Walker Of The Worlds

The discovery that the Spirit apple tree was sentient was rather interesting to Lin Mu. He tried to test out some things with the Spirit Apple tree and learned more about it.

The first thing he learned was that it didn't like spirit herbs getting close to it. It wasn't just the wood spirit tulip, but some spirit herb that Lin Mu placed near the Spirit apple tree would get either smashed into the ground or pushed away.

Though there was also a rule to that. The Spirit apple tree only responded if there were spirit herbs that were either newly harvested or still had enough vitality to be considered 'alive'.

"Hmm… so basically it doesn't want competition from other spirit herbs?" Lin Mu guessed.

"That does seem understandable. Even normal trees in nature will reject other plants that grow near them and will try to suppress their growth if not kill them. They usually do this by covering the area with their trees or sucking out the nutrients from the soil." Xukong replied.

"Could be possible. But doesn't this also mean that the spirit apple tree thinks other spirit herbs and plants can grow in this place?" Lin Mu realized.

"That… might just be possible. It didn't work when you last tried planting spirit herbs here, right?" Xukong said.

"Yes, the soil would just push out the spirit herb or the seed, whatever I planted. The Sleepscape would oppose the changes I made. Only the Graves of my parents and the spirit stone vein were freely taken in by it." Lin Mu spoke.

"If it took the both of them, then it means there is a certain level of sentience to it. It can listen to you, but only in certain conditions it seems like." Xukong stated.

"Hmm, then we need to figure out what those conditions are." Lin Mu replied.

"Well, the first test can be done right away, after all you have a test subject right here." Xukong pointed to the Spirit Wood Tulip.

Lin Mu smiled and went to grab the Spirit wood tulip. He then brought it some distance away from the Spirit apple tree and dug a hole in the ground. Unlike what normally happened, the hole didn't fill up automatically and he could finish digging a sufficiently deep hole.

muttered as he placed the Wood

~creep~

this time. Instead, they withdrew into its body and then drilled into the ground. At first it was slow, but then, as if it had found something good,

as the Wood Spirit

that were wilted, became healthy looking and the bent stalk became straight again. The stalk then started to grow upwards as more leaves sprouted

two, four, eight, sixteen, thirty

number of leaves reached thirty two and the stalk became a

and checked the Wood Spirit tulip

to a Nascent soul realm being now." Lin

~rustle~

and it looked to be happy. Lin Mu carefully extended his

actually doesn't attack now." Lin Mu

has probably found a steady source of spirit Qi from the soil." Xukong

yes, the spirit source vein! It is probably providing it with spirit Qi that caused this breakthrough."

accelerated its growth by at least a coupled hundred years." Xukong

had ten leaves.

perhaps the flower's growth depends

works, let's try with

"Go on," Xukong prodded.

lot of vitality and tried to plant them. While he was able to make a hole in the soil, the planted spirit herbs and seeds were pushed out by