Grave looked at the 1000 s of snake eggs piled up on the side of the base ground. For the past week, he did so much research to have a method to dump all these eggs but there was just no optimal way.
After failing to find the dumping method he changed his focus. The second part of the experiment involved the mutation path and Creation path.
In his plan, first, he needed to find a way to attach 1000 s of eggs to the growing tree. That method involved a very simple mutation. Then he needed to end the second step by initiating the creation path that would kill the tree.
With that in mind, he devised a way that would work. He started with 100 eggs and then spread them at the bottom of the base. Doing that, he walked to the pile of soil and then started dumping it in the base such that it covered all the eggs at the bottom.
For one layer of eggs, he covered them with 2 ft loose soil. After that, he placed another 100 eggs on the new bottom and then covered it with another 2 ft of loose soil. He repeated this step 10 times in the next hour.
After one hr of hard work, the base hole 20 ft deep and 500 sq meter wide got completely filled up, leaving behind no traces. He moved up and stared down at the island for the last inspection.
At the center of the island, there was the base square with the texture of soil just different from the surrounding land. The loose soil gave the land the same look as when a farmer rowed their land with a tractor to lose the soil.
The square land had 2 long channels connected to it. One of the canals had a 2ft width while the other had a 1 ft.
The smaller canal led to the other side of the island where a large circular pit with a little dark purple liquid was present in it.
The bigger canal, on the other hand, moved out toward the ocean, but he left both of the canals un-dug at the final stage. There was just a large lump of soil that needed to be dug to make the canal start serving its purpose.
Yunyun was still transferring the purple poison little by little in the pit. He moved his focus to the other side of the base. Now there was just a little pile of soil left there that he labeled to form a platform a meter or 2 above the base level. That platform would sever a perfect observatory for 3rd step.
'mmm, I should give this island a proper name.' He did not want to use the experiment island as the name, this island might change his life so with a big hope in his head he entered the god mode and name the island.
! DING
[You successfully named an island, 'LIFE ISLAND.' From now on, all the creatures in the space village would call this the place the land of life.]
He smiled at the name, this name denote his hope as well as the world tree he was using in the experiment also associated with life.
After naming the island, Grave looked around at the small island surrounding Life Island. Most of them were still barren black, but few of them had huge layers of flowers on them.
"Wow, she has a talent for gardening." He just got mesmerized to see how beautiful the 3 islands looked.
Those three islands even looked far greater than that life garden built by fairies in Liberty World. 'I should use her talent in a dungeon building,' he wondered to himself.
'Let's not waste time,' thinking that he moved back to the life island toward the base square.
He picked up the sapling from the ground and carefully pulled the sapling out from the pot. Just with a little strength, the pot fell down and in his hand, the sapling with white divine soil around the roots left.
He found that not a paltry amount of white soil fell as the thick root of the sapling had so many roots that it left no space for white soil to loosen up and fall.
With the sapling in his hand, Grave walked to the center of the base and then dug a little hole, and plant the sapling there. After doing that, he sat beside the sapling and started waiting for the growth phase to start.
While waiting, he remembered the new phase of research he did last week. With no breakthrough in egg dumping method, he started researching if could control the direction of plant growth.
He found a very interesting experiment on the internet where a guy showed how to make plants grow in your desired shape. It was a very absurd thing, the first time he read that thing it changed his perspective of plants, in his mind plants grew in a single direction that was up to the sky, but in that experiment, he found that plants grew in the direction of the sun, not the sky.
He thought it the same but then the experimenter show the difference by growing a plant in a small pile, where he placed the little plant in the middle of the pipe and then placed the pipe such that one end of the pipe would get sunlight while another end would be in dark.
The experiment started, and in a few days, the small plant grew toward the side with sunlight. In that experiment, to prove that it was not just 50 /50 probability the experimenter performed this experiment again and again with many plant types, but all of them every single time grew toward the sunlight.
The experiment was really fascinating for him, but that was not the end of it. The experimenter then explained in detail that you could even control the growth of the roots by providing a rich nutrient to a certain part of the soil.
That thing just clicked with him, and Grave instantly formed a plan to use that property to connect the roots of the plant to the eggs.
In the second stage, the biggest problem was the moment he would start the Creation path. He would not have time to place 1000 s of the snake essence in that compact time frame. To deal with that, he needed to create a prior connection between the tree and all 1000 s eggs.
Grave patiently waited to see if the thing would work or if all his preparation would go down the drain.
During this time, Yunyun also finished the poison transfer, and she came next to him and sat down to wait. He could see some nervousness on her face. Even his hands were getting cold with each passing minute. He had invested too much in this thing that he did not dare to imagine something going wrong with the experiment.
After 30 minutes of waiting, suddenly there was a movement on the sapling. Not even a second passed he extended his mana zone in the soil.
Above the ground, there was no change in the sapling, but it was completely different down the ground. With his mana zone, he sensed the thin green threads extending out from the sapling.
Their target was many small blobs of blue mana. The green thread continued to spread wide around the loose soil on the base and a few of the small threads attached to the blob of blue mana.
Grave stared down and combined the god power with the mana zone. He saw the many small roots that had come out of the sapling and all of them had covered the base.
The target of these roots was the eggs present on the ground. The soft snake egg was the only source of water around the sapling. As he predicted, just in a few mins, all hundred eggs in the first layer had thin roots around them.
The moment roots reached the eggs, the pointed edge of a root easily pierced the soft but thick egg shells.
The sapling started to suck mana and water out of the eggs. At this moment, all the eggs in the first layer died, but that was not the end of it. After a few minutes, the absorption from the eggs stopped.
The eggs still had mana in them, but the roots stopped absorbing.
Then he found some new thin roots that grew from the sapling and it spread to the second layers of eggs, same process was repeated but the same as earlier roots stooped, absorbing after some time and new roots formed that moved to the 3rd layer.
"haha, it worked." Grave started laughing. The theory work perfectly and now he had roots left behind that connected to eggs.
From his studies, he knew that after some time the liquid left in the egg was very dense gene fluid. These genes fluids were so thick that thin roots could not absorb them.
This left sapling with 2 choices, either it work to increase the thickness of the roots but that would consume so many nutrients and the other choice was to create many other thin roots toward the other sources present in the second layer.
In the second method, energy consumption would be far low, and as he expected sapling chose to go with the 2nd way.
By using this simple method, he had successfully created a path between the snake genes and the plant. Now he just needed to wait for the connection to reach the 10th layer and then just connect the bigger canal with the ocean. This would provide an easier source of water that the sapling would greedily absorb till it grew to become a massive tree in a day or 2 or two before it would be ready to burst into the mystic forest.
The connection of the root with the egg would not grow for a few days, leaving him enough time to move to the next stage.
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