The Road Ahead

This awakening of [Destiny: Plant Growth] is different from the previous awakening of [Animal Companion].

When he awakened the [Animal Companion] skill, he also gained the [Animal Spirit Contract] skill, which allows him to contract with spirit beasts.

This awakening of the [Plant Growth] destiny only has this one destiny, without any accompanying skills.

It's important to know that his awakened destiny doesn't come with a specific data panel, so it can't be used directly.

So how should we use this divine mandate to accelerate plant growth?

With his doubts in mind, Xu Yunxin focused his attention on [Destiny: Plant Growth] and immediately perceived some important information from it.

This information is divided into four aspects.

First, the growth of plants brought his spiritual energy closer to nature.

Secondly, he will increase his understanding of any spells that benefit plants, and improve the effectiveness of his spells.

Third, using spiritual power and magic to nurture plants will likely further increase their growth rate without damaging them.

Fourth, the increase in plant growth rate is positively correlated with the level of his own spiritual power.

After reading the information about Destiny [Plant Growth].

Xu Yunxin then roughly knew how to use this destiny.

The simplest way is the method he is currently using: continue to use spiritual power to nurture each spiritual plant individually.

After being nurtured by his spiritual power, these plants, in addition to the previously existing effect of stimulating vitality, have a high probability of further increasing their growth rate.

However, nurturing each plant individually is too slow, and it takes up all of his time.

If you don't want to continue like this, then you need to learn some spells to cultivate spirit plants and to help them grow.

Ideally, it should be a plant-based spell that can be cast over a wide area and cover multiple plants at once.

It must be said that Xu Yunxin is far from lacking in magical abilities.

When he left the Xu family, he knew no other spells besides the family's secret technique, "Tianyi Baolu"!

This is largely due to the Xu family's reliance on spirit beasts and talismans, and the fact that he was banished to the "Thousand Lakes Wasteland" after only reaching the first level of Qi Refining.

Strictly speaking, Xu Yunxin's predecessor was a Taoist academy dropout, meaning he learned some basic cultivation knowledge but never received systematic magical training.

He has now reached the eighth level of Qi Refining, but he only knows two spells, which he obtained when the Golden Buddha Tree was upgraded to the Crimson Gold Buddha Tree.

If we're going to be precise, the skill "Breath of the Wind," which you gained from the Druid class advancement a few days ago, can also be considered a spell.

However, the power of this spell is currently low, far less powerful than [Manipulating Wood and Earth], and it still needs to be practiced frequently.

After careful consideration, Xu Yunxin decided to learn two practical large-scale spiritual plant cultivation spells after returning to the Xu family this time, specifically for casting the Heavenly Mandate [Plant Growth].

After shutting down the system, Xu Yunxin continued to nurture the spirit rice with his spiritual power.

With the blessing of the destiny of plant growth, the spiritual rice nurtured by his spiritual power became even greener and more vigorous.

The only pity is that Xu Yunxin nurtured all the remaining spirit rice, but not a single one triggered the destiny [Plant Growth].

He then went to the "mushroom house" to test a new batch of red mushroom spores.

As a result, all the red mushroom spores triggered the destiny [Plant Growth].

The originally thin mycelium of the red mushroom rapidly grew and expanded, turning into small red mushrooms, showing a very promising growth.

Xu Yunxin is very experienced in cultivating red mushrooms. It takes about three days for the red mushroom to grow from mycelium to young mushroom.

Now, with just one dose of spiritual energy, the three-day growth period is skipped, and the mycelium transforms into a young mushroom!

It's a pity that spiritual energy nurturing can only be done once a day, otherwise he could have harvested the mushrooms directly after nurturing them a few more times!

After trying the red mushroom, Xu Yunxin then cultivated "Golden Sunflower", "Green Jade Ginseng" and "Jade Bowl Lotus".

These three spiritual plants, like the spiritual rice, did not trigger the [Plant Growth] destiny.

However, all the ordinary red willow and saxaul seedlings triggered the [Plant Growth] destiny, and the plants grew noticeably taller.

All the non-ranked red mushrooms and ordinary plants triggered the event, but the spirit plants did not.

Is it because the spirit plant is of a higher grade and therefore harder to trigger?

Because the direct use of spiritual energy for nourishment can only be done once a day, Xu Yunxin could only wait until tomorrow to try again.

If it still doesn't trigger by tomorrow, then we'll have to wait until we learn the corresponding Spirit Plant Magic before we can conduct multiple experiments.

As far as Xu Yunxin knew, the famous "Little Cloud Rain Technique" among spiritual plant spells could be cast twice a day!

Moreover, the spell covers a wide area, making it much easier to nurture the spiritual plants later.

Having tested the power of fate [plant growth], Xu Yunxin had Xiaoqing catch two more grass carp, intending to take them down the mountain to make a "grass carp soup".

He was busy preparing the spiritual food when he heard a cheer erupt from the town!

Immediately afterwards, Uncle Fu and his two daughters from the Yue family ran into the yard excitedly to tell him the good news.

"Young Master! The mycelium of the red mushroom in the 'mushroom house' has fully grown overnight!"

Everyone says this is an auspicious sign, a lucky omen, a sign of great fortune!

Fu Bo's face flushed with excitement, and he immediately brought up the matter of the red mushroom mycelium turning into young mushrooms to Tian Juan.

"Young Master Xu, didn't you see? The 'mushroom house' is full of tiny, pink mushrooms!"

"Wow, what kind of spiritual food is this? It smells so good!"

Yue Shaohua had only said one sentence when her attention was drawn to the "bluefish soup" made by Xu Yunxin.

"Really? Since there's good fortune and auspicious signs, it means that heaven and earth are favoring this place, and we'll soon be able to live a good life!"

Xu Yunxin responded with a smile and then invited everyone to sit down and eat.

During the meal, he mentioned that he planned to leave the town the day after tomorrow to return to the Xu family in Wancheng.

"Young Master, now that you've advanced to the late stage of Qi Refining and have a companion like Xiao Qing, it's truly time to return home in glory!"

"If the master and mistress were alive, they would surely be very pleased!"

Uncle Fu was the first to agree. After saying that, he didn't even finish his meal and went to pack his things.

Xu Yunxin quickly stopped Uncle Fu and said, "Uncle Fu, you are currently in a crucial period of refining your evil energy. I was thinking that you shouldn't go back this time, but wait until you have successfully refined your evil energy and broken through to the ninth level of Qi Refining before returning, how about that?"

Uncle Fu was taken aback and said, "Then young master, you'll be going back alone, with no one to take care of you on the way..."

Xu Yunxin waved his hand with a smile and said, "I'm not a rich young master, why would I need someone to take care of me?"

"Your matter of condensing evil spirits is more important right now, so this matter is settled."

Xu Yunxin made the final decision, and Uncle Fu did not insist.

Yue Yinping, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke up: "Lord Xu, when you return to Wancheng this time, take Shaohua with you. She has run out of spiritual herbs for alchemy and needs to purchase some more."

Upon hearing this, Yue Shaohua pulled her head out of the bowl and stared longingly at Xu Yunxin.