Reincarnated as a bamboo rat, it begins its extreme survival struggle.

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He discovered that after completing a new bamboo shoot magic circle, the fusion between the Bamboo Forest's Sea of ​​Depravity and him deepened further.

It seems that as Bell repairs the bamboo forest step by step, he will become stronger and stronger within it. The bamboo forest's enhancement to him is no longer as simple as just opening up the entire map or commanding a monster.

"I still have a purple bamboo shoot. Tonight I'll find a suitable place to plant it, and while I'm at it, I'll also look for a guardian beast clan or a powerful beast to protect the bamboo shoot."

After taking out the last purple bamboo shoot, Bell searched for the next planting location on the outskirts of the bamboo forest.

The experience of setting up three spells with three purple bamboo shoots deepened Bell's understanding of magic circles. At the same time, he also nailed three locations on the outer edge of the bamboo forest that were extremely difficult for death energy to penetrate.

These three locations form a strategic triangle, using the ability to transform death energy to greatly slow its outward expansion once it enters a certain area, ultimately preventing it from advancing any further.

Even if Bell no longer cares about the situation in the bamboo forest, as long as the three magic circles where the purple bamboo shoots are located are not destroyed, the bamboo forest surrounding the bamboo forest can continue to exist and never wither.

As the purple bamboo shoots continue to grow, these three magic circles gradually expand into permanent magic domains. Once deeply bound to the surrounding bamboo forest, these magic domains will maintain their transformation effect even after the purple bamboo dies or is cut down.

If the purple bamboo still exists and produces new purple bamboo shoots, the bamboo forest can then grow into the inner perimeter of the withered bamboo sea.

Of course, Bell wouldn't just abandon the bamboo forest; he had other methods he hadn't yet mobilized.

"The horn of the Star Unicorn, a treasure that can draw down moonlight, if placed in the inner perimeter of the bamboo forest, would surely dispel a large amount of death energy."

Upon reaching the inner perimeter of the bamboo forest, Bell took out the Star Unicorn Horn he had brought from his inventory.

This horn was much longer than his, a full half meter long, and it was a broken horn. If it were a fully grown Star Unicorn horn, it would probably be one and a half or even two meters long.

In his fluffy form, Bell needs to wrap his arms around the Star Unicorn's horn to keep it upright on the ground.

However, when Bell simply took out the broken horn and pointed it at the half-moon in the sky, a beam of shimmering white light flowed down from the sky like a stream of water.

Bathed in this ray of light, Bell immediately felt a holy aura, and with it, the deathly aura in the surrounding environment dissipated completely, like snow meeting the first rays of the sun.

This is a sacred power; it cannot transform death into life, but it can transform it into nothingness.

Chapter 159 Glimpse into the Past

The Star Unicorn, a unique life form that almost lives in legends, no longer belongs to the category of magical beasts. This race possesses extremely high intelligence and innate powerful magical talent.

Simply by standing tall, the Star Unicorn can draw down the power of the stars in the sky through its single horn.

The broken horn in Bell's hand also possesses this ability of the Star Unicorn.

Even though the power that the broken horn can generate is less than one percent of that of a living Star Unicorn, it is enough for Bell.

Having lived in this world for so long, Bell is always amazed by the beauty of the stars in the night sky whenever he looks up.

Unlike the dark, dim sky before my reincarnation, the starry sky here is truly dazzling and colorful. When the night sky is clear, even at night, the starlight can illuminate the earth.

The incredibly powerful stars have showered the world with countless energies, and these stellar powers can be collected through specific methods.

Star power is a high-level power with various attributes. The specific attributes of star power guided from the sky depend on which star it comes from.

The closest star to this world is the full moon that Bell would always see at night.

"Moonlight is pure and holy, and is the most easily activated high-level energy."

He cast the moonlight, drawn down from the broken horn of the Star Unicorn, onto the barren land before him. With its sacred aura, the moonlight instantly dissolved the deathly energy within a fifty-meter radius into nothingness.

With this single horn, even if Bell just takes it and walks around the inner perimeter of the bamboo forest, he can free a large area of ​​land from the influence of death energy.

Although this cannot immediately restore the land to its former lush and green state, it can eliminate most of the side effects of the deathly aura.

"Judging from the scattered moonlight, the magic circle created with the Star Unicorn horn as its core has an initial influence range of at least ten kilometers. But how to set up this magic circle is a big problem."

By drawing an analogy between the conversion efficiency of moonlight and purple bamboo shoots, Bell discovered that moonlight is a more efficient and cost-effective form of energy than purple bamboo shoots for quickly clearing away the deathly influence in the bamboo forest.

As long as I still possess this Star Unicorn Horn and the moon in the sky has not been destroyed, its light will be an inexhaustible resource.

However, the problem is that to unleash the power of the Star Unicorn's horn, a completely new magic circle must be built around it, which is a big problem for Bell, who lacks knowledge of magic circles.

He had previously put in a lot of effort to create a growing magic circle around the purple bamboo shoots, and now that he was using such a high-grade material, the pressure on Bell was considerable.

"More importantly, using a high-level energy source like moonlight, the energy fluctuations it emits are impossible to hide. How many adventurers will be attracted to raid the land then..."

What troubled Bell the most was not how to construct a magic circle to amplify the influence of the Star Unicorn horn, but the lack of a means to protect the Star Unicorn horn.

This thing could lie dormant in the Agricultural Association's secret vault.

It is a treasure that adventurers would covet.

Once news of this item's appearance in the bamboo forest spreads, a large number of adventurers in the bamboo forest will certainly not mind coming to search for the whereabouts of this treasure.

It's important to know that there are quite a few adventurers in the bamboo forest now, especially many mid-level adventurers and small adventure groups that are not strong enough. They have come to the bamboo forest, but they are not qualified or capable of getting their hands on the secret treasures in the [White Bone City].

These guys are like hyenas now, they won't let go of any resources they can get their hands on, and they're the ones who are carrying out destructive mining of the outer bamboo forest.

"Ugh, the more I think about it, the more my head aches."

Rubbing his big face, Bell said he was exhausted.

He held up the Star Unicorn Horn and wandered around the inner edge of the bamboo forest for a while before putting it back into his inventory.

Now is not the time to use the Star Unicorn Horn. At least until Bell comes up with a way to defend against these wolf-like adventurers, he has no intention of using the Star Unicorn Horn in the Bamboo Forest.

After losing the power of moonlight drawn by the Star Unicorn's horn, the places where the death energy had been cleared by the moonlight began to seep out again with wisps of death energy.

Although the moonlight power of the Star Unicorn horn is extremely efficient, it is not like a living organism such as the Purple Bamboo Shoot that is constantly growing. Without the guidance of the Star Unicorn horn, the moonlight power dissipates into nothingness.

The deathly aura that permeated the entire bamboo forest quietly seeped out from other places, refilling the areas that had been purified.

Compared to the City of Bones, a graveyard of a civilization, the Bamboo Forest, a dangerous place that has only been growing for three hundred years, is still too young and too weak.

"Restoring the bamboo forest to its former appearance is still too difficult. The core area of ​​the City of Bones, the Royal Tomb, hasn't even shown its fangs yet..."

With a sigh, Bell suddenly thought of the formidable human adventurers he had encountered when he first started his journey out of the depths of the bamboo forest.

Looking back based on his current experience, although he couldn't determine the average level of that group of adventurers, the person he had met was probably around level sixteen or seventeen.

Bell was eager to know why those powerful individuals, whose levels had surpassed those of the low-danger area of ​​the Bamboo Forest, had come to the Bamboo Forest, and also wanted to know what would happen to them afterward.

Bell's intuition told him that the strange occurrences deep in the bamboo forest at the beginning were inextricably linked to these guys.

Now, Bell also has the ability to conduct in-depth research.

After being startled by the nun today, Bell used the power of the Bamboo Sea King to enter the Sea of ​​Depravity in the Bamboo Sea.

The Sea of ​​Sinking is like a database that monitors the bamboo forest in real time and records various anomalies within it.

Although the Sea of ​​Desolation in the Bamboo Sea suffered extensive damage after the disturbance in the City of Bones, a large number of its functions were preserved, and it also recorded a great deal of information.

As his consciousness sank into the sea of ​​depravity, Bell first entered a god-like perspective overlooking the bamboo forest, quickly locating the cave in which he had been reborn into this world, and the path leading outwards.

The place where Bell encountered that group of unknown adventurers was already quite close to the outer edge of the bamboo forest.

The Sea of ​​Demise in this area recorded the fluctuations left behind when these powerful beings entered the bamboo forest. The living beings and the Sea of ​​Demise are not separate, after all, the living will eventually rest in the Sea of ​​Demise.

Using this information, Bell gradually pieced together the trail of the adventurers' movements in the bamboo forest.

Chapter 160

"Commander, the aura coming this way is very different."

The little brat who had been following Blind Cloth suddenly turned to the old commander in the group and said this, which drew the commander's serious attention.

The entire adventure team's direction was quickly adjusted based on the information provided by the little kid.

They soon moved from the inner edge of the bamboo forest to its depths, following some unseen path to a seemingly ordinary bamboo grove.

This little brat is naturally extremely sensitive to negative energy. If Bell had used [Information Insight] to examine him before, he would have been surprised to find that although this little brat's level is not high, his mental strength is as high as forty points, and he is extremely specialized in the direction of negative energy perception.

Such people are geniuses in a narrow sense, possessing talents in a certain field that are difficult for others to match.

Such highly specialized individuals, once they exert their strength in a field that suits their abilities, are far beyond the reach of ordinary people, even before they have fully developed.

"dig!"

Led by the little kid, the adventure team that arrived at this place began digging downwards.

The old leader of the adventure team knew that hidden beneath the bamboo forest was the ancient and dangerous White Bone Mound, where the Fountain of Youth could greatly extend one's lifespan.

The bamboo forest had concealed this dangerous place for three hundred years, and now the old commander, who had been searching for the Fountain of Youth again and again, had finally seen a glimmer of hope.

After four days of digging, a dilapidated passage, buried deep underground, was revealed.

The passage led nowhere, but for the old commander, there was a building with obvious signs of human construction on the other side of the passage, and the passage itself was full of signs of human excavation.

At this moment, the old leader thought of the stories the Pandaren had told him.

The Pandaren friends ventured deep into Bone Mounds, eliminated the greatest threat there, and then drank from the Fountain of Youth deep within Bone Mounds.

For the sake of this story, the old captain, who had spent his entire life exploring the bamboo forest, led his adventure team members into this buried passage.

Before exploring the bamboo forest, they made thorough preparations, even calculating the pervasive death energy by observing subtle clues, and prepared high-quality exorcising items in advance to ensure that their condition would not be affected by the death energy in the short term.

"After they entered the cave, that was the end of it."

Arriving at the half-collapsed cave entrance, Bell, taking advantage of his small size, followed the path taken by the old commander and descended to the cave entrance that had been dismantled three hundred years ago.

Bell followed the trail of the adventure group through the information records in the Sea of ​​the Fallen. For him, who used the Sea of ​​the Fallen to look through past news, the figure of that unknown adventure group moving forward seemed to be right in front of him.

Soon, Bell followed the message log to the place where the adventure team disappeared.

According to the records of the Sea of ​​Despair, shortly after this group of adventurers entered the cave, the bamboo forest suffered widespread death, and the Sea of ​​Despair became dilapidated. After that, little information could be obtained.