Chapter 1132: Chapter 1132

1132: Chapter 1118: Make-up Class 1132: Chapter 1118: Make-up Class This time, Lu Ping’an made a visit with sincere intentions.

As a high-level Gardener in the substantive sense, his expertise in his professional domain wasn’t even close to the neighboring Beast Tamer system, which was theoretically beyond his reach.

What he lacked was not just the high-level abilities of the Gardener series but the entire system of a “high-level botany researcher.”

Knowledge, research methods, contacts, high-level abnormal abilities, sources of materials, Secret Realms of resources, related intelligence and personnel, he lacked them all.

In the incredulous gaze of others, he stated the facts.

“You may not believe it, but my main method of progressing along the Gardener’s path has been through self-study…”

Lu Ping’an didn’t add, “I’m a Contractor, and I don’t lie,” because he had too often witnessed the negative effects of this phrase…

God knows what those predecessors had done to make this profession so despised by gods and ghosts alike

Have you never used your identity and abilities as a Contractor to deceive others?”

With one question from Big Cat, he was at a loss for words…

As soon as he obtained his Contractor status, he had tricked Fang Wen, right?

It would be such a waste not to use this “cannot lie” trait to deceive others.

Alright, I should probably stop saying I’m a Contractor from now on.”

But what mattered most at the moment was sincerity and earnestness.

Since he needed to make up for what he lacked, he naturally had to admit where he was failing…

Old Lu stroked his goatee and nodded.

The garden was quite nice, as were the tools within, especially the noticeable rule buildings, which not only could create the environment that Magic Plants needed most but could even cause “instantaneous growth of Magic Plants”…

However, all of this was “off-the-shelf,” knowledge and systems easily purchasable on the market, with no signs of any unique academic school.

At that moment, as he regarded Lu Ping’an, he felt even more respect.

To him, it was a clear symbol of independence…

He was now sure that the young man in front of him had started with nothing but the Divine Foundation of that notoriously brutal and difficult Quasi-God.

Clearly, with the Divine Foundation gained from Beast Tamer and Healer grandmasters, if he were willing to follow the Beastmaster and Healer Path, that would naturally be equivalent to cheating…

But by doing so, first, he’d likely end up following the old path of that Quasi-God, and second, when the “contamination” of those on the same path was resurrected, he might be “overwritten,” or even completely eroded into another Balance Disaster Beast.

If it were me, I might have impulsively chosen the ‘inheritance’ path.

The taste of advancing and gaining improvements at will, that seemingly ‘rebirth’ speed of progress, who could refuse that?

Professionals wouldn’t need to worry about being unable to advance, the temptation to easily transform into long-lived species… low risk and high return, and yet he outright rejected it.”

In Old Lu’s eyes, Lu Ping’an had chosen the most difficult path, backing himself with the whole Divine Foundation and taking the most conflicting Gardener Path in order to thoroughly digest the Divine Foundation.

This courtyard in front of him was the clearest proof.

Those well-organized rule buildings were Lu Ping’an’s reconstruction over the eroded Divine Kingdom …

He had completely dismantled those decayed and outdated “pieces of art,” turned them into rough “Brickstones,” and rebuilt his own brick house bit by bit.

Previously, there were people who thought his fourth-tier in one year was too greedy, potentially leading to a shaky foundation and big trouble…

But now it seemed that this was true patience and wisdom.

Who could guarantee success in his advancement along the Gardener’s Path?

It was a completely unfamiliar domain, as well as a complete “academic field”…

Academics required accumulation, knowledge required learning; the Divine Foundation might provide some help, but in the end, he had to improve bit by bit.

Deer King Xi could see that Lu Ping’an’s knowledge and learning within the Gardener system were all mainstream, and along with another talented young man, Guan Xinxian, they both took the “university route” that old stagers scoffed at.

“The general textbooks rewritten by the powerful were simple and easy to understand, convenient for propagation…

But in order to be convenient for propagation, they lacked too much essence.”

In the eyes of a true old stager, what’s missing isn’t just unique secret arts but more so “complete paths.”

Take an academic debate, for instance, which historically might have gone through four or five stages, resulting in four or five versions of the “answer”—none of which could be definitively considered correct…

yet textbooks will only tell you the last version that was widely accepted.

For the average “college student,” that’s sufficient, but in reality, many “problems” have no absolute answers.

The pursuit of truth and answers is the genuine process of speculation and accumulation in that field, with many so-called “truths” and “formulas” actually being by-products of that pursuit.

The simplified and standardized “textbooks” try to reduce the prejudiced views of different schools and “sect philosophies”…

but they also lose deeper theoretical foundations and the experiences of predecessors.

A professional ability isn’t just the “standard template” in the eyes of most professionals; they are the crystallization of the abilities of predecessors and the results of continuous evolution.

The process of acquiring them is essentially a complete collection of the “knowledge” along the way, laying a true foundation.

Universities and colleges mass produce by directly telling you the “results” and “applications,” whereas seemingly tedious and unnecessary schools spend enormous amounts of time and resources on discussing seemingly meaningless history and theories, eventually leading you to thoroughly understand the “origins” of a “professional ability,” knowing what abilities constitute it, and whether it can be modified or further developed.

Mass producers naturally have the advantage in the early stages, but by the time one reaches the fourth-fifth tier, the ability to “create independently” is essentially the ability to “carve one’s own path,” which is a change from quantitative to qualitative.

“Hehe, now we’re all brethren of the same sect, and I myself am the founder of the ‘Southern Sea Swallow School.’ If you’re interested, we could engage in more exchange and learning…”

When Lu Ping’an brought out the “Trading Land,” willing to share its mysteries and profits with others, the previous sentiments of “suspicion” and “get lost” all transformed into “Brother, consider this place your home.”

In a sense, this is where Lu Ping’an and Big Cat fundamentally differ…

he always believes in “sharing” and “mutual victory,” and his further developments in rules naturally follow suit.

“Summoning Treant, is it?

That is indeed something my Church excels at.

If we’re restricted to the fourth-tier ‘Summoning Lesser Treant,’ we have seventeen versions and over thirty transformations.

Would you be interested in hearing more about it…”

As a “student,” Lu Ping’an is self-taught, but to become a “master,” he needs to transform “knowledge” into “scholarship,” from the mass-produced version to the custom-made version.

I’m quite interested.

I once had a Decree-level item for summoning treants, but unfortunately, it was consumed due to certain reasons…”

The card from Liu Zibei was not just a standard product of the Treant System, but also vestige of his lingering spirit.

It was used as expendable material to give birth to Mumu.

In reality, because “Summoning Treant”—even if it’s a sixth-tier treant unit—at the level of combat Lu Ping’an is at, it has already lost its effect in real battle.

Consuming an Ancient Tree to summon a fourth-to-sixth tier melee treant that can only fight for less than six minutes, and if Lu Ping’an unluckily draws a “black card (Life Disdain),” being forbidden from using the Power of Life for a few minutes…

that could actually be disastrous.

As Lu Ping’an’s strength improves, a card that once had low risk and high return has turned into one of high risk and low return in the present day.

One can only say how unpredictable the world can be.

But this doesn’t mean that the Silver-tier “relic” Taboo item is weak, it’s just that the bearer is non-human…

The normal Summoning Treant comes with an entire set of tactics and support abilities, and Lu Ping’an has no such capabilities to coordinate, so naturally just summoning it as a meat shield leads to less-than-ideal results.

Now, the first thing Lu Ping’an needs to learn as he looks back is the abilities of the “Treant System.”

That’s because it’s not just the trump card of the Treant System or one of the rare combat abilities in the Gardener series, but also…

“If I’m not mistaken, it can become the core component of my new Decree.”

Lu Ping’an straightforwardly expressed his needs to Old Lu and the others, even directly mentioning his design requirements.

“My Decree is Rebirth…

or more precisely, to Grant Life.”