Chapter 113 - 111 Spirit Plant
Li Pan carefully counted, and the Five Elements Spiritual Fruit had only borne five fruits, which had just started to swell. She deliberately channeled a large amount of Wood Element superpower to ensure that the Spirit Plant would not suffer any deficit.
Just caring for two Spirit Plants had consumed nearly half of her superpower, and now she understood why high-level Wood Power users hardly ever farmed or helped out, simply because they did not have the energy. To take good care of these Spirit Plants, one almost had to tend to them all day; they were so delicate that all one’s time and superpower strength were spent on them, leaving no time to spare for miscellaneous activities.
High-level superpower users were actually very busy. They used the last bit of time they had to purify medicinal materials for the base. The variety of medicines consumed by combat superpower users were all manually purified by high-level superpower users, which was why the supply was limited and the prices remained high.
This wasn’t up to individual decisions. A person’s energy is limited. You could drive a High Level Wood Power User to death and it would be useless; they could only produce so much, no more than that.
Pei Yuan had taught her how to extract the active ingredients from medicine, which she could do with her own medicinal materials, but it required the fusion of several kinds of medicines, another separate field of study she needed to learn.
His idea was for her to learn how to maintain Spirit Plants first to earn money for her farm. Only when the farm stood firm could she have the strength to learn the next step. Making medicine was actually a big waste of medicinal materials and money, and the base wouldn’t allow her to waste materials on learning; she had to bear the cost of learning on her own.
Failure was certain, and failure meant a bunch of high-quality medicinal materials would be wasted.
The high-level superpower users from the past had to go away to study specifically, and even after returning, they practiced with great caution. Waste was inevitable, starting from scratch, and it was really hard at that time.
The medicinal materials couldn’t be completely successfully cultivated; they were fought for with the lives of combat superpower users. Pei Yuan said that when a superpower user failed in refining and became so upset they would cry bitterly and slap themselves in the face. Failure meant wasting medicinal materials, creating enormous psychological pressure.
His group of people had managed to learn how to refine medicines under such high-pressure environments, and to this day, it was still this group who refined medicines for the base. Newcomers who wanted to learn could only assist and start with the basics, slowly learning. Moreover, they had to pay tuition fees.