"This place is a bit different from the forest before!"
Ender flew between the trees, his Spiritual Force scanning the surroundings, discovering that this forest was somewhat quiet.
After flying for another ten seconds, he stopped, because his Spiritual Force scanned an unusual plant ahead!
That plant was about ten meters tall, bright red, and somewhat resembled a cabbage, with several leaves wrapped around it, but the edges of the leaves had sharp serrations.
If only looking at its appearance, this plant was not strange on this trial planet; even more peculiar plants existed.
The truly strange thing was that the plant was subtly wriggling, as if alive.
Ender flew a bit further, and with a thought, his Heavy Defense Disk reassembled into a circular blade disk, spinning as it cut towards the plant!
Swish!
Suddenly, the plant moved, its outermost leaf whipping out fiercely and striking towards the circular blade disk at an extremely fast speed!
Thwack!
The circular blade disk was struck, and the plant's leaf whipped, using immense force to send the circular blade disk flying.
Bright red sap splattered as the circular blade disk flew, leaving a long gash on the bright red leaf, with a large amount of bright red sap flowing out, like fresh blood.
As its outermost leaf was damaged, the plant twisted frantically, all its leaves dancing wildly, cutting the surrounding trees into fragments.
Originally, the center of this plant was a stem, with seven leaves growing on it, each over ten meters long; it had resembled a cabbage earlier because the long leaves were wrapped around the stem.
"What exactly is this?"
Ender was puzzled; he had never seen such a strange plant, as if it had life.
"Wait… life!"
Suddenly, he had a guess, "Could this be a plant lifeform?!"
He used his communicator to scan the plant, and after a moment, the communicator gave a reply: "Plant lifeform, Toothed Grass."
...
Outside the trial planet.
Inside a D-class spaceship, a Universe Level Instructor looked at the light screen in front of him, "Plant lifeform Toothed Grass, one of the most common types of plant lifeforms. A seedling sells for hundreds of millions of molten rock coins."
He shook his head and said, "It's a pity this Toothed Grass grew to Stellar Rank in the wild. Its growth is too poor, so its value has plummeted. Now, ten billion molten rock coins would be considered high."
For plant lifeforms, every advancement is very important, especially when breaking through a Realm. If precious treasures are fed to the plant lifeform during a Breakthrough, the plant lifeform will gain a significant boost.
For example, if the Toothed Grass is cultivated with precious treasures when it breaks through from Apprentice-level to Planetary Level, then the Toothed Grass that breaks through to Planetary Level will have more leaves.
Unlike this Toothed Grass, which only has seven leaves at Stellar Rank third stage; its growth is too poor!
The characteristic of plant lifeforms is that they can be cultivated to grow. The seeds of a single plant lifeform are very cheap, mostly less than one-thousandth of the seedling price.
Because it is very difficult to cultivate a living seedling from a seed, seeds are cheap, and cultivated seedlings are expensive.
Another characteristic of plant lifeforms is that with a little careful cultivation, they can reach Universe Level, and once they acknowledge a master, they are extremely loyal to their master.
"A Toothed Grass worth ten billion molten rock coins might not be a small sum to other Universe Level individuals, but to me, it's dispensable. It's better to do a favor."
This Universe Level Instructor had served in the Stellar Training Camp for over ten thousand years and had already accumulated a considerable fortune, so he did not care about ten billion molten rock coins.
...
"It really is a plant lifeform!"
Looking at the reply from his communicator, Ender was a little excited, "If I can subdue this Toothed Grass, it would be a considerable help to me!"
But then, he hesitated, "I don't know how to subdue this Toothed Grass, and I also don't know if the Stellar Training Camp allows subduing Toothed Grass, after all, it's not exchanged with points."
Buzz!
A light screen popped up from Ender's communicator on his wrist, displaying a line of text: "Ender Royce, the plant lifeform in front of you is a Toothed Grass of Stellar Rank third stage."
"If you want to subdue it, you need to suppress its leaves, and then irrigate the core of its main stem with fresh blood."
Looking at the text on the light screen, Ender, though he had some guesses, still asked, "Who are you? Why are you telling me this?"
A new line of text appeared on the light screen, "You should be able to guess who I am."
Ender spoke the name of the Universe Level Instructor leading this mission, "Instructor Maldo!"
"Yes! I am Maldo."
"Thank you, Instructor Maldo, for telling me how to subdue the Toothed Grass." Ender thanked him.
"You plan to subdue the Toothed Grass?"
Ender nodded and replied, "That's right."
"I don't recommend you do that."
"Hmm!" Ender's eyes widened slightly, a big question mark appearing on his face, his heart filled with confusion. "What's going on?! This Instructor Maldo tells me how to subdue the Toothed Grass, then doesn't recommend I subdue the Toothed Grass. What kind of trick is this?"
Before he could ask, a long string of text appeared on the light screen: "You must be very confused, wondering why I don't recommend you subdue the Toothed Grass."
"If the plant lifeform you encountered was a Moyun Vine, even if its growth was poor, I would still recommend you subdue it, but you encountered a Toothed Grass, and one with very poor growth at that."
"Toothed Grass is a relatively common plant lifeform in the Universe, with many drawbacks, such as being difficult to move once planted, unable to shrink its size, and so on."
"Based on just these two drawbacks, even if you subdue the Toothed Grass, you won't be able to take it away without specialized equipment and personnel."
Looking at the text on the light screen, Ender couldn't help but complain in his heart, "I also wish I had encountered a Moyun Vine, that's the plant lifeform Luo Feng cultivated in the original work, but I encountered a Toothed Grass."
After complaining, he waited for Instructor Maldo to continue speaking, believing he hadn't finished.
New text continued to appear on the light screen, "My suggestion is, instead of subduing this Toothed Grass, you should report it to the Stellar Training Camp. At that time, the Stellar Training Camp will give you point rewards."
"Exchanging a useless plant lifeform for a large amount of points that can be used to exchange for resources, that is the wise approach."
Ender stared at the light screen, thought for a moment, then asked, "Instructor Maldo, I have a question. Since reporting it to the Stellar Training Camp can earn rewards, why don't you report it yourself? Instead, you tell me these things and let me report it?"
Facing Ender's question, no text immediately appeared on the light screen, as if Instructor Maldo on the other side was thinking.
After a while, two large Universe common language characters appeared on the light screen: "Investment."
Then, many words appeared on the light screen: "Because I am optimistic about your talent, you are highly likely to become a high-level official of the Molten Rock Empire in the future. Investing in you is beneficial to me and my Family with no harm!"
"It's investment again…"
Seeing these two words, Ender remembered Nanying, the Domain Master from the Sand Sea Stellar Cultivation Camp.