don't know the situation of other races, but for us, the plant race, the racial essence cannot be given to others casually. The racial essence is related to the continuation of our race."
Quan.Acorn started talking. Cuiyu made a gesture to Quan.Acorn, telling him not to continue. However, Quan.Acorn still insisted on telling Yang Yu about the situation of the race.
“There aren’t many of us in the plant tribe who can become high-end combat forces. As you can see, there are only seven of us here.
Most of them lead extremely ordinary lives, just like ordinary human beings.
Our autumn festival is coming soon.
Just look carefully with your own eyes.”
"Seven people? Are these all the top combat forces of the plant tribe?"
Yang Yu was slightly surprised that Lotkar was so afraid of the plant race. He thought the plant race must be the one that had the final say in the Forest of Life.
"The plant race has a long lifespan, but only has seven top fighters. It's really a bit shabby."
Yang Yu could see Quan.Acorn's attributes. The level of this plain-looking old man had reached LV.119. Except for his extremely poor speed, all his attributes exceeded two thousand.
Apart from him, the other members have their own strengths, and taken together, the overall performance is not top-notch.
Yang Yu even felt that as long as the Library of All Things sent out a few elders, they could easily wipe out this place.
"Long life? To humans, it seems to be true." Quan Acorn's forehead was wrinkled. "But to us, it's still too short."
"To be able to live for thousands or tens of thousands of years should not be short, right? Don't tell me that it's difficult for you to live for hundreds of years."
In Yang Yu's memory, any race that is related to plants can have a lifespan comparable to that of elves.
But Quan.Acorn's sad expression seemed to say that they wouldn't live long.
"In your human memory, are all of us plant species like this?" Yang Yu was a little sad when he saw Lilith for the first time. "If we can rely on the racial essence of our plant species and evolve into a superior or rare species, we may be able to live for hundreds of years.
It is difficult for ordinary plants to live for a hundred years, and they have to guard against various diseases.
The most common symptoms…
The power of the plant part of us is too violent and will completely erode the entire body, turning us completely into a plant.
We call it wood degeneration."
"But as long as you can be baptized by the essence of your race, you won't be troubled by such diseases."
Nasu stopped stuttering and spoke like a weird uncle who came from nowhere. He crossed his arms and continued:
"As you have heard, due to various factors, the racial essence we produce is extremely limited and cannot benefit everyone.
This conference room is very wide and large and can accommodate many people. This is not a waste, but because there were really so many people who used to discuss in this conference room.
In the past, the plant race also prospered. At that time, almost everyone could use the essence of the race to become a superior species or a rare species.
The only ones who will become lower-ranked species are the plant races that violate the rules and are not allowed to use the essence of their race.
But now, there are more and more lower species, and we, the higher species, are becoming more and more precious.
Do you know why we are like this?"
Facing Nasu's question, Yang Yu came to his own conclusion without much thought: "The only thing that can kill a large number of superior species is probably a large-scale brutal war, right?"
“That’s right.” Nasu’s face twisted into a ball, “It was the wars that dragged us into decline, the founding war of the Wansheng Kingdom, the war in the Dark Ages, the century-long war between the brave and the demon king, and even longer wars.
Our race all participated with all their might, losing one superior species and rare species after another, and lost a large number of plant companions with strange abilities.
Perhaps because of too many casualties, the racial essence we were able to gather became increasingly smaller and coarser.
The superior species that evolved through the baptism of racial essence cannot be an extinct plant species.
Once each superior plant family disappears, it can never be recovered unless a miracle happens.
But miracles have only happened twice in the history of the plant race, and certain harsh conditions had to be met.
Speaking of which, you should know how important the essence of the plant race is to us?"
"I understand it a little bit."
Yang Yu nodded. The plant race was already a declining race, and the reason for their decline was that they were unable to produce enough racial essence.
Such a huge amount of racial essence was used by Yang Yu at will. Even though they knew that Yang Yu did not mean it, they would still have some resentment towards Yang Yu in their hearts.
“Before I used the racial essence, I had no idea about the situation within your tribe.
I have used up the essence of my race, and I cannot pour it out.
So, what are you going to do with me?"
As soon as Yang Yu finished speaking, several members of the Plant Tribe sat together to discuss how to deal with Yang Yu.
To be honest, if the racial essence of the plant race could be poured out, Yang Yu would not be willing to hand it over. [Binding of Thorns] is so comfortable to use, and I don’t know how long it will take to find a similar control skill now.
Besides, if they want to blame anyone, they should blame those who stole the essence of the race.
The thief was quite skilled as he was able to steal the racial essence of plants quietly under the protection of the plants.
Suddenly, Yang Yu had an idea and stopped the discussion about plants.
"Wait, don't discuss how to deal with me yet. I want to ask, if your race's essence is so important as you said, how could it be lost so easily?"
The scene was completely silent, and finally it was Lilith who answered Yang Yu's question:
“The essence of our race has always been guarded by the Mother Tree, which is the big tree you are standing on now, and there has never been any problem.
We are the only ones who can be called high-end combat force.
But we also have the work of cleaning up the Forest of Life to do, and we can't always stay by the Mother Tree's side.
That day we encountered a powerful monster, and we all went out on a mission. When we came back, we found that the essence of our race was lost."
(End of this chapter)