Druid in the Xianxia world

Chapter 88: Green No. Grain Seed Birth, Everyone is Shocked
"Youyun Chamber of Commerce, Mo Shuyu from the Formation Academy, Talisman Master Du Kui, Law Master Luo Bende, and the City Lord... With so many people supporting me, my Green No. 1 grain seed can be grown on a large scale, and no one can steal it away."

'And their protection will also make me much safer.'

"Before, they protected me because they believed in my future. Such protection was not necessarily close, but now that I have shared my profits with them, we have become a community of interests. Even if it is for their own income, they will protect me."

Only children worry that relationships mixed with interests will become impure, but adults understand that relationships based on interests are the most solid.

Here, Zhong Cang felt that his safety was about to double, while the group of people he called over looked at each other, not understanding why Zhong Cang called so many people over.

At the same time, they also felt that it was unnecessary for Zhong Cang to mobilize such a large force.

Du Kui: "Why did you call so many people here? If you have something to say, just tell me."

Yaxin was speechless and sighed inwardly: "As soon as his research succeeded, he called people here with great fanfare. He's so impatient. He's still a teenager."

Although she sighed in her heart without words, Yaxin felt that Zhong Cang was much more real. He was no longer the unfathomable genius far away in the horizon.

Just as everyone was thinking about it, Zhong Cang pointed at a seedling under his feet and spoke.

"This is a grain variety I've been researching. I call it Green Seedling No. 1..."

While speaking, Zhong Cang also used the Winter's Silence to suppress the activity of his magic power to the lowest level. Then, he used his ordinary magic power to ripen the green seedling No. 1, and took down the mature ears of wheat and rubbed out the grains.

Zhong Cang distributed a dozen grains of wheat to everyone present.

After taking the wheat grains, everyone...had no expression on their faces, some even looked a little disgusted.

They did not find anything unusual about the grains of wheat in their hands.

Even Qi Wei, who was respectful to Zhong Cang, could not say against her will that the wheat grains in her hand were good.

As the city lord's legitimate daughter, she had eaten the finest spiritual food and spiritual rice. The rice grains were like white jade and had an alluring aroma. The spiritual rice was sweet and sticky, leaving a long aftertaste.

Zhong Cang's Green Seedling No. 1 spiritual food cannot compare with those high-quality spiritual rices, even ordinary spiritual rice and spiritual food cannot compare with it.

Shriveled, small, and malnourished, this was everyone's first evaluation of the wheat seeds developed by Zhong Cang.

At this moment, Qi Wei racked her brains to think about how to praise Zhong Cang for the wheat seeds he developed without making him sad or appearing pretentious.

However, after looking for a long time, she couldn't find any advantages of Zhong Cang's grain.

Just as she frowned in thought and the others were silent, an incredulous voice sounded from the side.

“You succeeded, you really succeeded?!!”

The sudden sound made everyone turn their heads and look over, and then they found that the one who shouted was Zhou Sheng.

What made Robende, Qi Wei, Mo Shuyu, Yaxin... and others twitch their lips was that Zhou Sheng's face at this moment had expressions of horror, disbelief, surprise, and even admiration.

Such emotions also made Robende complain in his heart.

"Old man, I originally thought you were an honest and decent person, but I didn't expect that you could be even more pretentious than me... You can easily cultivate a grain of such low quality that is hundreds of times better than this one. In this situation, you can still show such a shocked expression. You can be so shameless to this extent, old man, I surrender."

Robbende admired Zhou Sheng's ability to flatter others.

Mo Shuyu, Yaxin, and Du Kui also looked as if they had gotten to know him all over again.

However, despite everyone's strange gazes, Zhou Sheng paid no attention. Grabbing Zhong Cang's arm, he excitedly asked again, "Did you really succeed?!"

Zhong Cang: "It's halfway successful. The Green Seedling No. 1 grain seed can be planted and harvested, but the yield is very small, and the planting requirements must be spaced far apart. More importantly, these seeds must be produced using some special methods."

Zhong Cang mentioned many disadvantages of Green Seedling No. 1, but at this time, Zhou Sheng didn't care. He only remembered the previous sentence.

"You, you actually succeeded!"

"You will have a significant place in the history of Xueye Nation."

"Pfft..."

"Cough cough..."

What Zhou Sheng said was too exaggerated. Because they didn't understand the meaning of Green Seedling No. 1, the people around him who were listening were embarrassed and could no longer bear it.

Some people tapped their feet on the ground in embarrassment, some coughed, and some looked at Zhou Sheng with strange eyes.

The heavy gazes finally made Zhou Sheng feel something was wrong.

Seeing their awkwardness and strange looks, Zhou Sheng was stunned at first, but soon he figured something out and said speechlessly, "Don't look at me like that. What I said just now wasn't a compliment, but I was genuinely shocked."

After he finished speaking, he found that the others looked unconvinced. He didn't get angry, nor did he make any excuses. With a good temper, he pushed Zhong Cang out. "Zhong Cang, explain to them the significance of your Green No. 1 grain."

"Ah."

Nodding, Zhong Cang looked at the people around him and said quietly, "Green Seedling No. 1 has many flaws compared to normal spiritual food, but it has one advantage, which is... it doesn't need to be planted in a spiritual field!"

"Don't plant it in the spiritual field?"

When everyone first heard Zhong Cang's story, they didn't react, let alone think about it.

As a businesswoman, Yaxin was the best at observing people's expressions and the most versatile among the people present. Even though she didn't react, she subconsciously echoed Zhong Cang:
"Not having to plant it in spiritual land is indeed a great advantage... huh?"

She said this because she didn't want Zhong Cang to be embarrassed.

However, she reacted halfway through her words, but because of this, she was completely stunned.

Mo Shuyu, Du Kui, and Luo Bende were also stunned.

None of them were stupid, and they understood the deeper meaning in Zhong Cang's words. But precisely because they understood it, they were a little bit unconvinced and even more shocked.

"No, no, no need to plant it in spiritual land? Are you sure?"

This time it was Robend who was asking the question. He was so shocked that his body couldn't help shaking, and his words were trembling.

However, no one cared about this at the moment, and no one laughed at it.

Even when he asked, although Yaxin and Mo Shuyu beside him did not say anything, their eyes were fixed on Zhong Cang, and their breathing became faster.

Especially the former, the half-demon girl was so excited that her blood rushed to her head, her face turned red, and her heart was pounding.

As a businessman, she knew the value of a grain that did not need to be planted in spiritual land but could produce spiritual rice. But it was precisely because of this that her emotions fluctuated so greatly.

……

Shocked, everyone held their breath, waiting for Zhong Cang's answer, and Zhong Cang did not disappoint them.

"Just as you imagined, because of the fusion of some strange spores, these grains can survive on ordinary land, even on wasteland. They can absorb the free spiritual energy in the air to grow and eventually produce spiritual food."

"But because the spiritual energy in the outside world is scarce, its growth rate is slow, and the ears of wheat it produces are also quite small. Therefore, the spiritual grain must be planted extremely sparsely..."

Zhong Cang repeated the weakness of Green Seedling No. 1, but before he could finish his words, Mo Shuyu interrupted him with a groan.

"No matter how bad it is, this is still spiritual food. It's a hundred times better than ordinary food. No, it's a thousand times better!"

Zhong Cang had no way to refute this statement. The nutritional value of spiritual rice was indeed thousands of times different from that of ordinary rice. As for the price difference, it was even greater, as much as tens of thousands of times.

"call……"

"boom!"

While Mo Shuyu was talking to Zhong Cang, a sound of someone falling to the ground came from the side.

Turning his head, Zhong Cang discovered that it was Yaxin who fell to the ground. After knowing the value of the Green Seedling No. 1 grain seed and getting a definite answer from Zhong Cang, she was shocked and excited, causing her brain to be deprived of oxygen, her legs to go weak, and she collapsed directly to the ground.

But at this moment, she didn't care about herself at all. Instead, she raised her eyes and said to Zhong Cang respectfully: "Mr. Zhong...Mr. Zhong Cang, are you telling the truth?"

After asking, she realized that her words had a questioning tone, which startled Yaxin. She immediately apologized in panic, "Yes, I'm sorry, Mr. Zhong Cang, I... It's not that I don't believe you, sir, it's really, really too unbelievable."

"Don't get too excited. You're right to have doubts. Science... technology develops amidst doubts."

After comforting Yaxin, Zhong Cang smiled at her, Mo Shuyu, Luo Bende, Du Kui and the others and said, "I think besides Yaxin, you all have doubts in your hearts. Regarding this, I want to say that all this is indeed true. If you teachers still don't believe it, I have seeds here. You can use them to cultivate yourselves, or use other methods to experiment."

"No, I should say, I'd like to ask you to use your own methods to test this seed to see if there are any hidden dangers that I haven't discovered."

When Zhong Cang asked him and others to experiment at first, everyone felt a little embarrassed, but his subsequent request dispelled everyone's doubts.

"In that case, let us help you test it."

After taking the seeds, everyone used their own methods to ripen the Green No. 1 grain seeds.

Among them, Robende used the Xiaoyunyu Jue, and Yaxin used some special spiritual liquid.

Then, the two of them discovered that the Green No. 1 grain seed had grown successfully and was growing very well.

"Zhong Cang, look, I succeeded, and it's growing better than expected."

(End of this chapter)