Published: February 5, 2025
Strictly speaking, this was Ye Zhongming's first time using the planting skill, as it was a continuous skill that required a certain amount of time and a fixed location. Given Ye Zhongming's current wandering state, he wasn't in a position to complete such a continuous skill for the time being.
However, the gardener profession was different from that of an ordinary gardener. Its role was similar to the countless professions in the apocalypse, all imbued with magical attributes, and it ultimately offered several advantages.
For example, in cultivating ordinary Earth plants.
The seeds of mutated plants were the main targets of the gardener's planting skill. This required a considerable amount of time and immense spiritual energy to nurture them until maturity, allowing them to take effect.
But ordinary plants on Earth were much weaker than mutated plants. Therefore, Ye Zhongming planned to practice on these ordinary plants first. Once he could stabilize his situation, he would begin to cultivate the carnivorous plant seeds obtained from the iron lock prisoner.
He gently pressed his palm on the layer of "artificial soil" and slowly infused his spiritual energy into it under the planting skill.
Ye Zhongming had been keeping his eyes open, but after a moment, he closed them. He couldn't discern anything from the surface of the soil, but the spiritual energy he was releasing felt like tendrils extending through the soil, spreading outward. It felt as if the spiritual energy had become a part of Ye Zhongming's body, extending like roots within the soil. Every time it touched a cabbage seed, it would create a node in his mind, lighting up each node as it was touched.
In an instant, all the seeds were lit up in Ye Zhongming's mind. The seeds were interconnected by spiritual energy, forming a complex and vast web of light.
As the spiritual energy radiated from Ye Zhongming, passing through the web of light, he could clearly feel the light points representing the cabbage seeds gradually becoming brighter.
He knew this meant the cabbage seeds were growing!
It was a marvelous feeling, a sense of exhilaration and excitement from controlling life, even feeling the growth of the light points. This made Ye Zhongming somewhat addicted, and he unconsciously quickened the output of his spiritual energy.
When he realized it, he found that his spiritual energy had already depleted by over a hundred points, frightening him into stopping the output immediately.
This made him open his eyes in shock. Before him lay a once-barren piece of land, now sprouting with vibrant green shoots!
They had sprouted?
Even though Ye Zhongming confirmed that he had just done this, it still felt surreal.
The speed of their growth was something he had only seen in documentaries about humans and nature on TV, where the footage was sped up many times over. But now, Ye Zhongming had only planted the seeds less than ten minutes ago, and they had already sprouted, with the tender green shoots reaching a few millimeters in height.
In the ravaged apocalypse, seeing the familiar green that symbolized life was a feeling that someone who hadn't deeply experienced apocalyptic life could never understand. Ye Zhongming even felt a pang in his nose, struggling to control his emotions.
Ye Zhongming was a "survivor"; he understood what this lush green color represented.
It meant that he wouldn't lack vitamins and various trace elements in the future, that he wouldn't have to worry about food anymore. Even when the gardener profession advanced to a higher level, he could multiply the base that ensured a lack of food and nutrients by many times.
This meant he could support many people and possess strength and core power that others could hardly reach.
Of course, he wasn't entirely sure, as he didn't know how the gardener profession would change with advancement. But what he had just envisioned had a very high possibility of being realized.
However, the massive consumption of spiritual energy left Ye Zhongming feeling slightly helpless amidst his excitement.