Chapter 135: Revelation Of The Threefold Law
Mountain winds blow, and the wheat in the valley is gradually entering the heading stage.
The originally crude fields now have neat and crisscrossing paths laid out. Xilutiya wears a sun hat and a light cloth skirt as she walks among them. The wheat here has already reached her waist, lush and green.
Her eyes blink, and emerald spectra unfold in her vision, informing her of the current growth status of these crops. She occasionally notes down some useful details.
(‘Gardening Technique – Wheat Branch’ proficiency +12)
The large-scale practices of clearing, planting, and nurturing during this period have given Xilutiya new cognition and understanding of many detailed knowledge in gardening. Now she has reached 『Gardening Technique Lv.6』, and further improvement has become very difficult, so she can only break through from the detailed branches within it.
It seems that after ‘Gardening Technique’ reaches Lv.6, it faces the process from broad to proficient. She must nurture 10 kinds of plants to perfect quality to further improve this skill.
『Gardening Skill – Wheat Branch (Excellent)』: Currently, you can easily nurture wheat this crop to excellent quality. The proficiency is as simple as picking up a cup to drink water. （Progress 289/300）
Continuing to walk through the fields, Xilutiya squats down in a dense cluster of wheat, her fingers lightly touching the soil to sense the situation below.
The ‘twisted’ that was purified and dispelled a month ago is gradually spreading upward again. In about 30 more days, it will slowly affect the surface plants. If left alone, the initial weak influence will deepen bit by bit until after another month, it returns to the state before Xilutiya came to the valley.
Farming here is really not a simple matter. Xilutiya even suspects that among the three choices given at that time, coming to the Golden Plain was not necessarily the easiest and simplest one.
Perhaps she was being too ambitious. Most students would choose fields around the fortress to complete the task. Although the rewards and evaluation are not high, the difficulty is indeed extremely low.
Standing up, the maiden pats the bit of soil off her skirt hem, smelling the faint grassy fragrance of the dense plants in the fields, and walks forward slowly.
(‘Gardening Technique – Wheat Branch’ proficiency +15)
After another sorting and analysis, her cognition of nurturing wheat continues to improve, currently reaching the next stage.
『Gardening Skill – Wheat Branch (Excellent)』: Currently, you can nurture wheat this crop to excellent quality. （Progress 4/600）
However, after reaching excellent, it is not as easy as the excellent stage. Xilutiya feels that now is the time to use the accumulated emerald dew water.
In the hands of a gardener, ‘emerald dew water’ is not only something that catalyzes plant growth, but also a good tool for them to actively regulate, allowing plants to better absorb nutrients from water and soil, and supplementing the gradually breeding ‘emerald honey’ nature.
Without sufficient fertilizer, she can currently only use emerald dew water to replace fertilizer, letting these crops actively absorb more nutrients. As for the side effect, the fertility here will be too low next time, unable to continue planting wheat, and leguminous plants need to be rotated to replenish fertility.
As for why leguminous plants, it is naturally because many leguminous plants have nitrogen-fixing ability, converting nitrogen in the air into nitrogen elements usable by plants, which is equivalent to natural fertilizer.
Although she does not know how the laws of this world operate, Xilutiya discovered from the books she has read that there are very similar practices here. Scholar Heide also mentioned before that farmland must be rotated to maintain fertility.
Among leguminous plants, common soybeans, peanuts, and peas all have similar effects. There are also some forage grasses, such as Chinese milk vetch commonly used in rice fields, and ‘alfalfa’ used on barren pasture land.
Looking at the state of this land, she would probably find ‘alfalfa’ much easier, because planting soybeans takes a long time and requires a large amount of irrigation, while there is only one well in the valley, unable to meet such huge irrigation needs.
Alfalfa has very deep roots and can actively absorb groundwater, so it relies less on irrigation.
Unknowingly, she has begun planning the content for the next stage. This mastery of the present and future gives Xilutiya a sense of inexplicable steadiness and fulfillment.
Everything is in good order, everything is advancing steadily, as if order is gradually born from intangible chaos, becoming neat, beautiful, and efficient.
In a daze, she feels an invisible path unfolding before her, causing the implicit starlight in her fate card to emerge.
Strange, why does she feel that her 【alien star】 rank has a tendency to advance at this time? Isn’t it supposed to advance by following other natures?
Xilutiya returns to her small house, carefully meditates and observes her own situation, and finds that the originally implicit ‘alien star’ begins to manifest. On that card, the night sky even shows faint outlines, like an undrawn star palace pattern.
Slowly savoring this feeling, Xilutiya decides to be cautious and wait for 【emerald honey】 to catch up before making the choice.
During this period, because she has continuously participated in a large amount of gardening practice, she has vaguely achieved balance in the ‘threefold law’, causing the 【emerald honey】 nature to improve quite a bit. If judged by data, when she successfully nurtured swan orchids last year, the ‘emerald honey’ nature intensity was about 1. During the assessment battle with Iona, it reached about 5-6.
In this half year so far, although no new abilities have been added, due to extensive participation in farming, planting, and nurturing, the 【emerald honey】 nature has also grown step by step under the effect of the threefold law, reaching about 8.9 currently.
She senses that if it reaches above 9, she can attempt to step into ‘second order · emerald honey’. As for the current 【alien star】, she feels the nature intensity has reached about 9.8, almost overflowing, meaning the first order fate card is gradually unable to contain this powerful nature power.
As for what the threefold is, namely power （resources）, skills （knowledge）, practice （trial）.
The threefold law is the truth and balance of this world.
For example, to become a knight, even if you have a strong body and power, noble virtue and combat technique, but if you only labor in the fields, you still cannot become a model knight. Only by picking up the sword and using virtue and technique in battle, whether conquering, guarding, or acting chivalrously, can you finally pass the trial to become a true knight.
Or if you are an apothecary, you have material resources and naturally dexterous hands, knowledge of herb blending and precise grasping technique, but if you have never debugged this potion, it still does not mean you know how. Only by adding practice at the end and truly brewing this potion do you master this ability.
This is the manifestation of the threefold law in various fields. If you follow its principles, you can gain great benefits in advancement.
However, the application of the ‘threefold law’ goes far beyond this. When Madam Fran taught her the flower blooming technique before, she specifically emphasized that the final power of the flower blooming technique also comes from the ‘threefold law’, namely her own ‘emerald honey’ rank （representing power）, the strength of the flower blooming technique ability （representing skills）, and the strength and type of flowers selected （representing practice）.
The three combined determine the final power, meaning that increasing any one of the three can improve the final power.
At this time, 【alien star】 gaining inexplicable improvement, does it mean that some of her accidental behaviors conform to the concept and traits of 【alien star】?
According to the current scholars’ summary, ‘alien star’ is the peeping and revelation from the otherworld, ineffable knowledge and visions.
Could it be that using knowledge and experience from her previous life also fits the concept of alien star? Or does it involve deeper implications regarding the origin of her talent?
