National Gardener: I can choose the evolution path of spiritual plants.

Chapter 24 Orientation Party
The old man spoke until noon, then paused.

He rested for a few seconds and said, "Then, the next step is one of the important parts of the welcome party, the Arena Ranking Battle! This is a ranking battle for the new gardeners. It will re-rank the gardeners and determine the resource allocation for the next semester and the right to choose roommates first."

The old man glanced at the gardener trainees in the first row and said, "Ji Wuming, come up!"

"is teacher."

Hearing the voice, Lin Zhi, like most people, turned his head to look at the only genius gardener present on the left.

This peerless genius named "Ji Wuming" is 1.8 meters tall, with a sturdy build, a handsome face, and a heroic look in his brows. He is no less than some stars on TV.

"Ji Wuming from the Ji family is just a conceited and extreme guy. He actually sat here and listened to the old man's nonsense for the whole morning just because of a woman." Ye Chen beside him muttered to himself.

"Brother Ye, please tell me in detail, please tell me in detail." A young man with acne all over his face on the right side of Ye Chen asked curiously.

"Well, the matter is very simple. This guy has a fiancée who is a God-favored One. She does not agree with the marriage arranged by the family, so she has been unwilling to sign an equal contract with him. Therefore, among the 24 freshmen in this class, he is the only one who is short of a God-favored One to fill the quota."

Ye Chen said with disdain, "If the other party is unwilling, why would he hang himself on a tree? As a peerless genius of the Ji family in Yu County, wouldn't it be easy for him to find other gods? But this guy is really stubborn and insists on signing a contract with the other party, so he chased here..."

"Boss, I have a question. Is there a limit on the number of God's Favored Ones that a gardener can sign a contract with? Isn't it true that the more the better?"

A person favored by God in the back row behind Ye Chen asked curiously.

"I can tell from one glance that you climbed over the wall every day to go to the Internet cafe in your third year of high school. In theory, there is no limit to the contracts that gardeners can sign with the gods. But in reality, the more the better, because the more you sign, the weaker the link effect of the soul contract will be, which will cause the halo to not work as it should. After summarizing, 9 gods are the best number."

"I see! Thank you for clearing up my confusion."

……

On the virtual stage.

"The countdown is 60 seconds. If no one is willing to challenge, Ji Wuming will automatically win and remain in fourth place."

No one in the audience answered.

"Okay, Ji Wuming, you go down. Next, Lin Zhi, you come up to the stage."

Hearing this, Lin Zhi slowly walked onto the stage and passed by Ji Wuming who was leaving the stage.

Just passing by the other party, Lin Zhi felt a pressure from the soul.

This kind of pressure can only be produced if the other party does not suppress it deliberately and the soul level has crossed a major realm.

As expected of a peerless genius, his soul level has reached the Red Moon!

Lin Zhi walked onto the virtual stage. Before the old man could speak, Ye Chen in the audience shouted, "I'll go first. I want to challenge him!"

Ye Chen's voice was very loud, immediately attracting the attention of many gods' followers in the audience.

"Ye Chen, I know him. He is the top scholar of the Red Maple Mansion this year. He has five sword orchids below the Moon Rank and is known for his unparalleled killing ability."

"Lin Zhi is also not weak. I heard that in the college entrance examination ranking competition, he fought against a hundred people alone and blocked a group of geniuses from being ranked outside the top 900. He is known as the peerless goalkeeper."

"What do you know? Lin Zhi's success in the college entrance examination was purely luck. He had the help of two virtual moon-level spiritual plants, otherwise he would not have achieved any results at all."

"Isn't it a strength to be able to cultivate a moon-level virtual spiritual plant?"

"But there are no virtual spiritual plants for him to cultivate in this freshman competition!"

……

Lin Zhi and Ye Chen stood still on the virtual stage and then unfolded the soul land domain.

Rays of light on the arena swept through the soul soil and spiritual realm, recording the information of the soul soil and spiritual plants into the background.

"Analyzing information..."

"Information loading completed..."

"Both sides can use their minds to control virtual spiritual plants to fight."

The sound of machinery entered Lin Zhi's mind. As he hid the real soul soil and spiritual plants, only the virtual Pea Shooter and the Tree of Knowledge appeared on the arena.

Opposite him, five five-star gladioli of different colors stood upright in front of Ye Chen. "Only a pea shooter and a harmless tree of knowledge?"

Ye Chen sneered, and the gladiolus in front of him burst into light.

The five kinds of leaves, white, green, black, red and yellow, formed a sharp sword and stabbed at the Pea Archer.

The pea shooter bursts out shooting instantly, covering the entire field with peas.

However, the gladiolus leaves were extremely fast, shuttling through the gaps between the peas and arriving in an instant.

brush!
The gladiolus leaves slashed through the Pea Shooter, severing five of its heads in an instant.

In a flash, the Pea Shooter turned into pieces.

"Ye Chen wins, Lin Zhi's ranking drops to 26th!"

The old man paused for a moment, then asked, "Anyone else want to challenge?"

"I challenge Lin Zhi!"

"And I……"

Next, in the presence of thousands of new gods’ favored ones, Lin Zhi was defeated again and again, in every challenge he faced, he failed.

The elite talents who are able to enroll in Yujun University are all the best among the best. Their soul status is at least blue star, and they have three five-star spiritual plants at least.

Lin Zhi only had one spiritual plant that could be used for fighting. The Pea Shooter's attacks were direct and easy to dodge, and his lack of defense meant that he would be defeated regardless of who he faced.

Until, his ranking dropped to 100th.

Sitting back at the 100th place, Lin Zhi had a calm expression.

This was an expected result. If he had not had the right to refuse to attend the welcome party, he would have been absent like those peerless geniuses and would not have come here to be tortured.

"I'm afraid that because of this competition, those top-notch gods won't choose me!"

Lin Zhi was a little nervous.

I have no family background, and I don't have the talent of an extraordinary genius. It will be difficult for me to attract the favor of the top gods.

……

Soon, at five o'clock in the afternoon, the competition officially ended and the school staff brought lunch boxes to everyone.

"Next, the second part of the welcome party will begin, and the gods will come on stage to demonstrate their abilities."

老者拿出了名单道“本届共招收神眷者3419人。其中女性神眷者1876人，男性神眷者1543人。其中女性极品神眷者176人，男性极品神眷者143人。”

"Well, there are currently 31 female Supreme God-favored Ones and 48 male Supreme God-favored Ones who have not signed a contract yet."

……

Lin Zhi looked towards the ring, and the first person to walk onto the ring was a cute girl.

"Hello everyone, my halo is armor, which can provide armor for plants. The details are as follows..."

As one by one the gods favored ones demonstrated their abilities, Lin Zhi discovered that the halo effects of these top-grade gods favored ones were all incredible. Anyone who obtained one of them could bring about a qualitative change in his spiritual plants.

However, the eyes of these gods' favored ones could not leave Ji Wuming in the field.

Ji Wuming, the Ji family's contemporary genius, the future direct heir, and a man blessed with all kinds of halos, is the object of most of the gods' favored people's attempts to sign a contract.

Unfortunately, Ji Wuming's gaze never lingered on them for a moment, but was fixed on a tall girl.

"My name is Yan Ling'er. I have five aura abilities in total, which respectively have the effects of healing, energy recovery, repair, recovery, and rebirth..."

……

(End of this chapter)