Astral Gods

Chapter 122 New Arrangements for the Divinely Gifted Male Flower

Chapter 122 New Arrangements for the Divinely Gifted Male Flower

Life in the Zerg society moves quickly. None of the Yew species flowered or bore fruit, except for a few Zi Ai species trees that still had fruit hanging on them, which were not difficult to manage.

Moreover, some weeds do not grow in winter, which allows them to have a comfortable winter.

Time flew by and it was spring of the following year. From spring onwards, weeds in the territory began to sprout wildly.

Yew is still heading to the Thousand Star Islands this year, but that doesn't mean it's ignoring what's happening in its territory. Together with Artemisia and Sophora, it has started clearing away the weeds that are sprouting in its territory early on.

They work from dawn till midnight every day. Now, by clearing away more weeds, the two insects, Purple Locust and Purple Artemisia, will have an easier time once it reaches the Thousand Star Islands.

Because the leader of Zizhu Mountain moved his territory to Sang Island, he had nothing to do in the tribe. After spring arrived, he would come over every day to help them clear the weeds in their territory.

With four insects working together, the speed was much faster, and in just a few days they cleared out a territory.

Zizhu handed a large bag of spider silk containing bean seeds to the three brothers: "These were cultivated by the Hercules tribe."

The green-podded soybean, a distinctive feature of their tribe, is a relatively abundant annual herbaceous plant.

"Your territory is very large, and the mulberry trees are far apart. These green edamame pods can be sown in the gaps between the mulberry trees."

There are many benefits to doing this. Legumes not only suppress weed growth but also increase nitrogen fertilizer in the soil. Moreover, once the plants have grown to a certain size, there is a greater chance of them producing "divine seeds," and the fruits they produce can also be eaten by common rhinoceros beetles. It's a win-win situation.

"understood."

The three yew brothers took the green-podded soybean seeds, preparing to plant them when the time came.

The legume that Yew most wanted to plant was the pea mutated from the Thousand Star Islands, but unfortunately, she didn't have enough insect connections in the Thousand Star Islands to get the seeds.

The function of green edamame is to enhance the wood element. This kind of primal food is useless to them, so they are not very keen on planting it. They just use it temporarily to increase the nitrogen fertilizer in the soil and give the common rhinoceros beetles a little more food.

Then, the master of Zizhu Mountain took out a large bag of peanut seeds and handed it to the three brothers: "These are peanut seeds. You grew up eating these, so you should be familiar with them."

Green edamame grows above ground, while peanuts grow underground. They can be planted together. Peanuts store well and are also liked by common rhinoceros beetles. You should plant more of them.

"it is good."

The three brothers were slightly speechless. They liked to eat peanuts, but they really didn't like growing them.

The Lord of Purple Pearl Mountain has an obsessive love for peanuts, an instinct of the Zerg warriors, specifically manifested as a particular fondness for a certain plant.

In the words of the Flame Spider Merchant, they lack wisdom.

There are actually many of these Zerg warriors, and many of them stubbornly cultivate only one type of plant, disregarding other plants.

Their Rhinoceros Beetle tribe also has many similar warriors. The tribe does not forcibly interfere with the nature of these Zerg warriors, but selectively trains them.

For example, some Zerg warriors will choose herbaceous plants such as toad grass, horse hoof grass, and purslane as their favorite plants.

If a tribe cannot dissuade insects from cultivating these types of plants, they will simply abandon them, because these insects have no growth potential. Even if a divine seed is born from these plants and nurtured into a life-sustaining seed, they will find it difficult to advance to the Mountain Lord level, let alone the Lord level.

Similar to the Zizhu Mountain Lord, who had sufficient restraint in this preference, he mainly cultivated mulberry trees within his tribal territory, but would plant some peanuts in the gaps between planting mulberry trees, and the tribe would not interfere with them.

The three yew brothers did not show any particular fondness for any plant, let alone exhibit any obsessive madness.

Planting mulberry trees was in line with the tribe's plan to develop the forest, and the yew wanted to plant mulberry trees because of their high output value.

Therefore, when the Lord of Zizhu Mountain handed the peanuts to them, they did not have any resistance. In fact, the three brothers were born in the peanut field.

Mulberry trees are medium-sized trees. For them to grow normally, there must be at least 5 meters between them. Considering the large size of the Rhinoceros Tortoise Warriors, the distance between them must be at least six or seven meters so that they can move freely in the territory after they are promoted to the Mountain Lord level.

It would be a shame to leave such long gaps between the trees empty, and it was for this reason that the Lord of Purple Pearl Mountain allowed them to plant green soybeans and peanuts to ensure that every inch of land in the territory could be used.

In January, they worked tirelessly to cultivate the land in their territory, planting three kinds of plants: mulberry trees, green soybeans, and peanuts. They were busy for a whole month.

February arrived as scheduled. February is the flowering season, and the entire Xiangjiao Island is covered with blooming flowers. The Zerg warriors also entered their off-season.

At this time of year, even the most diligent Zerg warriors will not bury themselves in their work, but will instead fly all over the mountains and fields, searching among the flowers for the one in a billion chance of the Divine Pool Seed being born.

At this time of year, the three yew brothers also stopped their work in their territory and followed the main force to the insect-free zone of the Rhinoceros Beetle tribe's territory to search for the divinely bestowed seed.

They even ventured into the insect-free areas of the island in search of the divinely bestowed seed, but to their disappointment and unsurprisingly, after flying around the island for a whole month, they ultimately found nothing.

Not only them, but no insect in the entire Rhinoceros Beetle tribe claimed to have found the God-given Seed. On the contrary, other tribes on the island would occasionally spread news of obtaining the God-given Seed.

However, they were not surprised. Among the more than 2 insect warriors on the entire Banana Island, there were countless tribes of all sizes. Some insects were lucky enough to obtain the divinely bestowed seed.

However, their entire tribe had not harvested the divine seeds for two consecutive years, which disappointed them and made them even more diligent in guarding their territory!

In the wild, the God-given Seeds that are born are mostly low-yield weeds and shrubs. In contrast, the probability of obtaining God-given Seeds is higher in territories carefully managed by Zerg warriors, and the quality and yield are also better.

Although they knew this was also a pipe dream, since they couldn't find any divinely bestowed seeds in the wild, they could only hope that something would be produced in their own territory.

February has passed and March has arrived. Yew is about to go to the Thousand Star Islands again, but before that, it needs to make some arrangements.

It summoned Zihuai and Ziai together, and held a small meeting with Lord Zili and Lord Zizhu.

Inside the nest, everyone lay down to rest. Lord Purple Pearl went to call Lord Purple Plum, while Zishan first told Zihuai and Ziai about the various things they had discussed with King Green Bamboo on Great Green Peak.

The two brothers listened with great interest. Even though they had been taught by the Lord of Zehui Mountain for many years and had accumulated a wealth of knowledge, they had never analyzed the meaning of the word "wealth" from this perspective.

After listening to Zishan's words, Zihuai asked, "Zishan, what are you planning to do?"

The yew tree had been planning this for a long time, and it said confidently, "In the past few months, I have come up with a better way to distribute the pollen from the two male mulberry trees that were given by God."

"Oh? What method is it? Tell me about it."

Just then, Lord Purple Plum and Lord Purple Pearl Mountain flew to the outside of the nest chamber and overheard their telepathic communication, prompting them to speak.

Zishan had originally planned to discuss things with Lord Ziling and the others, and when she heard that Lord Zili had arrived, she could continue the conversation: "Lord Zili, you've arrived."

This is what I think: according to what Qingzhu Jia Wang said, the first priority is to maximize the benefits that can be achieved through male flower pollination.

My plan is to first pollinate the 1 fruits that I have reserved for this year from my female mulberry trees, which are considered auspicious seeds, to improve their quality and increase their price.

Both being superior divinely bestowed varieties, my mulberry cultivar, after being pollinated by the pollen of the male divinely bestowed variety, will undoubtedly produce the best quality fruit among its kind.

Secondly, 50,000 portions of the wild mulberry trees within the tribe, which are considered divinely bestowed seeds, will be pollinated. Although these wild mulberry trees are currently only at an intermediate stage, pollination with male flowers from the advanced stage will undoubtedly greatly improve their quality.

"Hmm." Lord Zili looked at Zishan's well-organized arrangements and couldn't help but nod approvingly. Zishan matures very quickly and will probably be able to stand on his own soon.

"This is only 6 pollinations; there are still many more pollination opportunities for the male mulberry trees."

"If ordinary mulberry trees were to bear divinely bestowed fruit, the fruit would be very large. Therefore, my plan is to have six mulberry trees of the Purple Locust and Purple Artemisia species, each bearing 2 fruits."

"This is only the first year that the male mulberry tree, a divinely bestowed seed, has blossomed. Let's first see the quality and effect. If it bears 2 fruits and still has room to grow, then we can add another 2 fruits next year and let them ripen in batches, which will also reduce the pressure brought by the fruiting."

The insects understood the logic without even thinking, and nodded in approval: "A very reasonable arrangement. Previously, 6..."

Adding the current 120,000 units to the 10,000 units, that's a total of 180,000 units. Theoretically, there are at least 620,000 units left over.

"Our Rhinoceros Tortoise tribe has many high-level warriors, but they can be divided into three types. One type is the Rhinoceros Tortoise warriors who have just advanced to the high-level stage and are still very young."

One type is those who have been in the advanced stage for some years and whose level is quite high but have not yet been promoted to the Mountain Lord level; the other type is advanced warriors who have entered old age.

Starting in the next day or two, rhinoceros beetle warriors with remaining evolutionary potential can sign up to request whether they need the male flowers of the mulberry tree's divinely bestowed seed to pollinate their destiny.

"Then, the life seeds of all the Rhinoceros Tortoise Warriors are divided according to their age level. The mulberry tree life seeds of high-level warriors under 6 years old are counted as one share, and the mulberry tree life seeds of high-level warriors over 6 years old are counted as two shares."

Dividing the 62 divinely bestowed male flowers by the total number of life seeds counted gives the number of mulberry life seeds that the Rhinoceros Tortoise Warriors should receive for pollination.

After hearing Zishan's words, the Lord of Zizhu Mountain hurriedly asked, "The life seed of advanced warriors aged 6 and above is counted as two shares?"

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"Yes, because they are about to reach the level of mountain lords and need more resources."

Furthermore, my plan is that the advanced warriors in the 8th and 9th age stages, after being pollinated by male flowers on the mulberry trees, will have their share given to us after they advance to the Mountain Lord level, in order to ensure resource concentration as much as possible.

Then it added with some regret, "As for the warriors of our race who have entered old age, although I sympathize with them, the risk of their evolution failing is too great. I must ensure that resources are given to the most promising insects, so I may not be able to take care of them."

Lord Zili praised, "A very reasonable arrangement. I think even King Qingzhujia here wouldn't be able to find fault with your arrangement."

Hearing Lord Zili's words, Zishan couldn't help but shake her antennae with a hint of pride: "Thank you for the compliment, Lord Zili. I still have a lot to learn."

"Since you've made this arrangement, I'll discuss it with King Qingzhu and Lord Qingguo. If they also agree, then we can let the tribe's high-ranking warriors sign up."

It felt that the Green Bamboo King would not refuse Zishan's proposal. Its previous reminder was only to help Zishan determine the direction it wanted to take in the future, not because it had any real objections to it or was dissatisfied with its arrangements.

To put it bluntly, while the male flowers of the mulberry tree are indeed valuable, how much value can they produce in total each year?

Its current quality and price are not taken seriously by Qingzhu Jiawang and the others. Even if Zishan's arrangements are flawed, as long as the general direction is correct, it is not unacceptable.

Otherwise, why would it let Zishan make the arrangements herself? It could have just made the arrangements for Zishan directly.

As Lord Zili had predicted, when it arrived at Daqing Peak and mentioned the latest arrangements made by Zishan regarding the male flowers of the divinely bestowed mulberry tree, King Qingzhu immediately agreed without hesitation.

In the following period, the lords of the four clans informed the entire tribe of the arrangements for the divinely bestowed pollen from the male mulberry tree.

Upon hearing that the pollen from the divinely bestowed seed of the male mulberry tree could pollinate their own seed, increasing the quality and price of the fruit produced by their seed, the warriors of the Rhinoceros Tortoise tribe were overjoyed. They immediately and eagerly signed up with their lineage leaders, hoping to increase the value of their seed's output.

In just three days, the number of Rhinoceros Tortoise Warriors who signed up exceeded one hundred. By the fifth day, almost all the high-level Rhinoceros Tortoise Warriors who still had the potential to evolve had signed up.

Normally they were unaware of this, but upon calculation, they discovered that there were as many as 209 rhinoceros beetle warriors with evolutionary potential within the tribe, of which two-fifths were double-forked rhinoceros beetle warriors, and 53 were rhinoceros beetle warriors over 6 years old.

Each Rhinoceros Beetle warrior in the Rhinoceros Beetle tribe will produce an average of 3 mulberry seedlings. Therefore, according to the previous arrangement of the yew, the total share of mulberry seedlings should be 768. Calculated, one share is approximately the pollination amount of 800 seeds.

Zishan believed that when the male mulberry trees, blessed by the gods, bloomed in April, the entire tribe would be very lively.

Unfortunately, it may not be able to see this scene this year, because it will be going to the Thousand Star Islands with the Green Bamboo Armor King for training.