Astral Gods

Chapter 123 "Huh, a seed given by the gods?"

Chapter 123 "Huh, a seed given by the gods?"

After Zishan left the tribe, Zihuai and Ziai didn't stay idle; instead, they became even busier.

Since mid-February, the three brothers' seed buds have started to bloom one after another, with the red cherry seed being the first to bloom.

Although it only took a year to grow the tree from the intermediate stage to the advanced stage, Lord Purple Plum invested a lot in it, pouring in all kinds of primal force resources without regard to cost.

Now it is growing quite well, with a trunk height of 10 meters, and its scale is comparable to that of old insects that have reached a high level seven or eight years ago.

It bloomed 1210 flowers this year, which made everyone very happy. The Purple Plum Lord even specially asked the Snow Lotus Queen Bee to train a group of professional bees to pollinate the yew seedlings.

When the Red Heart Cherry, a divine gift, was in bloom, the yew trees were still there. At that time, not only were most of the weeds in their territory cleared, but the Lord of Purple Pearl Mountain also assisted in the work, so they didn't seem very busy.

But by mid-March, both Purple Pearl and Purple Yew had left Xiangjiao Island, leaving only Purple Locust and Purple Artemisia in their territory. The three brothers' life seeds began to bloom and bear fruit one after another, keeping the two brothers extremely busy.

In mid-March, the male mulberry trees, which are called the "divine gift" by the yew, began to bloom. Their flowers did not all bloom at once, but rather in stages and with delays.

Ordinary mulberry trees bloom for about a week, while the flowering period of special mulberry varieties lasts for about a month.

After the male mulberry tree blooms, the female mulberry trees of the yew tree also begin to bloom. According to the yew tree's plan, the female mulberry trees will only bear 10,000 fruits this year, and only leave more than 10,000 flowers on the tree, which is about 200 bunches of mulberries.

Snowgrass King directs the bee colony to leave 200 flower spikes, remove all excess flowers, and collect the large pollen to pollinate the female yew trees.

In late March, the second male mulberry tree, a divinely bestowed seed, also began to bloom.

Snow Grass King prioritized pollinating the three brothers' life-sustaining seeds. After pollination, just like in previous years, it would take the pollen collected from the male mulberry flowers to Daqing Peak to pollinate the wild mulberry life-sustaining seeds.

In previous years, it only needed to make one trip, but not today. Today, the Rhinoceros Tortoise tribe has over 2 warriors. Nearly 900 life-giving seeds all require pollination from two male mulberry trees, each bearing a divinely bestowed seed.

This is a tedious and arduous task, and even if Snow Grass King were to work himself to death, it would be too much for it to handle.

Even the Snow Lotus Bee Queen was mobilized, and four additional Assistant Kings were dispatched to help. This was under the condition that the life seeds of each of their lineages were planted in one place. If it were like some tribes on the Thousand Tree Continent, whose insect warriors were said to have a patch of life seeds planted in their territory on a mountain, then flowering and pollination would be even more difficult.

I don’t know if it’s because of the promotion to a higher level, but the number of male flowers of the yew tree and the male mulberry tree has indeed increased greatly, with each tree bearing more than 22,000 flowers.

The second male mulberry tree, blessed by the gods, produced fewer flowers, only a little over 21,000. However, when calculated, the two male mulberry trees, blessed by the gods, produced more than 43,000 flowers.

Using the maximum pollination method of 20 times, it can pollinate 86 female flowers, more than 6 more than originally expected, which is an unexpected bonus for them.

This means that they have a total of nearly 70 pollen shares to distribute to the tribal warriors. Although this number is still a drop in the bucket for the many rhinoceros beetle warriors, overall, each share has about 100 more pollinated mulberries.

Every little bit counts; one mulberry tree can pollinate approximately 900 flowers. Assuming each Zerg warrior has 3 mulberry trees, this can pollinate 2700 female flowers on each Rhinoceros Beetle warrior's spawn.

This number sounds like a lot, but mulberries have small flowers and small fruits, with 50 fruits per bunch, so 2700 fruits would only amount to 54 bunches.

Those rhinoceros beetle warriors aged 6 years and older will each receive double the share, which is 108 strings. This amount of mulberries is not enough to support three mulberry trees to bear fruit, and even if all the fruit were to grow on one mulberry tree, it would be easy and stress-free.

Snow Grass King and the others did the same thing. They directly marked the life of the Rhinoceros Tortoise Warriors who received a share, and pollinated 2700 flowers on the tree for each Rhinoceros Tortoise Warrior.

There were also even smarter rhinoceros beetle warriors. The five of them worked together to pollinate more than 2 flowers. They instructed the Snow Grass King to pollinate all the pollen onto one tree, allowing only one mulberry tree to bear the demigod-given mulberry.

Although this puts a lot of pressure on the seedlings to bear fruit, they choose the oldest seedlings, which indirectly reduces the pressure.

The mulberries produced can be divided equally among everyone, while the remaining mulberry trees can continue to flower and bear fruit normally, without needing to carefully plan their production.

Upon hearing this method, Xuecao Zuowang and the others' eyes lit up. They thought it was a good idea and could be promoted to the entire tribe.

However, this is only the first year, and everyone is still in the experimental stage, so there is no rush.

With the help of Xuecao Zuowang and other Zuowang to collect nectar and pollinate, the three brothers didn't have to take care of the nine mulberry trees they had planted, which gave them a small sense of relief.

However, they didn't rest for long and immediately got busy again.

Because the green-hearted sunflower seedlings of the yew tree have also started to bloom. The green-hearted sunflower seedlings of the yew tree have never flowered or borne fruit in the early and intermediate stages. This is the first time they have bloomed since they have advanced to the advanced stage, so everyone is paying close attention to it.

The Green Heart Sunflower is slightly different from other varieties; each of its flowers contains hundreds of seeds.

Each division of the green-hearted sunflower will produce two flower heads, one secondary head and one primary head.

The number of flower heads is not large, but herbaceous species can be propagated by division.

The first division of the green heart sunflower in its initial stage results in 3 plants, plus the main plant, making a total of 4 plants.

The second division resulted in three more plants, with a triple ratio, bringing the total number of plants in the second division to nine.

In the advanced stage, there was another threefold division, and then the third division produced 27 plants. To date, the total number of its seed divisions has reached 40.

This is the first time the Green Heart Sunflower has bloomed. It has never borne fruit before. After raising the tree for so many years, there shouldn't be any problem with it bearing fruit. Anyway, the Green Heart Sunflower has already developed a soul consciousness. If you feel pressured, you can remove the secondary plate.

The yew trees had already discussed with them that if there weren't many green-hearted sunflower heads, they would keep them all.

Next came the wisteria seeds of the yew, the red cypress seeds, and the multi-seeded green grape seeds. The pomegranate seeds also began to bloom one after another.

The happiest of all were the purple locust and purple artemisia, since they also benefited from the production of yew seeds.

Besides them, the happiest one was not Lord Purple Plum, but rather the Snow Lotus Queen Bee.

Regardless of the effects and lifespan of the fruit produced by the yew seed, that's all a matter of several years in the future. But the flowers on the tree are real. It sends out a group of worker bees to collect nectar, and even brews a whole jar of divinely bestowed honey.

The value of the divinely bestowed primal force honey is not low; this is a real profit. Moreover, because it helps pollinate many of the yew's life-sustaining seeds, this divinely bestowed primal force honey does not have to be split 50/50 with the three yew brothers.

Although Snow Lotus Queen Bee has no shortage of these tens of thousands of raw stones, this top-grade honey is a luxury item for entertaining distinguished guests.

In previous years, they directed their bee colonies to collect the pollen of the divinely bestowed seed of the rhinoceros beetle tribe, and they could only get one or two jars a year. Moreover, they had to share it with the queen beetle and the lord. How could it be as good as it is now?

While the warriors of the Rhinoceros Beetle tribe were busy in their tribal territory, the Rhinoceros Beetle warriors far away on Sang Island were not idle either. They were cultivating the land on the island and planting mulberry trees to create a public forest.

Zanzibar is large enough that it has plenty of land to explore.

According to the plan of the Green Bamboo Armor King, Mountain Lord-level Rhinoceros Golden Turtle Warriors can obtain 10 square kilometers of territory as private insect territory, and Lord-level Rhinoceros Golden Turtle Warriors can obtain 20 square kilometers of territory as private insect territory.

In addition to their private insect territories, the tribe also cultivates public forests.

King Qingzhujia still has plans for the public forest. The first is the outer ring of Sang Island. Sang Island is located on the edge of the Thousand Star Islands and is very vulnerable to attacks from sea beast warriors.

It is precisely for this reason that no Zerg warriors have ever settled here. It is because their Rhinoceros Beetle tribe promised to migrate here in the future to guard this defensive line that the many Zerg tribes of the Thousand Star Islands have allowed them to come and occupy it.

Under the planning of King Qingzhujia, 20 kilometers of land on the outer edge of the island can be used as a public forest, where some alkali-tolerant plants commonly found in the island's dry areas can be planted, such as coconut palms, olive trees, and mangroves.

Secondly, a 1000-square-kilometer area will be set aside in the center of the island to be planted by the Rhinoceros Tortoise Warriors after they migrate their life-seeds there.

Currently, this area is a bit large, but the Rhinoceros Tortoise Warriors need to consider the future and leave enough room for future Zerg Warriors to emerge.

Beyond the central area, eight public territorial waters can be divided, extending outwards from the center in a cross shape, forming a super-large cross-shaped circle.

The two-pronged rhinoceros beetle tribe can occupy six public forests, while other rhinoceros beetle tribes share two public forests. As for the private insect territories, they are located around the cross-shaped public forests.

According to King Qingzhujia's plan, the entire public forest area should reach at least 5000 square kilometers, accounting for 1/4 of the total area of ​​Sang Island.

However, the area of ​​public sea they have reclaimed so far is less than 50 square kilometers, which is less than 1% of the total area. As for the reclamation of private insect territories, the speed is even more alarmingly slow.

For these rhinoceros tortoise warriors, clearing land and digging up trees are not problems. Those who can come here are at least mountain lord-level rhinoceros tortoise warriors.

They possess either metal-type talents, earth-type talents, or strength-type abilities, making these tasks a breeze for them.

However, mulberry seeds need time to grow. Given the great distance, it's impossible for them to bring seedlings from Xiangjiao Island. They can only cultivate and sow them on the island.

Even so, the Green Bamboo Bee Queen requested that the Snow Lotus Bee Queen send a subordinate queen with a group of worker bees.

With the presence of the King Bee and the professional bee warriors, they can patrol the territory and prevent sudden attacks from the sea monster warriors.

On the one hand, they can collect ordinary pollen in spring and summer to make honey, which improves the diet of the rhinoceros beetle warriors.

In autumn, they can also gather various wild fruits all over the mountains and fields to increase the food options for the rhinoceros beetle warriors, and at the same time, they can easily search for divine seeds.

Although the worker bee warriors are not as sensitive to the God-given Seeds as the insect warriors, once the fruits are ripe and harvested, and a large quantity is collected, if any God-given Seeds are missed, the inspecting Zoro and the Rhinoceros Beetle warriors will be able to find them.

Even though the probability is extremely low, it is not impossible for it to happen.

The efforts of the rhinoceros beetle tribe over the years have not been in vain; several years ago, they found a wild dahlia, a divine gift, on the island.

This divinely bestowed seed is not very old. It is likely that after the seed was born, the patrolling coastal defense soldiers did not find it and let it mature in the wild. It was lucky that it was not eaten by birds and beasts and fell to the ground to take root and sprout.

Although the yield of the Dahlia God-given Seeds is not high and it is currently only in its early stages, it is a good start for the Rhinoceros Tortoise Tribe.

In August, the fruits on various wild trees on the island gradually began to ripen. Snow Cloud Queen Bee sent Snow Lotus Queen Bee to direct the worker bee warriors to start picking ripe fruits all over the mountains and fields and bring them to the central area.

Then the Rhinoceros Tortoise Warriors will distribute these fruits according to different types, either to eat them immediately or to store them for later consumption.

It's important to know that there are now more than 40 Rhinoceros Tortoise Warriors at the Mountain Lord level or above on the island. Unlike those high-level warriors who only need to eat a small amount of ordinary food and supplement it with Force food to meet their daily needs, they are not like those high-level warriors.

In addition to consuming food made from primal forces, they also need to eat a lot of fruit to maintain their strength. For them, even eating two or three hundred kilograms of fruit a day is easy, so their demand for fruit is extremely high.

Near the central area, in a newly cleared and leveled plaza, five rhinoceros beetle warriors distributed the various wild fruits gathered by the worker bee warriors according to the different types of fruits and nuts.

Wild Dahlia God-given Seeds grow in the mountain valley not far from the square. They distribute the fruits here and also protect the Dahlia God-given Seeds. If sea monster warriors really attack and they have to retreat, they can dig up the Dahlia God-given Seeds and take them away.

However, dahlias are only a primary, wild, divinely bestowed species, and doing this would cause them considerable damage, potentially making it difficult for them to recover for several years.

Therefore, they are unwilling to do this unless it is an extreme situation, but this also shows that their protection measures are very comprehensive.

"Huh!" Just as the Rhinoceros Tortoise warriors were busy with their work, one of them suddenly let out a soft exclamation.

Upon hearing the soft sound, the other Rhinoceros Tortoise warriors, who were engrossed in their work, immediately looked up and scanned the area with their mental senses. They discovered that the Rhinoceros Tortoise warrior was holding a seed that radiated primal energy in its claws.

Upon seeing the seed, the eyes of the rhinoceros-turtle warriors lit up with wild joy: "Is this a seed bestowed by the gods?"

"That's right, it's the seed given by God."

The Rhinoceros Tortoise warriors could no longer care about what they were doing in their claws. They immediately surrounded the Rhinoceros Tortoise warrior holding the divinely bestowed seed, their eyes somewhat mesmerized as they gazed at the seed.

For them, the divinely bestowed seed is their deepest obsession and their most cherished possession.