Astral Gods

Chapter 63 The Divine Seed of Red Heart Cherries

Normal cherries bloom in February and ripen in April.

However, the cherry tree that nurtured the divinely bestowed seed had its seed bloom in February, but it didn't ripen until September.

Although cherry trees are not very large, they are still small trees, and it is not difficult for them to bear only one cherry seed bestowed by God.

Moreover, the Lord of Purple Pearl Mountain replenished the Force in a timely manner, ensuring that the cherry tree would not suffer any Force burden during the fruiting period.

The reason it matures so late is that the transformation of primal force into primal energy requires a process, and this transformation process takes more than half a year.

In mid-September, Lord Zili flew to this place, which Zizhu had named "Cherry Land," carrying a bag of raw stones.

Here, Zizhu was still guarding under the tree. After Lord Zili landed on the ground, Zizhu immediately went forward to greet him: "Lord Zili, you've come."

"Um."

Lord Purple Plum responded and then looked up at the divinely bestowed seed on the tree. At this moment, the cherry guarded by the purple bead, which was radiating primal energy fluctuations, had grown to two centimeters in size, with a blood-red skin, and was clearly ripe.

Lord Purple Plum inquired, "Aren't the divinely bestowed red cherry seeds ripe by now? Why aren't they being harvested?"

The yew responded, "They've just ripened. The yew said to wait two more days to pick them, so that their original energy can be fully transformed before we talk about it."

"Oh, its plan is quite sound." Lord Zili handed a large bag of raw stones to Zizhu. "Here are 3000 raw stones. Take them."

Zizhu asked with some confusion, "Lord Zili, what is this?"

Lord Purple Plum explained, "The trade fair is about to begin, and the Fruit Fly tribe's bayberry festival is also starting. You can participate in the bayberry festival by bringing 3000 raw stones."

"I see!" Zizhu remembered that Lord Zili had once said that once it was promoted to the Mountain Lord level, it could participate in the Yangmei Conference.

Zizhu looked at the divinely bestowed red cherry seeds on the tree: "What should we do with the divinely bestowed seeds on that tree?"

Lord Purple Plum: "I'll stay here for a day or two and then I can pick them. Then I can let the yew take into its life sac and nurture them."

"Okay." Since Lord Zili had made the arrangements, Zizhu didn't say anything more and prepared to leave with the raw stones.

Lord Zili reminded them, "Several mountain chiefs from within the tribe are also going there; you can go together."

"Understood."

Lord Purple Plum took over from Purple Pearl to guard the Red Heart Cherry Tree. When the Yew and the others returned from class, Purple Pearl had already gone to the Fruit Fly Tribe.

"Where are Lord Zili and Lord Zizhu Mountain?"

"It went to participate in the Yangmei Festival."

Lord Purple Plum asked, "Purple Fir, you're old enough to evolve now, aren't you?"

"That's fine."

In the initial stage, yew trees can transform the seeds of male mulberry trees into divinely bestowed seeds, so this minor problem is even less of a challenge in the intermediate stage.

The reason it is timed precisely is that it wants to incorporate the divinely bestowed seed of red cherry into its life pod at the third age.

Lord Purple Plum said, "That's perfect, you can evolve now. Once you've evolved, you can incorporate the divinely bestowed seed of the Red Heart Cherry into your life sac for nurturing."

Without further ado, the three brothers picked the fruit from the tree and put it into their spider silk bags, then flew back to Purple Ridge with Lord Purple Plum.

Back in their nest, Purple Locust and Purple Artemisia brought some fruit and Force food for Yew to eat.

After the yew finished eating, it hid inside the nest chamber and began to evolve, while its two brothers stood outside the nest chamber silently channeling their Force into it.

It took two days for the yew tree to successfully advance to the intermediate stage of the third age.

The yew crawled out of its nest, and the two brothers immediately fed it fruit to help it regain its strength.

After it had eaten its fill, Lord Purple Plum asked, "Is it ready?"

"Alright." The male mulberry tree seed that the yew tree spat out was handed to the purple locust tree, which put it in a spider silk bag to be used for sowing later.

Zi Ai then took out the divinely bestowed red cherry seed from the spider silk bag, peeled off the skin to reveal the perfectly grown pit inside, and handed it to Zi Shan.

The yew tree took the seed and placed it into its life sac to nurture it.

Once the divinely bestowed seed of the red cherry was placed into its life capsule, and the yew tree channeled its primal force to form a soul bond with it, it immediately sensed the difference between nurturing a red cherry seed and nurturing an ordinary seed.

Over the years, based on their tests and experiments in the Purple Plum Territory, they believe that the life sac of the yew can nurture ordinary seeds into divinely bestowed seeds. Its main special feature is that it can condense a large amount of primal force into a point of extremely pure primal energy, and then infuse it into the seed, causing it to undergo a qualitative change.

Yew also examined itself internally and discovered that in addition to having a life sac like a normal Zerg warrior, it also had a thin membrane-like filter layer inside its life sac.

Simply put, a normal Zerg warrior inputs the Force into the Life Sac and then directly infuses it into the Seed, transforming the Seed into a Life Seed.

After the yew's primal force is input into the life sac, it is filtered again by the thin membrane inside the sac, forming a more refined primal energy before being infused into the seed. In other words, it is enhanced once inside the life sac.

This tiny bit of pure primal energy might be a hundred or a thousand times the amount that other Zerg warriors would consume to nurture a normal life form.

This is why it consumes tens of thousands of raw stones in the early stages of its first age.

Over the past few years, Lord Zili has invested no less than 200,000 raw stones in Zishan, 90% of which were consumed by its life sac.

However, after the yew planted the divinely bestowed seed of the red cherry into its life sac, it immediately felt a strong need to draw on the primal force from within the life sac.

Zishan immediately panicked: "Lord Zili, something's wrong! This Red Heart Cherry God-given Seed seems to have a huge demand for Force."

"A bit big?" Lord Purple Plum asked doubtfully. "How big is it?"

Zishan said uneasily, "It feels like the demand for Force is more than ten times greater than that of the previous Destiny Seeds."

"More than ten times bigger?"

Upon hearing what the yew tree said, the insects present were all startled.

The yew tree has already consumed enough raw stones. If it needs to consume ten times more, how much raw energy will it consume?

Lord Zili decisively said, "Zihuai, Ziai, you continue to supply it with primal energy. I'll go get some primal stones and see how much it needs."

"Understood." The two brothers were very sensible and continued to channel their primal energy into Zishan's body.

They have been at the intermediate level of the 9-year stage for more than ten months. The reason why they have not yet been promoted to the advanced level is that their destiny requires more tree cultivation so that they can break through to the advanced level with all their might.

They plan to evolve in October, and also see if they can get two more Green Soul Kiwi Life Seeds from the Hundred Caravans.

At this moment, their primal force is much more abundant than that of the yew.

Even so, their primal force poured into the yew's body continuously, as if pouring into a bottomless pit.

Even after their primal force was completely exhausted, the life sacs of the yew trees seemed never to be satisfied.

"This is bad!" It felt as if even the combined primal force within the three of them wasn't enough to satisfy the needs of the life seed within the life sac.