Chapter 1250: Chapter 1250

1250: Chapter 1236: Unexpected Echo 1250: Chapter 1236: Unexpected Echo Lu Ping’an’s research had once again hit a bottleneck, which he realized was a common ‘sticking point’ that many professionals frequently faced.

But this time, it wasn’t that he couldn’t find a direction, it was…

The Beast Taming Path emphasizes the physical over the spiritual, where the body is everything.

The Gardener’s Path emphasizes the spiritual over the physical, and in the later stages, one can completely abandon the physical body and use one’s own “nature” as the body.

he had always said he was on the Gardener’s path, but he followed the paths of Beast Tamers, Fighters, Soldiers, and other standard professions.

His body had already borne too much, and it was simply impossible to give it up.

He contemplated, hesitated, but also gradually tried to experiment with solutions…

To spread my spirit…”

Clearly, such convenient technology did not yet exist.

“Bring my own environment, let the spirit of the Magic Plants integrate into the world…”

Contemplating and experimenting, Lu Ping’an tried to find a way forward.

He vaguely sensed that the answer to this problem was also his “principle”…

“Maybe, develop a new species that could serve as an embedment for my own spirit, integrating it into the world…”

He had some ideas, but most were abandoned in frustration after preliminary attempts.

Most Gardeners ultimately abandoned their bodies because their bodies really lost meaning to them.

Those like the great groups (who also practised Beast Taming) and Elder Liu, high-level Gardeners, could generally be considered as undead.

“Maybe, I should ask Xiu Yi…”

But his spiritual intuition rejected this option, not because Xiu Yi wouldn’t share the secret, but because once one followed someone else’s path in pursuit of the “truth”, one might end up just becoming a part of that person’s path.

“Perhaps, the all-powerful fragments could solve the problem?”

After considering it, Lu Ping’an dismissed the idea again.

“Authority,” no matter how powerful, is still just a force, a sword in hand.

If one cannot find the direction, forcing evolution will only lead to the wrong evolutionary path.

“I should look around more, ask around more…”

Perhaps, insights more reliable could be obtained from other professionals, especially high-level Gardeners he might meet along the way.

However, the development of events was not smooth.

After passing through three cities, Lu Ping’an visited four high-level Gardeners, only to find their responses no different from before.

In their view, releasing/projecting one’s spiritual power into Magic Plants and further manipulating the natural environment through them was essentially mandatory for high-level Gardeners.

But on his journey, Lu Ping’an also saw many strange and unusual Magic Plants, which were quite rewarding.

For example, a lord specialized in creating aquatic domain battlefields, his main Magic Plants were a kind that could improve the surrounding climate and greatly increase the chance of rainfall.

When planted extensively, it was nearly equivalent to carrying a rain warfare domain with him, and then using various aquatic Magic Plants and subordinate soldiers to secure victory.

One could say, by leveraging this special Magic Plant, he gained an effect similar to Mei Yuge’s Talent Ability…

but after being challenged by the unyielding Mei Yuge, it was an easy fight.

After all, Mei Yuge who could control rain could also stop it…

“Rule-level is not far off…”

And Mei Yuge, who recently appeared to be in an irritable mood, in Chris’s eyes, was showing signs of advancement.

Having returned to the courtyard, she might truly be just a step away from the actual Rule-level.

But to tell the truth, the practices of the Gardeners had given Lu Ping’an quite a few hints, especially their method of building territories with a few powerful Magic Plants and using those territories to construct sustainable natural cyclical strongholds.

This made Lu Ping’an have to rethink his own combat strategies.

“Divine Power, higher-level Gardeners, the paths of the Exotic Races, there must be a way…..”

It seemed that was the only way Lu Ping’an could console himself.

But before forging a path through sheer perseverance, Lu Ping’an had arrived at his destination — the Garden City.

Merely stepping into this area, seeing the endless giant trees, and smelling the ubiquitous mixed floral fragrance, Lu Ping’an felt he had gained a great deal.

Unlike the “Wilderness version of Elder Liu” that Lu Ping’an had seen before, this area clearly bore the marks of interference.

“Is this also the power of a Gardener…”

The ocean transformed into land, the land turned into a forest, and the forest had morphed into an absurd version of coexisting Magic Plants.

These “floral scents” were not simple; after a brief examination, Lu Ping’an was sure they were genuinely altering the atmospheric composition of the world, making it more suitable for human habitation…

It’s worth noting, Lu Ping’an and his group were relying on the Divine Grace of environmental adaptation to reside in this city, as ordinary humans could hardly settle on this planet permanently.

Walking on these wooden trunks, experiencing this “city atop the treetops,” where even the street vendors sold various juices and tree saps, Lu Ping’an had to admit that he had underestimated the potential of the Gardener profession.

It was nature itself, and it itself was using its own “small world” to invade the “big world.”

“…..So many Lamp Flowers, should we buy more?”

“Let’s buy some, I want to study them.”

One of the local specialties here was various kinds of Lamp Flowers.

Lu Ping’an not only saw aquatic, floating varieties but also those from legends reputed to have “purification” functions of Exotic Species.

Lu Ping’an, interestedly using his bank for assessment, had thought some powerful entity had actually succeeded in reverting it to its “ancestral state” and even substituted other Energy sources in the absence of fire, only to find out…

Oh, Your Excellency the Sheriff, there are swindlers here, please manage this…..”

Although there were many flower shops on both sides of the street, and there were no shortage of high-quality products, there were even more swindlers.

With the Lamp Flowers that Lu Ping’an had purchased, a slight snap of his fingers had them lighting up one by one, each bursting forth with full brightness.

Lu Ping’an had been continuously practicing the outward release of Spiritual Power, but achieving such effects so effortlessly was clearly beyond his expectations.

In the past, it took much communication cost to establish a connection with “other people’s” Magic Plants and to try to gradually control the movement of each branch.

But this time, with just a slight touch of Spiritual Power, he felt able to “control” them, and he could even sense the peculiar emotional fluctuations from the connection…..

Perhaps because all these modules originally stemmed from Lu Ping’an, he could even feel something responding to him…

It seemed, countless “lives” were awaiting his command.

He opened his eyes, and the “Lamp Flowers” he observed all gave feedback, seemingly expecting something.

Lu Ping’an clapped his hands lightly, and all the Lamp Flowers on the street extinguished at the same time, plunging the surroundings into panic instantly.

He hurriedly restored them, but as he looked around, within the range of his senses…

he could even feel that he might be able to turn off all the lights in the entire city simultaneously.

“Is this what they mean by ‘enjoy the shade from trees planted by others’?

Pfft, what a bizarre ability, what’s the use?

Is this for playing a light-out killing game…..”

But perhaps guided by his Spiritual intuition, or perhaps due to personal preference, he really did buy quite a few seeds and potted plants of various Lamp Flowers along the way, planning to research them back home.

And indeed, he discovered some interesting things.