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

Chapter 3 How many times to launch?

Lin Zhi stared at the shopping app page on his phone. A product labeled "Small bag of fertilizer for pea shooters" was priced at 100 credit points.

An ordinary person’s salary for a day’s work is only 30 credit points.

It would take an ordinary person three days of work to buy this small bag of fertilizer.

What's even more terrifying is that it takes 100 small bags of fertilizer to grow the Pea Shooter to the point where it can be strengthened for the first time.

In addition, the cultivation of spiritual plants requires not only strengthening but also evolution.

Even without fertilizer, strengthening will allow it to grow naturally, which only takes a little more time, but evolution is an indispensable material.

These evolution materials are the bulk of the items. Lin Zhi browsed through the various commodities and found that the price of evolution materials was no less than 1000 credit points.

Generally speaking, gardeners who have no money and no background have to rely on time and accumulation to cultivate spiritual plants.

The rich spend money on games, while the common people spend their time on games.

But the situation is different for Lin Zhi. There is only one month left before the college entrance examination, and fertilizers must be used to speed up the growth of spiritual plants. If the spiritual plants can evolve, there will be a greater chance of getting high scores in the college entrance examination.

He opened his mobile credit account and checked the balance.

Fortunately, his parents died in the alliance's battle in another world, so he was adopted by an orphanage. There was a pension in his account that he could receive after becoming a gardener.
Exactly 200 million credit points.

This number may seem like a lot, but Lin Zhi estimated through price factors that he could only evolve the Pea Shooter twice and cultivate it into a 2-star spiritual plant.

He immediately entered the information and applied for the pension.

Within 5 minutes, the information was verified successfully, the pension was received, and Lin Zhi quickly logged into the shopping app.

When you have money, just buy, buy, buy fertilizer, I want big bags, 10... no, 100 bags.

Then there are the evolution materials...

[It is detected that the host wants to purchase evolution materials, and the purchasing power can purchase evolution materials twice. The manual now provides five evolution plans. The host can choose two of them with 2% evolution success. ]

[Option 1: Terminal differentiation]

[Option 2: Multiple beads in one shot]

[Option 3: Splash Damage]

[Option 4: Spin Attack]

[Option 5: Increased firing rate]

Lin Zhi suddenly paused. There are many evolutionary branches of the Pea Shooter, but the evolution formula requires money to buy, and it is not cheap.

Of course, it doesn't matter if you don't have the formula, you can directly buy the prepared evolution potion, but it will be twice as expensive as directly buying the evolution materials.

Selecting these options in the manual solved the problem of the evolutionary formula for him. In this way, he did not need to study very advanced courses such as formula reasoning experiments to deduce the formula himself, nor did he need to directly purchase the knowledge achievements of others and pay for them.

After reading the evolution plans, Lin Zhi discovered that these plans had relevant introductions in the textbooks, and no matter which plan was chosen, there was actually not much difference.

The evolutionary plan only determines the direction in which the plant grows.

The quality and level determine the combat effectiveness of plants.

Of course, a reasonable combination of evolutionary abilities is also important.

These are all taught in the textbooks.

He first ruled out spinning attacks and splash damage, because these two evolutions did not enhance the attack power, but only made up for the shortcomings of the Pea Shooter's straight-line attacks and single-target attacks.

After some consideration, increasing the rate of fire is not suitable at the moment.

The faster the speed, the more nutrients and energy are consumed in the attack, and the firepower can easily overflow, resulting in waste.

Of course, this is not the main reason. The main reason is that the trajectory is too narrow and cannot be covered by firepower. As long as the enemy dodges, the firepower will be wasted.

Therefore, Lin Zhi chose terminal differentiation and multiple beads in one hair.

The combination of these two evolutionary directions increases the number of gun barrels of the Pea Shooter, and then increases the number of peas fired each time. As long as there are enough gun barrels, it can make up for the defects such as slow speed, single attack, and inability to rotate.

[Materials required for terminal differentiation: Nine-headed insect × 1, immovable pine × 1, basalt × 1, Chongyang day nectar × 10]

[Materials required for one shot of multiple beads: Jungle banyan wood × 1, regenerated poplar wood × 1, fission mushroom × 1, Gemini Sun Spirit Spring × 10]

Lin Zhi purchased materials online according to the manual recipe and was not afraid of the recipe being leaked because the same recipe was available on the mainland.

People who are capable of deducing the recipe through online research look down on this recipe.

Those who fancy this formula are not capable of investigating and reversing it.

After placing an order for the evolution materials, Lin Zhi had less than 200 of his 10 million pension. He placed an order for 9 more psychic energies.

It turns out that cultivating spiritual plants is not something that ordinary people can afford. Two million is too much to spend.

For the next few days, except for eating, Lin Zhi lay in bed and studied knowledge about spiritual plants.

On the fourth day, the purchased goods arrived. Lin Zhi went to the courier point to pick them up and directly opened the Source Earth Field, covering the goods into the Source Earth space.

He first looked at the pea shooter in the gridded land in front.

After three days of growth, the Pea Shooter was now more than half a person tall, with four leaves as big as washbasins covering the ground, and a green stem as thick as a fist growing in the middle.

At the top of the stem, there is a green open gourd that is placed horizontally.

On the upper part of the "gourd", two black eyes are bright and slightly cute.

Green soil has outstanding effects. If it is white soil, it will take a whole month for the Pea Shooter to grow to its current state without any fertilizer.

Lin Zhi brought over a large bag of fertilizer, cut a hole in it and poured it into the land where the Pea Shooter was.

Fertilizer is a liquid fertilizer that is mixed into the finished product and quickly soaks into the soil.

Lin Zhi cut open bags of fertilizer and poured them into the soil.

Green land, there is no problem storing a hundred bags of fertilizer.

With the fertilizer, the green land began to absorb the energy in the void at full capacity, and then combined with nutrients to become the nutrients necessary for the growth of the Pea Shooter, so the growth rate of the Pea Shooter began to accelerate significantly.

The spiritual plants are planted on white soil, and their efficiency in absorbing nutrients is not very fast. It takes the spiritual plants 10 days to consume a large bag of fertilizer.

But if planted on green soil, it only takes one day to absorb a large bag of fertilizer.

A large bag of fertilizer can speed up the natural growth time by 10 days.

Therefore, the green soil already grows 10 times faster than white soil, and now with the addition of fertilizer, it grows 20 times faster.

In other words, as long as fertilizer is applied continuously, Lin Zhi can cultivate spiritual plants 20 times faster than others.

After spreading the fertilizer, Lin Zhi dug a circle of holes next to the Pea Shooter, put the ground evolution materials in, and then covered them with soil.

Unlike other gardeners, Lin Zhi has a 100% success rate in evolving spiritual plants due to the bonus from the selection manual.

……

After another day and a half, the Pea Shooter had grown to be almost as tall as Lin Zhi, and after another day, its evolution was complete, with an extra barrel appearing alongside the original one.

Since it is the second evolution, the barrel size is twice as large as before.

What’s even more amazing is that right now, above the Pea Shooter’s head, there’s this: ★★ floating.

This means it has evolved twice and reached a 2-star spiritual plant.

Next, it will no longer grow in size, but will enter a stage of accumulating the nutrients needed for strengthening.

Without fertilizer, this is a long process.

According to previous research data in the book, it takes 30 days for the pea shooter to mature from planting.

It then takes 100 days from maturity accumulation to enhanced nutrition.

But Lin Zhi was an exception. With green soil and fertilizer, he ripened the Pea Shooter at 20 times the speed in just 4 and a half days.

It will take another 5 days to accumulate enough fortified nutrients.

Lin Zhi calculated that if nothing unexpected happened, he could accumulate five reinforcements before the college entrance examination.

Two evolutions and five enhancements are far from enough to get good results.

Those children of noble families and talented gardeners had awakened their talents early on, and their progress in cultivating spiritual plants was a year or even several years ahead of him.

If Lin Zhi wants to catch up with the other party's progress, he can only continue to improve his own soul status, from the White Dust Realm Gardener to the Green Chen Realm, thereby turning the green land into blue land and obtaining a 100-fold increase in the growth rate of spiritual plants.

However, the improvement of soul status requires either daily meditation or refining precious soul beads.

This is inseparable from the word "money".

But when the Pea Shooter evolved to 2 stars, the pension had been spent.

"It seems that I have to test whether I can make money using the manual."

Lin Zhi had an idea in mind.

(End of this chapter)