Chapter 88: Fruits Ripen, Beasts Invade

After casting thirty growth techniques, all the metallic energy within the bodies of the previous generation of metallic plants was completely absorbed.

At the same time, a large portion of the fire attribute energy and earth attribute energy in this land was also absorbed.

The originally dark red stones became soft and grayish-white, as if they had turned into a pile of discarded soil.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the magma inside the volcano began to continuously surge against the soft ground.

The reason Fang Yun stopped the induction of the metallic plants was that he noticed this crisis.

If he hadn't been attentive to this issue, once the magma burst forth, not only would the metallic plants be melted by the magma, but even Fang Yun, standing nearby, would be in danger of losing his life.

Thus, Fang Yun commanded the vines following him to wrap around the metallic plants and drag them out of the ground.

Then, he moved in a parallel direction to the side of this area.

He instructed the metallic plants to again deepen their roots into the volcanic rocks.

Less than an hour after Fang Yun left, the scalding magma broke through the grayish-white soil barrier and shot directly into the sky.

Fang Yun stood to the side, watching the red magma rising from the ground, and he breathed a sigh of relief, still feeling uneasy.

It seemed that when inducing the growth of this metallic plant at the volcano's mouth, he had to be mindful of the magma changes within the volcano.

The risk this time was indeed rather high.

Having learned from the previous experience, when Fang Yun instructed the metallic plant to burrow into the volcanic rocks, he didn't let it dig as deeply as last time.

Instead, he made sure the roots remained in the upper-middle layers of the volcanic rocks.

After all, these rocks still contained the necessary fire attribute energy, so there was no need to take such a big risk by letting the roots burrow so deep.

Over the course of two days, Fang Yun guided the roots of the metallic plants to burrow entirely into the volcanic rocks.

Then he returned to the foot of the mountain and rested for five days.

On one hand, he used vital energy to recharge his spiritual energy, while on the other, he mainly aimed to relieve the mental pressure.

After spending five days fully recovering his state, Fang Yun returned to the mountain and continuously cast the growth technique thirty times, allowing the metallic plants to reach maturity.

According to his previous experience using the growth technique on Spirit Water Island, once plants reached maturity, they could no longer use the growth technique.

This simple stimulation could easily cause them to miss certain critical periods during maturity, resulting in problems when finally ripening.

Although this metallic plant had not shown any flowering process when induced with vital energy before, Fang Yun still did not dare to be careless.

However, while he was hesitant to use the growth technique, he could still induce growth using vital energy.

Thus, Fang Yun activated the vital energy within his body and began to infuse it into the metallic creature.

With the infusion of vital energy, the metallic creature started moving towards full maturity.

Within its body, a large amount of metallic energy, fire attribute energy, as well as earth attribute energy and wood attribute energy gathered together toward the plant on the ground.

Thanks to the experience from the previous generation of metallic plants, Fang Yun did not leave too many plants on the ground this time.

He only left one.

After all, even if he left more, he could only use one of them.

The other seeds would be wasted.

By leaving just one plant, all the nutrients in the root system would converge onto this single plant.

When the time came, whether it was the fruit of this metallic plant or its seeds, their quality would be much higher than those of the previous five fruits and seeds.

This would not only allow him to cultivate spirit insects more effectively, but also enable him to cultivate fire attribute plants better.

These thoughts flashed through Fang Yun's mind as he watched the large amounts of energy in the metallic plant's roots begin to gather on the sole plant, forming a fruit the size of an egg.

Seeing that this fruit was smaller than the ones produced previously, Fang Yun did not display any feelings of disappointment.

After this period of experience, he had discovered that plants with metallic properties always exhibited a phenomenon of reduced size when energy became highly concentrated.

It was similar to how the spirit insect had shrunk in size.

After shrinking, the spirit insect had not become weaker; rather, it had become even more powerful.

Thus, seeing that the fruit was smaller than the last batch did not cause Fang Yun any concern.

As the egg-sized fruit condensed, a large amount of energy from the four attributes began to converge within the fruit.

At the same time, a wave of energy, even more powerful than the one emitted when the last fruit was formed, radiated outward.

This wave disrupted the surrounding air and even started to raise the temperature of the air nearby, emanating a series of red lights.

Affected by this wave, the surrounding seawater began to gradually boil.

Numerous marine creatures started leaping onto the surface of the sea, desperately trying to swim towards the shore.

This boiling phenomenon spread from far to near, continuously reaching outwards.

Seeing this scene, Fang Yun could not help but show a worried expression.

After all, if the disturbance became too loud, it might attract the attention of sea monsters, and even possibly the attention of passing cultivators.

This would not be good news for him at all.

Fang Yun looked at the fruit emitting red light and could not understand why this wave could attract so many marine creatures.

The waves radiating from this fruit did not seem to attract Fang Yun in any way, nor did he detect any pleasant scent.

This left him puzzled about the source of this attraction.

Perhaps this fruit was not meant for humans like them after all.

With this thought in mind, Fang Yun continued to increase the infusion of vital energy in his hands.

Now that the disturbance was getting larger, Fang Yun naturally wanted to quickly end this commotion to avoid any unexpected incidents.

But just as he thought this, a loud wailing sound suddenly emanated from the depths of the sea.

The sound that came from the sea floor was like the massive horn of a steamship, creating vibrations in the surrounding waters and the air above the surface.

Hearing this sound, Fang Yun felt a chill run down his spine.

As he desperately infused vital energy, he turned to look at the sea surface.

He saw a massive bulge suddenly rising from the sea, revealing a tabletop-sized head.

As the head rose higher, Fang Yun realized it was a giant octopus.