Chapter 164: One Bamboo Shoot, A Thousand Possibilities
My voice rang out across the crisp morning air.
Today was the day.
“It’s ready! It’s ready!”
Tianyi, perched on the roof as usual, tilted her head curiously, her wings twitching in my direction.
Sliding the greenhouse door open, I stepped into the humid warmth, the scent of fresh vegetation wrapping around me like a comforting blanket. My gaze swept past rows of thriving herbs and hybrid plants until it landed on the star of the show: the Golden Bamboo shoot.
It was magnificent.
The bamboo shoot stood just shy of the greenhouse ceiling. Its golden surface shimmered faintly. Though it was still a shoot, its flesh tender and brimming with vitality, it radiated with qi.
“Insane growth for less than a month,” I murmured, crouching beside the shoot. There was no doubt infusing essences had to do with it's extraordinary growth rate.
I reached out, running my fingers over the golden surface. Unlike the harder culms the bamboo would eventually grow into, the shoot was firm but pliable under my touch. The warmth of life thrummed through it, the energy almost tangible. The yang-based ingredients I’d planted, extracted and used as fuel for its growth, had clearly worked wonders.