Natural God's Gift

Upon seeing the Divine-grade Flower, whether with joy or worry, Mountain Master Ziyun and the others felt a bit more grounded. But regardless, their motivation to earn primal stones greatly increased.

Mountain Master Ziyun and the others still had many things to do. It urged everyone to leave, "Alright, we've seen everything here. Time to go back and continue working."

Mountain Master Torch waved its antennae, warmly inviting, "Fourleaf, want to come play with us?"

Fourleaf refused, "No, Mountain Master Torch, I have to work too."

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The Ziyun Merchant Caravan must be very busy after just returning to the kingdom, so it didn't want to add to the trouble.

"Alright," Mountain Master Torch said with slight regret, "Fourleaf is starting to be self-reliant too."

"Yes," Fourleaf echoed, "The kingdom only guarantees my evolution resources, but not the primal stones needed for my lifeblood evolution."

Mountain Master Torch: "Fourleaf, you're still so small, how many primal stones could your lifeblood possibly need? If it really doesn't work out, we'll cover the resources for your lifeblood evolution too."

Fourleaf gently shook its little head: "You're already troubled enough. Mountain Master Torch, you're not rich yourselves. Tanggui and I can earn enough primal stones for lifeblood evolution on our own."

It had already used up a lot of the Ziyun Merchant Caravan's resources, and now the Ziyun Merchant Caravan also had to take care of Longya, Tiesian, Shaoyao, and Mudan.

Although they were also selling goods themselves, they always had to provide support at critical moments. If there were too many spiders to take care of, their own evolution resources might not be enough, right?

Moreover, it was already a three-year-old spider, not as ignorant as before. It understood a little bit, knowing that there was no free lunch in this world.

It accepted Lord Longxu's Sandalwood Divine-bestowed Seed, so in the future, it would have to find a Divine-grade fruit for Lord Longxu as repayment.

It obtained the Date Palm and Yardlong Bean two kinds of Divine-bestowed Seeds for nothing, so the benefits would have to be split in half with other insects.

The Flame Spider Kingdom raised it, sheltering it as it grew up, so the Divine-grade fruits produced by its lifeblood would be completely planned and distributed by the several lords, without any say.

If it was raised entirely by the Ziyun Merchant Caravan, wouldn't the future output of its lifeblood naturally be taken by the Ziyun Merchant Caravan to sell?

Although the results of these things were all good, agreeing to Lord Longxu's conditions added two large arbors of Divine-bestowed Seeds.

The two lords arranged the disposition of the fruits produced by the Divine-grade Divine-bestowed Seeds. It sat at home, and traveling merchants sent two Divine-bestowed Seeds, Yardlong Bean and Purple Eggplant, and more might be sent in the future.

The Ziyun Merchant Caravan raised it. In the future, if there were any primal force foods or other needs that it required, they would definitely try their best to satisfy them, but it didn't want that!

It had no objections to the several lords and mountain masters, and was very grateful to them, but within its capabilities, it still wanted to grow independently. After all, Mountain Master Ziyun had also said that flowers that had not experienced wind and rain would never bear fruit.

It didn't want to become a morning glory that only clung to the Flame Spider Kingdom, this big tree, to grow. It wanted to become the biggest tree in this forest. The kingdom sheltered it when it was young, and it would grow up to shelter the kingdom in the future.

Mountain Master Ziyun tapped Mountain Master Torch with its chelicerae: "You fellow, you're always worrying unnecessarily. Isn't it good for Fourleaf to manage its own territory? Hurry back to work."

Mountain Master Ziyun and the others left, and Fourleaf also had to busy itself with its own affairs.

It ran to where Beichi was. A long time ago, it and Tanggui and the others had discussed that after the Zicai Flame Spider traveling merchants returned, they would take the primal force pearls in Beichi to them for appraisal. Now that it had finished evolving,

it happened to have time.

When it arrived at Beichi, Tanggui and Baizhi were salvaging seaweed debris in the water.

Originally, they didn't know how to cultivate, thinking that shellfish only needed seawater and that controlling the water temperature would be fine. Later, they discovered that the shellfish in the pool often died.

At first, they didn't understand the reason, but after careful observation, they discovered that shellfish also needed to eat, and especially liked to eat various algae and organisms.

So they increased the task of salvaging algae to feed the shellfish.

What was more troublesome was that algae would also rot if they died, so they also had to clean the Beichi frequently,

otherwise, after the seaweed rotted, the shellfish would all die with it.

"Baizhi, Tanggui," Fourleaf stepped forward to help salvage the seaweed that had fallen in earlier.

Baizhi asked suspiciously: "Fourleaf, I wanted to go find you before, but you declared that you were evolving, so I didn't go. This time, your evolution took a bit long, didn't it?"

Fourleaf: "I was also busy with some other things. I came to see the Sandalwood Divine-bestowed Seed after I evolved, but you weren't there at that time."

"Oh," several insects didn't focus on this point, just casually mentioning it and moving on.

Fourleaf asked: "Tanggui, how many shells that we cultivated are there left?"

Speaking of this, Tanggui was a little depressed: "We originally cultivated a total of ten Beichi, of which three Beichi were filled with shells that were gestating gemstones. Originally, more than a thousand various shells were released, but after nearly a year of cultivation—"

Baizhi interjected: "We successfully raised less than a hundred of the thousand shells!"

Fourleaf: "

Fourleaf comforted: "It's okay, everything is difficult at the beginning!"

"Of the hundred shells, are there any shellfish that have successfully produced pearls?"

"Yes!" Tanggui and the others had become smarter, using mental power to scan and know which shells were gestating pearls, no longer needing to pry open the shells one by one to check.

"Pick out a few to pry open and take a look."

"No problem," Tanggui also knew that it was time to test the results of this year's experiment.

Its mental power scanned back and forth in the Beichi, and finally picked one or two each of scallops, pearl oysters, abalones,

and top shells.

Baizhi actively stepped forward and used a small metal file to pry open the shells one by one.

Fourleaf and Tanggui stepped forward to check, they picked out the pearls wrapped in shellfish meat.

After a year of growth, the pearls in these shells were already six or seven millimeters in size, and they also radiated faint primal force fluctuations.

Fourleaf twisted a primal force pearl to check. This was a primal force pearl taken from an abalone, and the nucleus was made of jade gemstone.

At this moment, this primal force pearl exuded faint wood-type primal energy fluctuations, but it felt very slight in content,

far less than the same volume of jade gemstone, and even much worse than ordinary primal stones. The effect was not as good as expected.

It checked the other pearls one by one. Among the five or six shells, the pearl force concentration was higher in the pearls inside the pearl oysters and scallops, but the other pearls were not very good.

The pearl oyster contained a water-type sapphire nucleus, and the broken scallop contained a gold-type obsidian nucleus. The primal force fluctuations of the pearls bred in these two types of shells were extremely strong.

Seeing this situation, Fourleaf was thinking, did these shellfish also have attribute divisions? Did they also have to pick shells to breed pearls of different attributes?

However, it didn't dare to experiment on a large scale yet. They were too poor, and they didn't have enough primal stones for their own lifeblood evolution, let alone waste primal stones at will.

Fourleaf casually handed the pearl containing wood-type primal force to Baizhi: "Try it."

"Ah?" Baizhi took it blankly. Hearing Fourleaf say eat, she decisively stuffed the primal force pearl into her mouth.

Tanggui hesitated for a moment, worried: "Can this be eaten? What if something happens after eating it?"

“It's okay,” Si Ye comforted, “It won't cause any problems. Even if it does, I'll find a feng shui treasure land to bury Baizhi.”

Baizhi:

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Danggui:

“......

In fact, such a small pearl has such a weak original force fluctuation, and it's wood-based. Even if Baizhi, who is now an intermediate warrior, eats it, nothing much will happen.

Even if it can't be digested, can't it be pooped out? So Si Ye isn't too worried about this.

After Baizhi finished eating the original force pearl, Si Ye asked it with a smile about its after-meal feelings: "Is it delicious?"

Baizhi: "It's a bit hard, but much softer than the original stone. It feels similar to the original force peach pit."

“Did you feel the original energy fluctuation? Has your physical fitness changed? Do you feel any discomfort?”

Baizhi: “There's a little original energy fluctuation, similar to eating ordinary original force food. My body hasn't changed much, it's good, very comfortable.”

“No change in physical fitness?” Si Ye thought, the difference between original force food and original stones is that original stones only have original force. But regardless of which original force food, whether it's beginner or king-level, they all have original energy power that improves physical fitness in addition to original force.

As mentioned earlier, original force is very important to Zerg warriors. If Zerg warriors want to evolve, they must rely on sufficient original force in their bodies to have the potential to evolve.

But original energy is also an essential item. If original energy doesn't modify the body, the body will be very fragile. Even if there is evolutionary potential, there is no probability of successful evolution.

Original force and original energy complement each other. If the original force pearl can only increase original force and cannot supplement original energy, then its effect is extremely limited.

Si Ye looked at the remaining few original force pearls, one water-based pearl, one earth-based pearl, and two metal-based pearls, one of excellent quality and one of relatively poor quality.

Si Ye said: “Baizhi, collect the pearls. Let's find a Purpleflame Spider tribe spider to experiment with the other pearls.”

Baizhi opened the spider silk bag and put all the pearls in it, somewhat bewildered: "Do we know any spiders from the Purpleflame Spider tribe?"

Si Ye: "We don't, but doesn't Hei Nuo?"

Baizhi's eight eyes lit up: "That's right, we can go find Hei Nuo!"

The spiders did what they said they would do and went directly to find Hei Nuo.

After Hei Nuo returned to the kingdom, it began to accept tasks issued by the original Flame Spider. After a year or two of growth, it steadily evolved to the intermediate warrior of the fourth instar, and already had some of the temperament of a traveling merchant.

Si Ye and the others found Huichun, and then asked Huichun to lead them to find Hei Nuo.

Hei Nuo was planting trees for Mountain Lord Xuanyu. Xuanyu had just been promoted to Mountain Lord, and Leader Qingfeng had allocated 100 square kilometers of territory to it. It needed to clear all the messy trees in these territories and then plant its favorite trees. It had been busy with this for the past year or two. Danggui had also been helping here, earning some pocket money along the way.

Hei Nuo was a little strange when it found out that Si Ye and the others were looking for it.

But the relationship wasn't good enough to the point where they would look for it if something happened, right?

Then Si Ye and Baizhi chirped and repeated the matter of the original force pearl. Hei Nuo was very surprised by their strange ideas.

Hei Nuo said: “Let me see your original force pearls.”

Baizhi opened the spider silk bag and took out the original force pearls for it to see.

Four original force pearls, Hei Nuo checked them one by one and asked: "What are you planning to do?"

Si Ye: “We originally planned to find a metal-based God-given Seed, use the original force pearl on it, and then get feedback on the effect.

But no one in the kingdom has conceived a metal-based life seed. There are wild God-given Seeds that are metal-based, but they have not yet given birth to a soul consciousness, so we plan to find a Purpleflame Spider to try.”

“Can this be eaten?” Hei Nuo twisted the original force pearl, half believing and half doubting.

Baizhi said proudly: 1 “I just ate a wood-based original force pearl. The taste is average, but it can indeed replenish original force.”

“Is that so?” It had only been a year since they last met, and the original little spider had now evolved into an intermediate warrior.

Hearing Baizhi say that eating it was fine, Hei Nuo's heart moved: “Si Ye, can you let me try this water-based original force pearl?”

Si Ye's eyes lit up. Wasn't Hei Nuo just the spider that could be used for experimentation? It hurriedly agreed: “Then Hei Nuo, be careful. If you feel something is wrong, spit it out quickly.”

“Don’t worry, I understand!”

Hei Nuo started traveling with the tribe elders when it was two or three years old, and was much more cautious than Si Ye and the others.

It twisted the water-based original force pearl in its claws and did not swallow it immediately, but scraped off a little bit of the powder from the original force pearl and ate it, until it slowly finished eating the whole pearl.

After eating the pearl, Hei Nuo stood in place and closed its eyes to feel whether the original energy in its body was different.

After a long time, Hei Nuo opened its eight eyes.

“How is it?”

“How is it?”

“Do you feel anything?” Several spider heads squeezed in front of Hei Nuo, eager to know the results.

Even Huichun, who had brought them over, curiously squeezed forward.

Hei Nuo: “I'm fine, I'm very good. I feel that my original force has increased a little, equivalent to half an original stone's worth, but because it is water-attributed, the single attribute value is relatively high and should be worth one original stone.”

“And then? And then?”

Hei Nuo asked Baizhi: “Baizhi, did you not feel anything after eating the original force pearl before?”

Baizhi shook its limbs, bewildered: “I didn’t feel anything!”

Hei Nuo: “After I ate this pearl, I felt a sense of tranquility in my mental power. Perhaps it's because it's too noisy here, or perhaps the pearl is too small. This feeling is not obvious and very slight.”

“A sense of mental tranquility?” Several insects were very surprised. Anything involving mental power was not cheap.

Danggui directly said: “Hei Nuo, how many original stones do you think such a pearl is worth?”

Hei Nuo carefully calculated: “If this pearl is as big as an original stone and can make the insect clearly feel the strengthening of its mental power, it might be worth two or three original stones. But this pearl is still too small.

You have to wait until you grow them bigger before you can be sure.”

Hearing Hei Nuo say this, Si Ye and the others were overjoyed. They had worked hard for more than a year, and the thing they feared most was losing everything. Since Hei Nuo said that their original force pearls could be worth two or three original stones, it meant that their hard work had not been in vain.

Danggui immediately took off and said: “Hei Nuo, wait a minute, I’ll go find another water-based original force pearl for you to try.”

“Oh,” Danggui honestly landed after hearing Hei Nuo say this.

Hei Nuo said: “Although I don’t know how you did it, you must remember to give me a share when you cultivate real original force pearls.”

Si Ye and the others said happily: ( “Hei Nuo, don’t worry, we will look for you first when we cultivate original force pearls next year!”