In the apocalypse, Xiao Lan fought her way through hardship and raised her plant-type ability to the highest level.
To her surprise, her ability mutated into a plant encyclopedia and took her along when she transmigrated.
Xiao Lan transmigrated to another world where beast-taming competitions were all the rage.
Her new body's family had been in the beast-fruit business. Her parents had both died, leaving her a coveted beast-fruit orchard and an order for beast fruit that would cost her the orchard if she failed to fill it.
Looking at the fruit trees thriving throughout the orchard, Xiao Lan decided she had to save it.
Her new body's owner had been exceptionally gifted, born with a rare quantum plant seed.
But twenty years had passed without the seed sprouting. Her spiritual power had consequently remained stagnant, and she had eventually died from taking too many spiritual-power enhancers.
Xiao Lan stared at the seed around her neck, sealed inside a small crystal vial and said to have remained dormant for twenty years, and fell into deep thought.
If she wasn't mistaken, it looked like a lotus seed.
If you don't crack its shell or soak it in water, how do you expect it to sprout?
Later, Xiao Lan discovered that quantum plants in this world had different elemental attributes corresponding to the Five Elements.
Generally, the fewer elemental attributes a quantum plant had, the more likely it was to produce a skill beast-fruit.
But single-attribute quantum plants were almost nonexistent. To get a mixed-attribute quantum plant to produce high-quality beast fruit, you needed a cultivator's help.
So.
Other cultivators' method: Pour expensive star ore into the soil as nourishment for the quantum plant, use their spiritual power to guide its attributes, wait for it to flower and bear fruit, then spend every day using their spiritual power to painstakingly remove unwanted attribute impurities. In the end, they might just manage to get one mid-grade skill fruit.
Xiao Lan's method: Arrange low-grade star ore into a formation, graft a primary-metal-attribute quantum plant onto a primary-water-attribute quantum plant, and use her spiritual power to wrap the graft twice to keep it from falling off. By using the way the Five Elements generate one another, she could easily produce a high-grade water-attribute skill fruit.
Later on, Xiao Lan sold fruit to support a beast-taming team, climbing the ranks one by one. When they ran into a powerful team they couldn't beat, Xiao Lan had had enough of growing fruit and handling logistics, so she brought her mutated plants onto the battlefield herself.
Theme: Like a plant, give it a little sunshine and it will flourish.