He couldn't sleep tonight either. He had been lying down all day and didn't feel sleepy at all.
When he saw the two words "round wheat", he thought of his own fields. Even if it wasn't for the system, he would have to keep an eye on his own fields every day. He didn't check them today, and he always felt like something was missing.
Now he wanted to go and see it.
The big tree where Lin Qinghen is now is not so simple. There is a small formation here.
He skillfully found a small hole on the tree trunk and injected a little of his spiritual power into it. Soon, a hole appeared on the tree trunk that was big enough for one person to enter.
After entering, there are two acres of land.
This place was found by Yu Yinyin for Lin Qinghen. This tree is near where she lives. He spent a long time to get it for his own research.
His master looked cold, but in fact, if he knew her better, he would know that she was tough on the outside but soft on the inside, and would almost always grant Lin Qinghen's requests.
He hung luminous minerals around his two acres of land, and with the help of the lamp in Lin Qinghen's hand, he could see clearly even after dark.
Under the white light emitted by the ore, the round wheat fields he planted swayed gently in the wind.
Under his feet was his own field, in his ears was the subtle sound of crops swaying, and there was a faint fragrance from the round wheat field. It was not until this moment that Lin Qinghen's heart, which had been shocked by the sudden change of the system, finally calmed down completely.
He felt an indescribable sense of groundedness in his heart.
The two acres of land were carefully divided into blocks. A closer look revealed that although all the fields were planted with round wheat, each block was different, some were high, some were low, some were thick, some were thin, and the fruits they produced were also different. A wooden sign was inserted in the upper right corner of each field with the number he wrote on it for distinguishing them.
These are all the results of Lin Qinghen’s research in recent years.
He initially used crossbreeding to try to create a better variety.
There are different varieties of wild round wheat in this world. Lin Qinghen has studied the records in books and collected round wheat seeds grown in other regions from various channels.
Yu Yinyin also helped him in this regard, because it is a very common crop and the world's transportation capacity is also good, so it is not difficult.
There are no modern precision instruments and mature research tools here, probably because nature has given so much and in an environment where force is respected, few people would take the trouble to improve this basic crop. Lin Qinghen figured it out bit by bit based on a small amount of records and his own experience.
The existence of spiritual power is very meaningful. Lin Qinghen described it as if he had a resonance with the plants. He no longer had those tools, but he could find substitutes and even use himself as a research tool.
Lin Qinghen's spiritual power is not high, so he can only take an unconventional approach. The research process over the years is actually his unique practice process.
Unlike others who can improve their spiritual power level, he can refine his limited spiritual energy again and again, until he can feel the slightest things about plants, and then do planting experiments after research.
He is very familiar with the process of hybridizing different wild round wheat varieties through complex or polymerized hybridization, and then repeatedly screening and fully recombining to select excellent individuals, preserve the excellent genes between different varieties, and then form replicable and popularizable excellent comprehensive varieties. He is very familiar with the process and can do it with ease.
Thanks to previous experience and after discovering that some theories would also work in this world, Lin Qinghen relied on hybridization to achieve high yields and improved taste of round wheat a long time ago.
But he also knew that in this world, these two items were just for him to practice, and they were of little significance in the spiritual world.
The most useful and interesting thing about Yuanmai is of course the alienation rate.
Soon, he reached the last small field.
He named this field Qing No. 28, which is the result of his latest research.
When Lin Qinghen was studying the alienation rate, he no longer used the hybridization method. He started based on the theory of "genetic modification" from his previous life.
There are many plants in the world that can alienate and have a high alienation rate, but unlike round wheat, their value will double once they are alienated. However, this gene is useful and can be "taken out" during the research process.
It is not easy to achieve this process in this place. Lin Qinghen has tried many times, using subtle spiritual power as a means to replace the previous forms of artificial intervention such as gene gun bombardment or Agrobacterium-borne diseases, with the aim of introducing exogenous genes with high alienation rates into round wheat.
Because the spiritual world has countless special substances called "spiritual energy" that are not there, the so-called genes of the spiritual plants here are also different from those in the previous life. Lin Qinghen also tried little by little for many years before he found the right way and the method.
God rewards hard work, and he has indeed made remarkable progress.
The alienation rate of the last variety experiment reached about 8%, which is close to the completion line of the system task. The Qing 28 in front of him is the latest experiment, and this area of experimental crops combines his previous research results, with several genetic improvement directions such as high yield and increased alienation rate.
He had just planted this batch of seeds yesterday and they were still in the seedling stage. Lin Qinghen even specially built a small shed for them.
Generally speaking, round wheat will begin to mutate when it is halfway through its growth period. In order to achieve better efficiency in selecting the best from the best, Lin Qinghen's group of improvements even includes pushing the mutation time period forward - when the wheat seedlings grow to the height of a palm during seedling cultivation, they will begin to mutate.
Since Lin Qinghen traveled through time, he has lived up to the knowledge he gained in his previous life. His spiritual power is low and he cannot touch high-level spiritual plants. He has been concentrating on studying round wheat.
So, more than ten years later, he had really transformed one of the most common crops in the spiritual world into something useful.
The batch he planted last night has sprouted, forming rows of tender green sprouts.
If nothing unexpected happens, he will know with his own eyes tonight whether this batch is successful or not.
In order to test the alienation rate, Lin Qinghen would plant one hundred plants in each batch. If the alienation rate reached 10%, then he would just have to wait for them to grow up and he would be able to complete the system's task at the same time.
"This system task... seems to know me quite well."
This may be what they mean by "it is better to arrive at the right time than to arrive early".
Lin Qinghen muttered to himself, and then he looked at the grass pattern on his wrist. Thinking about this, he suddenly felt a little competitive.
He didn't plan to go back to sleep today. He wasn't sleepy anyway, so he dragged a small stool over and planned to take a closer look at the growth status of this batch.
I should be able to achieve this 10% alienation rate, right
The wind brought the faint fragrance of round wheat. Lin Qinghen had watched it before, but watching it again tonight, he still found it magical.
He stayed up all night with a light on, watching the small sprouts of round wheat he planted gradually stretch their bodies. By late at night, several of the plants had obviously changed and a few shades of red appeared.
The alienation of the round wheat starts from the roots, and begins to change little by little, seeping upwards bit by bit. If you listen carefully, you can hear a subtle "pop" sound, as if a person is stretching his muscles and bones, just like transforming.
The time it takes for each mutation to occur is different, some faster and some slower. Lin Qinghen stared at them, unable to sleep at all, and silently began to count the few red spots in his mind.
One, two, three, four, five…
It won't be worse than last time, Lin Qinghen thought. Even though he felt a little confident, he was still waiting one by one at this moment. When he counted to the tenth plant, he let out a long sigh on the spot.
It really worked!
He stood up from the small stool and jumped three times to express his joy that could not be described in words. Then he quickly rushed forward and checked the condition of the mutated round wheat from a professional perspective.
As far as the spiritual energy concentration of these seedlings is concerned, it is higher than those in the Lin family plantation. The quality is good and meets his expected requirements.
Moreover, during the time he was checking, the changes in the nursery field had not stopped.
At dawn, he counted three times and found that there were thirteen round wheat plants that had completed the mutation, which was higher than the system requirement.
Lin Qinghen's harvest mentality of an old farmer had not yet dissipated. After he checked each plant one by one, the excitement in his heart could not be dissipated. He stood there thinking for a while, then turned around and ran towards Yu Yinyin's residence.
His requirements for this batch of round wheat were met, but he still had a lot to confirm about the system.
Today was destined to be a good day, so he didn't plan to wait any longer and just do it all in one go.
Lin Qinghen plans to complete this task today.
He needed to harvest these dozen or so alienated round wheat plants as soon as possible so that he could find out what kind of reward this so-called system would give him.
The Alchemist System... will it be the same as he thought
When Yu Yinyin just woke up when he rushed in, he saw Lin Qinghen running to the side room where things were kept.
After a while, Yu Yinyin saw him holding the bottle and preparing to go out, and he seemed to be running towards the fields again.
She knew at first glance that the bottle was used to store low-level ripening spiritual water. The thing was not very valuable, so he could use it at will.
Just looking at his straight eyes, I know he has no idea what he is planting. He is so focused that he doesn't eat. I guess he didn't sleep all night last night.
He learns things very quickly and is very focused. In some ways, he is even better than his teacher. Yu Yinyin has not been able to teach him anything in recent years, except to occasionally answer some questions.
She didn't often go to see Lin Qinghen's two acres of land. After all, it was just round wheat, a child tinkering with it and planting it for fun. To put it bluntly, it was just a low-star spiritual plant with no value. What could be produced no matter how much they planted it
But this time, before Lin Qinghen hurried out, he seemed to have thought of something and suddenly turned back.
"Master," he asked Yu Yinyin. His voice was still a little hoarse after not sleeping all night, "Do you have any medicine base here? The most ordinary one will be fine."
The medicine base is the universal base material used by alchemists when refining low-level yellow-grade elixirs and spiritual medicines. It is a thick substance that is simply prepared by grinding the spirit crystals.
Its main function is to serve as the spiritual energy base for low-level elixirs. It is also an auxiliary tool that can make the elixir materials more condensed and help maximize the effectiveness of the spiritual plants used as medicine.
It is only used when refining yellow-grade elixirs, and refining elixirs above the black grade generally requires more than three kinds of raw materials. The spiritual energy of the raw materials themselves is enough. The black-grade pharmacists are also more capable, so naturally they don't need to use the medicinal base as an auxiliary.
Although this is something only alchemists would use, Yu Yinyin was a little confused at this moment as to why Lin Qinghen would ask this. However, this kid always had some strange ideas.
She answered, "It's on the rightmost shelf, in the middle of the third shelf. Go get it yourself."
The plantation supplies the Lin Family Medicine Store, so there is some connection, so it is normal to prepare some medicine bases. There is no need for Yu Yinyin to be stingy with such ordinary things as low-level medicine bases.
Lin Qinghen thanked him, ran to get it, then took the two bottles and left like the wind. I don’t know if he heard what was said afterwards.