My Weekly Refreshing Mentor Spirit-Chapter 399 - 317: Birth of the Insect-devouring Tree (Part 2)

But for the swarm, this thing seems to actively devour bugs. Just like those pure-blooded Shabu Insect Race that survived Genesis, even hiding in caves thousands of meters underground, they were killed by the mechas of the underground shield machine soldiers who then brought their bodies up.

Just as those mechanical soldiers carrying the swarm corpses approached near the outpost, the tree roots suddenly lashed out and snatched the Fearless Mecha and the bug corpses from their hands. Then, it threw the Fearless Mecha aside, leaving them dazed, while the bug corpses were crushed and absorbed by the roots.

This was the scene that had just occurred; this Divine Tree seemed to have undergone changes unforeseen even by Xue Dili.

The good news is that this tree was just about to bloom and bear fruit, without any further actions, remaining stable for the time being.

It’s just unknown how long it will remain stable, and the Interstellar Corps have obviously noticed this, beginning to break out in a cold sweat.

Perhaps they are also preparing to fire the Star Annihilator Cannon, after all, if the divine tree’s catastrophe erupts, it’s more troublesome than the bugs.

However, Xue Dili wonders because he seems to sense that there are still a large number of bacteriophages on this twisted Divine Tree...

"Hold on, I’ll make direct contact." Xue Dili first interrupted a fellow from the Interstellar Corps who was ready to react.

He came to the side of this Divine Tree, with Cursed Blood in his hand enveloped with numerous bacteriophages, hoping for no mishaps. But even if there was any mishap, the bacteriophages could protect him, at least giving him time to retreat.

However, when the Cursed Blood touched the Divine Tree, the souls of endless swarms, filled with resentment and unwillingness, struck instantly.

Hundreds of billions of swarms’ grievances were then dispersed as if kicked to the roadside by "Innovation Era".

Xue Dili was momentarily stunned.

But actually, when the swarm was alive, they were smashed by the Innovation Era, so what about after death?

The Cursed Blood flowed through the phloem of the Divine Tree, and he surprisingly found that the genes of this Divine Tree were entirely different from other divine trees...

For other divine trees, their cells and the bacteriophages fought like avenging enemies.

But within this Divine Tree, perhaps due to long-term symbiosis, they actually reached a century-long reconciliation, and then...

Jointly ate the bugs first!

Xue Dili: "..."

He suddenly remembered this fact, after all, bacteriophages are viruses... And viruses are the most adaptable and easily mutated organisms, especially these bacteriophages that are super-enhanced by Cursed Blood.

Thus, miraculously, bacteriophages became a symbiont of the divine tree cells, similar to chloroplasts and mitochondria, becoming an internal organ of the divine tree cells.

In the ancient primitive era, prokaryotic organisms swallowed each other, merged with each other, and eventually became part of one another, where mitochondria and chloroplasts were born in this way. These two cellular organs were originally separate prokaryotic organisms but merged into other cells.

Now the bacteriophage and divine tree cells are in a similar state...

And the result of their consensus, the ones who suffer were...

The bugs!

Xue Dili silently withdrew the Cursed Blood, looking twitchily towards this strange Divine Tree.

No, perhaps it should no longer be called a Divine Tree. It has already become a completely different subspecies from other divine trees, more aptly called the Insect-devouring Tree.

This symbiotic entity of bacteriophages and divine tree cells ultimately became such a life form. Xue Dili wondered if he had inadvertently created the most terrifying Demon, a divine tree that specifically feeds on the Shabu Insect Race!

But this is only temporary, as mentioned before, the mutation of the bacteriophages is unstable and has a quite high frequency. Now it is the Insect-devouring Tree, but without the intervention of Cursed Blood, who knows what strange thing it might become again.

So, Xue Dili immediately said: "Everyone retreat out of range, at least a distance of more than ten kilometers, I will find a way to resolve this!"

He immediately went to the logistics ship of the Interstellar Corps and found their personnel, handing over the data and cells of this Insect-devouring Tree.

The people of the Interstellar Corps quickly drew a conclusion: "Truly a miracle of nature! Such a wondrous virus symbiotic with a divine tree, like the primordial cells of ancient times merging with each other, resulting in a miraculous fusion! I can hardly describe this great miracle. If we could achieve stable control..."

This staff member looked like a lunatic, with eyes wide open and mouth grinning: "We will be able to stably create divine trees capable of selectively devouring specific species! Insect-devouring Trees for the bugs, Demon-devouring Trees for the demons, Corpse-devouring Trees for the undead, and even those that devour waste, devour garbage, devour specific pathogens..."

"I must publish this research, I must grasp the technology for stably cultivating specific divine trees! Haha, if we could reach that day, even death would be worth it! Sage, this research must include me. At that time, I will give up the first authorship of the thesis to you, I must participate!"

The staff member seemed like a madman.

Xue Dili stood silent; he didn’t know what to say, actually because Xue Dili’s scientific literacy was not yet sufficient, he hadn’t realized the enormous value of these divine trees capable of devouring specific individual targets.

Although it was an extremely coincidental individual that was born, if the Interstellar Corps truly mastered this technology fully and stably, from now on, the relationship between the Interstellar Corps and the Mist Council could be said to have changed from offensive to defensive.