Chapter 413: Emerald Life Sword Fruit
[The Mystic Soil Turtle has nurtured a Perfect Quality Emerald Sword Grass]
[The Mystic Soil Turtle has awakened a new Special Skill: Emerald Sword Fruit.]
[It's detected that the Mystic Soil Turtle has two similar Special Skills, namely: Emerald Life Fruit and Emerald Sword Fruit]
[The two Special Skills will be merged into a new Special Skill: Emerald Life Sword Fruit]
[After merging, the Fourth Skill Slot has become empty. Please select a Rank 4 Spirit Seed and nurture it on the turtle's shell to fill that skill slot.]
As soon as Ethan harvested the fully matured Emerald Sword Grass from the Mystic Soil Turtle's back, a series of system notifications popped up one after another, causing excitement to surge within him.
'I knew it… I knew my plan would work. Nurturing the Emerald Sword Grass was the right decision.'
The reason Ethan had chosen the Mystic Soil Turtle to nurture the Emerald Sword Grass was simple—he had been aiming for this very outcome.
He had expected the Special Skill awakened from it to somehow interact with the previously awakened Emerald Life Fruit skill.
And he was right.
So far, through his own experiences, Ethan had already learned that when someone possessed two similar bloodlines or talents, they had a high chance of merging.
It had personally happened to him before, more than once.
As for the skills, even though he had never directly witnessed two Special Skills fusing, he strongly believed that the system would treat them the same way.
And now, that guess was proven absolutely correct.
'Even if things didn't go as I hoped, I was confident that the Special Skill from the Emerald Sword Grass would be something amazing.'
It had been a gamble—but a well-calculated one—and the results had turned out to be more generous than he had imagined.
Not only had the two Special Skills successfully merged into a more powerful skill—Emerald Life Sword Fruit—but something even better had happened. The Mystic Soil Turtle's Fourth Skill Slot had once again become empty, ready to accept and awaken a new skill.
In other words, he could now plant and nurture another Rank 4 Spirit Plant, and awaken a new ability in that vacant slot.
'Let's check the details on the new merged Skill.'
With a face full of excitement, Ethan checked the details on Pebble's new Special Skill.
[Special Skill: Emerald Life Sword Fruit]
[Effect 1: Using the Spirit Essence and Metal Essence, the Mystic Soil Turtle can condense Five Emerald Life Sword Fruits, and each one can increase the lifespan of the consumer by Six Years, totalling 30 years]
[Cooldown: One Year]
[Note: A cultivator can only consume five Emerald Life Sword Fruits in their entire life. Consuming more fruits won't have any effects.]
[Effect 2: At the same time, the comprehension speed and the attack power of the Sword Techniques and Sword Skills will be 10 percent higher for each fruit consumed, and it can be stacked to 50 percent]
'T-this…these Emerald Life Sword Fruits ... .they increase the lifespan of the consumer by six years? Great.'
Reading the first effect of the Special Skill, Ethan was surprised for a moment, but thinking about it, he was not surprised.
The first time consumption of the Emerald Life Grass gives one year of Lifespan, whereas the Emerald Sword Grass gives five years of Lifespan.
Since [Emerald Life Sword Fruit] is a Special Skill that came from merging the Special Skills related to these two grasses, Ethan nodded his head in understanding.
Although he was not surprised, he was very excited and, without hesitation, Ethan asked his pet, "Pebble, condense the Emerald Life Sword Fruits."
After the merging, the previous Special Skill [Emerald Life Fruit] has disappeared, along with its cooldown.
Thus, Ethan asked the pet to condense the fruits from this new Special Skill.
'Tut..tut.'
However, the turtle didn't activate the Special Skill; instead, it asked for something from Ethan.
"Do you need something to activate the skill?"
Ethan asked the turtle with a frown, and the turtle nodded its head.
"Metal Essence?"
Ethan guessed it instantly, and seeing the turtle nod its head again, Ethan started providing the Metal Essence that the turtle required to activate its new skill: Emerald Life Sword Fruit.
The thing is, Spirit Essence can be absorbed from nature; however, Metal Essence…it is rare and isn't available everywhere.
So, Ethan supplied the turtle with the required amount of Metal Essence using his cultivation technique [Silver Vein Infusion].
'Looks like it doesn't require much Metal Essence.'
Ethan barely supplied the turtle with any Metal Essence before a tree started growing on the turtle's back.
'Swoosh'
In less than a minute, the tree reached a height of 10 meters and bore five greenish silver-coloured fruits.
'Tut…tut'
The turtle signalled Ethan to collect the fruits, and he carefully collected them into the Vital Bloom Storage Ring.
'With these five fruits, I can increase the Ancient Heartwood Tree's Lifespan by 30 years.'
Ethan clenched his fists in excitement; however, he was not in a hurry as he still had a few more important things to do.
'Since they can be merged, I can now move on to the next step of my plan.'
That's right.
This had only been the beginning.
"Pebble, it's time to nurture the Emerald Water Life Grass and get another new Special Skill we can merge."
From the start, Ethan's true goal had been to let the Mystic Soil Turtle awaken all the Special Skills derived from the evolved forms of Emerald Life Grass, and eventually, merge them all into a single powerful skill.
That was his next step.
'Rawr!'
Understanding Ethan's plan instantly, Pebble let out an excited roar.
After all, what kind of Spirit Beast wouldn't be thrilled about acquiring incredibly useful or powerful Special Skills?
Chuckling softly, Ethan rubbed the turtle's large head and then gently placed an Emerald Water Life Grass Seed on its back, ready to begin the next phase of his plan.
'Time to harvest.'
After that, Ethan checked on the Mutated Emerald Life Grass…no, they are now Emerald Sword Grass, and with a face full of excitement, Ethan harvested them all.
[Harvest successful]
[The host has received 9000 Perfect Quality Emerald Sword Grass]
'Time to plant the next batch.'
Ethan didn't waste any time as he chose a new location for the Spirit Domain and quickly planted a new batch of 3000 Mutated Emerald Life Grass Seeds before nurturing them along with the one on Pebble's shell.
'After 10 days, there will once again be a change in the Special Skill.'
Thinking about his next harvest, Ethan was excited about what kind of changes Pebble's Special Skill would undergo.
'I wonder whether it can be merged into a Heavenly Skill? No…I don't think it will become a Heavenly Skill…at least from the Special Skill awakened from the Emerald Water Life Grass, it can't.'
Ethan instantly rejected the thought that after the next merge, the Special Skill would turn into a Heavenly Skill.
'However, I am sure that, if the Special Skill awakened from the Emerald Lightning Life Grass merges with Pebble's twice-merged Special Skill, I am sure it will become a Heavenly Skill.'
Ethan's determination to evolve the Emerald Life Grass into Emerald Lightning Life Grass has greatly increased, as his final goal was to help Pebble gain a Heavenly Skill.
'Anyway, it is time to increase the Ancient Heartwood Tree's Lifespan again, and this time, it will cross the 200-year mark.'