Chapter 3759 — Where His Confidence Lies
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
After Wei Zhao, all the new disciples of the Three-Tiered Pavilion finished collecting their seeds, and then each was issued a vessel made specifically for cultivating spirit-herb seeds.
Wei Zhao observed for a while and found that although this cultivation vessel could not actively supply spirit qi, it had the effect of drawing in the spirit qi of the surrounding space, much like how ordinary plants, through their extensive root systems, could absorb moisture from deep within the soil in all directions, ensuring a certain supply of water even when growing in arid regions lacking moisture.
This specialized cultivation vessel clearly had a similar effect in drawing in spirit qi, but it had one limitation: each vessel could plant at most ten spirit-herb seeds at a time.
Plant more than that, and because they would be too close together, too densely packed, they would viciously compete with one another for spirit qi. Then no matter how rich the spirit qi outside, it was highly likely that some seeds in the middle would wither and die from insufficient spirit qi.
Thus those new disciples who had received a dozen or even twenty spirit-herb seeds could only cultivate them in batches. Fortunately, the survival and cultivation cycle for spirit-herb seeds was generally fifteen to twenty days, and this assessment period lasted a full three months—enough not only for two batches, but even for three or four batches with room to spare.
In fact, because they had to guarantee not only sufficient spirit qi but also a continuous supply of ample true qi to every seed, the vast majority of new disciples had already decided to divide the spirit-herb seeds on hand into three or four batches, cultivating only three or four seeds per batch.
That way they could give them focused care and ensure an adequate supply of both spirit qi and true qi, at least guaranteeing that they could meet the seeds' basic needs as far as these two hard requirements were concerned.
But while the other new disciples had such concerns, Wei Zhao did not, because he had no intention of using the cultivation vessels provided by the spirit-herb garden at all.
He planned, once he returned, to simply fetch some soil into the jade-pendant space and then transplant all eighty-five spirit-herb seeds—his own and those of Xiao Che and the others—into the jade-pendant space in one go.
No need to worry about insufficient spirit qi, no need to worry about insufficient true qi—the jade-pendant space was, to Wei Zhao, a natural cultivation vessel for spirit-herb seeds, and a genuine divine artifact at that.
Thus, barring any mishap, within the next twenty days all eighty-five seeds should be fully cultivated.
Though he could not claim a hundred percent guarantee that every one would take root, sprout, and grow into seedlings, with a god-tier cheat like the jade-pendant space, even a fool could tell the survival rate would be far higher than that of the other new disciples, and securing another high score would be no problem at all.
Still, the assessment score and the like were, in Wei Zhao's eyes, merely incidental. The only thing he cared about right now was the Heart-Devouring Linglong Grass seed he had just obtained. So long as he could cultivate that one, it mattered little to him even if every other spirit-herb seed died outright.