After waking up from the dream.
Fang Mo stayed in the Minecraft world for a while longer.
Partly, this was to ensure his little partner upheld her promises, and partly to control Steve to mine more resources, as the storage back home was nearly empty.
Normally, after returning from a dungeon, Fang Mo would take some time to explore and study new mods.
Unfortunately, during his trip to the Arad dungeon, he hardly unlocked any new mods, only managing to unlock the Tumbleweed mod at the very end—which was more like a consolation prize with little to investigate.
So, Fang Mo could only work with the mods he already had.
From the start until now, he had acquired a significant number of mods—nearly a hundred. Even in his previous life, a server with that many would be considered a large mod pack.
However, about half of these mods were tech-related.
Things like Industrial Age, Thermal Expansion, Extra Utilities, NuclearCraft, Forestry, GregTech, Stargate, Level Storage, More Power Facilities, Tech Reborn, Immersive Engineering, Energy Control, Astral Sorcery, Flux Networks, Gravitational Armor, Advanced Solar Panels, DartCraft, Mechanism Overhaul, Large Tanks, Advanced Generators, Bee Expansion, Fart Power, Railcraft, Crude Oil, Reactor Turbines, and Force Fields...
Fang Mo had no interest in touching these.
Partly because they didn't interest him, and partly because he couldn't remember the crafting recipes.
In addition to tech mods, he also wasn't interested in some smaller or decorative mods like Furniture, Light Bridges, Bamboo Sakura, or More Biomes.
His forte was likely Tinkers' Construct, and beyond that, the Twilight Forest mod.
Tinkers' Construct had an incredibly high ceiling.
Every time Fang Mo returned to the main world, he would come up with strange new weapons or tools based on his creative ideas and take them to test in new worlds.
This time was no exception.
"Hmm..."
Fang Mo stared at the saplings in Steve's hand, lost in thought.
During his previous dungeon adventure, Fang Mo realized the limitations of the Time Sword.
The Time Sword was essentially just a large Ender sword from Tinkers' Construct. Its abilities came entirely from a tree embedded within it—specifically, one of the four divine saplings from the Twilight Forest mod: the Time Tree.
However, Fang Mo had a bunch of other saplings.
From the Twilight Forest alone, he still had the Sorting Tree, Ore Tree, and Transformation Tree.
On top of that, he had a mana-producing flower from the Botania mod, known as the Endoflame, which generates mana by consuming food.
But none of these compared to Fang Mo's ultimate weapon—a sapling of the Sacred Rubber Tree from MineFactory Reloaded 2 (MFR2). This thing was terrifyingly huge, capable of crashing servers—like a literal World Tree in scale.
So, what would happen if he combined all these things together?
That's right.
Fang Mo was planning something big.
Back in the Marvel universe, Fang Mo had discovered a trait in the Forestry mod: hybridization.
This was a feature where plants could cross-pollinate and hybridize to create new species, with Steve using a grafter to obtain the seeds of these new hybrids.
He had even experimented with Groot, which turned out quite successfully, resulting in a bizarre creation he called the Thorn King.
Fang Mo still had some seeds from that experiment. Well, "seeds" was just a way of saying it—he had actually snapped off some of the thorns from the creature's body. Thinking back, Fang Mo had to admit his foresight. No matter the situation, he always remembered to save seeds...
Since operating within the Minecraft world was inconvenient, Fang Mo activated his dimension control and headed to his own pocket dimension.
Upon arriving in the White Lands, Fang Mo retrieved one of the thorns from his storage.
Thanks to the strange flow of time within his storage space, the thorn was still fresh, with its cut surface slightly moist and a hint of green visible.
Fang Mo held the thorn in his hand. In the next moment, his Arcane Ring emitted a faint green glow as he activated the "Goddess of Nature's Harvest" mode. Instantly, the thorn began to wriggle and grow. Fresh buds appeared at the cut surface, soon transforming into a mass of tangled vines that twisted and coiled, gradually taking on a vague humanoid shape.
This was the terrifying trait of Groot's tree species.
Even a half-broken branch could regrow into a complete entity.
Fang Mo pondered this.
A moment later, he threw a stick onto the ground as a test.
In an instant, space around the Sorting Tree rippled again. The stick vanished and reappeared atop the burial mound.
"Tch..."
Fang Mo winced. "Is this Sorting Tree some kind of clean freak with OCD?"
"..."
The Sorting Tree, being a tree, didn't respond.
After thinking for a moment, Fang Mo had Steve dig up a grass block and replace it with a cobblestone block.
As soon as the cobblestone was placed, the space around the tree rippled again, and the Sorting Tree prepared to act.
But this time, Fang Mo narrowed his eyes and
used his dimensional authority to lock the space around them. Instantly, all spatial manipulations were nullified.
The Sorting Tree, unable to remove the cobblestone, tried again.
But once more, its efforts were thwarted by Fang Mo's dimensional authority.
After several failed attempts, the tree even started to shed leaves in frustration.
Finally, Fang Mo released his spatial lock, restoring the flow of space.
The moment he did, the cobblestone vanished with a *pop*, reappearing on the burial mound. Meanwhile, the pit was instantly refilled with grass.
"Okay..."
Fang Mo facepalmed. Even in the multiverse, this was the first time he had encountered a plant with OCD. It was just ridiculous.
Shaking his head, Fang Mo turned to the Transformation Tree.
This tree was surprisingly tall compared to the Sorting Tree.
Its leaves were a mysterious blue-green, with strange luminescent veins running through them. If you stood beneath its canopy, the light filtering through the leaves would create translucent runes that seemed almost dreamlike.
As time passed, Fang Mo noticed that the natural energy in the area seemed to grow more concentrated.
It was as though the tree was drawing in some kind of energy—whether it was spiritual energy or elemental magic was up for debate. But it was clear that it could influence the environment around it.
Fang Mo thought back to its characteristics in the game.
If he remembered correctly, the Transformation Tree could alter the surrounding biomes, turning them into enchanted forests. It seemed that this trait had carried over into reality, allowing the tree to modify the environment in some way.
"Not bad..."
After a brief observation, Fang Mo nodded in satisfaction.
Without further delay, he activated the power of the Arcane Ring once more, forcing the three Twilight Forest trees to bloom. He then carried out another round of crossbreeding.
Soon, he held a seed that shimmered with a strange light in his hand.
With this, all the plants from the Twilight Forest had been hybridized.
Now, Fang Mo turned his attention to another sapling in Steve's hand—the Sacred Rubber Tree sapling from the MineFactory Reloaded mod.
This was the game-breaking tree, known to crash entire servers.
With a thought, Fang Mo had Steve plant the sapling in the ground.
Then, he released a burst of life energy.
But in the very next second, something unexpected happened. The ground began to quake violently. The small sapling before him suddenly shot up at an alarming rate. Before Fang Mo could even process what was happening, everything went dark.
Glancing at his minimap, Fang Mo froze in shock.
"WHAT THE F—?!"