Chapter 497: Maximum Level
Translator: Sparrow Translations Editor: Sparrow Translations
"The Realm Alliance and the Evil Divine Sect have rejected my offer. Only Baize Mountain has agreed to trade with us. Are they only using their recordings and secret techniques in exchange for spiritual rice, elemental crystals and other resources?"
In the 9 Extremes Mountain, Fang Yuan held a piece of jade and did not know whether to laugh or cry.
"Yes, Mountain Leader!"
Extreme Darkness bowed down. "Even Baize Mountain is against our act of forming an alliance. According to our investigations, there are internal conflicts in Evil Divine Sect. As for the Realm Alliance, they are still unhappy with you, Mountain Leader."
"They are just stubborn people who are unaware of the situation at hand! In the future, they will surely come begging to work with us..."
Fang Yuan scoffed.
It was not easy to tide through this demon disaster.
Furthermore, even if they were to survive the disaster, it was still not a good thing for dream masters.
On the contrary, the very existence of the demon disaster gave dream masters breathing space since the other martial artists and spiritual knights would be busy fending off the demons!
As soon as the disaster ends, True Elementals and True Divines from all over the world would combine forces and dream masters would be completely purged from the world.
Now that the 2 sects were unwilling to cooperate, it was still possible to loot their recordings and secret techniques if their sects were destroyed in the future.
Casually, Fang Yuan arrived at the spiritual farm and started to run this fingers through the small tree saplings.
"Mountain Leader!"
From aside, Liu Mengmei, together with a few nervous spiritual farmers, greeted Fang Yuan with respect.
"Mmm. Do take note that you will have to trim this Spiritual Elemental Tree every day. Change its spiritual liquid once in three days. Also, for the Emerald Vines, take note not to water it..."
Fang Yuan casually reminded the few important points regarding these spiritual plants and the farmers standing at one side were shocked. They felt as though his Mountain Leader knew everything.
"The plants in this spiritual farm are growing quite well. You have put in the effort!"
After patrolling a few plots of spiritual farms, Fang Yuan and Liu Mengmei walked through an array and arrived at the core of the spiritual farms.
In here, there were no spiritual flowers or spiritual fruits. Instead, it was filled with the most commonly seen weed. The only advantage of these weeds was that they were extremely hardy and could survive in almost all types of conditions.
Now, some of the weeds were displaying signs of evolution.
Some of it had accelerated growth and was almost as tall as a human being while some of it had started to grow sharp jagged teeth. A few others had a brilliant emerald hue and had already evolved into a spiritual plant.
Witnessing this scene, Liu Mengmei's heart was filled with pride. 'Mountain Leader is willing to share these secrets with me...'
Examining the plants, Fang Yuan did not seem satisfied.
"Increased combat power? These wild grasses have a new row of teeth but are still unable to kill a rabbit! Useless!"
"Able to bear fruits now? This is new, and I shall experiment if these fruits are edible..."
"Evolved to become a spiritual plant? It's still too weak, I'll give up on it!"
He casually inspected a few others and was desolate even when presented with evolved spiritual plants, which shocked Liu Mengmei.
"EH?"
After a few rounds around the farm, Fang Yuan stopped before a patch of grass. A golden hue flashed in his eyes as he started to appear excited.
He squatted down, plucked the grass and placed them in his hands to examine them.
"It is hardy and able to spread quickly.... More importantly, it is able to stabilise the elemental energy in the surroundings, allowing dream elemental force to fuse with the elemental force of Da Qian and therefore reduce the negative emotions of cultivators absorbing these elemental forces..."
Fang Yuan could detect that these grasses were giving out a spiritual aura with a mediating trait, potentially allowing the mixed elemental force in the surroundings to settle down.
"Such a mediating ability is seen in many different arrays already, but are they really practical? No matter how strong an array might be, it can only be used for protective purposes. Can it really affect the entire realm? The correct way will be to seek a solution that is easily replicable and cheap..."
Fang Yuan gazed at the wild grass in his hands as though he had found treasure. "These weeds are able to make the elemental energy in the surroundings settle down. Although its effect is weak, it is ultimately a plant, which will allow me to artificially reproduce it in massive numbers... no! Not artificially, but I shall let it spread throughout the world by itself! My efforts of planting so many batches of weeds have not come in vain! I have finally obtained a suitable variant!"
Fang Yuan was greedy. He had attempted to create such weed to salvage the entire realm and from there gain the favour of the will of the realm.
"Hmm, I shall name this grass Green Elemental Grass. We can remove the other grass patches. Use this batch of Green Elemental Grass as a foundation, we shall first reproduce it for a few generations. If there are no problems with it, we shall introduce it into the ecosystem!"
Fang Yuan stood up and there were flames of burning passion in his eyes. "After the Green Elemental Grass matures, I shall create a few variants of easily reproducible rice as well as spiritual rice. Now that the environment of the realm is changing, if spiritual farms outside do not have protection, the amount of harvest will be drastically reduced. Therefore, I will once again do good to the world."
What karma would be the greatest? Of course, the karma he would get from salvaging the world and the human race.
The world was represented by the heavens while the human dao was represented by the earth. Heavenly and earth karma will represent the natural source of the realm, which is everything the realm had!
"After I create these few variants, even if the will of the realm were to assume that I am a foreign demon, it will still reward me... Furthermore, I am going with the heavenly trend and therefore I will be able to benefit a lot along the way."
Fang Yuan gazed towards the sky and smiled.
After harvesting from a few realms, he was experienced enough.
One should only forcefully take the natural source of the realm in desperate times. The smart way was to follow the will of the realm, forcing it to reward one for helping it out!
"I am conducting research in plants in order to stabilise the elemental energy in the realm and therefore salvage it from its impending doom. The will of the realm is well aware of this and will surely reward me!"
Thinking up to his point, Fang Yuan started to pray loudly towards the skies.
"Buzz! Buzz!"
In an instant, Liu Mengmei started to feel something different.
Although the surroundings remained intact, she could seemingly feel that an unknown consciousness had descended.
The feeling of power and might unknowingly force her to her knees in an act of submission.
In Fang Yuan's eyes, he could see a colourful streak of energy appearing above the few acres of the spiritual farm. The energy started to fill up his own stats window.
His Botany was originally at the peak of the 5th Level. Even after planting the Jianmu, he was still unable to increase his cultivation in Botany. However, now, the numbers started to blur out before becoming clear again. His Botany had increased to the 6th Level!
Level 6 Botany!
Seeing this, Fang Yuan started to laugh heartily.
He knew that this act of his had caught the attention of the heavens, forcing the heavens to intervene and help him complete his breakthrough.
He gazed towards his stats window and detailed information started to appear:
"Botany (Level 6) (Maximum) - You are the grandmaster of Botany, a natural talent! You will now be able to communicate with plants, control its maturity period and its mutation!"
"Indeed, the 6th Level of Botany will allow me to control the mutation of plants!"
Fang Yuan let out a satisfactory sigh. "Furthermore... To attain the maximum level in Botany, I not only need to have enough experience, I also need heavenly karma! No... That feeling was the natural source of the realm!"
Of course, the will of Da Qian had no idea about Fang Yuan's own stats. However, it had presented Fang Yuan with heavenly karma in advance, which was in the form of the natural source of the realm. Coincidentally, it was all Fang Yuan needed to bring his Botany to the maximum level!
With his newfound ability, Fang Yuan would no longer need to plant huge plots of weed to choose his preferred variant. Instead, he could directly alter the mutation of the weed!
Such an ability would make him one of the most powerful beings in the realm!
"Of course, I cannot immediately control the mutation of the plants!"
Fang Yuan slowly experienced everything which was described in the information next to his Botany. "To complete this step, I will first need to communicate with the plants and in the process understand the state of the plants and its genetic information. From there, I will have to alter its mutation according to the end state which I am looking for. Furthermore, I will need to slowly cultivate it and strengthen it over time, otherwise, its genetic material might break down and everything will be in vain..."
"Regardless, it is still better than now where I am relying on luck!"
"Mountain Leader?"
Liu Mengmei became confused as she looked at Fang Yuan.
"Nothing much. These spiritual farms will need some alteration. Furthermore, get me a few variants of normal rice and spiritual rice with the highest rate of produce!"
Fang Yuan causally commanded her.
It was extremely easy to spread the Green Elemental Grass. As soon as it matured, Fang Yuan could simply toss it to the outside world and it would be dispersed by natural wind and animals to be introduced into the ecosystem.
However, more effort would have to be put in place to spread the variants of rice.
Of course, in these troubled times, this might be the most popular business and at the same time, Fang Yuan would be able to help ensure the survival of human beings at the same time. Although he would not directly stand to gain from it, in the long run, it would contribute greatly to his fate energy.
From today onwards, the system within the 9 Extremes mountain would be settled.
...
In the blink of an eye, another month had passed.
In an isolation room, Fang Yuan crossed his legs and gazed at his own stats:
"Name: Fang Yuan
Essence: 100
Spirit: 100
Magic: 43 (100)
Profession: ???
Cultivation: True Divine, Area Being, Illusionary Divine Stage (1st Tier)
Technique: Pangu Eagle Body, [8 Gates Sword Array (???)], [Elemental Spiritual Energy Cultivation Spell (Grade 5 (Completed))]
Skill: [Medicine (Level 3)], [Botany (Level 6) (Maximum)], [Fiery Golden Eyes (Level 1)]"
"Botany (Level 6) (Maximum) - You are the grandmaster of Botany, a natural talent! You will now be able to communicate with plants, control its maturity period and its mutation!"
"With my maximum level Botany skills, I have already started to spread a few variants of seeds throughout the realm. I cannot rush through this. I can leave it to Extreme Darkness and Liu Mengmei to settle it for me... The rewards are not very visible as of now but I shall be patient. As time passes, my rewards shall be exponential!"
Fang Yuan nodded his head but slowly, he started to frown. "I will need some time to see what will happen to Da Qian. I already have a few ideologies about the dream dao. Unfortunately, no matter how talented I might be, without the resources, I cannot do anything!"
The only way to increase his own cultivation as a dream master was to harvest the natural source of the realm.
He had already made his arrangements in Da Qian but the effects would not be instant.
Therefore, the only way was to dream-traverse to other realms!
"Other dream masters have already lost even their most basic abilities, but I am still able to locate other realms... I can accomplish a few of my ideologies about the dream dao in foreign realms!"
Fang Yuan had come to a decision.