Astral Cockroach

The heavy rain ceased in the early morning.

Flame Cluster Mottled Grass didn't linger and returned to its territory.

Banbu went out to check on the condition of the God-given Seed.

Banbu broke through and advanced to a mid-level warrior, and the Tree Spirit also broke through its growth constraints. Its soul strength greatly increased. Upon seeing Banbu, it immediately released a complex mix of emotions and thoughts, including joy, anger, contempt, and urging.

The 39 sub-plants guarding the mother plant had already sprouted panicles and were about to bloom. At the same time, the outer ring of 27 sub-plants was also brewing, separating rhizomes, and shifting laterally to grow, indicating they were about to divide. Judging by the pattern, the number of sub-plants this time should be 81.

As Banbu evolved and broke through its limits, the God-given Seed grew accordingly. The biggest change should be the upper limit of the number of sub-plants.

Banbu could roughly analyze the principle behind it: the number of sub-plants is determined by the Tree Spirit's soul strength. Only a strong soul can control more sub-plants.

Conversely, the direct manifestation of the Tree Spirit's soul strength is the number of sub-plants.

The God-given Seed was currently in a critical period of rapid development. Wiggling its antennae to sense carefully, the Origin Power on the mountain could barely keep up. After checking the soil, the soil fertility had dropped sharply. Banbu hurriedly scooped out a large amount of biogas residue from the biogas pool to fertilize and ensure the supply of nutrients.

After fertilization, the emotions of the God-given Seed calmed down, and it simply conveyed a mocking and contemptuous thought to Banbu.

Banbu didn't have time to pay attention to it and came to the north side of the mountain, first checking the various ordinary Life Seeds.

After advancing to a mid-level warrior, the ordinary Life Seeds did not have the obvious changes of the God-given Seed, and they were always growing step by step.

The newly grown grass plants of the Xun Grass Life Seed had grown to a height of 400, which was very rapid. As expected, 96 grass seeds could still be harvested in autumn.

The Sunlight Fruit, White Jade Mulberry, Chinese Arborvitae, and Iron Knife Tree seedlings had all grown, but not very obviously. There was no way around it; trees were just slow in the early stages.

The Li Bamboo was completely different. The underground stems grew wildly, and the number of bamboo poles reached 6 of varying heights. The tallest one was nearly 800, forming a clump. After the heavy rain, another bamboo shoot emerged from the ground and would soon grow.

In terms of Origin Power supply alone, Li Bamboo, as a Life Seed, was far more effective than other types of plants.

When Banbu was an L8 and L9 elementary warrior, he chose Moso Bamboo and Golden Bamboo as Life Seeds, respectively. Because he missed the spring season, he saved them up and planned to sow them next year.

Currently, as an L1 mid-level warrior, he still chose Li Bamboo as his Life Seed. It had been planned long ago, and the seeds were obtained from Hei Sang. He asked for a total of 5 seeds. In the next few molting evolutions of the mid-level warrior, Banbu planned to choose bamboo as his Life Seed, and Li Bamboo would be his first choice.

Finally, he checked the poor bamboo species discovered in the Wind Chime Territory: it was newly born this year, and the underground stems had not had time to develop. There was only one bamboo pole on the ground, and it was thin and short. Being stimulated to sprout flower spikes in this weak state was an extremely bad situation.

The flower spike emerged from a node on the main stem, with only one spike. Now it had spread out, with a total of only 3 flowers, and they were very small. Judging from the flower structure, it should directly bear seeds, not fruit.

However, these 3 small flowers were enough to take the life of the entire bamboo plant.

The bamboo plant mobilized all the stored nutrients from the rhizomes and exhausted all its life force to supply the growth of the flower spikes.

The flowers would bloom quickly, pollinate, wither, bear seeds, and develop rapidly, completing the inheritance of genes in a short period of time.

"Pollination…"

Banbu thought, and suddenly became troubled.

There was only one solitary bamboo pole on the mountain, with a total of only 3 small flowers. There were no other similar plants. Where the hell could he get pollen for pollination?

"Will this new bamboo species, born by chance, be cut off in my hands?"

Banbu's mind turned, and he immediately thought of two solutions:

First, the 3 small flowers could pollinate each other. It was difficult to determine whether it would be successful. If it could succeed, the offspring inherited would completely inherit the genes of the mother plant, approaching "genetic cloning."

Second, fortunately, there were other bamboo species on the mountain that were sprouting and blooming due to the drought. He could look for them, and maybe there were similar varieties. If there were, he could collect pollen and hybridize them, and he could probably create a new hybrid variety.

As Banbu thought, he immediately set off to search the mountain.

Flame Cluster Mottled Grass was right. The drought this year was not serious at all. Only a few 3 bamboo species were stimulated to sprout and bloom. Fortunately, one of the bamboo species was similar to the bamboo species discovered in the Wind Chime Territory.

A very unique bamboo species, named "Mottled Bamboo", with green poles and extremely tough. The underground stems spread laterally and irregularly, neither in clumps nor in groups. The bamboo poles on the ground were sparsely distributed one by one. The height difference of the poles was very large, ranging from 500 to 1000.

Banbu judged by comparing the shape of the poles, the nodes, the size and shape of the bamboo leaves, and the shape of the flowers. If divided according to the domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species of biological taxonomy, Mottled Bamboo should belong to the same genus but different species as the bamboo species discovered in the Wind Chime Territory. In the plant kingdom, the genetic isolation of this type of plant is very low, and there is a high probability of successful hybridization.

Bamboo does not bloom easily, and Banbu decided to try both methods.

There were only 3 flowers in total, so he had to treat them carefully.

He racked his brains, reviewed the scientific knowledge about carbon-based plants and genetic inheritance passed down from his previous life as a human being, and roughly deduced that the success rate of self-pollination was higher than that of cross-pollination.

Therefore, he would self-pollinate the 3 flowers. At the same time, he would pick pollen and heavily pollinate the Mottled Bamboo flowers at the foot of the mountain to conduct hybridization experiments in the Mottled Bamboo forest.

The other two bamboo species that bloomed due to the drought, one named Moso Bamboo and the other named Cattail Bamboo, were both tall.

Unfortunately, after a rough identification, it was determined that they could not be considered the same genus, and there were large genetic differences, so the probability of successful hybridization would be very low.

Banbu held a try-and-experiment mentality and chose a few plants to pollinate each other.

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Hearing that Banbu had advanced to a mid-level warrior, the Iron Knife Mountain Master continued to fulfill his promise. The Iron Knife Peak patrolling warriors would bring Banbu a fresh mountain pear fruit every day.

However, high-level warriors no longer provide food, and Banbu needs to go out hunting himself. As an elementary warrior, he could only be considered semi-independent. Only by hunting and obtaining food on his own could he be considered truly independent.

After becoming truly independent, he could begin to protect ordinary cockroaches and cultivate his tribe. According to tradition, Banbu went to the Iron Knife Mountains to select a batch of egg sacs from each elder's territory.

This approach is very reasonable. Cockroaches from different territories have larger genetic differences, which eliminates inbreeding and results in offspring with better genes. Better genes and stronger individuals increase the probability of tribal warriors emerging.

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There are many wild rabbits, snakes, rats, and birds living in the lower layers of Li Bamboo Peak. Hunting does not require running too far, and there is actually no danger, nor does it require spending too much time and energy.

The bamboo breeding matters only require spending a small amount of time observing.

Taking care of the various Life Seeds every day is actually just checking the condition and irrigating them when appropriate.

Banbu devoted most of his time and energy to deducing the cultivation technique that was about to be completed.

After half a month, it was finally initially completed.

Trying to cultivate it was barely feasible, and there were some minor problems. He could try to practice it while correcting it. After spending another four or five days, it was completely successful.

It was much later than expected, but it was finally completed.

Banbu officially named it "Basic Cultivation Method · L1 Intermediate Level", corresponding to L1 intermediate warriors. When he advances to L2 intermediate warriors in the future, the technique will be slightly changed, and the name will also be changed to "Basic Cultivation Method · L2 Intermediate Level", and so on.

It is very efficient. After each absorption of Origin Power, through the cultivation technique, it achieves the purpose of rapid digestion and enhances the efficiency of cells using Origin Power. The specific increase is about 150%, which is not the limit.

Ordinary cockroaches have a Origin Power utilization efficiency of less than 20%. Banbu's cultivation technique increases the utilization rate to more than 40%. The technique still has room for improvement and can further improve the Origin Power utilization efficiency.

The difficulty coefficient of improving the technique is much higher than creating the technique. It requires practical experience and more time and energy. Banbu plans to put it aside for the time being and take it slowly in the future.

According to the plan, the next step is to deduce a special technique that can absorb the metal core of the Dominator Realm, and then go to absorb it to quickly improve his mental power.

However, all of Banbu's energy was attracted by the Mottled Bamboo forest, which was gradually declining after flowering and bearing seeds.

One of the flowers, which had been pollinated with pollen from the bamboo species discovered in the Wind Chime Territory on the mountain, was absorbing Origin Power at a very slow rate, and then slowly acquired Origin Power fluctuations.

Banbu was so excited that he couldn't sleep for several days. He lay in the bamboo forest for two days and two nights, motionless, patiently observing the entire process of seed development, and finally determined with 100% certainty that this was a Origin Power seed born in nature. Banbu preferred to call it a God-given Seed!