After leaving the Insect Room, Xiao Yu hurried to the Spirit Medicinal Garden.
In one corner of the garden grew a bamboo stalk about a foot tall. Its entire body was a lush, glistening green, shrouded in a faint radiance. Beside its roots stood another little bamboo shoot, two inches tall and half green, half yellow.
Xiao Yu studied the bamboo for a while, then turned one hand over, producing a small sword Magic Tool. With a flick of his wrist, the sword became a streak of white light and shot straight at the green bamboo.
An astonishing sight appeared! Without any warning, a pale golden arc of lightning sprang from the green bamboo.
With a muffled pfft, the white light formed by the little sword turned into a wisp of blue smoke beneath the pale golden lightning arc and vanished without a trace.
"Heh heh, golden thunder bamboo!" Xiao Yu was immensely pleased by what he saw.
Seeing Xiao Yu's delighted expression, the Avatar standing behind him immediately handed him two boxes made of creamy jade, one large and one small.
Xiao Yu took them and opened the larger box. Inside lay six stalks of golden thunder bamboo, each about a foot long, neatly side by side.
As for the smaller creamy Jade Box, it was filled to the brim with golden bamboo leaves.
The Avatar then communicated with Xiao Yu through his divine soul, explaining how these stalks of golden thunder bamboo had grown.
Over the past forty years, the Gold-Eating Insects had evolved several times. Taking advantage of the several-year gaps while they incubated, along with two years he had later set aside specifically for the task, the Avatar had cultivated seven ten-thousand-year-old bamboo stalks in one go before stopping.
The growth process of heavenly thunder bamboo