Astral Gods

Chapter 130 Sowing the Seeds of Male Green Soul Kiwi Plants

Four days passed in the blink of an eye. Suddenly, the Purple Locust, who was lying outside the nest chamber, heard rustling sounds coming from inside the nest chamber.

"Yew?" Zi Huai was hesitant to use his mental powers to scan the sleeping yew, fearing it might disturb it, so he could only tentatively call out from outside.

Inside the nest, the yew awakens from its slumber. Shedding its old shell, it pulls its six legs out one by one, then stretches its now slightly longer body inside the nest.

Its current nest chamber was built for them by the Purple Mountain Master. In the early and middle stages, the nest chamber appeared very large, but now that it has reached the advanced stage, the nest chamber looks a bit small.

"It seems we'll have to ask the Purple Pearl Mountain Lord to build us another nest chamber," Zishan muttered. Then it checked its own condition. This evolution should have taken quite a short time, and its physical condition was quite good; it hadn't overdrawn its body.

It's a bit of a shame that it failed to awaken its abilities during its second and third instar evolutions.

Logically, after awakening a talent, there is a chance to awaken an ability with each subsequent evolutionary stage, but this probability is not high.

Consuming different types of Force foods can increase the chances of awakening different abilities. If you consume God-given Force foods, the chances of awakening abilities will be further enhanced.

This is why the Zerg warriors are so eagerly seeking out God-given food.

Zishan was only slightly annoyed at not being able to awaken her Force, but she wasn't in a hurry.

It is only at the advanced stage of the fourth age. From the advanced stage to the king level of the ninth age, there are more than 30 ages in between, and there are many opportunities to awaken its abilities.

As long as it eats more of the divinely bestowed food, awakening its abilities is only a matter of time.

The yew tree regained its strength and slowly crawled out of its nest.

Outside the nest chamber, seeing Yew crawl out, Purple Acacia asked with delight, "Yew, did nothing unexpected happen during this evolution?"

"No surprises, evolution went smoothly."

When it evolved into a 2-year-old advanced warrior last year, it ate too many Yew Armor Beans and became somewhat weak after evolving.

This time, it deliberately controlled the number of divinely bestowed armor beans it ate, only consuming 20, keeping it within a normal range.

As for the other divinely bestowed foods that enhance endurance and physique, they were also fed in a fairly balanced way, so this evolution was going more smoothly than ever before.

As is customary, Zihuai handed the prepared fruit to Zishan. Zishan ate over a hundred kilograms of fruit in one go before it was barely full. Now it has reached a size of 3.8 meters, just one step away from 4 meters, and its appetite has also increased significantly.

Seeing that it had finished eating the fruit, Zihua urged, "Zishan, spit out the seeds of your Azure Soul Kiwi male plant and plant them. I have been looking forward to the Azure Soul Kiwi male plant bestowed by the Soul System God for a long time."

"What's the rush?" Zishan slowly spat out the male seed of the Azure Soul Kiwi that had been nurtured in her life sac, and then put the divinely bestowed seed of the Nephrolepis into her life sac to nurture it.

As soon as it took the Nephrolepis seed into its life pouch, it felt a force, just like the one that had nurtured the Red Heart Cherry seed, drawing its primal energy from its body.

The primal force within its body flowed continuously into its life sac. Sensing this, the yew immediately lay down on the ground, silently drawing upon the natural primal force to supply the Nephrolepis seed in its life sac.

Zihuai, sensing the situation, asked with concern, "Zishu, what's wrong? Is the Nephrolepis seed drawing on your primal energy?"

"Yes, just like the Red Heart Cherry God-given Seed, after I took the Nephrolepis God-given Seed into my life capsule and formed a slight soul bond with it, it began to continuously draw upon my primal force."

Upon hearing this, the Purple Locust didn't say much, but its antennae swayed slightly, and the primal force within its body also flowed continuously towards the Purple Fir, replenishing its primal force.

Fortunately, the yew tree has now advanced to the advanced stage, unlike the early and middle stages when its primal force was repeatedly weakened. After the purple acacia tree injected its primal force into its body, it had a new source of primal force to support it, and it immediately adapted.

It put the seeds of the male Qinghun kiwifruit plant into a spider silk bag and handed it to Zihuai: "Zihuai, take this seed and plant it."

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With a large influx of Force from the Purple Locust, the Nephrolepis seed in the Yew's life sac was thoroughly irrigated, and its rate of Force absorption slowed down slightly.

Now, the yew tree, relying solely on the natural primal force it draws from, can barely supply the primal force required by the Nephrolepis seed.

Zi Huai took the spider silk bag, but did not leave immediately. Instead, she opened the bag and took out the male seed of the Green Soul Kiwi to examine it.

The seeds were plump and full, with faint primal force patterns on their surface, unique to seeds bestowed by the gods.

Even before it was planted, it sensed waves of spiritual primal energy emanating from the seed.

After watching for a while, it put the seeds back into the spider silk bag and instructed, "Be careful."

Although the yew is now a high-level warrior, the life seed it nurtures at this stage will also advance to a higher stage along with its realm.

Therefore, the Force required for it to nurture the Nephrolepis seed is definitely much greater than that required to nurture the Red Cherry seed.

After about ten minutes, the Nephrolepis seed in the yew's life sac finally stabilized at about 2.5 times the rate at which the yew nurtured an ordinary life seed.

The yew tree nurtures ordinary seeds into divinely bestowed seeds, consuming about two to three times more primal force each day than the yew tree and other species that nurture their life-giving seeds.

The Force required to nurture the Nephrolepis seed will now increase by 2.5 times. This means that the Force required for the yew to nurture the Nephrolepis seed is more than 8 times that required for the iris and other plants to nurture their life-giving seeds.

If only the yew insect were to nurture its life form, it would have to lie on the ground all day long to absorb the primal force of nature, or it would need a large amount of primal stones to replenish it.

Fortunately, the purple locust and purple artemisia are there, and the primal force stored in them can also be poured into the yew's life sac. Not much is needed; watering once a day, plus the yew's own absorption of natural primal force, is about enough for the Nephrolepis seed bestowed by the gods.

This doesn't mean that the Nephrolepis seed can be changed with just a little Force. Its quality, like the Red Cherry seed, requires a constant supply of Force over many years for a gradual and subtle transformation.

Seeing that Zishan's condition had stabilized, Zihuai shook the spider silk bag in his claws: "Zishan, I'll go and plant the male Qinghun kiwi fruit seedlings."

"Go ahead, I'll just soak up some sun and let my shell harden a bit."

Zihua planted the seeds of the male Qinghun kiwifruit plant into the prepared pit.

The autumn sun was still quite strong, so Zihuai used cobweb bags to build a sunshade for the male kiwifruit seeds.

After it grows its main vine and branch vines, it will need to be supported by trellises and greenhouses to help it survive the winter.

The yew tree had just finished drying its shell, and it came to guard the male kiwi seed, waiting for it to sprout.

At the same time, Zi Ai also finished harvesting the fruits produced from her seed.

After being promoted to a high-level warrior, it has a total of 13 life seeds that are flowering and bearing fruit. Among them, five life seeds flower and bear fruit once a year, while the remaining eight life seeds require two years to flower and bear fruit.

It's not that it takes two years, but the fruits produced by these species take a relatively long time to mature. Some take 12 months to mature, so the fruits that ripen this May will not be harvested until May of the following year, and some take seventeen months to mature.

Each type of destiny matures at a different time, but all span a year, so it can be counted as two years.

Last year, several of its mulberry seedlings also began to bear fruit, bringing the total number of seedlings bearing fruit to 16. However, the mulberry seedlings bear semi-divine fruits, which may take longer to mature.

Zi Ai separated the pulp and seeds of the fruit produced by the mature seedlings a few months earlier. She ate all the edible peel and dried all the seeds.

Among its many life-seed products, the most expensive is the Azure Soul Monkey Fruit, followed by the Cone Chestnut life-seed, which was also given to them by the Flame Spider Merchant.

Although these two are also ordinary Force plants, their strengthening effect is very good. There is not enough for their own tribe to eat, so they will not sell them to outsiders. Therefore, there are a total of ten kinds of Force food that it needs to provide.

Before Zi Ai took over the land and obtained the Spider King's Scroll from Da Qingfeng, she made a special trip to the male kiwi tree of Qinghun to take a look at the purple locust and yew.

As soon as it flew over, its spiritual senses detected a lone seedling growing on a distant mound. Overjoyed, it landed in front of its two brothers lying on the ground: "The male Green Soul Kiwi has sprouted?"

"Obviously."

"The seedlings just sprouted yesterday, and we'll have to stay here to guard them and prevent them from being pecked at by passing birds or wild animals."

"Oh." Zi Ai didn't say anything. Guarding the newly born life seed is a long-standing practice for all Zerg warriors. From the initial to the advanced stages, Zerg warriors spend most of their time guarding their life seed.

It didn't seem to care, and raised its front legs to show them the bulging spider silk bags hanging from its four legs: "Purple Locust, Purple Fir, I'm going to Great Green Peak. Is there anything you need to tell me or tell me?"

Zi Huai: "I'm fine. Zi Ai, have you carefully calculated whether your Destiny Seed has been produced? How many raw stones can you sell it for?"

According to their agreed plan, the two brothers would exchange all the output of their life seeds for raw gems, which would be used to replenish their energy when the yew life seed fruits ripened.

Then, when the seeds of the yew tree appear next year, the two brothers will go all out to evolve upwards.

"I've done the calculations carefully, and the yield from my 13 Life Seeds is quite high. We can eat some of the two Force Foods, the Green Soul Kiwi and the Cone Chestnut, ourselves, so we don't plan to sell them."

The combined value of these two types of Force-based foods is over 3000 Primogems, while the rest, from various Life Seeds, is worth around 1.9 Primogems.

This price isn't considered high; it's within the average range for Rhinoceros Tortoise Warriors. After all, this includes the few Force Fruits that Zi Ai produces every two years, which directly lowers the average annual income.

Zi Ai continued, "Zishan, your three-lobed snake grape seedlings have also ripened this year. The fruit matured in August."

Zihuai and I ate the pulp, but we kept the seeds. Do you think we should sell them to the tribe or keep them for ourselves?

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Upon hearing Zi Ai's words, Zi Shan's mind raced. The three-lobed snake grape belongs to the Vitaceae family, and its fruit is very small with little flesh.

Its function is to enhance mental endurance, which is a rather special type of enhancement, and it is quite expensive when sold outside.

This is why, despite its low yield, the yew tree is willing to nurture it as a life-giving species.

This incredibly valuable and rare divinely bestowed food certainly couldn't be sold outside the tribe, since the Zerg warriors within their tribe had never tasted it before. Selling it within the tribe, however, was a different story; they couldn't possibly finish it all, and it wasn't suitable for them to eat too much at once.

How many berries were left on the three-lobed snake grape?

"Not many were left; only 200 fruits were left this year."

I originally thought it would take several years for it to flower and bear fruit, so I planned to leave a small number of fruits each year so that it would flower and bear fruit every year. But I never expected it to ripen in a single year.

As she spoke, Zi Ai opened a spider silk bag on her midfoot, took out a small spider silk bag, and handed it to Zi Shan.

The fruit of the three-lobed snake grape is not large, about the size of a soybean. After removing the skin, 200 fruits just fill a small spider silk bag.

Zishan opened the spider silk pouch, picked out a fruit, and tasted it. Feeling the waves of soothing primal energy emanating from her mind, she asked, "Have you estimated the value of the Three-lobed Snake Grape fruit? Approximately how many primal stones is it worth per fruit?"

Zi Huai: "We estimated that a single Divine Three-lobed Snake Grape is worth about 10 raw stones. In mid-March this year, it bloomed more than 1000 flowers. Based on this price, the annual output should be around 10,000 raw stones."

With only seeds the size of soybeans and just over 1000 flowers, the yield is hardly high, but its high value makes up for the lack of production.

Zishan thought for a moment and asked, "What are your plans? The Three-lobed Leaf Snake Grape enhances mental endurance, which is very beneficial for breaking through evolution, but it's not suitable to eat too much of it."

Zi Huai said, "Zi Ai and I have already eaten a lot of fruit peels. Eating another twenty fruit kernels will be enough for our evolution at this stage. After all, we also need to eat other divinely bestowed primal energy foods to balance things out."

Hearing this, Zishan didn't hesitate for long: "Alright, you two each keep 20 kernels, I'll keep 40, and the rest will be sold to the tribe. As for who the tribe will distribute them to, that's none of our business."

Then Zishan looked at Zihuai and Ziai and said, "Zihuai, why don't you guard the life seed for a few days? I want to go to Daqing Peak."

Zihuai and Ziai were somewhat puzzled: "Zishan, what are you going to Daqing Peak for? Are you going to buy Force Food? What kind of Force Food? Just let Ziai buy it for you."

Zishan explained, "I'm not looking to buy Force food. I want to ask if the Flame Spider Merchants have found any newly hatched queen bees or queen ants in the wild, and if they can send one over so we can raise it to help us manage the forest."

"After all, the Snow Lotus Queen Bee is already quite busy. We wouldn't feel at ease if we had to cooperate with a Queen Bee or Queen Ant that has grown to a certain size."

We can only cultivate ourselves from scratch, and cultivating ourselves from scratch often takes ten or twenty years to reach an advanced stage. We need to prepare in advance.

Purple Locust and Purple Artemisia felt that the Yew was thinking too far ahead, but they did not refuse. Most tribes had a need for the Queen Bee and Queen Ant, and they sought out the Flame Spider Traveling Merchant.

Given the popularity of queen bees and queen ants, even if we told the Flame Spider Traveling Merchant, it wouldn't be available immediately.