Chapter 2728

The age issue is a minor matter.

But that form...

What's going on?

Before there were only the three words "Juvenile Stage," so logically it should still only be the three words "Growth Stage" now.

Yet two extra words, "Mutation," appeared.

This goes without saying.

Just from its appearance, this Eternal Tree has indeed mutated...

It's estimated that the mutation began when Zhao Chi first sprayed blood to water the tree, and after that green sapling fell over, the new pink sapling that grew started mutating.

The word "mutation" instinctively sounds bad.

It always feels like it has something to do with a disease.

But this mutation of the Eternal Tree is exceptionally outstanding.

Because this mutation caused both abilities of the Eternal Tree to mutate as well.

"Mother Tree's Blessing" and "Pilgrim's Heart" are both growth-type abilities, as can be seen from the notes behind them.

But now the word "mutation" has also appeared.

And there are genuinely new effects.

"Mother Tree's Blessing," besides increasing the growth speed and yield of all plants in the territory by +30%, now also has an additional effect of increasing the daily new population of the Taoyuan Clan by +30%!

This is crucial!

Zhao Chi analyzed that the first half should be the data before the mutation, and the second half is the new effect that appeared after the mutation.

Although he doesn't know why this happened, the result is very reasonable.

After all, it was watered with Zhao Chi's blood, so of course the mutation has to be related to Zhao Chi.

Zhao Chi is the Blood Lord of the Taoyuan Clan, so it makes perfect sense that the mutation would affect the Taoyuan Clan.

The effect of Mother Tree's Blessing is to increase yield, so increasing the daily new population of the Taoyuan Clan is naturally also very reasonable.

It can be said that aside from why this happened in the first place, everything is very reasonable.

As for why the mutation occurred.

Zhao Chi stopped caring long ago.

To hell with the why.

It's a good thing anyway.

There's no time to dwell on this now; once the world is at peace, or when there's really time, he can investigate slowly.

What needs to be done now is to accept it!

With this, the daily new population of the Taoyuan Clan went from 10 to 13.

After using a Refugee Talisman, it becomes 26.

That's quite a number already.

And... this ability clearly hasn't reached its limit; if the Eternal Tree continues to grow, this effect will keep getting stronger!

That blood-watering was really worth it!

Besides Mother Tree's Blessing, "Pilgrim's Heart" also has a new effect.

The mutation of Pilgrim's Heart better matches Zhao Chi's expectations.

Because the Taoyuan Clan has also unlocked Compliance.

This is something Zhao Chi has always wanted!

With Compliance, he can put Endurance-type Collars on them!

All Taoyuan Clan female soldiers can additionally enjoy Zhao Chi's super-high-stat skill bonuses!

He can't speak for others, but the Compliance of these Taoyuan women can absolutely be maintained at 10 points for a long time.

An excellent Endurance-type Collar can increase skill effect by 20.5% per 1 point of Compliance, so 10 points of Compliance means a 205% increase in skill effect.

That's badass...

Zhao Chi immediately screened the status information of some Taoyuan Clan women.

He didn't see any below 7 points.

Even the women who came today just now all have 7 points of Compliance.

And the women who came before are basically between 8 and 10 points.

After all, Compliance and Loyalty are largely related; they might not match perfectly, but there won't be too much difference overall.

So they only need to wear a Training-type Collar for 1 day.

There are nearly 60,000 Training-type Collars, plenty enough.

Next, he needs to make the red Endurance-type Collars as soon as possible.

5,000 have already been made; making another 15,000 will be enough.

From this point alone, the overall combat power of the Taoyuan female soldiers can increase by another large chunk!

Besides the female soldiers, the female craftsmen have also improved.

After all, Compliance and Loyalty have similarities, but they are absolutely not the same.

Here's a very rough example:

Loyalty can be roughly analogized as: filial piety.

In most normal families, the relationship between children and parents is decent.

They will certainly care about their parents a lot, hoping they can be healthy and live long.

When they encounter things, they are also willing to help.

But even so, most children will have one's own thoughts.

But filial piety is filial piety — most children won't completely obey their parents' words.

Loyalty is a little like this.

And obedience means that, to a great extent… one will even completely obey one's parents' words — whatever the parents say goes.

In some respects, this is indeed not necessarily a good thing.

But for Zhao Chi, this is very good.

The female soldiers became more obedient.

The female craftsmen also became more obedient.

Whatever combat tasks or production tasks Zhao Chi assigned, they would all carry out more earnestly.

Beyond the collar's bonus, obedience had also improved quite nicely in other respects.

Excellent!

All that blood poured into the great tree really wasn't wasted.

Zhao Chi was greatly invigorated.

While Zhao Chi was checking the information, Gu Qing and the others were also looking.

As for those few of them, Zhao Chi had long since opened up full information access to them — any of them could check all the information and data across Zhao Chi's entire territory.

Tang Ruan spoke up first.

"Wow, this great tree is actually this amazing? It can even give bonuses like this?"

Qi Yue said: "It's because my lord is amazing that the tree is amazing."

Tang Ruan said in astonishment: "Huh? Oh! Right, right, right! It really is because of my lord… Qi Yue, you're pretty good at flattery — no wonder my lord is the gentlest with you."

Qi Yue said: "What? That's not flattery at all… And my lord isn't the gentlest with me either — it should be with Sister Zhuang Ya that my lord is the gentlest."

Zhuang Ya said with a light laugh: "You two can bicker all you want, but why drag me into it? It's because of my constitution… that my lord is a little gentler with me."

Tang Ruan nodded and said: "Exactly, don't talk about Sister Zhuang Ya — Sister Zhuang Ya is special, so my lord takes it slow with her. But with you, it's only because of gentleness."

Tang Ruan was clearly talking about Qi Yue, yet Zhuang Ya felt a little embarrassed.

She quickly changed the subject and said: "You two stop arguing, hurry and look at the tree spirit's information — the tree spirit's information has changed too~"

Gu Qing said with a smile: "That's right~ The tree spirit has changed a little too, hurry and look~ Huh? Something's not right!"

Those words really did the trick.

Tang Ruan and Qi Yue immediately fell silent.

Zhao Chi was also taken aback.

Hurry and check the tree spirit's information.

【Name】 Eternal Tree Tree Spirit