Ji An descended slightly, reached out to touch the spike-shaped flowers, and said:
"When the Fusang Tree was Fourth-Tier Top-Grade, it bore mulberries three years after flowering; once it reached Fifth-Tier Low-Grade, its flowering period lasted five years.
"Now that it has reached Fifth-Tier Mid-Grade, both the power of my spells and the Spirit Vein of the Gourd World have improved. I wonder how long its flowering period can last."
He felt somewhat regretful. Such progress could shorten the maturation time of spiritual plants, but it likewise shortened their flowering periods.
A shorter flowering period meant less nectar could be collected accordingly. Fifth-Tier Mid-Grade nectar was an absolute rarity.
At present, he only had a fist-sized jar of Fifth-Tier Mid-Grade Five-Colored Nectar saved up.
Nectar could rapidly restore spiritual power and carried a slight effect of nourishing the Five Elements Divine Mansion, but its effects were far inferior to honey of the same tier.
The queen bee of the Purple Crystal Bee colony had reached fourth order low-grade, and a few Fourth Order bees had now begun to emerge. Though this was a historic breakthrough, dreaming of producing higher-tier honey was sheer fantasy.
The White Jade Bee colony was in much the same situation. Without higher-tier bees, there was no way to make use of the abundant nectar sources in the Gourd World.
Ji An had once asked Wuyue Sanren to post a mission seeking higher-tier spirit bees.
However, there were not many factions that raised spirit bees to begin with, and spirit bees had far shorter lifespans than monster beasts of the same tier. Reaching the Fourth Order was already exceedingly difficult.
Ayun understood why her master regretted this. He had sighed over the issue of spirit bees several times, so she consoled him, "My lord, your journey to