The mental energy in the sub-district was scattered and aimless. The plants here had no consciousness or initiative; they simply attacked everything around them indiscriminately, making them worlds apart from the Goddess Vine.
Yet this newly sprouted vine could already distinguish plants from animals. The mental energy it released had first gone straight for Xu Huo. Only after hitting a wall did it retreat.
Using mental attacks as a means of hunting really was different from the other Mutated Plants.
Mental interference progressed to mental control, and then to the ability to directly harm living beings. That was the general direction of Mental Evolution. Before entering this sub-district, Xu Huo hadn't been able to achieve mental control. He could only barely issue simple commands by compressing the duration of his mental interference. True mental control was more like Dou Shengnan's—powerful enough to make someone incapable of disobeying.
A step further, mental power could be used in more flexible ways. The pressure alone could leave someone dizzy, unconscious, or even dead. Unlike Manifestation, which turned mental power into tangible weapons, this was a truly elusive and hard-to-defend-against method, similar in principle to the "anchor."
There were countless Mutated Plants, but the Goddess Vine was the only one that was so much like a human.
Without disturbing the soil, Xu Huo could sense that the roots of both the Goddess Vine and the King Fungus were connected to the Nuwa Stone. There was no way to predict how far they might grow, so he took the opportunity to rest.
Before long, the Golden-eyed Player returned with one of his companions. The two had probably held out until they couldn't take it anymore before coming back. They looked pale, and when they saw Yan Jiayu, a familiar suspicion returned to their eyes.
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