1552 The Endless Possibilities of Crossbreeding!
"Since your knowledge about natural treasures and materials is already great, we will start with crossbreeding." Lady Sphinx inford.
Usually, one would need to learn about plants and such before going into complex details, but Felix's knowledge was already at its peak.
He had studied and morized all books handed to him by Lady Sphinx to assist with his potion-making.
Of course, those books were rely concentrated on natural treasures and their details, like grade, history, evolutionary tree, etc.
So, he was still quite ignorant about crossbreeding and other fields of botany.
Without wasting ti, she began her explanation, by selecting two particularly unique plants for their lesson.
"Now, let's use these two remarkable plants."
Lady Sphinx gestured to a tall, slender flower with glossy, silver petals, which she called the Lunar Silkflower, and a low-lying bush with fiery red blossoms, known as the Phoenix Firebloom.
"These two are both B-graded natural treasures in their own right," she explained. "But imagine if we could combine their qualities into a single plant."
"How is that possible?" Felix's interest was piqued.
He was always fascinated by the biology of natural treasures with all the readings he had done on them.
Obiviously, he was referring mostly to plant-based natural treasures.
In this universe, anything could beco a natural treasure as long as it held within it a decent amount of elental energy.
For example, if a strong creature died and his corpse wasn't decomposed, standing strong against the power of ti, it would start to absorb elental energy slowly corresponding to the corpse's highest elental affinity.
After centuries, millennials, or even millions of years, what remained of the corpse would be considered a natural treasure.
Its grade would be decided by the amount of elental energy it held within it and its unique effects.
However, since those treasures were related to previous existing creatures of the past, Felix wasn't planning to focus on them in his studies.
After all, there was no way to figure out the SSS flesh-based natural treasures' location with his current thod.
"Crossbreeding is the process of mating two different plants with desirable traits to create a new hybrid species. In this case, we aim to rge the Lunar Silkflower's hardiness and its ability to thrive in tough conditions with the Phoenix Firebloom's fire-resistant capabilities."
Lady Sphinx carefully plucked a blossom from the Phoenix Firebloom and gathered so of its pollen on a brush.
Moving to the Lunar Silkflower, she brushed the pollen onto the silver petals while explaining, "By pollinating the Lunar Silkflower with the Phoenix Firebloom's pollen, we encourage the Lunar Silkflower to inherit so of the Firebloom's traits."
"Since those two plants shared a similar environnt, their compatibility is decent and it will help with the birth of new plants with the desired traits."
"What if they weren't compatible?" Felix inquired.
"If two plants weren't compatible at all, it doesn't an that crossbreeding them will end up in failure, it just ans that the failure percentage will be in the higher ends." Lady Sphinx shared, "However if a miracle occurred and against all odds, the crossbreeding succeeded, the new plant would be stronger than both plants combined."
"That's because it will inherit the strengths of its parent plants and since their environnts were different, it will allow the new plant to survive tougher situations."
"In other words, the new plant will be given more ti to evolve, and enhance its genetic pool, which will increase its grade slowly over ti," Felix comnted with a look of intrigue.
"Exactly, ti and environntal hazards are the primary killers of natural treasures. However, if they survive and evolve, it's almost a guarantee to turn into a high-graded treasure." Lady Sphinx nodded.
"No wonder it's impossible to cultivate S-graded and above natural treasures even if the right environnt was given."
Felix knew that there were many botanists in the alliance working on cultivating natural treasures either for research purposes or for sale...None of them had yet to cultivate an S-graded natural treasure in the real world.
That's because for their evolution to happen, they require specific extrely harsh conditions plus a very, very long period.
No one would want to invest trillions of coins in such a project when even the end rewards might not co after thousands of years of struggle.
So, almost all botanists focus on cultivating A-graded natural treasures and below...Even those natural treasures weren't easy to get.
"Ti is the biggest wall any botanist faces. Even I have managed to cultivate only four SS natural treasures, and one SSS natural treasure after countless trials and errors." Lady Sphinx shared.
"That's already too impressive." Felix raised an eyebrow in surprise.
Lady Sphinx didn't have any ti manipulation abilities, so she had to wait for god knows how many years for each natural treasure to reach its peak evolution.
Such godly patience and resolve only true researchers possessed!
"With illusion domain, it will be a million tis easier to run controlled simulations...For example," Lady Sphinx requested while pointing at the silkflower, "Speed up the ti by a hundred and increase the richness of fire elental energy around it."
Felix did as he was told and created a small invisible bubble around the flower filled with fire elental energy...Then, he sped the ti specifically inside the bubble.
With the ti sped up by a hundred, Felix and the rest were able to watch with anticipation as the seeds began to sprout and grow at an astonishing rate.
Within monts, the slender shoots burst forth from the earth, their petals a rich, silvery green.
As they stretched toward the sky, the buds at their tips started to unfurl, revealing a new breed of flowers.
They bore the sa fiery hue as the Phoenix Firebloom's blossoms but retained the unique shimr of the Lunar Silkflower's petals!
Felix couldn't help but smile as he witnessed the birth of this extraordinary creation.
"Lunar Firebloom, high-quality B-graded natural treasure. If consud raw, it gives the user a decent 1% to 3% fire affinity rating with a few stomach-related side effects. But the majority of people use it as the main ingredient to concoct rank three FireShell Potion." He shared, "It gives the user a temporary seven days peak resistance to fire, making it high in demand for anyone desiring to explore hot areas."
Lady Sphinx nodded. "It's a crossbreed that incorporates the best of both parent plants. It possesses the Lunar Silkflower's resilience and adaptability, while the fiery blossoms enhanced its absorption of fire elental energy and heat resistance."
"Even though the grade remained the sa, the treasure's quality and effects make it extrely desirable compared to its parents." Felix smiled, "Crossbreeding is truly a universe with endless possibilities."
"I have been giving books related to natural treasures and their details." Lady Sphinx manifested a mountain of books next to Felix and said, "Those are specific for crossbreeding, batonic genetics understanding, biochemistry, and more. Use your clones to read them and when you are done, we can start straightaway with crossbreeding so new variations."
"I understand," Felix replied while staring at the mountain of books. If they were organized into a library, it would fill up at least a hundred shelves!
Felix knew that even with his clones' assistance and wisdom eye, it would take him a week or less to integrate and condense such a heavy load of information in his brain.
Lady Sphinx wasn't going to let the week go to waste.
"For now, let's return to potion-making." Lady Sphinx said, "It's ti you mastered so rank-six potions."
"I am more than ready," Felix replied with a hint of excitent as he had been waiting for this day for a long ti now.
Who could bla him? Potions capable of affecting primogenitors were similar in rank to high-quality divine equipnt!
In other words, Felix could use them in his battles!
"Let's start with God's Pillar Potion." Lady Sphinx uttered with a faint smile.
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