Plants vs. Cultivation.

Chapter 148 Water Lily
After entering the black fog space, Gu Mo counted the solar essence he had saved, which should be enough to make the vending machine display the purchase icon for new plants.

But Gu Mo couldn't be sure that the new plants in the vending machine would be what he wanted.

But in the current situation, Gu Mo can only take a gamble. If there is no new plant he wants, then Gu Mo can only plant it by the lake first.

That lake is a level 3 water vein. Under its influence, the area around the lake also contains spiritual energy and can reach the level of a level 2 spiritual field.

Portions of the sun's essence shattered, and the black fog around it receded little by little. Soon a complete vending machine appeared in front of Gu Mo.

Seeing this, Gu Mo was stunned. He thought that new plant purchase icons would continue to appear on the vending machine, but who would have thought that they would disappear now.

If no new plants appear in the vending machine, then Gu Mo’s previous plans will all be in vain, and the third-level water veins will not be able to be used.

While Gu Mo was staring at the vending machine in front of him in a daze, he saw a button on the vending machine that had just appeared.

With curiosity, Gu Mo pressed the button, and suddenly, the page on the vending machine disappeared, and was replaced by a box with a question mark.

There is also a number 300 on the bottom of the box.

“Is this a blind box?”

Gu Mo was a little doubtful. As for whether he should just give it a try, 300 portions of sun essence were still something he could afford.

After investing 300 portions of Sun Essence, the gray purchase button turned green and Gu Mo clicked to buy. The next moment, the blind box opened and three icons appeared.

These three icons correspond to a plant respectively. Some of these plants are familiar to Gu Mo, some are the ones he wants, and some amaze him.

The familiar plant icon is the Pea Shooter. The plant icon you want is the Water Lily. If you want to plant in water, the Water Lily is a very important plant.

The plant that amazed Gu Mo was a street lamp flower that looked like a street lamp. This flower could break through all means of concealment and camouflage. If you put one in the spiritual field, no one could approach quietly within the range of its light.

"Choose one of the three. That's fine."

Gu Mo continued to experiment and found that he could only choose one of the three plants that came out of the blind box. He already had the Pea Shooter, so he naturally didn't need to choose it. Although the Street Light Flower was also very good, it was not urgently needed.

The water lily is the plant that Gu Mo needs most right now.

Click on the water lily icon and the vending machine will return to the previous plant purchase page. However, this time there is an additional water lily purchase icon on the purchase page.

Name: Water Lily.

Grade: 1th grade, lower grade.

Effect: Plants can be grown on water lilies after being planted on the water surface.

Planting conditions: water veins.

Looking at the introduction of water lilies, Gu Mo nodded with satisfaction. Now the 3rd-order water vein can be used. Of course, for the specific effect, Gu Mo needs to conduct actual experiments. The icon introduction has always been too concise, and many hidden effects need to be explored and discovered by Gu Mo himself.

Spending 20 pieces of solar essence, Gu Mo bought a water lily seed, which is the cheapest plant so far, cheaper than the potato mine which costs 25 pieces of solar essence.

Holding the seeds, Gu Mo exited the black fog space, and then threw the seeds in his hand directly into the water. There was no need to dig a hole or bury them in the soil. This was quite convenient.

When water lily seeds are thrown into the water, they are like a crumpled piece of paper that quickly unfolds after being soaked by water. In just a few breaths, a washbasin-sized emerald green lotus leaf appears in the water.

Under the lotus leaves are roots that absorb the spiritual power in the water veins, and these spiritual powers are gathered on the lotus leaves.

Seeing this, Gu Mo took out a level 1 sunflower and placed it on the lotus leaf. Then, a scene that shocked Gu Mo appeared. The roots of the sunflower slowly penetrated into the lotus leaf and began to absorb the spiritual power gathered by the lotus leaf.

"It's done!"

At this point, Gu Mo has been able to confirm that with water lilies, other plants can grow smoothly on the water veins.

Next, Gu Mo continued to experiment with the functions of water lilies and discovered some shortcomings, that is, level 2 plants cannot be planted on level 1 water lilies because the speed at which level 1 water lilies absorb spiritual power cannot keep up with the consumption of level 2 plants.

If they are planted forcefully, the plants will not wither and die, but they will be like a level 2 plant planted in a level 1 spiritual field, and will not be able to exert their true power.

Therefore, if Gu Mo wants to truly utilize the water veins, he needs to first purchase and upgrade a batch of water lilies. The good news is that the price of water lilies is low and the cost of upgrading is not high. The bad news is that Gu Mo currently has various level 3 and level 2 plants. To meet their needs, the cost of purchasing and upgrading these water lilies is definitely a considerable expense.

Of course, Gu Mo can upgrade a part of it first, and then plant sunflowers on this part of the upgraded water lilies, so that the sunflowers can start to produce solar essence and alleviate the pressure of expenses.

In the process of upgrading the water lilies, Gu Mo also made some new discoveries, that is, as the level of the water lilies increases, the area of ​​its lotus leaves will also increase accordingly.

When the first water lily was upgraded to level 3 by Gu Mo, the area of ​​the level 3 water lily was enough for Gu Mo to easily place a magic tool hut on it. In addition, the level 3 water lily absorbs the spiritual energy of the water veins, which is equivalent to a plant version of the spirit gathering array.

Although Gu Mo does not need spiritual energy to practice, the essence of the sun is enough, but there is no island in the lake, so Gu Mo can only live by the lake.

This is not conducive to the arrangement of the plant battle line, and the formation is not easy to arrange, but this third-level water lily solves this problem.

Gu Mo could use the water lily as a base and live in the center of the lake, placing himself at the protective core of the plant front.

Now that he had a stable home, Gu Mo spent the rest of his time buying and upgrading water lilies, and then transplanting the original plants there.

Just like that, half a year passed in a flash.

Gu Mo stood on the huge water lily, looked at the green "earth" in front of him and nodded with satisfaction. In the past six months, Gu Mo finally completed the transplanting of all the previous plants.

At this moment, one-third of the lake in the center of the island has been covered by water lily leaves, turning into a green "land".

As for the remaining area, Gu Mo will fill it up with plants little by little in the future. The entire lake belongs to the third-level water vein, and Gu Mo will not waste such a precious spiritual land.

While Gu Mo was admiring the results of the past six months, a scent in the lake in the distance was rapidly growing stronger. It was the little carp.

Compared to land, the environment here is obviously more suitable for water-based spirit beasts like Xiaoli. At this moment, Xiaoli is using the third-level water veins here to break through.

"Splash!" In just half a minute, the little carp's aura directly reached the level of a second-level spirit beast. The next moment, a golden koi jumped out of the water with a golden light. At the same time, koi formed by water also jumped out of the water one after another.

"Oh, is this a new talent that has been awakened?"

Seeing this, Gu Mo's eyes lit up. Every time a spirit beast breaks through, there is a probability that it can awaken its racial talent. The deeper the spirit beast's foundation, the greater the probability of awakening its racial talent when it breaks through.

"Roar!"

When Gu Mo was surprised that the little carp had awakened a new talent, the koi condensed from water suddenly merged and turned into a water dragon, letting out a low roar.

"It's a talent for controlling water!"

The talents awakened by spiritual beasts naturally have different strengths. The water control talent that Xiaoli has awakened at this moment is definitely one of the top talents.

Mastering the talent for controlling water is basically equivalent to mastering all water-related spells. The water koi and water dragon summoned by Xiaoli just now are two water-related spells.

"Boom!"

As the water dragon roared, dark clouds covered the sky. Then, the water dragon rushed into the dark clouds, stirring up the rolling clouds. The next moment, dense spiritual rain fell.

"Perfect level small cloud rain technique!"

Gu Mo's eyes lit up, he was only one step away from the perfect level of Xiao Yunyu Jue, but he had been unable to deliver that kick. Now seeing Xiaoli performing the perfect level of Xiao Yunyu Jue, it gave Gu Mo a lot of inspiration, it wouldn't be long before Gu Mo would be able to deliver that finishing kick.

"Not bad!"

Gu Mo called the little carp over and fed it a lot of level 2 solar essence. The koi that he fed with solar essence was beginning to become more and more extraordinary.

After playing with Xiaoli for a while, Gu Mo returned to the magic weapon hut on the water lily. Although the plants had been transplanted, Gu Mo's work was not over yet.

Next, Gu Mo will arrange the formation. Although he has a formation plate, the area that needs to be covered this time is a bit large, so Gu Mo also needs to make some minor changes to the formation plate.

Each level 3 water lily takes up a large area, and only one level 3 plant can be planted on it. The site utilization rate is much worse than that of a spiritual field. Therefore, if the same number of plants are planted, the area occupied by water lilies will be larger.

Of course, if you use high-level water lilies to plant low-level plants, the utilization rate of the site may not be less than that of spiritual fields. On a level 3 water lily leaf, you can only plant one level 3 plant, but if you plant level 1 or level 2 plants, you can plant a lot.

Moreover, not only the plants in the vending machines can be planted on the water lilies, but other spiritual plants can also be planted on the leaves of the water lilies. For example, Gu Mo planted three small trees on a patch of second-grade top-quality water lilies not far away. They were second-grade top-quality spiritual plants, jade dew fruit trees, that he got from the previous resource point of Qinglu Sect.

A new hidden effect of water lily was discovered, which made Gu Mo happy for a long time.

Back in the cabin, Gu Mo adjusted the array plates of the illusion array and the breath-concealing array to increase the coverage range. However, because Gu Mo did not understand arrays very well, the increase in coverage caused the effectiveness of the array to decline.

Gu Mo was helpless about this and could only find a formation master to refine the formation plate again in the future. As for the nut formation, there was no problem.

You only need to plant nuts on water lilies to set up the nut array. To increase the coverage of the nut array, you only need to increase the number of nuts. There is no need to consider the arrangement of the array stones, because the nut array directs the attack power to the nuts that serve as array stones.

Therefore, the Nut Array can be expanded or shrunk at will, but mainstream arrays such as the Illusion Array and the Breath-Concealing Array cannot, and need to be re-refined by the array master.

Completing the arrangement of the formation is only the beginning. Gu Mo still has a lot to do next.

Upgrade plants, accumulate knowledge, improve your cultivation, comprehend the secret art of wind escape, and prepare to leave here in the future and go to Shennong Valley.

In the absence of specialized ocean-going treasure ships, to cross the dangerous ocean, one would need to have at least the Jindan level of cultivation.

Although Gu Mo now possesses the physique and soul of the false elixir level, his cultivation is at the real foundation-building stage. However, with the third-order sunflower, it is only a matter of time for Gu Mo to enter the golden elixir realm.

Time passed, and another half a year passed. The number of Gu Mo's level 3 sunflowers increased from 5 to 10. During this period, Gu Mo also added a level 3 cherry bomb and a level 3 potato mine.

Combined with the level 3 pea shooter and the level 3 torch stump, it is more than enough to deal with level 3 monsters or Jindan monks.

As for the incarnation, Gu Mo is not planning to condense it for the time being. He will first improve his original cultivation. This island is remote, and there have been no humans or monsters around in the past year, so there is no need for the incarnation to appear for the time being.

Just as Gu Mo had this thought, his spiritual sense detected that several people had landed on the island. Among those who landed on the island, there was a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage, and the others were all mortals.

After leaving a box on the island, these people left quickly, as if something terrible would happen if they left too late.

"what's the situation?"

Gu Mo was puzzled. He thought that there must be a person in the box. With a sweep of his fake elixir-level spiritual sense, he saw that there was a person in the box.

"Is it a sacrifice?"

Thinking of the original owner of the island and the human skeletons on the island, Gu Mo understood the reason a little. The direction these people left was the scattered islands in the distance. There were indeed people living there, and there were monks.

Gu Mo stood up and went outside the island and opened the box. If he didn't take care of it, the person in the box would not survive long.

"Woo~~"

As the box opened, Gu Mo heard a terrified whimper. He looked down and saw a young girl in the box. Her figure and appearance were both top-notch. It had to be said that she was absolutely qualified as a sacrifice.

"Stop crying and go home quickly."

Gu Mo knocked on the box, ready to let the sacrificial girl go home.

"what!"

Hearing the sound, the sobbing girl in the box looked up suddenly. She did not see the terrible giant lizard monster that her elders had talked about, but a handsome young man with gentle eyes. She couldn't help but show surprise on her face.

"No, I can't go back. If I go back, my parents will die." The girl shook her head. She was the sacrifice this time. If the sacrifice escaped, Lord Giant Lizard would be angry and many villages would suffer. Her parents would also be executed. So, she couldn't go back.

"Then can you contact your family?" Gu Mo rubbed his forehead. He was reluctant to leave here. After all, only in the plant front was Gu Mo's combat power the strongest. Before he had mastered the information of this area, it was the best choice not to leave.

(End of this chapter)