Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 4: The Tall Treehouse

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

As a man of action, Xu Xin didn’t just sit there and watch the treehouse grow. He thought of the blue-grade plants from before. He was too focused on the soil and didn’t even read what the blue-grade plants were about. It was a good time to go and take a look.

There were three shrubs of blue-grade plants in total. To be honest, if it wasn’t for his Item Identification ability, he wouldn’t have been able to tell the quality of these plants just by their appearances.

[Big Red Berry (blue): A fruit that can be eaten raw. It tastes sweet and sour and has the effect of improving eyesight. Eating it will give you two hours of night vision.]

[Top-grade Shiitake Mushroom (blue): An edible mushroom. It tastes extremely delicious. Eating it will permanently increase your intelligence by a small margin.]

[High-grade White Poplar (blue): A type of white poplar of a higher grade. Cutting it down can produce high-grade wood.]

Three types of plants with three different types of functions. This allowed Xu Xin to understand the classification of items in this world.

The big red berries were a blue-grade edible resource that could be regenerated. Even if the berries were picked, the blue-grade shrub would still be there, and new berries would grow after some time. Therefore, their effects were only temporary. One could gain two hours of night vision by eating one big red berry.

Top-grade shiitake mushrooms were also a blue-grade edible resource, but they could not be regenerated, unlike the red berries. Unless one could find a piece of fertile soil and plant the mushroom there, otherwise, the shiitake mushrooms that one planted would not be blue-grade anymore. Therefore, its effect was permanent, increasing one’s intelligence by a small margin.

High-grade white poplars were a type of material resource, which was also easy to understand. They could not be regenerated as well. This was probably a rare resource in this world. There were also white poplars growing in the ordinary soil around, all medium-grade poplars (green), still one grade higher than the white poplars (white) that Xu Xin had seen before.

Xu Xin wasn’t in a hurry to pick the berries. He already had 32 big red berries in his hands, and he didn’t know how long they would last. It would be a waste if they went bad soon after being picked.

As for the top-grade shiitake mushrooms, he picked all of them. All 20+ shiitake mushrooms were of the blue grade. Although it would only increase one’s intelligence by a “very small margin”, more than 20 of them should be enough to have an obvious effect. One patch of soil could only grow one treehouse, but it could grow more than 20 mushrooms, and all of them had mutated into the blue grade too. It seemed that the number of plants that could be planted on a patch of land depended on the type of the plant or fungus.

He left the white poplars alone as well, as he didn’t have the ability to cut them down yet.

After packing up the blue-grade supplies, Xu Xin went to look at the green-grade supplies. He had eaten green-grade red berries and apples, but they did not have any special effects. It seemed that only items of the blue grade and above would have special effects.

After all, half of the soil around was ordinary soil (green), so green-grade resources were everywhere. Xu Xin looked around, and there were too many things, so he didn’t bother anymore. He picked an apple and munched it as he returned to the treehouse.

More than half the time required for the two-hour period had passed, and the small seed had grown into a towering tree.

“Is this … A banyan tree?” Xu Xin looked at the incomparably luscious branches and leaves of the huge banyan tree before him and exclaimed in shock.

Banyan trees had always been known as “trees that could form a forest alone” because the crown of a banyan tree could cover a very large area. In Xu Xin’s original world, the crown of a hundred-year-old banyan tree could cover an area of up to a thousand square meters. It was truly a single tree that formed a forest.

At this time, the treehouse was not fully grown yet, but the crown of the banyan tree was already very large. Although it was not as wide as the legendary old banyan trees, it did reach the extent of hundreds of square meters.

Gradually, the crown of the tree became very dense, and the sun could no longer pass through the crown. The entire crown was now like a huge, opaque seaweed ball. Xu Xin knew that his treehouse was about to mature.

In his line of sight, the treehouse started glowing with a faint purple light.

[Tall Treehouse (purple): A treehouse formed by the growth of a banyan tree. It is a high-grade product among all treehouses. It is born with a bloodline that other treehouses are not a match for. Those who can obtain such a treehouse are either blessed or have cheated. Which kind are you?]

He had cheated.

Xu Xin calmly retracted his Item Identification ability. After all, having his vision filled with all sorts of colors was simply sight pollution.

He had planted his treehouse seed that was of an unknown grade in the blue-grade fertile soil and had obtained a purple-grade treehouse. This should be the unique characteristic of the treehouse seed. It could perfectly use the nutrients in the soil to grow into the highest grade treehouse that the soil could support.

In this way, planting the treehouse seed in barren soil (white) should give one a green-grade short treehouse, and planting the treehouse seeds in ordinary soil (green) should give one a blue-grade small treehouse.

From the introduction, it seemed that only the tall treehouse that he obtained was from a banyan tree.

[The growth of your treehouse has been completed. You can move in now.]

The dense canopy completely blocked the sunlight, not letting a single ray of light pass through. From the outside, it was just a great banyan tree that would make people gasp in amazement. It was completely impossible to tell that it was a treehouse.

The entire banyan tree was about 20 meters tall, which was the height of a seven-story building. Even the bottom of the tree crown was about 10 meters from the ground, which was about the height of a four-story building.

At this height, how should he get up…

Xu Xin glanced at the fibrous roots around the banyan tree that drooped down like willow branches. Could it be that he had to climb up with these?

But his body didn’t have such a function …

Xu Xin tentatively grabbed onto one of the roots, and a sense of familiarity washed over him as if the banyan tree was a part of him.

The wonderful feeling made him excited. Subconsciously, he controlled the fibrous roots to wrap around his waist and gently pull him up.

“Wow!” The speed of the roots lifting him was quite fast. Xu Xin left the ground in a jiffy and was pulled ten meters into the air.

Just as his head was about to hit the bottom of the dense canopy, the canopy suddenly opened up, and Xu Xin entered the treehouse just like that.

“This… This is too exciting!” Standing inside the treehouse, Xu Xin was still in a state of shock. After all, he had thought that he was going to crash into the dense canopy.

After calming down, Xu Xin started to look around.

The interior of the treehouse was completely different from what he had imagined. He had thought that the interior would be a space shrouded in dense banyan leaves, but it wasn ‘t.

The floor and walls were made of wood with annual ring patterns. The area of the house was about the same as the area covered by the tree crown, which was more than 100 square meters, and the inside of the treehouse was empty. He was currently standing in the middle of the entire space, and there was a circular pattern under his feet. It seemed to be the door to the treehouse.

Because there were a few open windows, the entire space was bright. Xu Xin walked over to the window curiously and realized that even though the outside was covered by dense banyan leaves, he could see the scenery outside as if he had X-ray vision.

Thinking back to how the treehouse looked like from the outside before he came up, he could probably see the outside from the inside, but from the outside, he wouldn’t be able to see what was in the treehouse.

The floor he was on was about three meters high, and Xu Xin could see the stairs at the side. It seemed that this treehouse had more than one floor.