Astral Gods

Chapter 10 3 Little Ones

"Alright, everyone disperse and get back to your own business." Seeing that they had been found, the Purple Hemp Mountain Master immediately urged everyone to go about their tasks.

Then it looked at Zitong: "Zizhu is still working in the territory and doesn't know about the third brother's ascension and promotion to Zerg warrior. Why don't you go and inform him?"

"Okay." Zitong flew towards Zizhu's territory.

The Purple Hemp Mountain Lord then said to the three little warriors, "Let's go back to our territory first. I'll get you some Force food to eat."

"Okay, okay!" the three little soldiers happily agreed.

Back beside their own destiny-planting tree, the three little ones devoured the Primal Force food that the Purple Hemp Mountain Lord had brought them.

The vitality of the seedlings is much stronger than that of ordinary plants. After three or four months of growth, the mulberry trees that the purple locusts planted have grown to a diameter of two centimeters and a height of more than two meters.

They also planted two-year-old and three-year-old birch and cypress trees, but the birch trees were only a little over half a meter tall and the cypress trees had just sprouted.

When Zizhu arrived, the three little ones had already eaten their fill and were resting outside the nest.

"Purple Pearl".

"Purple Pearl".

"Purple Pearl".

The three little ones took turns waving their antennae to greet Purple Pearl.

Looking at the little rhinoceros beetles that had all grown into adults, Zizhu was first taken aback, then became happy.

"Haha, I have three little warrior juniors now. I am the advanced rhinoceros beetle with the most juniors."

The Lord of Zima Mountain: "..."

Zitong: "..."

Zitong reminded her, "Zizhu, can you afford to raise three little warriors?"

"Uh..." Zizhu's happy expression froze for a moment, and then she said dryly, "We should be able to afford to raise them in the initial stage, and their life seeds should produce a certain amount in the intermediate stage."

Then, Zizhu seemed to remember something and asked, "Third brother, has your first-year life seed been conceived?"

The third brother said unhurriedly, "It's ready. I've chosen a mulberry tree."

"The mulberry tree, just like your brother's, bring it out so I can see it."

The third son spat out a mulberry seed from its life sac. It had found a rather plump seed while searching for food and decided to nurture it.

But when they saw the seed, Purple Pearl and the others felt like the sky had fallen: "Third brother, you chose a male seed! Male plants don't produce fruit!"

Hearing this, the third brother was filled with doubt: "But didn't you say that many rhinoceros beetle warriors in our tribe choose a male plant as their life seed? This shouldn't matter, right?"

"They choose male mulberry trees as their seed because they already have many female mulberry trees as their seed, which have already begun to produce fruit."

To improve quality, male plants are cultivated as seed plants. You haven't even produced your own seed plants yet, so choosing male plants is too early!

"Is that so?" The third brother realized he had made the wrong choice and felt a little regretful.

"It's alright, it's alright," Zi Tong said, trying to smooth things over. "Zi Huai and Zi Ai also have mulberry trees as their life seeds. After that, the three of them can nurture a few more mulberry trees as their life seeds, cooperate with each other, and share more primal energy food with the third brother. There's nothing to worry about."

"That's all we can do," Zizhu sighed helplessly. "From now on, you should cultivate more mulberry trees as life-sustaining plants, and give more of the fruit to the third son."

"Understood," Zihuai and Ziai responded, shaking their antennae.

Zi Huai asked, "The third brother is named Zi Shan?"

"Let's call it Yew!"

Zizhu tapped her tentacles: "Zishan, put the life seed back into the life pouch, and test your Force talent."

"Oh," Zishan swallowed the life seed back, and Zizhu taught it to crawl on the ground to draw on the natural primal force.

Zerg warriors can be judged by the rate and amount of Force they absorb. The higher the talent, the greater the chance of awakening more abilities after being promoted to Mountain Lord, thus making it easier to be promoted to Lord or even Zerg King.

Zishan lay on the ground and began to absorb the primal force of nature according to Zizhu's teachings.

Its body seemed to generate a devouring force, drawing away the surrounding natural primal force and absorbing it continuously, quickly forming a primal force vortex only five or six centimeters in size around it.

Seeing this, all the insects were very surprised. When ordinary insect warriors draw on the natural force, it is already good enough that they can sense the natural force flowing towards them. But they never expected that the natural force could form a vortex on their body surface. How high must their natural force talent be?

Zizhu and the others retreated several meters, exclaiming in surprise, "Zishan's talent is too high; even the natural force is not enough for it to absorb."

"I have never seen an insect with such high talent."

Zizhu quickly interrupted Zitong, "This is not the time to talk about this. Bring the primal stones to replenish its primal energy."

"Okay." Thousands of life-giving plants are planted here. The consumption of raw stones during their growth and fruit ripening periods is huge. They have stored millions of raw stones here, which can be used at any time.

Just as Zitong was about to retrieve the primal stone, Zihuai and Ziai emitted primal force fluctuations, and the primal force within their bodies surged continuously toward Zishan.

The two of them are now in their fourth year, while the yew is only in its first year. The Force within them is relatively sufficient compared to the yew, and in just a moment, the Force vortex on the yew's body surface disappeared.

After a while, the fluctuations of the yew tree absorbing the primal force of nature subsided.

"This..." Zizhu called out to Zishan, "Zishan, are you alright?"

Zishan responded, "It's nothing, I just feel that the life seed in my life sac is consuming a lot of primal force."

"Is the life seed consumption a bit too high?" Zizhu and Zitong looked at each other in bewilderment.

Zizhu was also confused about Zishan's situation at this moment: "Then I will store more Primal Stones here, as well as Zihuai and Ziai. If Zishan encounters a situation where it lacks Primal Force while you are evolving, then you can supply it with Primal Force."

"understood."

Zi Huai asked, "So we were all here before we were promoted to intermediate warriors?"

"That won't do." Zizhu thought for a moment and said, "You three guys ate so much of my primal energy food, you have to work for me to pay off your debt."

Therefore, my destiny seed is not far from here. You will go to work where my destiny seed is during the day and come back at night.

The three little ones: "..."

Zitong: "..."

"Purple Beads, stop fooling around. What can they do when they're so small? It's better to let them guard the seed."

Zizhu disagreed: "This forest has been cleared out eight hundred times. Even a rat can hardly escape our mental sensing. As long as the seed grows to half a meter tall, there will be no danger."

"It's pointless for them to stay here all day; they'll just become lazy. I'm training them, teaching them to manage their own territory."

Zitong: "..."

This is Zizhu's junior, so it can't say much. However, the little warrior does need to train his legs more, as this will help him evolve.

Zizhu made the final decision: "It's settled then. You'll weed my life seed during the day and eat Force food to evolve at night. This way, you can live a more comfortable life."

To everyone's surprise, the three little soldiers weren't angry at all; instead, they cheered happily, "Great! Great, Purple Pearl, we'll help you with the work!"

They had been in the nest for over a year, and Zizhu and the others always said they couldn't go here or there. They felt like their membranous wings were turning gray. Finally being able to move freely was like a blessing from heaven.

Seeing their beggarish attitude, as if they'd been sold out and were even helping them count the money, Zitong felt even more speechless: "My life-seed area also needs weeding, why don't you go and do the work there too?"

"Okay, okay!"