Chapter 877 - The Wood Spirit Tulip Grows! New Discovery! (1/2)

The discovery that the Spirit apple tree was sentient was rather interesting to Lin Mu. He tried to test out some things with the Spirit Apple tree and learned more about it.

The first thing he learned was that it didn't like spirit herbs getting close to it. It wasn't just the wood spirit tulip, but some spirit herb that Lin Mu placed near the Spirit apple tree would get either smashed into the ground or pushed away.

Though there was also a rule to that. The Spirit apple tree only responded if there were spirit herbs that were either newly harvested or still had enough vitality to be considered 'alive'.

”Hmm… so basically it doesn't want competition from other spirit herbs?” Lin Mu guessed.

”That does seem understandable. Even normal trees in nature will reject other plants that grow near them and will try to suppress their growth if not kill them. They usually do this by covering the area with their trees or sucking out the nutrients from the soil.” Xukong replied.

”Could be possible. But doesn't this also mean that the spirit apple tree thinks other spirit herbs and plants can grow in this place?” Lin Mu realized.

”That… might just be possible. It didn't work when you last tried planting spirit herbs here, right?” Xukong said.

”Yes, the soil would just push out the spirit herb or the seed, whatever I planted. The Sleepscape would oppose the changes I made. Only the Graves of my parents and the spirit stone vein were freely taken in by it.” Lin Mu spoke.

”If it took the both of them, then it means there is a certain level of sentience to it. It can listen to you, but only in certain conditions it seems like.” Xukong stated.

”Hmm, then we need to figure out what those conditions are.” Lin Mu replied.

”Well, the first test can be done right away, after all you have a test subject right here.” Xukong pointed to the Spirit Wood Tulip.

Lin Mu smiled and went to grab the Spirit wood tulip. He then brought it some distance away from the Spirit apple tree and dug a hole in the ground. Unlike what normally happened, the hole didn't fill up automatically and he could finish digging a sufficiently deep hole.

”Here goes nothing…” Lin Mu muttered as he placed the Wood Spirit tulip in the hole.

~creep~

The roots of the Wood Spirit tulip moved again, but didn't attack Lin Mu this time. Instead, they withdrew into its body and then drilled into the ground. At first it was slow, but then, as if it had found something good, it started to rapidly grow.

”Whoa!” Lin Mu exclaimed as the Wood Spirit tulip started to change.

The two leaves on top that were wilted, became healthy looking and the bent stalk became straight again. The stalk then started to grow upwards as more leaves sprouted on it.

One, two, four, eight, sixteen, thirty two!

Only after the number of leaves reached thirty two and the stalk became a meter tall did the Wood Spirit Tulip stop growing.

Lin Mu furrowed his brows and checked the Wood Spirit tulip with his spirit sense.

”So it broke thorough… its equivalent to a Nascent soul realm being now.” Lin Mu said after sensing the spirit Qi fluctuations.

~rustle~