Li Yao flew along on a surfboard, while the system scanned nearby mutated medicinal herbs and plants.

She is currently in the primeval forest and botanical garden of Banna.

System: [Host, there is a medicinal herb garden 5 kilometers ahead, which should have been a protected area in the past.]

Upon hearing this, Li Yao understood where it was.

There is a garden of southern medicinal herbs here.

The South China Medicinal Herb Garden was built in 2002. After expansion and renovation in 2012, its area increased from 30 mu to 50 mu.

We have collected and preserved nearly 500 kinds of medicinal plants.

By continuously collecting and preserving various medicinal plant species, we will establish a collection area for ethnic medicinal plant resources, mainly focusing on the preservation of southern Chinese medicinal plants, Dai medicinal plants, and Hani medicinal plants, to provide materials for scientific research and popular science education.

The park is divided into several sections by garden roads, including sections for southern medicinal plants, ethnic medicinal plants, Longhua medicinal plants, and raw materials for medicinal plants, with a focus on preserving southern medicinal plants.

In the southern medicinal herb area, more than 30 kinds of famous herbs are collected and displayed, including dragon blood tree, areca nut, alpinia oxyphylla, cardamom, cinnamon, Ceylon cinnamon, sterculia lychnophora, sandalwood, Indian houttuynia cordata, strychnos nux-vomica, rauwort, sappanwood, catechu, croton, coca, etc.

The Longhua medicinal herb area preserves Qiaocha, a tea used for extracting stimulant drugs.

Bone-setting pills and various important medicinal plants such as datura, aloe, achyranthes bidentata, citronella, plantain, curculigo orchioides, and senna are used for bone setting.

The ethnic medicine section displays medicinal plants used by the main ethnic groups of Tai, Hani, and Jino.

Examples include large-leaved firewood, gourd tea, spatula leaves, and yellow ginger flower.

In addition, the garden also preserves medicinal plants such as Gloriosa gloriosa, which contains high levels of colchicine, Rauvolfia gloriosa, which can be used to extract antihypertensive drugs, Maytenus gloriosa, which can prevent and treat tumors, and Strychnos nux-vomica.

This preserves important medicinal plant resources for future research into various intractable diseases.

When Li Yao entered the Southern Medicine Garden after the apocalypse, she was greeted by lush vegetation, which showed that it had been neglected and untended for a long time.

Li Yao immediately told the system, "[6834, scan for mutated medicinal herbs and special plants]".

System: [Okay, host. The locations of the mutated medicinal herbs and special plants have been marked.]

Li Yao opened the system panel, released her mental power and [Spatial Control], and began digging for medicinal herbs.

Like the third-grade datura, its flowers and leaves are larger, more robust, and fuller.

The fragrance of flowers has a numbing effect on the nerves.

Li Yao scanned the flower with her spiritual power and, without any hesitation...

He directly controlled the entire flower to emerge from the soil and immediately stored it in the [Infinite Space].

Other mutated medicinal herbs at the third level include aloe vera, Achyranthes bidentata, Citrus medica var. sarcodactylis, Plantago asiatica, Curculigo orchioides, and Smilax china.

Although there are slight differences in appearance, the general family and genus characteristics are still very obvious.

These mutated medicinal materials have amplified medicinal properties and are very precious Chinese medicinal materials.

Continuing onward, Li Yao also found dragon blood tree, areca nut, alpinia oxyphylla, cinnamon, Ceylon cinnamon, malva nut, and sandalwood, all of which were close to level 4.

The herbs have a strong fragrance, and the combination of various aromas makes this area relatively free of mosquitoes.

Li Yao controlled them all, along with a ring of soil, and collected them into the [Infinite Space].

After thinking it over, she realized that these medicinal herbs could also be grown in the [Spiritual Spring Space]. Many years later, she would have a lot of century-old medicinal herbs.

That would be a huge fortune.

Li Yao toured the entire Southern Medicinal Herb Garden, collecting almost all the existing medicinal herbs into her spatial storage. Afterward, she went to the Botanical Garden.

The tropical botanical garden in Banna includes a banyan tree garden, a wild vegetable garden, a vine garden, an aquatic plant garden, a garden of exotic flowers and plants, a shade-loving plant garden, a palm garden, a flower garden, and an arboretum.

Li Yao went to each one one by one.

The Banyan Tree Garden contains 48 species, 2 subspecies, and 19 varieties of banyan trees.

Ficus species are key species in tropical rainforests.

The spreading canopy and robust branches provide diverse ecological niches for epiphytes, vines, and shade-loving and shade-tolerant plants.

Abundant fruits, tender leaves, and fallen leaves provide a year-round food source for birds, mammals, insects, and other animals in the tropical rainforest.

Its strangulation phenomenon regulates the species regeneration of tropical rainforests.

Some species, such as the Bodhi tree, are regarded as sacred trees and Buddhist trees by local ethnic groups, forming a unique ethnic banyan tree culture.

Ficus papayaensis, Ficus appleensis, Ficus thick-skinnedensis, Ficus altissima, Ficus lyrata, Ficus synechocarpa, Ficus spicata, and Ficus spp. are important sources of wild woody vegetables for local ethnic minorities, and many other species are also important medicinal plants used by ethnic minorities.

The banyan trees, weeping banyan, bodhi tree, blunt-leaved banyan, and papaya banyan in the park have formed tropical landscapes such as single trees forming forests, strangler figs, trees enveloping towers, and trees enveloping rocks.

The concepts of a tree enveloping a tower or a tree enveloping a stone are quite easy to understand.

"Strangulation" is one of the least known survival strategies in tropical rainforests.

When birds eat the fruits of Ficus plants, the undigested seeds are excreted onto the branches or bark cracks of other trees.

Under suitable conditions, these seeds will germinate. Young banyan trees can produce aerial roots, which grow up the host tree trunk, climb to the ground, and insert themselves into the soil.

These aerial roots gradually thicken and branch, constantly crossing and merging to form a network that gradually wraps around and tightens around the host tree, robbing it of nutrients and sunlight.

Finally, the host plants, overwhelmed by nutrient deficiency, almost all of them die.

In the rainforest, fig plants use this strangulation method to "kill their host, take its place, and dominate."

Therefore, the mutated banyan trees exhibit more severe phenomena such as tree-wrapping of towers, trees-wrapping of rocks, and strangulation.

The banyan garden Li Yao saw after the apocalypse was basically a paradise for banyan trees and a hell for other plants and animals.

Her spiritual power swept across the area and she discovered that when small animals such as butterflies and tree frogs passed by the banyan tree, they would be wrapped up by the banyan vines and become small vine balls. Many small vine balls were hanging from the branches of some tall banyan trees.

Most of the banyan trees here are at level three or four. The abundant rainfall and the humid climate unique to the post-apocalyptic rainforest, combined with the concentration of mist, have made these plants mutate to a higher level.

The tallest banyan tree in the center of the banyan garden clearly shows a level 5 fluctuation.

Li Yao observed from mid-air on her surfboard, but didn't go down. After hesitating for a moment, she used [Spatial Cut] to kill the level 5 banyan tree, and finally collected its crystal core using [Spatial Devour].

In this way, the other banyan trees in this banyan garden will compete for the top spot, which will limit the development of higher-level plants and leave a glimmer of hope for future generations.