Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton
Chapter 1772 - 1333: The Scales and Black Spots Are Gone

Chapter 1772: Chapter 1333: The Scales and Black Spots Are Gone

That thing is not in the visible range at all, it’s all underground. Now that all the ferns have died, it starts to shrink. Ange flicked his fingers, and the soil on the ground bulged, lifting it up.

They were roots like tentacles, countless branch roots sprawling and waving, furry, and with a kind of dense horror.

Ange swung his hand forcefully, and from the moment he raised his hand, an extremely long whip materialized in his hand. When he swung it out, the whip body was invisible, and only a thundering air explosion could be heard.

"Whip of Instant?!" Negris blurted out instinctively.

Countless roots were whipped into pieces, falling all over the ground, spewing out green liquid crazily from the broken ends, twisting like tentacles, unable to stop for quite a while.

Only one whip could be swung out in time, and the remaining roots quickly retracted until they disappeared without a trace. Obviously, these roots originated from another space; the main body wasn’t here, no wonder they were so hard to detect.

Negris walked closer, looking at the whip that was broken at the front, asking suspiciously, "Whip of Instant? When did you get your hands on the Whip of Instant? Or did you reweave it here?"

When Ange was in the Chaos Plane, he had woven a very powerful whip with the roots of the Void Tree — the Whip of Instant, which exploded the head of an Ancient God in one strike. However, after blowing up the Ancient God, the whip also exploded, and Ange was rarely seen using it again.

Now with the Tree of Ten Thousand Realms, in theory, a more sturdy Whip of Instant could be woven. But Negris was puzzled because they hadn’t seen Ange weave one. When did he make a whip?

Ange shook his head, showed them the whip, which rapidly virtualized and was absorbed back into Ange’s body.

"Manifested, huh? The Star God’s Whip?" Negris said in shock; no wonder they hadn’t seen Ange weave it, it was actually manifested.

But upon careful thought, using the Star God’s Body to manifest the Whip of Instant was more appropriate because the strength of the Star God’s Body is very large, allowing a very long whip to be manifested, and the front end can be discarded, which is very suitable for the current situation. After all, no one wants to be stained by the pheromones.

The roots twisted and sprayed for a while before finally stopping powerless. Anthony summoned a Mudstone Giant to drag it back.

"What on earth is that thing? It feels so disgusting." Negris took one look, immediately showed a disgusted expression, and backed away, as did Anthony, Lightning, Luther, Yennefer, and others.

Only Ange, the Monarch, and the Gray Divine Star, these non-human entities, had no reaction, carefully scanning with their minds.

These roots were each as thick as an adult’s arm, white and tender, like octopus tentacles, but disgustingly covered with smaller, bud-like branch roots, densely packed, looking like a chaotic fur ball from afar and densely terrifying up close.

At this moment, countless small roots suddenly sprouted from the main roots, thrashing around wildly. Upon touching the Mudstone Giant, they instantly went mad, easily shredding the Mudstone Giant to pieces.

Ange waved his hand again, the Star God’s Whip lashed out, once more exploding the newly protruding roots all over the ground. These roots, much like those whipped off earlier, twisted and sprayed liquid everywhere, both in the air and on the ground.

Being closer, afraid the pheromones would spread over, Anthony quickly used Wind Magic to blow them in the opposite direction.

Negris regretfully said, "It seems there’s no way to study it; whether it’s the liquid or the branches, it can locate them, then roots over here, too disgusting."

Ursman nodded in agreement, giving up the idea of researching this thing, not because it was disgusting but mainly because he couldn’t withstand such bizarre attacks.

Ange extended a finger, poked the Little Sapling above, then pointed at the roots on the ground.

The Little Sapling waved its True Leaf: "Yah—Yah—Yah—"

With its waving, some spores were sprinkled out, falling onto the roots, and in no time, the roots were covered with dense mycelium. These mycelium penetrated the roots internally, draining them of their liquid.

The roots seemed to realize something wasn’t right, writhing restlessly, more roots sprouted out, but after thrashing around for awhile, they couldn’t reach anything, futilely, until mycelium covered them entirely.

The once white and tender roots quickly turned into moldy muck, when the surface mycelium was peeled away, the previously juicy roots now looked like a withered cane residue, dry and devoid of any liquid.

"Wow, amazing, using plant peculiarity to restrain plants, Little Sapling is fantastic." Negris praised.

"The approach is indeed clever, but Lord Nage, this is fungi, not plants." Ursman corrected.

Negris rolled his eyes, secretly adding him to the grudge notebook.

Stowing away the root covered with fungi, Ange manifested an insect, tossing it toward another root.

The insect landed on the root, revealing a mouthpart imbued with the Power of Chaos, quickly gnawing at the root.

These roots look soft and tender, but were actually no softer than those Puppet Tree People. Luther couldn’t cut through those Puppet Tree People with a single knife, suggesting their hardness.

However, unfortunately for them, they encountered the chaos-infused insects specially cultivated by Ange for the Ancient Man Snake; its mouthpart possessed the Power of Chaos, capable of gnawing the Ancient Man Snake, capable of gnawing the Tree of Ten Thousand Realms, naturally, they could gnaw through these unknown roots as well.

After a few bites, some roots came over and crushed the insect.

The fragmented insect bodies fell to the ground, and soon after, smaller insects crawled out from every piece, swarming onto the roots and continuing to gnaw.

Seeing this, Negris felt itchy all over, involuntarily recalling the first encounter with the Insect Exterminator in the desert, when countless insects burst forth from the exploding body, making even these roots seem more tolerable by comparison.

The unknown plant fell into a predicament of five hammers smashing fifty moles, its roots kept sprouting out, able to crush dozens of insects, but the remaining ones kept gnawing at the roots. After crushing several batches, the fourth batch had already grown considerably larger, and on the insect corpses, even more insects began to crawl out, instantly doubling in number.

Some of these insects devoured the corpses of their own kind, while others gnawed at the roots, growing together. When the root-gnawing insects were all crushed to death, those that had devoured their kind had grown to the point where they could produce offspring. Those offspring began to gnaw at the roots, the faster they gnawed, the faster they reproduced.

When they were crushed, even more insects crawled out from the corpses.

The roots were tortured till they were powerless; while exploding insects, they were also gnawed clean. Ultimately, all the roots on the ground were gnawed away, the insects remained in place, occasionally being crushed by newly sprouting roots.

But the fragmented insect corpses were quickly devoured clean by their own kind, so when all the insect gnawers had been crushed once, the remaining new batch spawned by the previous batch consisted of insects that had never gnawed at roots or been touched by the liquid, and no more roots were sprouting.

"It seems the pheromone marking also has its limits. Next time we find the main body of that thing, just send the insects over to bite it." Negris said excitedly.

Yennefer had already retreated to the rearmost position, hearing this, she said, "I think these insects are scarier than those roots."

"What’s there to fear? No matter how scary, these insects are ours. Hey, Yennefer, look at your feet? The black spots on the scales of your feet are gone."