Astral Gods

Chapter 68 The Price of Kiwi Seeds Given by God

After seeing off the Flame Spider caravan, everyone divided up the various Force-based foods they had traded. Some ate what they could, some stored it away, and the stored food would be given to the other warriors of the kingdom when they returned for the winter.

After distributing the items, Lord Zili led his tribe's young warriors back to Ziling. Lord Qingguo, after arranging various matters, also followed Lord Zili to Ziling.

The insects flew all the way to the plains below Purple Ridge and landed in the area where the yew trees had planted their life-giving seeds.

After landing, Zihuai quickly ran to her two brothers who were guarding the life seed: "Ziai, Zishan, I have also nurtured a green soul kiwi life seed."

"Really? Lord Zili actually got it from the Flame Spider caravan's claws!" Upon hearing this good news, the three brothers immediately jumped up and down with joy.

The two lords ignored the naive young warrior. Lord Purple Plum waved his antennae, summoning Purple Pearl, who was also guarding under the tree: "Purple Pearl, are the fruits growing on the yew seed ripe?"

Zizhu calmly replied, "The fruits nurtured on the yew seed are basically all ripe."

At the beginning of the year, Lord Purple Plum arranged for a small number of yew trees to bear fruit as an experiment. After more than half a year of growth, the fruits on the trees have all ripened.

Some fruits actually ripen in August or September, but the entire tribe is too busy during that time to deal with such a small matter, so the fruits are left hanging on the trees. Fortunately, there is a constant supply of primal energy, so the fruits will not have any problems.

Hearing these affirmative words, Lord Purple Plum's tone was full of anticipation: "Now that the fruit is ripe, let's pick it and have everyone taste it!"

Eleven seedlings have been sown in the yew plantation, and six of them are bearing a small amount of fruit. These six seedlings are: female mulberry seedling, red cypress seedling, multi-seeded green grape seedling, sweet kiwi seedling, wisteria seedling, and green kiwi seedling.

Zizhu instructed several little warriors to quickly pick the fruits from the various life seeds, put them into spider silk bags, and place them in front of the two lords.

Six spider silk bags were placed in front of the two lords, and several little warriors stared at them expectantly.

They also desperately wanted to eat these divinely bestowed foods, but they knew that the two lords wanted to test the quality of the fruit and set a price for the divinely bestowed foods, so they dared not act recklessly.

The two lords each took out a string of mulberries produced by the Yew Seed from the first spider silk bag and put them in their mouths to taste.

After finishing the mulberry, the two lords exchanged a glance.

Lord Purple Plum spoke first: "Green Fruit, what do you think the energy ratio of this mulberry is?"

Lord Qingguo pondered for a moment, then said thoughtfully, "It should be around 1:3.5!"

"Yes, I think so too. The quality is about the same as that of wild mulberry trees of divine gift." Last year, the quality of mulberries produced from wild mulberry trees of divine gift, pollinated by male flowers in the early stage, was about 1:3.1. This year, the male flower grade has been improved, so the quality will be even better.

"It can be sold for 2.3-2.5 yuan per rough stone."

"Let's not consider the intermediate stage for now; we'll talk about it when Zishan advances to the advanced stage!"

"That's fine then. The mulberries produced by the Yew Tree can be left for the three brothers to eat themselves!"

The two lords didn't dwell on the matter and moved on to the next spider silk bag.

The second spider silk bag contained 20 red cypress fruits, which are nuts, with 10 seeds in each fruit.

The two lords tasted a fruit, feeling the primal energy contained within it, and were quite excited:

"As expected of a power-type divinely bestowed food, the quality is excellent, with the energy ratio in the fruit reaching 1:3."

Most importantly, it provides a comprehensive enhancement to strength-based abilities; selling a single Red Cypress seed for 5 Primogems is questionable.

"I agree to this price!" The two lords had no objection to the price.

After the two lords finished their evaluations, Zizhu immediately pulled the spider silk bag to her side and gave the three brothers a red cypress fruit: "You are still young and cannot eat too much divinely bestowed primal energy food. One red cypress seed per insect is enough."

The three brothers broke open the red cypress fruit, each picked out a red cypress seed and put it in their mouths, then lay down and silently digested the primal energy within the red cypress seed.

Seeing the three brothers digesting the original energy, Zizhu also took out a red cypress fruit to taste.

It eats a lot of mulberries in the tribe and doesn't care much about them, but it hasn't really eaten much of the divinely bestowed primal force food that enhances overall strength. At least, it has never eaten red cypress seeds.

Next, the two lords evaluated the remaining fruits one by one. The yew is only at the intermediate stage, so the number of fruits produced at present cannot be large, nor can they be sold. The value of the raw stones is not important.

Importantly, with multiple species tested, they gained a clearer understanding of the various species produced by the yew.

In summary, the quality of the divinely bestowed food produced by the Yew Seed is roughly the same as that produced by wild divinely bestowed seeds.

Judging by the yield of male mulberry trees from the yew tree species, it should only be 2/5 of the yield of the divinely bestowed species, or about half of the yield of wild divinely bestowed species.

Fortunately, it's not the best, but it's not the worst either, and the fruit it produces is quite valuable.

After tasting the fruits from the first five spider silk bags, everyone's attention turned to the last spider silk bag.

If the aforementioned types of divinely bestowed foods are extremely rare—for example, sunflower seeds that enhance mental strength, multi-seeded green grapes that enhance earth-type abilities, red cypress seeds that enhance physical strength, and wisteria berries that enhance mental perception—they are all very expensive on the market, usually costing 80-100 times more to obtain.

I've never even heard of that kind of soul-based divine-given food; its quality and price must be carefully considered.

Lord Purple Plum opened the spider silk bag and took out a fruit from it. The fruit of the divinely bestowed Azure Soul Kiwi was unexpectedly small.

Normal kiwifruit is about the size of a tomato, while the God-given Green Soul kiwifruit is only the size of a cherry tomato.

The fruit is oval in shape, with a dark green skin, and emits a faint, insect-attracting fragrance.

Let alone eating it, just smelling it made Lord Purple Plum feel completely comfortable.

It knew it wasn't because the fruit was actually that fragrant, but because the soul-based primal force within the fruit was attracting it.

With a flick of its paw, it cut the kiwi fruit in half, then swept its mental energy across the flesh.

The flesh contains numerous green seeds resembling sesame seeds: "There are a total of 25 seeds in a kiwi fruit."

It picked up a seed and tasted it, feeling the soul-based primal energy emanating from the seed impacting its soul wave after wave.

Although one or two mid-level Soul-type Force foods cannot bring about any change to its soul, the comfort it brings to the soul is incomparable to other divinely bestowed Force foods.

"The energy ratio in the seeds of the divinely bestowed Green Soul Kiwifruit is 1:2.5!"

Then it picked out all the seeds from the fruit and distributed them to everyone. The three brothers each got two seeds and put them in their mouths.

Then Lord Purple Plum swallowed the rest of the fruit in one gulp and pondered: "The seeds of the God-given Azure Soul Kiwi are small, and the flesh accounts for a large proportion. It should be equivalent to ten Azure Soul Kiwi seeds."

"Qingguo, how should we price it?"

Lord Qingguo said straightforwardly, "The seeds produced by the Mountain Lord-level kiwifruit only amount to one raw stone for every 20 seeds. The quality of the intermediate-level ones is even lower, with a maximum of 0.01 raw stones per seed."

Based on our previous estimates, we only need to increase the price by 500 times compared to the price of ordinary kiwi seeds!

"That means five raw stones make one seed!" the insects pondered.

That divinely bestowed green kiwi fruit contains 25 seeds, and its price is equivalent to 125 raw stones.

Lord Purple Plum just said that the flesh of the Divine Gift Green Soul Kiwi is equivalent to 10 green and red kiwi seeds, which is worth 50 raw stones.

In other words, one fruit is worth 175 raw stones.

Under normal circumstances, it is normal for a kiwi vine to bear thousands of fruits every year. According to this calculation, the annual output of Zishan's Qinghun kiwi seedling can easily reach 18 raw stones.

Of course, this is just a basic, ideal calculation. The actual situation is much more complex, with many factors, such as production output and the growth status of life forms, that are beyond the control of Zerg warriors.

Lord Purple Plum took out three kiwis from his spider silk bag and handed them to the three Purple Fir brothers: "Each of you three brothers can have one. Once you've peeled the fruit, eat it quickly, or you can find Snow Grass King and have him preserve the fruit in honey for you."

I'll take the remaining produce back to the main peak for Lord Green Fruit, so that King Green Bamboo and the other lords on the mountain can have a taste.

People have been investing in Zishan for so many years, it's time to let them know that their investment has not been in vain.

"Thank you, Lord Zili." The three brothers' antennae twitched wildly, overjoyed.