All Gods: Starting with Two Families

Chapter 16 Water Vein MapThe Anonymous Trade Fair opened once again.

Zhou Zheng donned a cloak, concealing his figure and aura, and found an open space.

With a slight shift of his Divine Thought, a small pinch of shimmering ”gold of the desert,” emitting a strange fragrance, floated beneath the shadow of his cloak.

[Rare spice, increases Mental Energy activity, enhances spellcasting talent potential. Exchanging for food, water sources, or basic knowledge of ”Agriculture and Animal Husbandry.”]

This time, he specifically included a demand for knowledge.

As soon as the message was sent out, several cloaked figures with gentle auras hurriedly gathered around, appearing exceptionally eager.

”Spice! Is there any more? I’ll trade three baskets of top-grade Berry Tubers for one portion!”

”Water Source Crystals! I’ll offer two! For one portion!”

”I have freshly harvested Sand Grain Seeds, drought-resistant and high-yielding! Do you want to trade?”

Their Divine Thought transmissions carried an obvious longing; clearly, after the last trade, the effects of this spice had given them a taste of its benefits.

Zhou Zheng bargained calmly. This time, he did not trade for much food or water.

After eight years of development in the Divine Realm, coupled with the Spring of Life, the pressure on basic survival resources was no longer significant.

That basic knowledge of ”Agriculture and Animal Husbandry”—how to reclaim land, cultivate crops, and domesticate livestock—was perhaps more valuable for the long-term development of the desert Divine Realm than the food currently before him.

One of the relatively tall figures, while handing Zhou Zheng a knowledge light orb containing a vast amount of information titled ”Compendium of Basic Agriculture,” lifted the hood of their cloak slightly.

A pair of murky yet exceptionally deep eyes seemed to penetrate the cloak’s blurring effect, lingering for a moment on Zhou Zheng’s hazy projected outline.

Without a word, the figure just gave Zhou Zheng a deep ”look,” then quickly stowed the traded spice and retreated into deeper shadows.

The trade complete, Zhou Zheng lingered no longer.

Plane repulsion set in. His Divine Thought, carrying the newly acquired knowledge light orb, instantly returned to that familiar expanse of yellow sand and oasis.

Zhou Zheng did not immediately cast it into the priest’s consciousness; instead, he settled his mind and ”flipped through” this knowledge from the Farming Gods.

How to improve soil, how to cultivate crops... the content was detailed and indeed of great benefit to the development of the Divine Realm.

However, when Zhou Zheng’s Divine Thought touched upon a chapter regarding ”Leyline Guidance and Nourishment,” his brow gradually furrowed.

The core of this knowledge was a layout method called ”Water Vein.”

It was not a simple matter of digging channels to divert water, but an esoteric method involving guiding, converging, and even ”birthing” the leyline water Qi within the Divine Realm.

Accompanied by illustrations, it described how to utilize specific topographical trends to construct an invisible network of water element energy.

Once this network took shape, it would not only stabilize existing water sources but also slowly nourish the leylines, subtly improving the Divine Realm’s environment and increasing the concentration of water elements!

”This method...”

Zhou Zheng’s Divine Thought repeatedly deduced the introductory guidance technique, his heart filling with doubt.

Exquisite! Esoteric! It even faintly touched upon guidance at the level of Law!

This was definitely not knowledge that the Orc God System, especially the low-level Farming Gods, could possess!

The mainstream of the Orc God System was blood qi, totems, and predatory power growth; it was completely incompatible with such a delicate, long-term, almost ”creationary” art of grooming leylines!

This knowledge regarding the ”Water Vein” came to an abrupt halt after explaining its grand conception and basic guidance methods.

The other party’s intention was very clear—want the subsequent core array diagrams and energy node construction methods? Bring more spice to trade!