Chapter 2545

【Congratulations, your territory Chaoge Town has successfully planted the "Eternal Tree Sapling." Your territory already received a bonus. You may enter the detailed interface to view it.】

Already has a bonus?

This early?

Zhao Chi immediately entered to check:

【Name】Eternal Tree Sapling

【Age】666 years

【Form】Sapling Stage

【Status】Healthy

【Effect】Mother Tree's Blessing (Sapling Version): All plants within all territories — growth speed +10%, yield +10%

【Special】Pilgrim's Heart (Sapling Version): All plant-type creatures within all territories have their obedience unlocked. Additionally, obedience +1, obedience growth rate +100%

This…

Seems pretty awesome.

The age of 666 years is correct, after all — 8000 Speed Work Talismans were used, so by calculation it really did accelerate 666 years.

And judging by its appearance, it really is just a sapling.

But the effects afterward are genuinely impressive.

And to think it's just a sapling, yet it already has two bonuses.

One is a regular effect, one is a special effect.

And both effects are marked as the sapling version?

So it'll definitely get even more powerful later — that's for certain.

But regardless of later, at the very least both are already fully effective now.

The first effect alone is already impressive.

"Mother Tree's Blessing"

It can increase the growth speed of all plants across all of Zhao Chi's territories by 10%, and also increase yield by 10%.

Originally he thought this great tree only applied to the current territory, but it turns out as long as it's a territory under Zhao Chi, it's all effective.

The coverage is very broad.

After all, although Chaoge Town was built with great effort as a food base, later on he might also need to develop agriculture in other territories.

Although that's something for far in the future, at the very least it's now possible.

Being able to do it is better than not being able to.

Besides that, the values of these two bonuses aren't low either — both are 10%.

After all, this is still just the sapling version.

Once the great tree grows into its adult form of over 200 meters, these bonuses should be far more than just doubled.

Otherwise it would be unworthy of the name Eternal Tree.

Although the final values are still unknown, it's foreseeable that the bonuses afterward will be absolutely enormous.

Really looking forward to it!

Then…

Comes the special effect.

"Pilgrim's Heart"

This actually contains two effects.

The first one, it can unlock obedience for all plant-type creatures within all territories??

Huh??

It can unlock obedience just like that?

Isn't this exactly what he's always wanted?

Shangguan Ting answered this morning that after becoming a Prefecture-level Lord, he could change the system, and at that point could unlock the obedience of his residents.

But to reach Prefecture-level, at least 100,000 formal residents are needed.

Captives and slaves don't count.

Right now it's still far from enough.

Shangguan Ting also said there was another method.

That was to construct faith-related buildings similar to a "Temple," which could also unlock obedience.

So this Eternal Tree is a faith-type building like that?

Of course it is!

This is the Eternal Tree, after all.

And look at its two effects — one called "Mother Tree's Blessing," one called "Pilgrim's Heart." Isn't it plain as day?

The Eternal Tree is the sacred tree of countless plant-type creatures.

Equivalent to a Mother Goddess among human deities.

Of course it counts as a faith-type building.

Although it's not a building, it can absolutely be considered faith itself.

Awesome.

However, there are still limitations.

It doesn't work on the women of the Taoyuan Tribe.

The essence of the Taoyuan Tribe is the Human Race, not plant-type creatures.

And elves are.

Elves are all born from the Tree of Life.

After the Tree of Life evolves, it becomes the Ancient Giant Tree.

The Ancient Giant Tree evolves again into the Eternal Tree.

So, this Eternal Tree naturally works on elves.

Now let's see the effect.

Zhao Chi immediately opened the character list.

Exactly right!

It really activated!

The several thousand elves under Su Qin all had their Submission activated, and every Submission value was above 6!

Some were even submissive to over 8 points.

Submission and Loyalty are not the same thing, but they're closely related.

Basically, those with high Loyalty won't have Submission too low.

Because Loyalty is active.

It's the other party's active loyalty.

So once Submission is activated, Submission is basically about the same as Loyalty — at least it won't be too low.

But the reverse isn't necessarily true.

Submission is passive.

Most of it is increased by force.

Plenty of slaves have high Submission, but they may simply be forced to submit, while inwardly full of hatred.

If such slaves are converted into subjects, their initial Loyalty is very low.

This is also one of the difficulties in converting captives or slaves into formal subjects.

To make slaves obedient, you must raise their Submission.

The most effective methods of raising Submission are starvation and beating.

These two methods also breed hatred.

So…

It's really hard.

This is also why most lords are only willing to spend time on high-quality captives.

Ordinary captives are basically sold off in exchange for other war supplies.

But regardless, it's wonderful that the elves can have Submission activated.