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

Chapter 45 Material Handling
Meng Xingchen exerted force with his wrist and stabbed a knife into the head of the giant elephant.

"Pass me the soul-sucking jade."

"Yes"

Lin Zhi quickly looked at the things in the package on the ground, picked out a piece of transparent jade and handed it to Meng Xingchen.

"Generally speaking, as long as a soul attack is not used, a living being is not considered truly dead after death, and its soul is still preserved."

Meng Xingchen stuffed the soul-sucking jade into the giant elephant's head that had been cut open by the blade, and explained, "But the soul of a dead body is fragile. As long as we cut a hole in the head and put the soul-sucking jade in, we can store the soul."

"Teacher, what if we don't deal with the soul?"

"No treatment? If it is a life under the divine ring, the soul will slowly dissipate after death. If one has cultivated soul secrets or a divine environment, he can rely on the soul to survive or even be resurrected after death."

Meng Xingchen said in a deep voice, "In addition, the soul can also feed the soul plants and condense soul beads, which are very valuable. So the soul must be dealt with."

Lin Zhi nodded to show that he understood.

"Bring the golden needle and the glass bottle."

"Ok!"

Lin Zhi found the tools as instructed and handed them to Meng Xingchen.

In fact, with Meng Xingchen's strength, he can completely take objects from a distance. Lin Zhi knew that the reason why he asked him to help was to let him personally participate in the material processing and experience it personally so that he could remember it deeply.

Meng Xingchen stretched out his hand to feel the neck of the giant elephant, and then he instantly stabbed it with the golden needle in his hand. Then he pulled out the golden needle, and a line of blood followed the golden needle to draw a parabola in the air and was led into the glass bottle.

"This move is called the Golden Needle Blood-drawing Technique. The working principle is as follows... The trick to using it is as follows... Yes, that's right... That's it..."

It was a giant elephant, but in the end, Meng Xingchen only took a few dozen kilograms of blood.

In this regard, he explained that the effect of the golden needle blood-drawing technique is to purify the essence of blood and remove impurities.

"After collecting the soul and releasing the blood, we can skin it first and then take out its internal organs."

Meng Xingchen held the curved blade, starting from the wound on the head, cutting across the scalp of the giant elephant, and then peeling off its skin completely.

"When skinning, it is very important to use force. Don't use your wrist to exert force. Use your shoulder to exert force. Let your shoulder drive your wrist. This way you can do it easily and avoid damaging the intact hide."

Meng Xingchen demonstrates his skills.

"After the hide is peeled off, it should be cleaned immediately and soaked in a solution of Putin, so as to maintain the original toughness and other characteristics of the hide."

Meng Xingchen put away the animal skin, cut open the elephant's belly with the sharp blade in his hand, and then took out a heart.

"The five internal organs need to be removed quickly, otherwise they will lose their vitality very quickly, and their value as materials will be greatly reduced."

"The next step is the animal bones and tendons. You must remove them carefully, especially the tendons. Be sure not to break them."

"Oh, and these two pieces of ivory! All the materials I just processed are not as valuable as these two pieces of ivory."

Meng Xingchen smiled as he dug open the giant elephant and pulled out two snow-white tusks.

Lin Zhi looked at it and found that the ivory seemed to be full of vitality.

"Actually, this isn't ivory! This is a parasitic plant."

Seeing Lin Zhi's confusion, Meng Xingchen used the curved blade in his hand to scrape open a piece of ivory, revealing the capillary lines inside where juice was oozing out.

"The reason why wild beasts can practice is because of these parasitic spiritual plants. They take root in the bodies of living things and grow with the wild beasts."

Hearing this, Lin Zhi suddenly thought of the situation inside Fu Hua's body, and he couldn't help but ask Meng Xingchen.

"Teacher, is it possible for spiritual plants to parasitize the human body?" "Yes, but the side effects are very serious. Generally, we call such people vegetative. In history, there was once a world where spiritual plants parasitized humans. The people in that world were all weird..."

"Ah this..." Lin Zhi couldn't help but worry about Fu Hua.

"Being parasitized by spiritual plants is not a good thing. Most of the life forms that can be parasitized become wild beasts and savages. Even if they form civilizations, they will eventually be eliminated. We humans are a race that is immune to parasitism, so we can discover our own civilization."

Meng Xingchen continued to explain.

Lin Zhi then felt relieved, thinking that perhaps Fu Hua's condition was not caused by parasitism.

Since the manual gave me the Yin-Yang technique, it meant that there was nothing wrong with this technique.

The changes it brings are unlikely to be negative, so we can only observe it for the time being.

Lin Zhi felt relieved and continued to listen to Meng Xingchen's lecture.

He pointed to a pile of decomposed elephant meat on the ground and said:
"The remaining meat is also good. We can take the most essential part as food, and the rest can be made into food for carnivorous spiritual plants. In addition, the large intestine, the feces inside is excellent fertilizer. Well, the feces needs to be composted and fermented, which is also a point of knowledge..."

After the initial processing of the materials, Meng Xingchen began to teach how to further process these raw materials.

"Our cultivation is mainly based on spiritual plants. All the materials we obtain are mainly used to serve spiritual plants. The cultivation of spiritual plants can be simply divided into four stages: planting, nurturing, raising, and refining."

"Similarly, the resources we obtain also try to meet the needs of these four stages. In the planting stage, the main thing is the combination of basal fertilizer. The reason why the noble family can grow satisfactory spiritual plants instead of growing some useless spiritual plants, in addition to blood inheritance, is various secret techniques."

Meng Xingchen pointed out the essence of the secret technique and said, "These secret techniques are inseparable from the formula of base fertilizer, environmental transformation in the source soil field, air humidity, temperature, etc. Under different conditions, the probability of germination of different spiritual plants is different."

"I understand. Different spiritual plants need different nutrients. If we number the basic elements that make up everything in the world, assuming there are 100 of them, maybe spiritual plant A likes element 1, spiritual plant B likes element 5, and spiritual plant C likes elements 7+11..."

Lin Zhi suddenly thought of the fertilizers used in his previous life when growing crops, which were divided into nitrogen fertilizers, potassium fertilizers, phosphorus fertilizers, etc.

"Well, this statement is quite novel."

Meng Xingchen looked at Lin Zhi with satisfaction.

"Your understanding is correct. That's roughly what it is. The composting method is to make the less valuable parts of this wild beast into base fertilizers of different ingredients."

"After understanding the seeds, we should start to grow seedlings. The seedling period actually determines whether the spiritual plants can successfully evolve and the probability of evolving high-quality spiritual plants.

At this time, we need evolution materials. The wild beast materials we initially obtained need to be processed again before they can become usable evolution materials. "

Meng Xingchen took out the three materials he had collected before: soul, blood, and bones.

"These three materials are the easiest evolution materials to handle because they can be substituted for each other in most evolution formulas. Of course, the formula can be fine-tuned after substitution."

……

During this lecture, Meng Xingchen explained to Lin Zhi from morning to afternoon.

Then, he changed the subject and said, "Next, it's the second lesson."

"Second lesson?" Lin Zhi, who was immersed in learning, looked at him puzzledly.

"You see, since we are dissecting wild beasts here, the smell of blood has attracted some bugs."

Lin Zhi looked around in surprise, and saw hundreds of meters away, dense swarms of fiery red ants piled up like a wall, turning their tentacles and spinning around in place.

"I will be waiting for you in front. You will need to resist the insect tide. I will not take action during this period. If you die, I will take your body back and bury it in the World Tree Cemetery."

As soon as he finished speaking, Meng Xingchen disappeared instantly, as if he had never existed.

As soon as he left, the ant colony, which had no intimidating aura, suddenly became agitated and quickly rushed towards Lin Zhi.

(End of this chapter)