Chapter 54 Fusing Plants Since I'm just killing time anyway, why not continue...?
"According to the derived plan, we'll have to try transplanting the spirit flower. If it succeeds..."
The system paused for a moment: "If successful, then this world will have a spontaneous cycle of spiritual energy, just like your cultivation world, where you can cultivate directly using the spiritual energy in the air."
It sounds wonderful, but... the difficulty of this is also obvious.
Suddenly, Suanni spoke up: "I'll do it."
He walked up to Xiao Jiu, looked up at her, and said earnestly in his round, amber eyes, "Xiao Jiu, let's sign a contract."
system:! ! !
Just as the system was about to cheer, it heard Xiao Jiu say, "No."
The system blurted out, "Host, why...?"
Its voice was drawn out for a long time, and it sounded extremely aggrieved.
Xiao Jiu took the system off his shoulder, crouched down holding it, and earnestly said to Suanni, "Meow meow, do what you want to do, Xiao Jiu is great, Xiao Jiu, you can build a house."
Now everyone understands.
Xiao Jiu wasn't completely clueless; he knew that Suanni didn't actually want to sign a contract with him.
At the same time, everyone knows that the reason why Suanni is so eager to implement this plan is because of Tai Li's grandmother.
They had seen Granny Tai Li's appearance before; her body was mutilated, she moved slowly, and there wasn't a single drop of blood in her body. When they saw her, they thought she was already dead.
But Grandma Tai is a deity.
As Suanni had said before, if Granny Taili were placed in a world full of spiritual energy and abundant energy, she might be able to return to her original state.
The system's proposed plan included a prerequisite for planting trees: making the space full of spiritual energy, which perfectly aligned with Suanni's idea.
Seeing this, Qianchuan also said, "That's right, Miaomiao, you don't need to force yourself. Although this sounds difficult, it's actually just a matter of time."
He smiled and said, "I can't guarantee anything else, but I have plenty of time, and I can keep helping Xiao Jiu."
The lifespan of a Xuan Turtle is very long; even a Xuan Turtle that has not cultivated can easily live for tens of thousands of years.
Qianchuan is only three thousand years old, and he has already signed a contract with Xiao Jiu.
With the help of this cheat code, the system, it's only a matter of time before he reaches the Ascension Realm.
Fu Yu also clenched her fist and raised it to her chest: "Me too, I will help Xiao Jiu too!"
He struck a pose flexing his muscles: "I've recovered now and entered the Golden Core stage, so I'll definitely be able to help."
Although the system regretted letting the Suanni it had acquired escape, it could only sigh and say, "Alright."
The solution derived by the system sounded quite complicated, but after breaking it down, it didn't seem so difficult.
It said, "Anyway, we can't try to transplant the spirit flowers now. We can only do it after the two worlds have merged. So for now, we only have one thing to do—accumulate points and accumulate spirit flowers."
Their immediate task is to take good care of the hyacinths in these six fields.
After soaking the hyacinth bulbs, initially only bury one-third of them in the soil when planting them. Once they have taken root, replant them, this time burying the entire bulb in the soil.
With the combined efforts of Xiao Jiu and Qian Chuan Fuyu, the 1,500 bulbs were finished in no time.
Thanks to the system-generated farmland with its own growth buff, many details such as pest control, tilling, and fertilization can be omitted.
All they have to do is wait.
Thanks to Qianchuan's "growth speed +10%" buff, the planting time for this flower was shortened compared to the last time. Just over ten days later, the familiar announcement sounded in the space.
The crops are almost ripe; please proceed to prepare for harvesting.
They were very lucky; this round of planting yielded mutated flowers.
The original 1,500 seedlings have been reduced to 150 due to their mutation.
With the addition of Fuyu, the harvesting speed has been significantly improved. In the end, 30 out of 150 flowers were of perfect quality, which is their highest record ever.
Apart from two plants of ordinary quality, all the others are of excellent quality.
In the end, I scored 328,000 points in this round.
The system said, "The data hasn't changed, and it's the same as my previous prediction. The farmland hasn't been affected in any way."
Fu Yu hurriedly asked, "So, is the next step to upgrade the farmland?"
This was the first time that Fuyu had participated in the entire planting process.
Although the appearance of the mutated hyacinth made him a little uncomfortable, the heavy sense of satisfaction in his heart still excited him, and even his cheeks turned rosy.
System: "That's right."
After saying that, it jumped into Xiao Jiu's hands: "Host, let's begin."
Xiao Jiu: "Okay."
Xiao Jiu looked at the farmland: "Upgrade."
There are two ways to upgrade: one is the farm level, and the other is the number of farms.
As previously agreed, Xiao Jiu first upgraded the number of farmlands to level 10 in one go, which means increasing the number of existing farmlands by 10, costing 17,000 points.
After finishing, he upgraded all the farmland to level 5, using up 11,600 points.
Compared to level 4, level 5 farmland has almost no change in area, but the soil color has become darker.
The system said, "Try upgrading to level 5 first. Level 5 farmland... has a pretty strong growth buff."
Everyone was curious: Amazing?
How powerful is it?
The system said directly: "The growth rate has doubled, so I suggest that you plant level 5 flowers directly from now on. Lower level flowers will keep you busy to the point of exhaustion."
There are also many choices for level 5 flowers. Since there are points available, the system, after obtaining Xiao Jiu's consent, recharged itself with more than 20,000 points.
Once fully charged, it created a holographic projection in the air.
This type of holographic projection is somewhat similar to the previous 3D panoramic world, only it's not as detailed.
In the air, the projected flowers included vine-like ones, aquatic ones, and ones that looked completely unrelated to the word "flower."
Upon seeing a certain pattern projected onto the screen, Xiao Jiu's eyes suddenly lit up. He pointed at the pattern and exclaimed, "System, plant it!"
System: "You've made your selection—"
Its voice paused for a moment, then quickly resumed: "Okay, let's plant this then."
Xiao Jiu chose roses.
Just like the planting process for the other flowers, rose seeds also need to be soaked in water for about five or six hours.
After all, the seeds are just ordinary seeds, and the golden pot doesn't have any speed-up function, so we can only wait patiently for the next few hours.
The Suanni was a restless creature; after lying there for a while, it jumped onto the Taotie's back and played with the Taotie's short tail like a ball.
The Taotie got annoyed by the torment and tried to throw the Suanni off.
However, the Suanni stuck to Taotie's back like a piece of chewing gum, and for some reason, the back-and-forth turned into a chase between two furry balls.
After the two of them circled around Xiao Jiu several times, Xiao Jiu joined in, and the system rolled over whenever it could, trying to trip the Suanni.
As the system was dodged and rolled to the side by the Suanni, a figure crept closer, grabbed the system, and kidnapped it.
He grabbed the system and ran to the riverbank, lowered his head, and almost whispered to the sphere on the ground, "System, was Xiao Jiu's past experience related to that flower called a rose?"
The system originally wanted to run away and continue to torment the Suanni, but upon hearing this, it immediately stopped moving.
But the "kidnapper" Fu Yu's expression became even more serious upon seeing this.
After a long while, the system said, "Don't you find it strange that while all the other parts of Xiao Jiu's body are so hard, her head is so easy to fall off?"
Fuyu: "I always thought it was because the humanoid skeleton is more fragile in the neck area... Isn't that right?"
The system sighed: "No."
It said, "That's because Xiao Jiu's current body was pieced on."
Fu Yu was so shocked that his mouth opened unconsciously: "Pieced... pieced together!?"
The system grunted and continued, "According to my data analysis, zombies don't hunt living creatures to satisfy their hunger, but to spread the virus."
"This should be the transmission mechanism of that virus, but I'm not entirely sure of the specifics. What I am certain of is that zombies constantly chase after fresh flesh and blood, and if they don't have a target to chase, they will just wander aimlessly."
The system paused for a moment.
Its voice was somewhat low: "They don't have the concept of 'death,' and the only thing that can stop them is to blow their heads off and destroy the crystal cores in their brains."
Fu Yu vaguely guessed what was going on.
The system's next words confirmed his guess.
The system said that Xiao Jiu did not have a crystal core not because he was born with a defect, but because someone took his crystal core.
Based on the rough scan it performed in the emergency, the human who took Xiao Jiu's crystal core probably wanted to directly absorb the energy within it, but the absorption failed.
The man died, and his death was extremely gruesome.
Due to insufficient data, the system could not determine exactly what the human did to Xiao Jiu, but it was certain that the human had cut off Xiao Jiu's head and then put it into another body.
And it happened more than once.
As for why Xiao Jiu can still move without the crystal core, and why it doesn't chase after living things to bite, the system still doesn't understand.
But it knows something else.
"No one knows what happened in that world; the boundaries between plants and animals have become extremely blurred."
The system said, "That human corpse actually grew into clusters of flowers, clusters of... bloody flowers made of bits of flesh."
Fu Yu shuddered.
The mangled corpses coalesced on their own, forming the shape of a blooming flower with layered petals...
This is too bizarre.
The system continued, "When the host and I fell into this spatial rift, we were in language synchronization. Due to energy disturbance, some memory fragments from the host's brain were also transmitted to me."
The system sighed heavily: "I have been very worried about the host's memory recovery, and the roses that the host just chose look too much like the appearance of that corpse at the end."
“But I can’t ask the host to change,” it said, its voice full of distress. “Because that would be too deliberate and would only arouse the host’s curiosity.”
Fu Yu remained silent.
He understood the system's mindset all too well.
If given a chance, he would also choose to completely forget the past, completely discard all memories from those two hundred years, and never want to think about them again.
After a long silence, Fuyu said, "I will keep this a secret. If Huakai Xiaojiu... no matter what happens, I will definitely help."
System: "Um... thank you."
No matter how worried the system and Fuyu were, the flowers still had to be planted.
Holding the damp seeds she had fished out of the pot, Xiao Jiu looked at the system expectantly: "System, what...what should Xiao Jiu do?"
The system's voice showed no sign of abnormality; it simply spoke with boundless energy, "Do you remember the pansies from before?"
Xiao Jiu blinked and thought for two seconds: "Xiao Jiu remembers."
The system then told him that the method of sowing rose seeds is very similar to that of pansies; you just need to scatter the seeds and then cover them with a thin layer of soil.
Next, we just have to wait for the flowers to bloom.
Normally, rose seeds need to undergo a process called "cold stratification," which simply means placing the seeds in a low-temperature and humid environment to simulate winter, thus breaking their dormancy and allowing them to germinate.
If this step is skipped, the germination rate will be pitifully low.
But Xiao Jiu and the others don't need to worry about this problem; they have the all-powerful farmland growth buff.
Two days later, the seeds sprouted cute little shoots, sticking out of the soil like tiny horns.
The system said, "That's really fast."
Fu Yu had never seen roses before. Upon hearing the system's question, he asked curiously, "If they weren't planted here, how long would it take for these roses to sprout?"
System: "If it's fast, it will take fourteen or fifteen days; if it's slow, it's hard to say, it could take fifty or sixty days."
Fu Yu was stunned: "Huh? How long will it take for it to bloom?"
System: "At the fastest possible time, it will take two years."
"So long!"
Not only Fuyu, but Qianchuan and the others were also somewhat surprised.
Looking at their expressions, the system couldn't help but feel smug: "Hmph, now you know how powerful my farmland is."
The Suanni sitting next to him immediately exposed him: "That's because the farmland has also mutated, otherwise you would have had to cultivate it for more than a year."
system:"......"
The system cannot refute it.
According to the system, the growth rate of crops in level 5 farmland is twice that of levels 1-4. Considering the farmland mutation and the buff from Qianchuan, it will take about three months to harvest.
During this time, everyone had nothing to do.
Fu Yu was still thinking about the planting skill. Whenever he was slightly hungry, he would gnaw on grains. Once the upgrade value was full, he would run to Xiao Jiu and ask Xiao Jiu to convert it into skill upgrade value for him.
Qianchuan has the slowest digestion speed of everyone; he only eats one food every week.
The Suanni has probably shrunk in size, and its appetite has also decreased, making it comparable to Qianchuan.
Taotie remains a glutton as always, never getting full no matter how much he eats.
The Suanni climbed down the Taotie's head and asked the system, "How long until it's fully hatched?"
System: "I can't see the exact data here either, I can only estimate it to be around 70%."
The energy content of the general-purpose grain block wasn't low, but it still seemed a bit insufficient for the gluttonous creatures at this moment.
Xiao Jiu thought for a moment and then said, "Dog food!"
System: "You mean you want to make custom-made food?"
That's not impossible either.
After all, I have a lot of free time right now.
Xiao Jiu then switched to another plot of land to plant sweet potatoes.
Seeing that Xiao Jiu had only exchanged for one sweet potato and was planning to plant only one sweet potato in this field, Suanni spoke up: "I wanted to ask before, why can't we mix different seeds together?"
He asked the system curiously, "Does this field have to be planted with the same thing all the time?"
The system was also a bit confused: "That's exactly what the procedure says..."
It watched the Suanni running towards Xiao Jiu warily: "Wait, what are you doing!"
The Suanni climbed up Xiao Jiu's clothes, then perched on her shoulder, ignoring the system and whispering devilish words in her ear, just like last time.
"Little Jiu, let's play something we've never played before."
Xiao Jiu's curiosity was piqued: "Play?"
The system suddenly jumped up from the ground and rushed towards the Suanni's butt: "Don't lead it astray—!"
The Suanni whipped it back to the ground with its tail, then immediately pulled Xiao Jiu and said, "Xiao Jiu, Xiao Jiu, bring out some of those round things again."
Just as Xiao Jiu was about to open the shop, the system shouted, "Wait!"
The system couldn't care less about its grudges with the Suanni; it just hurriedly told everyone that Xiao Jiu Mall had been raising prices.
System: "You just said 'round thing,' what if the host turns it into a prop!"
After hearing this, Suanni stopped bothering Xiao Jiu.
He jumped off Xiao Jiu's shoulder, sat down on the ground, and fell silent.
The remaining non-humans looked at each other, somewhat at a loss.
A dozen seconds later, several round objects were piled up in front of the Suanni.
The system retorted angrily, "Take it, take it! Seriously! Let me make this clear, I'm not responsible for anything that happens to you."
The Suanni immediately swished its tail and ran quickly towards Xiao Jiu, looking like it had succeeded in its scheme: "Yay! Xiao Jiu, Xiao Jiu!"
The Taotie's exclusive food recipe is raw sweet potato, roasted sweet potato, spirit hyacinth, moon spring water, and mint. There is still a lot of mint in the warehouse, so there is no need to plant it for the time being.
Xiao Jiu planted the sweet potatoes she had just exchanged in the center of the farmland, then soaked the five hyacinth bulbs that the system had given her in water and buried them in a circle around the sweet potatoes.
Soon, they understood why the system had said that "the growth buff of level 5 fields is quite powerful".
Suddenly, the soil in the farmland trembled a few times, and then green shoots sprouted from the spots where the seeds had been buried.
To everyone's astonishment, the green shoots grew complete stems and leaves in just two or three minutes, as if watching a nature documentary at multiple speeds.
After all, whether the flower that grows out is a mutated flower or a spiritual flower depends entirely on luck, and the results are only revealed the moment it matures, so everyone is prepared.
—If a mutated flower grows out, it will definitely wither in no time at this rate, and we need to save it as quickly as possible!
Just as they had decided who would save which flower, a bizarre scene unfolded.
In the very center of the farmland, a large bulge suddenly appeared in the soil.
Then the hyacinths that were forming flower buds suddenly stopped moving.
After waiting for almost half a minute without seeing any change, Suanni Fuyu and the others all looked at the system.
system:?
System: "Let me see! I don't know what's going on either."
As soon as the system finished speaking, something crawled up in the farmland, which was about ten square meters in size!
All non-human beings: !!!
The thing wasn't fast, so by the soft light of the fairy tree, they could see that it had a clump of green leaves on its head, like a long, forked radish, and it stood up, swinging its arms and taking two steps.
Its entire body was covered in dirt, making it look filthy, and dozens of clods of dirt of various sizes were hanging from its arms and body.
Just as everyone was staring in disbelief at this scene, the "clods of dirt" on its body suddenly trembled.
The next second, many cracks appeared on the "clod of earth".
"Crack!"
The slits opened to the sides in an instant, revealing things that looked like eyes of different colors.
Fu Yu: !!!
The giant radish covered in eyes stood still for two seconds, then lifted its foot and walked towards them.
Fu Yu grabbed Xiao Jiu from the side and ran away.
The more he ran, the more he could sense a strange aura, which seemed to be getting closer and closer to him.
He turned around and was met with a bunch of eyes of different sizes, with the irises and pupils of those eyes rolling around erratically in their sockets.
Fu Yuzhen stopped breathing for a moment.
Suddenly, Xiao Jiu, who was being dragged along, shouted, "Doggy!"
A gray, fluffy ball of fur clung to one of the eyeballs and let out a "whoosh" as it bit the eyeball in front of it.
Upon hearing Xiao Jiu's shout, Taotie grinned at Xiao Jiu: "Xiao Jiu! Its eyes are going to burst!"
Fuyu: Aaaaaah!!
He really didn't want to hear such terrifying words!
That strange-looking thing was acting strangely, it kept chasing after Fuyu and Xiaojiu, and as it ran, the Taotie would gnaw on its body.
This process lasted a very long time...
When the gluttonous beast finally devoured it until it couldn't escape, Fuyu was nearly driven mad.
He slumped to the ground as if he'd lost his soul, while the system provided an explanation: "The results are in. This thing is a fusion of a sweet potato and a mutated hyacinth. As for why it ran away..."
It rolled a bit toward Fuyu, its voice full of sympathy: "Because the mutated hyacinth seems to be an insectivorous plant. After all, it has mutated. It can sense moving things through the fine hairs on its body. Just now, it mistook Fuyu and its host for prey."
Qianchuan patted Fuyu on the shoulder sympathetically.
The Suanni asked the Taotie, "How is it?"
Taotie: "It tastes better than the green grains, but of course it's not as good as the ones Xiao Jiu makes."
Suanni: "...I was asking how effective the energy replenishment was."
Who wants to know what that awful stuff tastes like!
Taotie: "Ah, this? Hmm... Let me calculate. With the same total points, it's much worse than the special grain blocks made by Xiao Jiu, but a little better than the green grain blocks."
system:!
System: "That proves that when the materials for the special grain are incomplete, you can simply mix some of the seeds together and plant them! This is more efficient than eating ordinary grains!"
Suanni warned, "This guy is different from the usual ones. He can replenish his energy by eating anything. Don't forget that one of the components of that thing is the mutated flower."
The system suddenly realized, "Yes."
The special food ingredient for the gluttonous beast is the spirit-transformed hyacinth.
It immediately sank down: "Okay, I'll delete the conclusion I just made."
Suanni then said, "But... since we're just idling around anyway, why don't we continue?"
The system glanced at the remaining 200,000 points and decisively said, "Okay!"
Fuyu just stared at them in horror.
Again?!
So while waiting for the roses to bloom, Xiao Jiu changed two more plots of land.
Three plots of land were not planted with flowers. One plot was planted with various strange mixtures, and the remaining two plots were planted with different varieties of crops or flowers of grades 1-4. Only one plant was planted at a time, solely to determine whether it was Fuyu and Qianchuan's exclusive grain formula.
Through these trials and errors, two of the exclusive food recipes for Fuyu and Qianchuan were unlocked.
Three months have passed just like that.
As the announcement rang out, the roses in those ten fields bloomed.
In an instant, a rich fragrance filled the area around the farmland.
Just as everyone was preparing to start harvesting, Suanni, who had the best eyesight, suddenly looked in one direction and asked, "What's that?"
Everyone immediately turned to look.
A dozen meters away, a small white object was lying on the ground.
It was cautiously approaching the farmland, but as soon as it saw Xiao Jiu and the others turn their heads, it ran away in a flash, tripping as it went.
Qian Chuan frowned.
The direction the unidentified creature fled was precisely that rift valley.
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