Chapter 3820 — The Transformation of the Seeds
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 3
What Wei Zhao had not expected, however, was that Li Zhengming would actually deliver the ingredients for the Foundation Establishment Pill to his door of his own accord. That was an unexpected delight.
"That will do. Go back and make your preparations, Zhengming. Tomorrow I will give you the Foundation Establishment Pill," Wei Zhao said, consoling Li Zhengming. For a man who now possessed the Shennong Cauldron, refining even the Foundation Establishment Golden Pill and the Foundation Establishment Barrier-Breaking Pill was already within his power, so a mere Foundation Establishment Pill was naturally no trouble at all.
"Leader Wei Zhao, then I shall take my leave." Li Zhengming nodded gratefully, but he did not waste words on flattery either, and promptly took his leave.
He knew that this leader of his, Wei Zhao, was nothing like Meng Jueming and the others. Flattery and empty praise had no effect on him. To earn his genuine trust, one had to offer solid action. And given Wei Zhao's consistent style, so long as one served him in earnest, he would never treat one shabbily.
Watching Li Zhengming depart, Wei Zhao immediately set about his work. Refining the Foundation Establishment Pill posed no particular challenge, but it would still consume no small amount of time, so before that he had at least to tend to the eighty-five spirit-herb seeds and make sure they received their fixed, measured infusions of true qi.
According to what that effeminate chief steward of the spirit-herb garden had said, by his count nearly twenty days had now passed, and by rights the time should be about up. Even if not all eighty-five spirit-herb seeds had sprouted, at least some of them should have begun to develop first.
Yet what left Wei Zhao speechless was that all eighty-five spirit-herb seeds seemed to have been collectively silenced. Nearly twenty days had passed, and not the slightest stir had come from them. Wei Zhao could not help but begin to wonder whether the spiritual qi concentration in his jade pendant space was too rich, and had instead made these spirit-herb seeds uncomfortable?
Even people had times when their bodies were too weak to absorb rich nourishment, and other ordinary crops, if given too much fertilizer, would likewise show signs of being burned at the seedling stage.
True, ordinary crops could not be mentioned in the same breath as spirit-herb seeds, those wondrous things that gathered the essence of heaven and earth, and the spiritual qi of heaven and earth was no ordinary fertilizer. By rights, a case of being too weak to absorb nourishment should not arise. But in the present circumstances, such a possibility could not be ruled out.
Fortunately, although these eighty-five spirit-herb seeds showed no sign of developing at all, their seed coats were round, full, and in quite good condition, not at all like something about to wither and die.
What Wei Zhao felt was that although these spirit-herb seeds had not truly begun to develop, after this period of nurturing in the jade pendant space, their vitality was already much better than the malnourished look they had had when he first received them.
This was only Wei Zhao's own conjecture, but it had some reason to it.
That effeminate steward had said that these spirit-herb seeds, being mass-cultivated by the spirit-herb garden, were of a batch inherently deficient even if they could develop and survive. Not only could they not be kept for seed cultivation, but even the spirit-herb plants grown from them could not compare in quality with spirit herbs that grew naturally in the wild.
All things have spirit, and spirit-herb seeds are even more so. Now that they had been placed in a place as favored by nature as the jade pendant space, it was entirely possible that they were holding off on developing in order to store up strength and make up for the vitality they had lacked from birth.