vstars Chapter 602 Replacing the Original Seed
Chapter 602 Replacing the Original Seed
Guo Chunli walked to the foam box and lingered there for a long time.
In previous sect competitions, to ensure fairness, the names and labels of every spiritual plant were removed.
The purpose was to prevent the judges from recognizing the cultivators who planted the spiritual plants, thus ensuring fairness.
To be honest, this regulation is of no use to the agricultural repair ranking. After all, the pots of spiritual plants are conspicuous enough, and they can be marked in many ways. Judges who are lenient in their scoring will still score leniently, and the leniency will still be applied.
In short, this has absolutely no impact on the fairness of the competition.
The only way to address this is by focusing on the judges themselves.
The judges for the current Agricultural Cultivation Ranking are almost all randomly selected from the Imperial Spiritual Plant Research Institute and various universities, so there is no possibility of favoritism. In addition, the two highest and two lowest scores will be removed, making it highly unlikely that the Agricultural Cultivation Ranking will be rigged. Therefore, the original rules have been abolished and the ranking has been made public.
Guo Chunli and the other agricultural experts practically surrounded the spiritual plants in front of them. Under everyone's gaze, Guo Chunli picked up the number plate and looked at it:
"Xiaoyao Sect, Redwood, Ginseng List Spiritual Plant - Millet."
[I saw it! I saw it! The spiritual plant in the styrofoam box is redwood from the Xiaoyao Sect.]
Redwood? I've been hearing her name a lot these past few days; she's become quite the rising star in this sect.
Haha, I knew it! I saw it from outside the Xiaoyao Sect's canteen, and it's highly likely that the styrofoam boxes they used are the same as the redwood boxes they used for the sect competition.
This morning I saw that the Free and Unfettered Sect had shed its label of poverty, but now my mind has automatically reverted to it.
What is all this nonsense? I'm starting to seriously suspect that Hongmu is only good at fighting, and that she's just here to gain fame in other areas like the Alchemy Ranking and the Agricultural Ranking. Otherwise, what's the point of a cultivator without a fire elemental root participating in the Alchemy Ranking? And these spiritual plants—they're completely careless, just packed in a styrofoam box. In all these competitions, only Hongmu has treated her spiritual plants like this.
That's quite possible. If the goal is to gain fame, participating in the sixth list is clearly a bigger gimmick than participating in the fourth.
Let's see what the judges have to say first. I think this spiritual plant is growing quite well.
It's one thing to be okay, but it's another to grow it well. This is a sect competition, and we have to compare it with other agricultural cultivators.
Doesn't anyone think Jiang He's method is economical? Buying a simple container for a spirit plant is ridiculously expensive. If a styrofoam box can be used as a pot without affecting the growth and development of the spirit plant, isn't that a clever money-saving trick?
Of course it will have an impact! You're dreaming! The styrofoam box has such poor airtightness; don't the spiritual plants need to breathe?
If you're going to have a discussion, can you please not be so aggressive with your comments upstairs?
[Actually, you'll know once you try it yourself]
Guo Chunli's impression of Jiang He was still based on the scandals surrounding the Medical Cultivation Ranking. Due to the two waves of public opinion online, the first wave was alright, and the Medical Cultivation Ranking remained unchanged.
The second wave of public opinion arrived, and Wanqi Jingyan personally ordered a thorough investigation of the judges who participated in the Medical Cultivation Ranking. It can be said that almost the entire group was wiped out. Currently, all articles related to the Medical Cultivation Ranking published on the official account of the sect competition have been completely deleted.
Guo Chunli received some inside information.
The medical cultivator rankings will likely be reshuffled, and medical cultivators who embezzle funds during the ranking process will be imprisoned for violating interstellar law.
Under Wanqi Jingyan's series of actions, even the judges of the Agricultural Cultivation Ranking who originally had slight selfish motives all obediently judged according to the defined rules.
If Guo Chunli remembers correctly, Jiang He is ranked third on the medical cultivation list, making him the cultivator with the most controversial ranking in this incident.
If it weren't for the presence of the foam box, Guo Chunli would most likely not have noticed the growth of the spiritual plants that Hongmu brought to the Agricultural Cultivation Heroes List.
Those standing in front of the spiritual plants were all experienced agricultural cultivators.
At first, Guo Chunli and the other agricultural cultivators focused their attention on the carriers of the spiritual plants. However, when they set aside these carriers, some of the agricultural cultivators keenly noticed that these spiritual plants were different from the others.
Guo Chunli was surprised.
There are three styrofoam boxes in total, and each box contains two to three plants.
The plants in the first styrofoam box were alright; they were millet seeds they had given us.
However, the leaves in the second and third styrofoam boxes looked different from the original millet seeds, and the instruments couldn't detect the markings made for the seeds during the sect competition, which proves...
"The spiritual plant seeds in these two boxes are not from the batch we originally gave us."
There were loud voices from the farmers.
Guo Chunli was astonished that a cultivator would be so bold as to actually replace the seed.
"Indeed, what's wrong with this agricultural cultivator from the Free and Unfettered Sect? Doesn't she know that spiritual plants grown from seeds other than the original ones are not scored?"
"This is the first time in all the sect competitions that I've seen someone forfeit in this way."
Guo Chunli frowned. Of the three foam boxes used in the competition, one contained the original seed that had been distributed, which the instrument could detect. As for the other two boxes, the instrument did not detect any obvious fluctuations.
Guo Chunli hesitated for a moment before speaking:
"At least one spiritual plant is effective, so it doesn't count as a forfeit. We'll prepare for a second test."
"This... there's no precedent for it, so does Hongmu's action constitute a violation of the rules?"
Guo Chunli waved her hand. She held considerable sway among the agricultural repairmen. As she frowned, she requested the equipment be brought in again:
"Retest it, and while you're at it, get the plant's DNA tested."
"Alright, then I'll listen to Fellow Daoist Guo."
"I don't think the testing was of any use. They used other millet seeds to impersonate the original ones, and they look like they're growing much better than the original ones. Isn't that cheating? This cultivator from the Xiaoyao Sect probably doesn't think he can get away with just finding some genetically modified millet seeds on the market."
"Yes, if that's the case, we might as well retire."
"Everyone, please calm down." Guo Chunli felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.
She knew that Jiang He had won first place on all three lists. Guo Chunli didn't think that Jiang He would use such a clumsy and easily recognizable method to be so talented.
Therefore, Guo Chunli applied for a retest.
The Danxiu Elite Ranking competition was not yet over, but many cultivators began to arrive in the live stream of the Nongxiu Elite Ranking.
The cultivators who had been watching the match since the start of the live stream naturally wouldn't miss the conversation between Guo Chunli and the other cultivators. It was this conversation that reignited the excitement in the previously quiet live stream.
What do these agricultural repairs mean?
What else could it mean? It means the rosewood is cheating, replacing ordinary varieties with improved varieties with superior traits. Tsk tsk, the rules of the agricultural repair ranking are already so clear, isn't this just knowingly breaking the rules?
What did I tell you? No agricultural cult member doesn't cherish the spiritual plants they cultivate. It's already strange enough that they use styrofoam boxes to pack them; they're probably using the money they saved to buy seeds instead.
[Just waiting for this. This year's sect competition has been rife with problems, one after another. The medical cultivation ranking incident was already a major event, but now there's another one.]