Chapter 228: Processing Seeds

Chapter 228: Processing Seeds

Wang Che asked a few more details about the Thunderous Soul Earth and the specific situation.

But Qin Li did not know much, only having a general idea, and was not very clear on the specifics.

Such as what Thunder Element Soul Pet evolution caused the heaven and earth anomaly?

Would there be any dangers there, and so on?

“I estimate, looking at the situation, that the heaven and earth phenomenon won’t disappear for less than a month.”

Qin Li shook his head. “Let’s not talk about that. What do you want to exchange this time?”

Wang Che thought this was an opportunity for Magnetic Sword to train.

But he still needed to wait until his strength increased a bit more before trying. Judging by the situation, the heaven and earth phenomenon in that place would not disappear.

Hearing Qin Li’s question, Wang Che thought for a moment and said, “Do you have finished Water Orchids here?”

Qin Li nodded. “Naturally, yes. Do you want to exchange for this?”

“I want to see a mature product. Not exchange.”

“No problem.”

Qin Li took out a Water Orchid and showed it to Wang Che.

Wang Che examined it carefully and found that this Water Orchid was inferior in every aspect—color, size, fragrance, and the water energy it contained—compared to the Water Orchids grown in the Spirit Field.

“So this is what the mature product looks like.”

Wang Che said with a smile.

“I heard you passed a test during enrollment, something about a batch of Water Orchid seeds?”

Qin Li asked curiously. “Are you planning to observe the mature product and start cultivating this Soul Plant soon?”

“Sort of.”

Wang Che did not deny it.

Soon after, Wang Che exchanged for a batch of seeds at Qin Li’s place and then returned to the Small Wooden House.

“I need to find a chance to go take a look.”

Wang Che murmured. “If I just stay in the school, Little Caterpillar improves very quickly, but Magnetic Sword still needs opportunities to train. Otherwise, it won’t keep up.”

“For now, I should focus on refining main food and snacks. When Little Caterpillar’s strength exceeds a thousand years, and Magnetic Sword becomes a bit stronger, then I can try.”

A thousand years was a barrier.

Also a bottleneck.

Generally, when Soul Pets reached 999 years of Soul Power Cultivation, they would encounter this barrier.

Hundred years, thousand years, ten thousand years, hundred thousand years.

All were barriers.

Every hundred thousand years after the first hundred thousand years was also a barrier.

Breaking through this barrier was like an insurmountable gap for wild Soul Beasts.

For Soul Pets, it was also very difficult.

Sometimes being stuck for a few months was normal.

Soul Pact Master primary, intermediate, and advanced levels were also barriers.

At the thirty-level, fifty-level, and seventy-level stages.

They were all quite hard to break through.

Below thirty-level was primary, thirty-level to fifty-level was intermediate, and fifty-level to seventy-level was advanced.

Seventy-level was a huge threshold.

So, in the next few months, Wang Che needed to help Little Caterpillar break through to Millennium Spirit Power Cultivation.

With Millennium Spirit Power Cultivation, Little Caterpillar’s Soul Skills could begin advanced training.

Explosive Flame Stomp, Time-Controlled Explosive Bullet, Insect Evaporation.

These were a few Core Soul Skill advancements.

As for self-created Soul Skills like Spiral Flame Sphere, they could also advance once the Proficiency Level was full.

Insect Net could also advance.

The effects would not only be stronger, but the power would be greater.

But currently, the most important thing was for Little Caterpillar’s Nature’s Power to advance into Awakening Power.

After this period of training.

The Proficiency Level of Nature’s Power was already very high!

This could be seen from the speed at which Little Caterpillar accelerated the growth of the crops it planted every day.

After the Proficiency Level increased, the speed of Nature’s Power’s growth acceleration became much faster.

Although it still couldn’t compare to Hand of Life.

Returning to the Small Wooden House.

First, he had Little Caterpillar plant crops and herbs in the new farmland and herb fields.

This batch of herbs was mainly for refining pills to be used with Poison Crystal.

To refine special spirit pills from Poison Crystal, many herbs were needed.

The first and second fields were still for the auxiliary materials needed to refine the main food.

Wang Che took a portion of the seeds back to the first layer of the Myriad Vault Dao Palace Martial Soul and tried them in the second Spirit Field.

It took about an afternoon to accelerate the growth of the planted crops.

The speed wasn’t much different from the first Spirit Field.

The materialized Spirit Fields, the first and second, had no difference.

After accelerating the growth, Wang Che still planted twenty Water Orchid seeds and one Seven-Leaf Soothing Grass seed in the second field.

Next, after preparing the crops, Wang Che began refining.

The refining process went smoothly.

Well, after all, Little Caterpillar was very useful.

The refining process was completed in less than half an hour.

Twenty Water Orchid seeds, combined with the crops Little Caterpillar planted itself.

They refined about a hundred and twenty water-blue leaf-shaped main food items.

Combined with other main food, it was enough for Little Caterpillar to eat for at least half a month.

The palm-sized water-blue leaves contained a small amount of water spirit Life Energy and emitted a light, elegant fragrance.

With new main food.

And it was refined from crops it planted itself, Little Caterpillar was very happy and felt a sense of accomplishment.

“Sii noo sii noo!”

Little Caterpillar called out to Wang Che twice.

I want to eat!

Wang Che first tasted a piece of water-blue leaf as his staple food.

He nodded slightly.

His skills had not declined at all.

The taste and aroma were both excellent.

Moreover, the fusion and refinement were done very well, preserving the nutritional content of all the crops while also activating the water-type life energy contained in the Water Orchid.

Additionally, the Water Orchid grown in the Spirit Field was one grade better than ordinary Water Orchids.

This resulted in the quality of the refined staple food being extremely good.

“In terms of quality, it is better than the Floating Sky Feather Leaf awarded by the Qihang Cup. Compared to the Spatial Leaf staple food refined from various materials containing space life energy purchased online before, it is at least two grades better.”

“The difference in raw materials is quite significant.”

“It seems that from now on, I should just grow and refine the raw materials and staple food myself,” Wang Che pondered.

Buying from outside was a waste of money.

The raw materials purchased from outside couldn’t compare to the Soul Plants grown in the Spirit Field.

“One batch of Water Orchids from the Spirit Field can refine about a month’s worth of staple food. Two batches from two Spirit Fields can refine two months’ worth of staple food at once. Even without using the Hand of Life to accelerate growth, each batch of Water Orchids would mature in at most a week.”

“If I use the Hand of Life to accelerate growth, cutting the time in half would not be a problem.”

“The cultivation is quite fast.”

“However, after Little Caterpillar reaches a thousand years, I will still need to produce staple food of three types: fire, vegetation, and sky. The workload is quite substantial.”

“The most troublesome part is that exchanging seeds for points takes too much time. The points given by the academy are still not enough. I can only process and plant them myself.”

“And the seeds of Soul Plants require special processing… which also takes quite a bit of time.”

Wang Che murmured thoughtfully.

He took out three pieces of the refined water-blue leaves and gave them to Little Caterpillar to try.

Then, he stored them in the Little Caterpillar Medal.

“I’ll store them here for you. Take them out when you want to eat,” Wang Che said.

At that moment, Little Caterpillar was happily eating the newly refined leaves, a look of enjoyment on its face.

It felt that its life as a caterpillar was exceptionally wonderful.

While Little Caterpillar was resting and eating, Wang Che took out a Water Orchid seed and scanned it with his Divine Sense.

He sensed how this seed was processed.

“Simply exchanging points for seeds could never keep up with the speed of cultivation in the Spirit Field,” Wang Che thought. “I must process the seeds myself so that I don’t have to rely on exchanging points all the time.”

For other students, the rate of point accumulation naturally far exceeded the maturation speed of Soul Plants.

So once they started cultivating Soul Plants, they wouldn’t have to worry about seeds.

But Wang Che was different. Soul Plants grew quickly in the Spirit Field, and with the addition of the Hand of Life, along with Little Caterpillar’s large and varied appetite, no matter how many points he had, the rate of exchanging for seeds couldn’t keep up with the maturation speed of Soul Plants.

However, if he processed the seeds himself, it would be a one-stop service for Little Caterpillar’s food.

Wang Che was no stranger to seed processing.

In the Cultivation World, the seeds of many Natural Treasures also needed to be processed.

If you wanted sustainable resource development and large-scale farming, this was natural.

After scanning with his Divine Sense for a while, and with Wang Che’s extensive experience, he quickly analyzed it.

“Water Orchid seeds are made from the flower seeds in the pistil. The processing likely involves injecting specific life energy to maintain their vitality, while also infusing the seeds with certain nutrients so that they can grow quickly after being planted in Soul Power soil.”

Seeds needed to be preserved and kept fresh. Generally, the flower seeds of Soul Plants would lose their vitality quickly after scattering outside, making it difficult for them to become viable seeds.

The seeds of other crops were similar.

Some Soul Plants were processed by cutting different parts of various Soul Plants and then processing them further to form seedlings.

This allowed them to be preserved for a long time.

“For me, it’s not difficult, just time-consuming. Different Soul Plants require different processing methods. The only challenge is injecting specific life energy.”

For different Soul Plant seeds, specific life energy needed to be injected first.

There were many more methods for infusing nutrients. The simplest was to soak them directly in nutrient solution, but the timing had to be just right.

This was the most time-consuming part, and the nutrient solution needed to be changed frequently.

The nutrient solution was usually made from leftover parts of Soul Plants or crops, along with some special materials, such as the Toxic Treasure of the Melon Toxic Frog.

For Agricultural Soul Masters who processed and cultivated seeds, the trouble wasn’t the time consumption.

It was the first step: injecting specific life energy.

Different Soul Plants required different types of life energy to be injected.

The difficulty was extremely high.

“For example, the flower seeds of the Water Orchid require very precise control to inject Water-Type life energy.”

Thinking of this, Wang Che couldn’t help but look at Little Caterpillar.

Little Caterpillar: “…”

Having just eaten the new staple food, Little Caterpillar expressed its satisfaction.

“It seems that in the future, seed processing will also depend on you,” Wang Che said.

Processing seeds was too much of a waste of cultivation time for him.

Since he had a tool caterpillar, he might as well make the most of it.

Little Caterpillar: “?”

Wang Che said, “Do you want to eat more delicious food?”

Little Caterpillar nodded.

“Good, then do as I say from now on.”

Wang Che took out the flower seeds collected from the Water Orchid. They were very small, even smaller than sesame seeds.