Xiang Nan sprinted all the way out of the etheric forest by relying on the invincible and immortal Dao of Dreams.
The tens of thousands of ether ghosts entangled him, and launched attacks continuously.
Under the cycle of being destroyed again and again, Xiang Nan finally rushed out of the edge of the ether forest and entered the vast plain.
At this moment, Xiang Nan suddenly felt that those ether ghosts suddenly stopped, and even one ether ghost seemed to rush out of the forest boundary because it didn't stop in time. Collapsed into countless particles and disappeared.
This phenomenon caught Xiang Nan's attention.
Originally, he didn't think that by escaping from the forest, he could escape the pursuit of the ether ghosts. He just wanted to escape as far as possible, so that these ether ghosts would give up slowly.
"What's going on?" Xiang Nan turned his head abruptly, frowning at the ether ghosts parked at the border of the forest.
At this time, these ether ghosts were all slowly wandering around the border of the forest, but none of them would come out on their own initiative.
If it were someone else, it is estimated that I would be very lucky at this time.
But Xiang Nan, who has been exploring and thinking all the year round, has developed a very good habit. He will not let go of any abnormal details and think about them.
"These things have not been chased out." The big snake was also thoughtful.
Xiang Nandao: "Could it be that they can't rush out of the forest? Someone imprisoned them here?"
Big Snake said: "Or, there is some powerful formation here that controls the ether ghosts. Once they leave the formation, they will lose the support of the formation?"
Xiang Nan's eyes lit up, and he immediately began to look for the answer in his heart.
He first tested his own thoughts, whether this ether forest is a prison.
He opened his lightning eyes and carefully observed the border of the forest. If this is a prison, once the ether ghost touches the border of the cage, he will be punished, which makes sense.
But no matter how you look at it, there is no prohibitive force on the border of the ether forest.
Moreover, both he and the envoy were able to come and go freely before, and did not feel any control, which showed that Xiang Nan's own thinking was wrong.
Let's check Orochi's conjecture again.
Xiang Nan looked under the ether forest to see if there was a formation supporting the ghosts, but there was no result, which proved that the big snake's conjecture was also wrong.
"That's weird." Xiang Nan frowned, and said to himself, "It's neither a cage nor a formation, so why can't these ether ghosts be chased out?"
"From a logical point of view, it doesn't make sense."
"Big Snake, based on your understanding of life, analyze it at the level of life to see if there are any other possibilities."
After pondering for a while, the big snake said: "Oh... I understand what's going on, we both thought in the wrong direction."
Xiang Nan said urgently, "Tell me quickly."
Big snake said: "First of all, let's start with the formation of these ether ghosts. According to the main god of the natural temple, ether ghosts are composed of ether particles, and ether particles do not belong to any of the five elements."
"When ether particles are in a dispersed state, they are extremely thin, even thinner than air, so that nothing can touch it, and it will easily penetrate it."
"But if someone attracts the attention of the ether ghosts, their consciousness will condense, thus combining ether particles into ether ghosts to attack all living things."
Xiang Nandao: "I know this."
The big snake said: "Have you noticed that the targets of the ether ghosts do not distinguish between good and evil?"
Xiang Nan said, "Yes."
The big snake said: "Only advanced intelligent races can distinguish between good and evil, but the basis for selecting the target of the ether ghost's attack is not in this category."
"This is one of the most typical, natural forest laws."
Xiang Nan asked, "What do you mean?"
The big snake said: "Why didn't we attract the attention of the ether ghost when we came in, and why did the ether ghost attack anyone regardless of the reason after it appeared?"
"Haven't you noticed? It's because we fought in the forest that the ether ghosts appeared. They are protecting the forest!"
Xiang Nan thought about it, and said: "Oh... That makes sense, but why? Does the ether ghost need to rely on the forest environment to survive? Why should the forest be protected?"
Big Snake said: "This is the crux of the problem! Ether ghosts are not independent life forms! In other words, the concept of 'alive' does not exist in ether particles."
"This forest activated its self-protection mechanism and manipulated ether particles to attack people who might cause harm to the forest. In other words, this forest is alive!"
Xiang Nan's eyes lit up: "So when we leave the range of the forest, the forest cannot continue to transmit its consciousness to the ether particles, causing the ether ghost to collapse."
"Ha, so it is like this!"
Only then did Xiang Nan realize that it was not the ether ghost that lived, but the forest itself! It's like one person is controlling many marionettes.
"Then this is interesting." Big Snake laughed and said, "The forest uses consciousness to control the ether particles, but you are a master of consciousness control. What if you can take the ether particles?"
Xiang Nan smiled and said, "Daydream! I can try to invade the forest's consciousness and make these ether ghosts work for me."
Now that you have thought of this, there is no reason not to try it.
Xiang Nan immediately opened the daydream road, and sure enough, he discovered the consciousness of this forest in an instant.
The difference is that the consciousness of the forest is different from the consciousness of human beings. It is not a complete body, but a large number of scattered groups, just like there are countless trees in a forest. The consciousness of the entire forest, It is dotted.
Xiang Nan tried his best to fight against the forest consciousness, and used daydreams to expel the forest consciousness.
Sure enough, in the next moment, all ether ghosts collapsed into ether particles and disappeared.
"Hahahaha!" Xiang Nan laughed loudly: "Try again and see if I can condense ether particles into ether ghosts!"
Thinking of this, Xiang Nan tried to control those ether particles like a forest.
As a result, a large number of ether particle condensates suddenly appeared in the sky, and these ether particles quickly gathered together, and finally, condensed into a round ball.
"What?" Xiang Nan was taken aback, and said, "Why didn't an ether ghost form?"
The big snake said: "You take it for granted. The forest not only condenses ether particles, but also endows ether particles with souls. The Protoss is the strongest person this forest has ever seen, so the ether ghosts it condenses are shaped according to this. , that looks like a protoss."
"This fully shows that the forest does bestow souls on ether particles, but you can only manipulate consciousness, but you cannot endow them with souls."
Xiang Nan was inevitably a little disappointed, and said, "According to this, I can't make up my own army of ether ghosts." Big Snake said: "That's almost what it means, but it doesn't mean that we have nothing to gain at all."