Natural God's Gift

Si Ye and Bai Zhi ran back to the nest chamber. By the time they arrived, Dang Gui had been waiting for them in the nest chamber for a long time. Dang Gui asked, "Si Ye, should the soil for cultivating seedlings be ordinary soil, or fertile soil?"

Si Ye's mental intent was quite solemn as he said, "Fertile soil contains original power. Ordinary seeds planted in it would probably absorb the dispersed original power and die. Haven't you noticed that around our life seeds, the places where fertile soil was used are basically barren?"

"So, we should use ordinary soil?"

Si Ye thought carefully for a moment, "Soil that is too barren won't work either. Don't the Rainbow Tribe's Flame Spiders often dig silt in swamps and rivers?

The silt contains rich micro-element nutrients. Let's get some silt."

There was a large swamp in their kingdom, and spiders often dug silt there, but it was a bit far from Si Ye's territory. He rarely went there, but Dang Gui could fly, and occasionally he would use tools to bring back some silt to supplement the fertility of the life seed.

"How much do you need?" Dang Gui picked up the iron bucket that Si Ye had bought from Boss Xiao Ji. This iron bucket, despite being made of iron, had thin iron sheets, making it larger than a bamboo tube and lighter, making it much more convenient to carry.

Although they also had silk pouches to hold things, which were even lighter, silk pouches were not omnipotent. After holding soil a few times, they couldn't be cleaned, and they were easily scratched by random things.

Most importantly, they were expensive. A silk pouch cost several original stones. Using them to hold soil a few times would ruin them. Even Lord Qing Feng probably couldn't afford it.

Compared to that, iron buckets were much better. Even if they were dropped from the sky, nothing would happen, and they were convenient to take anywhere.

"This might require quite a bit. Just bring some over when you have time."

Dang Gui: "Where should I pile up so much that I bring back?"

Si Ye: "At that time, dig a larger compost pool near my chinquapin life seed, so that it will be convenient to take and use when planting trees in the future."

Dang Gui threw the small shovel into the bucket and took off, carrying the bucket: "Okay, I'll go dig silt."

Bai Zhi raised his front claws and pointed at himself: "What about me?"

"If you have nothing to do in winter, dig a compost pool with me."

"Okay."

Si Ye took out a few bamboo tubes, filled them with a little water, and took out twenty redwood seeds to soak in the water. The nest chamber was relatively warm, and soaking them in water here for half a day would allow the seeds to germinate faster.

Bai Zhi: "Aren't you going to soak all the seeds?"

Si Ye: "Let's experiment first to see if the tree seeds can grow healthily in the seedling cultivation tray."

The kingdom is not short of tree seeds, but the control is too strict. He doesn't want to always go to Lord Qing Feng to ask for them. As for sunflower seeds, it is still too early to cultivate them now. Let's wait two more months, closer to the beginning of spring.

"Bai Zhi, do you want to sow some of your jackfruit?"

"Yes, my jackfruit seeds are bigger, I'll take a few more bamboo tubes."

The basic methods of seed cultivation have been taught many times in class by Mountain Master Huzhang, and he has also guided them to do it many times. They will cultivate and germinate seedlings when they are three years old, so there is no big problem in this regard.

Si Ye soaked the seeds well. The seeds need to germinate after two or three days of soaking in water, so they have nothing to do during this period.

Bai Zhi on the side also soaked his jackfruit seeds.

"Si Ye, what are we doing now?"

Si Ye carried his small hoe: "Let's go dig a compost pool first."

"I'm going too—.."

Si Ye's territory is not a square block like other warriors, but a long strip like a snake.

This was not Lord Qing Feng's intention to divide it this way, but was determined by the growth position of Si Ye's life seed.

Si Ye's first life seed, the lucky clover, was planted adjacent to Lord Qing Feng's territory.

The second life seed, the morning glory, directly demarcated an area from Lord Qing Feng's territory for planting.

The third life seed, the mangrove, was planted on the mudflat near the sea. Later, in order to save the little spiders from running around, Lord Qing Feng asked Si Ye to plant the fourth and fifth life seeds between the lucky clover and the mangrove.

According to the kingdom's regulations, each divinely bestowed seed can have one square kilometer of territory. Lord Qing Feng divided all the territory from the small hill where the lucky clover was located to the mangrove to him.

Si Ye's territory as a whole looks like a sea snake extending from the ocean into the Flame Spider Kingdom, with a total area of about ten square kilometers.

It is not enough to simply divide the territory to them. They also have to maintain the territory, prevent the wild beasts in the territory from flooding, and raise the little spiders in the territory to cultivate little warriors.

Little warriors obviously do not have this ability, so the kingdom does not divide much territory to them.

After planting the life seed, they can only cultivate plants on a small scale.

Si Ye is still a little spider now, and the territory is not much. When he is promoted to the mountain master level in the future, Lord Qing Feng may divide the nearby mountains and forests to him as territory.

He and Bai Zhi carried small hoes to the vicinity of his chinquapin life seed. The chinquapin life seed was planted between the lucky clover and the rapeseed life seed. This place is closer to the lucky clover, and the small hill divided by Lord Qing Feng is here.

After a year of growth, the chinquapin life seed has grown to nearly four meters high, but this is far from reaching the limit of the chinquapin tree's growth.

Ordinary chestnut trees can grow to forty or fifty meters high. Some spiders in the kingdom have also conceived chinquapin as their life seed, and the height has even reached nearly one hundred meters.

And the only king-level wild divinely bestowed chinquapin tree in the kingdom is said to be nearly five hundred meters high, which is a height that little spiders dare not expect.

Bai Zhi looked at the chinquapin tree and asked, "Si Ye, can you be promoted to an intermediate warrior next spring?"

"What's wrong?" Si Ye was a little strange.

Bai Zhi said, "If you are promoted to an intermediate warrior next spring, will your chinquapin life seed still be able to catch up with the first wave of flowering and fruiting in early spring?"

"Not sure, I don't know if it can flower and bear fruit. After being promoted to an intermediate warrior next year, I will ask Lord Qing Feng again."

Si Ye didn't want to dwell on this topic. He looked for a suitable location and said to Bai Zhi, "Dig here."

"How big of a compost pool should we dig?"

"Dig a ten-cubic-meter pool. We can expand it later if it's not enough." I will make a swamp pool here,

So I don't always have to run so far to dig silt.

The two spiders have metal hoes, and they are much larger than when they were four or five years old, so digging is easier than before.

Dang Gui flew back with a bucket of silt: "Si Ye, where should I pour this?"

"Pour it on the side first—"

In the next few days, Si Ye and the others went to dig the swamp pool whenever they had nothing to do.

After waiting for two or three days, the redwood seeds and jackfruit seeds they soaked successfully germinated. Si Ye and the others were not surprised by this. The seeds of the kingdom's top plant species were carefully selected by the big spiders, and the weak species had long been eliminated.

Si Ye and the others moved the germinated seedlings to the seedling cultivation tray, took them out to bask in the sun during the day, and brought them back at night.

Later, they discovered that the biggest function of the seedling cultivation tray was not that it could be moved. They could use bamboo tubes and other items instead to move them.

The biggest use of the seedling cultivation tray is that each space can hold one seed, which can cultivate seedlings on a large scale and in batches. Even if some seeds fail to germinate, they can find out in the first time, which can highly ensure that the seeds will not be missed outside.

After the first batch of seeds successfully germinated and determined that this cultivation method of seedling cultivation tray was useful, Si Ye and the others cultivated all the seeds with the cultivation tray to plant them next spring.