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"Of course!"

Saoirse looked at Li Guanqi, with a touching smile on her beautiful face, "I am a knight, and the promise made by the knight will never be broken. I said goodbye next time, and I will help you raise your soul to the eighth level Yes, of course we will do what we say.”

"It's just... uh..."

As she said that, she hesitated a little, "Mr. Li, you should have understood that in most cases, if you want to raise your soul to the eighth level, no matter which set of soul-raising resources you use, whether it's pills or potions , Formation is good, basically you need to use something called 'Eight Spirit Leaf'."

"Yes, I know."

Li Guanqi nodded.

The Baling Leaf is a rare and rare medicinal material, its value cannot be measured by the value of gold coins, and it is difficult for ordinary people to obtain it through normal channels.

Because it is the main material of the eighth-level resource of Ascension Soul, it is a national strategic resource, and it is impossible to get it unless the country's high-level dignitaries are dignitaries.

In addition, the eight spirit leaves have many uses, far more than being used as materials for eighth-level soul-raising resources. Many large-scale formations for souls also need it as energy to start and run.

Because of this, the eight spirit leaves are more precious and difficult to obtain.

So if Li Guanqi came by himself, it would be basically impossible for him to obtain the resources to raise the soul to the eighth level.

But standing in front of him at this moment is Saoirse, a female sorcerer of the Nine Palaces.

And standing behind Saoirse is Queen Tulip, the ruler of a great western empire. Although the eight spirit leaves are precious, there should be many such things in the empire's treasury... However, judging by Saoirse's expression at this time, it is obvious that Not quite right.

"Excuse me, what's the problem?"

Li Guanqi looked at Saoirse curiously.

"It's actually a small problem."

Saoirse stroked the broken hair beside her ears, and said softly: "The specifics are state secrets, I can't say more, but what I can reveal to you, Mr. Li, is that due to the energy demand of the defensive formation, the 'Eight Lingye' Now it has been divided by our empire into the highest level of wartime strategic reserves, and no one can mobilize it privately.

In addition, the number of eight spirit leaves needed to refine the eighth-level soul ascending pill is a huge number. Even with my status and status, it cannot be mobilized during the current war.

I asked Her Majesty the Queen, and she did not allow me to do so.

But after hearing about my purpose and knowing that I was to help you raise your soul to the eighth level, she gave me this thing..."

Saying that, Saoirse took out a string of beautiful flower headbands from the space necklace.

"Hey."

She smiled and handed it to Li Guanqi.

"what is this?"

Li Guanqi was a little dazed.

"Blessings from the Elf High Priest!"

Saoirse said seriously.

"Elves?"

Hearing this word suddenly, Li Guanqi couldn't help being a little surprised.

The weird world is very "magical". In addition to all kinds of orcs, there are also sharp-eared "elves" that seem to appear in western fairy tales, but he has never seen them.

Cat people, tiger people, fox people, tauren, lion head people, centaurs... Although not all of the orcs, he has at least seen a lot of orcs.

Even if it was a mermaid in the sea, he had encountered it in an accident in the Eastern Islands.

Only this so-called "elf family", he only heard their names, but never saw their people, and he had never seen those beautiful creatures with pointed ears.

"Blessings from the Elf High Priest..."

Li Guanqi took the flower headband from Saoirse, and looked at her curiously, "This wreath is a blessing? What do you mean? Something like a keepsake?"

"Yes, to put it bluntly, it is actually a token."

Saoirse nodded slightly, "This garland has been enchanted by the high priest of the elves, and it has a special aura. Her ladyship told me that as long as we take this wreath to the Elven Forest of the Tulip Empire, we can get the spirit of the elves." garland, and the High Priest will help you raise your soul to the eighth level."

"The Elven Forest of the Tulip Empire?"

Li Guanqi was taken aback, "I, I thought that the elves only existed in a certain hidden forest above the Ayabel Prairie."

"The world you come into contact with is still too small."

Saoirse just shook her head and laughed, "A lot of things, if you don't reach that level, you won't be able to touch them."

"Yes, the elves are mysterious after all."

Li Guanqi thought for a while, and then asked: "I haven't seen any relevant records in various books, so what is the status of this 'high priest' in the elves?"

"Is it a group leader in various senses, like an emperor?"

Saoirse blinked her beautiful eyes, and said with a little hesitation: "Well, the elves pay more attention to the equality of everyone, so there is no such thing as monarchs, ministers and emperors, but their high priests are said to be high priests, but in my opinion , In fact, the status and power are exactly the same as the emperor."

"I see……"

Li Guanqi nodded slightly.

In the past, when he just met Shun Kong, he asked for information from the other party.

Among them is the matter of the elves.

But the elves in the old age had an imperial system, no different from the human empire. There was only an elf emperor, and there was no such thing as a high priest, so he asked Saoirse about related matters.

Shunkong knew a lot of things, but after all, it was something from the old era, and it was all outdated information.

Of course, outdated is outdated, and some things cannot be outdated.

Such as the essence of the elves.

According to Shunkong, the elves were first transformed by a certain western god.

That god has a very good relationship with the fire god Mengyao, and he is also a person who lived from the 21st century to the age of gods.

It may be because of this, influenced by the elf elements in various movies, animations, comics, and novels in the 21st century, that the god has an obsession with "elves".

Where in the world do elves come from?
But there were no orcs in the world, but in the end, due to the flaws in the early human body training method and the hybridization experiments of some crazy beast magicians, countless orcs appeared.

Perhaps it was this phenomenon that inspired that Western god.

He chose to transform humans!
That god tampered with the gene sequence of a human village, coupled with his continuous research and improvement, the special blood that he called himself "elven blood", and finally succeeded in turning all the humans in this village into "elven blood" in his mind. ".

In fact, to put it bluntly, they are just a special family of different blood, but because they are customized, they are called "elven".

These "divine spirits" are equivalent to human beings and have 4 characteristics.

1. Beauty.

Elves, regardless of gender, can be described as "beautiful".

Individuals among elves have differences in appearance, but there is absolutely no distinction between beauty and ugliness, because the modified genes make the appearance of each elf perfect and beautiful for human aesthetics.

2. Longevity.

The lifespan of a human being with different blood is linked to his cultivation, but it does not depend entirely on his cultivation. On the contrary, the different blood is more decisive.

Some alien blood can live for five or six hundred years at the third level.

With some blood, Jiugong level can only live for 100 years... For example, the common textbook "Ying's Royal Family".

And the elves also have "elven blood".

Due to the special blood specially improved by that god, coupled with the tampered gene sequence, the combination of the two made the lifespan of the elves very "unspeakable".

Even ordinary elves can live at least 500 years without practicing at all.

As long as they reach the unitary level, the elves can live for 7 or 800 years.

But that's all. Even if the elves have cultivated to the Liangyi level, Sancai level, or even Jiugong level, their lifespan will be fixed at about 800 years. Occasionally, some individuals can live more than 900 years, but very few. There is no such thing in the history of the old era.

This lifespan problem was once considered to be a genetic defect in the old era.

Because the old era is not the new era.

Due to unknown reasons, even if the New Epoch humans are at the Jiugong level, they cannot escape the lifespan limit of 1000 years.

But the old age is different.

Humans of the Jiugong level in the old era are enough to live for thousands of years.

In contrast, even if they are both at the Jiugong level, the elves who can only live for 800 years naturally become representatives of genetic defects and are considered to be a short-lived ghost race.

however……

This phenomenon was reversed after the New Epoch.

Because the upper limit of human life span in the New Epoch is 1000 years, even at the Jiugong level.

But what about elves?

Born to live 500 years.

After a little practice, after reaching the unitary level, you will have a lifespan of 800 years, which is close to the upper limit of human lifespan.

In this way, the short-lived ghost race, which was considered to be genetically defective in the old era, directly became the representative of the long-lived species in the new era, a recognized long-lived race.

Regarding the life expectancy of the old and new epochs, Li Guanqi actually took the time to ask Pluto.

Pluto's answer is - don't know.

If he had to insist on one reason, it might be that the Human Sovereign had extracted too much source energy from this planet at the end of the Old Epoch, which led to changes in the planet's environment, making it impossible for humans in the New Era to survive a thousand years after that.

According to Pluto's guess, Li Guanqi's lifespan should be different from that of the Xinji people, and there will be no upper limit of a thousand years.

He should be the same as the ancient humans. After the Jiugong level, he is enough to live for thousands of years.

Of course, it's guesswork.

But Li Guanqi really hoped that this guess would come true.

3. The quantity is scarce.

To put it bluntly, the elves are still human beings of different blood, and human beings of different blood have a characteristic, that is, the "winning rate" of pregnancy is extremely low, and special medicine is needed to increase the chance of pregnancy.

Fortunately, the lifespan of human beings in the Old Era was extremely long. Even though there was a period of vacuum without medicine in the history of the Old Era, which made the heterogeneous people unable to conceive, there was still enough time for human beings to realize this and develop related medicines , Assisted reproduction.

It is difficult for human beings with different blood to reproduce, but after using fertility medicine, they can be like normal human beings again.

In the 21st century, almost all film and television works with elf elements will carry the setting of "difficulty for elves to reproduce", saying that it is difficult for elves to have children, and the fertility rate is extremely low.

However, this elf family is a man-made elf family.

Although the western god wanted to create an elf family, he didn't think about fully fitting these settings. He didn't want this kind of negative setting at all.

He never thought of deliberately making it difficult for the elves to reproduce.

He even successfully modified the gene so that the elves can conceive easily like normal humans without the need for fertility drugs, which can be said to be a major breakthrough in genetic modification.

After the elves were born, there was indeed no problem of low fertility.

But new genetic defects emerged.

The fertility rate of the elves is fine, but the survival rate of infants and young children is terribly low.

From the time elves are born, between the age of 1 and 3, various genetic diseases will suddenly occur, which cannot be cured at all, and the mortality rate is extremely high, which makes it easy for elves to have children. As an adult, it is as difficult as reaching the sky.

The god of the West tried to reformulate the problem, but was unable to do so.

The infant mortality rate is extremely high. This feature makes the elves not only ignore life, but also attach great importance to life.

After hundreds of thousands of years of habit, the elves have become accustomed to the death of their own children. After all, one dies after another. If they cry bitterly every time and are so sad that they cannot control themselves, they will not be able to survive at all.

So, the elves are used to it... Of course, they have to get used to it.

They have to get used to their children dying before they are 3 years old, and they have to make sure that they will not be too sad if they have more than a dozen children.

In order to achieve this, the elf parents will not raise the baby by themselves, but after the baby is born, they will be handed over to professional elves for care. This is a helpless move to avoid more feelings.

Most of these handed over babies will die of illness before they are 3 years old.

3 years old is a life-and-death barrier for the elves.

As long as they can survive beyond the age of 3, the genetic disease will disappear quickly, and they will return to health, and these children will return to the arms of their parents.

Because it is often lost, it will be cherished more.

Because of this, once a child survives the age of 3, the elves will attach great importance to it. Their friendship with their compatriots is far deeper than that of any human nation. They are the most united race, and no one can disintegrate from the inside. them.

Because they know very well that when an elf grows up, dozens or hundreds of elves die young.

They understand the preciousness of life.

History can be a mirror.

The elves have never had a civil war.

4. The abilities of the elves are various.

The elves are genetically modified humans, but it's not just genetically modified, the western god also endowed them with special blood.

It was the product of many years of experimentation by the Western gods - the blood of the elves.

This different blood is essentially a fusion of countless different bloods, which contains a lot of abilities, and each one is different.

The original idea of ​​the western god was to create a powerful and perfect race that could possess multiple abilities at the same time.

But things backfired.

The good idea was reduced to nothing, and he failed to realize this idea after all. The elves are still the same as humans with different blood, they can only have one kind of ability.

However, he wasn't a total failure.

Because of the abilities of the elves, it became random.

Assuming that there are 100 kinds of abilities hidden in the blood of the elves, after the elves are born, they will randomly inherit a certain ability from the genetic ability library.

Of course, this is just a hypothesis, after all, there are far more than 100 kinds of abilities hidden in the blood of elves.

However, it is precisely because of this characteristic that the elves are more like a race independent of humans.

If the entire elf family has only the same ability, it will be no different from the human blood family.

But they have many abilities, it looks like they are really an independent race, and they can get random abilities.

【Handsome】【Longevity】【Few People】【Random Ability】

These are the four characteristics of the elves.

It stands to reason that the emergence of the elves proved that human beings can obtain higher talents through genetic modification and blood modification. Then the ancient gods should crazily transform all human beings to make human beings more "perfect".

But it's not.

Because the elves have never been born gods.

According to Pluto, humans in the new era cannot become gods because of insufficient source energy.

But in the gods period of the old era, there was a lot of origin energy.

However, human beings who have been genetically modified and modified by different blood, that is, these elves, can open the Shrine of Law, but they are not qualified to enter the Shrine.

When every elf cultivates to the last step of the Nine Palaces level, he will feel that he is clearly in place in all aspects, but the Law Shrine just refuses to accept him, and does not recognize him as the master.

No matter how abundant the source energy is, an elf cannot become a god.

In addition, those orcs are the same.

The gods can't figure out the reason.

Could it be that human beings whose genes have been artificially tampered with cannot become gods?

But accepting the body of the strange blood of the curse spirit is also changing the genes...

However, it doesn't matter if you don't know the principle, at least the result is very clear - by messing with genes, humans cannot become gods.

The most prosperous period of the Old Era was the period of the gods.

Everyone aims to become a god.

Therefore, not being able to become a god is a fatal injury.

Although it stands to reason that most of the gods should be happy to see this situation out of selfishness. After all, the gods will be fixed in that way, and there will be no latecomers.

But among the gods, not all of them are selfish.

Led by the fire god Mengyao, a group of powerful and righteous gods who came out of the doomsday era strictly oppose this kind of behavior.

And this idea was also inherited by the god-kings of later dynasties.

In general, justice overwhelms selfishness, so that human beings are not genetically modified, and the hope of becoming a god remains.

Because of this, the old gods gradually avoided talking about genetic modification and the improvement of different blood. At most, they used it to create some special different blood families to protect their own gods.

When Li Guanqi and Shun Kong talked about this, they both agreed that the Ying family might be such a product.

Although the lifespan is short, the growth cycle is also short, and it will be replaced when it dies. It will be a Jiugong level for decades, and it can be called the best subordinate.

But in the old era, Shun Kong had never heard of anyone similar to the Ying family, so he could only guess that it was a secret organization, so it was unknown.

Even Pluto doesn't know more information about the Ying family.

It was a mysterious family.

But Li Guanqi believes that one day he will be able to unravel these mysteries.

Thousands of thoughts, but in the blink of an eye.

After hearing Saoirse mention the "elf", this information could not help appearing in her mind, but to the outside world, it was only a moment.

"Miss Saoirse."

Li Guanqi looked at the blond female magician in front of him, shook the flower headband given to him by the other party in his hand, and smiled lightly: "Then let's go now, the forest where the elves live... To be honest, I don't like those beautiful and handsome The elves are indeed very interested."

"follow me."

Saoirse turned around, tore open a crack in space, and reminded in a low voice: "Oh, that's right, this time it's a normal teleportation, it's different from going to the Star Land through a space blockade, there will be no danger , Mr. Li, you don’t have to hold my hand anymore.”

"Forehead……"

Li Guanqi was taken aback.

Saoirse took the initiative to hold his hand for the first three teleportation to lead stars. He didn't care too much about the reason. Now it seems that the teleportation to lead stars is dangerous...

"clear."

Li Guanqi came back to his senses, nodded, and then followed Saoirse's footsteps, and stepped into the space crack that distorted the colorful brilliance.