Ice Age: I can control plant growth

Chapter 97: Transforming the Elm Tree
Time flies, and night falls in a blink of an eye.

After dinner, Li Mu and Nini returned to Han Dong's tree house. He handed Han Dong a red fruit and explained calmly, "This is a red fruit, rich in energy, but Nini can't eat too much. Just take a piece the size of a fingernail every day."

Next, Li Mu placed a pot of source plants, fruit tree seeds, mutant beast meat and other items on the ground one by one, and introduced their functions and usage in detail.

Han Dong was about to refuse, but Li Mu raised his hand to stop him, "Don't say those polite words, I'm doing this for Nini, if you're embarrassed, just do your job at the farm."

"All right."

Han Dong sighed deeply and accepted the situation helplessly.

When the debt a person owes to others is still within an affordable range, the guilt in his heart can make him suffer; however, once the debt accumulates to the point where it cannot be repaid, people can take it calmly.

Turning his head, Li Mu said to Nini gently: "Nini, brother is leaving soon. You must remember the breathing method I taught you and study hard."

Nini nodded obediently: "Yeah, bye, brother!"

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Throughout the afternoon, Li Mu was busy exploring Nini's awakening abilities.

After a series of tests, he finally discovered how Nini's awakening ability was different from his own.

Nini's abilities are limited to two types: one is to control plants, and the other is to accelerate plant growth.

Based on current performance, Nini can probably increase the growth rate of ordinary plants to three times the original under normal circumstances.

This is obviously a big gap compared to Li Mu's ability to instantly bring seeds to maturity when he just awakened.

More importantly, the biggest difference between the two is that Nini cannot create plants, she can only make minor optimizations to existing plant varieties.

Although this is related to Nini's young age and low strength, according to Li Mu's speculation, even if Nini's strength is improved to the same level as his in the future, her ability will not change much.

At most, it can only manipulate more and larger plants and increase the growth rate of plants faster.

Li Mu sat in a chair, thinking deeply.

A guess flashed through his mind: perhaps Nini's awakening ability is the normal situation for a wood-attributed awakener; if it weren't for the mysterious jade pendant, he might also awaken, but the situation might be the same as Nini's, and he would not be able to create all kinds of magical plants in his imagination like he does now.

Half an hour later, he decided to put aside his complicated thoughts for the time being. He decided to leave those problems that he couldn't figure out to be solved later.

He knew very well that he still had many tasks to complete, the most urgent of which was to create a currency unique to Wanling City.

After many days of searching, Yu Shuaikang has collected rich metal resources, including iron ingots, copper ingots, gold and silver jewelry.

These metal resources are enough for Li Mu to use for experiments.

In Li Mu's conception, he hopes to create a unique metal that should not only be a symbol of currency, but should have substantial value, such as containing source energy that people can absorb for cultivation.

In this way, the metal is unique enough and has irreplaceable special properties.

However, in order to make this metal, Li Mu must rely on the plants he is most familiar with.

Among many myths, there is a unique plant - the money tree!

According to legend, the seeds were specially given by the immortals to thank a pair of kind elderly people. As long as they are planted in the ground, strings of copper coins will grow on the tree. Of course, there is no real money tree in reality, but there is one that looks a bit like it, and that is the "elm money tree".

Elm is a deciduous tree with flowers blooming before leaves.

The fruit of the elm tree is shaped like green leaves and is flat, like copper coins, which leads many people to mistake the fruit of the elm tree for leaves.

But the truth is, the flowers of the elm tree are purple, and the "elm leaves" that people usually eat are actually its fruits.

Although the elm tree and the money tree are similar in appearance, Li Mu can use his ability to transform it into a real "money tree!"

Li Mu threw an elm tree seed into the flowerpot, then his hands lit up green and he slowly injected source energy into it.

At the same time, the appearance and function of the money tree kept flashing in his mind, and he kept muttering: absorbs metal, contains source energy, hard...

With sufficient energy supply, the seeds in the pots quickly broke through the soil and gradually grew.

Twenty minutes later, a straight little tree more than half a person's height suddenly rose from the flowerpot, its scattered branches covered with oval green leaves.

Seeing this, Li Mu threw a three-kilogram silver-white iron ingot to the roots of the small tree without hesitation, and then he injected source energy into the small tree again.

In an instant, the tree roots broke through the ground and tightly wrapped the iron ingot. At the same time, countless hair-like filaments emerged from the roots and quickly dissolved and absorbed the iron ingot at an astonishing speed.

After only three minutes, the iron ingot was completely absorbed, and at this moment, flat round fruits began to grow on the small tree.

These fruits are completely different from the clustered fruits of the elm tree. They grow individually and are connected by a slender fruit stalk.

The fruit is the size of a Yuan Datou, and its surface is as smooth as a mirror, more like a piece of iron than a coin.

"Fuck, how could I have forgotten about this? It looks so lame without the pattern."

Li Mu slapped his forehead, speaking with some annoyance.

However, this is not a fatal flaw and can be corrected later. What is important now is to test the energy content of the fruit.

Li Mu gently picked a fruit. It felt like a cool metal and was quite heavy, about 100 grams. He then connected the source energy to it and felt it carefully.

"Well, the source energy content is about four thousandth of a third-order crystal core. Not bad." Li Mu said to himself.

Although one fruit is only equivalent to four thousandth of a third-level crystal core, which seems very little, you should know that a mutant beast will only have one crystal core, and usually only mutant beasts above the third level can have it.

Not to mention that level 3 mutant beasts are not only rare in number, but are also extremely dangerous, requiring multiple beings of the same level to surround and kill them.

But the fruit grows on trees, so there is no threat at all. All you have to do is provide metals and wait for it to grow.

However, the fruit is not without its drawbacks. The time required to grow is the biggest cost!

The reason why the small tree can grow so fast now is simply because Li Mu provided a huge amount of source energy, coupled with the characteristics of promoting growth.

In a normal environment, under normal circumstances, the small tree will slowly decompose the metal before growing fruit.

It takes a full three months for the fruit to grow and mature!
Money tree or money tree?

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