Astral Gods

Chapter 9 A False Alarm

Zizhu looked around at the surrounding environment. All the trees on this land had been cleared, and the total area reached one square kilometer. According to the calculation that each life seed occupies 2500 square meters, this large area is more than enough to plant the 162 life seeds of three insectoid warriors. Even if they obtain one or two more divinely bestowed seeds in the future, they can still plant them.

Moreover, there are well-dug ditches nearby, and the waterfalls flowing down from the mountain will divert water into this land along the ditches, keeping the area moist and preventing it from being affected by drought.

A little further away is the location where my destined seed is planted; it can be said that this place was chosen perfectly.

"Then let's plant it here!" Zizhu gestured to the two little warriors to plant their life-giving seeds.

Watching the two little warriors plant their life seeds, Zitong said, "Zizhu, they need to learn how to care for their life seeds here. I'll look after them. You go and manage the territory."

Zizhu thought for a moment and said, "Okay, then we'll take turns watching for half a month each."

Theoretically speaking, there are no life-seeds in the territories they currently operate, so it doesn't matter if they leave for a period of time.

However, some things cannot be calculated in this way. Although there are no life-seedlings in the territory they currently manage, there are many ordinary rhinoceros beetles. They need to check regularly to see if any little warriors have appeared.

Secondly, they also need to check if any divinely bestowed seeds have appeared. If they miss out on the divinely bestowed seeds, they will regret it for the rest of their lives.

Finally, the ordinary fruits produced in their territory can be harvested and sold for a considerable amount of raw stones each year, which is one of their fixed sources of income, and they cannot give it up.

"Then I'll take the third son back."

The third brother wriggled his fat body and hid behind Zitong: "No, I want to play here too."

Purple Pearl tried to scare it: "There are a lot of animals here, you'll get eaten if you stay here."

The third brother looked at it suspiciously: "Aren't there many Zerg warriors guarding the Lifeline here? Would they let other animals come and harm it? Besides, it's much safer for me to stay with Zitong than to go back to the territory and stay with you, a single Zerg, right?"

"Uh." Zizhu didn't expect this guy to become so smart. In the end, she could only leave it here and return to her territory in a huff.

Zizhu returned to her territory, and Zitong built a small nest for Zihuai and the other two little ones not far from their birthplace.

Over the next period of time, the three little ones continued to grow by consuming food containing primal energy. After another 45 days, Zihuai and Ziai evolved again, becoming three-year-old novice warriors, and planted the birch seed nurtured in their second year.

As their evolutionary age increased, they fed back more Force to the third child each day, which directly accelerated its evolution.

In early April, it directly enters the prepupae stage and hides deep in the nest chamber to evolve.

In May, the purple acacia and purple artemisia evolved again. The four-year-old rhinoceros beetle warriors reached a size of twenty centimeters, and ordinary birds and small animals could not defeat them. They had initially gained the ability to protect themselves. At this time, the third one had not yet molted and emerged.

After the two Zerg warriors gained the ability to protect themselves, Zitong freed up its claws. It let the two warriors guard the nest, while it would occasionally tend to the life seed.

This time of year is the busiest for the tribe. Even with the help of bees and other warriors to manage the seed, it is still more reassuring to manage it themselves.

Meanwhile, Purple Locust and Purple Artemisia regularly supply the third child in the nest with primal energy to accelerate its evolution.

June arrived in the blink of an eye—

At dawn, Purple Locust and Purple Artemisia awoke and instinctively tried to channel their primal energy deeper into the nest chamber to promote the evolution of their third sibling.

But when you scan the nest with your mind, the room is completely empty.

"Where's the third one?" Zi Huai and Zi Ai were so frightened they almost jumped out of their skins. They were guarding outside the nest, and they had no idea when the third one had disappeared.

Zi Ai's imagination ran wild: "Could the third brother have been carried off and eaten by some animal?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Zi Kui's spiritual sense swept across the depths of the nest chamber, and upon seeing the remains left after molting, he immediately guessed the general truth: "The third one must have molted and evolved last night, or perhaps it went out to forage for food. Go find it quickly!"

"Have you gone out to forage for food?" Purple Locust and Purple Artemisia took flight and searched around the jungle. It was the season for ripe fruit, and there was plenty of food to eat in the jungle.

The animals in the jungle are too numerous to kill, and they are worried that the third child might actually be eaten by other animals.

In addition, the life seed bred by the Zerg warriors is also quite important, and they are worried that the third one might have confusedly chosen a worthless herb to bred as its life seed.

It is important to know that the yield of seeds produced by herbaceous plants can differ from that of seeds produced by large trees by tens or even hundreds of times.

The commotion caused by the two young soldiers was quickly noticed by the other soldiers.

"Purple Acacia, Purple Artemisia, what are you doing? Didn't I tell you to guard the nest? Why are you flying around in the jungle?"

"The third brother is missing. We're looking for the third brother."

"Gone?" The rhinoceros beetle warriors were startled when they heard the two of them say that.

Zihuai explained, "It must have crawled out at night to molt. We didn't see any insects when we woke up, so I suspect it went into the jungle to look for food."

"Find! Find! Find!" At this moment, the Zerg warriors no longer cared about their lifelines and scattered to search everywhere.

Zitong was also filled with regret: "We've been guarding for so long, and yet something still happened at the last minute."

At the call of the rhinoceros beetle warriors, the swarm of bees was also mobilized, searching everywhere for the newly born rhinoceros beetle warriors.

A dozen or so rhinoceros beetle warriors, along with a large swarm of bees, worked tirelessly for most of the day. Finally, near noon, one of the mountain lord-level rhinoceros beetle warriors shouted, "Found it!"

"Where is it?" The insects flew toward the direction from which the spiritual energy was emanating. When they arrived at the foot of a mulberry tree in its fruit ripening season, they found the little soldier enjoying eating mulberries with relish.

This little soldier is much larger than other one-year-old soldiers. While other one-year-old soldiers are only five or six centimeters long, this one is seven or eight centimeters long.

Seeing the large group of rhinoceros beetle warriors surrounding it, it looked at the insects with a blank expression.

"You rascal!" Zi Huai waved her antennae and gave the third brother a hard knock on the head. "You ran out without saying a word, making everyone worry to death."

The third brother explained, "I ascended to immortality in the middle of the night. I slept for a month or two and got very hungry, so I came out to find food."

"It's good that you're alright, it's good that you're alright." Zitong breathed a huge sigh of relief. If something had happened to the third brother, it really wouldn't know how to explain it to Zizhu and Lord Zili.

"Are you full? I'll take you to choose your destiny seed."

The third brother pointed to the mulberry tree and said, "I've already chosen my destiny seed. Just like my eldest brother and the others, I've also chosen a mulberry seed as my destiny seed."

"Mulberry trees? That's alright." Mulberry trees are of good quality and price, but their yield is not as high as some other trees. This makes them a double-excellent species.