Natural God's Gift
#162 - Soapberry
Four-Leaf stayed at Twin Peaks for more than three months, leaving behind many traces of life. Fortunately, it didn't plan to live there permanently, and didn't bring many things with it.
Angelica and Bai Zhi were in similar situations. The only slightly troublesome thing was the Artemisia bee queen. Its life seed and clan were here, making relocation a bit difficult.
However, it wasn't a big problem. This place was still within the kingdom's territory. Whether the life seed was rooted here or in the central area of the Earth Kingdom didn't make much difference.
The Artemisia bee queen could fly on its own. The distance from here to the center of the kingdom wasn't far. The honey-collecting range of ordinary honeybees was within ten kilometers, and it wasn't a problem for a Primal Force worker bee to fly eighty kilometers per hour.
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When returning, after hearing about the high value of honey, the Artemisia bee queen even planned to bring some honey to the kingdom to exchange for Primal Force food. It only gave up after Four-Leaf said that only the Flame Spider merchants traveling outside needed a large amount of honey,
and that honey should be collected and sold when the Flame Spider merchants purchased supplies in winter.
Four-Leaf and Angelica returned to their territory, while Artemisia was taken by Bai Zhi to find Lord Qingfeng to confirm the quota for symbiotic insect clans.
When summer arrived, many things became busy, and they didn't have so much free time.
After returning to the territory, as usual, they first checked on the situation of the life seeds.
Four-Leaf discovered that the fruits on the Lucky Clover were a little bigger. Originally, they were only the size of rice grains. After not taking care of it for more than three months, they were now about the size of cherries, and the color was also light red, almost like cherries.
The fruits grew a bit slowly, but it was good to see them growing. What it feared most was like the previous Divine Flower, where it didn't even change its appearance after a year. It would be despairing if it didn't know when it would mature.
Standing under the Lucky Clover tree, Four-Leaf found that it had grown much taller again.
Looking up at the canopy, Four-Leaf asked, "Lucky, does having your fruits growing on the tree put any pressure on you?"
"It's okay," as time passed, the Lucky Clover gradually became sensible, perhaps due in part to Four-Leaf's guidance!
"How was the situation here during the heavy rain a few days ago?"
Lucky Clover calmly said: "The rain was very heavy, and the wind was very strong."
Four-Leaf was startled to hear this: "Are you okay then?"
Lucky Clover: "I'm fine, aren't I doing well?"
Four-Leaf looked at the Lucky Clover growing alone on the hill and said with some worry: "Lucky, it's too lonely for you to be here alone. Should I plant some trees around you so you won't be exposed to strong winds and heavy rain?"
Would the life seed be in danger if it were blown down?
"No need," Lucky Clover remained calm: "I can protect myself."
"You?" Four-Leaf asked doubtfully: "Aren't you a tree? How can you protect yourself?"
"Who says trees can't protect themselves? Let me broaden your horizons." After saying that, Primal Energy surged around the Lucky Clover. A point of Primal Force erupted from the canopy and extended in all directions until it disappeared into the ground, quickly forming a semi-circular transparent Primal Energy罩 around the Lucky Clover tree with a diameter of about eight meters.
"This" Four-Leaf was a little dumbfounded.
Lucky Clover said with pride: "This is a little trick I discovered some time ago. Think about it, you animals are Primal Force creatures, and we Divine Seeds are also Primal Force creatures.
There's no reason why you can use various Primal Forces and skills, while we can only use Primal Force to bloom and bear fruit. This Primal Force罩, although not very powerful, is enough to resist ordinary wind and rain."
Four-Leaf's eyes lit up: "Lucky, you're amazing. Can this defend against the attacks of insect warriors?"
Lucky Clover: "No, maybe I can when I'm at a higher level."
It asked back: "Didn't you say there are many wild Divine Seeds in the Flame Spider Kingdom? Can they defend against the attacks of insect warriors?"
"I don't know!" Wild Divine Seeds only awaken their soul consciousness after reaching the King level. It doesn't dare to run to the front of King-level Divine Seeds and talk nonsense now.
However, it really made it think of an insect: "I'll ask the Master of Profound Jade Mountain when the time comes."
Lucky Clover added: "My Primal Force罩 isn't without its flaws. It's made with the Primal Force in my body."
"Supplement Primal Force?" Four-Leaf exclaimed in horror: "Then stop quickly, stop quickly. I don't have many Primal Stones left."
Lucky Clover withdrew the Primal Force罩 and said disdainfully: "The toughness of this罩 depends on how much Primal Force is used. If it's just a simple layer of light film on the surface, then the natural Primal Force I absorb on a daily basis, plus the Primal Force in the fertile soil, is enough."
"Hehe," Four-Leaf wasn't embarrassed at all after hearing Lucky Clover's explanation: "It's more practical to save Primal Force for accelerated growth. The Primal Energy罩 should be used less unless it's critical."
Besides the Lucky Clover, it also had to inspect the other life seeds. The Morning Glory Divine Seed also bore fruit. After Citron Sazō finished collecting honey, it plucked off the extra flowers according to Four-Leaf's instructions, leaving only two hundred flowers. The growth is still good so far.
The Papaya tree life seed also bore fruit. Four-Leaf left ten green papayas.
In addition, the Chinquapin tree is blooming recently. Originally, Four-Leaf wanted to continue asking Sazō for help, but now that it has the Artemisia bee queen, it's natural to let the Artemisia bee queen do it, so it doesn't have to spend Primal Stones.
Not long after, Bai Zhi brought the Artemisia bee queen to Four-Leaf's territory triumphantly.
"Four-Leaf, Angelica, I'm back."
"You're back? How was it? Did Lord Qingfeng agree to let Artemisia be your symbiotic insect clan?"
Bai Zhi said triumphantly: "Guess."
Looking at her smug look, did they even need to guess?
Angelica said: "Lord Qingfeng agreed?"
Bai Zhi said happily: "Lord Qingfeng said that the kingdom is short of insects, and having a bee queen can speed up the kingdom's progress in managing the forest sea, so he agreed very readily."
Hearing Bai Zhi say this, Angelica couldn't wait to say: "The Fragrant Bee Queen is a Primal Force bee queen, and the Artemisia bee queen is also a Primal Force bee queen.
In the past, the honey from the Divine Seed flowers in the Earth Kingdom was collected by the Fragrant Bees. Now that there's Artemisia, did Lord Qingfeng say he would also allocate some Divine Seed flower honey to it?"
"Uh, Lord Qingfeng didn't say that."
Four-Leaf: "Probably not. The Fragrant Bee Queen is doing a good job, so how could it give the Artemisia bee the right to collect honey from wild Divine Seeds?
Unless it enters its aging period or leaves the Primal Force Star Realm, then it might be allocated a part of the right to collect honey from wild Divine Seeds."
"Then there's no hope," how old is the Fragrant Bee Queen? It's not even two hundred years old. By the time it enters its aging period, wouldn't it be more than a hundred years later?
This is still assuming it doesn't evolve. If it evolves to the Lord or King level, then it would probably take three or four hundred years to age.
Uh, is it a little bad that they're looking forward to the kingdom's insects aging?
Four-Leaf: "Don't overthink it. We're just small soldiers. It's good enough if we can take care of our own territory and life-seeds. When all my God-given seeds are harvested by Artemisia and brewed into God-given honey in the future, the quantity will be enough for us to use."
"That's right," Bai Zhi said, becoming happy again, "Your life-seed God-given and my life-seed God-given add up to seven or eight God-given seeds, which is enough to collect a lot of God-given honey. Plus, our four insects have ordinary life-seeds, which can also be brewed into Origin Power honey. It's wonderful to think about."
The Artemisia small bee queen listened with a blank expression: "What are you talking about? Where did so many God-given seeds come from?"
Angelica pulled Artemisia aside and explained to it about the God-given seeds that Four-Leaf and Angelica roughly had, leaving Artemisia shocked.
At this moment, Bai Zhi took out a spider silk bag from her carapace, opened it, and twisted out a plump seed, handing it to Four-Leaf: "This is a honeysuckle seed that Lord Qingfeng asked me to give you. He wants you to nurture this into a two-year-old life-seed."
"Honeysuckle?" Four-Leaf took the seed and searched its inherited memories. Honeysuckle's function is to strengthen metal-based defenses. It is a plant species with both high yield and quality, only slightly inferior to top-tier plant species.
Four-Leaf originally wanted to nurture a sunflower or banana tree, but since Lord Qingfeng had arranged it this way, it had no choice but to comply.
It is a conscious spider, enjoying the benefits brought by the kingdom while also fulfilling some obligations to the kingdom. Lord Qingfeng must have his reasons and necessity for arranging this.
Four-Leaf spat out the eggplant God-given seed and incorporated the honeysuckle seed into its life sac.
With the matter completed, Bai Zhi and Four-Leaf waved their front legs in farewell: "Four-Leaf, I'm going to break through to the two-year-old stage too."
"Okay," Bai Zhi had been holding out for more than half a year, and it was time to break through to the intermediate stage of two-year-old.
As for the Artemisia small bee queen, it is only at the initial stage of two-year-old. It doesn't even have a Zuo King, and it can't even communicate mentally for too long. Besides collecting honey, it can't do anything else. It will only be able to help them when its level is higher.
Angelica pointed to the eggplant God-given seed and said: "Four-Leaf, where do you plan to plant this life-seed?"
"Let's choose a flat place to plant it." Four-Leaf didn't prepare a territory for planting the eggplant God-given seed in advance. As its life-seeds become more and more numerous, its territory seems to be a little insufficient. It seems that it has to apply for another piece of territory from Lord Qingfeng.
Four-Leaf selected several places, and finally planted the eggplant life-seed near the golden thread nanmu tree.
The area near the lucky clover was previously opened up by Lord Qingfeng in preparation for planting Qingfeng trees. Lord Qingfeng directly took the chestnut tree, papaya tree, and rapeseed flower, and planted these life-seeds in this area, without Four-Leaf having to reclaim the land.
Morning glory, date palm, long bean, and golden thread nanmu trees are all planted in the forest. It has renovated the land when planting morning glory and long beans.
Eggplant belongs to herbaceous plant life-seeds, and it will definitely need to be divided in the future. If it is planted in the forest, it will have to open up a large area of the forest. However, there are not so many divisions at present, so not so much land is needed.
Four-Leaf and Angelica cleared a small flat area in the central area of the forest. They poured swamp water on the soil, buried the seeds in it, and then dealt with the surrounding trees. If there are no accidents, they can do this for half a year.
Perhaps it was because the summer was too hot, the seeds of the eggplant God-given seed germinated the second day after Four-Leaf sowed them.
So they paid attention to the God-given seeds while logging. The trees in the forest are very large, some with diameters reaching seventy or eighty centimeters, thicker than their body length.
They used tools to peel off the outer skin of the big trees, hollowed out the roots, and then let them dry in the sun for a summer.
After the trees were completely withered, they went to Mr. Xiaoji's place to rent a large saw. As long as they found the right direction, they could easily saw off the dry trees and then dig them up by the roots.
Four-Leaf and Angelica have been busy in the forest. Although they are very tired, they are also very satisfied to see the God-given seeds growing taller little by little.
"Four-Leaf, I have broken through to the intermediate stage of two-year-old." Bai Zhi, who left, spent a week breaking through, and ran over excitedly to report the good news as soon as she finished evolving.
"What did you choose as your life-seed?" They were not surprised by Bai Zhi's breakthrough. They were more concerned about what Bai Zhi chose as her life-seed.
Bai Zhi honestly said: "Lord Qingfeng chose a Eucommia ulmoides seed for me as my life-seed."
"Eucommia? That's not bad." It was said before that some Origin Power foods are vastly different in the eyes of different insect races. Eucommia ulmoides seeds are such Origin Power foods.
The function of Eucommia ulmoides seeds is to make things sticky, which is an annoying function for most insect races.
But for flame spiders that can pull spider silk, this is an ability that can enhance the stickiness of spider silk.
With increased spider silk stickiness, spider silk bags are easier to make, more durable, and more expensive.
Moreover, whether it is capturing prey or fighting, high spider silk stickiness can enable oneself to quickly gain an advantage. In general, this is a good thing for internal use by flame spiders.
"Hehe," Bai Zhi skipped the topic of life-seeds and happily said: "Have you been in the territory recently? Have you heard any news?"
Four-Leaf and Angelica were a little strange: "What news?"
Bai Zhi excitedly said: "Jixue has made a fortune."
"Huh?" Four-Leaf and Angelica waited for it to continue.
Bai Zhi: "Jixue is too powerful. It went to find God-given seeds this year and found a large arborescent God-given seed, Sapindus mukorossi. It has become the richest spider in the kingdom."
"Large arborescent God-given seed?" Four-Leaf and Angelica widened their eyes and searched their inherited memories, including the records of Sapindus mukorossi.
"Sapindus mukorossi, deciduous arborescent tree, young branches are green, leaflets 5-8 pairs, small flowers, radially symmetrical, with long claws, fruit nearly spherical, the function is pain weakening of the life system."
Although pain weakening is not as powerful as the life system's Shen Ke healing and limb regeneration, it is also an ability of the life system, and it has high yield and the price is not low. It is definitely a quasi-top God-given seed. In some special ethnic groups, its function is no worse than that of top God-given seeds.
Angelica envied: "Jixue has made a fortune."
Such a God-given seed, when it reaches the king level, can produce 700,000 to 800,000 Origin Stones per year, which should be able to supply it with all the age-stage evolution before the king level.
Four-Leaf was also very envious: "Is Jixue going to change its name to Wu Huan?"
It has seven or eight God-given seeds, two of which are large arborescent God-given seeds given by Lord Longxu, and it is still in debt.
Jixue is still lucky, finding a large arborescent God-given seed as soon as it looked for one.
Bai Zhi waved its front feet: "Not necessarily. Have you forgotten? Large arborescent God-given seeds are treasures that the kingdom specifically wants to collect!"
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