I conquered the cultivation world with scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

Chapter 604 The Empire Can't Find a Second Top-Grade Wood Spirit Root

"and many more!"

Guo Chunli suddenly looked at the testing instrument.

As Guo Chunli turned around, everyone stopped their discussion and looked at the changing detection device.

"The indicator light is on!"

"How is that possible! It was clearly dark just now."

"It really lit up? Then this score..."

"That can't be right, they're all improved varieties, there's absolutely no way that could be!"

"There must be a problem..."

The indicator light on the detector lit up, emitting a faint red glow.

Guo Chunli spoke in a serious tone:

"The indicator light is on. Although the light is faint, it is definitely on. These seeds are from the same batch that we distributed."

Guo Chunli spoke out, but some agricultural revisionists disagreed:

"No, this isn't the same batch. The characteristics of the improved variety are already very obvious. Fellow Daoist Guo, why is this instrument no longer sensitive?"

"Yes, lodging resistance and other characteristics are all from improved varieties, not the original species. This is very strange."

"There must be something wrong with the instrument. If it's the original seed, how could it produce such excellent shapes? The genes are different. Unless it's mutated, but in the end, even mutated seeds can be detected in the first test if they are the original seed."

Everyone was startled by the "fake death" indicator light. They said it was not sensitive, but they also knew that this instrument was much more precise than the previous one. If this detector was inaccurate, then there was no accurate one.

Guo Chunli's vague guess resurfaced. Her sixth sense told her something was wrong, and the retest confirmed her suspicion.

However, this result has brought the agricultural repair ranking to a standstill. Whether Jiang He's spiritual plant is the original species remains to be investigated, and a conclusion can only be reached after the afternoon's report.

During a round of agricultural repairs, Tao Ruzhi also looked at the spiritual plants on the ground. The millet grew tall, with plump grains hanging all over the plant. He had previously concluded that it was an improved variety, and he still insisted on his idea after testing it again, except that there was one impossibility in his idea.

Could it be that a genetic mutation has produced an improved variety, or are they just genetically similar but from different batches of parent and offspring?

Upon realizing this, Tao Ruzhi was startled by his own thoughts.

That's absolutely impossible. A few months is exactly the time it takes for the spirit plant millet to go through a complete cycle from development to maturity.

The growth cycle cannot be shortened, and forcing the seedlings to grow too fast will cause great damage to the spiritual plants. It is impossible for them to grow into the robust spiritual plants that are growing in this foam box.

The agricultural repair site was surrounded by a transparent spiritual energy shield, allowing spectators outside to see the spiritual plants inside directly.

Of course, most cultivators couldn't squeeze to the front of the venue, but once seated, they could see the spiritual plants inside on a virtual screen. As for the conversations between the judges, they could be heard clearly outside the agricultural cultivation field through amplification.

Amidst their busy work, Hua Xi and Shangguan Linghu glanced at the screen a few times. Even with their multitasking, they knew that Jiang He's spiritual plant had almost been misjudged, and even her eligibility to participate in the competition was in jeopardy.

Looking at the familiar styrofoam box, Shangguan Linghu immediately thought of the spiritual plants planted on it. In her memory, she seemed to have eaten food made from millet, which was yellow and had a soft and glutinous texture.

Millet is extremely glutinous and easily hardens when cooled; it is also known as yellow millet.

Shangguan Linghu recalled the steamed millet cake, which was bouncy and chewy, and the millet rice dumplings paired with red dates and red beans, which were sticky, glutinous, and fragrant.

Millet flour tea is also good. After the millet matures, Shangguan Linghu saw that Jiang He had stir-fried it once. It was ground into powder, mixed with boiling water to form a paste, and then some sweet nutrient solution was added. It was sweet and delicious.

The spirit plant millet in the foam box is only a part of the total. There are also a large number of spirit plants in the spirit field. Shangguan Linghu has taken care of one of the spirit fields and naturally knows the maturity period. It shouldn't take more than a few months.

“Fellow Daoist Huang, do you still remember the millet in the styrofoam box? This is just normally grown. Why do they say that the redwood seeds have been replaced with improved varieties?”

Huang Mingshi slowly opened his mouth and said, "I remember."

He is an agricultural repairman. He also participated in the previous Agricultural Repairman Elite List, but his ranking was not good.

After arriving at the Free and Unfettered Sect this year, he asked Jiang He for planting techniques. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he and the other agricultural cultivators would have doubted whether the millet Jiang He planted was the original variety.

Knowing the truth, Huang Mingshi naturally knew where this improved variety came from. It wasn't purchased from the black market or other markets; the improved variety was grown by Jiang He himself.

Shangguan Linghu didn't understand the underlying principles, but Huang Mingshi, as an agricultural repairman, knew them all too well:

"The reason for this probably has to be attributed to Hongmu. She is different from us. She has a top-grade wood spirit root. There is no other one like her in the empire."

"A top-grade wood spirit root???"

Shangguan Linghu focused her mind; she remembered that Jiang He also possessed a top-grade wood spirit root.

Huang Mingshi's words made Shangguan Linghu a little dazed. Since she entered the Xiaoyao Sect, she had never thought that Hongmu and Jiang He were alike until she entered the sect competition, where she was also a sword cultivator.

Sword cultivators differ in both their sword techniques and their sword-wielding habits.

Only Hongmu and Jiang He had an excessively similar starting posture.

Shangguan Linghu was always very perceptive. As soon as Huang Mingshi finished speaking, she connected the similarities between the two.

Shangguan Linghu, who had spoken first, was already lost in thought, while Huang Mingshi turned his attention back to the present.

Their skepticism towards Jiang He stemmed from their disbelief that such a genius could emerge, and their disbelief that anyone could shorten the lifespan of spiritual plants using wood-based spiritual energy in such a short time.

He had worked at the research institute and was very familiar with these people. No one was willing to admit that a cultivator was a hundred times stronger than themselves, nor was anyone willing to believe in the new changes in the agricultural cultivation circle.

During his time at the Free and Unfettered Sect, Huang Mingshi was very clear that both spiritual plant cultivation and soil management would undergo reform. As long as the methods were mastered, the progress brought about by mechanization would be enough to disrupt the old farming methods.

More and more monks gathered outside the agricultural repair field, as the evaluation scores had not yet been released due to the malfunction of the testing equipment.

The number of comments in the live stream increased every second. The moment the indicator light came on, the netizens who were convinced that Jiang He was cheating were suddenly proven wrong. Everyone zoomed in on the screen, observing the faint red light. The debate on whether it was the original species was still fierce.

[This is so dramatic! The detector went out a second ago, and the result was already determined. I really didn't expect there to be a reversal. Has this instrument been idle for too long and started malfunctioning? Is it really the original strain? Can anyone tell me?]

I still don't believe it's the original species. It's more accurate to say that the original species produces the same result as the improved species. If that were the case, cultivators who cultivate spiritual plants could truly become immortals on their own—that's utterly ridiculous.

There's video evidence; maybe it's just that the rosewood has a high natural growth potential and produced an improved variety.

It's possible, but the probability is infinitesimally close to zero. Just look at the history of spiritual plants; has this ever happened? Original varieties can't become improved varieties—is that hard to understand?

Both sides make valid points, so who should I listen to?

: Who should we listen to? Don't listen to anyone. We're just here to watch the drama unfold. We love these kinds of plot twists; they create great livestream entertainment. Maybe it's even a marketing tactic.

Hengxing Technology must have made a killing this year. They found such a perfect spokesperson for their holographic game and even hyped up the Sect Competition. The plot twist was pretty good; don't write that again next time!