Astral Gods

Chapter 36 Lord Zezhang's Vacation

The reason why the yew trees first gave the flashlight to the male mulberry tree was to let it experience whether increasing light exposure could increase its growth rate.

Although it has been a year since the Purple Plum Divine Seed was created, there are still some differences between a Lord-level Divine Seed and a Primary Divine Seed.

They need to determine if the Elementary Divine-Given Seed is best suited to a few hours more sunlight than usual at sunrise and sunset, and how much beyond that would be the limit.

After about ten days of experimentation, under multiple superimposed conditions, even in winter, the male mulberry seed, blessed by the gods, grew rapidly, growing 10 centimeters taller in just ten days and sprouting many new buds.

After seeing positive feedback, the yew team converted the flashlight into a greenhouse and applied it to the multi-seeded green grape and sweet kiwi fruit varieties.

The multi-seeded green grape has been growing for more than four months. The diameter of the main vine has grown to two centimeters, and the vines have grown to more than ten meters long. They can even be supported by trellises. Therefore, they are mainly focused on the sweet kiwifruit seedling.

This seedling was planted after the yew tree reached its seventh age, which was almost winter. At that time, it had only grown to four or five meters, and the main vine was only one centimeter thick. Letting it grow stronger was one of the few things the three little ones needed to do.

With the support of the greenhouse and Lord Purple Plum, all six yew seedlings grew well throughout the three months of winter.

The male mulberry seed, bestowed by the gods, not only awakened its soul consciousness, but also grew half a meter taller, reaching more than six meters, and the diameter of its main stem also increased from three centimeters to four centimeters.

The female mulberry tree has grown from 4.6 meters to 5.3 meters, and the Purple Plum Lord feels that it may bloom next spring.

As for the birth of a soul consciousness, that's uncertain. The divinely bestowed seed can give birth to a soul consciousness in as little as one or two years, or as long as three or four years. Fortunately, they are not in a hurry.

The Japanese cypress is probably the one in the best growing condition. Although it was sown a whole year later than the male mulberry, it is growing just as fast and has reached a height of over 6 meters.

As for the 4-year-old Destiny Seed Green Heart Sunflower, its growth is different from the previous three Destiny Seeds. As a herbaceous plant, it grows by probabilistic division. After the herbaceous plant is conceived as a Destiny Seed, it will divide once every time the Zerg warrior advances to a major level.

However, due to the limitations of its yew grade, it is currently only growing as a single plant. After eight or nine months of growth, its trunk diameter will grow to more than four or five centimeters, but its height will only be more than three meters.

Moreover, the trunk is much more fragile than the branches of trees, looking extremely fragile and likely to break at the slightest touch, lacking any flexibility, which worries the yews.

However, this is true for most herbaceous plants, and they don't have any good solutions to it.

Lord Zili said that once the sunflower seedlings have grown stronger, he would ask a Zerg warrior with wood-type abilities to come and help strengthen them. They didn't know how to strengthen them either.

Compared to the sunflower seed, the multi-seeded green grape seed and the sweet kiwi seed, after three months of off-season growth in winter and with the blessing of various primal treasures, have grown by one or two meters in length. When spring comes, they can continue to grow at full speed, and their growth is quite promising.

Winter passed, the ice and snow in the north melted, and all things regained their vitality. The rhinoceros beetle warriors of all sizes from the Double-Forked Rhinoceros Beetle tribe also emerged from the greenhouse.

When winter arrives, other Zerg warriors usually either go out to search for the God-given Seed or play around.

Unlike the little warriors of the rhinoceros beetle tribe, the first thing they did after waking up was to come and fight the insects.

Before the grass and trees had even grown, a large group of Zerg warriors roamed the mountains and forests, calling out to their friends and causing trouble in droves.

"Purple locust, purple artemisia, yew, come out and fight!"

"???" Zihuai and Ziai ran out of the insulated room and looked at the large group of young soldiers outside, somewhat bewildered.

"Zizhang, Ziyu, what are you doing?"

"Purple Locust, Purple Artemisia, let's go fight the little warriors from the Green Vein and Flower Vein, do you want to come along?"

After other little warriors advance to the intermediate level, most evolve at a rate of one evolution cycle every six months. However, the three little ones eat divinely bestowed food with abundant resources, allowing them to evolve once every three or four months.

Therefore, although they were born relatively late, their evolutionary progress gradually caught up with other Zerg warriors who were one or two years older than them.

Especially the two insects, Purple Locust and Purple Artemisia, are considered to be among the better fighters among the little soldiers, and they are always present in every fight.

"Shall we fight?"

Upon hearing this, both insects became excited. Fighting was in their nature, and they actively participated in anything related to fighting.

But after only a slight hesitation, they waved their antennae in refusal: "The yews are in their evolutionary stage; we must guard them."

"Huh? Is it the evolutionary age now?"

"What stage has the yew tree evolved to? Is it still a novice warrior? It must be four years old this year, right? Its evolution speed is too slow."

The lifespan of a novice Zerg warrior is only about ten years. After a Zerg warrior has lived past the halfway mark of his life, the risk of evolution and growth increases several times over. Therefore, everyone is somewhat worried about Zishan.

"It's alright, we're all watching!"

Although the Purple Locust and the others were somewhat worried about the evolution of the yew, with the full support of Lord Purple Plum and their daily support using their primal force, its growth rate had already reached its limit. According to King Green Bamboo Armor, once it advances to the intermediate warrior level, the difficulty for the yew to nurture its life seed will be greatly reduced, so they were not particularly worried.

"That's such a pity. I heard that Teacher Zehui is coming over after spring. If we don't fight soon, we'll have to go to class again."

The other young soldiers felt extremely sorry to see that Zihuai and the others couldn't fight together.

"What? Did I get in the way of your fight?"

Just then, Lord Zehui Mountain arrived at this place together with Lord Qingguo.

Lord Qingguo stared at the group of little radish heads with a death stare, and with Lord Zehui standing by, the group of young warriors immediately became listless.

Lord Zehui said calmly, "Hurry up and have some fun, you have class tomorrow."

"Oh." Upon hearing the words of the Lord of Zehui Mountain, the young warriors were instantly terrified and fled in panic.

Seeing that the young warriors had all run off, Lord Ze Hui slowly turned to the two young warriors and asked, "Purple Locust, are Purple Fir still in their evolutionary stage?"

"Yes."

"Are you the only two guarding this place?"

Zi Ai quickly responded, "The yew is almost finished evolving. Zi Zhu is going to bring over the fruits stored up for winter so that she can be fed to the yew in time."

"What stage of evolution has the yew tree reached?"

Zihua honestly replied, "Yew is now in its eighth-instar stage, at the initial stage."

"Only at the beginner level?" Lord Zehui's expression was somewhat grave. He looked back at Lord Qingguo: "Lord Qingguo, isn't the evolution age of Zishan a bit too slow?"

To be honest, it is very easy for junior warriors to advance. Except for those junior warriors who do not have the protection of their elders, there are basically no junior warriors who are still lingering in the junior stage at the age of four. They are already close to the point of old age.

"The yew's evolution is a bit slow, but we'll find a way to speed it up." Lord Greenfruit couldn't explain why the yew's evolution was slow, so he could only give a vague answer.

Lord Zehui said, "Speaking of which, the yew's evolution was quite timely. I just happened to bring back a top-tier plant from the tribe, which can be nurtured into a life-giving seed."