Chapter 71 Accelerating Growth with One Click on Flower Collection

The mountain where the elf tree grows is not very high, with a vertical height of about one thousand meters. However, because one side of the mountain is gentle and the other side is steep, the total area of ​​the mountain is not small.

When that little light on the mountainside comes on, looking down from the top of the mountain, it looks like seeing a tiny firefly.

Suanni and Qianchuan immediately recognized the thing thanks to their superhuman eyesight.

They exclaimed in unison, "It's that tree!"

System: "Hmm!? Let me see, let me see."

After all, they can get millions of points by harvesting a round of high-level mutated flowers, so the system uses a few hundred points to perform a small-scale scan as casually as drinking water.

The system then used some points to project the scan results into the air.

The trunk was straight and thick, and the branches had a beautiful curve, just like the fairy tree next to them.

Xiao Jiu exclaimed excitedly, "Xiao Jiu wants to go see it!"

Suanni: "Go if you want to."

The zombies had poor eyesight, but Xiao Jiu didn't care and just started running down the mountain.

However, after running only four or five steps, he suddenly felt a tightness in his waist.

A feeling of being lifted off the ground washed over him, and after a brief two seconds, he found himself sitting on a soft, warm surface.

The Suanni's voice rang out in front of him: "How long would it take you to run at that speed? Watch me."

The next instant, the Suanni suddenly pushed off the ground and shot out like an arrow.

A hazy mist rose from beneath his limbs, and clusters of blue flames ignited with each step he took, as if a bridge of flames had been erected in the eternal night.

In the blink of an eye, the Suanni had already arrived directly above the small tree.

He dispersed the smoke around him and was just about to drift down slowly when suddenly, a chill swept over him, and he instantly transformed into a little white cat.

Suanni: ?

The next second, the Suanni cried out: "Aaaaaah—"

Xiao Jiu raised her hand and pressed down on the Suanni, which was almost blown away, and then continued to freefall while holding the Suanni.

Xiao Jiu was already used to this feeling of weightlessness, except that every time he experienced it before, it was in the rift valley, and below the rift valley were laurel grasses that looked like powerful springs.

But now, there's nothing below them except a small tree.

Even if Xiao Jiu were a zombie, falling from this height would at most not turn her into a meat patty, but it would definitely break her bones.

The system's anxious voice grew louder as it approached.

"Host!!"

However, just as Xiao Jiu was about to hit the ground, a cold wind blew over and caught her.

Now, with the light shining from the saplings, it was clear that the wind had color.

It was like a wisp of black mist, unevenly distributed. Under the soft, pale light of the small trees, the densest areas of mist reflected delicate, fragmented red light.

Falling from a great height and then being rescued at the last possible distance would definitely terrify any normal person.

But Xiao Jiu held the miniature Suanni that had fallen into his arms high and shouted excitedly, "Yay!"

The long, icy blue fur around the Suanni's neck was blown into a mess, and coupled with his dazed eyes, the cat looked a bit silly.

The black mist dissipated.

At the same time, a black object silently appeared in Xiao Jiu's arm.

He hung on Xiao Jiu's arm, his two hind legs dangling loosely. However, because his legs were too short, they couldn't stick out from his long fur. So, all you could see when you looked at him was a fluffy black ball of fur.

The Suanni suddenly shuddered, then immediately turned to look at the black fur ball: "You just wait!"

The Taotie shook its little paws: "Okay."

The lion was so angry that its fur stood on end, and it pounced with a roar.

Just as the two furry balls were fighting, the system and Qianchuan arrived.

Qian Chuan looked apologetic: "I missed, otherwise the system would have arrived much earlier."

The system no longer wants to relive the experience of being knocked into the pit again.

It only glanced around Xiao Jiu once, and after confirming that the host was alright, it immediately changed the subject: "These branches don't seem to be a single entity."

The Suanni, its tail straining desperately, asked, "Huh? What do you mean?"

The Taotie, its head constricted by the Suanni's tail, cried out, "Waaaaah!"

Xiao Jiu, holding her head in her hands and trying her best to imitate, exclaimed, "Waaaaah!"

system:"......"

The system silently shifted its gaze to the small tree in front of it: "Judging from the energy levels, these branches are connected to the main body. If nothing unexpected happens, those newly planted branches will grow extremely fast."

The system said that because the spirit tree is bound to it, it can also be understood as being bound to the farmland.

In this way, as long as its branches are planted in farmland, it can directly influence the separated branches through the farmland.

Qianchuan suddenly realized: "No wonder this little tree is exactly the same shape as the fairy tree."

It is impossible for two trees in the world to be exactly the same, and this little tree looks almost like a copy-paste of the fairy tree, which means that it is actually a part of the fairy tree.

Suanni: "So that means if we keep fertilizing the Elf Tree, we can instantly accelerate the growth of other saplings?"

System: "That's right."

After the system finished responding, it hesitated before speaking, "Why don't you calm down first?"

The Suanni's tail was so strong it was starting to smoke, while the Taotie had been silent for a long time.

...It looks like it's a bit dead.

The Suanni turned its head to look, and then swiftly retracted its tail.

The Taotie fell to the ground with a thud.

After a while, the Taotie wriggled and tried to hug its head with its short claws.

He grumbled, "Waaah, my head's going to turn into a gourd!"

The Suanni sneered, "That's even better. With your body and tail included, you'll grow into a tamarind."

The system couldn't handle it: "Pfft."

Xiao Jiu asked curiously, "What is tamarind?"

The system explained: "It's the fruit of a plant, and it's edible."

Xiao Jiu nodded and didn't ask any further questions.

The system could only sigh sadly.

Suanni and Taotie probably know much more than Qianchuan and Fuyu because they frequently travel between different world planes.

One of them is food.

Once, when the topic of "fruit" came up, Xiao Jiu asked curiously what fruit was. After asking, he naturally wanted to try it.

The system's shop only sells flower seeds and ordinary water. Previously, it could use a bug to smuggle them in, but now that it's bound to the world, that's no longer possible.

Although Xiao Jiu's system covers a wide range of products across multiple world planes, it's strange that all the crops in it are the ordinary kind.

What's even stranger is that while the planting category includes vegetables and mushrooms, there are no fruit trees or seedlings, not even related seeds or fruits.

That day, Mingming Xiao Jiu was very excited before entering the mall.

When she came out, Xiao Jiu only stretched out her empty hands and whispered to everyone, "No."

The system felt heartbroken just thinking about the host's expression back then.

It exhaled and shouted, "I'm going to create a spatial portal so that you can eat wherever you want, and bring back whatever you want!"

Taotie immediately sat up: "Great! I'm going to take Xiao Jiu to eat the best meat buns!"

The Suanni flicked its tail: "Then I'm going to take Xiao Jiu to play with her mother."

Seeing that the conversation was getting further and further off track, Qianchuan smiled and picked them up one by one from the ground.

He carried the system on his shoulder, supported Xiao Jiu on his arm, and placed Taotie and Suanni in Xiao Jiu's arms. He started walking, step by step, up the mountain.

As the system previously stated, the condition of the Elf Tree is completely linked to the state of this world.

That means that if these "clones" of the spirit trees can grow as quickly as possible, then the revival of spiritual energy will be a few steps closer.

So, after collecting the Spirit Flower, everyone had another goal.

--synthesis.

However, because they had only used spirit flowers in the previous synthesis and had not synthesized any new varieties of flowers, they did not sell the mutated flowers this time when they were planting flowers. Instead, they collected them together with the spirit flowers.

Regardless of the variety, the freshness of the Spirit Flower can be extended by soaking its roots in Moon Spring.

Furthermore, the higher the level, the longer the extension period will be.

A level 1 Spirit Flower can be stored for a maximum of three years, and basically, for each level increase, this time can be extended by one year.

However, this is not absolute. Sometimes, the spirit flower will dissipate its energy and wither quickly, just like a genetic mutation, without any warning or pattern.

The mutated flower is the exact opposite of the spirit-transformed flower.

Mutated flowers have a very short shelf life, and the lower the level, the longer the shelf life. Level 1 flowers can be stored in the warehouse for up to a month.

High-grade flowers can only last for three or four days, provided they are properly tied up. Otherwise, even if they are put into the warehouse, they will struggle and decay more quickly.

Beside the farmland, the Suanni transformed back into its original form and used its large claws to press down on two mutated marigolds.

The spherical flower parts of those two marigolds resembled embryonic cells that had divided countless times, covered with densely packed tiny spheres.

As it struggles, the small spheres bulge and dent, then expand and shrink, shaking incessantly, which looks quite eerie.

The Suanni was so dazzled by the orange and black flowers that it felt nauseous.

He cried out to the system in anguish, "Hurry up, hurry up!"

The system spat out a mutated morning glory, and Xiao Jiu, who was standing nearby, immediately grabbed the mutated morning glory that was trying to run away.

The stamens of the variegated morning glory are particularly long, looking like the tongue of a hanged ghost.

Now that Xiao Jiu has pinned it down, it frantically shakes the flower, trying to fling the thorny tongue into Xiao Jiu's hand.

The Taotie slapped it with its claw.

This single swipe paralyzed the mutated cow, prompting the system to exclaim, "Quick!"

Xiao Jiu immediately took out the two mutated marigolds from under the lion's claws, clung them together with the dying morning glory, and then stuffed them directly into the system's mouth.

The system swallowed hard.

[Attempting to synthesize]

The Suanni reverts to its miniature form: "Hopefully it'll be red fertilizer."

Everyone: "Mhm."

Synthesis successful

The next second, the system suddenly spat out a black object.

It's not very big, only about two centimeters long, and it's oval in shape.

The cat-like Suanni extended its paw and nudged the thing with the tip of its paw.

"What is this?"