Because of the Four Seasons Scripture, Xu Changqing could accelerate the growth and maturation of spirit plants—and not by just a little.
Normally, as long as he was willing, he could continuously cultivate rare mutated spirit plants like Spatial Earth-Origin Fruit.
But in reality, constrained by the spiritual energy concentration within the Portable Space, the rarer the spirit plant, the denser the spiritual energy it required to mature.
This meant that once it was overused, other spirit plants would run into problems.
One of the most common issues was insufficient spiritual energy.
If it became severe, it could even cause the soil to lose its nutrients.
Thus, it was not that Xu Changqing was unwilling to cultivate mutated spirit plants in large quantities within the Portable Space. Rather, every forced maturation would indirectly affect the other spirit plants.
Unless necessary, he usually waited for them to mature naturally.
Now that he urgently needed a Spatial Earth-Origin Fruit to create a Small Teleportation Array, he could only consume some Earth Qi.
As Earth Qi continuously gathered, the color of the surrounding soil gradually changed, becoming a little duller than before, as if something had drained away.
Fortunately, the affected area had not yet spread across the entire Portable Space.
Petals grew from the earthen platform at a visible rate. Once their number reached nine, they stopped increasing and no longer decreased.
The petals were faintly yellow and translucent overall. Mysterious runes flickered in and out of sight within them, while pale golden motes flowed along their edges.
One glance was enough to tell that this was no ordinary thing.
Yet as the Earth-Origin Fruit bloomed, Earth Qi resonated with it, gathering faster and faster.
At first, only pale yellow mist drifted out. As time passed, it became increasingly dense, even reaching