Chapter 32 Spiritual Energy Deficiency Spiritual Flower, can it be considered a spiritual plant? ...
As soon as the Suanni appeared, the Taotie rushed over, "Awooo?"
But the Suanni just crunched on the mutated flower in its mouth and ignored him completely.
The system now confirmed that something was indeed wrong with the Suanni.
Normally, Suanni and Taotie would fight, but Suanni had never treated the other so coldly before.
Xiao Jiu wanted to go and see what was going on when he heard the noise, but he was worried about the flower he had only dug up halfway, and he was very anxious.
Qianchuan clapped his hands, wiped the mud off his hands, and then picked up Xiao Jiu from the mud puddle and put her outside the farmland: "Xiao Jiu, go and take a look. I'll take care of the rest."
Xiao Jiu nodded her head like a chicken pecking at rice: "Okay!"
By the time Xiao Jiu ran over, the Suanni was already eating the second flower.
The Suanni ate very roughly, practically burying its entire head in the soil and gnawing wildly, getting mud all over its face and body.
After looking at it for two seconds, Xiao Jiu decisively pulled the dirty little cat out of the mud puddle.
Even when suddenly hugged like this, Suanni remained stiff and blank, his limbs hanging limply at his sides, like a soulless doll.
Xiao Jiu held the Suanni on his lap, then yanked out the remaining sunflowers from the field, shook off the mud, and held them to the Suanni's mouth.
"Meow, eat."
Previously, when harvesting flowers, they would dig them up one by one to sell; otherwise, Xiao Jiu would definitely have taken all the flowers to Suanni and let him gnaw on them.
The mutated sunflower, which was handed to the Suanni's mouth, was already a little wilted. The Suanni twitched its nostrils, slowly opened its mouth, and bit down.
He ate slower and slower, and after he had finished eating all of Xiao Jiu's food, he tilted his head to the side and fell asleep right next to Xiao Jiu.
System: [What's going on...?]
The system's words had just appeared when a splashing sound of water suddenly came from next to Xiao Jiu.
Xiao Jiu turned her head and saw that Fu Yu was darting around wildly in the water sphere. If Qian Chuan hadn't specially treated the water sphere's walls beforehand, Fu Yu would definitely have fallen out of the water sphere by now.
Xiao Jiu's eyes widened in panic.
In his field of vision, a purple glowing pattern appeared above Fuyu's head.
Xiao Jiu: "Awooo!"
The system quickly reassured its host: "[Ayu is fine. This is just a status indicator; he's not injured.]"
After Xiao Jiu calmed down a bit, it said again: "[This color represents a negative state; it has an unsettling effect—]"
The system's voice abruptly stopped.
It finally realized what was happening.
—It is a Suanni.
Suanni must have done something to block the mutated sunflower's debuff effect before, so now that he's fallen asleep, the sunflower's frenzy debuff has reappeared.
Fortunately, there weren't many sunflowers left. After quickly dealing with the last two plants, and about ten minutes later, the rage debuff finally disappeared completely.
The system scanned everyone one by one.
Xiao Jiu and Taotie were completely unaffected by this debuff, while Qian Chuan said that he just felt a little irritable, but he could completely control himself.
Although Fuyu was greatly affected by it, fortunately, he was only emotionally agitated and did not suffer any substantial physical harm.
After confirming that everyone was alright, the system and Xiao Jiu checked the scores together.
This round of sunflowers has been a great success.
Excluding the 3 plants that were eaten by the Suanni, a total of 47 flowers were obtained.
5 plants were perfect, 25 were excellent, 10 were average, 5 were damaged, and 2 were ruined because the harvest was too slow.
The damaged sunflower decomposed on the spot, turning into a bag of seeds of unknown origin. Since she didn't have time to deal with it at the moment, Xiao Jiu simply put it into the warehouse.
In the final tally, this round yielded a total of 24,750 points.
Once you accumulate enough points, you'll feel confident in whatever you do.
Just then, Qianchuan and the system together analyzed the reason for the Suanni's coma.
—Depletion of spiritual energy.
This is nothing to worry about. It's just like when ordinary humans or animals are overworked. They can recover quickly after a good night's sleep and some nutritious food.
However, this "nourishment" is spiritual energy for cultivators.
This is a spatial rift. Even if there is still spiritual energy here, it is only a tiny bit that Xiao Jiu "filtered out" when she absorbed the blood mist before, which is not enough at all.
Suanni can definitely recover by sleeping, but at this rate of recovery, it would take several years or even decades.
As darkness fell, Fu Yu, who had already transformed into half-human form, read the system's message and asked, "Can I feed him grains?"
After all, the effects of the grain blocks on Qianchuan were evident to all, and even Qianchuan himself felt that this stuff was better than most elixirs.
Fu Yu felt that if he fed the Suanni a few more pieces of grain, it might be able to replenish the depleted spiritual energy immediately.
But the system immediately shattered his illusions: [No, he and the host haven't signed a contract; the grain won't work on him.]
The system had been writing with the red mist while speaking in Xiao Jiu's mind. Now, with its explanation, Xiao Jiu finally understood one thing: Meow Meow was sick.
So he immediately looked up and asked, "System, shop, medicine?"
System: [Yes. But... we probably don't have enough points right now.]
The items in Xiao Jiu Mall are ridiculously expensive; a single sweet potato costs 5,000 points. So, medicines, and even "elixirs" that can replenish life energy, are definitely not cheap.
Xiao Jiu: "Flower, spirit, eat?"
Everyone was stunned: Yes, a Spirit Flower!
The first time I grew a Spirit Flower here, I got a Spirit Morning Glory. At that time, I only used three flowers to synthesize medicine. The system also considered that I might need medicine again after Qianchuan, so I didn't sell the remaining raw material flowers.
[It should work!]
After receiving a positive response from the system, Xiao Jiu immediately took out all ten or so spirit-transformed morning glories.
Just to be on the safe side, the system spent points to perform another scan, confirming that the energy in these spiritified oxen was consistent with the spiritual energy that Xiao Jiu had previously created.
[Let's try it. If the cat doesn't eat it, we'll try to synthesize it again.]
Xiao Jiu brought the flower close to Suanni's mouth, but it was still quite a distance away when Suanni, half asleep, opened its eyelids a crack, stretched its head out, and bit the flower into its mouth.
Fuyu: "He ate it, that's great!"
So Xiao Jiu fed it flower after flower until there were only two Spirit Transformation Morning Glory plants left, at which point the Suanni twisted its body.
He shoved the flower from his mouth with his paw: "Don't make a sound."
After muttering to himself, he changed his position and continued to snuggle in Xiao Jiu's arms, fast asleep.
The system looked at the still unconscious Suanni, somewhat uncertain: [Is it healed, or what? Should I scan it again?]
The Taotie let out a "roar" and shook its head, then began to paw at the ground with its thin little claws.
He drew two very complex patterns that the system couldn't recognize at all. After a long while, Qian Chuan, who had been silent all along, finally recognized them as the ancient Chinese characters for "full" and "sleep".
Qianchuan: "I haven't seen this script in a long time. I only learned a little bit from my great-grandmother when I was a child."
system:......
Qianchuan is already three thousand years old, isn't this writing a bit too ancient?
It scribbled towards the Taotie: "You know 'synthetic watermelon,' but you can't write simplified characters?"
Taotie nodded: "Awoo!"
Won't!
They were perfectly justified.
The system sighed. It used to think that Taotie was more stable than Suanni, but recently it had a vague feeling that Taotie was also a bit difficult to deal with.
But none of that matters now.
The important thing now is that everyone is okay, and they've earned over 20,000 points!
The system charged as usual, charging over 4,000 points in one go, leaving Xiao Jiu to use the remaining 20,000 points as she pleased.
Even though she had so much money left and the system told Xiao Jiu to spend it as she pleased, she only exchanged it for grain blocks and didn't touch anything else.
The system felt a pang of heartache as it watched Xiao Jiu break up grains and feed them to Taotie bit by bit.
It sighed: Oh well, it's good enough as it is now.
As for more... let's take it slow.
During the time the lion was catching up on sleep, the morning glories grew rapidly.
The system calculated the time when the flower would bloom, and five minutes before the time of maturity, it reminded Xiao Jiu to bring out the "broken branch of the Fairy Mother Tree".
However, this action led to an unexpected incident.
The moment the branch was taken out, it suddenly reacted to the red mist in the air. In the blink of an eye, the surface of the snow-white branch turned a lifeless gray.
The system was so frightened that it told Xiao Jiu to quickly poke the branch back.
Just then, the land next to them was empty after the sunflowers had been harvested, so Xiao Jiu simply stuffed the branches into it.
Shortly after coming into contact with the soil, the gray color of the branch gradually faded, and it soon returned to its snow-white color, which relieved the system.
This whole mess is giving the system a psychological trauma. Thinking about the unopened flowers nearby, it said to Xiao Jiu, "[Host, shall we find another plot of land? Let's move the branches a little further away for now.]"
Xiao Jiu, of course, had no objections.
The system first spent 100 points to adjust the location of the farmland, moving the field planted with the branches of the Elf Mother Tree a large distance towards the "Moon Spring".
The spring constantly emits a blue light band, which automatically drives away the blood mist. Therefore, the closer you get to the spring, the thinner the red mist becomes, and in some places there is no red mist at all.
The system selected a corner without red mist to place the field, and then spent 3000 points to exchange for the 7th field.
In order to keep up with the other farmland, this new field was upgraded to level 4 in one go.
[We used 3900 points this time...]
The system was teaching Xiao Jiu how to do number calculations when that soulless broadcasting voice rang out in the space.
The crop has been detected as ripe; please proceed to harvest it.
Before the last note had even faded, a refreshing aura emanated from the farmland and spread outwards.
Everyone, including the system, was in a hurry to see the flowers in the farmland, so no one noticed that when the spiritual energy drifted behind them and brushed against the branches of the Elf Mother Tree, the snow-white branches stretched out as if they were stretching.
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