Chu Xiaoman was already used to Wang Zheng's occasional ramblings. She rolled her eyes and quickly stepped forward to open the box.

They were stunned when they saw the dark, unremarkable seeds and seedlings of the spiritual plant inside.

"Seeds? Weeds? Wang Zheng, what are you up to now?"

The young woman was initially delighted to open the surprise Wang Zheng had prepared for her, but the sudden shock completely shut her down.

Wang Zheng tapped her on the head in dissatisfaction.

"Nonsense, what weeds? This is the future of Nanjing University."

Seeing Chu Xiaoman's suspicious look, Wang Zheng's face turned serious, and he said earnestly:

"Chu Xiaoman, the organization has given you a very serious task: do everything you can to save these spiritual plants."

This not only concerns the interests of all faculty and students of Nanjing University in the future, but is also closely related to the special effects of your visualization.

Your visualizations are very effective for cultivating spiritual plants. Although you'll need to experiment with the specific effects yourself, I can sense the close connection between him and nature.

"nature?"

Chu Xiaoman frowned, looking puzzled, clearly having been tricked by Wang Zheng.

"Yes, that's right, it's nature, not just related to plants, but also including the earth, forests, mountains, marshes, and so on."

But as the saying goes, one must eat one bite at a time and walk one step at a time. This current method of self-cultivation is the most effective one I can do.

Later, I will find more spiritual plants for you to manage. All you need to do is spend more time with these plants, so your primary task right now is to build a solid foundation.

At this moment, although Chu Xiaoman was already dizzy from being fooled, her clever little brain still managed to grasp the issue that concerned her.

"You mean the only thing I can conjure up is the ability to stimulate the growth of spiritual plants? Is this what you meant by my powerful special effects yesterday?"

Wang Zheng immediately put on a disappointed look.

"Short-sighted!"

Each type of material has several special effects, but they all need to be developed one by one. You haven't even taken the first step, how can you expect to reach the top in one step?

You haven't even learned to walk yet, and you're already thinking about learning to run? There's no way you can have that kind of luck!

As I've already said, this is just the beginning, and there's still a long road ahead.

That's all I have to say. If you're willing, come with me for a few hours every evening after school. If not, that's fine too; just pretend I didn't say anything!

After being severely reprimanded by Wang Zheng, Xiao Chu was completely at a loss.

"Is...is that really true? You're not lying?"

"Really, look into my eyes, they're absolutely genuine!"

"Okay... alright!"

Looking at Wang Zheng's serious face, Chu Xiaoman still had some doubts, but then she thought that Wang Zheng had done so much for her and even personally led her training, so there shouldn't be any problems, right?

Although Wang Zheng may seem unreliable in general, he is quite dependable when it comes to cultivation, so I'll just trust him for now.

Not to mention that Grandpa still lives here. If he finds out that Wang Zheng lied to him, he can report him anytime.

Most importantly, if I'm on the same schedule as Wang Zheng, it means I can continue to mooch meals from him in the future!

She didn't believe any nonsense about credits being reset to zero. She had overheard her father, who managed the logistics at Nanjing University, mention that Wang Zheng had sold a lot of good stuff to the school at high prices.

Thinking about this made Chu Xiaoman feel wonderful.

"You still haven't told me what special training I need to receive, and what you meant by 'raising exotic beasts'? And why did you ask for leave for me!"

Next, Wang Zheng gave Chu Xiaoman a brief overview of Nanjing University's revitalization plan, focusing on the important parts and emphasizing that her visualized object was very helpful to the plan and an indispensable part of it.

He then gave her several directions for practicing visualization.

For example, communicating with the spiritual plant and trying to understand the seedling's thoughts.

Although it may sound far-fetched, the awakened people of this era are quite capable of accepting new things, well... at least someone like Chu Xiaoman is quite capable.

Wang Zheng didn't have any good solutions to this, since he could only see the effects of the other party's abilities, but the data panel didn't explain how to develop them. He could only hope that Yu Chu Xiaoman would work hard to research them herself.

As for why he asked Chu Xiaoman for leave this afternoon, it was because he was afraid that these precious spiritual plant seedlings would wither quickly after leaving the Jingnan Laboratory.

Even if Xiaoman (the solar term) cannot fully stimulate its growth at this time, even if it can only stabilize it, it can still prove that cultivating raw materials for medicinal materials at Nanjing University is definitely a promising business opportunity...

After hearing that Wang Zheng had secretly devised such a big plan all by himself, Chu Xiaoman, who always liked to join in the fun, also became interested.

She was very excited to learn that she could play such an important role in the plan to revitalize Nanjing University, completely unaware that she had been taken advantage of and used as a laborer.

After all, Wang Zheng told her that she was now the director of the spiritual plant cultivation project, and that they were on equal footing.

One is in charge of exotic beasts, and the other is in charge of spiritual plants.

However, since the project is in its early stages and there is a shortage of manpower, Wang Zheng is currently in charge of all the exotic beasts, while Chu Xiaoman is in charge of the spiritual plant project.

Furthermore, Wang Zheng also said that new spiritual plants will continue to be transplanted to the back mountain in the future, and all new employees who join the project will be under the management of Chu Xiaoman.

Anyway, it was the same process he went through when he first started his business, recruiting people and making grand promises, which felt very immediate.

In just a few words, he had Chu Xiaoman completely under his control. He didn't mention salary or benefits at all; once you looked at the details, it was all empty promises, nothing of substance.

Sure enough, as soon as these words were spoken, Comrade Xiao Chu, who had no experience of the complexities of society and was fond of grandstanding, immediately took the bait.

Not only did they bite hard, but they were also eager to participate actively, and they expressed their determination not to let down the organization's trust and to develop their own business.

Seeing that the little guy was completely hooked, Wang Zheng didn't hold back and, adopting a leader's demeanor, patted Chu Xiaoman's tender shoulder encouragingly.

"Very good, very energetic!"

He then handed her two thick stacks of experimental data on cultivating spiritual plants, which he had obtained from the research institute, and told her to read them herself, to understand them on her own, and to use her special abilities to water the plants. He also instructed her to connect with the plants and strive to achieve results as soon as possible.

Principal Wang's eyes were full of pride as he watched Chu Xiaoman diligently studying the materials.

"If this happened on Earth in the 21st century, which college student would fall for this kind of trick!"

Tsk tsk tsk, it's only because spiritual energy has revived that everyone's unwilling to use their brains anymore. No, I still need to go down and mention this plan to Old Man Chu later, lest he be shocked when he comes out to cultivate and sees Chu Xiaoman locked up in the laboratory.

"Where can I actually get seeds of spirit plants? I don't think the military region can exchange them..."