Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton-Chapter 1795 - 1356: What Happened to the Divine Star Soul Later?

"Hey, I like this little guy’s personality," the Monarch laughed.

Negris rolled his eyes, "What’s so great about it? This kind of personality is the most annoying. It’s sure to be as stubborn as you are, believing firmly in its first impressions, and once it decides something, no one can change its mind. It now thinks Little Tree Man and Ancient Man Snake are in cahoots, and even ten Abyssal Big Mouths couldn’t pull it back."

The Monarch laughed, "It’s just that you can’t pull it back. If you let Anthony try, he’d definitely have a way to persuade this little guy."

Negris scoffed, "Don’t keep calling it ’little guy.’ You’re not necessarily older than it."

Saying this, Negris turned to Anthony. To persuade a stubborn fellow, it indeed required someone like Anthony, the godman.

Anthony gave a wry smile, "You guys have too much faith in me. I can’t even get in; how would I remote control Little Tree Man to explain to it?"

"True, your persuasion skills also need face-to-face interaction to be effective. Remote control depends on the executor’s abilities. Little Tree Man..." Negris trailed off.

Everyone nodded in deep agreement. Little Tree Man is a bit more mature than Little Sapling, but the difference is like Star Kindergarten compared to Star Plants Garden, not much. Asking Little Tree Man to carry out such a complex ’persuasion’ task is like asking Negris to single-handedly take on King Fei Lie, and perhaps with a greater chance of success. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

"So only the ultimate move is left," Anthony said.

...

Looking at the various knight novels Silver Coin handed over, Negris’ forehead was full of black lines, "Is this your ultimate move?"

"Of course. Ask Silver Coin, what’s the best-selling thing among the Star Descendants at the Tree of Ten Thousand Realms?" Anthony said.

Silver Coin said, "Card games, modified ball games, various adapted knight novels, illusion plays—entertainment stuff sells well here, but they do need specific modifications."

Anthony continued, "Take knight novels, for example. Humans read about commoners striving to train as swordsmen, turning into Sword Saints, leading armies to defeat beastmen or elves. What these Star Descendants read is low-level Star Descendants leveling up and evolving into Void-level Star Gods. If meant for Divine Stars, then it changes to Divine Star Souls training hard to overcome Ancient Man Snake and save the Tree of Ten Thousand Realms, successfully breaking free and burning all enemies.

"Pfft, you call this rewriting? This is customization," Negris spat a mouthful of old blood. "That restricted Little Fireman is indeed diligently training, but it’s infuriating how every time it’s about to break through, Ancient Man Snake swoops in and takes most of the Star Flame."

Such tailor-made works—no one could possibly resist them.

"Sigh, the Void, so boring..." the Monarch suddenly sighed longingly.

Indeed, the Void is so boring, especially for these long-lived beings. When life no longer requires struggle for survival, one needs to strive for mental fulfillment. Otherwise, they risk sleeping for dozens or hundreds of years like the Undead, wearing away their endless life.

At the Tree of Ten Thousand Realms, the best-sellers are various entertainment and leisure items. For instance, super dodgeball, a ball sport customized for Star Descendants, gathers a bunch of Star Descendants to use a special ball to throw at the Star Descendant in the middle.

To limit the Star Shifting Ability, all participating Star Descendants must wear specially designed clothing. Whoever hits the center Star Descendant can replace it and enjoy being hit. Spectating Star Descendants can also place bets and join the fun.

With the popularity of super dodgeball, the whole area’s economy thrived. Previously, there was no economic activity here, only minimal bartering, not even ’activity,’ let alone ’economic activity.’

Now, with the economy revitalized, the demand for currency has surged. Silver Coin seized the opportunity to issue vouchers called Ball Coins. One Ball Coin could be exchanged for a set of dodgeball custom-made equipment.

Item values were then compared with Ball Coins, like how many cans of Star Dust could exchange for one Ball Coin, how much Star Iron for one Ball Coin. Such operations quickly established the currency system.

This region actually contains many high-value substances. For example, the stone fragments Ange encountered before were branches and leaves shed by the Tree of Ten Thousand Realms, baked by the Divine Star over time until carbonized and petrified. Any random piece here could be as massive as a Plane.

Easily obtainable here, but when brought to a Plane, even if crushed and used as mud bricks for city walls, a Magic Crystal Cannon couldn’t break them.

Similarly, ordinary iron, when tossed onto the Divine Star, quickly melts into liquid. Skimming up this iron liquid transforms it into Star Iron that withstands two to three thousand degrees of heat, beyond a dwarf’s forge’s ability to melt.

Star Iron’s use is currently unknown, but Durken suggests cold-forging it into armor specifically resistant to Fire Magic.

Likewise, various metallic materials, when processed here, can greatly alter their performance or even nature, and the locally available materials here naturally crush those from the Plane in characteristics, whether frontward or backward, it’s extremely outlandish.

Alchemists adore various extreme materials, so recently, this place has become Durken’s paradise, launching multiple research projects, wishing he could split himself into ten people to use.

This is also where Durken finds his joy, as the Monarch said, the Void is too boring. Without beloved hobbies to anchor oneself, long-lived beings might easily get bored to madness.

"But can Little Tree Man relay these stories clearly?" Negris couldn’t help but ask.

"It doesn’t need to tell them. It just needs to transfer the words from the book into the tree tumors, and the Little Fireman should be able to understand," Anthony replied.

Though it can’t tell stories, it can replicate anything with exact precision. It didn’t take long before Little Tree Man transferred the first few Chapters of the knight novel in.

Of course, besides knight novels, there were also some card games and similar items—simple to make, and materials easy to source, allowing Little Tree Man to craft them on-site. The cards even had rules and gameplay engraved.

However, card games needed more than two players to be interesting. Though replicated, feedback from Little Tree Man showed the restricted Little Fireman wasn’t interested in them.

Not only uninterested in these things, but also indifferent to Little Tree Man itself. Anytime Little Tree Man projected in, the Little Fireman would hide in a hotspot, avoiding contact with Little Tree Man.

If using Anthony’s persuasive tactic, it’d stall here, but Little Tree Man was merely responsible for delivery.

"Preconceptions be damned, I’ll keep delivering stuff to you. If you won’t accept, I’ll drop them and leave, alright? If you don’t like this, I’ll switch items, okay?"

"What stubbornness is this? Seeing no interest in card games, on the second day, Little Tree Man switched to another type. Seeing the knight novel unread, on the third day, it switched to another knight novel. Seeing toys untouched, on the fourth day, it replaced them with another toy."

All sorts of modified rubik’s cubes, marbles, jianzi—if easily replicated, they all got moved in by Little Tree Man.

Until the twelfth day, when Little Tree Man set down a new toy and was about to sneak away, a little head popped out of the hotspot, "Hey, what happened to the Divine Star Soul afterward?"