In the grass of the valley stood a grey stone statue.
It had a straight, well-proportioned trunk, topped by a dense, sharp, conical crown, like a petrified pine tree.
Lu Yao called up the [Eye of True Sight].
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[Statue of Matsushige God
[Godhead]: Yes.
[Divinity]: shaky (2).
[Divine Body]: trainee deity (2).
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This trainee deity named [Matsushige Kami] has only just descended into the Pixel World.
Lu Yao was strange in his heart.
The other party clearly had 2 points of faith and 2 believers, but there were no pixelated villains to be seen around at all. Not only villains, but no other Transcendent Beings were seen gathering towards the idol either.
What exactly are its believers?
Lu Yao locked his perspective on the idol.
The Pine Crawler God’s initial growth in faith and population was very slow, and after half an hour, these two items had only reached 19 points. However, he still hadn’t seen any villains out in the four directions.
Then Lu Yao saw that the trainee deity had performed a miracle.
Bands of green light that looked like the aurora borealis appeared above the idol, and the green light drifted in all directions.
Some of the surrounding trees accelerated in growth and grew taller and stronger with the naked eye.
Lu Yao discovered that the ones whose growth was catalysed by the green light were all pine trees, with conical crowns and branches just like the idols.
This was a tree god?
Lu Yao clicked his mouse rounds and found that although these trees had grown, they were still ordinary plants with no data templates.
Indeed, they were the most normal pine trees.
However, strangely enough, the stats of the Pine Crawler God’s divinity and divine body continued to grow slowly but steadily. It meant that a lot of its new believers had been born nearby, so there were more flames of faith.
Strange.
Lu Yao moved the mouse, and after many attempts, he finally found the followers of the Pine Crawler God.
It was a small squirrel, they were very small and almost always hid under the crowns and branches of pine trees, so Lu Yao initially missed it completely.
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[Pine Crawler LV1]
Life value: 15/15
Mana: 1/1
Damage: 1
Defence: 1
Speed: 5
[Camouflage]
Can use the environment to camouflage and hide, not easy to be detected.
[Forest Elemental LV1]
A forest elemental creature, beneficial to the rapid growth of the forest, with an increase in all attributes in the forest. Effectiveness depends on ability level and life value.
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There are such transcendent creatures in the basin?
Lu Yao inquired about Isabelle, as well as Fellows, who was acting as an observer in the experimental area.
Isabel said that there had been no such cluster before.
Fellows also said, “Lord Yao Shen, there are squirrels in the valley, but they are ordinary animals. It should be that the birth of this alien idol has caused some sort of reaction.”
“It is said that the birth of a new god always causes some special changes.”
The Pine Crawler is the believer born after the descent of the Pine Crawler God.
Lu Yao continued to observe the idol.
The Pine Crawler God was quiet as it patiently waited for the faith to accumulate, the squirrels to multiply, and then repeatedly cast the Green Light Miracle to create more and more large pine trees.
Gradually, the area around the god’s statue turned into a dense pine-leaf forest, with large numbers of pine-crawling squirrels coming and going from the trees.
These little creatures do only three things.
Eat pine cones, hide pine cones, and have baby squirrels.
Their numbers expand quickly, bringing the faith of the Pine Crawler God to 200 points in less than an hour.
Hundreds of Pine Crawlers gathered and slowly created change.
The pine cones they planted grew extraordinarily tall trunks and canopies by divine miracle, and this forest of pine trees stood out in the valley.
This attracted the Fighting Spade Armour.
Being the grumpy old brothers of the valley, the sap-sucking tree-catchers, they immediately swarmed to the trees as soon as they saw such a tall and imposing grove of trees with no monstrous grasses to get in their way.
Faced with the powerful Transcendental Monstrous Insects, the Pine Crawlers were powerless, and they could only flee from tree to tree, watching as the Fighting Spade Beetles feasted on the trees and put them down with their jaws.
Lu Yao looked towards the idol.
The believers were being bullied like this, so it was time to step in, right?
The idol of the Pine Crawler God did respond as it created a red mist. The red mist lingered among the pine trees and was quickly absorbed by the woods, causing the canopy to become red and green as well.
Then, the Fighting Spade Armours that gnawed on these red pine trees, one by one, began to turn red in their bodies and shrivelled up. They often lay on the ground and wobbled as if they were having a stroke.
After a long time, the Fighting Spade Armours no longer had an appetite when they saw the red pine trees.
The squirrels, however, were unaffected; they continued to eat the pine cones and planted the trees.
In this way of transforming the pine trees, the loonies complete the expulsion of the invasive species.
The fighting spade beetles did not concede defeat. They put down a pine tree with a vengeance, destroying the surrounding pine forests and leaving many of the Pine Crawlers homeless.
The Pine Crawlers reappeared in a miracle.
It released a blue light that caused the pine trees to bear a blue pine cone. These pine cones, which were shaped like peaked towers and had surfaces like fish scales, quickly took root as soon as they hit the ground.
If the Fighting Shovel Armours entered the pine forest and were hit by a pine cone, the cone would settle on the armour on their backs and grow into a small pine tree.
Even if the shovel beetles help each other by using their jaws to remove the small pine tree from their backs, it will cause great pain. This is because the roots of this blue pine tree are very long and will burrow into their carapace all at once.
After this back-and-forth attack and defence confrontation, the fighting spade beetles knew what they were doing and finally stayed away from the pine tree area.
With the help of the gods, the squirrels gradually stood their ground.
The number of these little creatures continued to increase, and they built nests in the pine trees, planting more pine trees and expanding their area of activity. This steady approach allowed the Doo Shovel Armour’s territory to be squeezed from continuously.
But the good times don’t last long.
The squirrels have stepped into the land of the strange grass.
Oddball Grass doesn’t care if you’re a Spade Armour or anything else, and fires at the pines that invade their territory, punching and kicking them, uprooting and toppling each one to the ground.
They gave the squirrels a solid lesson, cutting off the pine forest’s rapid spread.
In the face of the monstrous grass, this time the Pine Crawler gods seemed to be at their wits’ end, with no follow-up response.
……
Lu Yao had a general perception.
The miracles of this Pine Crawler God unfolded through pine trees. Or rather, the pine trees were its tools for transforming the environment and nature. And the squirrels that relied on the pine trees were its natural believers.
In terms of miracle packages, the Pine Crawler God walks the developmental stream.
In the past, when facing other God players, Lu Yao highlighted a lightning attack to finish off the opponent before they could create a threat. Later on, after developing, Lu Yao also slowly tried to communicate with each other, but unfortunately none of them were very successful.
Now that he had managed to meet a new Extra-Terrestrial player who had only just come in, he cared about this hatchling and decided to focus on observation.
In addition, there was another place that Lu Yao cared about.
The [Forest Elemental] attribute of the Pine Crawler.
Among Lu Yao’s immediate goals, the [Golden Wilderness] was an important part. To obtain the next piece of reward, or even open up this Main God Space, one had to cultivate the Forest Elemental Civilisation.
Nowadays, there were two major living areas for Forest Elemental creatures.
One was the group led by the bardic elves in the forests of the Western Continent, which were the forest elemental creatures created by Isabel, and the second was the elves of the Southern New Continent.
The forest elemental creatures themselves depended on the forest and were born as transcendent beings, with an extremely strong individual survival ability, and had no urgent need to develop a civilisation.
Lu Yao had once asked Isabelle to promote it, but as a result, the Forest Elemental Creatures gathered together and many disputes occurred instead.
Forest wolves and giant lizards often fought for power, lynxes always tried to hunt down and kill Echidna rabbits, and bard elves spent most of their time fuming alone ……
Now that the Pine Crawler God has appeared, it might be possible to develop a forest elemental civilisation with squirrels.
In order to better allow the Pine Crawler God to develop, Lu Yao made a series of arrangements.
Fellows continued to act as observers, recording and keeping reports on the recent developments of the Pine Crawlers.
The Lords of the Deep were transferred to the nearby waters to ensure that the surrounding waters were stable and that no cannibal crabs or small fishers came to interfere.
The White God was sent to the valley to sit on the mountain range at the edge.
When necessary, the squirrels were provided with solutions to some of the obstacles to their development, and could even provide some of the resources in the background.
Lu Yao looked down at the statue of the Pine Crawler God and cheered for the other party.
Work hard, struggle!
The next time we open the [Golden Wilderness], it’s up to you.
