Natural God's Gift

Knowing that such a major event had occurred in the kingdom, everyone lost their mood for leisure and chatting. They returned to seek out their elders, inquiring if the matter was true. If it was, they would have some mental preparation.

Siye and the others similarly lost their mood and interest in gathering. It left the kingdom square with the spider swarm, but didn't immediately return to Twin Peaks. There were many things it could ask Mountain Lord Huzhang or Mountain Lord Xuanyu; they should be clearer on the situation.

However, when it went to inquire with Mountain Lord Huzhang, Mountain Lord Huzhang said that Lord Qingfeng had already left the kingdom to pursue the insects that had robbed the Flame Spider caravan. They currently didn't know the specifics of the situation. The little spider should focus on managing its territory; these things were not its concern.

Siye was unconvinced: "Is a mid-level warrior still a little spider?"

Mountain Lord Huzhang: "A mid-level warrior only has basic self-sufficiency; of course, they are a little warrior."

Siye: "My life seed can already produce over ten thousand origin stones' worth of origin energy food a year. Is that still a little spider?"

Mountain Lord Huzhang: "The life seed's output is only because you have many divinely bestowed life seeds. It doesn't have much to do with whether or not you're a little spider. A spider's growth isn't measured by the amount of origin energy food produced."

"Uh," Siye was discouraged: "Then Mountain Lord Huzhang, when will I be considered a big spider?"

Mountain Lord Huzhang tapped Siye's little head with its front leg: "When the kingdom's development requires your input, then you'll be considered grown up."

"Oh," hearing Mountain Lord Huzhang say this, Siye wondered if that meant reaching Mountain Lord Huzhang's level or Lord Qingfeng's level to be considered grown up. The little spider returned to Twin Peaks filled with doubts.

The New Year holiday ended, and everyone returned to managing their territories. Siye's territory at Twin Peaks was less than one percent developed. At their current pace, it would probably take a hundred years to completely develop the territory.

Siye took stock of its assets. Last year, Mountain Lord Huzhang gave it 15,000 silk scrolls.

It and Danggui and Baizhi each contributed 1,000 origin stones to purchase an origin energy food set for Hongcha, leaving 14,000 origin stones.

It exchanged the divinely bestowed rapeseed and mangrove fruit given to Flame Spider warriors Sh葵 and the others for roughly a little over 1,000 origin stones.

It ate the divinely bestowed dates and morning glory seeds itself, so those weren't counted.

The wages for Shaoyao and 水葱, as well as the money for the New Year's Eve party, were all paid with the origin energy food and origin stones it usually saved.

So, not counting those small odds and ends of dozens of origin stones, it still had 14,700 origin stones.

It couldn't spend so many origin stones all at once. Originally, it asked Mountain Lord Huzhang if it could pay off the kingdom's debt in advance.

But Mountain Lord Huzhang sternly refused. Mountain Lord Huzhang said that any debt couldn't be repaid in advance before reaching the Mountain Lord level.

There was no other meaning, mainly because they were worried that the Flame Spider warriors would delay their own evolution in order to repay the money.

Within the kingdom, Siye wasn't the only one who could borrow origin stones. After the Five Divisions Flame Spiders advanced to high-level warriors, the kingdom would first allocate them 5,000 origin stones, allowing them to freely purchase the origin energy food needed for business.

They didn't need to repay the kingdom for these 5,000 origin stones; it was considered the last bit of assistance for the Five Divisions Flame Spiders as they began independent trading.

Spiders who received these origin stones could then start independent trading. Within three years, if they could increase the amount of these 5,000 origin stones, then based on that increase, they could borrow double the origin stones from the kingdom.

For example, if after three years, the principal of 5,000 origin stones became 6,000 origin stones, and they increased their earnings by 20% during the trading process, then they could borrow another 2,000 origin stones from the kingdom based on their existing origin stones.

If they doubled the principal, then they could borrow 10,000 origin stones from the kingdom.

This was done to promote the enthusiasm of Flame Spider merchants and to encourage Flame Spider warriors with trading talent.

If a spider had elders, the elders would also provide them with 1,000 to 5,000 origin stones as trading capital when they advanced to high-level warriors, depending on their financial strength. This also showed the importance of elders from the side.

Of course, it wasn't that a Flame Spider merchant could borrow as much origin energy food as the value of the origin energy food they had.

High-level warriors had nine age stages, and each age stage could only borrow a maximum of 10,000 origin stones from the kingdom. Even the most outstanding Flame Spider merchants could only borrow a maximum of 100,000 origin stones during the high-level warrior stage.

In fact, most Flame Spider merchants, even with the support of their elders, couldn't even meet the requirement of borrowing 100,000 origin stones throughout their entire high-level warrior period.

There was no way around it; the Flame Spider merchants only had one life seed themselves, which didn't produce origin energy food. All the origin energy food needed for evolution came from trading.

It could be said that even if their trading business was doing well, they would have to eat up most or all of the origin energy food they earned to maintain their age stage evolution.

In this situation, it was already pretty good if they didn't lose origin stones. It was really difficult to earn more origin stones.

Since Mountain Lord Huzhang said that they couldn't repay the debt in advance, Siye naturally gave up on the idea. Anyway, it owed over 100 million origin stones; it wouldn't make a difference to owe a few more tens of thousands of origin stones.

Having money in its claws but not knowing how to spend it could be considered a happy problem.

As their daily consumption, it could also be considered a small benefit for its divinely bestowed seeds, after all, they were the great heroes who could produce origin energy food.

Given the considerable output of the divinely bestowed life seeds last year, Siye decided to continue its efforts and arrange for more divinely bestowed life seeds to bear fruit this year.

The lucky clover divinely bestowed seed goes without saying, it was still the same. That one fruit hung on it, and it didn't know how long it would take to mature.

The morning glory divinely bestowed seed. Siye decided to let it bloom 500 flowers and bear 500 fruits this year. As a divinely bestowed seed, this amount of fruit wasn't considered much, but considering that it still had to use more nutrition for its own growth to prepare for advancing to the high-level stage in the future, that was it.

The mangrove tree divinely bestowed seed bore 100 fruits last year easily without any pressure. This year, Siye planned to let it bear 300 fruits. When the Purple Cloud Merchant Team's spiders returned, it could completely take these 300 divinely bestowed mangrove fruits out as samples for promotion, and then after it advanced to a high-level warrior, the divinely bestowed mangrove tree could officially bear a large number of fruits, opening up sales for the merchant team's transactions.

Similarly, the sea date tree divinely bestowed seed could also bear 300 fruits, but these were good things. Siye estimated that the kingdom would be watching its date tree divinely bestowed seed, and would come to buy it when the first-class life seed had a good harvest.

After all, there were so many mid- and high-level Flame Spider warriors, large and small, within the kingdom. Life-type origin energy food was something everyone could use, a good treasure to reduce the risk of evolution failure.

As for the rapeseed flower divinely bestowed seed, it would still bear 1,000 pods this year, mainly to nourish the tree.

The long bean divinely bestowed seed had been nourished for two years and was growing well. It could also bear fruit appropriately to allow the long bean divinely bestowed seed to adapt to the fruiting period.

Other things, like the Purple Eggplant God-Given Seed and the Mai Li God-Given Seed, have only been planted for a year and still need to grow slowly.

As for the Chuinut tree and the Papaya tree, they are still the same as last year. The Chuinut tree bore 500 fruits, and the Papaya tree bore 1,000 fruits.

Si Ye calculated that it is now a Level 5 Intermediate Warrior. According to the rate of evolving two to three levels a year, it should be able to evolve to a Level 9 Intermediate Warrior by next year or the year after, and then it can start preparing to break through to become an Advanced Warrior.

The Great Spider in the kingdom taught them that when undergoing a major realm evolution, the Life Seed and the Insectoid Warrior will be promoted at the same time. At this stage, it is best not to let the Life Seed bear fruit, as this will greatly reduce the evolutionary pressure on the Life Seed. Therefore, Si Ye only plans to let the Life Seed bear fruit for one more year in the Intermediate Warrior stage, and then it will take a break from flowering and fruiting to fully prepare for evolving into an Advanced Warrior.

As for the fruit on the Lucky Clover God-Given Seed, it is not too worried. With the Life Godstone providing it with a constant stream of life force, it had no problems when advancing from the Initial Stage to the Intermediate Stage, so advancing from the Intermediate Stage to the Advanced Stage should be even less of a problem.

After sorting out the matters in its claws, Si Ye found that it still had 10,000 Origin Stones at its disposal. So, it hired two Advanced Watase Flame Spiders that were not very good at fighting to help it dredge the river near Twin Peaks.

It had not forgotten that when it was looking for God-Given Seeds in the vicinity the year before, the river water at the foot of the mountain flooded, and the river rushed, sweeping various trees and beasts into it.

Although this does not happen every year, Twin Peaks is now its territory. Even if it happens every few years, so many planted seeds at the foot of the mountain will be destroyed. It cannot allow its efforts to be ruined like this.

Hiring Advanced Flame Spider Warriors is a bit expensive, costing at least five Origin Stones a day, while hiring Advanced Watase Flame Spider Warriors to dredge the river is hard work, making it even more expensive at six Origin Stones a day.

Two Advanced Watase Flame Spiders cost twelve Origin Stones a day, which is higher than the combined salaries of Peony and the others. But there is no way around it. To speed up the construction of the territory and eliminate unnecessary risks, it still has to hire them.

In addition to hiring Advanced Watase Flame Spider Warriors, it also hired two Intermediate Purple Rainbow Flame Spider Warriors and two Intermediate Watase Flame Spider Warriors. Well, it's rich and willful.

Compared to having 10,000 Origin Stones lying idle in its claws, it would rather spend them all, as building the territory is more visible.

Another point is that, in addition to the fact that its own Life Seed produces every year, it also wants to share some of the pressure for the kingdom. The kingdom has just experienced the plundering of a Mountain Lord-level Flame Spider, and it is unknown how long it will take for the Flame Spider peddlers, large and small, in the kingdom to be able to leave the kingdom and peddle again.

Giving the spiders a job now will give them more development funds when they go out to peddle in the future.

Although Si Ye cannot yet understand the meaning of the saying "With great power comes great responsibility", as a member of the same race, it wants everyone to be well.

After arranging everything, Si Ye ate all the Origin Power food it had prepared for evolution, and then quickly evolved to a Level 6 Intermediate Warrior.

At Level 6, it conceived a Yellow Mottled Longan as its Life Seed. The Yellow Mottled Longan is one of the large arbors. Its functions of enhancing long-range vision, yield, quality, and price are all quite good. It can be considered a top-grade planted seed. Most importantly, the spiders within the kingdom can all use it, so there is no need to worry about sales.

In July of the same year, it consumed Origin Power food again and evolved to a Level 7 Intermediate Warrior, conceiving a Soul-type planted seed rare in the Origin Power Astral Realm, the Sea Soul Fir, as its Life Seed.

In November of the same year, it consumed many Life-type God-Given Origin Power foods and evolved into an Level 8 Intermediate Warrior, conceiving a Life-type Yellow Bract Durian as its Life Seed.

So far, among the kingdom's top ten planted seeds, the Soul, Strength, and Life systems' top-grade planted seeds have all been conceived by Si Ye.

In the nest chamber on the mountainside of Twin Peaks, Si Ye crawled out of the nest chamber somewhat weakly. Angelica carried a checkered keelback snake and flew to it. It tore the dead checkered keelback snake into strips of meat and fed them to Si Ye. It said with some worry, "Si Ye, is it evolving once every four months or so too fast?"

Si Ye ate a few strips of meat and replied to Angelica after recovering some strength, "Evolving once every four or five months is a bit fast, but it is still within the kingdom's allowed evolution time. Otherwise, Mountain Lord Tiger Cane would not have issued Origin Power food to me."

It is very rich now, so naturally it does not need to take advantage of the kingdom's free evolution resources, but whether it wants them or not is different from whether the kingdom gives them.

Moreover, the Origin Power food that the kingdom gives to the small warriors to eat is collected by the Flame Spider peddlers from all over the Fang Clan Continent. It is the Origin Power food that best fits the evolution of the Flame Spider Warriors and is something that cannot be bought outside. It is not stupid, so it will not let go of the best evolution resources.

Angelica clicked its tongue, "I just think that you are only six years old and are about to be promoted to an Advanced Warrior. Isn't the evolution speed a bit too fast?"

"Fast?" Si Ye did not think so. Insectoid Warriors have short lifespans. Intermediate Warriors only have a lifespan of thirty to forty years. After the age of twenty, their physical functions begin to slowly decline until they lose the ability to evolve.

After being promoted to an Advanced Warrior, the lifespan can reach about a hundred years. At that time, fifty years old is a hurdle. If you pass it, the sky is the limit. If you don't pass it, you can only gradually age.

It is now six years old and expects to be able to be promoted to an Advanced Warrior at the age of seven or eight. It seems that the hurdle of fifty years old is still very far away, but the accounts are not calculated like this.

In the Initial, Intermediate, and Advanced stages, the evolution of Insectoid Warriors is relatively easy. In the Initial and Intermediate stages, they can evolve once every few months. In the Advanced stage, with sufficient Origin Power food, they can evolve once every one or two years.

Even if the Origin Power food is not very sufficient, as long as they are a little smarter and have more types of Life Seeds,

they can rely on the output of their own Life Seeds without having to trade other Origin Power food with the Flame Spider peddlers and can still evolve once every two or three years.

But if you want to evolve further, the time and Origin Power food required will be somewhat enormous.

After reaching the Mountain Lord level, if they do not have the output of God-Given Life Seeds, they may not be able to save enough Origin Power food for one level of evolution in ten years.

Mountain Lords are more than two hundred years old. If we count half of the prime time to be around one hundred years old, if they have to spend thirty to forty years to be promoted in the Initial, Intermediate, and Advanced stages, how can they evolve nine levels with the remaining sixty to seventy years?

Si Ye has many God-Given Seeds, so naturally there is nothing to worry about before reaching the Mountain Lord level, but its goal is not just a Mountain Lord.