Chapter 172: Grass, stand up!

Phileas stood on the ridge, looking out over the land that had been transformed by the gods.

The originally flat grassland had turned into a basin surrounded by mountains. Only the central area retained the forests, wilderness, and rocky outcrops, which was also the center of the divine creation of species.

Behind him was a deep and wide strait, filled with seawater, becoming an impassable barrier for land animals. And further away was the regular area of the eastern continent.

Every movement of the grass in the basin was under Phileas’s watchful eye.

The numerous bone worms became his eyes, constantly monitoring every creature here.

He saw two small beetles wrestling, locking their mandibles together, then prying each other apart, and finally grappling and throwing each other to the ground in a desperate struggle.

This was the fighting beetle’s combative nature, quite normal.

As the small beetles fought, a foul butterfly flew over their heads, seemingly just for fun or to watch. The foul butterfly hovered over the small beetles, flapping its wings.

Suddenly, the two small beetles stiffened and then fled into the grass at lightning speed.

The foul butterfly released a foul odor.

Not far away, a close relative of the foul butterfly, the green butterfly, was dancing among the branches. The illusion created by the scales made the squirrels on the tree jump and frolic, excited and obsessed.

Under this tree, an adult fighting beetle lay.

It was about to gnaw and suck the sap from the tree.

Suddenly, two green tentacles reached out from the grass and pulled the fighting beetle up, throwing it over its shoulder. The fighting beetle, now on its back, struggled desperately, looking extremely disheveled.

Phileas touched his bony forehead with his hand.

Everything else here was quite normal.

If there was a problem… it was this kind of grass.

Phileas called it the irritable grass.

At some point, a transcendent plant appeared in the valley. It looked unremarkable, just a dense and flexible clump of grass.

But it was an extremely ferocious creature.

Phileas was a little unsure how to explain it.

Once the gods cast their gaze upon this world, how should he explain it?

“Oh great gods, a previously unknown transcendent creature has suddenly appeared in the valley, and it enjoys attacking the fighting beetles…”

Or should he say,

“Oh great gods, I have discovered a new life form in the valley, they are a type of grass that can restrain the expansion of the fighting beetles…”

He had carefully observed and researched this for several years.

The birth of the irritable grass had a series of reasons and background.

First, it was the pollination of the green and foul butterflies. They brought in a variety of grass seeds from the outside world, making the vegetation in the valley increasingly dense, with all kinds of strange plants emerging.

Furthermore, the beetles themselves were combative. They were difficult to break through each other’s defenses, but they had a way to do it, by locking the enemy with their mandibles and then throwing them into the swift currents of the strait.

The beetles in the water couldn’t fly, especially in the swift currents, they were even slower and could be preyed upon by the cannibal crabs and other marine creatures.

Over time, the coastal area of the valley became a death zone for the beetles.

Apart from this method of death, there were more natural deaths. Especially during the period of the small beetles, their defenses and shells were weak, and poisonous snakes and hawks were their natural enemies.

The offspring of the transcendent creatures were a special delicacy for ordinary carnivorous animals. Even though some of the hunters would die under the powerful mandibles of the adult fighting beetles, they continued to try to hunt.

Over time, many small beetle carcasses were left on the ground.

These carcasses were absorbed by the grass, and after being transformed by the pollination of the butterflies, they went through a series of evolutions to give birth to the irritable grass.

To some extent, it was a bit like a grass-shaped fighting beetle.

In his actual observations, Phileas found that the irritable grass and the fighting beetles were like water and fire.

The irritable grass was on the side of the plants. Whenever a plant was bullied or its territory was invaded, it would take action.

They would gather together, huddling into a large grass man to resist the burly fighting beetles, not at all at a disadvantage in terms of strength.

Moreover, because their bodies were made of grass, they were very agile, and they actually had the advantage when facing the fighting beetles.

Of course, the fighting beetles were not easy to back down.

For example, at this moment.

Phileas saw the overturned fighting beetle running away, then returning with two brothers. It seemed that they couldn’t bear this humiliation and wanted to win by numbers.

The three fighting beetles came aggressively to seek revenge.

The irritable grasses all stood up from the ground, revealing their strong roots underneath, and there were even more of them.

The two sides clashed, leaves and shells flew, and the soil splattered…

Phileas sighed.

This was the problem.

The irritable grass was not the traditional type of plant that could only stay in the soil. They could stand up, and even pull themselves out of the soil, maintaining mobility for a short time.

So more and more irritable grasses gathered together, protecting and cooperating with each other, forming a line of grass people that the fighting beetles could not cross.

Compared to the fighting beetles, the grass people could entangle each other, forming a strong grass man. As long as their numbers were enough, they actually had the advantage in terms of strength and size.Looking on the bright side, the emergence of the Furious Grass had injected more vitality into the entire valley. The Fighting Beetles, which usually alternated between eating and sleeping, now had to muster their spirits to compete with the Furious Grass for territory, vying for patches of grass and woodland.

The constant confrontation between the two groups also led to both sides becoming rapidly stronger.

Phileas silently prayed in his heart.

These beetles, created by the gods, were often beaten up by the Furious Grass. He hoped the Divine Oracle wouldn’t be angry…

Suddenly, a Divine Oracle resounded in his mind.

—How are things?

Phileas jolted and quickly knelt on the ground: “Divine Oracle, your subordinate has a new discovery…”

…

Lu Yao held a bowl containing rice, sweet and sour pork ribs, mushroom and pork strips, and green vegetables. He had gone to sleep last night and woke up to find it was already noon the next day.

His parents had gone out to visit relatives and left him lunch in the pot.

So he took it out to eat while watching the Simulator.

Lu Yao shoveled rice into his mouth, his eyes on the Simulator.

The skeletal Phileas was reporting his work.

“…Due to absorbing the corpses of the Fighting Beetles and the grass seeds brought by two types of butterflies, a special grass-type Transcendent creature was born in the valley.”

Lu Yao shoveled a couple more mouthfuls of rice.

Buy one, get one free?

Was there such a good deal?

“However, the Fighting Beetles are somewhat unable to resist this type of grass.”

“At first, the Fighting Beetles had the upper hand, but the grass-type creatures can adapt to various environments, and they can rise from the soil… Temporarily hiding away, and then returning in force once their numbers are sufficient.”

“Because the grass-type creatures regenerate quickly, each generation becomes stronger and stronger.”

Lu Yao’s chopsticks paused.

Grass, standing up?

What kind of magical creature was this?

He put down his bowl and moved the mouse to find the grass-type creature Phileas was talking about.

They looked like a clump of rather wide grass, with extremely dense and curly leaves, darker in color than ordinary grass, reminding Lu Yao of the air pineapples at the flower market.

…

【Mighty Grass LV8】

Health Points: 84/84

Mana Points: 1/1

Damage: 4

Defense: 4

Speed: 3

【Robust】

Health Points are above normal levels, able to maintain high fighting spirit for a long period.

【Gregarious】

When gathered together, they produce stronger combat power, the more the number, the greater the increase.

…

Lu Yao overlooked the valley and soon witnessed a battle between the Mighty Grass and the Fighting Beetles.

Two Fighting Beetles tried to uproot their enemy with their mandibles, but were surrounded by a group of Mighty Grass. The grass creatures swung their curly leaves, working together to bring down the beetles.

One Fighting Beetle was flipped over by the Mighty Grass, its soft underbelly immediately pummeled by the grass creatures’ fists, and its limbs were tightly bound. The other beetle hurriedly helped it back onto the ground. The two beetles were helpless against the Mighty Grass and could only walk away dejectedly.

Lu Yao took a bite of his pork ribs with rice.

You had your chance and you blew it.

Intimidating in appearance, but who knew they’d be hammered by the Mighty Grass.

Phileas quickly added: “Divine Oracle, although the Fighting Beetles are at a disadvantage against the Mighty Grass in the valley, they are still evenly matched with the Fire Chickens in the Eastern Continent, going back and forth, they are still very strong.”

Lu Yao almost choked on his rice.

So I can’t beat the Mighty Grass, and I can’t beat you either?

Hold on, have the Fighting Beetles finally crossed the gorge and entered the outside ecosystem?

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