Astral Gods

Chapter 124 The Divinely Gifted Seed of the Nephrolepis

Chapter 124 The Divinely Gifted Seed of the Nephrolepis

"The second Divine Seed has finally appeared on Sang Island!" The Rhinoceros Tortoise warriors present were overjoyed and immediately sent out their mental signals to notify the other Rhinoceros Tortoise warriors that the second Divine Seed had appeared.

Some of the Rhinoceros Tortoise Warriors were cultivating land not far from the central area. After sensing the spiritual intent coming from here, they immediately abandoned their work and came to watch.

Some of the Rhinoceros Tortoise warriors couldn't contain their excitement: "Another divinely bestowed seed has been born on Sang Island! Quickly, let the Green Bamboo Armor King and the Spotted Lord check it out."

Soon, the Green Bamboo Armor King, the Spotted Lord, and the other Rhinoceros Tortoise Warriors who remained on the island received the news and rushed over.

Everyone crowded around, watching the Rhinoceros Tortoise Warrior put the seed into the spider silk bag, and then handed the spider silk bag to the Green Bamboo Armor King after finding the divinely bestowed seed.

As divinely bestowed seeds born from the public forest, they theoretically belong to the tribe, especially since the rhinoceros tortoise warriors who select the fruit are already in their twilight years.

This is an unspoken rule. After all, if a Rhinoceros Tortoise Warrior possesses evolutionary potential, then when searching for God-given Seeds in the public forest, even if a God-given Seed is found to be mature, it can be secretly kept and claimed to have been born in its own territory, and no one can do anything about it.

Although the probability of doing this is not high, it's best to avoid such things just in case.

Otherwise, even if the divinely bestowed seed remains in the tribe, the insect heart will be scattered, making it difficult to lead the troops.

King Qingzhujia took out the divinely bestowed seed from the small spider silk bag to examine it. The seed was only slightly larger than a sesame seed and emitted a primal force fluctuation that was biased towards enhancing life force.

After scanning it several times with its mental power, it asked somewhat uncertainly, "Have you checked what kind of divinely bestowed seed this is?"

"After checking, we found that the divinely bestowed seeds often mutate, and the shape and size of the seeds are not necessarily the same as those of ordinary plant seeds. Our initial guess is that this is a divinely bestowed seed of the Nephrolepis cordifolia."

"Nephrolepis cordifolia?" Upon hearing its words, the Green Bamboo Armor King hesitated slightly and gently tapped its tentacles: "It should be. Although this fruit is a bit larger than ordinary Nephrolepis cordifolia seeds, its shape is similar, and its strengthening effect is the same as that of Nephrolepis cordifolia."

"So it's the divinely bestowed seed of the Nephrolepis cordifolia." Hearing their conversation, the Rhinoceros Tortoise Warriors who were watching still showed excitement on their faces, but that excitement had faded considerably.

Nephrolepis cordifolia is just an inconspicuous herbaceous plant. Even though it is a divinely bestowed species, its yield is pitifully low. It belongs to the same category of divinely bestowed species as toad grass and purslane.

At this moment, the Spotted Lord inquired, "King Green Bamboo Armor, if I remember correctly, the Nephrolepis cordifolia is an herbaceous plant, so it's not suitable to be sown into a wild, divinely bestowed seed. To whom should this divinely bestowed seed be given?"

Upon hearing Lord Spotted's words, the eyes of all the Zerg warriors lit up.

Logically, the divinely bestowed seeds obtained from the public forest should be sown into wild divinely bestowed seeds to prepare for the tribe's future.

However, most herbaceous divine-given seeds are not included in this list, because herbaceous divine-given seeds are difficult to grow, and they are easy to die halfway through when sown into wild divine-given seeds. Therefore, most herbaceous divine-given seeds are nurtured into life seeds by Zerg warriors.

Logically speaking, even if the divinely bestowed seeds found in public forests are not sown into wild divinely bestowed seeds, the standard should still be that whoever finds them can nurture them into life-giving seeds.

However, the Qingque Mountain Lord, who first found this Nephrolepis seed, had already entered its aging period. Its success rate in evolving to the next stage was less than 10%, and its probability of advancing to the Lord level was less than 1%. Therefore, it had long given up on evolution and would not nurture the seed as its destiny seed under the current circumstances.

Faced with the unclaimed divinely bestowed seed, any of the Rhinoceros Tortoise warriors present could potentially obtain it as their destiny seed.

Although the yield of the Nephrolepis cordifolia is low and the quality and effects of its fruit are not very good, it is still a divinely bestowed plant, and who wouldn't want to obtain it?

King Qingzhujia pondered for a moment and said, "This is not urgent. Let's discuss it with Qingguo and Zili first to ensure that this divinely bestowed seed can maximize the tribe's interests."

Upon hearing Qingzhu Jiawang's words, the rhinoceros tortoise warriors with the potential for advancement cheered.

To maximize the benefits of the Nephrolepis exalted seed, it all comes down to who is entrusted with nurturing it into a life-giving plant.

Theoretically speaking, if the Green Bamboo King is nurtured as a life-giving seed, then once the Nephrolepis seed is planted, it will only take ten or twenty years to reach the King level and produce King-level yields.

However, even the Green Bamboo King struggled to advance to the King level, and it's unknown when he will advance to the next age.

To nurture and plant the divinely bestowed seed, one must first advance to a certain age to nurture the seed within the life-growth process, and then advance to another age to remove the nurtured life-growth seed and plant it.

This is a long way off for the Green Bamboo King, so the probability of it developing the seed into a life-giving seed is not high.

Besides the Green Bamboo King, several other lords in the Rhinoceros Golden Beetle tribe could also maximize their tribe's interests by cultivating the divinely bestowed Nephrolepis seeds into life-sustaining seeds, but they had similar problems to the Green Bamboo King.

In the Rhinoceros Tortoise tribe, the Azure Mang Lord has entered its aging period and will not waste such a precious seed on it. The Spotted Lord is also nearing its aging period and is still far from becoming a 9-year-old lord, so it is highly unlikely that it will include the seed in its life-sustaining process.

Although Lords Zili and Zisang are still relatively young, they have only recently advanced to the next age level. They will have to wait at least ten or twenty years for the next age level advancement.

Leaving aside whether they have any hope of advancing to the next age in ten or twenty years, even divinely bestowed seeds cannot be stored for that long. If we don't use such a good thing right away, are we just going to wait for it to spoil or go to waste?

The Green Fruit Lord does have the potential to evolve, and there is also an opportunity for advancement in the next two or three years, but the ones who have evolved the most recently are the Mountain Lords and advanced-stage warriors in the tribe.

The Twin-Forked Rhinoceros Tortoise tribe has thirty or forty mountain lords. It's possible to find one and invest some evolution resources to help it advance quickly.

There are countless high-level warriors, and one can be pulled out at any time to provide resources for its advancement in age.

As for the rhinoceros tortoise warriors and junior warriors of other tribes, there's no need to say more; how could they possibly be given resources of this level?

Therefore, according to this logic, every mountain lord present who has the potential for advancement has the opportunity to receive a divinely bestowed seed.

The Green Bamboo King swayed its antennae and said, "Green Sparrow, you obtained the divine seed, even though you did not nurture it into a life-sustaining seed."

But I promise you here that whoever cultivates this divinely bestowed seed into a Life Seed in the future, once it advances to the Mountain Lord level, or from the Mountain Lord level to the Lord level, half of the profits produced by the Life Seed in its first twenty years will belong to you.”

The Lord of Qingque Mountain waved his antennae: "This divinely bestowed seed was brought back by the worker bees under the command of the Snow Lotus Bee Queen. I merely discovered it; it doesn't count as me finding it."

Besides, I've already entered old age, and even if I could obtain the divine seed, I have no potential for evolution. I should give it to the insects that need it more.

It has given up on evolution, even giving all its own primal energy food to its offspring. It wants its offspring to advance to a higher age, not to mention these extra resources.

The Green Bamboo Armor King lightly tapped its antennae: "Let's not rush this. Let's wait until this divinely bestowed seed produces primal energy food in the future!"

Ownership of the divinely bestowed seed is a rather important matter, and King Qingzhujia does not want to delay on this matter, lest things get complicated.

It flew directly back to the Rhinoceros Beetle tribe with the Nephrolepis seed, intending to discuss with Lord Purple Plum and the others who should receive the seed.

In the Rhinoceros Tortoise tribe, King Green Bamboo Armor was absent, and Lord Green Fruit was in charge of the tribe's affairs.

Within the tribe, it is responsible not only for many affairs of the Qing lineage, but also for managing the affairs of other branches.

Even when warriors are on the outskirts of the tribe, and conflicts arise between the tribe's warriors and other Zerg tribes, these are things that it needs to handle.

Besides matters concerning the tribe, it also has to take care of things within its own territory. The life seeds can be handed over to the younger generation to manage and care for. After all, to them, no matter how many life seeds there are, they are just ordinary trees, unlike the many divinely bestowed seeds of the yew that need to be taught various kinds of knowledge.

But it was busy with all sorts of chores and had to find time to hone its abilities. If it weren't for the assistance of the Azure Lord, it would have been useless to grow eight legs.

Just as it was arranging a small transaction with an outsider, it suddenly saw the figure of the Green Bamboo Armor King flying in from the distant horizon.

This startled it slightly, and it quickly spread its wings to greet it: "King of Green Bamboo Armor, what brings you here?"

Logically speaking, the Green Bamboo King should stay on Sang Island for a period of time every year, and return with the Zerg warriors trained in the tribe and the Rhinoceros Tortoise warriors who manage the territory around the end of September or the beginning of October. But it's only August now, so why is it coming back so early?

Thinking of this, its heart skipped a beat. Could something have happened?

However, it stopped thinking about this after a moment, because it saw the smile in the eyes of the Green Bamboo King. Since there was a smile, it couldn't be anything bad.

The Green Bamboo King released his spiritual power and said, "Good news! Another wild divine seed has been discovered on Sang Island. This divine seed was picked by the worker bees under the Snow Lotus Bee Queen and was discovered by the Green Sparrow."

"The herbaceous divinely bestowed seed is difficult to cultivate into a wild divinely bestowed seed, so I came back to discuss with you all who would be the best choice to nurture this divinely bestowed seed into a life-giving seed, maximizing the tribe's interests."

"Another divinely bestowed seed has been obtained." Upon hearing this news, even with its composure honed over hundreds of years, the Green Fruit Lord couldn't help but flap its wings wildly to express its excitement.

Their Rhinoceros Beetle tribe had agreed to relocate with the tribes of the Thousand Star Islands fifty years ago, but since the tribe did not have a King of Insects at the time, their persuasiveness was insufficient.

Thirty years ago, their entire clan supported Qingzhu's ascension to Insect King, and only then did they initially agree on the matter of migrating to Sang Island.

Ten years ago, they officially sent insects to settle on Sang Island. Before even one percent of the island had been developed, they received two divine seeds. The future is simply unimaginable.

"I'll go call Purple Plum and Green Mango over here!" Green Fruit Lord couldn't hide his excitement. Without waiting for Green Bamboo Armor King's response, he immediately spread his wings and flew away.

Soon, Lord Zili and Lord Qingmang arrived at Lord Qingguo's urging.

Upon arriving, Lord Qingmang inquired, "Qingzhu, I heard from Qingguo that another divinely bestowed seed has been born on Sang Island." Indeed, a kidney fern divinely bestowed seed has been obtained.

"Nephrolepis cordifolia?" Upon hearing that it was this divinely bestowed seed, the lords who had rushed over with great excitement were immediately somewhat disappointed.

This level of divinely bestowed seed does not have a high yield. Unless there is a branch with a growth rate of more than 7 times in each major evolution stage, the annual output at the Mountain Lord level can only reach about 1 primal stones.

If you're unlucky and only manage to produce 3x or 4x offshoots, the annual output might not even reach 3000 raw stones.

"Don't be discouraged, everyone," Lord Qingguo encouraged. "The Dahlia and Nephrolepis seeds are both wild divine gifts from Sang Island."

Although only herbaceous divine seeds were born, this demonstrates that the probability of divine seeds being born on the island is quite high. The Nephrolepis seed is just the beginning; I believe we will obtain more and more divine seeds in the future.

Hearing Lord Green Fruit's words, the insects perked up slightly; what it said wasn't wrong. If the probability of a divinely bestowed seed being born on an undeveloped island was this high, their chances of obtaining one would definitely be even greater once they developed their territory.

After Lord Qingguo finished speaking, King Qingzhujia, holding the Divine Seed, said, "Currently, the biggest problem is who should cultivate this unclaimed wild Divine Seed. Do you have any ideas?"

Everyone wants the unclaimed wild divine seed, but those standing here are insects who can determine the future of their tribe. Their reason prevails over their instinct, and they begin to discuss who should nurture this divine seed.

The first choice is naturally to give it to Qingguo. As long as it grows two ages, the divine seed of the Nephrolepis can be planted, and it will generate benefits quickly in the future, which will also make its chances of becoming the insect king greater.

However, if given to other mountain lords and high-level warriors, they can generate benefits more quickly when nurtured into life seeds. A single Nephrolepis seed bestowed by the gods is not very useful to a Green Fruit Lord, but it is quite useful to a high-level warrior or a mountain lord-level warrior.

Lord Purple Plum hesitated slightly, then swayed his tentacles and said, "I remember we discussed this before. If we obtain a suitable divine seed in the public forest, we can give it to the yew tree to nurture into a life seed, and see if it can produce a change similar to the divine seed of the Red Heart Cherry?"

If a transformation similar to the Divine Seed of Red Cherry were to occur, the yield would increase by tens or even hundreds of times, far surpassing the effect of breeding any other Zerg warriors as life-sustaining seeds.

Hearing Lord Zili's words, King Qingzhu was not surprised. In fact, it had specially rushed back from the Thousand Star Islands with this intention. However, Zishan already had enough wealth, and it should not take away the little wealth left of its other clans.

Entrusting the divinely bestowed seed to the yew tree for nurturing requires careful consideration of how to appropriately distribute the benefits.