Natural God's Gift

After harvesting all the life seeds within the territory, everyone didn't rest but instead threw themselves into the work of hybrid plum trees.

The morning mist enveloped the entire plum orchard. Fourleaf stepped through the dew and entered this garden. Six years ago, when it took over this territory, it was still a wasteland, with only various weeds and trees of different varieties.

Now, those weeds had long been cleared away, and twenty different varieties, totaling one hundred thousand plum trees, were planted here, replacing those weeds.

These one hundred thousand plum trees were all planted in a well-spaced and orderly manner.

In addition to these one hundred thousand plum trees, Fourleaf planned to plant another twenty thousand purple frost plum trees, twenty thousand golden plum trees, and twenty thousand silver plum trees next year.

These three types of plum trees were new varieties with greater potential for hybridization.

Behind Fourleaf were the Flame Spider warriors who successively entered the woodland.

Most of these were intermediate and advanced Flame Spider warriors, and they were carrying not-very-large scissors in their claws.

During the harvesting of life seeds, Fourleaf had asked everyone to finish up the work in their claws.

By the time the life seeds were harvested, the Flame Spider warriors' finishing work for the year was almost complete.

Among these twenty varieties of plum trees, the properties of blood plum and purple frost plum were the closest, so Fourleaf first chose to hybridize blood plum and purple frost plum.

"Okay," the Flame Spider warriors responded one after another.

Angelica and Artemisia divided the Flame Spider warriors into two groups, one group leading to the purple frost plum tree forest, and the other leading to the blood plum tree forest.

They each marked out about five hundred plum trees and then said, "Cut down the plum branches in these two areas.

Just cut off about ten branches from each tree, and choose branches that are about half a meter long to cut."

"Understood," Fourleaf had roughly explained the situation to them before they came here, so the Flame Spider warriors had a clear understanding in their hearts.

They took the scissors and entered the plum orchard to start working. They used two of their spider legs to operate the scissors, selecting the position where the plum tree branches were two centimeters thick to start cutting.

They cut the branches according to the standard set by Fourleaf, at an angle of about 30 degrees.

With a total of one thousand trees and hundreds of Flame Spider warriors working, the speed was not too slow.

After cutting down a batch of branches, several Flame Spider warriors collected the cut branches. They sent the blood plum tree branches to the purple frost plum tree territory and sent the purple frost plum tree branches to the blood plum tree forest.

At the same time, several Flame Spider warriors freed up their claws. They grafted the branches cut from the blood plum trees onto the places where the purple frost plum trees had just been pruned, and then spat out a mouthful of spider silk to fix them in place.

The cut branches were re-grafted by them in this way.

Of course, it was impossible to say that the hybrid breeding was completed in this way. Grafting in this way in the spring might allow some branches to survive.

But now it was autumn. If they were simply connected like this, then after experiencing the cold winter, they would only get a large pile of dead branches the following year.

At this time, Fourleaf needed to take action.

After seeing the other Flame Spider warriors fix the cut branches on the trees with spider silk, Fourleaf walked to the plum tree and activated its ability.

It saw the original energy of its whole body begin to boil, and the original eight-elemental energy gradually transformed into wood-elemental energy.

At the same time, thoughts began to arise in its mind. After years of training in the Shanglu ancestral land, it was now able to achieve the level of multitasking.

It saw that under the operation of its mind, the wood-elemental energy around it quickly condensed into four inkberry flowers about three or four centimeters in size.

Its forelegs lightly tapped on these inkberry flowers one by one, and these flowers turned into a stream of light, directly landing on the interfaces of the plum trees and quickly dissolving into them and disappearing.

After doing this, Fourleaf once again condensed four flowers of the same size as before around it.

This was a wood-elemental ability it had comprehended at the Mountain Master level, called Grafting.

Whether it was a towering tree or a roadside weed, as long as it was accidentally broken, it could restore it with this ability.

As long as it used this ability, the tree would be exactly the same as before it was damaged.

As for the original energy consumed, it depended on the size of the tree. If the tree was huge, the original energy consumed would be large, and if the tree was small, the original energy consumed would be small.

Fourleaf had tested the ability in Shanglu. At full strength, it could condense a flower of original energy with a diameter of thirty meters to help trees with a diameter of dozens of meters regenerate.

But this ability also had a drawback: the number of flowers it could condense was determined by the number of thoughts.

If the thinking was relatively rigid, it could only condense one flower at a time. Fourleaf could now multitask, so it could condense four flowers.

The Flame Spider warriors fixed the branches one by one with spider silk, and Fourleaf continuously used its ability behind them to repair them.

Because the volume of the branches was relatively small, although the number was quite large, Fourleaf's original energy was sufficient. Under its non-stop display, it only took a day to re-graft all the branches.

"Okay," after completing the grafting, most of the original energy in Fourleaf's body was also consumed. Angelica appropriately grabbed a pig and sliced the pork for Fourleaf to eat.

Fourleaf manipulated spider silk threads to take out some God-given original energy food specially used to restore original power from the spider silk sac on its carapace. It ate the God-given original energy food while eating pork.

After eating a pig, Fourleaf said to Artemisia: "Those plum trees just now were just grafted. Although there won't be too much damage under the action of my ability, there will still be some impact after all. Remember to supplement them with a wave of fertilizer."

"Understood," Artemisia said: "I will irrigate them with fermented marsh water, which will restore them to their peak condition."

"Good!" Fourleaf had no doubts about Artemisia's ability. Next, it would wait for the plum trees to bloom and then carry out the next hybridization operation.

Artemisia had been taking care of plants for decades, and it could handle various problems appropriately. In addition, the location of the Flame Spider Kingdom was not very cold in winter. Under its care, the plum trees that had just undergone grafting safely survived the winter.

Time quickly came to the spring season, and the beginning of the year was the season when plum blossoms bloomed.

One hundred thousand plum trees bloomed, forming an extremely vast sea of flowers. Anyone who saw it would say that this was a beautiful flower scene.

But for Artemisia and its bee colony, this was the beginning of the real busy season.

They needed to pollinate each plum tree so that the plum trees could produce as many plums as possible. At the same time, they also had to ensure that the plums would not be mixed with the genes of other varieties of plum trees, affecting the quality of the plums.

Artemisia had now bred five Auxiliary Kings and a million bee colonies of different sizes. At the beginning of the year, it sent all the bee colonies to the plum orchard, allowing the five Auxiliary Kings to each be responsible for the harvesting of four or five varieties of plum trees.

And it was responsible for pollinating the flowers of purple frost plum and blood plum.

The specific operation was to collect pollen from purple frost plum flowers and then pollinate blood plum flowers. At the same time, blood plum pollen was also pollinated to purple frost plum trees.

There were a total of ten thousand plum trees of these two varieties. Artemisia planned six thousand trees, three thousand of each variety, for testing.

Among them, the one thousand grafted plum trees received the most attention.

Grafting two plum trees of different qualities might yield a batch of defective products or a batch of new products,

This was something that no one could be sure of.

Even the difference between grafting blood plum onto purple frost plum trees and grafting purple frost plum onto blood plum trees would lead to different qualities of fruit produced.

Under Fourleaf's personal attention, Artemisia cross-pollinated these two plum blossoms.

This type of pollination would not achieve mutation in one generation; it was very likely to require ten or dozens of years of cultivation.

Therefore, after Fourleaf confirmed that the plum blossoms had been pollinated, it did not delay and followed the Ginkgo Spider King and the others to carry God-given original energy food to the Myriad Nations Continent for trading.