The Doomsday Lord: Starting as a Insect Queen
Chapter 123 - 39 Tree-man mini learning edition

Chapter 123: Chapter 39 Tree-man mini learning edition

"You’re saying that the worms I’ve been cultivating can now emit Holy Light?"

To be honest, Bai Yi was shocked when he heard this from the orange cat.

What the hell? Burrowing worms, for crying out loud, can emit Holy Light?

An image that Bai Yi had once seen online unconsciously sprung to mind—

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Weird...

"Bai Sheng speculates that it’s because they’ve eaten too many Transcendents, which led to them consuming an overwhelming quantity of similar relics, and their bodies couldn’t quite handle it.

In the end, it was only through reproduction that the situation stabilized.

But they still retained the capability of a level 5 Transcendent, able to summon Holy Light and flames."

"So, I don’t just have one worm that can emit Holy Light but a whole bunch of them?"

The orange cat tilted its head to think it over, then nodded in affirmation as if this understanding was not entirely wrong:

"Pretty much."

Following that, Bai Yi, with a touch of tough love, plucked at a sunflower beside him:

"Look at you, I’ve been raising you for so long, and you’re still just a level 4 Transcendent. Look at our Burrowing Worm, even eating can make it stronger!

So, how about we give it a try now? See if it can fuse with this relic?

If you don’t say anything, I’ll take it as a yes!"

Bai Yi didn’t wait to see if the sunflower could actually speak, and just took out a relic corresponding to the level 5 Transcendent of the Sun Church Court and jabbed it into the base of the sunflower.

"Perfect."

The yard had already been repaired once; under the strength of a repairman, the ground looked as good as new.

All sorts of extraordinary plants that used to be stuffed in the room were moved back outside.

This included the machine gun peas and boxing champion lettuce, which had left a lasting impression on the maid Niaoniao.

These were Bai Yi’s recent research focus. When not cultivating the Insect Clan, she spent her free time working on these superpowered plants.

She was still fixated on the Tree-man!

As it happened, Bai Yi could now barely squeeze some time into her "schedule" and decided to devote the rest of the day to this.

Over the last few days, Bai Yi had cultivated quite a few extraordinary plants, deliberately directing these plants to become more mobile.

Starting with a Flame Sunflower that initially could only sway and dance—the one she now pricked with a level 5 extraordinary relic, already a level 4 Transcendent, and successfully renamed "Sunshine Sunflower."

To the machine gun peas that could freely target and shoot peas, and the lettuce that cosplayed as a vegetable warrior.

The mobility of these transcendent plants was growing stronger, and Bai Yi had collected many gene entries like Woodification Muscle and Activation.

But whether or not she could stack the quantities and actually create a Tree-man after fusion, Bai Yi was still unsure.

After all, the biggest problem remained with all the transcendent plants she had cultivated—aside from that pumpkin, they couldn’t leave the soil.

The fusion with the sunflower required some time, and given that her Magic Power was quite sufficient, Bai Yi decided to start the fusion now.

Her gaze then fell upon the two-story tall ginkgo in the center of the yard...

And the pumpkin next to it.

Although Bai Yi really wanted to create an actual Tree-man, before experimenting on... cough, researching this ginkgo tree, she had to test things out first.

And the subject, of course, would be the legendary scapegoat, Pumpkin No. 1, which had already undergone a preliminary gene fusion.

If Pumpkin No. 1’s experiment succeeded, it would mean that applying it to other plants would only require similar gene entries like Gathering Spirit to enhance the absorption of Magic Power.

Having made her plan, Bai Yi didn’t wait any longer and began the Genetic Fusion.

Ten minutes later, Bai Yi’s panel displayed the new Talent result from Pumpkin No. 1’s fusion-induced Mutation.

[Blood Flesh Plant (Gold): Obtains combat unit template, plant cells blood-fleshed, strength +50%, constitution +50%, agility +50]

Although a total of 8 related genes had been fused, the talent obtained in the end was unexpectedly simple and crude on the panel, directly enhancing the attributes in a wave.

Among them, constitution and strength were already powerful, and under the influence of this talent, Pumpkin Number One, which was level 40 and had not yet broken through, now had both attributes exceeding one hundred, reaching 168 and 134 points, respectively.

As for agility, which had always been zero, it received the greatest improvement, successfully realizing a breakthrough from zero.

Pumpkin Number One also felt its own changes, retracted all the vines spread into the yard, and entangled them with each other to form four vine bundles.

After some wriggling, the vines slowly took on the shape of limbs, lifting the pumpkin that served as the core and thinking center.

From limbs on the ground, to using vines to entangle a nearby ginkgo tree, Pumpkin Number One actually managed to stand up by its own strength!

However, the pumpkin is too heavy and bulky to serve as a head and has instead become the body of this vine giant.

Composed of vines, the feet that support the entire pumpkin and vine weight are relatively short and stocky, forming a sharp contrast with the long arms.

Moreover, since the thinking-center pumpkin has become the body of the vine giant, there is no need to forcibly create a meaningless vine head, so the position for the head is currently empty.

This causes the entire vine giant’s appearance to look like something Bai Yi had seen in an anime before, the Fruit Robot Mecha from the show "Fruit Troopers."

It may not have met Bai Yi’s imagination, but it’s still acceptable.

After all, the limbs composed of vines still need to improve in strength and other aspects. To support a humanoid shape, the current appearance is already the most appropriate form.

If pursuing maximal combat power, of course, it would be better to revert to something like a giant octopus, with the pumpkin’s own body as the core, using the vines as tentacles for supply and defense.

And because Pumpkin Number One hasn’t actually taken on a Transcendent profession, it lacks Transcendent side attacks and can only rely on pure physical strength and invisible spikes for melee combat.

However, this at least proves that this combination gene entry can indeed be synthesized into Tree-man; now, the only thing needed is to figure out how to make the plant pull itself out of the ground.

The solution Bai Yi is currently preparing employs more gene entries similar to Gathering Spirit, using Magic Power supply to completely replace the plants’ reliance on the earth.

And about the related genes, Bai Yi already has some clues, planning to acquire a few rare relics from Yin Hai.

She remembers there is a profession inclined towards Spiritual Power among the Transcendent professions from another continent.

The Gathering Spirit Grass Bai Yi had once seen was one such relic that formed a degraded descendant of an Extraordinary plant.

But after all, the distance is great and right now, Zhuchen doesn’t have many corresponding relics, so she needs to find Yin Hai again.

"Speak of Cao Cao, and Cao Cao arrives."

A figure in the sky was rapidly approaching; the only person who could swagger like this within the Imperial Palace was Yin Hai.

"Bai... Huh? What’s this?"

Right after Yin Hai landed and was about to say something, he was distracted by the pumpkin vine creature nearby.

When did trees start growing legs and running?

Has it only been a few days since we last saw each other?

Even in novels and storybooks of this world, there have never been descriptions of Tree-man, nor have Extraordinary plants evolved to this extent.

For Yin Hai, this vine pumpkin person is something novel.

"This, this is the pumpkin from the other day?

Ah, no, now’s not the time to talk about this; there’s trouble at the front lines, His Majesty has summoned the senior officials for a meeting, and you need to go with us this time."

Yin Hai’s expression changed, returning to seriousness.

"The front lines?"

A strange feeling suddenly came over Bai Yi, certain that this issue was definitely related to Bai Sheng and the others.

"Yes, General Huo, the one who sought you out last time, his troops discovered important intelligence at the front lines; the Sun Church Court, it seems to have been destroyed by Emilia."

"Eh?"

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Sunsinger: The ability of the Dawn Knight is enhanced, Spiritual Power is greatly increased, able to release Sun Halo and various Holy Light Spells, control fire within a hundred meter radius, condense highly lethal flame spears...