Chapter 9: Team Expansion
"Whether it was a black crow or a bat, I felt a weak will to resist when I captured them."
"Does this mean that the stronger they are and the stronger their will to resist, the lower their loyalty will be after they are successfully captured?"
"But why does infusing them with spiritual energy increase their loyalty differently?" Ye Feng frowned and pondered.
At this time, the two sparrows that he had treated again flew over chirping.
Through the capture ability, he could feel that these two little sparrows were getting closer to him, and they felt very at ease after getting close to him.
Feeling the emotions emanating from the two little guys, Ye Feng seemed to have some realization, "Could it be that the weaker the creature, the easier it is to increase its loyalty after getting my help?"
The more Ye Feng thought about it, the more it seemed possible. After all, the living conditions for weak creatures in the wild were very harsh, and they would become food for others if they were not careful.
It is normal for you to give them shelter and help them improve their strength. Their loyalty will gradually increase.
As for powerful creatures, they are predators in nature, and they can live well even without the help of others.
In this case, it is more reasonable that loyalty will increase less after receiving help.
Ye Feng quickly stopped worrying about this issue. In his opinion, as long as the loyalty of the creatures he captured was no less than 60%, it would be fine.
All he needs is that they won't betray.
But such thoughts did not last long. Just an hour later, he discovered something that gave him a headache.
The reason is that his field of vision is limited.
Although his height has now reached 35 meters, and after breaking through to the second level, his "vision" is much better than that of normal people.
But even so, he can only see places within 3 kilometers at most now, and he can't see clearly even further away.
In other words, as long as the animals he captured moved away from this distance, he would not know what the other party was doing, and would not be able to give real-time commands.
He finally understood why there was an additional possession ability after the system loyalty reached 100%.
Only after being possessed can he command these animals without being restricted by distance!
"It seems that things like increasing intimacy cannot be interrupted."
Ye Feng made some adjustments to the next plan.
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Time passed quietly, and soon the afternoon passed.
When the remaining light of the setting sun casts a layer of red clouds over the valley.
Six animals were neatly arranged in front of him.
Two sparrows, a black crow, a bat, plus a king cobra and a mouse.
Mutated king cobras and mutated mice, this is what he achieved in one afternoon.
Among this group of animals, the one with the strongest cultivation level turned out to be the mutant rat, which had reached the peak of the first level.
Of course, in a real fight, the King Cobra with a body as thick as a thigh and a length of over 5 meters would be the strongest.
At the same time, its realm has also ranked second, reaching the late first level.
Ye Feng was not satisfied with the harvest in the afternoon.
Except for the King Cobra, the other mutated creatures cannot be beaten at all.
But there is nothing that can be done about it. The place he is in is just a valley close to the city. It is not a nature reserve or a large forest. There are few animals in it.
As for mutant animals, there are even fewer.
In the afternoon, Ye Feng also conducted experiments, capturing animals that had not mutated, and trying to inject spiritual energy into the animals to see if they could directly mutate them.
But the results are not optimistic. Those animals that have not mutated do not seem to absorb the spiritual energy. The spiritual energy injected by themselves is discharged with their breathing.
Ye Feng can actually understand this situation. If they could really absorb spiritual energy, they would probably have mutated long ago.
"It's been an entire afternoon and I haven't seen the animal I wanted to capture."
"It seems that we can only wait until the loyalty of these two sparrows reaches 100%, then possess them and search further afield." Ye Feng sighed lightly and said.
In fact, the animals on the ground are okay. This is his home field. In this valley, there is nothing that can threaten him for the time being.
But it's different in the sky. He needs to capture birds that are powerful enough to sit there.
So his target is the goshawk.
He had seen goshawks near Yangcheng, but the number was extremely rare.
So he had no choice but to take his time.
When the six mutant animals were lined up, Ye Feng stretched out six tree roots and poured spiritual energy into their bodies.
It is worth mentioning that the speed at which these mutated creatures absorb spiritual energy is different for each one, but it seems to be related to their combat effectiveness.
Like two little sparrows, they can only absorb 2 points of spiritual energy an hour.
Rats absorb 3 points of spiritual energy every hour.
Black crows and bats can absorb 4 points of spiritual energy per hour.
As for the one that absorbs spiritual energy the fastest, of course it is the King Cobra, which can absorb 10 points of spiritual energy every hour.
The King Cobra alone absorbed a full 30 points of spiritual energy from Ye Feng in just a few hours.
Of course, Ye Feng was not at a loss at all, because during this period of time, the other party caught 2 mice, 1 snake, and a pheasant.
Ye Feng devoured more than 70 points of spiritual energy from these mutant creatures, and undoubtedly made a lot of money.
Because of this, Ye Feng spared no effort in training these subordinates.
However, what made him a little unhappy was that the loyalty of these animals became more and more difficult to improve.
In one afternoon, the loyalty of the two sparrows with the highest level only increased by 5%, reaching 95%.
And this time, Ye Feng infused 2 points of spiritual energy into their bodies, and took a look at their loyalty, and found that it only increased by 0.5%.
"Take your time, don't rush. After I became the world tree, it has only been a day, and I still have plenty of time." Ye Feng exhaled and asked these animals to hunt for him again.
And he opened the system panel and took a look.
Evolution points: 39/40 points
Unconsciously, the evolution points have accumulated to 39 points.
Accumulate one more evolution point, and he will be able to break through again.
"I thought that after breaking through to the second level, my evolution speed would slow down, but I didn't expect that I could still maintain such a fast speed." Ye Feng smiled.
Compared to the first stage, the difficulty of evolving at the second stage has increased by 4 times.
To accumulate 40 evolution points, 400 spiritual energy points are required.
Ye Feng originally thought that it would take at least half a day to evolve once.
However, with the expansion of the territory and the addition of a group of subordinates, the speed of spiritual energy accumulation is so terrifying.
This is because he has divided a lot of spiritual energy to cultivate his subordinates, otherwise he would have evolved long ago.
Of course, it is not slow now. He looked at the trees around him, and 202 tree roots moved together, quickly harvesting spiritual energy from the trees.
After more than ten minutes, there were 48 more spiritual energy points on his system panel.
"Very good, I can evolve again after this wave of points." Ye Feng said happily.