NOVEL NEXT Chapter 469: 405
After the students' task experiences concluded, they happily took their modest rewards and went back to their respective homes. Haruno Sakura also parted ways with Ino, Shikamaru, Choji, and Naruto.
Amidst the red hues of the dusk, Haruno Sakura arrived at the mushroom house she had started to help her mother manage.
"Sakura, you're home from school," Sakura's mother wiped the sweat off her forehead, "Taking care of these mushrooms is really quite laborious, especially when infusing them with chakra—my chakra is certainly less than that of a ninja."
"Actually, you don't have to infuse them often. As long as there's nutrient solution, they will grow on their own, just a bit slower," Sakura urged her mother not to overexert herself, "When I'm not here, you should rest more, Mom. It's okay."
"That won't do. After all, there's nothing much for me to do when I'm free, and a little more food gets the energy right back into my body," Sakura's mother lifted her arm, showing off her strength.
"Mom, chakra isn't just physical energy, but also spiritual energy, and ordinary people need to sleep to recover it," Sakura went to her mother's side to massage her, casually infusing her own chakra into her, turning it back into the purest physical and spiritual energy to replenish her mother's consumption.
The chakra of ordinary people can only be processed within their own bodies and can't provide such assistance to others.
Because their chakra doesn't actually belong to them.
But Sakura's chakra was different; it belonged entirely to her, which allowed her to provide it to others, even breaking it down into the most basic energy that could be used for healing both body and spirit.
"Ah, that feels so good," Sakura's mother sighed, "Is this also a use of chakra?"
"Probably only I can do it," Sakura said playfully, sticking out her tongue. She then prepared to close the shop and take some mushrooms home.
"Mushrooms again?" Sakura's mother suggested, "I'll go buy some other vegetables. Even though the mushrooms you've grown are surprisingly delicious, Dad will get tired of eating them every day."
"No problem, but let me go buy the vegetables," Sakura waved to her mother and ran out, carrying a bag of chicken leg mushrooms.
"This child," Sakura's mother sighed but also felt a bit relieved.
However, Sakura didn't head to the vegetable market but went to a deserted alley instead. She took out a chicken leg mushroom from the bag and then her palm displayed a white glove.
The chicken leg mushroom, held by the hand with the white glove, was plump and soft, wriggling as if a chemical reaction was taking place on its surface, with tiny bubbles forming.
Pop~
A bubble burst, and a fresh, dewy green leaf sprouted out, growing at a speed visible to the naked eye until it was slightly longer than a hand.
Pop~ Pop~ Pop~ Pop~
As the bubbles continued to burst, plant after plant of little greens grew and were then picked by Sakura.
This was the effect of the Zetsu Spores that had already merged with Sakura.
Under the influence of Sakura's chakra, the Zetsu Spores had become one with her, akin to an external organ on Sakura's skin—an external brain plus clothing, weapon, and tool.
With Sakura's chakra, the Zetsu Spores could become any form she could imagine, and their spiritual energy could help her record all kinds of extraneous information.
For instance, the DNA information of various vegetables and fruits.
Then, given a biological carrier, Sakura could use her chakra as a power source to allow the Zetsu Spores to change other organism's DNA with the recorded information of vegetables and fruits, thereby obtaining the species she wanted. The latest chapters are uploaded first on M|V|LE3MPYR.
That was the basic principle, but how exactly the Zetsu Spores achieved this was something Sakura did not fully understand. She only knew that this method was incredibly convenient.
"Got the greens, now to create some radishes, and then oranges," Sakura planned, taking out another chicken leg mushroom and began to use the DNA information from the Zetsu Seeds to create the corresponding vegetables and fruits.
"Okay, that's it. Next, I'll go buy some meat."
Sakura took out the bag, packed the vegetables and fruits, and headed to a nearby vegetable market to buy meat.
Zetsu Spores could only record the DNA information of living creatures, and using them to manufacture meat would result in the emergence of living animals of that meat kind, a process far more gross than that of growing vegetables.
Therefore, Sakura thought it better to actively go to the market to buy meat.
Besides, with just that little biological carrier (chicken leg mushrooms), it wasn't enough to transform into pork, beef, or muscle.
Chakra could provide energy, true, but animals' growth differed from plants' and was more complex, requiring not just energy but a variety of trace elements.
Plants, on the other hand, were different. They could absorb from the biological carrier they were produced from, draw water and carbon dioxide from the air, and fixate energy, which animals could not do.
In the past, Sakura had also planned to use Zetsu Spores to experiment with producing meat, but it would generally end in failure due to the exposure of the animals' young bodies to air... Of course, that disgusting process was one of the main reasons Sakura didn't want to continue experimenting.
Moreover, Sakura wasn't currently equipped with an appropriate laboratory.
However, she already had plans, and in the future, she was determined to secretly create an underground laboratory at home or in her shop. She would then purchase various experimental equipment to systematically research and experiment with Zetsu Spores.