Chapter 61 The flower-covered farmland is ready; all that's missing are the branches.
The spatial gap is a hidden danger, but it has been preserved in this world.
However, after hearing about what happened to Grandma Tai Li, everyone remained silent for a while, and the atmosphere became somewhat heavy.
Qianchuan's voice broke the silence: "Let's transplant the flowers first. Once they're transplanted, Grandma will be able to recover."
"good!"
Xiao Xue, who had been perched on Xiao Jiu's shoulder, and Grandma Tai Li, who had been wrapped around Xiao Jiu's neck, were taken down by Xiao Jiu.
Although Xiaoxue was able to overcome her instincts and stand on the soil, no one could bear to do it, so the system took out the dried flower tent again and let it stay there.
Grandma Tai Li was also placed in her usual spot in the tent.
At this moment, the soil under the Elf Tree had been dented by the falling Moon Spring, and Qian Chuan used his abilities to dig out a circular lake under the tree, just like the Moon Lake under the tree before.
A small channel was made along the edge of the lake to divert the water. Once the lake is filled with Moon Spring, the water will flow outwards along the channel.
As for how it will eventually turn out, we'll have to wait several months or even years to find out.
After reserving space for Moon Spring, the remaining entire mountain became their initial target for transplanting Spiritual Flowers.
The system, which had been refined into the shape of a gluttonous beast, opened its large mouth and spat out a small pile of flowers that looked different from each other.
"Spiritualized morning glories, spiritualized pansies, spiritualized impatiens..."
The system read out the names of the flowers like it was reciting a menu, and then said, "Shall we proceed as previously agreed?"
Everyone nodded: "Okay."
The original plan was to try using these low-level spirit flowers first.
If it's a single plant, plant only two to three flowers of each type. If it's a net-like structure, plant only one unit first to see how it goes.
The transplanting process is not complicated. It involves loosening the soil, digging a hole, and then burying the plants at different depths according to their shape, root length, and other factors.
Since it was just an experiment, not many flowers were planted this time. Plus, with previous experience transplanting mint, everyone finished in no time.
Beneath the Fairy Tree, beside the "lake" where a small pool of spring water had accumulated, various kinds of spirit flowers bloomed.
The single, emerald-green morning glory vines are adorned with countless tiny white flowers that resemble stars.
The Spirit Pansy has a net-like structure, with light green flowers and lovely peach-shaped petals that, when layered together, resemble a small plate.
Right next to the pansy is the spirit-transformed balsam. Compared to its bizarre, mutated shape, the spirit-transformed balsam, if not looked at closely, would easily be mistaken for a pair of translucent pink butterflies resting on the leaves.
In addition, there are pale yellow spiritual daisies, and spiritual zinnias with low color saturation but a rich variety of colors...
Bathed in the soft white light of the fairy tree, these flowers appeared as if they were draped in a light veil.
Standing atop the dried flower tent, Xiaoxue gazed at the surrounding flowers, her round, dark eyes unwilling to blink even once.
Flowers cannot grow without sunlight, but after countless data deductions, the system concluded that these spiritual flowers are not ordinary things either, and theoretically they can live as long as they have enough spiritual energy.
They don't have spiritual energy right now, but they do have the Elf Tree.
The Spirit Tree incorporates three different energies, so theoretically, planting a Spirit Flower under the tree would likely be successful.
The system multitasked, recording the transplanted flowers while simultaneously locating the twenty plots of farmland, preparing to go there with Xiao Jiu to move the fields over later.
It takes time to determine whether transplanting flowers has been successful.
After all, this was their first transplant, so to be on the safe side, the system set the observation period to one month.
Throughout the entire period, the system stayed by the flowers' side at all times, recording their condition continuously.
One month later, under the Fairy Tree.
With a cat-like version of Suanni on its head, Xiao Xue perched on its shoulder, and a large, fluffy Taotie in its arms, the four little guys stared intently at the system in front of the Spirit Flower.
Behind him, Fuyu and Qianchuan also looked nervous.
The system took a deep breath: "Then I'll begin."
Everyone: "Mhm."
The system sent a test to the flower.
"This plant's energy is stable, and this one is stable too... All the flowers have survived!"
Non-humans: "Yay!"
If the first step is successful, the next step is to expand the transplanted area.
The system took out the remaining spirit flowers, counted them, and found that there were just enough to cover the entire mountain.
Fu Yu was a little worried: "But the light from the Elf Tree can barely reach the foot of the mountain anymore, is that alright?"
System: "I'm not sure either..."
Suanni said directly, "Give me a Spirit Transformation Morning Glory plant, I'll try planting it."
Qianchuan also said, "Give me one too. I have good eyesight, and I'll take it to a place with absolutely no light to try."
And after trying it, they discovered that it really didn't work without light.
The Suanni plant fared slightly better, surviving until the twentieth day, while the Qianchuan plant withered away on the fifth day.
Therefore, the matter of planting trees was put back on the agenda.
When asked if the "broken branch of the Elf Mother Tree" could have the same effect, the system replied, "I don't know, just plant it and see."
Everyone: "That works too."
If we want to try planting trees, we need to get farmland first.
I don't know if it was because the farmland was scattered in the first place, but now that the world has merged, the previous twenty farmlands have been scattered to two different places.
Five farmlands were placed in one location, close to the Elf Tree, at the foot of the mountain, while the other fifteen farmlands were placed near the rift valley.
There was no rush to use the farmland, so the system took Xiao Jiu down the mountain to move the five plots of farmland up.
The farmland is ready; all that's missing are the tree branches.
As before, the system switched "bodies" through direct contact, so it jumped directly into Moon Lake to find tree roots.
Before long, the snow-white fairy tree began to move under everyone's watchful eyes.
At first, everyone thought that some special phenomenon would occur, such as branches falling off automatically, branches replicating themselves, and then accompanied by a strange halo or sound.
However, right before everyone's eyes, the fairy tree simply lifted a root from the soil and swiftly coiled it around its own branches.
Non-humans: ?
The next second, its roots exerted force and snapped the coiled branch off.
Everyone:? ? ?
After the broken branch was wrapped in the tree root and placed on the ground, the fairy tree stuffed the root back into the soil and remained still.
The metal version of the Taotie-shaped system climbed up from the bottom of Moon Lake in no time.
System: "Alright, let's start planting branches now."
Everyone: "...Okay."
There's no particular trick to planting tree branches; you just stick the branch into the soil.
There were still four fields left. Xiao Jiu and Taotie were left to farm and collect spirit flowers, while Fu Yu took the spirit flowers and transplanted them to the vicinity of the mountaintop. Qian Chuan and Suanni, who had better night vision, were responsible for the mountainside.
They no longer care about high-level spirit flowers; they just want a large quantity.
Therefore, it is natural to choose lower-grade seeds for sowing, so that the crops will grow faster.
Morning glory seeds are level 1, and the spirit-transformed flower is a single plant, making it the best choice in terms of efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The only drawback is...
It grows so fast.
Under normal growing conditions, it takes about two months for a morning glory to grow from a seed to a flower.
However, at this moment, the flower is planted in a level 6, mutated farmland.
So, a few hours later—
Taotie: "Waaaaah!"
System: "Bang bang bang bang—"
One is a gray plush version, and the other is a gold metallic version of the Taotie. Their mouths are open, their jaws are stuck in the soil, and their legs are kicking rapidly as they run wildly across the field.
Wherever they went, the soil in the fields was ripped up and flew everywhere. The mutated flowers that had just broken free from the soil had no time to straighten their roots before they were bitten.
In another field, Xiao Jiu dug soil with one hand and grabbed flowers with the other, saying "sell" for each plant she dug out, like an emotionless flower-collecting machine.
[Sold successfully, points +50, points +100 + 50 + ...]
For a moment, the entire mountain was filled with the mesmerizing sound of "plus plus," just like a talking calculator on the desk of the finance staff at the end of the year.
All the mutated flowers in the four fields have been harvested. The points earned from selling them were not many compared to high-level flowers, totaling 15,000 points.
However, their goal was not the points, but the Spirit Flower.
So after the system used the more than 10,000 points to exchange for seeds, Xiao Jiu immediately continued to soak the flower seeds and prepare for the next round of sowing.
The flower seeds needed to soak for a while longer, so Xiao Jiu ran up to Taotie and asked, "Doggy, want to rest?"
Taotie waved his little paws: "Mmm, I need to rest."
Xiao Jiu nodded and then dashed off again.
He ran to help Fuyu dig a hole for a while, then helped Suanni Qianchuan bury the spirit flowers waiting to be transplanted. After hearing the timer broadcast set by the system, he huffed and puffed as he ran to the crystal coffin to prepare to scoop up the seeds and start sowing.
They were lucky; the morning glories they planted in the second round were spirit flowers.
Harvesting spirit flowers is much more time-saving and labor-saving, since spirit flowers are resilient and the whole plant will not be easily damaged by external forces, nor will it wither in the field if the harvest is slow.
Most importantly, the Spirit Flower doesn't run around.
So they divided the work like this, until most of the mountain was covered with spirit flowers.
The flower-planting project was temporarily put on hold. Several non-humans sat by the lake, munching on grains and gazing at the colorful flowers under the soft white light, unable to help but let out a contented sigh.
Not far away, the thin little branch finally drank its fill of spring water.
Under the halo of the main tree, it quietly scrambled upwards.
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