Chapter 29 Pet Food Chunks: Pet food chunks serve more than just the purpose of filling one's stomach...
"What's wrong? What happened?"
Suanni was the first to rush over. He put down the Taotie he was eating and hurriedly asked, "Where did all that sand go?"
Xuan Gui Qian Chuan explained, "I did it. I was born with the ability to transform water."
He turned to look around, a look of surprise on his face: "Although the system told me that there would be big changes after the contract was fully completed, I didn't expect it to be this good."
Qian Chuan said that "Xuan Gui" is actually the name of their tribe.
In ancient times, his ancestors assisted Yu the Great and were credited with controlling the floods. However, as the gods of his world departed and their spiritual energy vanished, he was the only one left in the Xuan Turtle clan a thousand years ago.
His clan's innate ability to control water has diminished with each generation, and when Qianchuan was born, his power was already very weak.
"My ancestors were the nemesis of many water-controlling monsters, but at most I can only perform the simplest transformation of water, turning it into soil."
After he finished speaking, he gently explained to Xiao Jiu what he meant.
Xiao Jiu asked questions one after another out of curiosity, and Qian Chuan answered them seriously without showing the slightest impatience.
Whenever he had a spare moment, the system carefully examined Qianchuan's complete data.
[Name: Qianchuan, Level: 69, Upgrade Value: 0, Growth Value: 0...]
After watching for a while, it translated some of the data and wrote it down in red mist.
The true ability to control water is a top-tier innate skill, capable of combining water with any object and transforming it into earth-based substances.
If used properly, this ability is a devastating weapon. The term "any object" has no specific definition, so theoretically, this skill can be activated using air, and the range of earth-based substances is also vast.
For example, if it rains during a battle, the ability to control floods can be activated to turn the rainwater into rocks and bury the enemy.
Even more so, if one were to master the structure and construction of organisms, this ability could directly transform any living thing into something like sand or minerals.
Overall, it's very impressive.
So when the system looked at the data, it could only feel regret: "Just as Qianchuan said, his skill is a weakened version."
The Suanni asked curiously, "What do you mean?"
Qianchuan's skill can only combine water with tangible objects, and then turn them into soil.
This is indeed too much of a nerf.
Even the Suanni couldn't help but say, "It's a pity."
The system kept sighing.
Monsters like the Xuan Turtle clan are born with special abilities due to their inherited talents, which are recognized by the system as "pet skills".
However, this inherited ability cannot be changed. Even though a complete contractual relationship has been established with Xiao Jiu, at most it can only upgrade the application range and power of this skill, and cannot become a true "ability to control water".
"No, this is just right."
Qianchuan said, "The object called 'Moon Spring' will continuously gush out spring water, and the ground here is covered with white sand. Given enough time, I can turn it all into land."
He looked at Xiao Jiu: "Didn't you say that as long as you plant flowers, Xiao Jiu can get what she wants? Then my 'water control ability' is enough."
Xiao Jiu blinked her eyes: "Chuan, okay!"
Qianchuan smiled and said, "Yes, that's good."
Fuyu, inside the water sphere, stared blankly at Qianchuan after hearing these words, and only wagged its tail after a long while.
The system responded: "I was too greedy."
Qianchuan's abilities are indeed extremely useful for this spatial rift.
I still don't have enough points. I want to increase the amount of crops I plant at once, but I don't have enough points to upgrade my farmland. My farmland is limited, and I can only harvest a maximum of twenty flowers at a time.
Considering the issue of daily points expenditure, the system has not dared to challenge planting new flowers that might have higher prices, and has not even tried planting pansies, which have a longer growth cycle.
Now that Qianchuan has access to an unlimited supply of soil, under normal circumstances, they can fully expand their planting area and go all out.
The system was filled with boundless pride: [The host's hand will be back soon!]
However, this spatial rift is abnormal.
A few days later, Suanni chewed on a piece of grain and said, "Didn't you ever think that the reason these flowers are growing now is entirely because those farmlands are special?"
Here, blood mist and spiritual energy mingle, the air composition is abnormal, and the soil composition is uncertain. Once you leave the farmland that provides growth buffs...
Can this be grown?
Now the Suanni doesn't need to keep criticizing and attacking; even the system itself thinks it's unreliable.
No matter how unreliable it seems, you still have to give it a try.
What if?
The system still redeemed morning glory seeds, which are large and cheap. He exchanged several seeds to do this experiment.
However, ten days passed, and they didn't see a single seedling, let alone a small sprout.
Suanni: "Wow, the entire army has been wiped out."
The system felt frustrated, but it couldn't refute it.
Then something outrageous happened—the seeds disappeared.
Not long after they were buried, the seeds should have remained in place even if they hadn't sprouted. But when they dug up the soil, they found that all five seeds that had been planted separately had vanished into thin air.
The system didn't want to use the remaining thousand-plus points, so it didn't start the scan analysis.
Even if the reason is unclear, the conclusion is clear—this soil is unusable.
So they could only obediently continue to guard those four plots of farmland and wait for the next bloom.
The system gave up, and Xiao Jiu was quite happy, spending some time tending the farmland, playing with Taotie, and learning new vocabulary with Fuyu Qianchuan.
Meanwhile, Taotie continued to swallow the spring water, while Qianchuan spent most of his time controlling the water near the Moon Spring.
Only the Suanni remained, squatting where the seeds had disappeared.
He looked down at the light brown soil, his tail swaying idly, his gaze unfocused, clearly deep in thought.
The Suanni remained squatting there for several days.
As he swept the soil with the tip of his tail once again, his eyes suddenly lit up.
He muttered to himself, "So that's how it is."
Just then, a refreshing aura rushed over from his right front. The Suanni was stunned for a second, then hummed twice in a cheerful mood, got up and jogged over there.
At the edge of the farmland, Xiao Jiu and Taotie were squatting on the ground, looking into the field. A large water sphere was floating next to them, and a bright red fish was rolling and spinning inside the sphere, its gauze-like tail fin almost twisting into a flower.
A thin stream of water extended from the lower side edge of the water sphere, heading in the direction from which the Suanni had come, with its end held in Qianchuan's hand.
There was no other way; Qianchuan had to touch the water to precisely control the flow. Suanni had previously complained about this, saying that humans were like walking dogs on leashes, while Qianchuan was like releasing fish by pulling water.
Strangely, the water, which usually flows with a slight natural curve, somehow managed to make several graceful circles in the air.
Suanni still disliked water. He bypassed the water sphere and squeezed straight between Xiao Jiu and Taotie.
"What are you looking at? Let me see! Let me see! Quickly, let me see!"
Suanni spoke his last sentence with such intonation and joy that Xiao Jiu found it strange and turned her head to look at him.
Suanni, however, did not notice Xiao Jiu's gaze at all. To be precise, he was just excitedly staring at the field, so focused that he didn't even blink.
Beside him, Taotie opened its diamond-shaped eyes and stared intently at the farmland, its short, fluffy tail wagging behind it, leaving afterimages.
Two fluffy balls and a fish were all staring at the farmland, where a large patch of tender yellow flowers was in full bloom.
Each of these flowers is only four or five millimeters in size, but there are so many of them and they grow very densely. When they are clustered together, it looks like a velvet carpet has been laid on the farmland, which is really lovely.
Even so, it's far from enough to captivate everyone to the point of being unable to look away.
Xiao Jiu looked at the Suanni, then at the farmland, and tilted her head curiously: "System, meow meow, what?"
[Host, don't worry.]
The system's voice was clearly trying to suppress its emotions, but the last syllable still shone brightly.
[Meow Meow is alright, look how happy he is, isn't he?]
Xiao Jiu nodded.
Meow Meow was indeed very happy, and she was even chuckling out.
After confirming that Suanni and the others were alright, Xiao Jiu stopped worrying about them and focused on harvesting the flowers.
But as soon as he started, he encountered a small problem.
The flowers in the field grew like a woven blanket, with no gaps between them, and Xiao Jiu had no idea where to start.
[Wait a moment, let me take a look.]
The system didn't use points; it only did a cursory scan and concluded that the flowers had already formed a single entity in a field.
Under the soil, the roots of the flowers were all intertwined, making it impossible to dig them up one by one as before.
Based on the analysis of the results, the flowers need to be grown in a whole patch.
But this is very difficult, since the root system of most plants is very fragile. If you are not careful, the quality of the whole flower will drop again and again.
The system suggested: [Try digging from this corner first, make a small opening and see.]
Xiao Jiu nodded and did as instructed.
At first, Xiao Jiu was very cautious, only daring to touch the soil with her fingertips. But as she continued to dig down a bit, Xiao Jiu discovered that this flower was very sturdy!
He blinked, tensed his arms, and with a whoosh, plunged his entire arm into the ground, achieving a miracle through sheer force.
With a whoosh, an entire patch of small yellow flowers, roots and all, was pulled out.
【bite--
Obtain Level 2 crop: Sunflower (Spirit) x1
Quality: Perfect
Performable operations: selling, storing, decomposing, synthesizing
The system thought it had misheard.
That doesn't seem right.
With so many flowers, how can the total number be only 1?
However, regardless of the circumstances, it is still a level 2 crop, so the price will definitely not be low.
The system was eager to try: [Host, why don't you try selling them directly?]
Xiao Jiu: "For sale."
[Sale successful, 5000 points added, total points: 5500]
The system was initially taken aback by the number, but it quickly realized that the price of this spirit flower was actually much lower than that of the sunflower and the mutated flower.
The Spiritual Sunflower is calculated based on all the flowers in a field as a unit, while the Alienated Flower is calculated as five plants growing in a field. If we calculate based on the previous price of the Alienated Sunflower, the current price of this flower should reach 10,000 points.
However, the system quickly stopped worrying about it.
Because these enchanted flowers are so easy to harvest.
If the toughness of a normal flower is 3, that of a mutated flower is only around 1-2, while that of a spirit flower can reach 10. Therefore, once a spirit flower is harvested, it will definitely be of perfect quality.
Perfect quality flowers are rare under normal circumstances, since even the slightest damage during harvesting will immediately reduce them to excellent quality.
This is why flowers of perfect quality can cost twice as much or even more than those of average quality.
The system never dared to imagine that it could produce perfect flowers so easily by brute force.
The four fields yielded a total of four units of Spiritual Sunflowers.
After all the items were sold, Xiao Jiu and the system's points balance finally broke through the 10,000-point mark for the first time, reaching a total of 20,500 points, which was a huge sum of money for them who had been saving for so long.
The moment the flowers disappeared, the little crickets that had been wriggling on the ground and in the water froze.
Taotie struggled to look back at its aching tail, while Fuyu froze for a few seconds before darting away with the current.
And Suanni... Suanni is trying to bury his head in the ground.
The system immediately identified the direction of the battle.
It used its red mist to shovel at the pile of soil, writing as it did so.
[Little kitty~ I recorded a video, a 360-degree panoramic view~]
Suanni: "Ahhhhh, shut up!"
The system wrote a string of "hahahaha," and just by reading the text, you can tell how excited it is right now.
After laughing, it's back to the old routine: points are earned, the system charges the user, and Xiao Jiu exchanges them for food.
Pet food blocks do more than just increase a pet's satiety level.
Besides improving mood and quickly restoring the health of pets with minor injuries, its biggest benefit is actually increasing upgrade potential.
However, Taotie has always been considered a fetus, and Fuyu's health value is too low, so Suanni is not a pet at all. Therefore, food blocks are of no use to them in this regard.
But Qianchuan is different.
Qianchuan has always had a strong ability to recover, and his health has already fully recovered in the past few days.
So, just as Taotie, Suanni, and Fuyu were enjoying their grains, they suddenly felt a strange, pungent spiritual energy rushing out from beside them.
They all turned their heads and saw Qian Chuan, who had been expressionless, shudder.
The next second, Qianchuan's skin cracked open, and blood gushed out.
Three non-human beings: ! ! ? ?
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