The way to find a temporary mentor is actually quite simple.
"Are there any high-end gardeners in the city?"
He just spent some money and casually asked for some local public information.
"Yes, there is a sixth-level gardener who is the prophet of the local 'Grey Web Sect'."
Another advantage of the gathering of female forest forces here is that there are really many life-related professions, especially various gardeners. These logistics professions are often used to living in safe cities, and they often have products for sale, so they are not difficult to find.
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"Forget about hoping to save face, just spend the money."
However, the various branch churches that were already scattered in the world have developed on their own for nearly ten years in another world. Not to mention warlords and so on, they do not believe in the same god. They did not fight because they had cooperation from above.
relation.
"I am Lu Ping'an, a fifth-level gardener. I am trying to reach the sixth-level realm. If possible, I need some guidance. I can exchange it with money, seeds of rare magic plants, and forbidden knowledge."
At the point where Lu Ping An is now pursuing something further, there is no need to "apprentice" or "dedicate to others". Direct exchange is the most cost-effective way.
"A safe road? A safe road for the 'Lampmaker'?"
Hearing this, Lu Ping'an was stunned. When did he get this title?
"Oh, your 'Denghua' is our best-selling magic plant. There are at least hundreds of variations in various versions."
It turns out that those flame flowers that Lu Ping An left behind have become more and more important with the development of the times.
It seems that those holy fire factors have not been spread. On the contrary, as the number of reproduction and mutation increases, the sun fire that lacks the "holy fire source (chapel)" has lost the characteristics of mass-produced purifying holy fire.
This is a very normal "degeneration", but if the intensity is changed, it also means that its energy level is greatly reduced and it can be easily mass-produced.
What it retains is more of the magic plant life module that "turns life energy into flames".
"Stoves for living, street lamps for lighting, they even developed cold light lamps for the deep sea. You may not even think of how many variations there are that use your original template."
The circle of researchers like Gardener is very special. If you have academic achievements, you will naturally gain fame.
And since the research results of many people need to be "exchanged", "grafting and transformation" is the basic ability of gardeners, and many high-level magic plants are "evolved species" of low-level magic plants. No one will ever think that low-level gardeners are not
Importantly, many amazing magic plant samples and genetic modules were found by low-level gardeners, and because of their wide range of applications, they are even more famous.
Lu Pingan was valued by Professor Wen back then because of his ability to produce products frequently. As a result, he went astray and did not put much effort and time into his own work.
Of course, he has a lot of research results, but most of them are the results of various assemblies and random outputs, which are always at a subtle level of "has the results been produced? Yes, but it is always a little bit behind."
But it was unintentional. In this ocean world, a "living fire" that only needs water, soil, and some metabolites to feed is too easy to use. When Lu Ping'an came up with the most difficult to overcome "bioenergy to heat energy"
"After establishing a stable template, other people will naturally play freely on it.
Therefore, Lu Ping'an, a "low-level" gardener, has his own "academic nickname".
"Lampmaker, it's really subtle."
Lu Ping'an touched his chin. He also knew that the gardener actually looked down on "craftsmen" a bit. There was still something wrong with the "craftsman" in this title. It felt a bit like saying "You are at the level of a craftsman."
But for his level, it is already good to be famous. In the subsequent "transactions" and "communications", he can make a lot of money.
At least, when dealing with those big gardeners who have a higher eye than the top, they will regard you as a similar person who can bargain with you, rather than a taken advantage of you who is sent to your door to be slaughtered at will.
"I'm just one level higher than you and one step ahead. Considering that you are so young, you should be able to surpass me soon. But as a local, I can trade some newly produced magic plant seeds with you. Ha, it seems that because of you
Being too outstanding has caused you to miss some lessons. If you don’t mind it, here are some trivial and interesting conversations that I have accumulated over time.”
The sixth-level gardener, who is in his thirties, has a lot of emotional intelligence. At least he knows how to take care of the feelings of a "young man" like Lu Ping'an.
After the actual exchange, some of Lu Ping'an's doubts were also answered.
"Sure enough, is there any spiritual power that can be released from the perception of life?"
This is the first professional ability and skill that Lu Ping'an learned. The former is a compulsory ability in the life system and the most basic use of "life energy". You must first perceive its existence before you can control it and harness it.
The latter is a compulsory skill, which allows the mental power to be released to interfere with reality. Lu Ping'an's various "marking system" abilities are all based on the external release of mental power.
This is the prerequisite for communication between gardeners and magic plants, and a lot of gardeners' professional abilities are predicated on it.
"If you want to catch up on the lesson of 'connecting with nature', you must at least open your heart and connect your heart and soul with nature."
This is obviously something Lu Ping An cannot do.
He is breathing, linking, and turning other lives into a part of himself. It seems that from the beginning, he has not followed the path of a normal gardener.
But, he is a parasitic tree
"Is that so?"
The vines on his body penetrated into the earth, and the boy sat under the big tree, trying for the first time to make the magic vines draw nutrients from the earth instead of from himself.
"Uh, it smells like earth."
But it seemed that he had gained nothing except digging out a pile of soil.
"You have to get used to it. You have to use your limbs and mental power to try to assimilate with the surrounding earth, veins, and water sources. Generally speaking, we can make indirect connections through magic plants, but since you are a parasitic tree."
Looking at the magic vines on Lu Ping'an's body, the gardener named "Gray Taboo" also sighed.
It is quite rare for a colleague to become such a ruthless person so early.
"You are already semi-vegetative. You can save a lot of lessons, but you still have to habitually insert your mental power and vines into the earth to continuously spread your 'existence'."
This makes Lu Ping'an feel helpless again. His "breathing of all things" is to connect everything, but in fact it is also "eating" everything.
He vaguely realized that he might not be able to learn the traditional gardening path.
"We humans are carbon-based organisms and animals. In a sense, we are residents of the natural environment, but we are also parasites and consumers. In most cases, plants are part of the natural environment and they themselves are part of nature.
Therefore, their score in the 'world' is much higher than ours."
What this senior taught Lu Pingan was also mentioned by the big guys in the southern islands, but they were basically passed by.
"Every gardener has his or her own way of connecting with nature, either through some kind of magic plant or some kind of witchcraft ritual. That is often their strongest part, but also their most vulnerable part."
This may be the reason why the masters did not mention it repeatedly. This is the biggest secret and weakness of every gardener. If the connection between high-level gardeners and "nature" is directly cut off, they will naturally fall into the altar.
The link is natural, but it is still the first step.
"Stronger gardeners will try to build their own environment, or take their own environment with them. They don't need to build their own 'natural domain', because they are often nature itself."
This is what Lu Ping'an heard the most among the previous masters' teachings.
He thought he understood it at the time and was mainly thinking about how to "construct" his own position. Looking back now, he probably really didn't understand it.
"I, the magic plant, the surrounding nature, the world"
Bit by bit, as the mental power is released, Lu Ping'an's will is gradually understood like sugar melted into water.
He somewhat understood why Liu Lao would completely abandon the body. At their level, the body is really not important anymore, the spirit and soul are the essence, and the mystery and method of using "consciousness" to interfere with nature is the "Gardener's"
Nature.
Understand nature, integrate into nature, become nature or go further.
"Become, the world"
But at this moment, Lu Ping'an frowned. He knew that his path might not fit this traditional path.