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Thorn Vine World.

This is a small world dominated by vine plants, belonging to the same small world group as Stone Origin World, also known as the "Luan Mountain World Group."

Just three days ago.

Cat Xiao Miao used the Law Projection String bestowed by her master to embark on a cross-world journey alone, leaving Stone Origin World and descending upon this world.

At this moment.

The cat-eared girl was stepping lightly, traversing a vine forest, her face filled with curiosity as she looked around.

According to her previous understanding, vines either clung to trees or climbed stone walls, and could not grow too tall without support.

At this time.

The scene she was witnessing completely changed her perception.

Only to see thick vines tightly intertwined, spiraling upwards, easily ascending to a height of one hundred meters.

The diameter of this "spiral pipe" generally exceeded twenty meters at the bottom, gradually decreasing as the spiral pipe rose.

The interior of the spiral pipe was not empty, but had a rather complex structure, strengthening the overall strength of the vine tree.

Despite the lack of a tough wooden skeleton for support, the vines still reached a height comparable to trees thanks to their ingenious structure.

In addition to this.

The surface of each vine was covered with hard and sharp thorns.

This was undoubtedly a means of defense.

If an animal accidentally bumped into it, it would definitely be poked full of bloody holes.

Not only this type of vine tree, but most of the vines in this world were covered with thorns.

Cat Xiao Miao strolled through it, as if entering a giant's kingdom.

She looked around for a while, clicking her tongue in wonder and saying, "This kind of plant is truly a genius architect!"

After walking a few more steps.

The cat-eared girl suddenly stopped, extending a white, slender finger and lightly poking a nearby vine tree from a distance.

"Pa!"

A large hole with a diameter of half a meter instantly burst out on the surface of the vine.

Subsequently.

The force attached to this finger spread to the entire vine tree.

The spiral trunk, over one hundred and fifty meters high, trembled violently.

The swaying amplitude at the top of the tree even exceeded twenty meters, as if it might fall down at any time.

"Hua～"

The vine leaves rubbed against each other, making a sound like a tide.

But.

This vine tree stubbornly resisted the torment of external forces.

It shook violently for a while, but still stood firmly.

The little cat girl looked up and muttered, "It's sturdier than I expected!"

She didn't stay long, and quickly walked forward, soon disappearing into the vine forest.

At this time.

This vine tree, which had suffered torment, seemed to come alive and suddenly moved.

The spiral vines disintegrated one after another, burrowing into the ground like snakes.

In just a dozen breaths.

A large tree disappeared without a trace, leaving behind a large number of bones in its place.

They were preserved inside the spiral pipe, and only after the vines retracted underground were they all revealed.

Upon closer observation.

The surface of each bone was covered with a large number of corrosive marks, as if it had been eroded by strong acid.

Obviously.

This was a vine forest that ate meat and drank blood.

And these peculiar trees formed by vines were not harmless creatures, but a group of fierce hunters.

On the other side.

Cat Xiao Miao glanced back.

She had already sensed that the disappeared vine tree had emerged again in another place.

The cat-eared girl muttered in a low voice, "What an interesting forest."

This was clearly a forest that "could move freely."

If attacked, or for hunting needs, the vine tree could quickly move to other places.

This peculiar characteristic could not help but give the little cat girl a sense of broadening her horizons.

As the master's most loyal maid, Cat Xiao Miao immediately reported her personal feelings to her master:

"Thank you, Master, for bestowing the Projection String, so that Xiao Miao can see such unique scenery."

No response.

Cat Xiao Miao pouted her little mouth.

She knew that her master was tired of her flattery, so he didn't bother to pay attention.

The cat-eared girl was not discouraged, and reported about the vine forest again: "Master, Xiao Miao has discovered a kind of vine in the Thorn Vine World…"

She spoke at length for a long time, describing the previous discovery in detail.

This time.

The little cat girl finally waited for her master's response: "This thing has some research value, perhaps it can be used for reference, go collect some samples."

She wagged her tail triumphantly, muttering in her heart, "Xiao Miao knew that this trick would definitely work on Master."

Cat Xiao Miao responded excitedly: "Understood!"

She then asked a question: "Master, do the various vines in the Thorn Vine World have the potential to resist the Calamity Insect Swarm?"

Cheng Han pondered for a few seconds before answering: "They can cause some damage to the insect swarm, but in the end they will definitely be devoured by the insects."

The little cat girl said "Oh" in disappointment.

She very much hoped to make another great discovery.

Just like discovering the Stone Forest in Stone Origin World before, helping the master successfully ignite the Law Divine Fire, and providing the master with more assistance.

Cat Xiao Miao immediately cheered up again: "Xiao Miao will carefully investigate this world and look for species with the potential to resist the Calamity Insect Swarm."

Cheng Han praised with an "Mm" sound.

Subsequently.

The connection was interrupted.

The cat-eared girl waved her small fist forcefully, self-motivating herself: "Xiao Miao must work hard!"

She performed a flash dodge, instantly disappearing from the vine tree forest.

Only a faint gray glow remained in place, suspended in mid-air, flowing uncertainly, with faint obscure fluctuations surging from within.

Subsequently.

Within a radius of one kilometer.

Only to see vine trees, the surface gradually turned gray-white patches, the texture also underwent subtle changes, looking a bit like stone.

The gray-white patches, like a virus, spread rapidly to other parts.

Thirty seconds later.

These vine trees turned completely gray-white from head to toe, whether it was the vine epidermis, or thorns, leaves, all turned into stone.

Not only did the appearance change.

Even the unique atmosphere of plants disappeared, replaced by the unique coldness of rocks.

In other words.

They truly became rocks.

Previously, there were some small sounds in this forest, such as rustling leaves, light chirping of insects, but now it was as quiet as a dead zone.

On the edge of the dead zone.

"Puff!"

Only a soft sound was heard.

A thinner vine suddenly drilled out of the ground, accidentally breaking into the dead zone.

The next moment.

The mutation occurred.

On the surface of this vine, a touch of gray-white suddenly appeared, and then quickly spread out.

The vine sensed something was wrong, and quickly shrank towards the ground, trying to escape this area.

However.

It was too late.

After only a moment.

The vine turned into a stone vine, motionless on the ground.

However.

Everything was not over.

The gray-white, like a plague, slowly spread to a wider area.

All the vines that were touched turned into stone in a short time.

The most bizarre thing was that even if the vine tree sensed the danger and actively cut off the vines stained with gray-white, it was still useless.

Other parts of the vine tree still emerged with patches of gray-white, and then the entire vine tree turned into a stone sculpture.

Five minutes passed in a flash.

The vine tree forest within a radius of fifty kilometers completely turned into a bizarre stone forest.

Then.

The spread speed of the gray-white symbolizing death finally slowed down.

The more distant vine trees sensed something was wrong, and disintegrated one after another, moving to other places.

Looking down from the sky.

A wave of "migration" appeared in this forest.

A clear isolation zone appeared between the petrified forest and the vine forest, and the area was growing rapidly.

On the other side.

Cat Xiao Miao observed the changes in the vine forest through secret methods.

The little cat girl wagged her tail excitedly, with an expression of amazement: "The divine power bestowed by the master is so powerful!"

Previously, Cheng Han successfully ignited the Law Divine Fire, and bestowed a wisp of Divine Fire, which was handed over to the cat-eared girl to test the power of the Divine Fire.

This was a necessary thing.

From igniting the Divine Fire to condensing Divine Essence, it was not only a process of tempering oneself, but also a process of exploring the origin of the Divine Fire, and then clarifying the path of the Divine Seal.

Since it was an "exploration", it was natural to try more and cause destruction everywhere.

And just a wisp of Divine Power Flame turned a large area of forest into a stone forest, this kind of power far exceeded the Profound Overseer level, steadily reaching the Divine level.

The cat-eared girl experienced the power of Divine Power for the first time, and of course she was extremely excited.

At this moment.

Cat Xiao Miao watched the large gray-white spread, and muttered with a look of realization: "No wonder the master named it 'Gray-White Plague'."

Just now she didn't quite understand, obviously it was the Divine Power of the Stone Spirit system, why was it called "Plague"?

Now she completely understood, she felt that the name was really too appropriate.

Cat-eared girl thought for a while, and sent a message to the master: "Master, from today onwards, Xiao Miao is your Plague Bringer."

Still no response.

The little cat girl didn't care.

She put her hands on her waist and happily "Meow"ed: "Xiao Miao is a powerful Plague Bringer!"

*

The first appearance of the Gray-White Plague was like a stone falling into the water, quickly triggering a series of events.

Half a day later.

A group of creatures with six legs, covered in spiked vine armor, quickly passed through the vine forest, cautiously approaching the isolation zone.

They were the intelligent race of the Thorn Vine World—the Vine Monsters.

The most famous characteristic of the Vine Monsters was not how powerful they were, but their peculiar breeding method.

Although they were also creatures of flesh and blood, they were not born from the womb or eggs.

But—grown.

Just like planting trees and grass.

After the male Vine Monster and the female Vine Monster did indescribable things, the latter could discharge multiple Life Vine Seeds.

This kind of vine seed had the same characteristics as seeds, planting it in the soil, and watering and fertilizing it regularly, the vine seed would become a Vine Monster Tree.

The newborn Vine Monster would begin to be conceived in the center of the tree trunk.

About a year later, when the Vine Monster grew to the juvenile stage, it would wake up, and then break open the tree trunk and drill out.

In addition.

Vine Monsters were a rather cruel and murderous race, and the "fertilizer" they provided for the vine seeds was often living creatures.

After these prey were captured, they would be buried alive directly under the Vine Monster Tree, leaving only their heads exposed.

The roots of the Vine Monster Tree would drill into the prey's body, greedily absorbing the prey's flesh and blood.

The prey usually would not die immediately, but would endure days to more than ten days of extreme pain before swallowing their last breath.

At this moment.

The leading Vine Monster, standing outside the isolation zone, observed the petrified forest with four eyes.

After a few seconds.

The Vine Monster leader suddenly moved.

"Woo～"

It made a strange hissing sound in its mouth, and a surge of extraordinary fluctuations rose within its body.

"Puff! Puff!"

Dozens of black thorn vines instantly broke out of the ground, and only entangled five Vine Monsters.

The Vine Monster group immediately had a slight commotion, but it quickly subsided.

The eyes of the few Vine Monsters that were tied up flashed with fear, but they had no courage to resist.

Because Vine Monsters were a very tyrannical race.

It was common for upper Vine Monsters to use brutal means to deal with lower Vine Monsters.

"Woo～"

The Vine Monster leader called out again, as if issuing an order.

Subsequently.

It waved its arm forcefully.

More than a dozen vines swung vigorously, like throwing stones, throwing them into the petrified forest.

Five Vine Monsters flew over more than one hundred meters in the air, and fell heavily into the isolation zone.

Originally, this was a piece of soft muddy land, the ground was rich in nutritious humus.

But due to the Gray-White Plague, a large number of stones emerged out of thin air in this area.

Several Vine Monsters stood up, standing in place with some fear, not daring to enter the petrified forest.

With the original instinct of life, they had already sensed that a very terrible force was surrounding the petrified forest.

A fierce light flashed in the eyes of the Vine Monster leader, and its thick right hand raised slightly.

A green light flashed, and a sharp vine spear suddenly appeared in its hand.

The leader waved his right hand forcefully, the vine spear flashed away, carrying a shrill whistling sound, and hit a Vine Monster like lightning.

"Bang!"

The Vine Monster exploded.

This was an explosion in the physical sense.

The dark green vine armor shell, mixed with a large number of flesh and blood fragments, covered a large area, flying out more than fifty meters at the farthest.

Without a doubt.

Doing so was to warn—if you don't move forward, you die!

The other four Vine Monsters were frightened, and quickly moved their six legs towards the gray-white forest, for fear of falling behind and being killed by the leader.

Ten seconds later.

These few experimental products successfully passed through the isolation zone and officially entered the petrified forest.

They behaved very carefully, always walking around the petrified trees, never approaching any petrified tree, and the speed of advance was as slow as a snail.

The leader roared a little irritably, and opened his mouth to urge: "Woo～"

This was ordering them to speed up and go deep into the petrified forest as soon as possible to initially investigate the situation inside.

The four Vine Monsters did not dare to disobey, so they had to speed up their pace and enter the depths of the forest.

A quarter of an hour later.

The test subject was back.

Only then did the leader bring people into the forest to thoroughly investigate the cause of the petrified forest.

Unfortunately, they found nothing.

Three hours later.

The leader returned to his tribe with his subordinates.

That night.

A great commotion occurred.

Thousands of vine monsters throughout the tribe were horrified to discover gray-white patches appearing on their bodies, slowly spreading.

In the dead of night.

The tribe fell completely silent.

The vine monsters had all turned into lifelike stone sculptures.

All of this fell into the eyes of Mao Xiaomiao.

The cat-eared girl snorted dismissively, "These vine monsters didn't know their own death, daring to take refuge in the Calamity Swarm. Did they think this cat couldn't recognize their aura?

She sighed with some worry, "The power of the swarm has actually infiltrated this realm. I estimate a great war will break out in this realm group soon."