One joint at a time!
That was the Thousand-Joint Flower's defining trait!
Every time it grew another joint, it had to bloom, bear fruit, produce a seed, and then sprout and grow again...
Over and over!
But with each new joint, the time needed to go from sprouting to becoming a seed increased.
The first joint took one day to grow, one day to bloom, one day to bear fruit, and one day to produce a seed!
The second joint took three days to grow, three days to bloom, three days to bear fruit, and three days to produce a seed!
The third joint took ten days to grow, ten days to bloom, ten days to bear fruit, and ten days to produce a seed!
The fourth joint took one month to grow, one month to bloom, one month to bear fruit, and one month to produce a seed!
Every joint went through four stages: growth, blooming, fruiting, and producing a seed!
That was the Thousand-Joint Flower's growth cycle. It always worked this way. The time required for each cycle increased, but nothing else changed.
Qin Shaofeng knew the Thousand-Joint Flower well. From the knowledge he had gained, he knew that his master, the White Emperor, Old Bai, had once cultivated one just to satisfy his curiosity.
But Old Bai eventually gave up on that Thousand-Joint Flower when it had grown to more than seven hundred joints.
By then, a Thousand-Joint Flower with more than seven hundred joints needed over a hundred thousand years to complete a single growth cycle.
In the end, Old Bai used that Thousand-Joint Flower with more than seven hundred joints to refine a pill that would awaken Bai Nishang's Nine-Colored Divine Body.
But Qin Shaofeng had never imagined that the final event in this