Chapter 237 New Discovery
"Strange? Why is it strange? Miss Dixia, please tell me in detail - No, I'll just go and take a look."
Harold frowned, then quickly walked towards the cultivation room where Xiao Shiba was held.
Xiao Shiba is a unique experimental subject. He has not yet succeeded in cultivating a deceptive flower with three elemental powers using Xiao Shiba as the father. There must not be any mistakes.
Dishia followed up: "I feel like it's grown taller, and has sprouted... uh, new branches? That shouldn't be a bad thing, right?"
Hearing this, Harold paused.
There is little individual difference among the Liar Flowers, and each one conscientiously abides by the regulations of their species: one receptacle, three petals, four sepals... So far, there have been no exceptions in his experimental subjects.
Little Eighteen actually grew new branches? Rather than a sudden mutation, Harold was more inclined to believe that Little Eighteen began to evolve because he absorbed enough elemental power.
This situation was indeed beyond his expectations, but it was reasonable, as previous scholars had made relevant speculations.
If we can come up with evidence to prove this conjecture, it will fill in a piece of the puzzle of the theory of elemental biological evolution, and it will be another S-level paper. Harold sighed in his heart.
Dixia whispered behind Harold: "It shouldn't matter, right? I read in a book that as long as it is trimmed in time, it won't affect the appearance.
Maybe if you plant the cut branches in the ground, they can grow new lily flowers. Well, isn't that the case with Liyue's glass lilies?"
"...Prune in time? Miss Dixia, the book you are reading should be a gardening book," Harold said helplessly.
"And the cut branches can't grow into new Liarflowers. I've confirmed this before exploring the propagation methods of Liarflowers."
He paused, and then said, "As for Little Eighteen... I think it may be evolving in the direction of the Lightning Tree."
"...Is that so." Dixia blurted out, and then she reacted and opened her eyes slightly, and her mouth opened into an O shape.
"Ah? The lightning tree is transformed from the trickster flower? Can the trickster flower grow that big?"
As they were talking, the two of them had already arrived in front of Xiao Shiba's cultivation room. Harold opened the door and said:
"According to previous scholars, not only the Lightning Tree... the Flame Tree, the Frost Tree, these ancient wood-shaped elemental creatures also evolved from the Deception Flower. Hmm... the three ancient wood-shaped elemental creatures correspond to the three types of Deception Flowers, right?
But I guess not all lilies can transform into ancient wood-shaped elemental creatures. The necessary conditions for evolution are very harsh, and most lilies cannot take that step.
Even due to factors such as the environment, earth vein elemental power, attribute interference, etc., it is not impossible for the flowers to undergo incomplete evolution or compound evolution...
To put it more vividly, before Rollermon evolves into Machinedramon, it will first evolve into Agumon, and if the evolutionary conditions are wrong, it may also evolve into Zombiedramon.
It’s a pity that Dixia couldn’t understand this, Harold thought with regret.
Dixia nodded subconsciously, and actually sorted out the information in her mind by memory, and finally understood what Harold wanted to express.
"I remember that the scholar who made the hypothesis about the possible evolution of the Liarflower also proposed that in order for the Liarflower to evolve, it must absorb a large amount of elemental power of the same attribute at the same time.
Miss Dixia, let me confirm that you didn't let Xiao Shiba come into contact with a large amount of lightning elements, right?" Harold looked at Dixia.
Dixia: “Of course not!”
Harold: "Food?"
"No big changes, but it wasn't very active a few days ago. I thought it was a side effect of taking too much pollen, so I didn't pay much attention to it..."
Dixia recalled Xiao Shiba's performance and said with some self-blame,
"After all, we haven't collected pollen from the same male lily at such a high frequency before."
"It could also be a partial evolution. For example, in order to reduce the burden, a receptacle is grown, or simply because the reproductive organs are overdeveloped and become stronger..." Harold said as he walked to Xiao Shiba's cage.
Hearing the footsteps of the two people, Xiao Shiba had already squatted in front of the cage. When the two people entered the door, it shook its leaves to express its welcome.
Harold noticed that it had indeed grown a little taller, with new branches growing under the receptacle and on both sides, but they were not even as long as his thumb and could not be noticed without careful observation.
"Pay attention to that position. It may grow into two lightning organs of the Lightning Tree in the future. Those are the two with petals that can be flexibly twisted.
But whether it is a flower or not remains to be studied. When Xiao Shiba stops growing, we can cut that part open and have a look...
Come to think of it, adventurers call the spheres of elemental power produced by the lightning tree "stamens" - using their current names, they are the Yingji Stamens and the Xuji Stamens.
Hmm... the two reproductive organs correspond to the two poles of the electrode, which makes sense, but I think the reproductive organs are unlikely to be in the elemental ball it produces, but more likely in the two flowers on its vines and the flower on its head. "
Harold rubbed his hands and looked at Xiao Shiba with more and more eager eyes.
"I haven't seen you smile so happily in a long time..." Dixia muttered softly.
Harold's smile froze, and just as he was about to retort, he heard a hurried shout from outside the door:
"Teacher! Teacher! I finally waited for you to come back!"
"Radu, this way!" Harold said casually.
"He seems to be researching some new medicine recently. I heard that the main ingredient is the 'Heart of Jiarang' that he developed," Dixia scratched her head in confusion.
"Your students invited me to visit them. As soon as the three of them entered the dormitory, they began to draw some runes that I didn't recognize. They also said that it was you who inspired them."
"No, they thought of it themselves," said Harold, smiling.
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a hurried knock on the door.
Harold: "Come in."
After receiving this reply, a young scholar wearing green scholar's uniform and with silver hair and silver eyebrows opened the door and walked in.
He had obvious dark circles under his eyes and his lips were pale, but his face was excited.
Seeing Harold, he was even more excited. He took three steps forward, facing Harold, and said anxiously:
"Teacher, I have developed a new potion. Please allow me to use your trick flower experiment!"