My Weekly Refreshing Mentor Spirit-Chapter 318 - 296: Rising to Power! (Double-Length 6K Words)

In fact, over the years, they have had their own interpretations regarding the internal division of those at the Apostle Level. Some apostles categorize them into upper, middle, and lower levels, while others evaluate them from Apostle Level 1 to 9 within themselves. Some only recognize Tier Six compared to other ordinary apostles. Unfortunately, there has been no unified planning, and many base it on their self-assessment.

However, only Xue Dili has unified the measurement standard for what seems to them a "trivial matter".

In the standardized system established by Xue Dili, the internal hierarchy of the Apostle Level is divided according to titles, namely: King, Duke, Marquis, Count, Viscount, and Baron, representing six more detailed divisions of strength within the Apostle Level.

The apostles at the Marquis Level are quasi-Tier Six, while those at the Duke Level are infinitely close to quasi-Tier Six... and so on...

It seems that either Xue Dili’s method of dividing the internal strength of the Apostle Level was interesting or it was due to the added charm value of Xue Dili’s speech. After some internal discussions, the apostles mapped out this title system to their own strength assessment.

Thus, the First Apostle and the Third Apostle are at the Marquis Level, the Second, Fourth, and Seventh Apostles are Dukes, the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Tenth Apostles are Marquises, and the Ninth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Apostles are Counts.

Only Xue Dili, the Thirteenth Apostle, is left at the Baron Level, just having achieved the status of Apostle Level.

At this point, Xue Dili’s purpose for today was more than halfway achieved, yet his speech was not over.

"There is another matter, esteemed seniors; because of personally cultivating the fruit, I have discovered many ways to optimize fruit cultivation," Xue Dili said in a deep voice.

"How long has it been since any of you personally cultivated a fruit? I have cultivated it recently. Do you know how many people it takes?"

"It takes five billion people! Cultivating a single fruit requires five billion evolved beings to the form of a ’Venerable King’! If these people’s bodies were all to appear at once, not even the Divine Tree could accommodate them!"

Xue Dili’s speech made the other apostles frown.

It seems they truly have not personally cultivated the Divine Tree for a long time. Essentially, each of them has a large group of retainers, akin to the Dragon Race, helping with the Divine Tree’s fruit cultivation.

They only need to harvest the fruit every equivalent of ten thousand Earth years, as for the specific cultivation methods, they might have had some insights once, but over the long years, those insights could have become outdated.

Now they’re like landlords, demanding a fruit every ten thousand years from their subordinates. If no fruit is presented within that time, some fruit farmers are killed off.

"I have roughly understood that you all harvest fruit approximately once every 500 God years (equivalent to ten thousand Earth years), but the efficiency is too low. I have a way to halve the time required to harvest the fruit, or even more than reduce by sixty percent."

When Xue Dili mentioned this, each apostle sat upright, seemingly genuinely interested in this yield-enhancing plan.

If what Xue Dili said made sense, they naturally would instruct a part of their subordinates to run a trial, then compare it with the normal growth of other fruit trees.

"The real way to promote the rapid growth of the Divine Tree is not by relentlessly squeezing the lower tier. No one cares about them, their reproduction and survival being severely tested is the real key affecting the current yield."

"Therefore, to truly increase the yield of the Divine Tree, one needs to make ’them’ feel happy, allow all beings to live normally, with hope and happiness in the world, so that their population will grow rapidly. Do you understand? In the end, even a planetary population could surge to tens of billions!"

At this moment, the other apostles were also intrigued. The planets under their ranch were much like the world of the Teaching Country and the Beast-eared Maiden world, with a consensual population cap barely reaching over a hundred million.

Moreover, the recycling efficiency of the deceased is very low; many bodies are consumed by other organisms before they can become recycled nutrients for the Divine Tree, or under various other circumstances, so less than a tenth truly becomes Divine Tree nutrients.

Thus, it takes nearly ten thousand years for the Divine Tree to mature once, although normally speaking, a few thousand years would suffice; ten thousand years is just a broad timeframe given to subordinates.

Hence, when Xue Dili elaborated on how to cultivate a planet’s population to several billion, most apostles were indeed tempted, even with a less than fifty percent trust guarantee.

They listened intently; if a planet’s population could indeed be cultivated to hundreds of billions, the Divine Tree might mature once in a hundred years. Such efficiency is more than just doubling, it potentially increases tens to hundreds of times.

No apostle could refuse. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

Even if Xue Dili’s plan was wrong, the loss to them would not be significant. When the potential gain could be hundreds of times, but the loss minimal, they would be willing to try Xue Dili’s plan even if it were wrong.

"The real technique is to develop productivity... I name this plan, ’Prosper Child’!" Xue Dili raised his right hand diagonally, "And our true enemy is our greed; as long as we can restrain our greed for the first few hundred years, we can at least double the yield!"

"The more willing the lower levels are to reproduce, the more wonderful and happy the world, the faster the population growth will be, doubling in a few decades, with exponential growth achieved in a few hundred years."