In just a dozen breaths, under the blessing of the Ancient Dried Wood Staff, the Bodhi Spirit Flower seemed to have experienced decades or even centuries.

At the beginning, it was just a tender seedling, with verdant leaves gently swaying, revealing vigorous vitality. Under the abundant support of Wood and Earth Spiritual Qi and the Power of Time, the Bodhi Spirit Flower rapidly grew lush and flourishing.

The vitality of the Bodhi Spirit Flower was fully released in an instant, its roots delving deep into the soil, its leaves gradually expanding, lush green, and before long, the Bodhi Spirit Flower reached an important moment in its life cycle—blooming.

The flowers bloomed in a pure white, surrounded by Spirit Mist, with petals lightly curling, emitting a charming luster. Dozens of Spirit Flowers blossomed instantly, exuding a delicate fragrance that was refreshing.

With the blossoming of the flowers, the Bodhi Spirit Flower entered the fruit-bearing phase. Initially, the fruits were a pale green, gradually enlarging, becoming plump, growing to the size of longans.

The color of the fruits continuously changed, from pale green to dark green, then to a faint yellow, and finally to a golden yellow, exuding a tranquil and sacred aura, also indicating that the vitality of the Bodhi Spirit Flower was gradually fading away. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

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Li Mu’s eyes widened, staring at the growth state of the Bodhi Spirit Flower, continuously channeling Wood Spirit Power without daring to relax for a moment.

At this moment, the Bodhi Spirit Flower had completely matured, beginning to decline from its prime, with all its vitality concentrated in several dozen fruits, the branches and leaves withering at a pace visible to the naked eye, turning to ash with a breeze.

However, this withering power did not affect the fruits of the Bodhi Spirit Flower; on the contrary, the dozens of fruits became fuller, more mature, emitting a richer fragrance.

The fruits fell, held aloft by Li Mu’s Divine Sense. With a slight exertion, one of the fruits was crushed, revealing the flesh and a fruit core, which was the Spirit Seed of the Bodhi Spirit Flower.

Having examined it, Li Mu confirmed that the Bodhi Spirit Fruit hastened by the Withering and Flourishing Skill contained Spiritual Power and Medicinal Power in its flesh that were less than one percent of that in a typical Bodhi Spirit Fruit. Its fruit core features were generally normal, though whether it could continue to grow was uncertain.

Li Mu carefully examined the Bodhi Spirit Fruit and obtained 120 seeds of the Bodhi Spirit Flower.

However, for this withering and flourishing experiment, the Wood Spirit Power and Power of Time consumed by using the Withering and Flourishing Skill could have easily purchased ten Bodhi Spirit Fruits.

Normally, using such a Secret Technique to obtain fruit is not worth the loss, especially for High-tier Spirit Plants, which require time and a special environment to mature.

However, Li Mu’s purpose was not for the fruits, but for the Spirit Seeds. If these Spirit Seeds could be sown and grow smoothly, the cost was acceptable.

The growth speed of the Tier Five Bodhi Spirit Flower was too slow and required extra consumption of the vitality of Tier Five Bodhi Wood; continuing to use the Withering and Flourishing Skill on its Spirit Seeds was too costly.

To verify whether Spirit Plants cultivated using the Withering and Flourishing Skill could grow normally, Li Mu took out a few Spirit Seeds of the Tier Two Celestial Phoenix Grass and planted them in the Spirit Field, continuing to catalyze them with the Ancient Dried Wood Staff.

The growth requirements for the Tier Two Celestial Phoenix Grass were not as high, and using the Withering and Flourishing Skill consumed much less energy.

Quickly, under the cover of abundant Wood and Earth Spiritual Qi and the Power of Time, a miraculous scene once again unfolded as tender Celestial Peaks broke through the soil, growing rapidly.

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A hundred breaths later, several Celestial Phoenix Grass went from flourishing to decay and quickly withered, allowing Li Mu to obtain thousands of Tier Two Celestial Phoenix Grass Spirit Seeds.

Next, Li Mu began to process these Celestial Phoenix Grass Spirit Seeds, keeping some to prepare for normal planting. These Spirit Seeds, products of hastening, still contained life force; as long as they were given sufficient nutrients and Spiritual Qi, they could continue to grow, if the experiment proved successful.

In the future, as long as he could obtain Spirit Plants, Li Mu would no longer have to worry about Spirit Seeds.

For the other portion of the Celestial Phoenix Grass Spirit Seeds, Li Mu decided to continue using the Withering and Flourishing Skill to catalyze them. He wanted to see if, under the condition of these seeds having withered, they could still grow.

If he could successfully catalyze these Spirit Seeds to grow, it would be a significant gain for Li Mu.

Li Mu planned to control the growth stages of these Celestial Phoenix Grass Spirit Seeds, catalyzing them to the Mature Stage to verify whether these Spirit Plants, at its Mature Stage, could absorb the Plant Spirit Light Group.

If they could successfully absorb the Plant Spirit Light Group, in the future, he could use this technique to predict the Plant Spirit Attributes of every kind of Spirit Plant in advance, eliminating the need for prolonged cultivation and breeding.

To achieve this goal, Li Mu spent a lot of Wood Spirit Power and Power of Time, beginning to drive the growth of the Celestial Phoenix Grass Spirit Seeds, while also controlling their status, letting them stay at the Mature Stage rather than completely withering.

Once, twice, ....

Li Mu conducted dozens of maturation experiments on the Celestial Phoenix Spirit Grass, eventually successfully grasping the approximate consumption of Wood Spirit Power and Power of Time required to hasten each Tier Two Celestial Phoenix Grass to its Mature Stage.

However, when Li Mu cut down a mature Celestial Phoenix Grass and performed a spirit plant extraction, nothing of the Plant Spirit Light Group was found at the cut.

This made Li Mu feel very disappointed and confused, beginning to wonder where the problem lay. Was it that the quality of the Spirit Seeds wasn’t high enough, or that this hastening method couldn’t obtain the Plant Spirit Light Group? Or perhaps the scale of the Celestial Phoenix Grass wasn’t enough, maybe growing more would allow obtaining the Plant Spirit Light Group?

Li Mu, feeling unwilling, decided to conduct the experiment once more.

This time, Li Mu simultaneously ripened several hundred Celestial Phoenix Grass plants, planting a small plot of Spirit Field, and soon, a small patch of Celestial Phoenix Grass grew rapidly.