Natural God's Gift

"Can we go play in the sea then?" Fourleaf's eyes were full of anticipation. Born and raised in the forest, it had never played in the sea before.

Huichun, being a young warrior itself, was at a playful age. It wanted to play in the sea too, and wouldn't refuse Fourleaf's request. It turned its body and glanced at Mountain Master Huzhang, who was far away, and noticed it seemed to be dozing off. So, it secretly said, "We'll only play for a little while, okay? Don't let Mountain Master Huzhang find out."

"Yay!" Fourleaf didn't wait for Huichun to finish speaking, and with a turn, it rushed towards the sea.

Baizhi, who was pressed into the sand, struggled even more violently: "Huichun, let me go! I want to play in the sea too!"

Huichun loosened its claws, and Baizhi darted out: "Fourleaf, I'm coming too!"

"These two fellows." Huichun took a few quick steps and arrived at the edge of the waves, waiting quietly.

Before Fourleaf and Baizhi could rush into the sea, a sudden large wave washed both of them back onto the shore, one after the other.

Huichun, having anticipated this, used its silk threads to lift the two spiders beforehand: "What's the rush?"

Fourleaf kept spitting out the bitter seawater from its mouth: "Huichun, didn't you say that we Original Flame Spiders can float on the surface of the sea?"

"Yes, we can float on the surface, but that requires skill. You two watch how I do it."

Huichun stepped closer to the waves, but didn't immediately enter the sea. Instead, it aimed for the moment when the seawater receded and quickly followed it into the water. The receding seawater instantly carried it into the sea. A layer of fluff on its body's surface created a bubble layer, lifting it to the surface. Then, it spread its eight legs and stood steadily on the surface of the sea.

"Did you learn it?" Huichun conveyed its mental intent.

Fourleaf said with some difficulty: "I'll try."

"I'm coming again..." Baizhi had grown up by the sea since childhood, and was familiar with these techniques. It had only been washed back by the waves earlier because it was in a hurry to chase Fourleaf, but it hadn't choked on water. Now, it seized the opportunity and quickly ran onto the surface of the sea.

Fourleaf learned from them, taking advantage of the receding seawater to enter the ocean. But whether it was because the timing was wrong or it hadn't mastered the core elements, it took several tries before it successfully stood on the sea.

Seeing Fourleaf's cautious appearance, Baizhi acted like an elder and gave guidance: "You can also find some dry branches and float on the sea by stepping on them."

"Oh," Fourleaf started by walking cautiously on the surface of the sea, and gradually opened its eight legs, drifting with the waves.

Mountain Master Huzhang was on the beach, occasionally glancing towards the sea. Seeing some of the spiders running onto the surface of the sea, it didn't stop them. The nearby sea area was guarded by high-level Flame Spider warriors and Mountain Master-level Flame Spider warriors, so the Original Force warriors wouldn't be in danger. As for what Lord Qingfeng said, spiders are not instructed in external affairs!

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Heinu didn't know where it had gone, and then it emerged from the water again. Seeing Huichun leading Fourleaf and the others playing on the water, it quickly swam over.

"Huichun, Baizhi, Fourleaf!"

"Heinu, you're back?"

"Yes," Heinu manipulated its silk threads and patted the bulging silk thread bag on its back, somewhat proudly saying, "I found a few sea cucumbers and abalones, enough for us spiders to eat."

"Back to the beach?"

Fourleaf said eagerly, "But I want to play a little longer."

Hearing Fourleaf say this, Heinu readily said, "Then let's go! I'll take you to a good place."

"Where are we going? Mountain Master Huzhang doesn't want us to go too far," Baizhi and Fourleaf were curious and wanted to go, but they were also a little afraid of being reprimanded by Mountain Master Huzhang.

"To my secret base, it's not far from here. Huichun, can you go and tell Mountain Master Huzhang?"

"Okay," Huichun also wanted to go and play. It stepped on the sea surface and quickly ran towards the beach, towards the direction where Mountain Master Huzhang was lying. After a while, it hurriedly ran back: "Mountain Master Huzhang agreed for us to go play, but we can't stay in the sea for too long."

"Let's go, let's go!" As soon as Fourleaf and the others heard that Mountain Master Huzhang had agreed, they quickly climbed onto Heinu's carapace, urging it to go to its secret base quickly.

Heinu's secret base was indeed not too far away, on a small island about one kilometer away from the beach. After all, it was only an intermediate-level warrior, and couldn't run very far.

Calling it an island, it was actually just a large reef covered with some trees, less than a hundred square meters in size.

Heinu carried Fourleaf and the others up the island. Some iridescent little Flame Spiders were playing on it. Seeing the arrival of the big spiders, they tapped the ground with their spider legs: "Heinu, did you bring anything to eat?"

Heinu took out a sea fish from the silk thread bag on its back and threw it aside: "Go play."

The iridescent little Flame Spiders swarmed over to the food as soon as they saw it.

Heinu walked and said, "There are as many small islands like this along the coast as there are stars in the sky. This island was the first one I occupied, so it's considered mine. In fact, most Flame Spider warriors don't want them. I just put some marine creations here. I occasionally come to play here when I return to the kingdom in winter.

And now that I've been promoted to an intermediate-level warrior, I have to follow the tribal elders to trade and do business everywhere every year, so I don't have time to play with these little things anymore. When the time comes, I'll give you some of the various seashells and beautiful items I've collected."

"Thank you, Heinu! Heinu, are you going to become a big spider that can trade independently?"

"Eh," Heinu humbly shook its antennae: "I'm still far from being able to trade independently. At least I have to become a high-level warrior to be qualified to trade independently."

As they spoke, the spiders arrived at Heinu's secret base. Heinu took out all kinds of fish it had captured from the silk thread bag, and everyone happily held a banquet.

Heinu personally manipulated the silk threads to cut the sea cucumbers and abalones, using large shells to hold them and distribute them to the spiders: "Taste this, a delicacy from the sea, soft, glutinous, and sweet."

"Not bad, not bad, the taste is excellent!" The spiders usually ate fruits and foods from the land, and now they were tasting different flavors from the seafood.

After the spiders had eaten and drunk their fill, they lay sprawled on the ground. Heinu rummaged through a hole under the roots of a large tree and pulled out a large pile of various things.

Seashells, shells, pebbles, and things like that were relatively common. Beautiful pearls, strange crab shells, brightly colored corals...

"See if there's anything you like, pick a few each."

"Thank you, Heinu," Fourleaf and Baizhi's chelicerae rubbed against each other awkwardly, feeling as if they had come specifically to ask the insect for gifts, and were very embarrassed.

Huichun, on the other hand, was familiarly picking out what it liked. It was only a little smaller than Heinu, and the two spiders had been good playmates since birth.

Fourleaf muttered, "How about Heinu, you teach us how to find good-looking seashells? If we can't find any, then give us one."

"Okay," Heinu also saw that the two little spiders were probably embarrassed, and didn't stand on ceremony. Anyway, there were plenty of all kinds of good-looking seashells on the beach, and they weren't valuable things.

It brought the three spiders to a small beach on the island: "There are many shells and seashells on the beach, but most of them are ordinary shellfish that are worthless. Usually, we pick up these ordinary shellfish shells and sell them to the Flame Spider warriors of the Purple Rainbow Flame Spiders at a price of five kilograms per Origin Stone."

Fourleaf raised its claws to ask a question: "What do the Purple Rainbow Flame Spiders do with these shells?"

Huichun could answer this question: "The Purple Rainbow Flame Spiders can awaken the metal attribute talent at the Mountain Master level. They imitate the creations of extraterrestrial civilizations to make metal objects. They can grind the shells into powder. Shell powder has the effect of promoting plant growth. When spring comes, they will carry shell powder to various insect tribes to sell."

"Oh, oh, this is the same business skill as Ziyun's fertile soil."

"Yes," Heinu said, "Although our five Flame Spider tribes don't produce Origin Force food ourselves, we all have our own fixed methods and sources for obtaining Origin Stones."

The spiders chatted idly, but their claws didn't stop, constantly rummaging on the beach to see if there were any good-looking shells.

Fourleaf saw a rather delicate conch shell half-buried in the sand. It stepped forward and was about to pick it up, but it saw several legs stretching out from inside the shell and running away in a puff of smoke.

Fourleaf blinked its eight eyes: "Do conches run this fast?"

Huichun laughed for a while, and then explained, "That's a hermit crab. It's a crab that hides its body in a conch shell and then carries it around."

"Is it that magical?" Now Fourleaf was overjoyed, looking everywhere for shells with hermit crabs in them, and chasing them around after knocking on the shells to wake them up.

"This shell is so big and beautiful!" While chasing the hermit crabs, Fourleaf saw a conical conch shell that was much larger than its body, a full thirty or forty centimeters long. It could be seen that the conch was very old. The shell, as thin as cicada wings, had already begun to jadeize. The jadeized surface of the conch was covered with mysterious and unusual patterns in a spiral from small to large, which looked a bit similar to the Origin Force patterns on the God-given species. The only flaw was that the tip of the conch seemed to have bumped somewhere, leaving a small gap.

Fourleaf poked its head into the shell to check. There was nothing inside. It rolled its eyes and, imitating the hermit crab, tilted the conch open at an angle, and then crawled backwards into the conch.

It straightened its body and found that its body was still a little small in the conch, and it was also a little heavy, but it wasn't a big problem, it could still carry it, and its body shape should be suitable after it evolved once more.

It couldn't wait to carry the jadeized conch on its back and run to Baizhi to show off its newly acquired treasure: "Ta-da! Baizhi, look, a hermit spider!"

Baizhi was flipping through small shells to eat, and its eyes lit up when it saw Fourleaf carrying the conch: "Wow, Fourleaf, this is so fun!"

"Is it good-looking?" Fourleaf showed off.

"I want one too, I want to find a conch to be a hermit spider!" Baizhi shouted, looking around for a suitable shell to carry on its back. Unexpectedly, it really found a shell that fit its size.

The two little Flame Spiders hid in the shells and laughed and joked non-stop, which made Huichun and Heinu, who saw the two little Flame Spiders' behavior, feel restless. Who wasn't a little warrior?

The four Original Spider warriors kept rummaging on the beach, and finally found dozens of shells of various sizes.