Chapter 383: New Ability: Enlightenment

While talking, Gao De and Fuluola had already arrived in front of the Walmart Magic Material Shop.

They stepped inside.

The interior of the magic material shop appeared somewhat empty, and there were not many items on the shelves.

"Sir." Seeing Gao De enter, Joel, the young employee who managed the Walmart Magic Material Shop, hurriedly came up to greet him.

"Joel, take out all the tree seeds and magic tree seeds acquired by the shop during this period." Gao De nodded slightly to signal, while instructing.

"Okay, sir." Joel responded and walked toward the small warehouse in the back.

Gao De scanned the shop casually.

It was noon, but there wasn't a single customer in the shop, appearing very cold and clear.

"This is my shop here, specially opened to collect tree seeds for Lady Fuluola." Gao De didn't care, but turned to Fuluola, who was looking around curiously, and said softly.

"Specially~" Fuluola's eyes were bright and shiny.

When Lady Fuluola doesn't understand or is happy, she will repeat it.

As for whether it is because she doesn't understand or is happy, it can be distinguished according to the tone.

Obviously, she is happy now.

"Yes." Gao De affirmed.

"It should be like this." Fuluola said.

"It should be like this~" Gao De said.

Fuluola began to look around with even more curiosity.

"Mage, is business not very good?" Knowing that this shop was specially opened to collect tree seeds for her, Fuluola, who had a sense of ownership, found that there were no customers in the shop and was suddenly a little anxious.

"Yes."

"Why?" Fuluola tilted her head and asked seriously.

"Because there is nothing in the shop that can attract customers." Gao De thought for a moment and said truthfully.

"Then Mage, invite the person who fried the fish just now to the shop." Lady Fuluola thought seriously for a long time before she had an idea.

"Although fish and chips are delicious, they can't attract many customers." Gao De, who understood Fuluola's meaning, smiled; actually, it could only attract children and Fuluola.

"Is that so~"

"Lady Fuluola, don't worry, I will have a way." Gao De comforted.

"Oh~" Hearing Gao De say this, the little person quietly breathed a sigh of relief—because Lady Fuluola really couldn't think of a way!

At this time, Joel had already put the seeds packed in various containers and cloth bags into a basket and took them out of the warehouse.

"Sir," after handing the basket to Gao De, he carefully glanced at Gao De, hesitated for a moment, and then tentatively said: "The shop has been open until now, and there are still no magic materials; it's been so long, besides acquiring tree seeds, no business has been done, let alone income."

His voice carried a trace of anxiety.

A normal magic material shop's main business is actually two parts: acquiring and selling magic materials.

Under normal circumstances, acquiring magic materials is at half price, and selling is at full price.

Magic material shops mainly earn the difference between these.

However, the current business of the Walmart Magic Material Shop does not include the acquisition of magic materials.

Of course, there is a reason for this.

Magic material shops are not like grocery stores; they have much higher requirements for the quality of employees.

Reading, writing, and arithmetic skills are the most basic.

More importantly, one must master certain magic material knowledge and be able to make a preliminary judgment on the value of various magic materials.

It is not required to be very accurate, but at least one must have this ability.

But such talent is not that easy to find even in Dorn City; it is a scarce resource.

It is mainly because Gao De's "Walmart Magic Material Shop" is too small, looking like it will go bankrupt at any time.

In any world, in any era, workers are more inclined to large companies.

One is stability and good benefits, and the other is room for advancement.

This is a consensus.

How would real talent come to his small shop that hasn't opened yet and has a bleak future?

So the recruitment notice Gao De posted at the beginning was ignored for a long time.

After this continued for four or five days, Gao De reacted and learned from the pain.

He directly adjusted the business scope of the magic material shop to reduce the ability requirements for employees.

Before the shop grows, the business of the Walmart Magic Material Shop will only include the sale of magic materials and the acquisition of tree seeds and magic tree seeds.

And for the tree seed acquisition business, Gao De also set a clear standard in advance.

He listed the tree seeds he already had, and any tree seed not on the list would be acquired at a unified price of fifty copper, and then added to the list.

As for magic tree seeds, they are not picky about varieties, and a unified price was set: first-rank magic tree seeds at a unified price of 6 gold 5 silver, second-rank magic tree seeds at 30 gold, and third-rank magic tree seeds at 140 gold.

Acquire as many as there are.

After abandoning the business of acquiring magic materials, and with standards for acquiring tree seeds, the ability requirements for shop assistants dropped sharply.

Plus the salary Gao De offered was not low, so he successfully recruited an employee, Joel.

An apprentice who previously worked in a large magic material shop in Dorn City, a very motivated "rural kid."

Joel's parents are farmers in a small town near Dorn City, relying on the thin fields at home to make a living.

And Joel didn't want to farm for a lifetime like his parents, so at the age of sixteen, he resolutely came to Dorn City to make a living and entered a magic material shop as an apprentice.

During his time as an apprentice, he gradually mastered skills such as product classification, weighing, inventory management, and dealing with people, and through subtle influence, he also had a little bit of weak knowledge about magic materials.

Although it was just fur, it also benefited him a lot and gave birth to a certain "ambition" for the future.

He wanted to cultivate deeply in this field.

The house Joel rented happened to be in the East District, and he would pass by Old Harlin's Grocery Store every day.

That day, when he passed by as usual, he saw the employee recruitment notice posted by Gao De at the entrance of the magic material shop, which had been renamed Walmart.

Large magic material shops are more stable, but the disadvantages are also obvious, that is, the division of labor is too clear, he can learn very little, and another is that the opportunity to stand out is too small.

For example, if he wants to become a formal shop assistant, a rural kid like him without a foundation and skills must be an apprentice for at least five or six years before he has a chance.

And Gao De's Walmart Magic Material Shop, although small in scale and with an unknown future, is a door to new opportunities for him and a very good platform for exercise and growth.

So, he made another decision as important as choosing to come to Dorn at sixteen.

Joel decided to resign from his job as an apprentice at the original magic material shop and come to Gao De's Walmart Magic Material Shop.

It's just that he was too young, and even for a small shop like Walmart Magic Material Shop, it might not necessarily be able to look up to him.

Joel took the initiative to propose a salary reduction to Gao De in order to work at the Walmart Magic Material Shop.

This moved Gao De.

He didn't care about that little salary; it was mainly Joel's proactive attitude and willingness to pay for opportunities that made him feel that Joel had potential and was willing to give him a chance.

In this world, civilians like Joel with strong motivation and subjective initiative are very rare.

"I have already contacted an acquaintance, and a batch of magic materials will be brought over in a few days." Gao De said.

Subsequently, he carried the basket full of tree seeds and walked toward the living area upstairs.

He had also taken Fuluola to stroll around Dorn City for half a day, so it was time to return to the Northern Realm.

In the room.

"I have to wrong Lady Fuluola to stay in the small dark room for a while." Gao De said softly.

"Okay~" Lady Fuluola is understanding.

Gao De canceled 【Summon Familiar】 again.

Subsequently, between his thoughts flashing, five-colored brilliance flowed out from the silver rune on the back of his hand like mercury pouring onto the ground.

These brilliance gradually condensed into an astral teleportation gate.

Gao De stepped into it, and his figure soon disappeared.

The astral teleportation gate also dissipated, leaving no trace.

Ding ding ding!

The sound of leaves moving, as pleasant as wind chimes, sounded the moment Gao De's figure appeared.

Yujia Te Xila welcomed Gao De's return for the first time.

Gao De couldn't care about his still-chaotic body and cast 【Summon Familiar】 for the first time, pulling Fuluola out of the "small dark room."

If it were any later, Lady Fuluola would be in a bad mood.

Subsequently, Gao De looked up at Yujia Te Xila.

In Lagos City, he received feedback from Yujia Te Xila, thereby breaking through the mental power limit of a first-circle mage.

At that time, Gao De knew that Yujia Te Xila must have advanced, and the changes were not small.

The facts were indeed so.

Yujia Te Xila, which was originally no more than sixteen feet high, could be said to have shot up by more than half again.

The trunk also became thicker, and the bark was tightly embedded like ancient dragon scales.

The leaves were also slightly wider, lingering with mysterious astral energy.

On the surface, one could also see a small part of Yujia Te Xila's roots, like the giant claws of a dragon bird, deeply rooted in the soil, extending in all directions, while absorbing the nutrients of the earth, it was also transforming this land.

This was just the visible external change, but more changes were reflected in the deeper level, which were difficult to detect.

Gao De put his hand on Yujia Te Xila's trunk, and in an instant, an extremely deep-level connection was established.

He soon mastered the specific changes of Yujia Te Xila.

【Yujia Te Xila】

Rank: Second-rank Magic Plant (19/5568 months)

Growth Gain Coefficient: 1.42——>3.96

Astral Teleportation: 1 (29/45 days)

Lifespan: (1/16704 years)

Opening Domain (Transforming Land): 29 mu-->70 mu

Height: 16 feet-->22 feet

Land Magic Concentration: 24-35 (Basic Spirit Land)-->46-72 (First-rank Spirit Land)

The most obvious one is naturally the advancement from a first-rank magic plant to a second-rank magic plant.

Then the growth gain coefficient and lifespan growth changes were all within expectations, so I won't mention them in detail.

What brought Gao De an unexpected surprise was that the charging time required for astral teleportation was actually shortened from 60 days to 45 days.

It should be that with the increase in Yujia Te Xila's rank, its rate of absorbing astral energy has also been improved.

This means that Gao De can travel between the Jin Quehua Dynasty and the Northern Realm more frequently.

Moreover, with the continuous improvement of Yujia Te Xila's rank, the charging time of astral teleportation continues to shorten; maybe one day he can use astral teleportation multiple times in a day?

This bright prospect made Gao De feel a little excited.

As for the increase in the area of the domain and the land magic concentration formally reaching the first-rank spirit land level, although they were also happy events, they were all within Gao De's expectations, so they couldn't be counted as surprises.

So he thought it would end there.

As a result, Yujia Te Xila conveyed a piece of information, which made Gao De startle first, and then his eyes lit up:

After advancing to a second-rank magic plant, Yujia Te Xila awakened a special ability again.

A special ability like astral teleportation.

It's just that this special ability cannot be used for the time being, so Gao De couldn't feel it.

【Enlightenment】.

This is the new ability awakened by Yujia Te Xila.

The specific function is also very simple and straightforward:

Yujia Te Xila can enlighten trees with a tree age of over five hundred years within the opened domain, giving them a chance to awaken spirituality, gain wisdom, and become tree people.

An ability so powerful that it is somewhat over-modeled.

This is already close to creating a race.

It's a pity that within Yujia Te Xila's current domain, let alone old trees with a tree age of five hundred years, there isn't even a tree with a tree age of fifty years.

Obviously, this is a late-game skill, which also conforms to the nature of trees themselves being long-lived.

However, if you really want to wait for five hundred years to see 【Enlightenment】 play a role, that's not necessarily the case.

Because there is also the existence of the "Qingmu Changsheng Jing."

Cultivating the "Qingmu Changsheng Jing" can obtain the ability of natural arts, consuming one's own mana to catalyze plants.

This is exactly forming a linkage with Yujia Te Xila's 【Enlightenment】 ability.

Natural arts catalyze trees to reach a tree age of five hundred years, and then Yujia Te Xila performs enlightenment.

Thinking of this, Gao De couldn't help but sigh at the ingenuity of fate.

The mutual complementation of the "Qingmu Changsheng Jing" and Yujia Te Xila is like a match made in heaven.

"My King!" Here, Elder Gaien had already rushed over.

Gao De moved his attention away from Yujia Te Xila and looked around.

Not only did Yujia Te Xila undergo huge changes, but this temporary camp also underwent obvious changes.

First of all, many new saplings popped up around, among which a few saplings had magic power flowing around them.

It was exactly the batch of tree seeds Gao De brought back to the Northern Realm last time.

Secondly, the circle of saplings on the outermost periphery had actually risen from the ground and grown into adult trees more than thirty feet high.

Without Gao De asking, Elder Gaien had already taken the initiative to introduce them to Gao De with great insight.

"These trees were catalyzed by the order of the War Mother. The War Mother said that Valar Bay will begin to welcome outsiders, so the Holy Tree must be protected."

"So while expanding the camp and building enclosures, we also have to catalyze the outermost saplings. After they grow up, they can block the Holy Tree, so that others cannot see Yujia Te Xila from the outside..."

Su Su Su Nai Fa's meticulousness made Gao De praise her in his heart.

"During this period, ships should have arrived at Valar Bay, right?" Gao De asked about the thing he cared about most at the moment.

"Yes, my King, just half a month ago, a two-masted sailing ship sailed into Valar Bay."

It really arrived smoothly!

While Gao De was happy, he also breathed a sigh of relief.

There were too many accidents in sea voyages, not to mention walking a route without a clear map. Gao De had no bottom in his heart about whether the Columbus could arrive at Valar Bay smoothly.

"Where are the people on the ship now?" Gao De asked again.

"My King, the two women and craftsmen you entrusted have been picked up to Phoenix. As for the other crew members, they are temporarily staying on the ship. The War Mother does not allow them to go ashore, saying that she is waiting for you to come back before making arrangements."

"I understand." Gao De nodded again.

Su Su Su Nai Fa doing things really makes people feel extremely at ease.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 384 =====