This isn't a souls-like game at all.

But what is surprising is that on both sides of this "trunk" there are three thick legs that are also similar to the trunk.

At first glance, it looks like a stick insect magnified countless times.

"It's a knotworm."

After a quick look, Ye Yiyi recognized this enemy that appeared frequently in the game.

He reached out and gently soothed the slightly anxious Virgil.

Then he jumped off his horse and handed the reins to the dung beetle.

This creature is a very territorial creature. Its hatred range in the game is very long. If it discovers Virgil, it will definitely be chased to death.

Although the tree insect's name contains the word "insect", it is not actually an insect and has nothing to do with the stick insect.

The thick trunk is similar to the shell on the back of a hermit crab, both of which are defensive measures to protect the fragile body.

Because its shape is composed of multiple tree trunks, similar to a stick insect, players in the game call it a tree insect.

As for what its official name is, Ye Yiyi doesn't know.

"Back off a bit." He whispered to the dung beetle. When he saw the horse running away, he took out a big axe with a bright red blood blade from behind him.

"I remember that if you kill this thing, it will drop aborted green sprouts.

"Since we happened to run into one, let's try to kill one first."

Of course he could have bypassed this guy, but since he was already here, it would be a bit impolite not to bring some gifts to meet Sir Federico.

He carried the bloody axe and walked slowly towards the tree insect, taking out a piece of fire paper with his left hand.

To deal with a wooden body, you naturally need an axe and fire.

"Bang! Bang!"

As if it had sensed something, the tree insect moved its feet and turned one end of the trunk towards the direction where the footsteps came from.

Four gray tentacles with faint light at the tips suddenly stretched out from the tree trunk and looked around.

"Crack!"

Ye Yiyi lit the fire paper, and the bright flame immediately blazed along the bright red axe blade.

The four tentacles that were constantly shaking stopped immediately and looked towards the dazzling fire in the darkness.

The next moment, the tentacles retracted into the trunk, and the tree insect moved its six legs "dong dong dong" and charged towards Ye Yiyi!

"Well done."

He curled the corners of his mouth, grasped the handle with both hands, and then jumped high into the air, enveloped in a gust of wind.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The earth trembled with the sound of the tree beetles charging.

But the tree insect retracted its tentacles and just buried its head to rush forward, its eyes could not see anything in the darkness.

It vaguely noticed that the light of the flame had disappeared, but it ignored it and rushed straight forward.

Then Ye Yiyi descended from the sky, holding high the flaming heavy axe, and chopped off the tree insect's left hind leg.

"Boom!"

A two-meter-high tree trunk collapsed and hit the ground heavily.

"It's just like a game, no brains involved. As for defense... it's just a piece of tree trunk. Against my 60 strength, it's like a toy."

He squeezed the axe handle and gave his assessment.

The tree insect lost one of its six legs, and its charging movement was immediately distorted, but it did not fall.

Ye Yiyi stomped his feet on the ground, creating a pit. He then flew out and quickly caught up with the staggering tree insect. He seized the opportunity and used a shoulder strike on its left middle leg.

“Snap!!”

The green tree trunk was smashed directly by the powerful shoulder and turned into wood chips all over the sky.

Ye Yiyi looked up from the wood chips and saw many thick gray tentacles interspersed in the tree trunk.

"This thing is a tentacle? It's a bit astringent."

The thought flashed through his mind.

Of the three legs on the left, two are now gone.

Coupled with Ye Yiyi's powerful strength, the tree insect's body tilted, completely lost its balance, and fell heavily to the ground at an angle.

"it is good!"

He took a step forward, came to the main trunk that had fallen to the ground, raised his sword, raised the Beheading Blood Axe high, and activated the combat skill - Heavy Slash.

It is simple and unpretentious, yet extremely practical, and is also the most brainless combat skill suitable for large weapons.

"Crack!"

The flaming blood axe cut through the air, leaving a dazzling trail of fire in the darkness, and then fell heavily, severely cutting off the trunk of the tree insect, which was nearly one meter in diameter.

"grumble……"

With a faint scream, the six-meter-long body of the tree insect split into two.

The tangled grey tentacles were also cut off, dancing wildly in the air, with a large amount of grey liquid splashing out from the broken parts.

It wasn't long before the flames attached to the tentacles and tree trunks were extinguished by the gray liquid.

The broken tentacles entangled with each other, and then merged together, trying to pull up the broken trunk again.

"It has quite a strong vitality."

Ye Yiyi sighed, then raised the axe again and launched the combat skill - continuous hammering.

"Click! Click! Click!"

The giant axe was raised and lowered, and the flames kept drawing fire marks in the darkness. The sound of trees and tentacles breaking came rhythmically.

This made Ye Yiyi feel like a chef chopping vegetables on a chopping board.

"Tentacles mixed with sawdust? What kind of hellish delicacy is that?"

When he stopped, the tree insect in front of him had been chopped into pieces.

He evenly cut the six-meter-long tree trunk into 40 pieces.

"Should he be dead this time?"

Looking at the energy bar that had reached the bottom, Ye Yiyi took a deep breath and looked up at the simplified light curtain.

Soul Echo +880

"The benefit is not bad, a little higher than the Southern Continent Giant Tiger, but if a real fight breaks out, it's hard to say who will win or lose."

For Ye Yiyi, this thing was the first enemy that could be completely depleted from his 26 energy bar before he could destroy it.

At this moment, the flame on the axe blade just went out.

"Two minutes, just enough time for the fire paper effect to wear off."

Putting the "lumber axe" back into the four-dimensional chrysanthemum, Ye Yiyi bent down and began to search among the sawdust mixed with gray tentacles on the ground.

After a while, he found a gray, soft, gelatinous object the size of a basketball in the front of the tree trunk.

"Is this the true form of the tree beetle?"

He looked around with his green eyes, then sniffed, and suddenly a fragrance of grass and trees came to his nose.

"Without the light curtain, it looks like it's non-burnable garbage."

Throwing away the soft gelatinous object, he continued to search, and soon his eyes lit up, and he picked up a green sprout with his fingertips.

"Found it! The aborted green sprout!"

[Young sprouts aborted]

Item Description: A green sprout that cannot grow.

An item used to craft items, and can also be used as an ingredient in recipes.

The green sprouts that are deprived of the concept of growth can only remain in the state of just sprouting.

After a long period of accumulation, it contains powerful vitality.

Can attract the attention of herbivores.

Continuously feeding the horse can strengthen its physical condition.

"Being deprived of the concept of growth... well, I don't understand."

Ye Yiyi didn't understand it, and he hardly paid attention to the background of this item. He only knew that with it, Virgil could be strengthened.

It’s not that he didn’t want to use the divine blood, but the dung beetle had a really big appetite. It didn’t leave any of the divine blood in the whole pottery jar for its brothers.

"Virgil, come here."

He waved his hand, and the dung beetle immediately came over riding Virgil.

"Here, eat more of this, and try your best to learn how to double jump."

Virgil chewed the green sprouts in big mouthfuls, and an ecstatic expression appeared on his horse's face, as if he had been high.

A tree knotworm provided a total of 16 aborted green buds.

After putting them all away, Ye Yiyi mounted his horse and continued to go deeper into the forest following the red light.

This seems to be an area where a large number of tree beetles live.

Along the way, Ye Yiyi killed eight more, harvesting a total of 7920 soul echoes, and the number of aborted green buds also increased to 124.

Current Soul Echoes: 8066

In addition, he also collected two kinds of plant materials.

One type is the yellow fruit grown on an extremely short, withered tree at the foot of the famous black fir.

【Passionate Lemon】

Item Description: A large, plump, orange-yellow lemon.

An annual woody plant found in fertile areas.

One of the materials used to craft props, and can also be used as an ingredient in recipes.

Eating it directly can stimulate the concentration value to recover slowly and continuously.

"Good, another item that can restore concentration."

Ye Yiyi was very satisfied. He hadn't eaten much fairy mint since he met the little fairy.

It's certainly possible to use lemon as a substitute, but it's not cost-effective.

He still remembered the recipe for the "Exciting Energy Drink" that he had obtained in the clear water channel under the land.

Passionate lemon is one of the ingredients in this recipe.

The other plant material is a kind of grass that emits crystal white light in the dark.

【Dark Star Grass】

Item Description: A grass that grows in a sunless forest and emits a faint fluorescent light.

One of the materials used to make props, can also be used to make medicine.

If taken directly, it can make the body glow.

The faint light can slightly illuminate the surroundings and dispel the darkness.

The dark grass, which was once eroded by the phosphorus powder of the star-spotted butterfly, has undergone some mutations.

"This grass... is quite grassy." Ye Yiyi raised his eyebrows.

This is one of the ingredients used to craft glow potions and flash bombs.

After using the former, it can emit dazzling light through the body, and the color of the light can be adjusted according to the different materials used in its production.

Who doesn’t want to be the brightest in the arena?

With a full set of RGB lights, it’s quite explosive just by appearing!

After putting away the Dark Star Grass, he took out an exciting lemon and took a bite.