Natural God's Gift

With the new plum tree varieties cultivated as the original species, everyone began working with great enthusiasm. Siyi collected a total of twenty plum tree varieties, planting them around August. After growing for about half a year, reaching a height of about half a meter, they took advantage of the spring season to transplant them into the already prepared plum garden.

Of the twenty plum tree varieties, some were planted with over a thousand trees, while even the least planted had hundreds.

When planting in the plum garden, Siyi didn't plant them randomly. He still planted them separately according to the plum tree variety. There were ditches separating the twenty plum tree varieties. The main purpose of doing this was to prevent these plum trees from cross-pollinating, which could lead to undesirable mutations and cause misjudgments during the cultivation process.

After being transplanted into the plum garden, because they were newly planted, none of the plum trees blossomed or bore fruit in the first year.

In the second year, some plum trees began to bloom, but because they were still saplings, Siyi examined their growth status and ultimately decided to remove all the plum blossoms from the trees, allowing them to rest from flowering and fruiting.

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At the same time, he also transferred fertilizer from the Dragon Bamboo Plain to replenish the plum trees with nutrients.

Until the third year, or rather, the early spring of the fourth year, after three years of growth and with Siyi's supplementation of a large amount of fertilizer, the plum trees in the plum garden finally bloomed with their deserved colors.

In the plum garden, various colors of plum blossoms bloomed neatly and orderly. There were golden plums shining with light, exquisite and translucent snow plums, blood plums as red as blood, pink palace powder plums, and so on.

Siyi instructed Aixiang Zuowang to direct the bee colony to drive away all the ordinary bees in the surrounding area, allowing their own bee colony to pollinate these plum blossoms themselves, without mixing the different varieties.

Aixiang directed the bee colony to work, and after pollinating one type of plum blossom, they had to wash their bodies and limbs, which was a bit troublesome, but it ensured the purity of the seeds.

After pollination, it wasn't just a matter of waiting for the plums to ripen. Aixiang's bee colony also had to thin out the flowers and fruits, removing the poorly growing fruits and leaving the large ones.

Then, in June, during the plum ripening season, they would harvest the ripe plums and then screen them again, selecting a batch of the best fruits for planting.

In fact, the first batch of plum trees planted were not on Siyi's cultivation list at all.

Because these plum trees grew outdoors, the plants had more or less some defects caused by external influences.

In the early stages, it didn't seem like much, but in the later stages of crossbreeding, these small defects would be infinitely magnified,

and all sorts of problems would arise.

Now, the plums newly cultivated by Siyi have uniform fruits and standards, which is the main focus of his cultivation efforts.

Siyi selected five thousand plums each from the newly matured twenty plum tree varieties, and he replanted these plum tree seeds in the greenhouse.

At the same time, he also dispatched Flame Spider warriors to clear all the weeds and trees in the plum garden.

Like the first batch of plum trees, after the small plum trees he planted grew to fifty or sixty centimeters in height, they would be transplanted into the plum garden.

They were planted in July and cultivated in the greenhouse for half a year, then transplanted again in February of the following year.

Twenty varieties, with five thousand trees of each plum tree, added up to one hundred thousand trees.

Transplanting so many plum trees into the plum garden was a huge project. Siyi and the others, along with the bee colony and the Flame Spider warriors transferred from other places, started transplanting the plum trees from the beginning of February and didn't finish until June.

Then they had to eliminate the dead and weak seedlings. After this process, the time was almost August, and by the time the plum trees started growing again in the new territory, almost a year had passed.

Then, in the spring of the third year, they had to prune the flowers of the plum trees again. After completing this step, they were pretty much truly relaxed.

However, after freeing up his time, Siyi didn't sit idle in the kingdom. Instead, according to the instructions of the Shanglu Divine Tree, he went to explore the interior of the divine power barrier.

Since the divine power barrier between the Myriad Nations Continent and the Myriad Races Continent was located in the center of the ocean and was not suitable for stable travel, Siyi began exploring from the divine power barrier between the Fang Nation Continent and the Zhibai Continent.

Siyi started from the location where he usually entered the divine power barrier. He had built a tunnel of earth and stone here to facilitate his travel and prevent him from getting lost. At this moment, it could serve as a boundary.

Siyi carried the Hourglass of Time on his back and pulled the spider silk thread as he walked within the divine power barrier.

Compared to exploring the divine power barrier when he was at the Mountain Lord level, his spiritual thoughts could only be emitted within a radius of about five or six meters.

After being promoted to the Lord level and gaining the Life-based talent, his spiritual thoughts within the divine power barrier could now expand to about thirty meters. Even though it was still greatly suppressed, he was already much more at ease.

At least for him, he didn't have to explore the divine power barrier like a blind spider slowly groping around, as he did the first time.

A range of 30 meters was enough for him to know what the surrounding environment was like and whether he would enter a dangerous area.

According to the old rules, he made a stone pillar every hundred meters or so, wrapping it with spider silk as a marker. Although this made the search efficiency slower, it was safer.

Siyi walked at a normal speed, about 5 meters per second. The speed was neither fast nor slow, and it was just right to accommodate his spiritual thoughts to explore the surrounding environment.

In front of the vast divine power barrier, the area he explored at this speed was simply insignificant, but Siyi wasn't in a hurry anyway, he had plenty of time.

Rather than wandering around aimlessly and ultimately achieving nothing, it was better to lay a good foundation from the start and expand outwards little by little.

If one year wasn't enough, then two years. If ten years wasn't enough, then twenty years, fifty years. He just didn't believe it.

However, no matter what happened in the future, he searched within the divine power barrier for three months this year, but ultimately achieved nothing.

In October, he returned to the Flame Spider Kingdom to prepare for this year's autumn harvest.

At this time, Angelica, knowing that he had returned, approached him at the first opportunity.

"Siyi,"

"Hmm?"

Angelica took out a spider silk bag and handed it to Siyi: "The Purple Frost Plum trees that Zimmu conceived a few years ago have been planted,

and now they have begun to grow."

"Oh?" Siyi took the spider silk bag, opened it, and checked. Inside were a few leaves of the Purple Frost Plum tree, with faint proto-energy fluctuations on the leaves. "It's about the same as you guessed. The proto-energy power of the Purple Frost Plum tree is indeed closely related to bloodline enhancement."

Siyi said calmly: "It's good to have a rough confirmation. Now we can choose the initial cultivation direction of the Purple Frost Plum tree."

"Blood Plums also enhance bloodlines. The properties of these two plum trees are relatively close, so they can be the first choice for crossbreeding. When the plum blossoms bloom next year, let these two plum blossoms cross-pollinate on a large scale."

"Okay!" Angelica agreed immediately.

Siyi continued: "The scale of the plum garden needs to be expanded again. Harvest all the fruits of each variety accumulated this year,

and plant them directly in the plum garden next spring, which will save the transplanting step."

"Okay!"