Astral Cockroach

Banbu was being vague, no doubt wanting to get more compensation during the exchange. Even if he couldn't get more, the compensation of 500,000 original stones per portion had to be maintained, right?

After consuming the Double Star Apricot, Big Bear and Red Rice had each undergone a period of slumber and evolution.

Only after evolution would the effects of physique modification begin to manifest.

Currently, Big Bear was an L7 Mountain Lord, his earth and stone abilities just starting, leaning towards the weak side, only equivalent to an L1 Mountain Lord level, only mastering simple earth and stone manipulation and hardening abilities.

According to Baba's requirements, next, its original force food would focus on strengthening earth and stone element abilities, supplemented by metal. After advancing to County Lord, it should be able to exert its due earth and stone abilities.

The development of Lizhu Peak meant that earth and stone abilities could play a huge role. If its members mastered earth and stone abilities, they could freely renovate and rearrange the existing ponds and canals within the bamboo forest.

In the future, when opening up bamboo forests or other tree forests, building ponds and canals, its own members could also do it themselves, designing and manufacturing more refined and sturdy structures.

If the soil quality in some places was not good, they could also use earth and stone abilities to directly transform it into soil suitable for bamboo species to survive.

Banbu's plan was to exchange for at least 5 more portions, so that the other 5 Bamboo Rat warriors could all try it out.

With the improvement of strength, what also plagued the growth of warriors was the variety and quality of original force food. Dual-element abilities meant that the choice of original force food during the growth process increased, and the growth speed was faster. The benefits were not particularly obvious at the Mountain Lord level, but gradually manifested at the County Lord level. Faster growth at the County Lord level meant that the opportunity to advance to the King level in the future would increase accordingly.

The flowering and fruiting cycle of the Double Star Apricot was 22 years. By then, Crown Pear, Fire Bamboo, Fragrant Torreya, Blue Oak, and Bitao would definitely all advance to the Mountain Lord level, and it would be necessary for them all to try it!

Banbu even wanted to exchange for all 11 portions of the next batch of Double Star Apricots.

… …

After the dry season, various bamboo species finished flowering and started bearing fruit.

Tribes that had obtained a purchase quota for the Sacred Bamboo fruit came to Lizhu Peak in advance to guard it.

Lei Bamboo County Lord, who had rich experience in managing "divine items" and god-given seeds, gave Banbu another idea: the warriors should lie around the Dragon Bamboo god-given seed, repeatedly release their abilities, consume original force, and let the carapace original force patterns absorb natural original force, stirring up original force fluctuations, so that they could cover up the original force fluctuations of the soon-to-be-ripe Dragon Bamboo fruit.

From a remote distance, only a unique fragrance was transmitted to the mountain range trading square. Based on the smell alone, one could only judge that some kind of high-quality original force food had entered the ripening season, and it was impossible to make a more detailed judgment.

Coincidentally, the Sacred Bamboo fruit on the mountain was also ripening, and the smell was also drifting down the mountain, the fragrances mixed, making it even less likely to arouse suspicion.

Banbu tried it, and the effect was very good.

… …

The Dragon Bamboo fruit and the Sacred Bamboo fruit ripened at the same time, there were too many things going on, and he had to guard against any eventuality.

White Fluff and Brown Skin, two Mountain Lords from Chijian County, were invited to come and help, guarding outside the bamboo forest where the Dragon Bamboo and the mutated species of Ma Bamboo were planted.

From Iron Saber Mountain Range, Iron Saber Mountain Lord led Hei Sang and Ya Bai to come and help guard the mountain peak.

Flame Cluster Cogongrass had been helping Banbu sell and purchase original force food. After years of tempering, he had long become an old hand, good at socializing, and specially received guests in the trading square. At the same time, he also kept an eye on them, not allowing them to walk around randomly within the Lizhu Peak operating range, especially not allowing them to approach the bamboo forest below the mountain range.

They smoothly got through it.

The Sacred Bamboo fruit ripened, the money and goods were cleared, and the foreign purchasing teams left as soon as they got their things.

The Dragon Bamboo fruit ripened two days later.

After it was completely ripe, the original force patterns on the surface all disappeared, and the color turned into a deep crimson.

Xiangpu directed the bee colony to pick it and sent it to the cold storage on the top of the mountain as soon as possible.

64 pieces were one portion.

It was a considerable burden for high-level warriors, who could only eat one every two days. The warriors of Chiwu Mountain continued to hide in the bamboo forest, planning to sleep and evolve after eating everything, so they had to delay for a long time.

County Lord Qiufeng arrived on the night when the Dragon Bamboo fruit ripened, and wisely brought an L6 high-level warrior. Banbu simply arranged for them to hide in the bamboo forest and slowly eat everything before considering leaving.

Dragon Bamboo fruit, Mountain Lord-level warriors could eat one a day. Because it contained too much powerful original force, Rat Great King couldn't bear it and fell into a slumber after eating everything, advancing to L8 Mountain Lord.

Du Bamboo was the same. At the L5 Mountain Lord level, after successively eating the Snake Scale Fruit and the Dragon Bamboo Fruit, two kinds of divine god-given seeds, his strength advanced by leaps and bounds, and he began to advance to L6 Mountain Lord.

After the Dragon Bamboo fruit was divided into 18 portions, there were still 18 left over, leaving 2 for the Lizhu Peak members to taste, and the other 16 were given to Iron Saber Mountain Lord.

After eating this batch of Dragon Bamboo fruit, Iron Saber Mountain Lord should be able to advance to County Lord with peace of mind.

… …

The most important Dragon Bamboo fruit matter was basically settled.

Next was a 3-year flower and fruit rest period, which would be much easier.

Banbu himself also accelerated the intake of original force food, and then fell into a slumber.

When he woke up, it was early spring.

Bai Zhu guarded the entrance of the cave, and when he noticed that Banbu had woken up, he immediately drilled into the cave, opened the drawer, took out the energy drink and compressed biscuits, and sent them to Banbu.

The food entered his stomach, and the weakness of slumbering evolution quickly recovered.

Bai Zhu stared at Banbu and reminded, "Banbu, you really have an extra 'eye' on your forehead."

Banbu had eaten the Heavenly Eye Magnolia Fruit and Snake Scale Fruit during the L1 County Lord period, and had also activated the second small supernatural power at the second heart position. These enhancements were only fully realized after completing a molting evolution.

On his forehead, 66 gray-white original force patterns formed a small gray-black "eye." When the soul consciousness was concentrated on it, there was a telepathic connection, the original force patterns began to operate, and when looking at Bai Zhu through the heavenly eye, her body was shrouded in a layer of gray mist, and the brain area was the most concentrated, it was a mass of black.

This was the soul? Banbu was seeing it for the first time with his own eyes.

He lowered his head and looked at his forelimbs, which were different from Bai Zhu's, they were pure black, slightly reddish.

He could really see the soul!

With a thought, without using mental power, the limit sensing distance of the soul reached about 1.5 kilometers, and the detailed distinguishing distance also increased to about 1 kilometer.

Combined with a powerful soul, as well as the previously strengthened original force and original force pattern sensing ability, the comprehensive exploration ability rose to a higher level.

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… …

Continue to check the carapace changes after evolution.

With eating, nutrition and physical strength were replenished, and the color was gradually deepening.

The comprehensive strength had been improved, and had reached the level comparable to the Roach King, which was the strengthening effect of the Snake Scale Fruit.

It was late at night, and it was not easy to test the efficiency change of the original force generated at the second heart position. Judging from the feeling, it should be about the same as Baba predicted.

There were still more than 13 million original stones left to light up the third small supernatural power, just thinking about it made him feel weak.

"I hope there will be some gains in the Dragon Bamboo Continent this time."

Banbu thought silently, shook his antennae, and asked Bai Zhu, "Are Du Bamboo and Rat Great King doing well?"

Bai Zhu replied, "They woke up one after another a month ago."

Banbu asked, "What about Jin Zhu?"

Hearing about Jin Zhu, Bai Zhu was a little unhappy: this guy actually successfully awakened earth and stone abilities! She still didn't know if she would have a chance to eat the Double Star Apricot fruit.

"Jin Zhu fell into a slumber ten days ago and should be waking up soon."

Banbu continued to ask, "In the bamboo forest, what about the guests from Chiwu Mountain and Qiufeng County?"

Bai Zhu said, "The warriors of Chiwu Mountain are all holding back, planning to sleep and evolve after returning. That little warrior from Qiufeng County named 'Walnut' fell into a slumber at our Lizhu Peak, planning to hit the road with the team after waking up."

These were all expected things.

Banbu said, "I've almost recovered, go to the jungle hunting spot and bring back some fresh meat."

… …

A few days later, Jin Zhu and Walnut woke up one after another.

After resting for half a month, they set off in early February.

The team lineup was slightly expanded.

Chiwu Mountain was still led by County Lord Lei Bamboo, with 4 County Lords and 10 high-level warriors.

From Lizhu Peak, in addition to Rat Great King and Jin Zhu, Banbu also brought Du Bamboo. The Bixue Longan of Chiwu Mountain would ripen this autumn. This thing was difficult to preserve for a long time, and it was inconvenient to transport in large quantities, so Du Bamboo had to rush over to eat it.

Arranging it for Du Bamboo was to hope that he could advance to County Lord as soon as possible, so that the output of Sacred Bamboo fruit could be doubled, and the original stone pressure on Lizhu Peak would be completely relieved.

Banbu also specially invited the Chijian Roach King to come and travel with them. After Du Bamboo ate the longan, the Chijian Roach King would escort him back to Lizhu Peak to ensure safety.

In Qiufeng County, a high-level warrior named Walnut owned a god-given Walnut tree seed of very good quality. She was also one of the outstanding juniors of their Black and White Flower Roach tribe, selected from thousands of miles, and would be considered for advancing to Roach King in the future. County Lord Hongfeng followed on the road, specially escorting her back and forth, and also carrying a lot of high-quality original force food and some original stones, which were for the expenses in the next few years.

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