Pseudo Spirit Plant Matures

When these tasks were finished, Zhang Lingshu and Zhang Yan also returned.

After resting for a while, the two were again driven by Zhang Wan to do other exercises in the courtyard, tempering their physical bodies.

With Zhang Wan using his mana to condition their bodies, and the spirit meals made from pseudo-spiritual items given to them at noon, they didn't have to worry about injuring themselves through training.

Zhang Wan, meanwhile, sat to the side, flipping through the Extreme Spirit Planter inheritance.

Besides two techniques, the inheritance also contained over a million characters of illustrated introductions to various Postnatal low-grade spirit plants.

To become a truly qualified Spirit Planter.

Although mastering the two techniques in the inheritance was necessary, this spirit plant knowledge also needed to be memorized.

Simply relying on the Vitality Catalysis Technique and the Extreme Growth Technique was not enough to cultivate spirit plants well.

These two techniques only accelerated the growth of spirit plants; they couldn't solve other problems encountered during their growth.

If he didn't want the spirit plants he painstakingly cultivated to wither and die in the end, he also needed to memorize the remaining spirit plant knowledge.

As he read through this spirit plant knowledge, the panel also displayed the EXP required to memorize it.

Even this rote memorization could be directly mastered using EXP!

And the required EXP wasn't much, even less than what was needed to master the incomplete versions of the techniques.

However, Zhang Wan did not invest any EXP into it.

Unlike the Vitality Catalysis Technique and the Extreme Growth Technique, the earlier he mastered them, the sooner he could reap the benefits.

This spirit plant knowledge could be memorized slowly.

He still had several years to spend in the academy, so he could completely memorize it all during that time.

Although a million characters was daunting, with the memory capacity of a Postnatal martial artist, with some effort, it could be memorized.

At the same time, besides the two most important techniques, the Extreme Spirit Planter inheritance also recorded some other interesting minor methods.

Zhang Wan was quite interested in them and would study one or two whenever he had free time.

These minor methods were quite useful for cultivating spirit plants, and they could also be applied elsewhere.

Soon, twelve days passed, and the pseudo spirit plants in Zhang Wan's room began to mature one after another.

There were a total of nine ceramic pots, with one pseudo spirit plant planted in each pot.

Among them, the Red Fruit was the fruit grown on the Red Fruit Tree. This tree resembled an old tree, with a strong and vigorous trunk and branches, but it was not large, like a bonsai. Yet, it bore quite a few thumb-sized red fruits.

The Ground Fruit was a fruit buried underground. Above it was a creeping vine that covered the entire ceramic pot. One had to push aside the branches and leaves and dig into the soil to find the fruit within.

Hemi was similar to rice, but its fruits were much larger. Each Hemi grain was the size of a soybean. Even eating them raw after picking had a sweet taste, and each Hemi plant was laden with fruit, with nearly a hundred grains.

Zhang Wan secretly planted three ceramic pots of each of these three pseudo spirit plants.

After they matured, he harvested them all, filling a small basin.

After washing them, Zhang Wan ate some of each. They tasted good, and a slight medicinal effect circulated within his body, increasing his mana.

It was very slight, but the effect of consuming them in large quantities over a long period would be considerable.

However, Zhang Wan also discovered the shortcomings of these three pseudo spirit plants.

"The pseudo-spiritual items cultivated using the extreme cultivation method seem to be slightly inferior in efficacy compared to the conventional cultivation method?" Zhang Wan had also eaten spirit meals made from pseudo-spiritual items in the exclusive cafeteria for so long; he knew exactly how potent the pseudo-spiritual items were.

The ones he cultivated were slightly inferior.

Was it a problem with the extreme cultivation method, or a lack of spiritual energy and spirit fertilizer?

Zhang Wan wasn't sure, but he felt it was likely due to the extreme cultivation.

Shortening the growth period from three to four months to ten days to half a month, it was normal to have some drawbacks.

"That's right, after extreme cultivation, spirit plants lose their potential for further advancement. For spirit plants, this further advancement potential should refer to insufficient medicinal efficacy."

This was a flaw.

But compared to the shortened growth period, this flaw was insignificant.

He could just eat two more to compensate for the lost medicinal efficacy; it didn't affect anything at all.

After picking the fruits, Zhang Wan also pulled out all nine pseudo spirit plants from the pots.

These plants were also useful, serving as a resource.

But it was inconvenient for Zhang Wan to take them out now. It would be troublesome to use them all together with the pseudo spirit plants in the spirit land when they matured.

He simply turned these nine plants into fertilizer and scattered them back into the pots.

After adding spirit fertilizer to them again, he planted seeds of the three pseudo spirit plants.

He had already planted them in the spirit land, but he had bought quite a lot of pseudo spirit plant seeds when he first purchased them, and he had plenty left, enough for himself.

Not only these nine pots, but after harvesting a batch of fruits, Zhang Wan took another nine pots into his room.

A total of eighteen pots were used to plant pseudo spirit plants.

Zhang Wan did not plan to increase the number further. Although the fruits harvested from eighteen pots were not enough to meet his needs, he couldn't possibly dedicate his entire room to planting pseudo spirit plants, could he?

There was no need for that, and it was too troublesome.

Zhang Wan placed the small pot of harvested fruit into his storage talisman, intending to take them out and eat them whenever he pleased.

He wasn't planning to keep any of the fruit for seeds.

These fruits, cultivated using the Extreme Cultivation Method, were inferior to the pseudo spirit plant seeds he'd bought. If he used them for reseeding, the resulting plants and fruits would be even worse.

Each successive generation was weaker!

If he wanted to save seeds, he could just use the ones from the spirit land later.

The ones cultivated with the Extreme Cultivation Method were best eaten directly.

Soon, several months passed.

The pseudo spirit plants in the spirit land gradually matured, growing very well. The fruits they bore were plump and fragrant, much better than those cultivated entirely by the Extreme Cultivation Method.

"Simply using the Vitality Catalysis Technique, along with some other minor cultivation tricks, can also produce excellent spirit items, but the growth speed will be much slower."

Zhang Wan compared the pros and cons of various cultivation methods, accumulating his experience as a Spirit Planter.

After harvesting these spirit items, forty percent of the yield belonged to the academy.

This forty percent wasn't just the fruit; it included the plants themselves.

Zhang Wan didn't cut corners and submitted the full amount.

The remainder was enough to meet his own needs, and with the ones he'd secretly cultivated using the Extreme Cultivation Method, he had even more than enough.

He had originally planned to take some to sell at Yunmeng Market.

However, as soon as he harvested, other Postnatal students from the academy caught wind of it and came over.

Although pseudo spirit items couldn't compare to Postnatal spirit items, they still had "spirit" in their name and could be used for cultivation.

And when it came to cultivation resources, no one ever thought they had too much; they only ever thought they had too little!

While others in the academy also grew pseudo spirit plants, it was far from enough to meet the demand.

Therefore, as soon as Zhang Wan harvested, the Postnatal students from the academy came looking for him.

Some had familiar guiding martial masters, while others knew fellow Postnatal students.

Since they wanted them and Zhang Wan had plenty, he sold a portion to them.

This saved him the trouble of going to Yunmeng Market to sell them.