Chapter 81 Rapid Blooming: This is my first time mutating! ...

The lion's howl startled Grandma Tai Li, who was resting on the spirit tree, awake.

A flash of red light appeared, and a snake nearly three meters long appeared in front of them.

Grandma Tai Li propped her head up and asked them, "What happened?"

The Suanni, its ears drooping, said, "It's nothing..."

At this moment, the farmland in front of them stretched as far as the eye could see, almost without end.

The system promptly added: "Now the area of ​​a field is about 200 square meters, which is nearly 10 times larger than before."

Grandma Tai Li: "Is Meow Meow scared?"

Suanni: "No!"

Grandma Tai Li simply gathered everyone together and chuckled.

As the system watched this scene, it suddenly remembered the very beginning.

Back then, this place was a desolate spatial rift, and they only had a one-square-meter plot of farmland. Surrounding them were a pile of strange white pebbles. Xiao Jiu was squeezed into a small corner and dared not move.

System: "I never imagined we could turn this place into this."

Everyone was quite impressed by the system's words.

The Suanni didn't say anything more, only flicked its tail: "Alright, alright, what should we plant now?"

As he spoke, his eyes darted around, and before he could even finish saying the word "me," he immediately interrupted—

"Of course it's a level 8 flower!"

Suanni originally wanted to answer first, but there were several voices that said the question, with completely different timbres and tones overlapping each other, making them seem very tacit.

They looked at each other in surprise, then burst out laughing.

As they had previously speculated, the higher the grade, the fewer varieties of flowers there were.

At least there are two types of level 7 flowers, but now there's only one choice for level 8 flowers—the hosta.

The seeds of the hosta flower do not need to be soaked beforehand; simply scatter them evenly on moist soil.

The seeds of this flower are light-loving, so after sowing, it is important to maintain sufficient light exposure for a certain period of time.

In addition, because hosta seeds have a shelf life, the germination rate is not very high, so special attention must be paid to soil moisture, drainage, etc.

However, Xiao Jiu and the others don't need to worry about this at all.

—Their farmland is a buff farmland produced by the system.

As long as you follow the planting process, all the planting conditions will be arranged automatically.

System: "Hosta flowers have a relatively long growth period, generally taking three to four years to bloom."

The Suanni couldn't help but feel relieved: "Luckily, our fields have mutated."

Based on the statistics to date, the acceleration effect on farmland has now been fixed at "eight times".

Therefore, these planted hosta seeds will likely take about five months to harvest.

Everyone did a survey.

The number of farmlands has now reached the maximum level, totaling twenty plots.

According to the original plan, one of these twenty plots was planted with the Elf Tree, which is the core of the world; another with Nightingale Water Lilies; and the remaining six with branches broken off from the Elf Tree.

The purpose of these eight plots of farmland is fixed, so only the remaining twelve plots can be freely allocated.

Considering that the farmland area has expanded nearly tenfold, they only sowed hosta seeds in five of the fields.

Because the farmland was too large, neither the Suanni nor the Taotie transformed back into their miniature forms; instead, they worked in their original forms.

At first, Grandma Tai wanted to help, but everyone considered that her health had not yet recovered, so they persuaded and tricked her into going back to the Fairy Tree.

The Kui Niu, who lives at the bottom of Moon Lake, is still a cloud of colorful mist, so he is also a member of the recuperation team.

So when you calculate it this way, the number of people actually doing the work hasn't changed much.

But this extra human, Xie Chuanfeng, is no ordinary worker.

All the non-humans turned to look at Xie Chuanfeng, their eyes, each with a different shape and color, practically glowing.

Xie Chuanfeng: "..."

Xie Chuanfeng calmly said, "I need to use the plants here to successfully refine a plant spirit first, and then I can directly refine the flowers in the farmland."

This is something he had mentioned to everyone before.

After all, the energy of this world has changed since Xie Chuanfeng left, and Xie Chuanfeng's cultivation has greatly increased. He needs to make a small-scale trial.

He added, "Refining plant spirits requires a vessel."

In other words, Xie Chuanfeng needs plants to refine his skills.

However, they didn't have any mutated flowers on hand at the moment; they had used all the mutated flowers they had grown to synthesize.

As for the Spirit Flowers, there are still some in the warehouse, but putting aside the fact that there aren't many individual Spirit Flowers, their appearance and structure make them unsuitable for work.

The spirit flower is too small, several times smaller than normal flowers, so even if it is refined into a plant spirit, its mobility is very poor.

In comparison, those energetic, mutated flowers that can run around and bite people are obviously a better choice.

However, this raises a problem.

—Based on the characteristics of mutated flowers, the lower the grade of the mutated flower, the longer its shelf life.

This means they have to grow as many level 2 or even level 1 mutated flowers as possible.

The farmland was already running at 8x speed, and the difference between the farmland and the flower fields was a full 6 or even 7 levels...

Once planted, the flowers will grow in a very short time.

The level of torment involved in the harvest is simply off the charts.

Suanni: "......"

The Suanni shoved its face directly into the ground.

Seeing this, Xiao Jiu quickly ran over, jumped onto his huge head, and started rubbing his forehead.

Xiao Jiu: "Meow meow, don't cry."

The Suanni's tail bristled: "I didn't cry!"

The system tried to persuade: "Meow Meow, why don't you give up the binding permissions and go take a break for a round or two?"

The main difference is that the Suanni and Taotie are different. It cannot dig flowers as efficiently as it can with its mouth, and it cannot transform into human form. It can only dig the soil with its claws.

However, while the spirit flowers can withstand this rough harvesting method, the mutated flowers cannot.

Therefore, each time it harvests the mutated flower, the Suanni can only shrink its body and dig it up little by little with its tiny claws.

Overall, it was extremely tiring.

After hearing the system's advice, Suanni gritted his teeth and said, "No!"

He swung Little Nine on his head so high that it flew up, then swung his tail and wrapped it around Little Nine's waist to catch it steadily: "I don't believe it, I'm going to get my recipe!"

system:"......"

System: "Alright, good luck."

After experiencing flying high, the nine little ones excitedly exclaimed, "Fly!"

Taotie came running over on its short legs: "I want to play too! I want to play too!"

The Suanni looked terrified: "Wait—"

The Taotie, nearly three times the size of the Suanni, leaped onto the Suanni with a thud, burying both the Suanni and Xiao Jiu into the ground.

The earthquake trembled so badly that you'd think a bomb had just exploded.

Xie Chuanfeng, who was watching from the sidelines, was a little flustered. He asked, "Are they alright?"

Qianchuan, who had been boiling water to prepare cups and bowls, turned his head and glanced at the "explosion point".

He gave Xie Chuanfeng a reassuring smile: "Yeah, it's okay, you'll get used to it."

Xie Chuanfeng: "..."

Now that the hosta seeds have been sown, everyone sits together in a circle, eating and drinking flower tea.

Of course, Suanni Taotie and Xiao Jiu had just crawled out of the ground.

Qianchuan originally wanted to wash them all, but Fuyu said, "We still need to dig up flowers later," so he gave up for the time being.

Xie Chuanfeng thought for a moment, then tried to cast a cleansing spell and wrapped it around Xiao Jiu and the other two.

A refreshing spiritual energy swept by, and Xiao Jiu and the two furballs beside him, one black and one white, became completely clean.

But because the dry cleaning process was so effective at dehydrating the fur, all three little ones were a bit frizzy.

Fu Yu took out a comb made of animal bones and combed Xiao Jiu's hair, while Xiao Jiu combed the Taotie and the Suanni licked its own fur.

For a time, life was peaceful and serene.

After finishing the last sip of the spiritualized jasmine tea, Xiao Jiu looked down at the tender green spiritualized jasmine flowers in the cup, then turned to look at the giant spirit tree on the mountaintop.

He jumped up and ran to the system, squatted down and said to the system, "System, Xiao Jiu wants to plant more trees."

While the system was still wondering, Xiao Jiu continued, "Xiao Jiu wants her mother-in-law to get better, so she planted a tree, and her mother-in-law will get better sooner."

In fact, if the current rate of increase in spiritual energy continues, it's only a matter of time before spiritual energy fully recovers.

After all, everyone here is a cultivator. Even Xie Chuanfeng, who is human, doesn't care about this little bit of time, so the Taotie and the other demon beasts certainly won't.

But when they heard Xiao Jiu say that, everyone laughed and said, "Okay, let's do as Xiao Jiu says and plant more little elf trees."

There are still seven vacant plots of farmland, and everyone agreed to set aside two more plots to plant saplings.

According to the data collected and calculations by the system, the number of "clone saplings" separated from the spirit tree can be further increased.

So, after they had eaten and drunk their fill and rested, they prepared to start planting the newly broken branches from the fairy tree.

Fortunately, planting elf branches is the easiest of all the planting processes; you just need to stick the branches into the soil of the buff farm.

The original six plots of farmland each had three small trees. After some calculation, the system indicated that the number could be increased to twenty.

Including the two additional plots of farmland, there are a total of eight plots of farmland, all of which are planted with saplings or newly broken branches of the fairy tree.

After the simple and enjoyable "planting branches" part is over, what follows is the painful part of planting low-level flowers.

After all, this was the first time this had been done since the upgrade, and the system didn't dare to plant all the remaining empty fields. Instead, it only used one field as an experiment.

Although there are many Level 1 flower species, only three types are single plants in both the spirit-transformed and mutated states.

Morning glory, marigold, and zinnia.

Morning glories were rejected outright because they are climbing plants that require stakes to be planted before planting, and because they grow so fast they might tangle up and stop growing, which would be troublesome.

Compared to zinnias, marigolds require more effort to sow.

Zinnia seeds can be sown directly on the soil surface, but marigold seeds cannot; marigold seeds must be buried about five centimeters below the soil surface.

So, after comparing the two, they naturally chose to plant zinnias.

Under normal circumstances, zinnia seeds will sprout in about a week, and the entire plant will flower in about two months.

However, the farmland they are currently using is a level 8 farmland with its speed increased by eight times.

Planting across levels also comes with an acceleration effect. There is a full 7-level difference between level 8 fields and level 1 flower seeds, so the acceleration effect is self-evident.

The zinnia seeds sprouted almost as soon as they touched the ground.

This left not only the Suanni bewildered, but even the system was stunned.

From sowing to flowering, it only took a dozen minutes!

They weren't very lucky; the first and second rounds of planting only produced spirit flowers.

Because the farmland will "ripen" the flowers, we have to dig them up as quickly as possible.

The system and the Taotie, with their mouths agape, ran wildly across the field like plowing a field, while the Suanni and Xiaoxue were digging the soil with their white claws, and the rest of Xiao Jiu and the others were quickly picking out the flowers.

Upon seeing that the fourth round of zinnias was still a spirit flower, everyone collapsed in despair: "Aaaaaah!"

Finally, in the fifth round, they managed to grow the mutated flower.

However, the trouble of harvesting these mutated flowers is incomparable to that of harvesting spirit flowers.

Now that this world has lost its vitality, and after data correction, the mutated flower still needs to be fed to mature.

At first, everyone breathed a sigh of relief: "Let's feed them one by one, so we can harvest one plant at a time as it matures."

However, things didn't turn out the way they expected.

The charging lion roared, "Why are these flowers ripening all at once?! Aren't they supposed to be individual plants?!"

The system it was carrying was also in a state of chaos: "I had no idea the farmland buff would take effect like this!"

Suanni: "Didn't you create those farmlands? How could you not know that!"

System: "This is my first time mutating too!"

Suanni: "......"

The Suanni was speechless.

They had a good plan.

Since the mutated flower needs to be fed to mature, you can feed one plant until it matures, harvest one plant, and then feed the next one. This way, it's not tiring at all.

However, when they started feeding them, they discovered that even if they only focused on feeding one of the flowers, that flower was like a gluttonous beast that could never get enough to eat, showing no signs of ripening at all.

As they fed the flowers, at a certain moment, all the mutated flowers in the field suddenly ripened at once.

Everyone: !!!

The system calculated the energy, and coincidentally...

The total energy from the "feed" consumed by the flower that receives the feed is just enough for all the mutated flowers in the entire farmland to mature.

There's nothing we can do now that things have come to this.

Please accept the flowers.

After all the escaped mutated flowers were caught, the Suanni was so exhausted that its eyes glazed over.

The Suanni said in a sleepwalking tone, "Once they make my own special food, I'm going to eat it until I'm sick of it."

Everyone:"......"

How deep is this obsession with exclusive food?

Everyone looked at the Suanni with concern and said, "Eat up, eat up."

The Suanni is currently in its true form. Xiao Jiu is squatting next to the Suanni's head, and is not even as big as the Suanni's nose.

Xiao Jiu took out a bunch of general-purpose food blocks and stuffed them into the Suanni's mouth one by one. Once she had enough for the Suanni to eat in one bite, she started making individual food blocks for everyone.

Finally, I'm done with my work and can rest again.

Xiao Jiu, on the other hand, doesn't get tired.

After he finished preparing the special grain, he ran up to the top of the mountain to ask the Kui Niu if it wanted to eat the grain, and then talked with Granny Tai Li for a while.

However, because the shelf life of the mutated flower is not very long, only a short while later, Xiao Jiu heard everyone calling him.

"Xiao Jiu! Come quick! Chuan Feng is about to refine the plant spirit!"