The Natural Empire of the Oceanic Dragon

"I can let you try the Life Water spell, but trying to activate it with Lightning Breath is absolutely impossible!"

The old centaur's attitude was resolute. No matter what Artlan said, the stubborn old fellow wouldn't agree. He simply wouldn't believe such a clumsy excuse that Life Water had to be used in conjunction with Lightning Breath to exert its full effect. ஜ ۩ ۞ ۩ ஜ ஜ ۩ ۞ ۩ ஜ

Since he couldn't persuade the old stubborn, Artlan could only follow him to the Holy Tree to collect information about the Awakened Treants, offer a shot of Life Water as a reward, and then take off.

"Senior, I'll be back tomorrow."

The centaur tribe was Artlan's next long-term cooperative partner. Investing a little magic and time in their Holy Tree would help to build a closer relationship, and using Life Water alone would also serve as a control group.

There would definitely be no control group using Lightning Breath alone. Artlan felt that he still needed to find a suitable tree for meditation, using the excess natural energy gathered during meditation to nourish the tree.

As for the samples cared for by natural energy, Lightning Breath, and Life Water, he could only choose the Creeping Vine Sprite.

Artlan knew that his master's assignment of that paper on the birth of the Creeping Vine Sprite, due the next day, was just to urge him to study. How could such a difficult topic yield results in just one day?

Today's cultivation goal wasn't to figure out what positive effects these factors brought to the plants, but rather what effects his three abilities actually had.

Only by understanding the effects of his abilities could Artlan specifically analyze which effect was playing a role.

For example, with Life Water, did it enhance the vitality of the vines, or did it change the nature of the vines to retain more magic?

Or did Life Water actually have other effects that he hadn't discovered? Replenishing health and mana were just combat effects. As for the nurturing effect, Artlan could only try it out bit by bit.

"Here."

Calmly handing the bark paper to the bearman, Artlan picked up the honey-glazed pork and began to chew it in large, yet elegant bites. If he didn't eat it now, there might not be a chance to eat it after the bearman finished reading his paper.

The first paragraph Artlan wrote analyzed the influencing factors of the Creeping Vine Sprite's birth. In addition to the three known conditions, he didn't rule out other factors and included the data from his experiments on the Creeping Vine Sprite yesterday.

Then came the single-spell efficacy analysis, which was still dominated by experimental data. Although it was a bit unkind, Artlan still randomly selected a lucky tree.

He used Lightning Breath to try to transform this tree into a lightning-struck wood. The power wasn't too great, as Artlan was afraid of killing the tree with a single breath.

Even if it failed, the tree could leave in peace, because before the lightning strike, Artlan had already broken off its branches and planted them elsewhere, so that it wouldn't be completely dead even if it died.

After reading the information on the bark paper, the bearman knew that Artlan had taken it to heart, but hard work alone wasn't enough. After reading it all, it seemed like he hadn't seen any results of his efforts.

The slightly narrowed eyes faintly revealed murderous intent. The bearman rolled up the bark paper and pointed at Artlan.

"Is this how you're trying to fool me?"

Artlan calmly ate the roasted meat.

"Master, I can only do so much in one day. If you give me a few more days, I may not be able to summarize the method of the Creeping Vine Sprite's birth, but I think I might be able to awaken a Treant!"

The bearman snorted coldly:

"The seeds I gave you do have a chance to nurture Awakened Treants, but it takes time for their bodies to become strong enough. Only sufficiently strong trees can awaken into qualified Treants."

The combat power of each qualified Treant even exceeded that of giants of the same size. It was already fraught with difficulties from a tree with magic power to an Awakened Treant, and Artlan actually shamelessly said that he could cultivate a Treant.

He had been busy in this forest for two hundred years, and he had only cultivated one Treant, and that was with the help of the Council of Nature transferring an Awakened Treant to the center of the forest, using a full hundred years to gather natural energy.

Only then did this Treant finally complete its awakening.

The oak seeds he gave Artlan were the descendants of this Treant.

"Of course, not the ones I planted, but the trees in the forest that have already become Awakened Treants. I think they just lack a little stimulation, such as not enough pure magic, not enough surging vitality, and not enough complete mind."

He didn't know what other Awakened Treants lacked, but the one in the centaur tribe lacked all three.

"What are you planning to do?"

"Just like cultivating Creeping Vine Sprites, go through the entire process of meditation, Lightning Breath, and Life Water. If it doesn't work, do it again. Didn't the Creeping Vine Sprite awaken after being struck by me for several days?"

The bearman frowned, and after pondering for a moment, said:

"In that case, let's go directly to the Oak Guardian and ask for his opinion."

Following the bearman to the Tree of Life, when an old face appeared on the trunk, although Artlan had long expected that this tree was not simple, he was still a little surprised.

This face was too big, it could swallow him in one bite.

"What's wrong, Gae Ohgae?"

The bearman told the Treant what had happened, and then put forward an idea.

"Since it's helpful to Awakened Treants, it shouldn't be completely useless to you. Let you try it first, and if it's really effective, then promote it to the Awakened Treants."

"Anyway, your bark is thick, you can't be killed by splitting, what do you think of my idea?"

"No problem."

Although the Treant could communicate obscurely with his children through the dream woven by the forest, he still hoped that his children could awaken into Treants early.

Awakened Treants could only passively absorb the energy gathered naturally through the earth veins and other paths, or Druids could guide the energy to irrigate them. Treants were different. Not only did they have the ability to resist risks, but actively absorbing energy could also speed up their growth.

For example, he had only grown to sixty meters after becoming an Awakened Treant for three hundred years, but he had grown to more than one hundred meters after awakening for only one hundred years, although the uppermost part was relatively fragile hair.

But the aura looked completely different. Who would dare to provoke such a behemoth?

Moreover, he was not an ordinary Treant. After receiving Gae Ohgae's training for hundreds of years, he had become an elite among the Treants, the Oak Guardian!

Every Treant with this title was a strongman who could fight against adult dragons.

"It just so happens that I haven't moved my body in a long time."

As he spoke, the ground shook and the mountains swayed. The Treant only caused a sensation by pulling his roots out of the earth. The huge body blocked the sunlight like a mountain, forming a huge shadow.

The sky suddenly darkened. Watching the Treant's branches converge into arms several meters thick, Artlan swallowed subconsciously.

The challenge level of this Oak Guardian was definitely more than 9. If he got hit, wouldn't he turn into Artlan sauce?

To be honest, Artlan was quite envious of Gae Ohgae. Such a majestic Treant, if he had two, standing on his left and right sides after he grew up, they would be the best left and right guardians.

What fishman tribe, a punch down and the entire tribe would be gone.

Artlan decided that if his spells could work on Treants, then from today onwards, he would cultivate his own Oak Guardians!