Astral Gods

Chapter 41 The Mulberry Tree Blooms Again

In the following days, the yews discovered that the tribe's senior warriors would also frequently come to the classroom to listen to lectures.

As the Lord of Zehui Mountain gradually taught them, the knowledge they learned became more and more profound, from the initial numbers and words, to addition and subtraction, then to multiplication and division, as well as various cultivation methods for plants in their territory, and guidance on combat techniques.

Many high-level warriors have found that they can learn something useful in the classes taught by the Lord of Zehui Mountain, so they no longer resist them.

From January to March, another two months passed in the blink of an eye. As the purple acacia and purple artemisia evolved, they were able to infuse more primal force into the yew every day. The yew can now evolve one age every two months and finally succeeded in advancing to the ninth-age primary warrior before the beginning of summer when it turned four.

Lord Zili personally led it to sow the life seed. Under the watchful eyes of all the insects, Zishan buried the 8-year-old Qinghun Kiwi life seed in the soil and watered it. She also selected a three-lobed snake grape to cultivate into a 9-year-old life seed.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief as the Azure Soul Kiwi Seed, nurtured by the yew seed sac and successfully transformed into a divinely bestowed seed, was planted. As long as the Azure Soul Kiwi grows, they will have soul-based primal energy food to consume in the future.

Zizhu asked Lord Zili, "Lord Zili, Zishan is already a nine-year-old beginner warrior. It should be able to advance to an intermediate warrior this year, right? When do you think it would be most appropriate for it to evolve into an intermediate warrior?"

Lord Zili said, "The divinely bestowed species are different from ordinary life seeds. It is more difficult for it to evolve to a larger stage. Let it grow into a tree for half a year first. After the Azure Soul Kiwi Life Seed has grown to a certain level, then let the Zishan advance to the intermediate level."

Zizhu said with some concern, "Zishan is almost five years old. Isn't this evolution rate a bit too slow?"

"It's alright, things will get much better once it advances to the intermediate level!"

Intermediate warriors have a lifespan of 50 years, which is plenty of time for them to advance to advanced warriors.

"Zizhu, these next few days you and Zishan will stay under the Qinghun Kiwi Life-Planting Tree and wait until it has grown to a considerable size before you leave."

"no problem."

Just as the insects were chatting idly, Zi Ai flew over from afar: "Lord Zi Li, Zi Zhu, good news! The male and female Divine Seeds of Mulberry have blossomed!"

"It's blooming?"

They were not surprised that the mulberry trees were flowering.

Lord Purple Plum estimated the time: "Mulberry trees usually bloom in April, but with the greenhouse, their flowering period has been brought forward by a month."

Zizhu asked, "Lord Zili, is this alright?"

"It's not a big problem. Other Zerg warriors also have insulated greenhouses built around their lifelines, so they should bloom around the same time."

Zi Ai will stay here with Zi Shan to guard the Qinghun kiwifruit. Zi Zhu, let's go take a look.

The two insects flew to the base of the male mulberry tree, which was given seeds by the gods. As summer approached, the effectiveness of the greenhouse was greatly reduced.

The Green Fruit Lord removed the cover from the greenhouse, exposing the entire tree so it could grow better in the summer.

Once winter arrives, simply reattaching the canopy on top of the tree will restore its heat-insulating effect, making this operation quite convenient.

Purple Locust was chatting with the Male Mulberry God-Given Seed under the tree when Purple Plum Lord and the others arrived. Purple Fir immediately flew over and pointed to the scattered flowers on the Male Mulberry God-Given Seed, saying, "Purple Plum Lord, Purple Pearl, the Male Mulberry God-Given Seed has bloomed, and the Female Mulberry God-Given Seed has also bloomed. What should we do next?"

Lord Purple Plum looked up at the tree, swaying its antennae: "The female mulberry tree, a divine gift, is only in its early stages. The pressure of bearing fruit is too great. Let's remove the flowers first to accelerate its growth!"

"What about Xiong Sang?"

"If I remember correctly, the male mulberry tree has been growing for more than three years, and it only blooms but does not bear fruit. Its flowering period lasts for only a little over a month."

Let's see how many flowers it can produce first. If there aren't many, we'll keep them all. We can use the male flowers to pollinate the life seeds of the little warriors who have nurtured mulberry tree life seeds within our territory, and see how the quality of the fruit produced from large-scale pollination is.

Zizhu flapped her wings: "Okay, I'll go and invite Xuecao Zuowang over."

Soon, Snow Grass King arrived with its swarm, following Purple Pearl. It directed the swarm to remove all the flowers and buds from the female Mulberry God-Given Seed, then looked at Lord Purple Plum and asked, "Lord Purple Plum, should we leave the flowers on the male Mulberry God-Given Seed for pollination of the little warrior's life seed?"

"It would be best if we could keep it."

"Which young soldiers' lives were pollinated by those male flowers?"

This is a big problem. There aren't many, but there are still quite a few, of the junior warriors who have reached the intermediate stage on Purple Ridge.

The Twin-Forked Rhinoceros Beetles, along with the Zerg warriors from their subordinate tribes, number in the top fifty or so.

Even excluding the Zerg warriors within the affiliated tribes, the Twin-Forked Rhinoceros Beetle tribe itself, including Purple Locust and Purple Ai, has about ten warriors who have reached the intermediate age.

Lord Zili thought for a moment. The news that the Zishan Life Seed was a divinely bestowed seed was not suitable to be revealed to outsiders. Therefore, he first ruled out the subordinate tribes and could only select young warriors from his own tribe.

He said, "The Purple Camphor Tree is now a mid-level warrior in its sixth year. It evolves at a rate of one year every five months and will remain in the mid-stage for another year or two."

"First, pollinate the wild mulberry tree's divinely bestowed seed. Use the extra pollinators to pollinate the seedlings of purple camphor, purple banyan, purple osmanthus, purple sandalwood, and purple jade. Do an experiment and see how it goes."

Zizhu asked with some surprise, "Aren't you going to pollinate the seeds of the Purple Locust and Purple Artemisia?"

Logically speaking, as the brother of the yew, the male flower should be the best pollinator for both of their species.

Lord Zili calmly said, "At present, it is still just an experiment. It doesn't matter much who the seed is pollinated at this time."

Furthermore, in order to ensure that the purple acacia and purple artemisia can provide sufficient primal energy to the life seeds nurtured in the yew's life sac every day, I am currently investing resources to accelerate their evolution. Their life seeds also need to grow rapidly, and it is not suitable for them to bear fruit at present.

Following Lord Zili's instructions, after all the flowers on the male mulberry tree had bloomed, Xuecao Zuowang personally led a batch of pollen to Daqingfeng to pollinate the wild mulberry trees on the mountain, which were blessed by the gods.

Afterwards, pollen was collected from the remaining male flowers to pollinate the cultivars of the Cinnamomum camphora.

After working for more than a month, Xuecao Zuowang finally finished everything and reported to Lord Zili: "Lord Zili, when I was collecting pollen from male flowers, I discovered a problem that is neither too big nor too small."

Lord Zili asked, "What's the problem?"

"Based on my experience, mulberry trees generally produce around 50,000 flowers, regardless of whether they are male or female."

One male flower can pollinate about 16-20 female flowers, but this yew tree, a divinely ordained male mulberry, only produced a little over 20,000 flowers in total, less than half the number of ordinary mulberry trees.

Based on this calculation, a single male mulberry tree can only pollinate a total of about 40 female flowers, which is a rather low yield.

The Purple Plum Lord swayed its antennae, producing 40 flowers, which is equivalent to the yield of only 8 plants of the Life Seed. This is completely incomparable to the fruit fly tribe's Yangmei male plant, which can pollinate 20 female plants at once.

However, it also guessed that this might be because the divinely bestowed seed nurtured by the yew tree was inherently deficient and could not truly compare with the divinely bestowed seed cultivated by the true god of nature.

According to what the Green Bamboo King said, it guessed that this was not only the case for the male mulberry seed, but also for other divinely bestowed seeds nurtured by the yew tree. Their yield and quality could only hover at the lower limit of divinely bestowed primal force food, but even so, that was enough.

Lord Zili suddenly realized something: "You didn't pollinate all the flowers on the mulberry trees planted by the Purple Camphor Tree, did you?"

"No way," Xuecao Zuowang said confidently. "I've been doing this kind of work for over a hundred years, how could I make such a mistake?"

The life-sustaining capacity of the intermediate-level soldiers is limited, and the number of flowers and fruits cannot be too large. I left 2 flowers on each of the mulberry trees of these soldiers.

The mulberry fruit is small, so it shouldn't be a burden. I'll use the excess pollen on the seedlings of the banyan tree, so nothing will go to waste.

Lord Zili praised, "King Xuecao is very thoughtful in his handling of affairs!"