Astral Cockroach

Princess Yuli felt the tree spirit's rage and moved further away.

"Alright, Fire Oil Tea, I've chased it away." Banbu then conveyed his thoughts to the tree spirit, saying, "The primordial stones I possess add up to several hundred million, do you understand the concept? All the primordial stones piled up would form a mountain, taller than you."

Fire Oil Tea was displeased and interrupted, "What does it have to do with me? You won't give me an extra one anyway."

Banbu said, "What I want to explain is that I have no intention of snatching your primordial stones. Fire Oil Tea, be straightforward, one sentence, will you trade or not? If not, I'll be busy with other things."

"You put the box here first…" Fire Oil Tea preferred the ultra-high purity primordial crystals, and hesitated, "Let me consider it for a few days. Also, I condensed 13,544 fruits this year, you tell the big-headed ants to send my primordial stones over quickly!"

Banbu said, "What's there to consider? Adding this year's income, you have just under 503,000 primordial stones, right?"

Fire Oil Tea seriously said, "It's 502,857 stones."

Banbu said, "Let's trade, I'll round it up for you, 5 primordial crystals, 500,000, and leave you a whole bag, which means you'll have 510,000 primordial stones all at once."

"This…" What tempting conditions, a huge profit! Without thinking, the Fire Oil Tea tree spirit said, "Deal!"

Banbu used a spider silk bag to collect the remaining 18 primordial crystals and handed them to a combat ant, instructing it to take them back to the ant nest and hide them well. He also instructed several other soldier ants to direct the ant colony to drag away the bags of primordial stones placed under the tree and send them to the warehouse at the foot of the mountain for storage.

…

Princess Yuli saw Banbu finish and laughed, "Banbu, your Oil Tea tree spirit is becoming more and more interesting!"

"Tree spirits have quirky and eccentric personalities, each one is a headache." Banbu shook his antennae helplessly, and emphasized, "The Fire Oil Tea tree spirit is the strangest and gives insect heads the biggest headache."

"You have too many divinely bestowed seeds, too much is as bad as too little, it's not a good thing." Princess Yuli asked, "What about that Xun Grass divinely bestowed seed? I remember its temper is even worse. Tree spirits need communication, you should pay attention to taking care of each one."

"…" Banbu said, "Princess Yuli, let's not talk about this today, let's go to Cloud Mist Peak to talk."

Princess Yuli was curious and asked, "Banbu, what's the matter that you asked me to come over for?"

Banbu said, "It's a small matter, Princess Yuli, I'll show you something."

…

The foot of the south side of Cloud Mist Peak.

Not far from Wedge Thorn's ant nest entrance is a cleared open space, a neat octagonal woodland.

Five years ago, Banbu brought back cherry tree seeds from the Scarlet Firmament Continent, and after sowing and cultivating seedlings, the seedlings are now half-grown, and they should be able to blossom and bear fruit in another two or three years.

After a loud bang, the violent ant colony calmed down.

The red flower, evolved from a small worker ant, quickly crawled out of the ant nest and drove away the ant colony surrounding Princess Yuli.

"Banbu!" Red Flower called out, fidgeting with its antennae. It always had some awe of Banbu.

Banbu asked, "Where's Wedge Thorn?"

Red Flower replied, "It went out hunting with Oil Tea."

"…" Banbu waved its antennae and ordered, "Restrain the ant colony."

"This is the explosive ant that the Scarlet Firmament Roach King mentioned?" Princess Yuli didn't pay attention when landing and was accidentally grazed by a fragment of the exploding carapace, a little embarrassed, and exclaimed, "What a fierce fellow. And very despicable, there's no primordial force fluctuation, lying still makes it hard to detect…"

Princess Yuli's carapace was thick and couldn't be hurt by an explosive ant of corresponding high-level warrior rank. She shook her wings to defuse the awkwardness, and looked at the forest, continuing to ask:

"Wedge Thorn Cherry? Is this a derivative species? This is a Prickly Black Cherry, right? And what is this…"

Princess Yuli searched her inherited memories.

Princess Yuli had planted many tree species. Initially, with the support of the Longevity Roach King, she planted peach trees, but unfortunately, Longevity County couldn't share top-tier tree species like "Longevity Peaches." After hundreds of years of operation, their peach tree sea had achieved little.

Seeking a way out, Yuli County also operated apricot trees, chestnut trees, orange trees, pear trees, and other tree species. In recent decades, they had also been fiddling with oil tea trees.

In fact, tree seas lack top-tier tree species, and it takes great luck and a long time to achieve great success.

"This is the Red Flower Cherry, a high-quality derivative species of the Yellow Jade Cherry." Banbu explained, and reminded, "The Yellow Jade Cherry is already a high-quality native species second only to top-tier tree species."

"Yellow Jade Cherry! High-quality derivative species! Native species are hard to find, and cultivation is even harder, right? Where did you get them? Could it be, Scarlet Crow Mountain…"

"Princess Yuli, don't ask where they came from, just tell me, do you like these cherry tree species?"

"Don't like them? What does that mean?" Princess Yuli asked back, then realized and understood Banbu's intention, and was overjoyed.

The Red Flower Cherry and Wedge Thorn Cherry are both cultivated very well, and divinely bestowed seeds can easily be born naturally with large-scale planting, right? Even ordinary seeds, nurtured into fate seeds, are not comparable to ordinary tree species.

Banbu shook its antennae and said, "To naturally give birth to divinely bestowed seeds, the prerequisite is large-scale planting, which is not easy, it requires a large number of warriors to operate together. However, ordinary seeds as fate seeds are indeed good."

Banbu paused and added, "The cherry fruits also taste very good. Especially the Cliff Honey Cherry, Princess Yuli, look, this is also a high-quality derivative species, only slightly inferior to the Red Flower Cherry."

"Hiss…" Princess Yuli said, "Good stuff! Good tree species! Banbu, you little fellow has amazing abilities! You brought back three high-quality species at once… Four?"

"Eight." Banbu said, "The other tree species are not as good as the Red Flower Cherry and Wedge Thorn Cherry, but the fruits are delicious."

Princess Yuli's mind raced, and she asked, "You specially asked me to come over, the purpose is…"

Banbu sighed, "Princess Yuli, the tree species that you Yuli County are fiddling with all lack core native species, and it's unknown when they will achieve something. Look, there is a shortcut here, isn't there?"

"I can share these eight high-quality cherry tree species with you, without any other conditions. I plan to open up a cherry tree sea around Cloud Mist Peak, and we can cooperate, plant them together, and cultivate better derivative species in the future, sharing them with each other, and exchanging what we have."

Princess Yuli was an old insect with rich social experience. First, she understood that Banbu was helping Yuli County from the foundation of the tribe, and the so-called conditions were not conditions at all. At the same time, she also felt from Banbu's divine sense tone that Banbu didn't really care about these precious and rare high-quality cherry tree species.

It could also be seen that if he cared, he wouldn't have planted them in such a remote place as Cloud Mist Peak.

"Banbu, Scarlet Firmament County has 5 more high-quality Scarlet Firmament tree derivative species, all brought back by you, right?" Princess Yuli asked, carefully choosing her words, "Brought from the continent opposite the Scarlet Crow Mountain by traversing the Illusory Mist Barrier? Is there any way to bring back top-tier tree species like Longevity Peaches?"

"I understand, it must be like this! Your Dragon Bamboo was brought back from there."

Princess Yuli spoke a lot, carelessly and without restraint. At such a great age, she didn't have the maturity and stability that an old insect should have. Precisely because of this, Banbu and the Scarlet Firmament Roach King were unwilling to tell her too many secrets, because she couldn't keep secrets.

"Princess Yuli, don't ask too much, and don't think too much." Banbu said, "What do you think of these cherry tree species? If possible, choose the land in advance, open up a nursery, and come over in two or three years to take a copy of the seeds back."

"Nonsense! I won't refuse something given for free." Princess Yuli flicked her antennae, smiling, and said, "Okay, okay, I'll arrange it when I get back, haha."