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In the following period.

Strange events occurred one after another in various Vine Monster tribes.

Inside a certain tribe.

A group of Vine Monsters were having a feast inside a cave.

Since the living habits of Vine Monsters are very unhygienic, there was a pile of smelly things nearby, even including excrement.

But the Vine Monsters turned a blind eye to this, all of them gobbling down food.

At this moment.

A Vine Monster suddenly showed a painful expression, it dropped its food, grabbed its throat with both hands and started to retch.

"Ugh～"

It spat out a large stone stained with blood, the size of a fist.

The surrounding Vine Monsters, witnessing this scene, all changed their expressions drastically.

Subsequently.

Just like the first domino being pushed down, a chain reaction occurred.

Most of the Vine Monsters in the cave began to vomit painfully.

"Ugh～"

"Ugh～"

The things they vomited were all stones without exception.

Then.

Grayish-white patches appeared on the surface of a vomiting Vine Monster, and began to spread rapidly.

A few Vine Monsters who did not vomit were all scared to death, and scrambled out in a hurry.

A minute later.

The cave became quiet.

The Vine Monsters who remained here all turned into stone sculptures, still maintaining the shape of vomiting.

*

In another tribe.

The situation was slightly different.

An elderly Vine Monster dreamed of a gray mosquito biting one of its fingers.

The next day.

After this guy woke up, he found that this finger had turned into stone.

In horror, it directly broke off the stone finger.

This matter quickly spread throughout the entire tribe, and every Vine Monster had heard of it.

Another day passed.

Dozens of Vine Monsters woke up and found that one of their fingers had also turned into stone.

And the elderly Vine Monster whose finger turned into stone first, even had half of its body turned into stone.

What was even more bizarre was that this guy hadn't died yet.

Subsequently.

A great panic occurred.

In order to fight against the grayish-white plague, the tribe leader gathered the entire clan and lit a large bonfire, cruelly burning all the infected.

However.

Another day passed.

More Vine Monsters woke up and found that their fingers had turned into stone.

In order to avoid being burned to death by the tribe leader, they fled the tribe one after another.

In the following days.

More than 80% of the Vine Monsters' fingers turned into stone, and then they fled the tribe.

The entire tribe directly shrank into a small settlement.

In fact.

The bizarre petrification symptoms were related to the characteristics of the Mind Link.

Cheng Han had made multiple improvements to the Plague Seed, giving it the ability to self-evolve.

After each Plague Seed infected a target, various mutations would occur in the process of seeping into the target's soul.

Therefore.

What the Lord of Divine Vines saw was not one type of Plague Seed, but several thousand or tens of thousands.

The reason why the gods found this thing difficult to eliminate was precisely because there were too many and too fast mutations.

At the same time, the Plague Seed also had the function of "contact transmission".

When a petrification symptom appeared in a tribe, other Vine Monsters who witnessed or heard about this would also suffer from the same symptom.

At this point.

The grayish-white plague spread rapidly, and the number of Vine Monster tribes affected was already no less than 100,000, with more than 300 million Vine Monsters affected.

The development of the matter to this point was enough to be called a super plague.

Even the instigator, Cat Little Meow, was shocked when she saw the terrifying phenomenon of Vine Monster stone sculptures everywhere.

On the other hand.

The Mind Chain that spawned the plague had the ability to self-strengthen, and the astonishingly large number of infections actually led to a "quantitative change causing qualitative change" effect.

After multiple evolutions, the Mind Chain eventually became some kind of extremely terrifying existence.

It seemed to exist nowhere, yet it seemed to be everywhere.

To give a simple example.

A Vine Monster tribe tens of thousands of miles away had never come into contact with the grayish-white plague, nor had it ever heard of the name of the plague.

One night.

A small Vine Monster in the tribe bizarrely dreamed of the grayish-white plague.

From then on, a large number of Vine Monsters dreamed of the plague every night.

A few days later.

The grayish-white plague erupted suddenly, and many Vine Monsters turned into stone sculptures after falling asleep.

In a relatively short period of time, the entire tribe disintegrated.

Faced with this bizarre situation, even the Lord of Divine Vines, as strong as it was, was powerless to do anything about it, and could only sit back and watch the plague continue to spread.

Because the Mind Chain had already become established, the Lord of Divine Vines had no ability to eliminate it.

Their only solution was to kill all the Vine Monsters in this world.

As long as the soil for transmission was lost, the Mind Chain would naturally dissipate.

But the question is, can the gods do this?

Of course not!

Otherwise, if the race no longer existed, would the gods still have any meaning in existing?

At this time.

Cat-eared girl entered the territory of a large Vine Monster tribe for the first time.

This area had been abandoned for some time, and the large number of Vine Monsters who originally lived here had either turned into stone sculptures or fled to more distant areas.

The tribe was as silent as a ghost realm, and even the chirping of insects could not be heard.

Little Cat Girl walked all the way, and the sound kept ringing under her feet.

"Pa! Pa!"

This was the sound of insect stone sculptures being crushed.

Because the grayish-white plague had not yet dissipated, all the insects that broke in turned into small stone sculptures.

Cat Little Meow looked around and saw Vine Monster statues in various poses.

Most of the statues were surrounded by a circle of insect stone sculptures.

This was because these statues were not completely petrified, and some of their internal organs were still flesh and blood.

When the internal organs rotted, the foul smell attracted a large number of small insects, and then the insects also contracted the plague and turned into small stones.

Cat-eared girl also noticed that many statues were already broken, looking like they had been smashed by external force.

Most of the statues were not completely petrified, and some of their internal organs were still flesh and blood, after these things rotted, they attracted a large number of small insects.

She knew at a glance that this was the work of Vine Monsters.

Very obviously.

The sudden outbreak of the petrification plague made the entire tribe feel a deep sense of fear.

Then, driven by fear, the Vine Monsters smashed the first batch of stone sculptures.

To this.

Cat-eared girl chuckled: "This Meow is the messenger of the plague, and also the messenger of despair."

Before long.

She went up the mountain and entered the very center of the tribe, inside a large cave.

A strong stench emanated from it, and she was forced to use space magic to construct an invisible film to isolate the turbid air outside.

Cat-eared girl saw that an exceptionally tall stone sculpture, reaching a height of more than five meters, was standing on a high platform built of bones.

This Vine Monster was obviously the tribe leader.

A large number of severed limbs and minced meat were scattered inside the cave, most of which had rotted beyond recognition, but it could barely be identified as Vine Monster corpses.

Little Cat Girl wrinkled her delicate nose and muttered: "The tribe leader actually killed so many Vine Monsters, it seems that a major internal strife occurred in this tribe in the end."

This internal strife was naturally also a product of despair.

Cat Little Meow observed the tribe leader for a while, and then muttered: "The battle seems to have stimulated the Plague Seed in the tribe leader's body, causing it to transform into a stone sculpture ahead of time."

This scene was enough to show that even a powerful Profound Overseer-level Vine Monster had not the slightest resistance in the face of the plague.

At this moment.

There was only one thought in Cat-eared girl's mind: "Master is really too powerful!"

Just then.

She suddenly felt something, quickly left the cave, and looked up at the sky.

What came into view.

Two gray streamers were falling from the high sky.

Little Cat Girl was immediately stunned: "Alien gods?"

She sensed very clearly that the two streamers faintly exuded an aura of divine power, and it was not the aura of the Lord of Divine Vines.

Then.

There was only one answer - these were alien gods.

Out of low-key caution, Cat Little Meow did not deduce the origin of the other party, but just watched the two streamers silently fall into the distance.

She withdrew her gaze and guessed: "Could it be that the commotion that this Meow has made in this world is too big, and even the alien gods have been alarmed?"

Cat-eared girl confirmed her guess: "If the Vine Monsters died not one hundred million but also eighty million, if the nearby gods don't notice, then they are a bunch of fools."

She shrank her neck again: "This Meow has to be more careful, so as not to be caught by the alien gods."

Of course.

Little Cat Girl could choose to ask Master for help and find out the other party's identity and origin.

But she felt that Master had bestowed such a super powerful ability like the grayish-white plague, and it seemed a little bad to ask Master for help at every turn.

This Meow also wants face!

*

In fact, Cat Little Meow's guess was completely correct.

These were indeed two alien gods who belatedly noticed the huge changes in the Thorn Vine World, and then rushed over from hundreds of millions of miles away.

After all, now is a troubled time, and a large number of Vine Monsters have died inexplicably, so the gods of the surrounding worlds must be careful.

Thousands of kilometers away.

Another Vine Monster gathering point.

Two figures covered in stone armor stood side by side, staring straight at dozens of Vine Monster sculptures huddled together, with rather solemn expressions.

Although the height of the figures did not exceed three meters, looking not very surprising, they exuded a terrifying aura that was frightening.

Without a doubt.

This was the aura of divine power!

These two were the Mountain Gods of the Iron Stone Monster race.

Since the Celestial Star Sea was destroyed, the Iron Stone Monsters were greatly shocked, and some of the gods of the race have been closely observing this world group.

As early as half a month ago.

The Mountain Gods had already sensed that something seemed to have changed in the Thorn Vine World with the help of the power of the earth.

Recently, they noticed that Vine Monsters had experienced a super-large-scale death, so they hurriedly crossed the world and came here specifically to check it out.

At this time.

The two Mountain Gods did a rough inspection of the stone sculptures and began to communicate quickly.

"This is the divine power of the Stone Spirit system."

"The Stone Spirit system is a branch of the power of the earth, and our race is the best at the power of the earth, could this be the masterpiece of a certain Mountain God?"

"Doesn't seem like it!"

"Why?"

"Don't know, but I have a feeling!"

The other god immediately accepted this statement when he heard the word "intuition".

The intuition of ordinary people is very suspicious.

But the intuition of the gods is mostly the truth.

An hour later.

The two gods wandered around a large circle, visited more than three hundred Vine Monster tribes separately, and witnessed hundreds of thousands of Vine Monster stone sculptures with their own eyes.

Then.

They met again in a tribe.

The expressions of the two Mountain Gods were much more solemn than before.

"This divine power is very terrible, and seems to have a strong invasiveness and infectivity."

"Yes, like a plague."

"It's unbelievable that the Stone Spirit system's divine power can evolve to this extent."

"Yes, this is the first time in my life that I have encountered such a bizarre Stone Spirit system's divine power."

"This should be the work of an alien god, the other party's power is very powerful."

"Don't know which race's god it is."

It could be heard.

The effect of the grayish-white plague really shocked the two Mountain Gods.

The topic of their discussion shifted again.

"What is the purpose of this powerful god suddenly killing so many Vine Monsters?"

"Don't know! But the other party must have a purpose, and I believe we will see the result soon."

"From the current situation, this god will definitely conflict with the Lord of Divine Vines, what kind of position should our race hold?"

"Maintain neutrality!"

"Well, anyway, the Lord of Divine Vines is not a good thing."

The two Mountain Gods exchanged for a while, then burrowed into the ground and disappeared.

They did not leave the Thorn Vine World, but closely watched the various situations in this world.

As the area they explored increased, and they witnessed the tragic state of more Vine Monster tribes, their evaluation of the grayish-white plague became higher and higher.

Especially the means of "spreading the plague through the mind", which simply made the two Mountain Gods feel like they had opened their eyes.

This is really awesome!

*

Three days later.

One of the Mountain Gods performed a land walk, crossing a distance of more than three thousand kilometers, and suddenly appeared in a huge vine forest.

He just sensed it, and was greatly surprised.

This Mountain God saw that all the vines within a radius of two thousand kilometers, whether giant vines or small vines, had all turned into a petrified state.

He also obtained a piece of information from the earth - this change had just begun three days ago.

The Mountain God was greatly shocked by this.

In just three days, such a large area of vine forest was petrified.

This made him even more certain that the strength of the mysterious plague god, even if it had not reached the level of the main god, was probably not far away.

In addition.

This Mountain God also noticed that although the vines were petrified, they did not die, and still retained their vitality.

This strange situation was a bit subversive to his cognition.

The Mountain God studied it for a long time, and couldn't help but sigh: "The layout set by the plague god seems to be quite large."

This awesome approach of "using a small world as a chess game" made him feel inferior to himself, and also made him adjust the evaluation even higher.

"Definitely a main god powerhouse!"

The Mountain God made a conclusion with absolute certainty.

He thought for a moment and made another decision: "I need to invite a 'Giant Spirit Mountain God' over."

The so-called "Giant Spirit Mountain God" was the Ironstone Monster race's respectful title for a main god-level powerhouse.

*

On the other side.

The cat-eared girl wrinkled her small face: "Why is this mountain god so persistent?"

The little cat girl sighed in worry: "The master's second phase of the plague experiment has just begun, and the hanger-on ghost is already chasing after us again."

In the eyes of the mountain god.

The changes in the vine forest seemed to be some kind of extremely grand and profound scheme.

But Mao Xiaomiao knew that this was just an experiment.