Astral Gods

Chapter 90 Superb Divinely Gifted Force Food

Chapter 90 Superb Divinely Gifted Food with Origin Force (Seeking First Subscription Support)

In the following period, several Zerg warriors, led by the Black Jujube Mountain Lord, would come to Ziling every two weeks to use their abilities on the God-given Seed of the Liriodendron tulipifera.

When the Broadleaf Orchid species grew to nearly one meter tall, Lord Purple Plum instructed Lord Black Date Mountain and others to similarly grant the Broadleaf Orchid species abilities to accelerate its growth.

Lord Zili also followed the advice of Lord Liuxu Mountain and went to the Black Pine Rock Bee Tribe to purchase five jars of primal force honey that had the effect of enhancing vitality.

These five jars of Force Honey are not only for the seeds bestowed by the God of the Goose Palm, but also for the many life-sustaining seeds that are gestating in the middle stage of the Yew tree. It regularly uses Force Honey to replenish their vitality and accelerate their growth.

For this reason, Lord Purple Plum even resold the flashlight he had bought from the Flame Spider Merchant Claw.

There was no other way; over the years, in order for the three yew brothers to grow and evolve, it had fed them divinely bestowed food containing primal energy, which had cost it a great deal of primal stones.

In addition, the evolution of other younger members of the tribe also requires some support in terms of Primal Stones, and it also needs to consume Primal Food to evolve. The Spider King Scrolls it had accumulated in the past have been almost completely used up, and now the funds in its claws are quite tight.

Moreover, with the hydroelectric power station providing additional solar energy, the flashlight, originally only used for emitting light, becomes less important.

Just as Lord Purple Plum and the Purple Fir were busy tinkering with their life seeds, October arrived in the blink of an eye, and another annual trade fair began.

At this time, whether they were warriors managing their territories, warriors going to the Thousand Star Islands to develop the forests, or warriors going to the Thousand Star Islands to join the coastal defense training, they all returned to their tribes.

The purple locust tree was no exception; it returned to Ziling with the main group.

"I'm back!" As soon as Zihuai returned to Ziling, she and the Lord of Zizhu Mountain came to find her two younger brothers.

"Master of Purple Pearl Mountain, Purple Locust, you're back!" After not seeing them for more than half a year, Purple Ai and Purple Fir missed them quite a bit. After such a long time apart, they jumped and danced with joy as they gathered together.

After exchanging greetings, everyone stood under the tree chatting about their daily lives. The two brothers had never participated in coastal defense training and were very curious about life there.

"Purple Locust, is the coastal defense training in the Thousand Star Islands fun?"

"It's not fun, it's tiring, there's combat training every day."

"Combat training? Is it like fighting like we usually do?"

"It's different from fighting within our tribe. There are many Zerg warriors there, each with formidable combat power. We need to learn various combat techniques, teamwork, and reconnaissance over there."

"Are those bugs over there very dangerous?"

"They're amazing. Among the various Zerg warriors there, each one has its own strengths, such as super camouflage or super-fast flight."

"Our Rhinoceros Tortoise warriors are quite formidable on Banana Island, but they're practically invisible at the Thousand Star Islands Coastal Defense Training Camp. Some of those insects awakened their abilities at an advanced stage, and I can't even defeat them."

The two brothers were quite surprised: "You couldn't even beat such a powerful insect?"

Among the warriors of the same rank in the tribe, only Zi Ai was its nemesis, yet it said that there were many insectoid warriors over there that it couldn't defeat, which shocked the two brothers.

"They awakened their abilities, and I was taken down by just one of them." In fact, Zi Huai suffered quite a bit over there.

Listening to their rambling conversation, Zizhu, who had returned from the Thousand Star Islands with Zihuai, couldn't stand it any longer. She said to Ziai and Zishan, "You two, let's talk about the Thousand Star Islands later. Zihuai and I have been away for a year, so let's see if you've taken good care of the life seeds we gave us."

"We'll definitely take good care of it!" The two brothers were very confident about this. They followed behind Zizhu to check the status of the life seed and the condition of the fruit on the tree.

Unlike the early and intermediate stages where life seeds are produced every year, in the advanced stages, most Zerg warriors' life seeds are produced every two or three years.

This is because as the level of the Destiny Seed increases, the Destiny Seed Fruit contains more primal force and primal energy.

It takes a long time to transform the natural primal force into the primal energy within the fruit, which is why some life seeds only produce once every two or even three years.

There are many ways to speed up fruit production, but most of them are not cost-effective, meaning the input and output are disproportionate.

After fiddling around with it, the output might not even be as good as the original normal output after deducting the input. So few Zerg warriors are so eager to get things done. Zizhu was promoted to the Mountain Lord level only two years ago. After the promotion, she has been cultivating trees. Her life seed only started bearing fruit this year, and the number of fruits is not large.

At this moment, the fruits on its life seed were mostly unripe. Zizhu inspected the many life seeds and found that they were indeed well taken care of, with regular weeding and fertilization. She was satisfied, thinking that these guys had not raised them in vain.

After reviewing her destiny, Zizhu asked Zishan, "You've advanced to the ninth stage? When do you plan to advance to a high-level warrior?"

"Maybe early or middle of next year!"

"So fast? The seed you conceived at the eighth age was only planted not long ago, right? Isn't it a problem for you to advance to the next age so quickly?"

The Life Seed and the Zerg Warrior are inextricably linked. If the Life Seed dies, the soul of the Zerg Warrior that gave birth to it will also be severely damaged, at best losing the opportunity to evolve, and at worst dying together.

When a Zerg warrior breaks through to a higher level, its Destiny Seed will also break through. However, if the Destiny Seed does not grow sufficiently, there is a risk of evolution failure.

"Lord Zili invited several insectoid warriors with wood-type support abilities to help my Destiny Seed grow faster."

My seven-year-old tulip tree and eight-year-old broadleaf orchid grow in one month what would normally take three months to grow.

If growth is accelerated by eight or nine months, it should be equivalent to one or two years of normal growth.

"Accelerated growth?" That sounds like it would require a huge investment.

Knowing that Lord Zili was willing to invest heavily to accelerate the growth and evolution of the yew trees, Zizhu was satisfied: "It's good that Lord Zili has made the arrangements!"

"What about your divinely bestowed red cherry seeds? Didn't you save ten fruits at the beginning of the year? Have they ripened yet?"

"They're almost ripe," Zishan explained. "I'll be entering the advanced stage next year. Lord Zili wants to check the quality of the intermediate-stage red cherries, so he's spent a lot of resources to accelerate the fruit's growth. They should be fully ripe in about ten days."

Investing a lot of resources in ten cherry trees would definitely be a loss, but since the tree absorbs more, it's not a particularly bad loss.

Ultimately, Lord Purple Plum was still somewhat unwilling to give up and wanted to see what was going on with the Red Heart Cherry. Could it be a divine fruit?

"They'll be ripe in about ten days? That's not too late!"

Zi Ai chimed in, "The Flame Spider Merchants will be arriving around that time, so we can show them around."

"Let's wait until the divinely bestowed red cherries ripen before we talk about anything else. Let's get to work now."

Although they didn't produce any Force food this year, they weren't without problems.

For example, helping tribes transport Force food that needs to be traded to the trading plaza, guarding the trading plaza, and going to other trading plazas to trade Force food suitable for their Rhinoceros Tortoise Warriors, etc.

Rhinoceros beetle warriors of the Mountain Lord level and above can only receive divine-given primal force food produced by wild divine-given seeds if they do the work. Their rhinoceros beetle tribe is not wealthy and cannot afford to feed these pampered insects.

The training of Zizhu and the others in the Thousand Star Islands was a task assigned by the tribe, but it is only right that they do something within their capabilities after returning.

The three yew brothers worked together as assistants to the Lord of Purple Pearl Mountain for more than ten days. Only after they finished preparing all kinds of primal force food could they take a breather.

Before they could even rest, Lord Purple Plum approached them to inquire about the yield of the Yew Seedlings: "Yew, have the divinely bestowed red cherries ripened yet?"

"We've been busy these past few days and haven't had a chance to go check on it, but it should be ready by now."

"Let's go take a look."

Lord Zili took the lead and took off first, followed closely by his three brothers and Lord Zizhu Mountain.

The insects flew to the vicinity of the divinely bestowed Red Cherry Seed, and as they were about to get close, they all fell from the sky and walked closer to the divinely bestowed Red Cherry Seed.

After more than a year of growth, the Red Heart Cherry, a gift from God, has grown to three or four meters tall, but its main branches are still somewhat slender and slightly smaller in diameter than those of a lychee.

Although it is already autumn, the red cherry trees, a gift from God, are still lush and green, with a few crystal-clear cherries hanging scattered among the green leaves.

Lord Zili took out a small spider silk bag and handed it to Zishan: "Pick all the cherries on the tree, and we'll take them to Daqing Peak for King Qingzhujia to test their quality."

Zi Ai asked naively, "Lord Zi Li, why don't you just test the quality of the divinely bestowed cherries? Why go all the way to Da Qing Peak?"

Lord Zili ignored this brainless fellow.

Originally, including it, as well as the high-ranking members of the tribe such as the Green Bamboo King, the Green Fruit Lord, and the Green Mango Lord, everyone had high hopes for the Red Heart Cherry Divine Gift Seed, and thought it might be a divine gift seed.

At the beginning of the year, everyone was disappointed to hear that the Red Heart Cherry Divine Seed was not a divinely bestowed variety.

It allowed the Red Heart Cherry, a divinely bestowed variety, to produce only a few fruits this year as a test, partly because it was unwilling to accept the results, and partly because it wanted to show everyone the actual product.

They were a tribe with over five hundred insects in their population. Although they didn't understand what a divine fruit was, they couldn't possibly deny their tribe's divinely bestowed seed just because of a single sentence from the Lord of Zehui Mountain.

Even if, hypothetically, the divinely bestowed red cherries are no different from other divinely bestowed foods, they still need to be shown to everyone before they'll give up.

There were only ten cherries on the tree, and the yew tree quickly picked them all. It tied up the spider silk bag containing the fruit and carried it in its claws.

Lord Zili instructed, "Let's go, come with me to Daqing Peak."

A line of insects flew towards Daqing Peak. When they arrived, the warriors of Daqing Peak were storing various Force-based foods sent from different peaks in the trading square warehouse on the mountainside, preparing to trade with the Flame Spider merchants when they arrived.

"Purple Plum." Lord Green Fruit, who was in charge of the transaction, was directing the transport of the Force food when he saw Lord Purple Plum arrive and greeted it happily.

"Where are Qingguo and Qingzhu Jiawang?"

"It's resting on the mountain. Is there anything I can help you with?"

"The divinely bestowed red cherries are ripe, I've brought them over for everyone to taste."

Lord Green Fruit was slightly taken aback upon hearing this: "They're ripe so quickly?"

"I invested some extra resources to accelerate ripening."

"Have you tasted it? Are you sure it's not a divine fruit?"

"I haven't eaten it yet, mainly because I've never tasted a divine fruit before, so I can't judge it. Let the Green Bamboo King decide!"

"Then I'll call it down." Lord Green Fruit released his spiritual power to summon King Green Bamboo Armor.

"King Green Bamboo, Purple Plum has arrived. It also brought divinely bestowed red cherries, wanting you to see how they differ from other divinely bestowed primal force foods."

"Are they ripe yet?" Upon hearing the news, the Green Bamboo King flew down from the mountain and landed in front of the insects.

Upon seeing the Green Bamboo Armor King descend, the Purple Fir immediately untied the spider silk pouch from its claws and placed the divinely bestowed red heart cherry in front of it.

King Qingzhu picked up a cherry to examine it. The cherry fruit produced by the divinely bestowed seed was plump and round, and its whole body was as red as the purest gemstone.

Sunlight shines through the thin skin, revealing the delicate, translucent flesh inside.

Simply by holding it in its claws, it could feel the rich primal energy emanating from the fruit.

Originally disappointed with the divinely bestowed red cherry seed, the somewhat indifferent Green Bamboo King immediately perked up; this fruit did indeed look quite extraordinary.

It was able to advance to the level of an Insect King and had seen and eaten countless kinds of divinely bestowed food. As soon as it took the divinely bestowed cherry in its paw, it sensed that something was wrong.

Normally, a divinely bestowed fruit at the intermediate stage shouldn't have such a concentrated amount of primal energy.

Without hesitation, it immediately put the divinely bestowed cherry into its mouth and tasted it, then silently absorbed the primal energy in the fruit and felt its strengthening effect.

All the insects stared intently at it, awaiting its judgment.

After a moment, King Qingzhujia digested the entire divinely bestowed cherry, skin and pit, and then affirmed, "Purple Plum, your judgment is correct. This is not an ordinary divinely bestowed food."

The two lords eagerly asked, "What do you mean?"

"The enhancement effect of the God-given Red Heart Cherry is still the comprehensive enhancement of metal-type abilities, which remains unchanged. However, its original energy is extremely high, reaching an original energy ratio of 1:7.3."

This not only far surpasses the level of divinely bestowed primal force food, but even exceeds the primal energy ratio possessed by the top-tier king-level divinely bestowed primal force food!

"So tall?" Under normal circumstances, when a Zerg warrior with a metal-type talent breeds a God-given Seed of the same type, the primal energy in the fruit produced is the purest.

As the Zerg warriors age, the ratio of Force and Energy in the fruit gradually increases. Once the Zerg warriors advance to the King level, the ratio of Force to Energy in the fruit produced by the God-given Seed can reach 1:5. They have never even heard of God-given Force food with an Energy ratio exceeding 1:5.

The two lords were quite shocked by this, and couldn't wait to each pick a divinely bestowed cherry to taste, silently sensing the proportion of primal energy in the fruit.

Seeing that the two lords had eaten, the Lord of Purple Pearl Mountain and the three brothers of Purple Fir also picked up a cherry to taste.

After a while, the two lords had finished digesting all the primal energy in the fruit. Lord Purple Plum confirmed, "The primal energy ratio in the divinely bestowed cherry is indeed around 1:7.3."

Lord Green Fruit chimed in, "To be precise, the ratio of primal energy in the fruit is about 1:7.31."

"Such a high proportion of primordial energy is unprecedented."

"Indeed, among the thousands of divinely bestowed seeds on Banana Island, I have never heard of such a high proportion of divinely bestowed primal energy food."

As mentioned earlier, the higher the energy ratio of food from the life system, the greater the probability of successful evolution.

This applies to those who need to consume life-elemental energy foods or energy foods that enhance their physique before reaching the Mountain Lord level.

Both require the same amount of evolutionary energy to evolve by eating food containing primal force. You ate food containing primal force and primal energy in a 1:1 ratio, while I ate food containing primal energy in a 1:2 ratio.

If you have a 10% chance of successfully advancing to the next age, and I have twice as much original physical strength as you, and I am better than you in every aspect, then I have a 20% or even more chance of successfully evolving.

The same applies to the divinely bestowed cherry. Although the red cherry is not a divinely bestowed food that strengthens the body, its function is to enhance the overall abilities of the metal element.

This function might be unfamiliar to some, so to put it simply, it increases the probability of awakening metal-type abilities.

Using the same old template, we can take Zihuai and Ziai as examples. The two brothers have almost identical physical attributes. After they both reach the Mountain Lord level and awaken their metal-type talents, one evolves by eating red heart cherries produced by ordinary life seeds, and the other evolves by eating divinely bestowed red heart cherries.

In subsequent evolutionary stages, the one that evolves by eating ordinary red cherries may only have a 10% chance of awakening its abilities at each stage.

The one who ate the divinely bestowed red cherry has a 73% chance of awakening a new ability with each evolutionary stage.

Of course, this is just an example. After being promoted to the level of a mountain lord, it is impossible for a person to eat only one kind of primal food. The probability of awakening an ability is also unlikely to be that high. The base probability may only be 5% or 6%. After being neutralized by other primal foods, the probability of awakening an ability will only be lower.

However, the energy ratio, which is 7.3 times higher than that of ordinary Force food, will remain unchanged.

The two lords were quite excited: "With the divinely bestowed seed of the Red Heart Cherry, the probability of our tribe's warriors awakening metal-type abilities will greatly increase."

"That's right. Don't forget, the yew is only at the intermediate stage now. Once it enters the advanced stage, the energy ratio in the divine cherry will definitely increase further."

"When it advances to the Mountain Lord level, the Lord level, or even the Insect King level, how high will the primal energy within that cherry reach? I can't even imagine!"

At this moment, Lord Qingguo even felt a little regretful, wondering why he had awakened an earth-type talent.

Lord Purple Plum put away the few remaining cherries in his spider silk pouch: "King Green Bamboo Armor, this is fantastic news! Shouldn't we inform Lord Green Mang and Lord Spotted Flower? And let them taste these divinely bestowed cherries too?"

Throughout the year, everyone was a little depressed because the Red Heart Cherry Divine Seed was not a Divine Seed of the highest quality.

Now that such a joyous occasion has occurred, it's only right that everyone joins in the celebration.

Unexpectedly, the Green Bamboo Armor King suddenly raised its foreleg and gently pressed down on the Purple Plum Lord's paw, saying in its astonished gaze, "It doesn't matter whether they know a little earlier or a little later."

Have you considered another question? How many Primogems would you need to buy with this kind of divinely bestowed Force food that's comparable to what you'd find at such a high altitude?

Upon hearing this, the insects were speechless. They were overjoyed, realizing they hadn't considered this issue at all. Even the three Zizhu and Zishan brothers began to think about the problem from the beginning.

Red cherries are relatively large, weighing about 5 grams, with the pit weighing 2 grams. Most of the nutritional value is in the pit, while the pulp accounts for less than 20% of the nutritional value.

Because its strengthening effect is average, a single Red Heart Cherry produced in the territory of an intermediate warrior costs about 0.5 raw stones, while a Divine Gift Red Heart Cherry of the same level costs between 18 and 20 raw stones.

However, the fruit produced by the yew tree, a divinely bestowed seed of red cherry, certainly cannot be priced as divinely bestowed food under normal conditions.

Frankly speaking, the primal energy this fruit exhibits surpasses even that of soul-type divine-given primal energy foods in rarity. It could easily fetch four or five hundred times the price of ordinary red cherries.

But whether or not insects will actually buy them is another question.

The Lord of Purple Pearl Mountain tentatively inquired, "King Green Bamboo, if it were you, how many raw stones would you be willing to spend to buy this cherry?"

After thinking for a moment, King Qingzhujia said, "Subjectively speaking, I naturally hope that the price of the divinely bestowed red heart cherries can be as high as possible."

Objectively speaking, although the energy ratio in the God-given Red Heart Cherries is very high, it is not one of the three freely circulating primal forces: power, life, or soul. Its target audience is relatively small, and only Zerg warriors with metal-type talent potential will purchase it.

My personal estimate is that if its price is between 200 and 300 raw stones, I would be willing to buy some. Taking the middle value, it would be around 260.

Just one rough stone!

Upon hearing the price offered by the Green Bamboo King, the insects were overjoyed. In that case, wouldn't the output value of this Red Heart Cherry God-given Seed be more than ten times that of other similar God-given Seeds?

The ordinary small tree, Divine Gift Seed, which originally had low yield, low quality, and low price, has suddenly become a plant comparable to the top-grade large tree, Divine Gift Seed.

Seeing the ecstatic insects, the Green Bamboo King gave them a heads-up: "Regarding the price of the divinely bestowed cherries, this is just my personal assessment; the actual value will depend on the market."

"The Green Bamboo King is an insect king, with extensive knowledge and experience. Your judgment is absolutely correct."

"Yes, yes, yes! Our divinely bestowed red heart cherries are definitely worth two or three hundred primal stones. If the price is lower than that, we won't sell them to outsiders and will keep them for the warriors in our tribe to eat themselves."

"Are you stupid? Why would we need to order takeout for something this good? Our own tribe's Zerg warriors don't even have enough to eat!"

A group of insects jumped and hopped around happily, and even the two lords became somewhat unsettled.

Lord Zili looked intently at King Qingzhujia: "King Qingzhujia, the hundred-tribe caravan is about to arrive. Would you like to hear their prices?"

When it comes to pricing Force food, the Flame Spider Merchant is the real expert.

Lord Qingguo retorted, "Isn't that inappropriate? If the Flame Spider Merchants knew that our tribe possessed divinely bestowed food of superior quality, they would definitely try every means to buy it from us."

"We don't even have enough of this good stuff for our own tribe, let alone have any left over to sell to them."

"That's not quite right. If the Flame Spider Merchants could give a more accurate price for this kind of divinely bestowed food, we would have a better understanding of its value, whether we are trading within our tribe or exchanging it with other tribes or caravans."

Lord Green Fruit wanted to say something more, but King Green Bamboo raised his claw to stop him from continuing: "When the Flame Spider Merchants come over, we'll set a price for the Divine Gift Red Heart Cherries for them."

"Actually, compared to the value of the divinely bestowed red cherries, I care more about something else."

We had initially thought that the fruit produced by the Divine Seed of Red Heart Cherry, which had been enhanced by the Yew Seed, would not be a divine fruit, and our plans had fallen through.

However, it now appears that the enhancement effect of the Red Heart Cherry Divine Seed, which has been strengthened by the Yew Seed, has increased significantly.

I even think it's no less valuable than the legendary divine-given seed!

"In other words, our original estimate that the yew life pouch would have an effect on the superposition and enhancement of the divinely bestowed seed is true."

That means that if the yew tree can find a divinely bestowed seed in the future and nurture it in its life pod, even if it cannot be upgraded to a divinely bestowed seed of the highest grade, it can still be promoted to a divinely bestowed seed like the Red Heart Cherry!

"Yes!" Hearing the analysis of the Green Bamboo Armor King, the insects were overjoyed again. After being strengthened by the Purple Yew Life Pouch, the output value could be increased more than ten times. It was estimated that there was no other good thing like this in the whole world.

Moreover, this quality of divinely bestowed food was unheard of outsiders. Even if the warriors in the tribe couldn't afford it, it would be quite good for them to eat some of the peels and pulp.

Just as the insects were lost in thought, a Mountain Lord-level Rhinoceros Tortoise Warrior flew over to report: "Green Bamboo Armor King, Purple Plum Lord, Green Fruit Lord, and Flame Spider Merchant have arrived."

"It's like what we said came true! Bring them over!" Upon hearing that the Flame Spider Merchant had arrived, everyone immediately suppressed their excitement and waited for the Flame Spider Merchant to come to the trading square.

When the Flame Spider Merchants travel to other tribes to trade, they usually go to the edge of the tribe's territory, greet the Zerg warriors patrolling the territory, and then the tribe's warriors inform the tribe's higher-ups. Only after obtaining the higher-ups' approval can the Flame Spider Merchants' team be brought into the tribe's trading territory.

The Rhinoceros Tortoise tribe is not large; even if a patrolling Rhinoceros Tortoise warrior flies back and forth, it doesn't take long.

Before long, the patrolling Rhinoceros Tortoise warriors led the caravan of a hundred tribes over.

"Green Bamboo King, Green Fruit Lord, Purple Plum Lord."

"Leaders of the Hundred Tribes." As soon as the Hundred Tribes caravan arrived at the trading square, the two sides greeted each other politely.

The two sides have been trading for decades and are very familiar with each other, and the goods they buy each year do not change much.

The Green Bamboo Armor King waved its antennae, signaling the Green Fruit Lord to trade with the Flame Spider Warriors of the Hundred Tribes Caravan. It then invited the leaders of the Hundred Tribes to rest near the trading square, in a place specially reserved for Flame Spider merchants and tribal leaders.

"Leaders of the Hundred Tribes, how have the transactions gone this year?"

"Fortunately, as long as no orc warriors attack the caravan, the trading journey will be safe. As for how much we earn, that depends on luck."

"It seems the leaders of the Hundred Tribes have made a fortune again this year!" King Qingzhujia was very envious of the Flame Spider Merchants' trade and had also thought about organizing his own caravan to trade with other tribes.

However, their tribes were not powerful, and they did not have many kinds of food bestowed by the gods, so they lacked core competitiveness.

Unlike the Flame Spider Merchants, who can exchange hundreds or thousands of kinds of divinely bestowed primal force foods with other spiders in their tribe whenever their tribe has a need.

"It's just hard-earned money!"

Trade routes are the lifeblood of the Flame Spider traveling merchants, and the leader of the hundred tribes was unwilling to talk much about it: "This year we brought back eight rhinoceros beetle little warriors, including a war god giant herring beetle and a tumor rhinoceros beetle."

"Thank you for your hard work, leaders of the Hundred Tribes."

"Of course."

The young soldier's affairs were arranged by Qingguo. Qingzhujiawang, unconcerned with such trivial matters, went straight to the point, asking about what truly mattered: "Leaders of the Hundred Tribes, you Flame Spider Merchants have traveled throughout the continent, possessing vast knowledge. Have you ever witnessed an energy ratio exceeding 1:5?"

"God-given food with the Force?"

"Divinely bestowed food with an energy ratio exceeding 1:5?" The leader of the Hundred Tribes, who had been traveling around for many years, was most adept at understanding the thoughts of other insects.

Upon hearing Green Bamboo Armor King's words, it immediately felt a jolt in its heart, knowing that Green Bamboo Armor King would not speak without reason, and would not suddenly say such a thing out of the blue.

It remained silent for a moment, then said, "I've heard of such divinely bestowed food, but none of my caravan's clients have it."

King Qingzhujia understood. There really were such primal food items on the continent. It seemed that the divinely bestowed seed of red heart cherries was not an isolated case.

"Is this kind of divinely bestowed food expensive? Chieftain, could you find a way to get some for our tribe's Zerg warriors to try?"

The leader of the hundred tribes gave a vague answer: "This kind of divinely bestowed food with primal force is quite expensive, and its primal force attributes may not necessarily be compatible with your Rhinoceros Tortoise Warriors."

The Green Bamboo Armor King pressed on, saying, "That's alright. Our Twin-Forked Rhinoceros Golden Turtle possesses the potential for three types of talent: Strength, Metal, and Earth."

The Sea God Hercules beetle has the potential to be a water-type talent, the Mammoth Hercules beetle has the potential to be a wood-type talent, and the War God Hercules beetle has the potential to be a fire-type talent. There shouldn't be any primal force-based foods that we can't eat, right?

Seeing that he couldn't refuse, the leader of the hundred tribes had no choice but to give a perfunctory reply: "Zerg warriors who possess this kind of divinely bestowed food are extremely rare. Those who can trade with them are the kingdom's top merchant caravans."

They firmly control the trading rights to top-tier divinely bestowed primal force foods, and even among their own kind, it is not always possible to trade such divinely bestowed primal force foods.

Our caravan is small, barely large enough to establish connections with them, let alone trade for such valuable goods. King Green Bamboo Armor, don't get your hopes up too high.”

Upon hearing the words of the Hundred Tribes Leader, King Qingzhu Jia was not angry at all; on the contrary, he was delighted. It seemed that this kind of divinely bestowed primal force food was not only rare but also of very high quality, with even the Flame Spider Kingdom vying for a share.

It was just testing the leaders of the hundred tribes, but unexpectedly it actually found out something.

Neither side was a fool, and the tribal leader didn't beat around the bush, asking directly, "King Qingzhujia, have you heard anything about this kind of divinely bestowed primal force food, or has your Rhinoceros Golden Turtle tribe produced such divinely bestowed primal force food?"

"If you hear any news about this kind of divinely bestowed food, could you tell me a little about it? Our caravan will reward you handsomely."

If your tribe produces this divinely bestowed food, you can bring it to us to see. We've been trading with each other for so many years; you should trust my insect quality. Price and everything else are negotiable!

Since the leaders of the Hundred Tribes had said so, the Green Bamboo Armor King could no longer hide it. It gently wiggled its antennae, signaling the Purple Fir to bring over the spider silk bag and place it in front of the leaders of the Hundred Tribes.

The leader of the hundred tribes looked at the three red cherries in the bag, then at the Green Bamboo Armor King, and then at the Purple Fir tree beside him.

It remembered that Ze Hui had said that a little warrior in the Rhinoceros Tortoise tribe possessed three divinely bestowed seeds: one was a male mulberry divinely bestowed seed, and the other was a red cherry divinely bestowed seed. This must have come from the little warrior's territory.

King Qingzhujia gestured, "Chief of the Hundred Tribes, why don't you try this divinely bestowed food made with primal force and assess its quality?"

The leader of the hundred tribes unceremoniously picked up a divinely bestowed red cherry and put it in his mouth to taste.

Normally, Zerg warriors who do not possess the potential for elemental talent are not suitable for consuming other types of divinely bestowed Force food.

However, as the Flame Spider Merchant traveled across the continent, he evolved a natural talent: the ability to expel elemental energy from his body that was not needed by it.

While this might waste some of the fruit's primal energy, it prevents the accumulation of various chaotic primal energies within the body, thus avoiding difficulties in evolution. This can be considered the Flame Spider Merchant's survival instinct.

After tasting the divinely bestowed red cherry, the leader of the Hundred Tribes silently savored it for a moment. Then, his eight eyes fixed on the few remaining fruits in the spider silk pouch, filled with fervent desire: "Truly a superior-grade divinely bestowed food of primal force!"

The Green Bamboo Armor King keenly sensed the difference in the words of the hundred tribal leaders and hurriedly asked, "Superior grade?"

The leader of the Hundred Divisions explained: "It means surpassing ordinary qualities."

King Qingzhujia understood: "Then the leaders of those hundred tribes must have very few top-grade divine-given primal force foods on the continent, right?"

"It's extremely rare, even rarer than divine fruits!" As a Flame Spider Merchant who made a living by profiting from the price difference in Force-based foods, it knew all too well the value of this super-high-grade divinely bestowed Force-based food!

For other Zerg warriors, they might only value its quality and the probability it increases their awakening ability.

For the Flame Spider Merchant, the value of this level of divinely bestowed food lies not only in its quality, but also in its role as a stepping stone to expand their insectoid relationships.

On the Thousand Trees Continent, some large tribes only trade with fixed large caravans, and small caravans like their Hundred Tribes Caravan can't even get involved, let alone have a chance to get a share.

But no matter how wealthy, closed-off, or xenophobic these tribes are, they can never refuse caravans that possess divine fruits useful to them, nor can they refuse caravans that possess superior divine-given primal force food useful to them.

As long as their caravan can trade a certain amount of top-grade divine-given primal force food from the Rhinoceros Tortoise tribe each year, they can use this divine-given primal force food to visit one large tribe after another with potential for metal-attribute talent as they travel across the Thousand Tree Continent.

By then, both the variety and quantity of products traded by caravans will inevitably increase significantly, and the caravans and their social status will rise to a new level.

As the caravan's social status rose, the resources it traded naturally increased, providing enough Force food to sustain its evolution. Becoming the Spider King was no longer an unattainable dream.

However, while it thought this in its heart, it remained outwardly calm: "King Green Bamboo Armor, your tribe is truly fortunate to have obtained top-grade divine-given primal force food. I wonder how much it produces annually?"

The Green Bamboo King raised its antennae and gently pointed at the Yew: "The Red Heart Cherry is the divinely bestowed seed that it nurtured. It is only at the intermediate stage now, and only ten fruits remained on the tree this year."

We can let it leave more fruit after it advances to a higher stage, but red cherry trees are small trees, so it probably won't be able to leave too many fruits even if we wanted to.

The tribal leader praised without reservation: "Lucky little warrior."

It just tested the quality of the red cherries, and the energy ratio reached 1:7.3, which is considered to be of relatively high quality even among super-grade divine-given energy foods.

More importantly, the little warrior is only at the intermediate stage now. Once it reaches the advanced stage, the quality of the fruit will increase further.

Not to mention the Mountain Lord level and Lord level stages later on. It's not impossible for the quality to rise to 1:9 or 1:10. If it really has that quality, then this fruit will be heaven-defying.

"King Green Bamboo, this fruit is quite good, but the sample you left is far too small. It's not enough for me to promote it."

The leader of the hundred tribes waved his claws and said, "The number of fruits that a small tree can produce is not many. If we only take a few hundred, it can only be used as a sample and has little trading value."

"In that case, once the yew tree advances to the advanced stage, our caravan will take over the entire production of the Red Heart Cherry Divine Seeds. Name your price!"

The Green Bamboo Armor King swayed its antennae and complained: "As you know, leader of the Hundred Tribes, the effect of the Red Heart Cherry God-given Seed is to comprehensively enhance metal-type abilities."

"This kind of good food is not enough even within our tribe, so there's really no extra portion to order for delivery!"

The leaders of the hundred tribes looked at the Green Bamboo Armor King, not believing his nonsense. What in this world is untradeable? It's just a matter of whether you have enough bargaining chips.

It picked up a red cherry and said in a deep voice, "King Green Bamboo Armor, what price in raw stones are you pricing this cherry?"

King Qingzhu Jia humbly replied, "These are just a few samples produced; what's the point of pricing them?"

This guy never tells the truth, and the leader of the Hundred Tribes didn't want to beat around the bush anymore, so he said directly, "How about this, I can offer 300 raw stones per Divinely Gifted Red Heart Cherry at the mid-stage, and we'll set a different price after the Purple Cedar advances to the advanced stage, what do you say?"

"This—" The Green Bamboo King was somewhat tempted; the price exceeded its original expectations. However, it didn't agree. "This is the product of the Purple Yew's own destiny seed. You can discuss the price with it again when it advances to the advanced stage and produces the Divine-Given Red Heart Cherries!"

Their trading model for the Rhinoceros Tortoise tribe is as follows: ordinary primal food is first traded within their own tribe, and any surplus is then sent to Great Green Peak for unified trading with other tribes. The tribes then consolidate these goods into large quantities and trade them with Flame Spider Merchants or other tribes.

The divinely bestowed food produced by wild divinely bestowed seeds is also traded among tribes before being distributed to others.

As for the divinely bestowed food produced by their own insectoid warriors, they trade it freely among themselves.

The tribal chief looked at Zishan. After the Zerg warriors were promoted to advanced warriors, they were indeed able to make their own decisions on some matters. However, the tribal elders would definitely be controlling the situation from behind, so the chances of gaining an advantage from it were slim.

"King Qingzhu, once Zishan advances to a high-level warrior and his seed produces divinely bestowed red heart cherries, you must keep them for me. The price is negotiable, everything is negotiable."

It was determined to get the first super-grade divine-given food that its caravan had the opportunity to trade, even if it meant losing a little money.

The most important thing is to prevent other tribes and caravans from getting this information, otherwise the opportunity that it has gained through decades of effort will be rendered useless.

Once the news gets out, there will be many caravans with greater strength than themselves willing to come and compete for a share.

Thinking this through, it decided to go all in and immediately put away the spider silk bag containing the divinely bestowed red cherries, leaving no chance for the news to leak out: "Take these few divinely bestowed red cherries as samples for my elders to see, so they can decide on a suitable price, how about that?"

Without physical evidence, they won't receive any other insect messages.

As for what comes after—

All you need to do is keep an eye on the age evolution of the yew trees each year. Once you know when the fruit is ripe, their caravans will arrive immediately.

It's not that they're making a mountain out of a molehill. In fact, the overall value of a super-grade divine-given food is no less than that of a divine-grade fruit. As long as you can get the trading qualification, it doesn't matter if you make a couple more trips.

"Of course, of course!" King Qingzhu naturally saw the urgency in the hearts of the hundred tribe leaders, but since it was the supplier now, it sat back and didn't have a hurry at all.

Having finally gotten a chance to manipulate the leaders of the Hundred Tribes, King Qingzhu also wanted to take the opportunity to ask for some benefits: "Leaders of the Hundred Tribes, does your tribe have any other soul-type plants besides the Azure Soul Kiwi? Or perhaps some top-tier power-type or life-type plants?"

Tribal Leaders: "————"

This fellow is far too greedy. It was getting impatient, but for the sake of the divinely bestowed red heart cherries, it held back: "King Green Bamboo Armor, our caravan only gives away about ten top-grade tree species each year. I've already given you most of them. I should also take care of the other tribes, right?"

The Green Bamboo Armor King remained quite calm about this. It pointed to the spider silk bag in the claw of the Hundred Tribes Leader and said, "Hundred Tribes Leader, I have shown you the good things I promised you before. I did not lie, did I?"

I'm not greedy and want more top-tier tree species; I just want to enrich the variety within the tribe.

The leaders of the hundred tribes were speechless. Wasn't this insatiable?

"Next year, I'll see if I can bring you a few seeds that enhance limb regeneration!"

"Enhance the ability to regenerate severed limbs?" King Qingzhu's eyes lit up slightly.

Some Zerg warriors do have this ability, but not all Zerg possess it. Many Zerg warriors, if they lose a limb, can only regenerate the severed limb through age evolution.

However, this comes at the cost of increasing the probability of evolutionary failure, and it would require multiple evolutions to restore the severed limb to its original state.

If one has access to similar Force-based food, even if limbs cannot be regenerated immediately, the risk of evolutionary failure can be reduced under such circumstances.

Most importantly, battles frequently occur in the Thousand Star Islands, making this Force food the perfect product to sell there.

King Qingzhujia pressed his advantage, saying, "Leaders of the Hundred Tribes, could you please give us a few more of the divinely bestowed kiwifruit seeds? It would be even better if we had seeds from male plants."

I didn't mean anything by it; I just wanted the fruits produced by the life-giving seeds nurtured by our tribal warriors to be of better quality.

The tribal leader countered, "I gave you quite a few Azure Soul Kiwi seeds a few years ago, didn't I? I remember many of them were incorporated into the life sacs of your tribe's high-ranking warriors and mountain lords, nurtured into life seeds. I wonder if they've produced any yet?"

"Not yet, but we estimate production will begin next year or the year after!"

The tribal chief declined, saying, "Then let's wait until your tribe's warriors produce their life-seeds before we see."

The seeds of the male Green Soul Kiwi fruit plant are of great importance and extremely valuable. Even I cannot simply take them out. To obtain these seeds, my elder, the Golden Sunflower Spider King, must apply on my behalf!

"That's fine too." King Qingzhu Armor seemed oblivious to the reluctance in the words of the Hundred Tribes Leader, and said seriously, "King Jin Kui Spider King should also pass by Xiangjiao Island and go to the Thousand Star Islands for trade, right?"

I've met it a few times. In a couple of years, I'll invite it to come over; maybe it can give you a big surprise then!

"A big surprise?" The leader of the Hundred Tribes was somewhat surprised and uncertain when the Green Bamboo Armor King said this. It remembered that the Green Bamboo Armor King had said the same thing two years ago, and then this year it brought out the Super Grade Divine Blessed Force Food.

Could it be that their tribe possesses even better divinely bestowed food or divine fruits?

But why? This is just a small tribe with a population of no more than a thousand. Two years ago, it was quite surprised to hear that their tribe possessed a male mulberry tree, a divinely bestowed seed.

Seeing the Super Grade Divine Gift Red Heart Cherry today has opened its eyes even more. If there are other Divine Grade Divine Gift seeds, what would those large tribes with tens of thousands of insect populations and nearly a thousand Divine Gift seeds, but no special Divine Gift seeds, think?

"King Green Bamboo Armor, we're all straightforward insects, so feel free to tell me anything. Here's what I'll do: I'll try my best to meet your needs, and give me a little bit of information."

As it spoke, it looked left and right, and finding that only it, the Green Bamboo Armor King, Lord Purple Plum, and Purple Fir were watching nearby, it moved closer to the Green Bamboo Armor King and lowered its mental focus to ask, "Has your tribe produced a divinely bestowed seed?"

King Qingzhujia was speechless: "No, Chief of the Hundred Tribes, you're overthinking it. It's something else. I'll tell you when the time is right!"

"Alright." The leader of the Hundred Tribes was somewhat unwilling, but then it thought, Ze Hui has worked in the Rhinoceros Golden Turtle Tribe for five years, I wonder if it has heard any rumors? I'll ask it after the transaction is over.

"King Qingzhujia, Zehui has worked here for five years. You're probably not planning to renew his contract, are you? If not, I'll send him back to the caravan!"

The caravan is missing a key member, which makes trading quite troublesome, but the annual reward of 100,000 raw stones is still quite substantial.

If the Rhinoceros Golden Tortoise tribe is willing to renew the contract, it wouldn't mind letting Ze Hui stay here. Perhaps it could even find out the secrets mentioned by the Green Bamboo Armor King!

"Most of the young warriors in the tribe have already completed their studies, so we won't be renewing their contracts for now!" Their tribe needs to spend raw stones everywhere these days, and the annual reward of 100,000 raw stones is a bit too high, so this project can be suspended for a while.

If all else fails, warriors from the tribe who have completed five years of training can be used to replace the new young warriors of Bishop Zehui Mountain, which would save some money.

"Alright then." The leader of the hundred tribes had expected this and wasn't too disappointed.