Chapter 70

"What are the different stages of growth for the Plant Tribe? What are the characteristics of each stage?"

"The growth of plants has five stages: life stage, enlightenment stage, transformation stage, maturity stage, and tranquility stage. The life stage refers to the time when plants sprout from seeds and develop consciousness after absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon. Specifically, they have their own emotions and can react to changes in the surrounding environment in a similar way to humans. The enlightenment stage refers to the time when plants can interact with others and appear..."

In a tree house with a beautiful view of the Grass Tribe, Elder Di Xiu was standing in the front and staring at Yu Tu reciting. On the other chairs beside Yu Tu were small flower pots for other Grass Tribe cubs.

The lavender flower spikes of the oyster cubs came over quietly, and the Clivia tilted its leaves slightly... These were the more shy cubs, the not-so-shy cubs - the gardenia turned its large flowers directly, and the rhizome of the clematis twisted 180 degrees... It was obvious that all the cubs in the room were watching Yu Tu recite.

When Emperor Wu suddenly had the urge to give Yu Tu special training, he suddenly remembered that Yu Tu had no knowledge of the inner world, so he waved his hand and directly stuffed Yu Tu into the small classroom for the young grass tribe that Emperor Xiu was in charge of.

After a room full of cubs that had not yet transformed expressed a warm welcome to Yu Tu's arrival, Yu Tu began to live a daily life of intensively acquiring common sense.

Although the cubs have not yet transformed, and their IQs range from kindergarten to third grade, they still have to attend the classes they should attend. In addition to general knowledge classes, there are also literature, music, and physical education classes. Because the period from the enlightenment period to the transformation period is the most difficult and longest stage for the cubs, the class schedule is not tight. In addition to a few fixed courses, most courses are based on the interests of the cubs.

After class every day, Yu Tu has his own "little stove".

For example, after the general knowledge class was over, some of the cubs would take a stroll on the Feiye bicycle, while others would go to their own hobby houses, but Yu Tu would have to stay behind alone to make up for the lessons.

Zhizhi, the last one to leave, jumped to Yu Tu's side and patted his arm comfortingly. Then she opened the compartment under the small flowerpot, took out a candy from it and stuffed it into his palm.

Yu Tu touched Zhizhi's petals and said, "Thank you, Zhizhi."

After giving the candy, Gardenia shook its blooming flowers casually, picked up the flowerpot and hopped towards the door.

Seeing that she was not tripped by the threshold, Yu Tu withdrew his gaze and met Di Xiu's kind and gentle eyes.

"Has Tutu adapted well in the past few days? Do you want to reduce the intensity?"

Yu Tu shook his head: "No need to lighten up."

This is not even as hard as how hard he worked preparing for his senior year exams!

After Di Xiu made sure that what he said was sincere and not forced, he stretched out his hand and waved the table in front of Yu Tu. The wooden tabletop instantly flipped over, and a display screen appeared.

"Today, we will start by reciting three questions." The display screen automatically separated into three pages of white paper, and words began to slowly appear as Di Xiu spoke. "The first question is about the growth cycle and characteristics of the plant tribe. The second question is about the names of the four schools in the inner world and their main style characteristics. The third question is about the advantages and disadvantages of the popular majors in the inner world."

———We start by teaching Yu Tu the common sense he needs.

After finishing the dictation, the morning supplementary lessons were over. In the afternoon, there was physical education class. The elder who taught the physical education class had something to do, so the clan leader Diwu took his place.

The young plants and trees have already found their usual positions expertly. Clivia rolled a miniature bow and arrow with its leaves and was practicing shooting at targets, while Gardenia was holding a miniature rifle and firing at the equally miniature haystack.

The other cubs practiced with axes, whips, and all kinds of other things.

"Don't rush to practice with them." Diwu led Yu Tu to a normal weapon rack, which had everything on it. The edges of the weapons reflected cold light in the sun. "You can try each one and see what you like best."

"Most people in the inner world use spiritual power. When the spiritual power is exhausted, cold weapons are often used. Hot weapons are not easy to use in the inner world." Diwu took out a long spear with a red rope and tried the feel in his hand. "Unless you decide to stay in the surface world from the beginning, otherwise the requirements of the various races in the inner world for their cubs are to be proficient in at least one cold weapon."

Not everyone's spiritual power can be as majestic as the mountains and seas. Sometimes, victory or defeat is determined by the most primitive competition after the spiritual power is exhausted. Physical strength, speed, reaction, and control over weapons will all affect the direction of the final result.

"Tuzi, choose a few weapons that suit you best." Diwu said, "I will demonstrate them to you."

There was a sword hanging upside down in Diwu. After he had suppressed his temper, his celestial face and his dignified aura gave people a sense of distance between heaven and earth.

He raised his hand and swung the sword. There was an inexplicable rhythm in every move. After seeing Diwu draw his sword, the cubs practicing around him slowed down their movements under the leaves, stopping from time to time to take a peek.

The sword seemed to be a part of his body, he moved it as smoothly and naturally as if by the power of his arm. The beautiful sword flowers and sword moves landed on the sword-testing stone on the field, and a corner of the sword-testing stone was shattered - without any spiritual power, relying only on the simplest and most basic swordsmanship.

After the sword, Diwu also demonstrated knives, halberds, axes, and hatchets, which fascinated the group of cubs so much that they dropped their weapons and gathered in a circle to admire him.

After Yu Tu selected the last weapon to display, Di Wu calmly threw it casually, and the weapon was inserted steadily into the weapon rack without any shaking.

The gardenias took the lead and began clapping with their leaves.

"What? Aren't you awesome!" The solemn and calm look on his fairy-like face was instantly replaced by a bit of arrogance, "It's not a loss if I become your PE teacher, right?"

To be fair, Yu Tu had never seen such a brutal and gorgeous yet extremely powerful cold weapon since he was a child, whether in TV dramas and movies or in real life. Not only that, but all of the cold weapons were in line with Di Wu's personal style.

But the ostentatious look on Diwu's face now and the coldness he showed when he was using the weapon just now are completely different, like a split personality!

"You've gone crazy because of my handsomeness, haven't you, Tuzi?" Diwu kneaded Yu Tu's head into a chicken nest, and the little bud on Yu Tu's head was so angry that it swung its leaves and hit his fingers. "I really can't help it. Who told me to be so awesome?"

Yu Tu: “…”

He pulled Diwu's hand away. It turned out that their clan leader not only had a bad temper, but was also very narcissistic.

"Alright." Diwu flicked the small bud on Yu Tu's head, causing it to sway left and right. "Go and try it yourself. The weapon that really suits you will resonate with you."

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From then on, Yu Tu lived a life where he would study common sense in Elder Di Xiu's small classroom for young cubs in the morning and follow random classes in the afternoon.

There are five elders in the Grass Tribe. Except for one elder who is traveling and cannot come back for the time being, Yu Tu has met the remaining elders several times. He also received a lot of gifts, saying that they are rewards for good children who love to study.

After finishing the morning and afternoon classes, Yu Tu's bedtime activity was to read the books borrowed from the Grass Tribe's library, occasionally chatting with Gu Hongying and the others online, and then after falling asleep, he switched to the identity of Buyehou and went to the teahouse to feed the dog.

The comic was also updated once during this period. The scene where he fell into the "nightmare" was only briefly mentioned, while the scene of the confrontation between Di Changqing and Buyehou took up two pages, causing readers to scream.

The Plant Tribe, which readers jokingly called "rich but unpopular," also unveiled its mysterious veil in this episode. The adorable cubs and the Plant Tribe's peculiar cafeteria quickly filled the [Plot Discussion Area] with excitement.

At the end of this painting, Elder Guiyu leads the "African Group" to the auction site, and then Gu Hongying expresses his desire to go out for a walk. As a result, the two of them and the fox follow the "scent of the soul" and fall into a formation in the hollow old locust tree.

At the end of the comic, readers laughed even more wildly than in the previous chapter—

[Hahahahahaha they really live up to the title of the non-chief group. I'm crying!]

[I wonder if this is the legendary protagonist's trouble-making physique?]

[Bet a bag of spicy noodles, something bad will happen in the next episode!!!]

[Why bet on spicy noodles? Isn’t this obvious? The only pity is that Tutu didn’t even participate in this action, hahahahaha]

Yu Tu: “…”

Could you please not be so obvious about gloating over other people's misfortunes?

After reading the comics, Yu Tu's life returned to his usual routine. Two days before school started, Yu Tu woke up from his sleep and found that his vision had changed - the things in his eyes seemed to have been magnified several times.

Yu Tu, who felt that something was wrong for a moment, raised his hand, and what came into his eyes was a field of tender green leaves.

Yu Tu: “???”

He jumped off the bed in a daze and came to the mirror in the bedroom. In the mirror, a small green sprout was reflected with white and tender roots underneath.

The entire bud looks like a jade carving, very beautiful, but this cannot hide a horrifying fact—

He turned into a real tea seedling!!!

Yu Tu was so shocked that he forgot for a moment that he had communication tools and needed to go to classes every day.

Elder Di Xiu, who was unable to contact Yu Tu, hurried over and picked up a seedling that was almost withered by his fear in front of the mirror in the bedroom.

"Tu Tu will turn into its original form!" Di Xiu picked up the stiff tea seedlings on the ground and gently held them in his arms, smiling, "Isn't this a good thing?"

Although he practiced with Elder Di Xiu every day on how to change back to his original form, Yu Tu still suspected that he was a human. But when he woke up... he turned into a Miao.

He actually is a cub of the Plant Clan!

Yu Tu moved his leaves and wanted to speak, but found that he could not speak. He suddenly remembered the common sense he had learned in the past few days—plants don’t have mouths and cannot speak!

He can’t speak, but he can see clearly around him, run, jump, play the piano, write and draw. No matter how many times he recalls this “common sense”, he still thinks it’s quite unscientific!!!

Elder Di Xiu picked out a beautiful small jade flowerpot for Yu Tu, put special nutrient soil in it, planted Yu Tu, and brought the flower to the classroom.

As soon as he stepped into the classroom, the other young plants looked over in unison. Yu Tu understood what they wanted to express from the frequency of their blooming and the amplitude of their swaying leaves without any instruction - completely unlike before when he had to guess and often made mistakes.

Di Xiu placed Yu Tu's small flowerpot on his usual seat, then shrunk the table and chairs. Yu Tu tried hard to manipulate the leaves that he thought were his hands to roll up the pen on the table, and then the pen fell down with a clatter.

After finally rolling it up, he saw that what he had drawn on the paper were all doodles that he himself couldn't recognize.

The whole plant of Yu Tu was stunned.

Suddenly, something from behind tapped his small flowerpot. Yu Tu turned the leaves and saw that Zhizhi had opened a flower towards him.

Yu Tu's brain automatically translated for him———

[It is indeed difficult to write with a leaf pencil. Just practice a few more times and don't get discouraged. ]

[I'll tell you a secret. If you really can't learn it, just act cute to Elder Di Xiu. He's the softest. He was the one who transformed the small flower pot that I can use to hold candies!]

After Zhizhi finished blooming, she opened the interlayer of her own flowerpot, took out a piece of toffee and buried it in Yu Tu's flowerpot. Yu Tu's roots automatically wrapped around the toffee and absorbed it in a few seconds.

When I was a human, I only felt a faint milky fragrance and sweetness when I ate this kind of candy. But when I was a plant, I ate this special candy and I was so happy that I wanted to shake!

Yu Tu shook his leaves: [Thank you, Zhizhi! ]

Another flower bloomed:

[Remember to wash your roots at night after eating candy, otherwise the candy will cause the roots to rot! It will be painful to apply medicine and then grow again! ]

For human children, eating candy will damage their teeth; for plant babies, eating candy will damage their roots.

Yes, it's scientific.

After the two cubs finished their conversation, Di Xiu smiled and said, "Okay, Zhizhi, go back to your seat. Today's class is about to begin."

Gardenia jumped onto the stool holding her small flowerpot, then straightened it out and then plunged herself into the spiritual soil. She shook it at Di Xiu, meaning that she was ready.

After class today, the homework was to use a leaf to roll up a pen and write a basic ancient poem.

Yu Tu rolled the pen again and again with leaves, but it still fell off with a clatter. Every time he managed to roll it up, he could only draw a few scribbled characters, without a single formed word.

Good news: Can now understand other cubs and communicate without any problems.

Bad news: Since he can't use leaves to hold a pen to write, he seems to have become illiterate in another sense.