Vegetable Skeleton's Exotic Land Reclamation

Ang didn't care about any tree gods or shadows; he just wanted to farm. Unfortunately, he was only a projection and couldn't reach into his dimensional space to plant anything.

Even his other clone couldn't farm, as it was busy protecting Sharmala and couldn't spare a hand for planting. One could imagine how bored Ang was.

But now, he finally had something to plant.

Ang trimmed the small segments of shrub branches, habitually smoothing the cut ends. He released high-temperature heat from his fingers, cauterizing and disinfecting the cuts…

Though Ang doubted if it would even work. With temperatures of thousands of degrees here, would there even be any viruses or bacteria?

Despite not knowing whether disinfection was necessary, Ang chose to disinfect a portion, releasing temperatures of over three thousand degrees from his fingertip, passing it over the cuts of the shrubs.

The cuts visibly contracted and died, yet the bark remained unchanged, causing Negary to grind his teeth. "How hot is that? Over three thousand degrees, right? Its bark is fine? It can withstand three thousand degrees? That's insane! What kind of tree is this?"

The temperature here had long surpassed Negary's understanding, but seeing an ordinary shrub branch withstand three thousand degrees still made him very uncomfortable.

Ang shook his head and cauterized the ends of ten branches. He stuck one directly into the ground, which was made of the World Tree's leaves, its surface incomparably hard. Ang first poked a hole with his finger, then inserted the branch.

He wrapped the cut end of the second branch with Star Soil.

He wrapped one end of the third branch with Star Soil and watered the Star Soil. However, the water quickly evaporated and caused the Star Soil to harden.

The surrounding air was over a thousand degrees; wouldn't watering the Star Soil be the same as creating brick embryos? It was directly baked into a solid block.

He also wrapped the fourth branch with Star Soil, but Ang dispersed the Cooling Fireball, instantly dropping the surrounding temperature by four or five hundred degrees, and placed the fourth branch inside.

He also wrapped the fifth branch with Star Soil and watered it, but placed it within the Cooling Fireball to prevent it from baking into a block.

He froze the sixth branch first, using ice magic to chill it for a few minutes. Some plants need to be chilled to stimulate growth, like strawberry seeds, which have a higher germination rate after cold stratification.

He also froze the seventh branch before wrapping it with Star Soil.

He froze the eighth branch, wrapped it in Star Soil, and watered it.

He froze the ninth branch and stuck it in the ground within the range of the Cooling Fireball. Kaditz never dreamed that his Cooling Fireball would become a temperature-controlled greenhouse for planting.

For the tenth branch, Ang dug a hole in the ground and filled it with water. Even within the Cooling Fireball, the air temperature was over five hundred degrees, and the water quickly boiled and bubbled. Ang threw the branch into the boiling water.

After treating the ten cauterized branches in this manner, Ang took out ten more that hadn't been cauterized and treated them in the same way, then stepped on them, activating the Aura of Accelerated Death.

"Nothing, still nothing, not a single one sprouted. This is too difficult!" Negary peered closely, but after looking for a long time, not a single one sprouted, and he couldn't help but feel discouraged.

Ang, however, felt nothing. Back when he was cultivating Magic Rice, Ang didn't feel anything even after tens of thousands of experiments. For a farming skeleton, repetitive and monotonous work was his favorite. If necessary, repeating it for a thousand years wouldn't be too difficult.

Of course, he wasn't cultivating a new variety now, just trying to get the shrubs to survive, which was much easier. After carefully observing the branches, Ang picked up the seventh branch.

Changing location, Ang went around to the sunny side, found a depression away from Kaditz, and crawled inside.

"It's so sunny! The light of the divine star is directly shining, it must be at least three or four thousand degrees, it's killing me with heat," Negary instinctively stuck out his tongue.

"Indeed, three or four thousand degrees. Who would have thought that such a complex world of life could exist in this environment? The void is truly full of wonders. Not all creatures need elemental balance to be born," Anthony marveled.

The main material plane is important because it has elemental balance, which can nurture life. Those planes without elemental balance are called abysses, and can only give birth to elemental spirits or magical creatures, such as demons or undead.

But the environment here is tens of thousands of times harsher than the abyss, yet it still nurtured so much life. The material plane theory of life is no longer applicable.

In this environment of intense light and high temperature, Ang repeated the previous steps, freezing each branch first, then placing some in the pit to avoid direct sunlight, and some outside the pit for exposure.

Of the exposed branches, some were placed in the Cooling Fireball, creating a temperature difference of about five hundred degrees compared to those that weren't.

Controlled experiments are tedious, but thankfully Ang had the Aura of Accelerated Death, which greatly shortened the waiting time. Otherwise, it would be too painful to wait for ten days or even half a year for one experiment.

Fortunately, not long after the second experiment started, a bud sprouted on one of the branches, but it quickly withered before it could open.

"Oh no, why did it wither? Did it get burned to death by the sun?" Negary asked.

Ang shook his head and looked at the branch. The black, ash-like Star Soil wrapped around it was now much grayer, its color uneven, lacking the previous pure black.

"It's not fertile anymore," Ang said.

Negary said in shock: "It only sprouted a bud, and it exhausted the fertility of the Star Soil?"

This was Star Soil! Although he hadn't compared it, its fertility might be even more potent than bug ash. Ang essentially used powerful fertilizer to directly wrap the branches to stimulate sprouting, but it only produced one bud before exhausting its fertility? That's too terrifying!

Fortunately, there was a lot of Star Soil. Ang directly brought a pile and filled the entire pit.

Through comparison, Ang roughly knew the key to stimulating its sprouting. First, it needed to be frozen to activate its growth process, then it needed strong light, the stronger the better, but the temperature couldn't be too high, maintaining around two thousand five hundred degrees was best. Finally, it needed a huge amount of fertility.

In addition, it needed six growing seasons to grow roots. It sprouted quickly, but it needed six growing seasons to grow roots. If it didn't take root, the cutting wouldn't be considered successful.

Having mastered the key, Ang quickly succeeded in cutting all the remaining branches, occupying all the nearby pits, with each pit containing a shrub seedling.

"As expected of the God of Planting, you got it done so quickly. Does this count as a success? Or does it need to flower? By the way, what's this shrub called?" Negary chattered on.

Ang didn't care what it was called. He picked the thickest one and reached out to peel off its bark.

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