Astral Gods

Chapter 16 3-year-old stage

The reason why collecting Force Food takes so long is because it's not autumn yet, and it's not the time for the Flame Spider Merchants to come and trade.

Many Zerg warriors have already consumed the Force food they produced or traded last year, and no Force food has been produced this year.

It now needs to collect them one by one, which takes up a lot of time.

Moreover, the amount of Force food collected this time is not much, probably only enough for Purple Locust and Purple Artemisia to evolve for two or three ages. As for whether Purple Yew can evolve for even one age, that's questionable.

Lord Zili wasn't worried about this at all. In a few months, after autumn arrived, a massive Force Food Trade Fair would be held on the island.

At that time, nearly 10,000 Zerg warriors from the entire island, as well as Flame Spider merchants who have traveled across the ocean, will participate in the trade fair.

At that time, the only concern will be whether we have enough Primal Stones stored. There will be no need to worry about not having enough types of Primal Foods.

Lord Zili will combine the divinely bestowed Force food acquired from the claws of other Zerg warriors with ordinary Force food to create a higher-quality Force food set and give it to Zizhu.

"The Force Food Set I put together includes hundreds of enhancement effects, such as strengthening the shell, tentacles, mental strength, six legs, blood, and internal organs."

I packed each meal in a spider silk bag. As long as Zihuai and Ziai finish one meal, they can evolve to a new age.

As for the yew, after consuming a set meal, it should be able to evolve to the next age stage. However, its life sac requires more Origin Force, so the remaining Origin Force insufficient for evolution will be replenished using Origin Stones.

The three little ones cheered, "Thank you, Lord Purple Plum!"

Zizhu immediately distributed a Force food meal to each of the three little ones: "No matter how good or bad the Force food inside is, you must finish it. This is related to your evolution, so don't be picky."

The three little ones didn't respond to Purple Pearl because they had already eagerly opened the bag and started picking out Force food to eat.

Generally speaking, it takes about 40-50 Primogems for a novice warrior to evolve to a new age by eating a Force Food Set consisting of regular Force Foods.

If all ordinary Force food were replaced with God-given Force food, the price would increase by more than 20 times.

That's not the main issue. The main issue is that they might not be able to find so many different kinds of divinely inspired food to feed the little warriors.

For example, Lord Purple Plum has already spent a lot of effort searching for various divinely bestowed primal force foods, but the value of a set meal made up of all the primal force foods it has collected is only a little over 900 primal stones.

It's really not its fault. It's estimated that apart from the Flame Spider Merchant, no other insect on the entire continent could collect a complete set of God-given Force food for the insect warriors.

Therefore, if the yews want to eat better, they can only wait until the trade fair to buy from the Flame Spider Merchant.

Evolving a novice warrior is relatively easy and carries a low risk.

Originally, Purple Locust and Purple Artemisia evolved every 40 days or so. But with the Force package brought by Lord Purple Plum, they can now evolve once a month, keeping them at their limit.

In just three months, they evolved through three age stages to become eighth-age novice warriors, which is a very rapid pace for the warriors of the entire Double-Forked Rhinoceros Beetle tribe.

The yew's evolution was still very slow, but fortunately, it advanced to the second-year junior warrior stage, greatly increasing its speed of absorbing primal force. Furthermore, because the purple acacia and purple wormwood stages continued to advance, the gap between them widened further, allowing them to supply it with more primal force. As a result, its evolution stage was advanced significantly, and it evolved once more within three months, successfully advancing to the third-year junior warrior stage.

Inside the nest, the yew shed its old shell and slowly crawled out from the depths of the nest, coming to the front of the purple pearls.

The evolution went very smoothly without any surprises. After it crawled out, Zihuai and Ziai immediately brought a bag of fruit to it for it to eat.

After it had eaten its fill, Lords Zizhu, Zitong, and Zili, who were standing around, as well as Qingzhujia King who had flown over from the main peak, looked at Zishan with anticipation.

"Yew, spit out your second-year-old life seed, let's see what's going on?"

If the life seed conceived by the second-year yew is just an ordinary plant life seed, then it means that Lord Purple Plum and the others have been working in vain all this time. Even some of the top-level tree species that King Green Bamboo Armor painstakingly collected did not achieve the best results.

If the life-giving seeds conceived at the second age of the yew can still be promoted to divinely bestowed seeds, then it means that their previous guesses were completely correct, and the Green Bamboo King's hard work in collecting top-level tree species has not been in vain, and they will continue to collect them.

After advancing to the 3rd year, the yew reaches a size of 15 centimeters, slightly larger than a typical 5th year Diplodocus beetle warrior.

It spits out the mulberry seed, which has been nurtured in its second instar, from its life sac and places it in its claws for the other insects to see.

The insects' mental energy swept back and forth across the seed, easily detecting the primal force patterns on the seed that only divinely bestowed seeds possess.

"That's wonderful!" Zizhu couldn't help but cheer. Since the life seeds conceived at the 1st and 2nd age of the yew tree can become divinely bestowed seeds, then the life seeds conceived at the 3rd and 4th age should also have a high probability of becoming divinely bestowed seeds.

This means that their previous guesses were completely correct, and their tribe will have a continuous supply of divinely bestowed seeds!

Moreover, this divinely bestowed seed is not randomly granted by the true god of nature; it is not a divinely bestowed seed with uncertain plant species, uncertain location, uncertain yield, and uncertain effect.

They are divinely given seeds that they can choose, filter, and pre-select.

The value of this is beyond words. At this moment, they even saw the hope that the Double-Forked Rhinoceros Golden Tortoise tribe would become the largest tribe on Elephant Banana Island!

King Qingzhujia took out a seed and handed it to Zishan: "Zishan, this red cypress seed will be your life seed for your third year."

Red cypress is a top-tier tree species in nature. Its fruit has the effect of comprehensively enhancing strength. The divinely bestowed seed of red cypress is a top-tier divinely bestowed seed in nature with superior yield, quality, and value.

There may be divinely inspired foods of the same level in the astral plane, but there are virtually no divinely inspired foods of higher quality.

Even if the yield of seeds bred by yew may not be that high, as long as the quality and value do not decline, they can still outperform many divinely bestowed seeds.

Yew placed the red cypress seed into its life pouch, then, holding the mulberry seed, asked, "Shall we sow the mulberry seed now?"

Lord Purple Plum immediately replied, "Of course, this matter cannot be delayed. We have already prepared a place for you to plant the seeds!"

Lord Purple Plum carried the yews and the others out of the nest, and planted the life seeds of the purple locusts and the others not far from the nest.

Seven life seeds have been sown in both the purple locust and purple artemisia plants, and these life seeds grow much faster than ordinary plants.

The mulberry seedlings planted at the age of one have grown to 4 meters tall after nearly ten months, but their diameter is only the size of a tangerine.

However, this is normal. It's already quite good that someone can grow this tall in just over ten months.

The other six life seeds they planted grew to varying sizes; the life seeds that had just been planted after the eighth year of evolution were only 30 centimeters tall.

Some distance away from them, planted in another direction, are the divinely bestowed mulberry seeds of the yew. After three months of growth, this seed is now growing at a rate that is in no way inferior to the mulberry seeds of the purple locust and the others.

This is because the life force of the divinely bestowed seed is stronger, and its growth rate will be faster when the primal force and nutrients are sufficient.

About 500 meters away from the mulberry tree seed, there is a dug pit filled with humus.

Zishan twisted the mulberry tree seed and planted it directly in the center of the pit. At the same time, Zihuai and Ziai immediately carried a bucket and drew two buckets of water from the nearby ditch to irrigate the pit.

In just half a day, the life seed in the pit began to sprout and grow, and in just three days it grew to a height of forty or fifty centimeters.

Sensing that the divinely bestowed seed had entered a stable growth phase, King Green Bamboo took his leave, as the annual trade fair was about to begin.