Chapter 79: What good is this deity?

Night fell.

Luo De, who had been studying how to develop the Vision since returning from the Grand Bazaar, took out the leaf Nadixa had given him.

I don't know if elemental energy can be used in Nadixa's dream world.

After playing with it for a while, Luo De held the leaf and softly whispered in his heart: "Nadixa."

Just as his voice fell.

The scene before his eyes changed abruptly.

He had still been in the hotel room, but the moment he saw the light again, he was already in Nadixa's dream world.

This time.

First to appear before Luo De's eyes was

It was a flock of strangely shaped mushroom chickens, the most conspicuous of which were several completely bald ones with not a single feather.

Nadixa stood among these mushroom chickens, holding a handful of some unknown grain, squatting there to feed these new breed of mushroom chickens that had never appeared on the Teyvat continent.

You really managed to breed a featherless chicken!

Luo De's face twitched, and it took him a while to recover from his shock.

Yeah, it took a lot of effort.

After tossing the remaining grain, which resembled corn kernels, onto the ground, Nadixa clapped her hands and stood up.

You've really given me a big problem.

Standing before Luo De, still shorter than his chest, Nadixa crossed her arms and said.

Suppressing the urge to touch his head, Luo De replied with a smile: "Isn't this solved quite well?"

Saying that, he then took a good look around.

Aside from the featherless chickens.

In this dream world, many more oddly shaped mushroom chickens had appeared: some had feathers dragging on the ground, making walking difficult; some were as round as balls; others were tall and thin, clearly poultry yet sporting the sharp talons and beak of a hawk, and even through their feathers one could see their sturdy musculature.

Huh?

Seeing these haphazardly raised new breed of mushroom chickens, Luo De's eyes lit up, and he immediately went over to catch each running chicken and examine them one by one.

Although it was a dream, the feel of these imagined mushroom chickens was exactly the same as real ones.

But now is not the time to be surprised about this.

Following A De Ba Yi's method he taught himself for judging mushroom chicken quality, Luo De pinched and pressed these chickens, opened their beaks, spread their wings, pulled at their claws, and carefully inspected these new breed of mushroom chickens.

Nadixa just stood there watching Luo De's practiced movements.

After thinking for a while.

She also imitated Luo De, reaching out to grab a mushroom chicken and began to feel it.

Unfortunately.

Having never personally inspected poultry quality before, she couldn't tell good from bad at all; instead, as she kept checking, she ended up just playing with the mushroom chicken like a cat or dog, holding it in her arms and rubbing it.

She waited like that for a good while.

Only then did Luo De, face bright with excitement, set down the last new breed of mushroom chicken.

This was truly an unexpected joy.

While Nadixa was breeding desert‑tolerant mushroom chickens, she unexpectedly also produced so many special breeds.

For example, that big fat chicken is a standard meat breed; its egg‑laying rate is probably poor, it has plenty of meat, but too much fat makes the taste questionable. Yet in a desert where people can't even eat meat every day and some places lack meat altogether, if this meat chicken could be raised on a large scale, it would certainly solve the meat‑eating problem for many.

Another example is the long‑feathered mushroom chicken; Luo De inspected it and found its plumage gorgeous and striking. With a little grooming, it could be sold as an ornamental chicken. If given a fancy name instead of being called a mushroom chicken, as long as the hype is loud enough, the wealthy people of the rainforest regions would surely buy it.

Furthermore, there is the mushroom chicken all muscle; Luo De examined its beak and claws and is certain its bloodline definitely mixes in that of the red hawk, a raptor. Combined with its frame, which is far sturdier than other mushroom chickens, isn't this excellent fighting‑chicken stock? Xu Mi apparently has no such cockfighting activity yet, so this mushroom chicken could be used as a fighting chicken for hype, satisfying the bored rich who crave novelty.

In the blink of an eye.

Luo De had already arranged the uses of all these new breed mushroom chickens.

As for who to cooperate with to turn these still‑theoretical new breed mushroom chickens into reality,

There is no doubt.

Duo Li!

When it comes to vision, who in Xu Mi dares claim first place when she says she's second?

As long as they successfully breed seeds following Nadixa's experimental steps, Duo Li's personality means she will certainly not let this business opportunity slip.

Thinking of how the mushroom chicken market in Xu Mi will be completely overturned by these new breeds, Luo De instantly gleefully rubbed his hands together.

What a huge unexpected gain this is!

Originally, according to the plan jointly made by Ti Na Li and A De Ba Yi, even if everything went smoothly, his experiments in A Ru Cun would still take at least two or three years to yield any results.

I never expected that!

He had only been in Xu Mi Cheng for two days when Nadixa gave him such a big surprise!!!

"Aren't these mushroom chickens not up to your standards? Why are you so happy?"

Seeing Luo De's expression grow ever more excited, Nadixa, who had been observing for a long time, could no longer contain her curiosity and voiced the question in her mind.

"It's just that they don't meet the requirements for desert farming; that doesn't mean they have no other value."

Luo De glanced at Nadixa.

As expected.

This book‑worn problem‑solver, who always has his nose buried in books, is once again in a dazed state.

"Come over."

"Let me tell you in detail what these mushroom chickens are good for."

Luo De grabbed a big fat chicken with his left hand and waved with his right hand at Nadixa.

In any case, his current status is that he doesn't know Nadixa's identity.

Ignorance knows no fear.

Furthermore, even if Nadixa were to publicly reveal her identity as the Dendro Archon, her gentle nature means she would not grow angry over Luo De's rudeness.

Just like that.

All told, there were nineteen new varieties of mushroom chicken.

Excluding the hairless chicken, of the remaining eighteen new mushroom chicken varieties, eleven suffer from congenital defects or other flaws and are deemed worthless for breeding; the final five varieties, under Luo De's analysis, each turned out to have a different use.

Nadixa listened attentively.

She also had no aversion to these mushroom chickens; Luo De would point and she would touch where he indicated, learning how to judge a mushroom chicken's quality and traits. Then, as Luo De said, she combined the strengths and weaknesses of different regions, altered the dream's environmental conditions, and simulated cultivation of these new mushroom chicken varieties again.

After all that effort.

Of the five selected new mushroom chicken varieties, another was eliminated for failing to adapt to the environment.

"Hey, look, I wasn't wrong, was I?"

"Theoretical knowledge is theoretical knowledge, practical results are practical results."

"You have such good conditions—put them to use."

"Use that knowledge in your head where it belongs, rather than clutching a heap of book learning and rote‑memorizing it all day."

Luo De spoke at length.

Besides this mushroom‑chicken breeding experiment, he also cited many classic cases of inventors turning theory into practice.

In the end,

Luo De let out a sigh.

"What is the Academy even teaching, that they don't grasp this simple truth that practice yields true knowledge?"

"Hmph, it must be the fault of the god who rules them."

"In my view, the Little Auspicious Grass King is surely no match for the Great Merciful Tree King—far inferior."

"At least the Great Merciful Tree King truly applies his knowledge to build Sumeru, turning the rainforest into a land of plenty and ensuring the desert folk never lack food or clothing."

"But what about the Little Auspicious Grass King?"

"He simply shut himself away in the Pure Goodness Palace for five hundred years—let alone issuing divine edicts, even the Academy's own folk refuse to acknowledge his existence."

"Now the Academy in the rainforest region lords it over everyone, flip‑flops its orders, oppresses the populace, and refuses to debate with those less knowledgeable; the desert region has descended into cannibalism—not to mention filling one's stomach as before, in some places merely staying alive has become a luxury."

"Nadixa."

"What good is a god who does nothing, leaving Sumeru in a murky mess—why does Sumeru even need her?"

(End of chapter)