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#883 - Mutation Spirit Gourd

"Who would have thought that the first thing to evolve in my little town would be a gourd?"

Surrounded by lush trees and laden with fruit, a small vegetable garden lay prostrate on one side of the farm plantation, near the city wall.

Liang Yue was currently standing within it, next to a gourd vine that was somewhat small, delicate, but exceptionally vibrant in color.

Compared to its counterparts in the surrounding vegetable garden, this gourd vine seemed more hydrated, and the colors of its vines and leaves were particularly verdant.

One by one, crystal-clear, jade-like gourds of varying sizes displayed a deep emerald-green color.

And beneath the cover of those green leaves and gourds, there was also an exceptionally translucent, crystalline object!

This was also a gourd...

Compared to its brothers and sisters around it, it also possessed a pleasing emerald-green color, and its size was only slightly larger than an adult's palm, but under the sunlight, it was presenting a faint, translucent appearance.

"This thing, has it already advanced to a spirit-grade crop?"

Tina, Guna, Mirava, and Meng Xiaoyu were also present next to Liang Yue, and the Light and Dark Holy Bear at their feet, after hearing his words, curiously reached out to touch the surface of the gourd.

Then, they opened the video recording and photo taking functions of Little Wu's clone, taking a series of intense shots of the little gourd.

The little fellow, Dundun, even directly opened his mouth and bit into a half-grown gourd, chewed it a couple of times, and spat it out, feeling that it was nothing special.

Several elderly experts who happened to be observing the growth of the plants nearby also immediately came over to watch after hearing his words.

"To call it spirit-grade now is a bit of a stretch, but if it continues to develop at this rate, it should be able to successfully advance in about half a year to a year."

After gently tapping it with his finger, Liang Yue shifted his attention to the leaves of the gourd vine and carefully examined them.

The mutation of this gourd was naturally not accidental. Although they all sprouted and grew from seeds selected in batches, since it could nurture such a benignly mutated fruit at a glance, in addition to the abundant spiritual energy of the world providing a large environment, it itself was naturally excellent enough.

"Then, what is the use of this gourd after it grows into a spirit-grade? It should be much stronger than ordinary gourds, right?"

Guna asked at this time, moving her feet and taking pictures of the little gourd from various angles, with a face full of surprise and excitement.

Obviously, as a group of newcomers who had only recently come into contact with cultivation, they were curious about everything at this stage.

Just like Liang Yue back then~

"Judging from the texture and performance of this little gourd now, after it grows up, it should have the effect of isolating the loss of spiritual energy, and as a plant, it also has the instinct to continuously absorb spiritual energy.

Combined with some special runes and formations, it should be able to be used to hold elixirs or wine."

Liang Yue thought for a while and replied.

"That's it? Nothing else?"

Meng Xiaoyu seemed unsatisfied with the prospects of this little gourd upon hearing this, and looked at him with some suspicion.

"Specifically, it still depends on the creation of this thing itself. When it officially advances to become a spirit-grade species, it will naturally trigger some qualitative changes and form some different functions.

There is a certain degree of randomness, especially for this kind of thing that has evolved and mutated from ordinary species. Perhaps it can form some distinctive abilities, but after all, it is only entering the spirit-grade, and the effect may not be too good.

The key is to look at its own evolutionary potential in the later stage."

Plants are definitely magical creations of the world. Although they are ordinary, it is really difficult to assess their potential.

Especially those seemingly ordinary roadside weeds, flowers and shrubs all over the mountains and plains, fruits and vegetables that people eat daily, etc., under the nourishment of the spiritual energy of the world, will more or less grow and evolve with it.

Once you encounter those with deep opportunities, being able to evolve from ordinary plants to the spirit-grade is not all from level one to level two, level two to level three, and so on.

It is possible to directly promote from ordinary to level three spirit plants, and it is also possible to jump directly from ordinary to intermediate spirit objects.

Regarding this point, even if Liang Yue at this time is already a cultivator in the Great Perfection stage of the Tribulation Transcendence Stage, and can advance to a True Immortal figure in the next step, if he only relies on the naked eye to judge, and does not use some unconventional means, it is also difficult to judge.

Thinking of this, Liang Yue's mind moved.

In the next moment, the fertile soil that had already been improved to dark brown instantly retreated, with the gourd vine in front of him as the center, taking the surrounding plants and retreating continuously to the surroundings.

Finally, a piece of open-air sub-space with a radius of about one hundred meters was formed.

That's right, in order to facilitate the cultivation of this gourd that was about to be promoted to the spirit-grade, Liang Yue once again used his spatial divine power to create an open-style sub-space.

Also because of his special care, Meng Xiaoyu, Guna, and even those old experts around him did not show anything unusual, nor were they pushed into the distance by the expanded space.

Only for a moment, when they came back to their senses, this space had been expanded.

Then, Liang Yue flipped his sleeves, and a small ball of green liquid the size of a soybean suddenly appeared on the palm of his hand.

It was precisely that kind of liquid that was derived from the green tree's own operation.

"You guys step back a little."

After the people around him retreated ten meters away, Liang Yue threw the liquid floating in his palm directly onto the main stem of the gourd vine.

In the next moment, the emerald liquid merged into the plant without any hindrance.

Immediately afterwards, the gourd vine, which was originally quietly rooted in the soil, began to twist continuously, as if it had come alive like a spiritual snake.

As time went by, in just five or six seconds, the green vines began to swell, thicken, and lengthen at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In a moment of carelessness, the main stem grew to half a meter thick and twenty meters long, and continued to extend, and the original solid trellis could not withstand this kind of tossing at all and directly fell apart.

Fortunately, Liang Yue had prepared in advance and directly supported a wooden frame for it with his own mana.

However, in just half a minute, the madly growing trend suddenly came to an abrupt end.

The gourd vine, which was originally lush and vibrant, began to become wrinkled at this moment, and then even withered and wilted.

The originally umbrella-like, powerful leaves began to shrink continuously, turning from emerald green and moist to dry and withered, as if they had suddenly died, and their vitality quickly weakened.

The dozens of meters long gourd vines that continued to climb into the sky also began to shrink continuously, withering and turning yellow, as if they had exhausted all their vitality.

Incidentally, the dozens or hundreds of large and emerald-green gourds hanging on the gourd vines were also affected by this, and began to turn yellow and wither from the inside, and finally shrunk into clusters of withered and rotten things.

Only that small, crystal-clear, jade-green gourd that Liang Yue was optimistic about was still in good condition, and even more perfect!

It can be said that the nutrients, spiritual essence, and vitality of the entire gourd vine have now been incorporated into it.

The original palm-sized head has now grown to about thirty centimeters up and down, round and full, the gourd body is translucent, showing a translucent emerald-green color in the sun, and reflecting a faint glow.

The seeds inside its gourd body are now full of nutrients, and without the sunlight in the sky, they can already emit a clear green brilliance.

"A level three spirit plant, the entire mutated gourd vine finally fulfilled you, this gourd, which is quite promising."

Holding this crystal-clear gourd in his palm, he looked at it left and right, and then his other hand directly grabbed into the gourd body, and the gourd seeds that were flashing with a glowing green light were taken out by Liang Yue like this.

Then, he dug a pit, buried the soil, sprinkled water, and built a frame, a whole set of planting processes. After the subsequent drip irrigation pipes are connected, these newly born spirit-grade gourd vines can be officially incorporated into the farm's cultivation system~

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