We agreed to farm, but you're planting a divine tree in the eternal night?

Chapter 72: Cultivating a Superior Golden Spirit Arrow Fruit

"You promised to lend me half after you've finished hybridizing, so hurry up and hybridize me," Jiang Qiaoqiao's voice was urgent, her breath hot as she blinked. "I won't take yours for nothing. I'll raise them into wood and metal type parents and return them to you, how about that?"

Hybridization between animals of the same zodiac sign only requires affinity for one zodiac sign. For example, "Golden Arrow" and "Golden Cage" only require affinity for the metal sign. After a single induction of offspring, they can be pollinated immediately to verify the validity of the approach.

If the hybridization goes smoothly, a spirit seed that inherits the characteristics of both can be cultivated. Like the [Golden Lotus], it is a mutated hybrid, but it only has a metallic phase and needs to be cultivated to grow into a mother plant.

Then graft the [wood fruit] onto it.

At that time, the dual attributes required for the "fruiting" of the [Wood-Born Spirit Plant] will appear. It cannot reproduce on its own and must be pollinated by a corresponding [Powder-Gathering Fairy]. This is what Jiang Qiao is currently worried about, as it is very troublesome to cultivate.

However, Jiang Qiao had Director Jiang's help in planning and mastering the path and methods for cultivating the dual-attribute [Powder-Gathering Fairy]. With her help in cultivating, she no longer needed to explore on her own, which saved a lot of time and resources.

The next five months.

It can specialize in hybridization of two species.

With a flick of her finger, Jiang Qiu pulled back the fairy who had almost disappeared into the bud of the Golden Lotus. "Alright, then I'll start pollinating and hybridizing."

"Hmm," Jiang Qiao nodded happily, but quickly tilted her head, staring suspiciously at his next move. "Wait a minute, are you going to hybridize the [Golden Spirit Cage] and the [Golden Spirit Arrow]?"

"What's wrong?"

"No, you..." Jiang Qiao's eyelids twitched, she raised her eyebrows in disbelief, and her eyes were strange.

"Level 1 mutation achievements can only hybridize once at most. Second-generation hybridization can only be achieved after reaching the [Breeding Realm]. Are you planning to research this now and cultivate dual-attribute achievements?"

"I'll give it a try first." Jiang Qiu remained noncommittal. After all, the [Propagation Realm] in the park, such as Lao Tian's, had decades of experience and many second-generation hybrid spiritual plants, giving them a huge advantage in the "Propagation Competition".

If you only cultivate first-generation hybrid spiritual fruits according to the standards of the [Growth Realm] to enter the [Reproduction Realm], even if you rush to cultivate second-generation hybrid results, you won't have time to explore their good characteristics.

It's difficult to compete with seasoned, experienced trainees.

Fortunately, among the tens of thousands of rare nutrient soils, there is one that has the most suitable effect at present, which is limited to the cultivation of dual-attribute spiritual plants of the metal and wood elements, greatly enhancing reproductive behavior, including hybridization through grafting.

Its upper limit can reach the second generation of hybridization.

of course.

First, complete one generation of hybridization before that.

This means that the [Golden Spirit Arrow] and the [Golden Spirit Cage] are hybrids of the same species. Now, after a month of preparation, the [Powder-Gathering Fairy] has been cultivated and has sufficient spiritual energy reserves, and can begin to be induced to reproduce and be pollinated.

Amid Jiang Qiao's astonished and bewildered gaze, Jiang Qiu's eyes sharpened, and he released a wisp of cyan spiritual energy from his fingertips, which then pierced into a lone [Golden Spirit Cage] and a [Golden Spirit Arrow] that resembled a sword.

[Optimization direction selected: expected maturity time 5 days ahead]

[Optimization direction selected: expected maturity time 5 days ahead]

[Optimization direction selected: expected maturity time 5 days ahead]

【...】

Swish, swish, swish! A single [Golden Spirit Cage] grass grows spirally, its tip twisting into a spiral-shaped flower bud shell, from which tiny yellow stamens emerge, naturally emitting a unique and superior fragrance.

Swish! The Golden Arrow, like a sisal plant, grows taller and taller from its roots. With each section it grows, a ring of sharp, sword-like leaves blooms, pointing in all directions. At its center, a main stem emerges, with white flowers hanging like bells, and the stamens surrounding them are pale yellow.

Jiang Qiao was taken aback, a sense of surprise and doubt creeping into her heart. "This [Golden Spirit Cage] clearly only produces one fruit, yet it's naturally a rare and superior-grade fruit with such an intense fragrance?"

"Wait, it seems he didn't cultivate the [Water-Element Flower], and didn't absorb any water-elemental spiritual energy. Now he's forcing two rare metal spiritual plants to grow at once. Can he suppress the instability...?"

Whoosh, a cold wind brushed her cheek, extinguishing the bright red [Golden Spirit Cage] and [Golden Edge Flower]. The two spiritual plants swayed, their leaves making a crisp metallic clanging sound, before slowly coming to a stop.

At this moment, the Golden Spirit Cage is just a single large spiral fruit, like a birthing room waiting to be pollinated, while the Golden Spirit Arrow is adorned with a dozen or so tiny white flowers, like wind chimes, small and exquisite, waiting to be picked.

Jiang Qiao stared blankly at everything, her clenched fist suddenly relaxing, a hint of envy flashing in her eyes. "Really? You've already mastered the [Daily Accumulation of Wealth] technique so well?"

"It's alright, it's enough." Jiang Qiu slowly took a breath, but her work didn't stop, she was fully focused on the cultivation process of the [Golden Spirit Arrow].

Whoosh! Red spiritual energy burst forth from the fingertip and once again drilled into the [Golden Spirit Arrow]. Its white flower shrank into a bud shape, and its quality began to transform from low grade!

[Following the general low-grade recipe ratio, consuming 20 strands of level 1 fire elemental energy, "top" the level 1 metal elemental plant "Golden Spirit Arrow"]

The first fruit has broken through to a mid-grade level.

[Consumes 100 strands of level 1 fire elemental energy]

【Top Tier 1 Rare Metal Spirit Plant "Golden Spirit Arrow"】

[About to transform, choosing a random optimization direction...]

After glancing at the three familiar options—extracting traits, digesting traits, and breeding traits—Jiang Qiu looked at the third one without hesitation.

After all, the most basic requirement for hybridization is that they are of the same grade, ordinary spiritual plants with ordinary spiritual plants, rare spiritual plants with rare spiritual plants, first-generation hybrids with first-generation hybrids, and then, on this basis, the father and mother plants are of superior quality.

The spirit seeds that Director Jiang sent were all of inferior quality.

First, you have to produce top-quality fruit yourself.

In this way, selecting breeding characteristics can also be beneficial for sowing, and the development effect can be shown quickly before hybridization, so choose three!

Whoosh! The flower bud, which had just transformed to the mid-grade level, underwent a metamorphosis in the flames, releasing a high-grade fruity fragrance. A fruit resembling a yellow jade bead was revealed, and at the same time, a corresponding panel popped up—

[Cultivated superior Golden Spirit Arrow Fruit]

【Characteristic 1: Affinity between genus members】

[Effect: Increases the success rate of hybridization with other "Golden Arrows" and makes it easier to inherit good traits; the same applies to Metal Spirit Plants.]

[This cultivation path has been included, upgrading the original general low-grade recipe to a high-grade recipe. It can consume corresponding resources to stably cultivate high-grade fruits with the "same genus affinity" trait, while still allowing for continued cultivation and optimization.]

Although it's just a common breeding trait, the success rate of hybridization is higher, and it's easier to inherit good traits; you're lucky.

Jiang Qiu's eyes lit up.

With a snap, he folded the top-quality fruit with his right hand, pulled over a newly prepared potted plant with his left hand, and threw it into the soil to sow the seeds!

Then, repeat the previous cultivation process, using wood-elemental spiritual energy to [grow], water-elemental spiritual energy to [store essence], and fire-elemental spiritual energy to [reach the top].

With a whoosh, a new Golden Arrow plant with even sharper leaves burst forth from the soil, growing taller and taller.

It's worth mentioning that the rare nutrient soil that carries it has a 33% chance of pre-selecting a rare trait option. As expected, this generation of [Golden Spirit Arrow] will produce rare breeding traits.

However, Jiang Qiao was still immersed in her own anticipation of transforming into the "Accumulated Wealth" skill and did not pay much attention to Jiang Qiu's cultivation process.

After all, that's how hybridization works. Generation after generation, you cultivate superior male and female parents, select those with good characteristics, and then breed them again until a suitable generation for hybridization appears. It's a long and tedious process, going back and forth endlessly.

Unfortunately, after dozens of generations, they still haven't been able to hybridize. Jiang Qiu has only been accumulating for a month, and it's unlikely there will be any breakthrough progress today...

Thinking this, Jiang Qiao rested her chubby cheek on her left hand, sat down next to [Golden Lotus], and glanced sideways at [Powder-Gathering Fairy] who had shrunk back into the incubator.

Tap, tap, the index and middle fingers walked to the edge of the box one after the other, looking down at the fairy inside who made the [Golden Spirit Cage] shell her home.

She pouted and mumbled, "Once he lends these to me, I'll cultivate them into a dual-attribute affinity, independently nurture the [Golden Spirit Lotus], and within six months I'll be able to enter the [Propagation Realm], taking another step closer to [Daily Accumulation of Gold]."

"By then, I'll be able to independently refine and generate spiritual energy, and transform the five elements of spiritual energy... Huh? So fast!"

With a whoosh, the [Powder-Gathering Fairy] suddenly flew out of the box, past her small hand standing beside the box, and flew one after another towards the third-generation [Golden Spirit Arrow].

The first generation of cross-pollination begins...