A drop of water of life fell, and the bright golden peach pit, which had been buried in the soil, instantly took root and sprouted, growing into a spirit peach tree half a meter tall.
The peach tree, apart from its overall small and delicate appearance, looked no different from a normal peach tree in other aspects. It was a tree with leaves. However, it stopped growing as soon as it was formed, and didn't even bloom. Therefore, Ding Yun naturally dripped another drop of water of life to allow the peach tree to continue growing.
This drop of water of life fell.
The peach tree indeed began to bloom and bear fruit.
The flowers were golden-threaded pink, with bright golden centers. After the flowers bloomed and withered, small, verdant peaches grew from small to large, reaching the size of eggs in a few moments. They were small spirit peaches with white bodies and golden tips.
Overall, they presented a jade-white appearance, but the tips of the peaches were golden, and there were some fine golden patterns below.
This was the appearance of ripe peaches.
The Golden Thread Dwarf Spirit-Patterned Peach was like this: not only was the spirit plant itself small, but the peaches it bore were also small. A peach tree bore a total of twenty-four fruits. Its main effects were nourishing the body, beautifying the complexion, and consolidating the foundation and strengthening the source.
The drawback was that the spirit root was stained with a trace of Geng metal energy and also had the effect of tempering the roots and bones. If, after consuming it, one did not have a cultivation method to assist in tempering the roots and bones, the Geng metal energy was likely to go out of control, and one would have to endure pain as if being cut by a thousand knives. The nourishing effects of the peach itself would also be greatly reduced because the body would need to repair the damage caused by the rampant Geng metal energy.
This meant that the peach was useful and a good thing, a fine spirit fruit, but without a suitable method of consumption, not only would one have to endure much pain, but the effects would also be greatly diminished.
"This Seed of All Things is truly magical. No wonder it can be considered a treasure for creation. I've seen spirit roots created instantly, but can things imagined out of thin air be created?
Perhaps I can try..."
Ding Yun did not rush to eat the peaches. Instead, she first sealed the peach tree with her mental power to prevent its aura from leaking. Then, based on her conjectures, she continued to create species, creating species that she imagined.
Soon, Ding Yun created several new species and deduced the general principles for creating species.
That is, it must be reasonable and logically sound.
For example, she created a Great Sun Golden Sunflower that could absorb the power of the earth and the power of the sun, and whose resulting melon seeds contained a trace of solar essence gold.
If any characteristic of this spirit root was modified, it would not succeed.
This was because there was a logical coherence in the Great Sun Golden Sunflower absorbing the power of the earth and the power of the sun to produce sunflower seeds containing solar essence gold.
The five elements give birth to each other; earth gives birth to metal. Absorbing the power of the earth to produce spirit objects of the metal element is in line with the principle of the five elements giving birth to each other. The metal element spirit objects are mixed with the solar power absorbed by the sunflower's heliotropic nature, and the resulting sunflower seeds containing a trace of solar essence gold are even more reasonable.
If the sunflower's heliotropic characteristic were changed to be阴tropic, and it were to absorb the power of the Tai Yin, the resulting sunflower seeds would likely contain Tai Yin cold gold.
Even if it did not absorb the power of the earth but absorbed other energies, it would naturally lead to other changes.
A slight change can affect the whole, just like this.
After trying out the creation of plants using the Seed of All Things, Ding Yun tentatively tried to create a creature using the Seed of All Things. This time, it was also successful. She successfully created a tiny responsive worm.
This was a type of Gu worm.
It was extremely fertile and could parasitize all things.
At the same time, it could collect information through its host and transmit it to the mother worm, where it could be read through mental power.
Ding Yun was just trying it out, and she did not expect it to be successful. After succeeding, she was naturally unwilling to waste such a good thing. She immediately used her mental power as nourishment to help the mother worm reproduce tens of thousands of offspring. She then used the mother worm to command the offspring to spread rapidly to and from the imperial palace to collect information. This was much more useful than maids and eunuchs.
"As expected of something called the Seed of All Things, it can truly create both plants and animals and insects. It's almost comparable to the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil in Nuwa's hand.
Unfortunately, in this imperial palace, I cannot create large species. The creation experiments will have to stop here for now."
As soon as she released the offspring of the responsive worm, Ding Yun put away the remaining Seeds of All Things and water of life and began to deal with the plants in the flowerpots.
Those that were particularly obvious and looked special were collected by Ding Yun into her soul space. Those that looked like normal plants and had no special effects were left behind to be used as potted plants in her room.
After all, there were plenty of plants in the imperial palace, and the maids would not specifically ask the head of the Imperial Garden if any flowerpots with plants had been sent to the noble consort. The head of the Imperial Garden would not specifically come to count the flowerpots and potted plants.
Therefore, having a few more flowerpots with plants in the room was harmless.
After the traces were cleaned up, Ding Yun called out, and someone pushed open the door of the sleeping quarters to help clean up some of the soil spilled on the ground. At the same time, a personal maid asked Ding Yun what she wanted to do next, whether she wanted to sunbathe or have a maid tell her stories.
Or if she needed to have a meal.
"Let's go together. Help me to sunbathe. I want to hear fresh stories, don't always try to fool me with stories from over ten years ago. You can talk about the gossip of officials and commoners outside the palace, or small matters inside the palace, as long as I haven't heard them before.
Also, serve some soft and easily digestible snacks."
As Ding Yun finished giving instructions, the maids nearby immediately got busy, some offering their arms to help, some preparing a lounge chair, some discussing what stories to tell, and some hurrying to the kitchen to fetch snacks.
In a short while, Ding Yun was half-reclining on a lounge chair covered with several layers of rabbit fur, her eyes slightly closed, basking in the sun while listening to a maid recount events from a few years ago.
There was no way around it; some matters within the imperial court were not easy to discuss, and some could not even be mentioned. Matters outside the imperial court did not reach the palace as quickly.
Coupled with the habit of not airing one's dirty laundry, many dirty and unsavory matters were difficult to talk about, and overly explicit ones were also difficult. After such a reduction, the number of true stories that could be told was very small.
This time, the maid was talking about the highly publicized incident five years ago when 100,000 taels of silver were stolen from the treasury of the Lin'an Marquis's mansion. The reason this incident caused such a stir was primarily because people did not expect the Lin'an Marquis's mansion, which usually appeared poor, to have so much silver, and the case itself seemed very mysterious from the beginning.
The key to the treasury was not lost, the lock was not damaged, there were no signs of removal inside, no secret passages could be found within a radius of several li, and not a single box where the silver was kept was missing. Only the silver had disappeared, as if it had vanished into thin air.
There was much discussion about this matter.
Some suspected insider theft, some suspected that the Lin'an Marquis's mansion did not have so much silver, and some suspected it was the work of ghosts, or that demons had stolen it.
Moreover, this case had still not been solved to this day.
Many people were arrested, but without finding the silver, arresting more people was useless, and it was difficult to convict them and gain trust.
Ding Yun had some impression of this matter, so after listening for a while, she asked, "I remember you told me about this. Didn't I tell you I wanted to hear things I haven't heard before?"