Chapter 68 Synthesis Function: I Want to Make a Deal with You

Xie Chuanfeng's left arm, plus the points gained when redeeming the next item, totals three million points.

This number would have been unimaginable in the past.

But right now, barring any unforeseen circumstances, planting one or two rounds of level 6 mutated flowers and selling them for three million points after harvesting is more than enough.

However, since Xie Chuanfeng wasn't the only one planting flowers, the score needs to be divided by the number of people.

The system calculated that, based on the current farmland yield, Xie Chuanfeng would have to work for them here for about two years.

The flow of time in Xie Chuanfeng's world is different from that in this world of eternal night.

Two years.

By the time Xie Chuanfeng had paid off his "debt," nearly five hundred years had passed in his world.

Even if he can go back then, that world will definitely not be the one he is familiar with.

Perhaps it was because monsters roamed the land and the world was ravaged, or perhaps it was because humans and monsters finally eradicated the monsters and rebuilt their home.

Or perhaps... the war exhausted the world's spiritual energy, causing spiritual depletion and the extinction of cultivators.

Nobody can say for sure.

Seeing Xie Chuanfeng's already very skilled flower-digging movements, Suanni suddenly spoke.

"Hey, human, aren't you worried about what your world will become?"

Fuyu, who had been unsure how to start the conversation: !

Qianchuan, who had been trying to gently persuade the other party: !

Xiao Jiu and Taotie, standing nearby, looked at them and tilted their heads in unison: "Hmm?"

system:"......"

It's like we've gotten used to it.

Xie Chuanfeng was stunned for a moment after hearing Suanni's words.

He subconsciously looked at his hands, and upon seeing the mud-covered metal fingers, he simply said, "That has nothing to do with me right now. I can only do what I can do at this moment."

Although he said that, his hand trembled for a moment when he said the word "only".

The Suanni flicked its tail and said nothing more.

This is Xie Chuanfeng's fourth month in the Eternal Night World.

For Xiao Jiu and the others, apart from the addition of a taciturn human, life here was not much different from the previous ten years.

The Elf Tree stands at the top of the world, bathed in its milky white light, where transplanted spirit flowers thrive.

The small branch that was cut off has already taken on the shape of the original tree. If you look closely, you will find that the branches of this small tree and the branches of the fairy tree are exactly the same in shape and direction.

In addition, the sapling was beginning to show faint signs of glowing.

However, it's probably because it hasn't fully grown yet, so the light it emits is intermittent, like a poor connection after being powered on.

Beside the sapling, the system, having completed its energy state test, said, "There shouldn't be any problems."

Fuyu: "Then can we plant a few more saplings?"

The system nodded: "Okay, that works."

I planted only one branch before, just to test whether the planting process would proceed as planned.

Now that things are settled, the planting area should be expanded.

However, the light emitted by the sapling is far inferior to that of the fairy tree. Even after it can emit light stably, the area it can illuminate will only be about twenty square meters around the tree.

This area is calculated including farmland, so if farmland is excluded, the remaining area cannot be covered with many spirit flowers, and it is far from meeting the minimum standard for "spiritual energy revival".

The system finished its calculations and said, "This is not a genuine broken branch of the Elf Mother Tree, so it doesn't have that much energy. There's no need to plant one in every field."

In other words, even when those saplings eventually grew to adulthood, they were never as big as the current fairy tree.

System: "The current farmland area is roughly enough to plant three small trees per plot."

Everyone nodded.

After discussing it, they unanimously decided to set aside six more plots of land to plant trees.

In this way, out of the twenty fields, seven fields are used to grow trees, three fields are used to grow food, and the rest are used to grow flowers.

They hadn't upgraded their farmland before because, according to the system, the growth buff of level 7 farmland would be even stronger, and they had limited manpower; they simply couldn't manage twenty level 7 farms.

At this point, the farmland with trees planted hardly needs any maintenance, which means the number of farmland has been reduced by almost one-third. Under these circumstances, upgrading will be perfectly fine.

Xiao Jiu is already very familiar with this process.

He stood in front of the farmland and said, "Upgrade."

Since the number of farmlands was already at the maximum level, there was only one upgrade option left, so Xiao Jiu said again: "Level".

Upgrading a level 6 farm to level 7 requires 10,000 points per farm.

Two hundred thousand points are no problem for them at all now.

As the announcement was broadcast from the space, the color of the twenty plots of farmland instantly turned dark brown, looking nutritious and very fertile.

The system explained: "Compared to level 6, the growth buff of level 7 farmland reduces the growth time of crops by almost half."

The Suanni wailed, "Ah? I'll be exhausted to death when I'm using those level one flowers!"

System: "Then give up your binding location."

Suanni was still thinking about his exclusive food recipe. Because he had previously tasted the benefits of directly unlocking recipe materials, Suanni did not agree this time, only humming, "We'll talk about it later."

His obsession is almost complete with his own special food for the Suanni.

He looked at Xiaoxue, the spirit being munching on her special food in the flower bushes, and let out a resentful howl: "If this keeps up, I'll become the lowest level one!"

The system looked at him strangely: "What are you talking about? Aren't dogs supposed to be at the bottom?"

No matter how powerful it was before, the Taotie hadn't even hatched yet, and wasn't even level 1.

Suanni was taken aback upon hearing this, then glanced at the system with an expression of utter disbelief: "You still haven't noticed?"

The system was bewildered: "What did you find?"

Suanni rolled its eyes: "Forget it, I don't want to be chased and have my tail bitten. Go ask it yourself."

system:?

However confused the system may be at this moment, since the farmland is still empty, they must finish sowing the seeds before they can do anything else.

As is customary, now that we've upgraded, we must plant new flowers.

There are only two types of flowers at level 7: clematis and peony.

The Suanni complained, "Why are there fewer and fewer? Level 1 cost so much, how come there are only two kinds left by level 7?"

The system straightened up and shrugged: "There's nothing we can do, that's how the program is set up."

Ever since Fuyu heard that there were only two choices for level 7 flowers, he had been staring blankly at the farmland in front of him.

Seeing this, Xiao Jiu, still holding Taotie, went over and asked, "What's wrong, Ayu?"

Fu Yu immediately snapped out of her daze: "No, I was just thinking that the higher the level, the fewer seeds there are... Could this be a way for us to synthesize them ourselves?"

system:!

The system seemed to have a sudden realization: "Oh yeah! How could I have forgotten that!"

It immediately rushed over and showered Fuyu with praise, while Xiao Jiu echoed, "Ayu is great!" Fuyu's face and ears turned red from the praise.

The system's synthesis function was originally intended as a fun system, similar to a mini-game placed in a side quest when playing a combat-leveling game.

The synthesis process is simple; just put three flowers into the warehouse.

Moreover, there is no such thing as failed synthesis. Even if you don't synthesize a new flower, you can still get planting items, such as acceleration fertilizer that cannot be bought in the store.

In short, it's similar to a lottery with a consolation prize.

However, since the system mutated, this synthesis function has become able to directly synthesize medicines using Spiritual Flowers.

As for whether they can synthesize other things, they haven't tried yet, so it's still unknown.

Upon hearing this, the Suanni immediately swung its tail and jumped over, its tone extremely cheerful: "How about we set aside two plots of land specifically to grow low-level flowers? Once they're grown, we can use the less fresh flowers in the warehouse to synthesize them!"

Xiao Jiu was also eager to try, her eyes sparkling as she looked at the system: "Synthesize!"

What else can the system say?

Just as it was about to agree, Xiao Jiu, who had been excited just a second ago, suddenly turned to look at the only human there.

Xie Chuanfeng was startled when he suddenly felt a gaze upon him.

The next second, Xie Chuanfeng saw Xiao Jiu running up to him.

Xiao Jiu said, "Chuan Feng, Xiao Jiu wants to synthesize it."

Xie Chuanfeng didn't quite understand what Xiao Jiu meant, and in fact, he didn't quite understand what these non-humans were saying either, so he simply replied, "I will do my best."

Xie Chuanfeng thought that Xiao Jiu had come over to talk to him on purpose so that he could prepare to plant flowers or something, but to his surprise, Xiao Jiu shook her head.

Xiao Jiu looked at him: "Xiao Jiu doesn't want to tell Chuan Feng to do his best. Xiao Jiu wants to ask Chuan Feng if he agrees or not."

Before Xie Chuanfeng could process what was happening, Taotie, who was being held in Xiao Jiu's arms, suddenly spoke up: "Xiao Jiu is asking you if you agree to use only a portion of the land to earn points."

Qian Chuan also came over. He smiled at Xiao Jiu and then explained to Xie Chuanfeng.

"As I mentioned before, you need to help plant flowers here for two years. The premise for this timeframe is that we continue to use the same fields as before, and the number of flowers planted remains the same."

"But now that we've upgraded the farmland, it's like refining and upgrading magical artifacts and weapons."

He explained in terms that a monk could understand: "So, we now plan to use these magical artifacts in a new way. But that might increase the time you have to stay here."

Seeing that Xie Chuanfeng didn't react, Qian Chuan added another sentence.

"But this is not absolute; if the planting conditions are good, this time may be shortened."

Xie Chuanfeng only asked, "...Why?"

Qianchuan was about to ask the other party where he hadn't explained things clearly when Xie Chuanfeng spoke first.

Xie Chuanfeng looked at Xiao Jiu, his rarely expressionless face revealing an indescribable complex expression: "Why?"

Xie Chuanfeng didn't understand.

He was human, while his opponent was a monster of unpredictable power.

They saved him, helped him rebuild his arm, and now they care about his feelings and emotions.

Xie Chuanfeng asked himself honestly, if their situations were reversed, he, as a human, would never have helped a demon beast in this way.

not to mention......

Even the worst monster is far more useful than him.

Xiao Jiu was also a little confused by Xie Chuanfeng's two consecutive questions.

He blinked and said strangely, "Every year is a friend, and so is Chuanfeng. Xiao Jiu wants to help her friends."

Xiao Jiu's eyes are different from humans'. His irises are jet black, and even when viewed up close or under strong light, they do not show varying shades of texture, making his eyes appear like black crystals.

Pure and clean.

Looking into those eyes, Xie Chuanfeng suddenly couldn't utter a single word.

He suddenly thought that back then, Senior Qi almost died at the Golden Core stage. At that time, how much envy and hatred must a young female cultivator with emerging strength and no sect or family protection have attracted?

In the entire cultivation world, probably no one would consider her a human being.

For those cultivation families, for those sects, and even for cultivators throughout the entire cultivation world, she was merely a resource.

Everyone wants her, everyone wants to kill her.

In that secret realm a thousand years ago, what was she thinking when she was rescued by her childhood friend Xiao Jiu?

What were her feelings when she established the City of Ten Thousand Demons?

Xie Chuanfeng's hands, which were hanging down, gradually clenched into fists.

He closed his eyes and exhaled heavily.

When he opened his eyes again, the light emanating from the distant fairy tree reflected in them, as if a light had been ignited within them.

He looked at Xiao Jiu: "Senior Xiao Jiu, I would like to make a deal with you."