Natural God's Gift
#268 - Cordyceps
The Flame Spider Kingdom is located in the southeasternmost part of the Myriad Races Continent. The kingdom as a whole is shaped like a fan, with Siye and its kin currently residing at the fan's handle.
As the number of Flame Spider warriors in the kingdom increases, the area they truly control also expands, until they regain control of the entire kingdom's territory.
Siye checked the map given to it by Qingfeng, the lord. Their Flame Spider patrols of the kingdom's territory typically follow three routes.
The first route goes north along the coastline. This route is usually taken by Flame Spider merchants, many of whom set out from here each year. They usually search along the way.
Therefore, Siye and other Flame Spiders patrolling the kingdom's territory rarely go that way, except for the grand patrol that takes place once every ten years.
The second route starts from the initial territory and heads northwest through the center of the kingdom, patrolling the central area.
This is the most patrolled area of the kingdom in previous years, mainly to prevent other insectoid tribes from appearing in the central area.
However, Siye doesn't plan to go that way this year. This year, Jin Kui led a group of Flame Spider warriors who are not very skilled in trading to build a public forest in the central area of the kingdom.
The so-called public forest refers to a public territory opened up by the Flame Spider warriors, distinct from the private insect territories.
The kingdom funds the Flame Spider warriors to plant trees in the central area, and the God-given seeds obtained are owned by the kingdom. This is also one of the ways the kingdom obtains God-given seeds.
They hadn't started construction before because there were too few Flame Spider warriors in the kingdom. Now that there are more spiders, this plan can begin.
Siye heard Qingfeng, the lord, mention that, according to the standards of past dynasties, the area of the public forest opened up could reach 100,000 square kilometers.
This is a very large number. The kingdom's territory is only 300,000 square kilometers, which directly occupies 1/3 of the kingdom's territory.
Of course, this doesn't mean that Siye and its generation of spiders will immediately open up such a large forest. This will definitely require thousands of years of effort to complete this work.
The third route starts from the initial territory and heads southwest, walking around the edge of the kingdom.
Many spiders who trade also take this route, because going southwest from the kingdom leads to the famous...
...tropical rainforest known as the Ten Thousand Mountains.
In other places, perhaps plains and hills are more popular.
But they, the insectoids, prefer this kind of tropical rainforest and mountainous terrain. Every mountain doesn't know how many ordinary insects are lurking. With a large number of insects, the probability of awakening insectoid warriors is also greater.
Siye decided to take this route this year. This is where the probability of insectoid warriors being born is the highest, and it needs to be patrolled frequently.
It, a single spider, carrying various primal force foods on its back, with the Sea God Horn and a metal sword hanging on its legs, happily set off.
The Flame Spider Kingdom belongs to the territory that their Flame Spiders have long possessed. At the beginning of each primal force reincarnation, their Flame Spiders will come and occupy this kingdom.
At the end of the primal force reincarnation, they will eradicate all the top plant species and then quietly leave this continent, until the next primal force reincarnation, when the primal force recovers and they return, again and again.
Logically speaking, after experiencing so many primal force reincarnation periods, their Flame Spiders should be very familiar with this land.
After the primal force reincarnation recovers, it is easy to start various tasks and easily restore the kingdom to its heyday.
But in reality, this is not the case. After countless primal force reincarnations, their Flame Spiders discovered that a major earthquake occurs in the Primal Force Star Realm about every 1,000 years, and a super earthquake occurs every 5,000 to 8,000 years, and there are countless other small earthquakes.
These earthquakes will expose various mineral products from the underground of the Star Realm to the surface, creating new resources, which is a way for the Star Realm to heal itself.
But after countless earthquakes, some of the original territories will become unrecognizable.
This is also the reason why Siye designated the Twin Peaks as its territory, but did not receive any gifts from the ancestors of the previous primal force reincarnation period, and needed to open up the territory bit by bit on its own.
The earthquake has erased all traces of the insectoid warriors' lives. No matter how glorious your history was, it will disappear with the passage of time.
When their Flame Spiders return to the ancestral land of the Flame Spider Kingdom, everything starts anew. Even the Kingdom's Abyss Mountain was re-opened by the Spider Kings who returned to the Fang Clan Continent. They also thought that the original underground cave had been abandoned, but fortunately, it survived the changes in history.
Now Siye has a map in its claws, but it is not comprehensive. It only has a rough outline. The specific details still need to be re-surveyed. Fortunately, over the years, some famous landmarks have been re-marked.
As for outside the kingdom, there are only rough patterns. The Flame Spider merchants will mark on the map which tribes currently occupy which places, and then gather them in the kingdom to form a new map.
It is not in a hurry. It walks southwest every day, wandering east and west, emitting mental thoughts and scanning back and forth in the mountains and forests, to see if it can find God-given seeds.
During this period, it also went to some specific places in the kingdom to inspect them.
On this route to the southwest, there are three places that need to be guarded by Flame Spider warriors.
The first place is called Kite Mountain, guarded by a high-level Round Purple Flame Spider. The reason why this place is designated as a guard point is because a Kite Tree God-given seed was born here.
The Kite Tree belongs to the wind-type arbors God-given seed. Due to the insufficient number of Flame Spider warriors in the kingdom in the early stage of the primal force reincarnation, the birth of the God-given seed was not discovered in time, which led to the Kite Tree God-given seed germinating and growing in nature, becoming a wild God-given seed.
When the Flame Spider warriors of the kingdom discovered its existence, it had grown to more than ten meters high, and it was not easy to transplant. They could only send Flame Spider warriors to guard it in shifts.
In addition to the Kite Tree God-given seed, there is also the Large Fruit Iron Knife Wood God-given seed, which was also born in the wild.
It germinated in the wild and became a wild God-given seed.
Siye had even bought the seeds of this God-given Large Fruit Iron Knife Wood before and took them to trade with the insectoid warriors in Silver Plum Continent.
Now Siye has metal-type talent and can also eat it, but the wild God-given seeds grow slowly and are only at the high-level stage now.
The third location does not have any God-given seeds, but this location is unique, like a sharp corner extending on the only way to enter the kingdom. Both sides are continuous high mountains. If insectoid warriors enter the kingdom from the outside, they can easily be discovered by the insectoid warriors guarding here.
As for why insectoid warriors can be discovered quietly entering the kingdom, in addition to the unique terrain, many places have also been set up with countless spider webs by their Flame Spiders. Not many insects are so stubborn as to dare to break into the Flame Spider Kingdom.
Although this method is a temporary solution and cannot stop all insectoid warriors, they must express their attitude, otherwise, if all insects enter the Flame Spider Kingdom at will, wouldn't their kingdom become a sieve?
Siye set off from the initial territory, along the border of the kingdom, first heading southwest, then northwest for inspection. It walked and watched along the way, even if it didn't find any God-given seeds or newly born insectoid warriors, it didn't matter.
Anyway, it can almost return to the kingdom by October.
Along the way, it also replaced the old spider silk flags stuck on some peaks, replacing them with new spider silk flags. With spider silk flags here, Zerg warriors might come to check and leave some traces.
Even if Zerg warriors who don't know that this thing represents the Flame Spider Merchant break in, at least they will know that this place is owned.
To be fair, the mountain road is really much harder to walk than the sea road. With Yunshi, it can travel nearly a hundred kilometers a day on the sea road.
Mountain road, no, it should be said that there is no road in these mountains at all. Even if it is a Flame Spider, walking is very difficult.
In addition, it has to search for God-given seeds or Zerg warriors along the way and plant flags. It can't even travel a hundred kilometers in a month.
Walking in the mountains and forests, various bird calls and insect chirps rise and fall, and the trees and flowers are colorful. The scenery is quite good. However, Siyue grew up in the mountains and forests since childhood, and this kind of scenery is just the most ordinary color in its life.
What it is thinking about now is how many kilometers it should walk every day? Where can it go in October? Is there any possibility and probability of finding a God-given seed?
When it feels bored walking every day, it thinks about these things, and its mental will also spread out, emptying itself.
Just when Siyue was thinking wildly and its mental power was scanning around randomly, it suddenly sensed a faint wave of primal energy within the range of its mental power.
"Huh?"
Sensing this trace of primal energy fluctuation, Siyue's spirit was shaken. The heavens are kind to those who have a heart. It has been out for so long, and it has finally found something.
After being promoted to the mountain master level, its mental power has expanded to a range of thousands of meters. It quickly ran in the direction where the primal energy fluctuation appeared. When it encountered some vines and trees that were in the way, it just jumped lightly and avoided all obstacles.
Soon, it locked onto the location where the primal energy fluctuation was emanating and came to it.
"Is it a God-given seed?"
In front of Siyue, a purple grass only ten centimeters high was growing on the ground, still emitting a faint primal energy fluctuation.
Siyue searched its inherited memories for records about this grass: "Ixeris dentata?"
Ordinary Ixeris dentata is generally green, and this purple Ixeris dentata is obviously a mutant species.
Ixeris dentata is a herbaceous plant similar to morning glory, or rather, it is not even as good as morning glory. It should be similar to snakeberry, even if it is a God-given seed, it does not have very high value.
But this is a God-given seed after all, which is better than ordinary life seeds. It is a pity that it has already taken root and become a wild God-given seed. Otherwise, Siyue could have one more God-given seed as a life seed.
"This should be a God-given seed that matured last winter. It wasn't eaten by animals for a whole winter, and it sprouted in the spring."
Standing in place, Siyue thought for a while and decided to migrate this God-given seed back to the kingdom.
Although Ixeris dentata has become a wild God-given seed, its seedlings are not large. With Siyue's current ability, migrating such a wild God-given seed is not very difficult.
Moreover, with such a God-given seed, it can be considered a harvest, and it can return to the kingdom early and inspect the territory again next year.
Siyue retreated a distance, using primal energy in its feet to cast the Swamp Submergence ability, transforming a piece of land into a swamp. Then it used the Earth and Stone Solidification ability to make a stone basin with a diameter of 0.8 meters and a height of 0.5 meters from the mud in the swamp.
After making the stone basin, it looked at the surrounding environment, thought about it, cleaned up all the weeds around it, and then used the Earth and Stone Solidification ability to solidify the land one meter outside the Ixeris dentata God-given seed, directly lifting the entire Ixeris dentata God-given seed together with the surrounding soil. This can avoid damage to the God-given seed.
After digging out the Ixeris dentata God-given seed with soil, Siyue put it into the stone basin, fearing that its growth would be affected by the change of environment. Siyue used Water elemental primal energy to extract some water from the nearby small pond and cast the Life Irrigation ability on the Ixeris dentata.
"Zhikong," just as Siyue watered the Ixeris dentata God-given seed and was preparing to carry the entire stone basin back to the kingdom, this God-given seed actually moved on its own.
"Huh?"
Siyue noticed something was wrong, and its mental will went deep into the soil again, and then it sensed that a fat Zerg warrior of twenty to thirty centimeters was hiding under the Ixeris dentata.
No, this Zerg warrior seems to be one with the Ixeris dentata God-given seed?
The expression on Siyue's face revealed surprise for the first time. It grew up in the Flame Spider Kingdom and has seen a lot, but this is the first time it has seen such a situation.
In the stone basin, the bug secretly poked its head out from under the soil. The roots of the Ixeris dentata were rooted on its head, swaying gently as its head swayed from side to side.
"Is it raining? Why do I feel that the life primal energy in this rain is so heavy? So sweet?" It was sleeping in the soil, growing by photosynthesis and absorbing the nutrients in the soil. Suddenly, it felt a heavy life primal energy in the rain awakening it, and it cautiously poked its head out to see what was going on.
"How can there be bugs and plants growing together?" Seeing the Zerg warrior poking its head on the stone basin, Siyue was still a little dazed.
Siyue released its mental will: "Little guy, which tribe are you from?"
"Ah!"
The little Zerg warrior in the stone basin suddenly felt a huge mental will and saw the huge spider in front of it. It was immediately frightened and hid in the soil.
Seeing it hiding in fear, Siyue said gently: "Hello, I am a Flame Spider Merchant. I have no malice.
You can search your inherited memories for information about Flame Spider Merchants."
After the initial surprise, Siyue also reacted. It immediately searched its inherited memories to find Zerg related to this type.
The inherited memories of Zerg warriors are very large, but they are all buried in the deepest part of their minds, just like the extraterrestrial civilization creation computer in their kingdom. Only when you open the search can you find what you want.
Otherwise, with so many memories floating in your mind all day long, you would go crazy. This is also why Siyue felt a little peculiar when it saw the other party.
It searched its inherited memories and found that this type of Zerg warrior is called Cordyceps. It only breeds one life seed in its lifetime, which is a bit like the Five-Part Flame Spider.
However, unlike the Five-Part Flame Spider, the Five-Part Flame Spider only breeds one life seed in its life sac, which it spits out to absorb nutrients when needed.
And this kind of Cordyceps, it turns into a bug in winter and grass in summer. It can grow by eating meat and primal energy food, and it can also grow by absorbing photosynthesis and nutrients under the soil.
Moreover, because it turns into grass in spring, summer, and autumn, and only turns back into a bug in winter, it also has four times the lifespan of Zerg warriors of the same realm.
Legend has it that there was once a bug king level Cordyceps that, under the promotion of various factors, survived in the Primal Energy Star Realm for more than five thousand years, making it one of the few long-lived races in the Star Realm.
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