386: Chapter 366: Parasitic Tree 386: Chapter 366: Parasitic Tree “Parasitic Tree, so this is the Parasitic Tree….”
The Parasitic Tree, actually exists in nature too, it refers to the phenonon of one plant parasitizing on another.
The roots of parasitic plants are not inserted into the soil like other plants.
Instead, they are inserted into another plant, drawing nutrients and water to survive.
The professionals’ “Parasitic Tree”, in so ways, seems similar to the natural one.
“…To plant a tree in one’s body and establish a symbiotic relationship…
How absurd….”
In nature, besides parasitism, there are also symbiotic relationships that resemble parasitism.
It’s hard to distinguish them in a certain sense.
But many people believe that if both sides benefit, it’s “symbiosis”.
If one side devours the other clean, then it’s parasitism.
A third-tier professional Parasitic Tree, transforms oneself into a host or a parasite, establishing a symbiotic relationship with a certain plant.
But there’s a clear flaw in this theory…
Plants can’t parasitize on animals.
Normally, plants require nutrients and water to grow.
Even for carnivorous plants like pitcher plants, what they really crave is not the “heat” of insects, but the various nutrients in the insect’s body, including nitrogen.
That is, fertilizer.
The critical factor for sustaining animal life is heat energy.
Many animals need to hunt to acquire it, but for plants, photosynthesis can provide it.
It’s not a survival necessity, the materials and elents needed for the body’s growth are.
The magic plants in the alternate world, at least most of the ones Lu Ping’an has encountered thus far, operate the sa way.
What they crave is fresh, but what truly satisfies them is the water in “blood”, and the required “pollution (nutrients)” for growth.
They draw blood, not because it’s a necessity, but certain components in blood can accelerate their growth, becoming essential nutrients…
There’s no fresh blood flowing in their bodies, they are completely different species.
Plants can extract nutrients from animals, but due to the significant difference in “nutritional composition”, the percentage of digestion is very low, often only a few components are beneficial.
The sa goes for the opposite, only homoparasitism (animal-animal, plant-plant) can achieve “high-efficiency transformation” and sustain parasitism in the long term.
If a plant were to parasitize on an animal, it wouldn’t last long before it effectively siphons too many nutrients and water, and consequently kills the animal.
When the two are not of the sa kind (plant/animal), their inherent cycles and nutrient requirents differ, making symbiosis appear quite challenging.
“So, is that why we need self-cursing, to start with not being human….”
Self-cursing is an essential path for third-tier.
Professionals at this stage, in their pursuit of power, have sowhat stopped being human…
They need to change, thoroughly alter sothing about themselves, to gain progress elsewhere.
“Wang Hai’s self-cursing should involve more than just his bones becoming lighter and brittle.”
From the third-tier fighters of the Awakener series Lu Ping’an has encountered, such as Wang Hai, he sacrificed his bones to beco weaker “Osteoporosis” to get a lower mass and higher speed.
The premise of many professions is to complete the “self-cursing,” to undergo a profound transformation.
With gaining cos losses, starting from the third-tier one can’t randomly take on additional professions, because many “self-cursing” are too dangerous.
“Body Planting, huh?
This first step is rather discouraging….”
Lu Ping’an could see why Professor Wen had bluntly stated that this “Advancent Package” was second-hand, or even multi-hand goods.
Probably the average person, after briefly going through the details of this profession and seeing the prerequisite for advancent as a “self-cursing”, would hesitate about whether to return it imdiately.
Professor Wen himself had said that if Lu Ping’an didn’t want it, he could sell it back to him at the original price…This was already a familial level of treatnt.
The “Parasitic Tree” can roughly be divided into three steps, and the first step of advancent is three self-curses.
The very first one is to maintain a week-long ritualized self-curse – “Turning the flesh into a plant.”
Only a plant can better parasitize plants, and only then can it communicate with magic plants as one of them…
This is probably the reason why Professor Wen is obsessed with recomnding this profession.
Of course, humans are ultimately humans and cannot be entirely plants.
That is just a self-curse of “plantaforming” conducted through the “Transformation System” that gives your flesh so “plantaforming” characteristics.
For example, having the ability to “gain energy through photosynthesis using your skin”, this may an sprouting leaves and having green skin everywhere…
Well, clothing then becos useless, so many people in this profession are actually naked at ho.
For example, your sense of pain, taste, and sll will greatly dull…Your sensory organs are still there and can function normally, but you’ll start not to care about them, ignoring the pain, disregarding the sll like a normal organism.
For example, looking at other creatures from a whole new perspective…
Lu Ping’an briefly flipped through and there were three pages of over a hundred possible “side effects” listed, and this is just what is commonly known.
Of course, along with the downsides, there are a series of advantages too.
Your skin can harden, and vitality can greatly increase.
Say, for instance, once you get hurt, you cannot only ignore the pain, but your self-healing ability would also undergo a qualitative change…Having an opponent that can restore itself by basking in the sun after having a piece of energy bar is pretty difficult to deal with in many ways.
Worth ntioning, because of the existence of Life Bank, as long as the “life-form modifications” imposed on Lu Ping’an from the outside world are below the Rule-level, they can basically be regarded as ineffective, or can be shaken off with a little effort.
But if it’s a self-curse, a curse that cos from within, it ignores resistance… After all, Life Bank is also a kind of self-curse.
This change that cos from within is closer to a “self-ritual” than a magic potion or magic chef cuisine, and theoretically, it should be effective on Lu Ping’an.
Everyone’s physique and situation are different, and these “side effects” listed in the materials are varied.
Considering the existence of his own Life Bank, Lu Ping’an feared that there might be so twists when the ti cos.
You stop being a human from the very first step, this third-tier profession certainly is perverse, no wonder there are so few professionals.
But “becoming a tree” is still just a ans, not an end.
The key lies in the subsequent “curses”.
“Finding a plant of fate to be regarded as one’s own half-body, to get thoroughly and permanently assimilated and coexist…”
The enhancent gained from just transforming the flesh into a plant is extrely limited, but planting a “tree” on your own “tree” is the strength of this evil and bizarre plant.
In a way, this is sowhat similar to “grafting”, such as the apple and pear in an apple pear.
The two plants henceforth beco one.
As plants themselves lack intelligence and they are also under your control and nurtured by you, they naturally follow your command after applying the Gardener’s skills….
So, depending on the type of magic plants you choose, you can gain a “half-body” with different abilities.
It is alive, so it can provide a “plant’s vision”, greatly amplifying the upper limit of the Gardener Profession.
Professor Wen selected the Netted Banyan Tree, acquiring a “root network” spanning several kiloters, gaining the ability to monitor an area and process countless pieces of information simultaneously.
The cultivator of the “Golden Apple” presumably used himself as the “grafting” culture dish and produced various bizarre life fruits.
Advancing to a third-tier Parasitic Tree isn’t the key; which magic plant to choose and what kind of ability to gain is the real upper limit of this profession.
Having gone through the basic information, if Lu Ping’an regrets it now, he can repack the information and return it to Professor Wen.
But he is currently still engrossed in reading, implying that he has already made a decision.
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