Astral Gods

Chapter 37 Green Soul Kiwi

"A top-tier tree species?" Lord Qingguo was somewhat surprised upon hearing Lord Zehui's words.

While other insects might not know, it was aware of the tug-of-war between the leader of the Hundred Tribes and the Green Bamboo King at the end of last year.

Back then, even if the Green Bamboo King wanted two more top-tier tree seeds for the young warriors to cultivate into life seeds, he couldn't get them. But now, the Lord of Zehui Mountain actually said he brought top-tier tree seeds for the Zishan to use in cultivating life seeds? It was somewhat hard for it to understand.

"Lord Zehui, isn't it said that your kingdom's top-tier tree species are not allowed to be taken out of your kingdom? Won't taking the tree species out have any consequences for you?"

"Lord Green Fruit, you misunderstand. Our kingdom is not saying that we cannot bring out top-tier tree species, but rather that we cannot bring out seeds that can reproduce, because this would cause an overabundance of individual plants on the continent, which would cause devastating damage to the ecosystem."

"Can't reproduce?" Lord Qingguo was even more puzzled. "Lord Zehui, if they can't reproduce, then what use are they to us? If we nurture them into life seeds, wouldn't that be equivalent to wasting a life seed?"

"This is different."

Lord Zehui removed the spider silk bag from his back armor, took out a small spider silk bag, and plucked out a seed from it.

The spiritual consciousness of Lord Qingguo, including that of Zihuai and Ziai, swept over the seed, sensing a fluctuation of elemental energy on it that was different from ordinary elemental energy.

They were somewhat surprised: "Are these kiwi seeds?"

"Not bad, but these aren't ordinary kiwi seeds."

Lord Zehui explained, "This is the finest variety of kiwifruit that our kingdom has carefully cultivated. There are almost no plants in the entire astral plane that can compare to it."

As you know, kiwifruit seeds come from male and female plants. This seed is from a female plant. Without pollination from a male plant, even if it is planted and grows fruit, it will not be able to germinate.

"It is precisely for this reason, coupled with the fact that the top tree species discussed by the Green Bamboo King and the leaders of the Hundred Tribes last year did not reach a cooperation agreement.

To show our attitude and sincerity, the tribal chiefs requested three such seeds, which I will give to your tribe's young warriors to cultivate as life-sustaining seeds.

Lord Green Fruit asked in bewilderment, "Can't we use male kiwi plants from outside the area for pollination?"

"No, it must be pollinated by male kiwifruit trees of the same species. If different kiwifruit species are cross-pollinated, even if they can produce fruit, the quality will change, and more importantly, the original properties of the fruit will also change."

Seeing how highly it praised this kiwifruit, Lord Qingguo inquired at the opportune moment, "Lord Zehui, may I ask what the uses of the fruit produced by this kiwifruit are?"

Lord Zehui said proudly, "Lord Qingguo, you may have noticed. To be honest, this kind of kiwi is called Qinghun Kiwi, and its function is to strengthen the soul."

"What?" Upon hearing the words of Lord Zehui, Lord Qingguo couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

In the Astral Plane, the True God of Nature endowed the Zerg warriors with life capsules, which could nurture Force plants. In turn, the True God of Nature endowed the Force plants with ten basic innate laws.

These ten basic talents are metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, thunder, life, strength, and soul.

Among them, the seven elements of metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, and thunder are called the elemental elements. If one has a talent in one of these elements, one can awaken elemental abilities after awakening the Mountain Lord level.

For example, the Twin-Forked Rhinoceros Tortoise Warriors possess both earth and metal elemental talents, and after advancing to the Mountain Lord level, there is a chance to awaken one of these talents.

If you can consume Force food of the same element on top of this, you can increase the probability of awakening elemental abilities.

Life, strength, and soul are potential talents possessed by all Zerg warriors, but these three talents are more difficult to awaken than elemental talents.

These two-pronged rhinoceros beetles are uniquely endowed with the ability to awaken both elemental and strength-based talents.

It is said that some Zerg warriors can awaken life-related talents, but such Zerg warriors are very rare. The Twin-Forked Rhinoceros Beetle tribe is already one in a thousand.

As for Zerg warriors with naturally awakened soul-type talents, it had never even heard of them.

Let alone awakening soul-type talents, even soul-type primal force food is extremely rare in the astral plane.

For example, if the Lord of Zehui Mountain hadn't taken out this kind of soul-type seed, it wouldn't even have known that such a soul-type plant existed, let alone eaten food with soul-type primal energy.

For Zerg warriors, soul enhancement becomes extremely important after advancing to the Lord level, as it determines whether they can advance to the King level in the future. Whenever soul-based primal force food appears, it is fiercely contested by Zerg warriors, with a fervor no less intense than that for purchasing certain divinely bestowed primal force food.

"Lord of Zehui Mountain, why have I never heard of you possessing this kind of primal force food before?"

Lord Ze Hui: "Lord Qingguo, at your level, you should know how precious Soul-type Force Food is. It can be said that the value of Force Food produced by a Soul-type Life Seed is no less than that of some herbal God-given seeds."

Normally, our Flame Spider Kingdom doesn't readily offer these seeds. Only when trading with tribes with whom we have very good relations will we gift one or two to their young warriors to nurture into life-sustaining seeds.

Upon hearing the other party's words, Lord Qingguo immediately understood. It must be because during last year's transaction, King Qingzhujia wanted to buy several top-grade tree species, but was rejected by the leaders of the Hundred Tribes, which displeased King Qingzhujia.

Fearing that the Green Bamboo Armor King might seek other Flame Spider merchant caravans to replace their trade with the Twin-Forked Rhinoceros Golden Turtle tribe, the leader of the Hundred Tribes hurriedly sent the Lord of Zehui Mountain to bring over a few of these top-grade tree species to mend their relationship.

Lord Qingguo tentatively inquired, "Lord Zehui, you only brought three seeds with you this time?"

Lord Zehui said somewhat discontentedly, "Lord Qingguo, three kiwi seeds are already quite a lot. I'm telling you, don't underestimate soul-type plants. The annual yield of just one of these life-type plants can sell for five or six thousand primordial stones at the Lord level. Some herbaceous divine-given seeds can't even reach that yield."

Three seeds are already our limit. You know, I'll be held responsible if any seeds are lost. If I weren't responsible for training the young soldiers here, I would never have taken the risk to bring them here!

Lord Qingguo was somewhat surprised: "The profits are so high?"

The annual output of different types of Destiny Seeds varies greatly. Some Zerg warriors cultivate herbaceous Destiny Seeds, producing two to three hundred Ore Stones per year, while others cultivate top-tier tree species as Destiny Seeds, with a single Destiny Seed producing one to two thousand Ore Stones per year. It is normal for the output to differ by a factor of ten.

Under normal circumstances, a Mountain Lord-level Destiny Seed can produce around 1,000 Primogems per year, and a total annual income of 30,000 Primogems is already quite good.

If this Green Soul Kiwi Fruit seed can grow and produce five or six thousand raw stones a year, then as Lord Zehui said, it is no less than a herbaceous divinely bestowed seed with few branches!

Lord Green Fruit also thought of a question: If the yew can strengthen ordinary seeds into divinely bestowed seeds through its life sac, then if it were to nurture a Green Soul Kiwi as a life seed, wouldn't they have soul-type divinely bestowed primal force food to eat in the future?