Chapter 2 Devouring Ability

As a tree, unable to move, Ye Feng could only devour a limited number of targets.

The first one he chose was the earthworm in the soil.

With a dense root network, it was easy for him to find earthworms in the soil, and he quickly locked onto one.

It is worth mentioning that the earthworms nowadays have also undergone a certain degree of mutation, and the size of these earthworms is comparable to that of chopsticks.

This is a bit scary, but Ye Feng doesn't care at all. The main root moves over and quickly wraps it around.

The mutant earthworm still wants to struggle, but the side roots have followed closely. After a few seconds, the earthworm is completely subdued.

Ye Feng's mind moved and he activated his devouring ability.

Then he could feel that the tree roots were constantly extracting bits of spiritual energy and bioenergy from the earthworm.

In just a dozen seconds, the earthworm shrank and lost its vitality.

"Increased 1 point of spiritual energy and bioenergy." Ye Feng glanced at the system panel and was immediately delighted.

If he had to absorb it by himself, it would take at least an hour.

But now, he got it in about a minute.

Having tasted the sweetness, he naturally continued to work hard.

In the next ten minutes, Ye Feng found a total of 5 earthworms and swallowed them all, increasing his spiritual energy and bioenergy by 5 points.

"Is that all? There are really too few creatures underground." Ye Feng used the roots to sweep the ground again, and after confirming that there were no omissions, he sighed lightly.

His eyes could only be transferred to the ground.

Compared with the underground, there are many more creatures that can be swallowed on the ground.

The passing ants, centipedes, and crickets are all his targets.

Now his taproot is 21.4 meters long, and the length of the lateral roots is about 80% of the taproot, which is 17.1 meters.

In this case, any insect within 17 meters of his tree can be hunted relatively easily.

Beyond 17 meters, it can only rely on the taproot to hunt, and the difficulty increases sharply.

However, he was in the dense forest in the valley, and there were many creatures within a range of 17 meters.

Next was the hunting time!

With him as the center, centipedes, crickets, and ants were disappearing quickly.

For these three creatures, the mutant centipede with the thickness of a finger could also provide 1 point of spiritual energy and bioenergy, but unfortunately the number was too small.

As for the cricket, it could only provide 0.7 points of spiritual energy, and the mutant cricket was extremely flexible, and could jump one or two meters with a light jump, making it quite difficult to catch.

So compared to these two creatures, the mutant ant was Ye Feng's favorite target.

Although the mutant ant with the size of a finger cap could only provide him with 0.1 points of spiritual energy and bioenergy, there were many ants.

From time to time, an ant would pass by his territory while foraging, so generally speaking, the ants provided the most spiritual energy.

An hour passed in the blink of an eye.

Ye Feng glanced at the system panel, and the spiritual energy value had increased to 20 points, and the bioenergy had reached 25 points.

Ye Feng was very satisfied with the speed of increasing spiritual energy, at least it was much faster than the automatic increase of spiritual energy.

Obviously, his previous decision was correct.

"It's time to add points."

The longer the tree roots are, the more convenient it is for him to use his devouring ability.

Three minutes later.

Ye Feng completed the third point addition. Counting the previous 7 points, he has completed 10 points.

At this time, the value of the evolution point column in the system panel finally changed from 0 to 1.

"Hey! So this is how evolution points are obtained. Adding points 10 times can get 1 evolution point."

"Getting 10 evolution points can complete an evolution. The difficulty is not great." Ye Feng was a little surprised.

Compared with making the tree roots longer, evolution is of course more important.

Only by continuous evolution can he become stronger and stronger. Maybe when he is strong to a certain extent, he can get rid of the current shackles.

Next, Ye Feng hunted while adding points.

The length of his tree roots increased steadily at a rate of 20 centimeters per minute.

It was not until 25 minutes later that Ye Feng completed 25 points.

Yes, 25 times.

Because in these 25 minutes, he gained 8 points of spiritual energy and bioenergy as he hunted.

At this time, Ye Feng opened the system panel and took a look.

Host: Ye Feng (World Tree)

Tree height: 10 meters

Trunk width: 0.5 meters

Root length: 27 meters

Realm: First level initial stage

Evolution points: 3/10 points

Special ability: Devouring

Spiritual energy: 0/100 points

Bioenergy: 8/100 points

In just over an hour, the length of his roots has increased by 7 meters, and the evolution points have accumulated to 3 points.

"Very good! If everything goes well, I can complete the first evolution tonight." Ye Feng was a little happy and worked harder.

However, when the time came to 8 o'clock, Ye Feng counted the harvest of the second hour, and he found that he was wrong.

In this hour, he only gained a total of 16 points of spiritual energy and bioenergy.

"There are fewer insects around." Ye Feng frowned slightly.

This is quite bad news, and as time goes by, as he continues to devour, the insects around him will definitely become fewer and fewer.

Just when Ye Feng was a little distressed, suddenly a mutant giant frog entered his field of vision.

His current vision is not much different from when he was alive. If he moves his vision angle to the top of the tree, he can see farther.

At this time, he looked at the mutant frog, which was jumping towards him.

According to the frog's route, although it was not heading straight towards his tree, it would cross his "territory".

Ye Feng was a little excited. This mutant frog was as big as a normal person's foot.

Swallowing it could at least be equivalent to two or three hundred mutant ants.

Of course, it was not easy to capture it, because this mutant frog could jump 5 meters with a light jump. Although its main root was 27 meters long, it had only two or three chances to attack at most.

He had to be prepared and had already "deployed troops" underground.

The main root and 100 side roots quietly completed a trap underground where the mutant frog could not see.

Finally, the mutant frog entered his territory.

Ye Feng was not in a hurry to take action, and quietly waited for the other party to go deeper.

When the mutant frog approached within 5 meters and was about to pass by.

A tree root rose from the ground and went straight to the mutant frog.

Ye Feng's tree root was hidden 1 cm underground.

The mutant frog had no time to react to the sudden attack at such a short distance, and its hind legs were entangled.

However, the mutant frog reacted very quickly. The moment it was entangled, its thick hind legs kicked the ground hard and flew directly.

The subsequent tree roots failed to take control.

Moreover, the tree root that was entangled with the opponent was actually torn off directly.

Ye Feng also felt pain for the first time, just like a dislocated finger joint.

At this moment, he was really shocked and angry, and at the same time, he also intuitively felt the threat brought to him by these mutant creatures.

"I was injured by a frog. I am still too weak. I need to speed up my strength."

Ye Feng warned himself, but the movement of the tree root was not slow at all.

Although a tree root was torn off, it also played a significant role. The jumping distance of this mutant frog was greatly shortened, and it only jumped out three meters.

Moreover, the opponent lost balance in the air and fell to the ground sideways.

At this time, Ye Feng no longer needed to hide. The three tree roots near the opponent's landing point had already rushed out of the soil and waved in the air.

Before the mutant frog landed, the three tree roots entangled it.

However, the mutant frog was very strong. Even in this situation, it continued to struggle and found the right opportunity to jump up again.

In the desperate situation of the mutant frog, two more tree roots were torn off, but one of them was hung on it, so that the mutant frog only jumped one meter and fell down.

The rest of the tree roots had moved over, especially the thick main root had arrived, and they were entangled together, finally subduing it.

Then, it activated the devouring ability and began to absorb.

This mutant frog provided him with a full 25 points of spiritual energy and bioenergy.

Although three of his tree roots were torn off in this battle, these tree roots have the ability to repair themselves, and the torn parts are not long, and they can grow out in an hour at most.

With just this little price, he earned 25 energy points, which is definitely a big profit.

"It's great, if there are more mutant frogs, maybe I can evolve directly." Ye Feng was in a very good mood.

At this time, he even thought of the mutant wild boar that overturned their bus before.

If he could devour such a big mutant wild boar, he might be able to evolve more than ten times.