——Is the pollen from a male Divine-Given Green-Red Kiwifruit useful for a Purple Kiwifruit Life Seed?

——How many ordinary Green-Red Kiwifruit Life Seed plants can be pollinated by the male flowers from a single male Divine-Given Green-Red Kiwifruit plant?

——Will quality and yield improve twofold, threefold, or is there a chance it could reach fourfold?

——During the fruit-bearing period, how often is it appropriate to supplement Source Stones? Does it require a lot of Source Stones?

Dragon Cypress couldn't answer these questions, and even helped by bringing up a problem Blue Catalpa and Snakebark Maple hadn't considered:

"Within Cloud Trace Continent, there are only so many Insect Clan Warriors, and their demand for Green-Red Kiwifruit is very limited. If you choose Green-Red Kiwifruit as your Life Seed in large numbers, the fruits you produce can only be sold to Flame Spider Roving Merchants. The two of you will become highly dependent on trade with the Roving Merchants."

Once these words were spoken, the previously excited Blue Catalpa and Snakebark Maple both fell silent.

Every Insect Clan Warrior who has dealt with a Flame Spider Roving Merchant will, when choosing their Life Seed, try their best to be self-sufficient or, by collaborating with fellow Clan Warriors, form a complementary relationship that minimizes their reliance on the Roving Merchants.

For those stuck on Cloud Trace Continent, it's even more important.

They fell silent and thought for a long while,

Blue Catalpa was first to grasp the key point, and asked, "Dragon Cypress Ant King, are the Origin Force Fruits produced by this method considered ordinary Origin Force Food, or do they count as Divine-Given Origin Force Food?"

Ordinary Origin Force Food and Divine-Given Origin Force Food are things on two different levels.

Ordinary Origin Force Food gives only moderate enhancement, with a moderate upper limit. Some of it sells well, some doesn't.

Divine-Given Origin Force Food, on the other hand, has notable enhancement effects and a high upper limit. No matter how marginal the type of enhancement is, or how poor the quality, as long as it's placed among the vast Insect Populations of the Ten-thousand Tribes Continent, there is always more demand than supply.

"It's at the Divine-Given Origin Force Food level, but in terms of quality, it's at the very lowest tier."

Dragon Cypress gave a definitive answer. He thought for a moment, swept his wings to flatten the earth, and used his claw to draw a vertical line.

"Let's use the Mountain Lord Level of evolution as a baseline, and take Green-Red Kiwifruit as an example species."

Dragon Cypress drew a horizontal line at each end of the vertical, and said, "The highest quality is, of course, the God-Given Life Seed. A single kiwifruit from such a plant can fetch about 30 Source Stones per piece from a caravan."

"Yours is the lowest, with Divine-Given male plant used for pollination and fruiting on ordinary Life Seeds. The price per single kiwifruit is perhaps 2 or 3 Source Stones each, or maybe a bit higher—up to 4 or 5 Source Stones."

Dragon Cypress used his claw to draw another horizontal line in the middle, and said, "Then there's the 'Wild God-Given Seed,' whose single fruit is worth 15 to 20 Source Stones."

"Of course, the quality of Origin Force Food is also affected by Origin Force Environment, temperature, soil, management, and so on, causing some small fluctuations up or down. But regardless of the fluctuation, for the same Mountain Lord Level, the Divine-Given Fruits produced from Wild God-Given Seeds will never reach the quality of God-Given Life Seeds. And, when a Divine-Given male plant pollinates an ordinary Life Seed plant, the quality of the resulting fruits can never surpass those from the Wild God-Given Seed."

Dragon Cypress summarized, "Think of this as an insurmountable class division within the plant world. There's also Divine Grade and Superior Grade, but that's another matter entirely."

——Got it.

Blue Catalpa and Snakebark Maple simultaneously tapped their tentacles, happy again.

As long as they've entered the 'Divine-Given' category, after being refined it's called 'Ant King Honey' rather than 'Origin Force Ant Honey,' and there'll be no problem selling it!

Ink Orchid finally added, "Given that, Blue Catalpa and Snakebark Maple, you don't need to argue anymore. Let Snakebark Maple nurture the Divine-Given Seed into a Life Seed. When it flowers, you can both share the pollen."

Dragon Cypress: "You can now evolve into a 2nd age intermediate warrior. For now, keep the seed in your Life Pouch for incubation—when spring comes next year, there'll still be time to evolve again and plant the seed on schedule…"

...

Dragon Cypress carefully surveyed the terrain and geology of the mountains where Blue Catalpa and Snakebark Maple resided, and helped plan things out.

He picked a hilltop, planning to later bring Worker Ants to dig a reservoir and open two irrigation channels.

The Divine-Given Green-Red Kiwifruit is to be sown on the ridge, using wooden stakes and spider silk as supports to guide the main vines along the ridge.

On both sides of the mountain—on the slopes—he'd sow ordinary Green-Red Kiwifruit Life Seeds, also building supporting frames of wooden stakes and spider silk rope for the vines to climb upwards.

In this way, having plants above and below makes it convenient for wind pollination. Bring in some acid bees and honeybees and similar insects, and the troublesome pollination problem is solved.

Dragon Cypress had never personally seen a male Divine-Given Seed, but while traveling the continent with the Luoli Caravan, he had heard a bit about them by chance.

There were many doubts, so he planned to question the caravan in detail later.

...

Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid spent almost a month at Kiwifruit Mountain, before hurrying to Southern Sour Jujube Mountain, where the Dominating Throne assisted Round Cypress in evolving to advanced level and helped Black Cory and Silver Cypress to evolve to 2nd age intermediate level.

They returned to Fragrant Orchid Mountain.

With the help of the Dominating Throne, Giant Cypress evolved to advanced level, and Fragrant Cypress and Cypress both reached the 7th age period.

The total number of Specialized Soldier Ants and Large Soldier Ants reached 1,600.

The overall strength of the Ant Kingdom saw a nice increase.

The time was the end of autumn.

Packed up supplies and set off.

First to Molan Mountain in search of Divine-Given Seeds—returned empty-handed, but picked a batch of wild fruits on the way.

Then to White Lotus Lake, searching for Divine-Given Seeds—no luck, then went straight to Silver Cypress Mountain.

The Sky-Blue Persimmon Life Seed of Mountain Persimmon entered its peak production period, and Dragon Cypress bought them at the high price of 2 Source Stones apiece.

Mountain Persimmon's annual territory income also soared past 8,000 Source Stones.

Nothing else changed much.

It was an ordinary trade deal, completed simply as always.

The Dominating Throne set out from Silver Cypress Mountain, heading straight to Desolation Plains, searching all around, zigzagging along the way, conducting a sweep southward.

...

The north wind whistled—the season turned to winter.

The Dominating Throne stopped at the foot of an unnamed great mountain to shelter from the wind.

Ink Orchid hunted two roes that he'd never tasted before.

Dragon Cypress split his attention three ways: commanding Worker Ants to butcher, activating Water System Ability to simmer soup, and considering prospects for the search route.

Days of fruitless effort left Dragon Cypress a bit anxious.

The western region of Cloud Trace Continent had now been mapped—south to Fragrant Orchid Mountain, north to Silver Cypress Mountain, west to the Divine Force Barrier, east to Purple Tung Insect Nation.

At the current speed of the Dominating Throne in flight, a trip west to east would take six days.

Ink Orchid's maximum Perception range for Land of Origin Force was about the distance the Throne could fly in half a day.

Rough calculation: to fully explore the entire western region should take around 90 days.

This winter, however, had only 30 days. Afterward, they'd have to return to Fragrant Orchid Mountain for the annual fishing activities, stocking up food for the Ant Nest ahead of spring, then go again to Scarletlight Mountain to gather nectar for Ant King Jelly, and pick Golden Light Fruit.

"Ink Orchid, we urgently need to find more Insect Clan Warriors."

"I know."

"Can you point us in the right direction?"

"What do you mean, 'right direction'?"

"I mean calculate—figure out where we should go?"

"I calculate? Isn't this your plan?"

"..."

Dragon Cypress said, "Where do you think there might be a Land of Origin Force? Point us a direction and we'll fly over and check it out."

Ink Orchid looked dazed for a moment, then lifted his foreleg and pointed at random, saying, "That way!"

Dragon Cypress: "I trust you."

They ate, drank, and set off.

However, Ink Orchid's luck didn't seem to be working.

After five days of flying, there was still nothing.

The Dominating Throne landed by a natural lake in the midst of towering mountains.

"Ink Orchid, how about giving us another direction?"

"That way."

Ink Orchid answered without hesitation, raising his claw to point south, "Let's sweep this big mountain range first."

Ate, rested, set off once more.

Two days later,

Ink Orchid suddenly leaped up, cheering, "Origin Force Fluctuation! We finally found it!"

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