Between Xianglan Mountain and Molan Mountain, there’s a great river in the middle, which Ink Orchid and Dragon Cypress discovered when they were very young and nad ’Blue River.’
Dragon Cypress used Water Control Ability to draw river sand from the riverbed to the riverbank, sweeping back and forth with its tentacles to sense and control the tallic gravel it found, attaching them to its tentacle.
After collecting enough, it stored them in the tal can by its side.
After spending half a day, it had panned a canful.
Dragon Cypress carefully set the tal can aside, "Ink Orchid, let’s start!"
After finishing, its tal Ability activated, controlling the tallic gravel in the can to flow out like water, gathering midair into a black sphere of gravel.
Dragon Cypress focused its attention, tal Primordial Energy surging into both claws and tentacles, then unleashed it all at once.
The tallic gravel liquefied.
The sphere ford by the gravel turned into a mass of black liquid, its shape shifting, transforming into the shape of a tal can.
Dragon Cypress withdrew its Primordial Energy.
The liquefied tal condensed, rging into a seamless tal can, entirely jet-black and smooth on the surface.
"..."
Ink Orchid stared in a daze for a while before reacting.
"This... This is different from Ghost Fan’s tal Solidification..."
"Of course. A fundantal difference."
Ghost Fan uses tal Solidification Ability, forcibly fusing tallic gravel together; the cans made this way have a matte texture with grainy traces on the surface.
The tal can made by Dragon Cypress’s ability is entirely fused into one, its surface smooth and glossy.
The cans made with Ghost Fan’s Solidification Ability have very high strength.
This tal can made by Dragon Cypress...
Ink Orchid gathered Primordial Energy at its toe tips, poked with force, and easily pierced through.
There was no strengthening or reinforcing Primordial Energy Ability Effect.
"Dragon Cypress, you need a Divine-Grade Jinhe Fruit!"
"Yes. No rush."
"So, this tal Ability, does it have any practical uses?"
"At the mont, none."
"There’s no such thing as a useless ability, only an insect who doesn’t know how to use it."
Ink Orchid was instantly interested, "It’s fine, I’ll help you think..."
Ink Orchid began brainstorming.
Dragon Cypress: "..."
Dragon Cypress: "We’ll think of it later when we have ti."
Dragon Cypress leapt up onto the Dominating Throne and called out, "Let’s go. Back to the mountain first, rest for a bit, then head to White Lotus Lake to tily sow the Nine-Leaf Huangqian Divine-Given Seed. That’s the most important thing."
Ink Orchid: "Right!"
...
At Evolution Age Period 4 Lord, the number of Ant Eggs produced per batch has risen from 13 to 14, with the cycle still at 5 days, a slight improvent.
First, cultivate a batch of tal System Soldier Ants and Worker Ants as a test.
However, as Ant King, Dragon Cypress only comprehended two tal Abilities; the tal Ants it breeds will never possess more than two abilities.
Ants without a decent ability cannot fulfill unique roles, so there’s no need for large-scale cultivation for now.
This evolution also gave a minor improvent in soul and spiritual power, but it was negligible.
No other changes.
At present, five systems have awakened: Strength, Water, Wood, Wind, tal. Only four systems are left to complete all nine.
For Life System, there’s a confird Divine-Grade Fruit, guaranteed success.
Earth System failed once before, but has acquired Talent Potential; as long as a second Divine-Grade Fruit granting Earth Talent is found, it’s also a hundred percent success.
Thunder System’s Thunder lia Fruit will arrive in nine years.
For Fire System, Divine-Grade Fruits definitely exist, but detailed information is unknown.
As long as luck isn’t too bad, it’s possible to complete all nine systems before reaching Evolution King Level.
...
White Lotus Lake.
The Dominating Throne, carrying Ink Orchid and Black Peach, landed on the largest peak of the only mountain range in the Land of Origin Force.
At the mountaintop, a pit had been dug six years earlier, mixed with Divine-Given Remains and humus, refilled to form a hemisphere tubao with a 30-ter radius.
The throne settled.
Dragon Cypress fluttered its wings and hopped lightly onto the top of the tubao, scratched a shallow pit three or four centiters deep, lowered its head, spat out the seed, and refilled it for burial.
Water System Primordial Energy gathered at its tentacles, condensing two large water spheres half a ter in diater, which turned into fine rain to irrigate the soil.
Black Peach landed and ran along the ridge to the branch nest, mobilizing the ant colony to co and help, spreading out to guard all around the tubao.
A day later,
The Nine-Leaf Huangqian Divine-Given Seed took root and sprouted.
Spring was in full bloom, the best ti of year for plants to grow; in just one day, the seedling had grown to seven or eight centiters tall.
Five days later,
The seedling grew to half a ter tall, with lateral shoots budding.
Another five days later,
The seedling rapidly grew into a small tree just over a ter tall, marking its passage out of the most vulnerable stage.
Black Peach stayed behind to tend to it.
Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid returned to Xianglan Mountain, tidied up briefly, and set off south, traveling between the various Origin Force Points, searching for Divine-Given Seed.
On the way from Southern Sour Jujube Mountain to Cold Orchid Mountain, they took a detour, passing by Kiwifruit Mountain...
It was the season when the kiwifruit trees were in full bloom.
The main vine of the male Green-Red Kiwifruit Divine-Given Seed had grown over 500 ters long, winding along the ridge like a giant serpent, with countless sub-vines and offshoots, yet each year it bore only a limited number of blossoms.
The limited pollen only provided for a fixed number of Life Seed kiwifruit trees.
At Mountain Lord Level, Blue Catalpa comprehended an ability: Flower Spot
It manipulates pollen, attaches it to target carapace, and swiftly draws out the target’s Origin Force to form a ’flower spot.’
A combat-type ability that consus an enemy’s Origin Force.
Blue Catalpa thought of a clever use: using only the pollen manipulation part, activating the ability to efficiently collect pollen from the male Green-Red Kiwifruit Divine-Given Seed, then using it to precisely pollinate its own and Snakebark Maple’s Life Seed Green-Red Kiwifruit Trees, thus maximizing utilization.
Under normal circumstances, a single male Divine-Given Seed could pollinate only three or four dozen corresponding Life Seeds.
Blue Catalpa and Snakebark Maple together nurtured 55 Green-Red Kiwifruit Life Seeds.
Vine plants cover large territory; even with Xianglan’s southern and northern slopes fully planted, only 30 could fit, so the remaining 25 were planted on another distant mountain range.
Each springti, when the blossoms open, Blue Catalpa is busiest.
Gathering pollen, it has to go around pollinating the 30 Green-Red Kiwifruit Life Seed trees scattered in the mountains with precision, and then make the effort to pollinate the other 25 on the distant mountain range.
The yields are maximized to the extre.
Lord-Level Green-Red Kiwifruit Fruits can fetch 20 Source Stones each.
A single Life Seed Kiwifruit Tree, upon entering its abundant fruit-bearing period, can produce 1,000 fruits annually.
The Source Stone expenditure is high.
After deducting the costs, there’s a net profit of around 16,000 Source Stones.
With 55 Green-Red Kiwifruit Life Seeds, Blue Catalpa and Snakebark Maple thus gain 880,000 Source Stones in ultra-high annual profit.
They also have 16 other varieties of common Life Seeds, all excellent top-level plant seeds, enhanced with Divine-Given Remains, also with decent yields.
Add it all up, Blue Catalpa and Snakebark Maple earn nearly a million a year, which is considered very high—normally, reaching Evolution King Level poses no problem. But, if they were to imitate Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid, eating only Ant King Honey, they’re still a long way off.
After those two reached Evolution Lord Level, Blue Catalpa managed to evolve once with difficulty, while Snakebark Maple was completely stalled.
With Lord-Level longevity, Dragon Cypress doesn’t bother with them anymore.
...
The Dominating Throne entered the Land of Origin Force, Soul-Setting Ability scanning over all.
As expected, Blue Catalpa was running busily around the Green-Red Kiwifruit Divine-Given Seed, collecting pollen.
Snakebark Maple was following, presumably helping out.
"I’ll go help too!"
Ink Orchid tossed out a line, lifted off, and sped away.
Suddenly, it slowed down, descended rapidly, circled at low altitude, and landed in an orchard.
On the Dominating Throne, Dragon Cypress’s gaze sharpened, activating Soul-Setting Ability.
At the sa ti, Ink Orchid activated Soul-Setting Ability as well.
"Great King, co here!"
"Divine-Given Seed?"
"Yes!"
"What kind of tree?"
"No idea. Unrecognizable. Co see for yourself."
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