Above the mage!

Chapter 251: The idea of ​​farming

Ice marrow is a treasure that can only be condensed by Ice Mage through the method of "Ice Extraction" by using Ice Blood to harmonize his own magic power.

The condensation of each drop of ice marrow requires a great deal of time and energy of an ice mage.

Similarly, for an Iceborn mage, the more ice marrow the better, as it can enhance his own Iceborn bloodline. It is not enough for his own use, so why would he easily give it to others?
Only under the premise that Duoer Bian had saved his life and that Chief Ximo was kind-hearted, could Gao De obtain three drops of precious ice marrow from him.

From then on, Gaode had no idea how to obtain the ice marrow.

We need a “core product”!

Gao De couldn't help but ponder it in his mind.

There are indeed many precious resources in the North, but how to obtain them is also a problem.

I must be able to offer something good that the people in the North cannot refuse in order to exchange for these precious resources.

It has been two months since entering the Northern Territory. After these days of experience, Gao De believes that he has gained some understanding of the people of the Northern Territory.

On the permafrost tundra, there are only two real necessities: clothing and food.

Because both are about survival.

Clothing. Food.
When he really started to think seriously, something that Gao De valued but had neglected for a long time because of the tree planting naturally emerged from the depths of his mind:

A mutated cold-resistant barley variety discovered along with the tears of the fourth-level demon plant Mandola.

Barley seeds, barley seeds, after planting them, isn’t what you harvest barley?
And barley, isn’t it just food?

According to Flora's perception, cold-resistant barley seeds need to be kept in an environment of minus sixty degrees Celsius or lower in order to germinate and grow.

Elsewhere, such conditions are too harsh.

But in the north, temperatures of minus sixty degrees Celsius can be found everywhere.

Thinking of this, Gao De couldn't help but get excited.

In a place like the North, if we can grow food, the significance of this is self-evident.

However... there is another very important point: how to maintain your exclusive competitiveness?

After all, once the grain is sold, other people can use it as seeds and grow their own crops without having to buy it from him.

Wouldn't that make it a one-time deal?

This seems to be a difficult problem, but after Gao De thought about it for a while, he immediately came up with an idea.

"Hybrid seeds".

The cold-resistant barley variety is used as one of the parents and is crossbred with other parents to obtain the first generation of hybrid seeds that are cold-resistant and high-yielding.

Then plant this generation of hybrid seeds and only sell the grain grown from this batch.

Due to the genetic characteristics of seeds, seeds bred through hybridization can only show excellent characteristics when planted in the first generation.

However, when they are saved and planted again, the offspring will show character separation and will no longer stably possess the excellent traits of the first generation seeds.

This ensures that even if others buy grain and save the seeds as seeds for second-generation planting, it will often be in vain.

At that moment, Gaode immediately exchanged his ideas with the "tree planting expert" Lady Flora.

"It's very simple. Lady Flora can do it." Flora patted her chest and assured him as soon as she heard Gode's idea.

For her, when it comes to planting, no matter what to plant or how to plant it, it is not difficult.

Because this is her natural ability and she doesn't need to learn it.

"Then I'm afraid I'll have to rely on Lady Flora." Gao De greeted Flora in advance.

"Ok!"

Flora answered in a straightforward tone at first, but then she realized it belatedly and began to wonder.

"What's the use of this?"

“It’s a lot of money to be made.”

"Money? A lot of money?!"

The little man's eyes lit up, as if he had suddenly found the value of life.

"Then let's go grow some food!"

"I'm afraid it's not possible yet. We have to wait a little longer, Lady Flora."

"Why, Master, don't you want to make money?" "Of course I do, but now I am controlled by others."

Gao De spread his hands helplessly.

"Oh~ Master, you have been caught!" The little guy just remembered then and then frowned again.

“They are obviously not bad people.”

In her perception, Loic and Catherine had no ill will towards God, but if they were not bad people, why did they capture the wizard?

How complicated!

Flora suddenly felt that the human world was too strange.

Here, Loic and Catherine's training finally came to an end.

As usual, the two of them should start to rest.

But today is different.

Catherine looked at Gode for a while, then reached into her bosom, took out a finger-sized bottle, and threw it to Gode.

Gao De quickly caught it and took a closer look. He saw that the bottle contained two drops of crystal clear, dark blue water-drop-shaped gel.

"What is this?" He didn't quite understand what Catherine meant.

"I told you before that I would compensate you after this matter is over. This is considered as part of the compensation paid to you in advance," Catherine said calmly, "I just noticed that you have awakened the Mandorla Demon Eye. You should need these two drops of third-level ice marrow."

Du Wei is not the only one with insight.

Mandola's Tears, a fourth-level magical plant that only appears in the snowy area, Catherine happens to know something about it, or should I say, she knows a lot about it.

She would naturally be able to recognize the Mandorla Demon Eye which had a small chance of awakening.

Hearing what Catherine said, Gao De accepted the two drops of third-level ice marrow without hesitation and felt at ease.

This is what he deserves.

He had good intentions in delivering a letter to Baruch, but ended up in this situation.

The Guardian of the Snowfield owes him a lot, so what are two drops of third-level ice marrow?

After this little episode, the two of them quickly fell into rest as usual.

As soon as the two fell asleep, Gao De put away the ice marrow, and immediately seized the opportunity to use his magic power to trigger the forbidden ice needles and began to adapt to the day.

In the days that followed, he was taken to the Zhenbing tribe by Catherine and Loyiqi.

Because of the detailed map guidance and the fact that both of them were very strong, no accidents happened along the way.

Gaode maintains the rhythm of [adapting] at night and resting during the day, constantly transforming silently.

His body's ability to withstand cold, endure pain, and recover is growing every day. Every day, Gao De feels as if he is being reborn:
承受臻冰之寒，你的耐寒性提高157%——162%——173%——184%——189%——194%——198%——
承受极寒之痛，对痛苦的承受能力提高86.2%——87.3%——88.9%——93.5%——94.6%。

正在遭受极寒之伤，你的身体伤势恢复能力提高39.3%——45.6%——51.2%——56.9%——57.3%。

The more the body's ability to recover from injuries improves, the shorter the interval required for Gaode's recovery.

The shorter the recovery interval, the longer his body can withstand the icy cold.

The longer he endures the freezing cold, the faster his body's resistance to cold will increase.

The more his cold resistance increases, the less frostbite he will suffer and the shorter the interval time will be.

Under this virtuous cycle, Gaode's adaptability, especially its cold resistance, has improved rapidly and is already infinitely close to the critical value of 200%.

However, at this point, the improvement in cold resistance finally became slow.

But this is not because the coldness of Zhenbing is not strong enough.

It was purely because the forbidden ice needles contained too little pure ice, and there were only five forbidden ice needles in his body. Naturally, the strength was not enough because the number was not enough.

Fortunately, it just slowed down, not stagnated.

However, the pain tolerance and body recovery ability have indeed reached their limits.

Now, the pain brought by these five forbidden ice needles is like a tickle to Gaode.

Likewise, with his cold resistance having increased to 198%, this amount of true ice was no longer enough to cause him injuries of sufficient severity.

At this time, they still had about five days to go before reaching the Zhenbing Tribe.

There are some special circumstances this month, the update volume will be small and unstable, I can only code a little when I have time, but the update will definitely resume normal and stable in November, I kneel down to my good brothers!
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