Chapter 86: Planting the Next Generation of Metallic Plants

After collecting the five fruits, Fang Yun opened his status panel.

Name: Fang Yun

Cultivation Level: Qi Refining Level 3

Spiritual Energy: 89

Vital Energy: 1900

Spells: Earth Power Technique (Minor Success 55%) Spiritual Rain Technique (Minor Success 86%) Growth Technique (Minor Success 10%) Metal Qi Technique (Proficient 13%)

Plant Control: Vines, Metallic Plants

Spirit Pet: Spirit Insect

The increase of one hundred points in vital energy did not merely mean that the mature metallic plant provided one hundred points of vital energy.

Instead, he had consumed quite a bit of vital energy during the process of inducing growth in the metallic plant; he just hadn't focused on the exact value before.

However, with the complete maturation of the metallic plant, all the previously consumed vital energy had returned, along with some extra. This could be considered a good thing.

Then, Fang Yun glanced at the metallic plants.

Since they had fallen into a state of death, he could no longer command them.

They could only remain where they were; if he needed materials later, he could come back here.

With that in mind, Fang Yun took the five fruits and directed the vines to move down the mountain.

Arriving at the foot of the mountain, Fang Yun didn't hurry back to his dwelling but instead headed toward the seaside.

Previously, there had been such a commotion here; now that it had calmed down, he still felt uneasy and planned to check carefully for any other threats.

Upon reaching the beach, Fang Yun found that the turmoil on the sea surface persisted, but the sea fish and other animals that had been desperately fleeing to the shore were no longer present.

Instead, due to the earlier gathering of a large number of sea fish, many carnivorous marine animals had appeared, engaging in a frenzy of feeding.

This was the cause of the considerable disturbance along the coastline.

Fang Yun stood on the shore for a long time, observing the ordinary marine creatures battling each other in the water, noting that no beasts were present.

Seeing this, Fang Yun felt relieved.

He selected some decent-looking sea fish from the shore and returned to his cave.

After a simple meal, Fang Yun took out the fruit.

Glancing at the spirited spirit insect, he infused the fruit with spiritual energy.

Then he used his energy to split the fruit in half.

Due to the unique metallic material of the fruit, it was not something Fang Yun could easily break open by hand.

After splitting it open, the fruit revealed red flesh that shimmered with a chilling glow, along with platinum-colored seeds.

The moment Fang Yun saw the flesh, he knew it was not something he could eat.

His digestive system had not yet reached the level of being able to process metal.

So, he extracted the seeds and placed the flesh on the ground.

Upon seeing this, the spirit insect let out a joyful chirp and pounced on the flesh, devouring it frantically.

Fang Yun didn't pay attention to the spirit insect gnawing on the flesh; instead, he focused on the platinum-colored seeds, examining them.

Upon closer inspection, he noticed that within this short time, the fire attribute energy inside the seeds had already decreased.

This discovery made Fang Yun furrow his brows as he instantly understood the reason.

On one hand, the nature of fire attribute energy is inherently active.

On the other hand, even though this fire attribute energy had entered the fruit and the seeds, the structure formed with other energies wasn't very stable.

Thus, over time, the fire attribute energy within the fruit and the seeds would slowly dissipate.

Thinking of this, Fang Yun took out the other four fruits.

He indeed found that both the fruits and the seeds contained less fire attribute energy than he had observed previously.

Noticing this, Fang Yun felt a bit disappointed.

However, cultivating a fire attribute plant was not an easy task to begin with.

Having some setbacks was only normal.

At least the fire attribute energy had already entered the seeds, which was a good start.

But since the fire attribute energy in the seeds was continuously leaking, waiting any longer was not an option.

Fang Yun carefully observed the rate at which fire attribute energy was dissipating from the five seeds.

In the end, he chose one seed that was still inside the fruit.

There was no other choice; the process of inducing growth in the metallic plant had consumed far too much vital energy.

With the vital energy he had on hand, he simply could not induce growth in all of these seeds.

After all, Fang Yun still needed to reserve most of his vital energy for emergencies.

After breaking open the fruit and extracting the seed, Fang Yun fed the fruit to the spirit insect and then made his way back up the mountain.

He returned to the location where he had planted the metallic plants earlier.

Here, the previous generation of metallic plants served as a foundation, just right to provide nutrients for the new generation of metallic plants.

However, before planting, Fang Yun needed to perform the initial induction.

Since there had been no adverse effects during the final induction of the metallic plants using vital energy, the initial induction should also be fine.

The main concern was that if he didn't induce growth, waiting for the seeds to sprout naturally would take too long.

Based on the rate of fire attribute energy dissipation in the seeds, by the time they sprouted, the energy inside would have completely dissipated.

As he infused vital energy, the metallic shell of the seed began to crack.

Then, a crimson-gold root slowly drilled out from the seed.

Fang Yun continued to infuse vital energy.

More and more roots emerged, consuming the metallic shell of the seed completely.

After consuming over twenty points of vital energy, the new generation of metallic plants had grown over twenty roots before Fang Yun finally stopped infusing vital energy.

Subsequently, he dug a hole near the previous generation of metallic plants on the ground and buried the new generation of metallic plants in it.

Fang Yun felt a surge of energy, directing the roots of the new generation of metallic plants to entwine around the previous generation of metallic plants.

Next, instinctively, the new generation of metallic plants began to slowly absorb the metallic energy from the bodies of the previous generation of metallic plants.

Seeing this, Fang Yun felt relieved and stopped the induction process.

He realized that during the induction using vital energy, the vital energy had replaced most of the metallic plants' energy.

This would not be beneficial for the new generation of metallic plants to absorb metallic energy.

It was better to allow them to absorb metallic energy for a while longer.

After reaching a certain stage, he could proceed with the induction again.

Seeing that things had settled down, Fang Yun headed down the mountain.

In the following days, he split open all five fruits and fed them to the spirit insect.

The remaining four seeds, he could only place aside and let the fire attribute energy slowly dissipate.