Chapter 252: Concept of Farming

Ice Marrow is a treasure that can only be condensed by Ice-Born magic users through the method of "Ice Extraction," using their Ice-Born bloodline to harmonize their own mana.

The condensation of every drop of Ice Marrow requires a vast amount of time and energy from an Ice-Born magic user.

Likewise, for Ice-Born magic users, the more Ice Marrow the better; it can enhance their own Ice-Born bloodline. They find it insufficient for their own use, so why would they easily give it to others? Only under the premise of the life-saving grace in the Duo'erbian tribe and Chief Ximo's inherently pure nature was Gao De able to obtain 3 drops of precious Ice Marrow from him.

After that, Gao De had no idea how to obtain more Ice Marrow.

He needed a "core product"!

Gao De couldn't help but ponder in his heart.

In the Northern Realm, there are indeed many precious resources, but how to obtain them is also a difficult problem.

He must be able to produce good things that the Northern Realm people cannot refuse in order to have a way to exchange for these precious resources.

And having been in the Northern Realm for two months, after the experiences of these days, Gao De felt he had gained some understanding of the Northern Realm people.

On the Permafrost Tundra, the true necessities are actually only two: clothing and food.

Because these two relate to survival.

Clothing. Food. When he truly began to think seriously, something Gao De had valued but ignored for a long time because of the tree-planting matter naturally emerged from the depths of his mind:

The mutated cold-resistant barley seeds discovered together with the tears of the Fourth-Rank magic plant Mandola.

Barley seeds, barley seeds; wouldn't what you harvest after planting them be barley? And isn't barley food?

According to Fu Luo La's perception, cold-resistant barley seeds need to germinate and grow in an environment of minus sixty degrees or lower.

In other places, such conditions are too harsh.

But in the Northern Realm, places with minus sixty degrees can be seen everywhere.

Thinking this way, Gao De's mood couldn't help but become excited.

In a place like the Northern Realm, if one could grow food, the significance of this goes without saying.

However... there is one more point that is also very important: how to maintain his exclusive competitive advantage?

After all, once the food is sold, others could use it as seeds to plant it themselves, without needing to buy from him anymore.

Wouldn't that just become a one-time deal?

This seemed like a difficult problem, but after Gao De thought about it for a while, he immediately had an idea.

"Hybrid seeds."

Use the cold-resistant barley seeds as one of the parents and cross-breed them with other parents to obtain first-generation hybrid seeds that are both cold-resistant and high-yielding.

Then plant this first generation of hybrid seeds and only sell the food produced from this batch.

Due to the genetic characteristics of seeds, seeds cultivated through cross-breeding can only exhibit excellent characteristics when planted in the first generation.

And when they are saved as seeds and planted again, the offspring will show trait segregation and will no longer be able to stably possess the excellent traits of the first-generation seeds.

This would ensure that even if others buy the food and save it as seeds for second-generation planting, it will often just be a wasted effort.

Right then, Gao De immediately communicated his thoughts with the "tree-planting expert," Lady Fu Luo La.

"This is very simple; Lady Fu Luo La can do it," Fu Luo La immediately promised, patting her chest upon hearing Gao De's idea.

For her, in terms of planting, no matter what is being planted or how it is being planted, there is no difficulty.

Because this is her innate ability; she doesn't need to learn it at all.

"Then I will have to rely on Lady Fu Luo La when the time comes," Gao De said, giving Fu Luo La a heads-up in advance.

"Okay!"

Fu Luo La first answered in a crisp tone, then realized afterward and grew suspicious.

"What is the use of this?"

"This can earn a lot, a lot of money."

"Money? A lot, a lot?!"

The little person's eyes lit up, as if she had suddenly found the value of her life.

"Then let's go grow food right now!"

"I'm afraid that's not possible yet; we have to wait a bit, Lady Fu Luo La."

"Why, magic user, don't you want to earn money?" "Of course I do, but I'm currently under someone else's control."

Gao De spread his hands helplessly.

"Oh~ magic user, you've been captured!" The little person finally remembered, then frowned again.

"They clearly aren't bad people..."

In her perception, Luo Yiqi and Catherine had no malice toward Gao De, but if they weren't bad people, why would they capture a magic user?

It's so complicated!

Fu Luo La suddenly felt that the human world was too strange.

Over here, the cultivation of Luo Yiqi and Catherine finally ended.

According to custom, the two should start resting.

But today was different.

Catherine looked at Gao De for a while, then actually reached into her robes and took out a finger-sized bottle, throwing it to Gao De.

Gao De hurriedly caught it, and upon closer inspection, the bottle contained two crystal-clear, ghostly blue, water-drop-shaped gels.

"This is?" He didn't quite understand Catherine's meaning.

"I said before that I would give you compensation after this matter is over; this is a portion of the compensation paid in advance," Catherine said indifferently. "I just noticed that you awakened the Mandola Magic Eye; you should really need these two drops of Third-Rank Ice Marrow."

Du Wei is not the only one with knowledge.

As a Fourth-Rank magic plant that only appears in the snow region, Catherine happened to have some understanding of the tears of the Mandola, or rather, she should say she had a deep understanding.

She naturally could recognize the Mandola Magic Eye, which awakens with low probability.

Hearing Catherine say this, Gao De didn't stand on ceremony and accepted the two drops of Third-Rank Ice Marrow with peace of mind.

This was what he deserved.

He had kindly delivered a letter for Baruk, only to end up in his current situation.

The Snowfield Guardians owed him a lot; what could two drops of Third-Rank Ice Marrow count for?

After this small interlude, the two entered a resting state as usual.

And as soon as the two were asleep, Gao De put away the Ice Marrow and hurriedly seized the time to circulate his mana to trigger the Law-Forbidden Ice Needles, starting today's adaptation.

In the days that followed, he was taken by Catherine and Luo Yiqi toward the Enduring Zhenbing Tribe.

Because there was a detailed map for guidance, and both of them were powerful, no accidents occurred along the way.

Gao De maintained the rhythm of 【Self-Adaptation】 at night and resting during the day, constantly transforming silently.

His body's cold resistance, pain tolerance, and recovery ability were growing every day; with each passing day, Gao De felt as if he were being reborn: Enduring the cold of the Enduring Zhenbing, your cold resistance increases 157%—162%—173%—184%—189%—194%—198%—Enduring the pain of extreme cold, your pain tolerance increases 86.2%—87.3%—88.9%—93.5%—94.6%.

Suffering from extreme cold injury, your body's injury recovery ability increases 39.3%—45.6%—51.2%—56.9%—57.3%.

The more the body's injury recovery ability increases, the shorter the interval Gao De needs for recovery.

And the shorter the recovery interval, the longer his body can endure the cold of the Enduring Zhenbing.

Enduring the cold of the Enduring Zhenbing for longer periods allows his body's cold resistance to increase faster.

And the more his cold resistance increases, the thinner the frostbite he suffers, further shortening the interval time.

Under this virtuous cycle, Gao De's adaptation, especially in terms of cold resistance, improved rapidly, infinitely approaching the critical value of 200%.

However, at this point, the increase in cold resistance finally began to slow down.

But this was not because the chill of the Enduring Zhenbing was not fierce enough.

It was purely because the Enduring Zhenbing contained in the Law-Forbidden Ice Needles was too little, and he only had five Law-Forbidden Ice Needles in his body; without an increase in quantity, the intensity naturally wasn't enough.

Fortunately, it was only slowing down, not stagnating.

However, his pain tolerance and body recovery ability had indeed reached their upper limits.

Now, the pain that these five Law-Forbidden Ice Needles could bring was like a tickle to Gao De.

Likewise, with his cold resistance reaching as high as 198%, this bit of Enduring Zhenbing was no longer enough to bring him injuries of sufficient intensity.

And at this time, they were about five days' journey away from reaching the Enduring Zhenbing Tribe.

This month has some special circumstances, and the update volume will be low and unstable. I can only code a little when I have time, but I will definitely restore normal and stable updates in November. I kneel to my good brothers! (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 253 =====