Natural God's Gift

They crawled out of the bionic warrior suits and, guided by the earlier 3D map, moved swiftly through the tunnels, completely unaffected by the Origin Power vacuum.

“Lord Ginkgo, this mechanical battle suit is really useful.” Feeling the suit贴(tiē - to stick close to) close to his body, weighing less than a kilogram and evenly distributed, it was practically like wearing nothing at all.

Lord Ginkgo took the lead: “Mechanical battle suits are indeed very useful. Not only can they move freely in an Origin Power vacuum, but they also have a flight mode, making going up mountains and down seas no problem.”

“The only inconvenience is that its carrying capacity is too poor. If we find large pieces of extraterrestrial civilization creations, we can't take them away. It's also inconvenient to preserve any God-given species we find. Otherwise, directly controlling the mechanical battle suit would be more convenient.”

“Oh.” Siyè wanted to ask about this earlier, but now it seems there's no need to.

They climbed along the tunnels, which branched out in all directions, intricate and complex. For other insects, this might be somewhat unfamiliar, but for them, the Flame Spiders, it was simply their favorite nest chamber pattern.

“These tunnels should have been reinforced by an earth-type insect king, right? They look pretty good. When I get back, I'll also have to tunnel through the mountains of Twin Peaks and build a few more branch nests.”

Previously, its and Angelica's nest chamber was a small cave. Now that it's been promoted to Mountain Lord, that original nest chamber seems a bit small, not enough for them to live in. Building a few branch nests would also be good for storing some things.

Lord Ginkgo ignored Siyè's mutterings and went straight to the cave it had scouted earlier, scanning back and forth with its mental power.

It sensed that dozens of surrounding caves were filled with neatly stacked remnants of God-given species. Siyè stood behind Lord Ginkgo, somewhat surprised: “Lord Ginkgo, how can there be so many remnants of God-given species?”

Lord Ginkgo, with its vast knowledge and experience, said: “There's nothing strange about this. It must be the remnants of God-given species left behind by the insect kings who left during the final stages of the Origin Power cycle.”

After reaching the king level, the God-given species can condense into a tree heart or seed. Generally, when migrating territories, they will condense into a tree heart, which not only protects their soul consciousness but also contains a large amount of nutrition.

Even if transplanted elsewhere, it can quickly grow.

Condensing into a seed can also ensure the existence of soul consciousness, but transplanting it to another place would rely entirely on absorbing nutrients from the soil to grow again, which would be much slower.

Generally, king-level God-given species will abandon their tree body and nutrients, accumulated over thousands of years, when leaving the Origin Power Star, reforming into a seed for the insect king to swallow into its life pouch and take away from the Origin Power Star.

There's no other way. Generally, only ninth-stage insect kings can leave the Origin Power Star. From beginner to king level, they plant 54 life seeds.

If they were all condensed into tree hearts, even if each tree heart was only ten centimeters in diameter, stacking them up would be a huge pile.

It's impossible to stuff so many tree hearts into their stomachs, right? Sticking one or two is fine, but stuffing 54 tree hearts would burst their stomachs!

In contrast, when the life seed is re-condensed into a seed, the life pouch of a huge king-level insect warrior will also increase in size along with its body. As long as the seeds are not too large, like coconuts or ironwood, they can swallow the seeds back into their life pouches. Wild God-given species can also be wrapped in silk pouches and hidden in their mouths.

These many remnants of God-given species must be because the departing insect kings left behind the remnants of their life seeds here.

A king-level God-given species, especially large tree species, can reach over ten meters in diameter,

and three or four hundred meters in height. A cave like this, with a diameter of four or five meters and a depth of one or two hundred meters, can be filled with the remnants of just one God-given species. No wonder Siyè feels there are so many.

Looking at the mountain of remnants of God-given species, Siyè couldn't help but feel a bit troubled: “Lord Ginkgo, what are we going to do with so many remnants of God-given species piled up here?”

The remnants of God-given species are also quite useful. Using them on God-given species can greatly accelerate their growth rate, which is much better than fertile soil and life irrigation. However, it's clear that the focus is not on these remnants now.

Lord Ginkgo: “Carefully sense which cave has Origin Power fluctuations? If there are Origin Power fluctuations, there may be a God-given species tree heart.”

Generally speaking, if there is a God-given species tree heart placed in a cave, Origin Stones will definitely be placed in the cave to convert Origin Power and maintain the vitality of the God-given species. As long as we search for the Origin Stones, we will know the location of the God-given species tree heart.

“Oh, I'll go that way.” Siyè ran to the other side, scanning the caves with its mental power, starting to search one by one.

Since they've come here, it's naturally not difficult to search all the caves. The only thing to consider is whether the former Tianniu Kingdom left any God-given species here? How many did they leave? If they didn't leave any, they might have wasted their efforts.

Fortunately, heaven never disappoints the diligent. Lord Ginkgo quickly sensed that one of the caves had Origin Stones placed in it.

“It's here.” It called Siyè over.

“Coming,” Siyè quickly ran over and, scanning with its mental power, also sensed the existence of Origin Stones accumulated deep in the cave.

Lord Ginkgo and Siyè quickly dug through the God-given remnants and climbed towards the depths of the cave.

“Where should we put these God-given remnants?” The cave is filled with God-given remnants. If we dig them all behind us, we'll block our retreat, and we'll have to dig them again later.

“Find an empty cave to store them, and wait until we have time to come back and take them away.”

“Oh.” These God-given remnants have all been split into pieces of 2 meters * 0.5 meters in diameter, neatly stored in the cave. It's easy to take them, but they need to slightly curl up their bodies to walk in this cave.

They quickly moved all the God-given remnants out of the cave and came to the end of the cave.

At the end of the cave was a spacious space about a hundred meters in size. The ground in this space was paved with Origin Stones, and in the center of the ground was a God-given species tree heart that looked like an ostrich egg, about 15 centimeters in diameter, and was generally fiery red.

“Found it,” the two spiders cheered up.

Lord Ginkgo stepped forward and held up the God-given species tree heart, scanning the ground with its mental power. It was once again excited. This God-given species tree heart had a really rich reserve of Origin Stones, a full 100 million Origin Stones.

If they hadn't come, it might have survived the Origin Power dormancy period.

“Is this the God-given species tree heart?” Siyè stepped forward and curiously looked at it. It had seen tree hearts in the kingdom's books, but this was the first time it had seen one in reality.

“I can smell mango on it. Is this a mango God-given species?”

“Yes.”

Siyè: “I don't understand. They are clearly already in the Origin Power dormancy period. Why don't they leave the Origin Power Star?

Instead, they stubbornly stay here? Aren't they afraid of dying here?”

Lord Ginkgo: “That's because they are gambling, gambling that the Origin Power dormancy period will disappear quickly, and that the time it takes for the Origin Power Star to recover Origin Power won't be too long.”

Siyè: “What's the point of gambling on this?”

Lord Ginkgo: “This is easy to explain. For example, if the insect warriors and God-given species of other races have all left the Origin Power Star,

if Origin Power recovers one day, then the newly awakened insect warriors of the Tianniu Kingdom will be able to quickly dig out the God-given species tree heart and plant it, then quickly grow, and the God-given species will teach them all kinds of knowledge that is not in the inherited memories, allowing them to continue the former inheritance.

As the saying goes, one step ahead, every step ahead. With the help of God-given species with sufficient knowledge, they can quickly become top kingdoms.”

"There's another reason: no one knows what the situation is like outside. What if there's constant warfare? The kingdom needs to keep a way out, so maybe we can retreat back here?"

"Even if we can't return, the Zerg warriors we cultivate in the future can go out and support the senior Zerg."

Si Ye was silent. It knew that even though the Flame Spider Kingdom had experienced so many cycles of Origin Power, it had never seen any Zerg warriors return to the Origin Power Star System.

"Origin Power is recovering?" The Mango God-Given Seed Tree Heart, originally in a deep slumber to conserve Origin Power, was awakened by the mental communication between Ginkgo Lord and Si Ye.

The God-Given Seed Tree Heart swept its mental power around and was suddenly shocked: "Flame Spider Merchant?"

"Yes," Ginkgo Lord wasn't surprised by the God-Given Seed Tree Heart's awakening. The Origin Power dormancy period had only been two hundred years, and the God-Given Seed Tree Heart's nutrient reserves and Origin Stones were still sufficient for it to awaken easily.

Even if it didn't wake up, Ginkgo Lord would have called it awake.

Ginkgo Lord introduced itself: "I am Ginkgo, a primal Flame Spider of the Flame Spider Kingdom, currently a Ninth Age Lord."

Si Ye also introduced itself: "My name is Si Ye, also a primal Flame Spider of the Flame Spider Kingdom, currently a First Age Mountain Master."

"Origin Power is recovering?"

"How long has it been?"

"Didn't you disappear? Why are you here? Where are the Longhorn Beetle warriors?"

The Mango God-Given Seed Tree Heart anxiously threw out a series of questions.

It remembered the Longhorn Beetles in the kingdom saying that when the Origin Power on the Dragon Bamboo Continent was about to disappear, the Flame Spider Kingdom, the most powerful on the continent, also disappeared without a trace, leaving not even a single ordinary little Flame Spider behind.

Everyone thought they had been punished by the Natural True God and exterminated.

Unexpectedly, seeing them again, they had actually come to the place where it was slumbering.

Ginkgo Lord answered its questions one by one, unhurriedly.

"The Origin Power of the Dragon Bamboo Continent has not yet recovered, so no Longhorn Beetle warriors have awakened."

"From the beginning of the Origin Power dormancy until now, two hundred years have passed."

"We didn't disappear, we just went to other places. We came here to save you, following the guidance of the Natural True God."

"Went to other places?" The Mango God-Given Seed Tree Heart was secretly shocked. Could it be that the Flame Spider Kingdom had escaped the fate of Origin Power dormancy and the extinction of its clan?

"Where did you go?"

Si Ye interjected: "The neighboring Myriad Races Continent."

The Mango God-Given Seed Tree Heart was somewhat stunned: "The neighboring continent? Isn't it separated by a Divine Power Barrier? And does the neighboring continent have Origin Power?"

It knew that Flame Spider Merchants liked to wander around the world and could travel between the Dragon Bamboo Continent and the Cloud Trace Continent, but it never expected that they could even go to other continents.

Si Ye introduced to it: "Although there are Divine Power Barriers separating the continents, it is not as if there are no loopholes."

"Our kingdom has long since crossed the Divine Power Barrier, avoided the Origin Power dormancy period, and gone to the neighboring continent to multiply and thrive."

"So that's how it is," the Mango God-Given Seed Tree Heart said with some bitterness, "The Zerg warriors of the Dragon Bamboo Continent all thought you were punished by the Natural True God, but unexpectedly, it's the opposite. You are blessed by the Natural True God."

"Then what are you doing here? Is your ability to walk in the Origin Power vacuum related to something on your body?" Seeing these two pitch-black spiders, still able to walk freely in the Origin Power vacuum, it knew there was something fishy about it.

As for saying they came to save it?

As an old tree that had lived for tens of thousands of years, and a God-Given Seed left as a last resort, it wasn't stupid.

It knew that Flame Spider Merchants were extremely cunning. Some words could be listened to, but it wouldn't believe even a punctuation mark of other words.

"What we have on our bodies are mechanical battle suits, which allow us to walk in the Origin Power vacuum."

"We really are here to save you," Si Ye said seriously, "The Origin Power dormancy period is eighteen thousand years. Only two hundred years have passed. If you stay here, you will have to endure another seventeen thousand eight hundred years.

These Origin Stones are not enough for you to last that long."

"How do you know that an Origin Power dormancy period is eighteen thousand years?" The Mango God-Given Seed Tree Heart suspected that this Mountain Master-level little spider was spouting nonsense to deceive it.

However, it quickly realized and said in disbelief: "Could it be that this isn't the first Origin Power cycle dormancy period your kingdom has experienced?"

Ginkgo Lord patted Si Ye's forelegs, signaling it to step back.

"Thanks to the blessing of the Natural True God, our kingdom has indeed experienced many Origin Power cycles. This time we came to save you as well, after all, eighteen thousand years is too difficult to endure."

"Compared to here, our Flame Spider Kingdom has enough territory on the Myriad Races Continent to provide you with growth, and enough knowledge to provide you with development."

"This——" The Mango God-Given Seed Tree Heart hesitated: "If I go to your kingdom, can I still come back for the next Origin Power recovery?"

Ginkgo Lord smiled: "Yes, as long as you are willing and do not reveal the secrets of our kingdom, we will not stop you."

In fact, it wasn't worried about this at all.

To put it bluntly, a wild God-Given Seed has no tribe, no descendants, and no soul connection with the Longhorn Beetle warriors.

Its only emotional connection with the Longhorn Beetle Kingdom was living here for thousands of years.

But if it moved to the Flame Spider Kingdom and lived with the Flame Spiders for eighteen thousand years, it was hard to say which it would feel more attached to.

Moreover, compared to the Flame Spider Kingdom, which could safely survive countless Origin Power cycles, and the numerous Flame Spider warriors,

with all sorts of complete inheritances.

The Longhorn Beetle Kingdom, a small kingdom where the number of warriors was less than three thousand even during an Origin Power cycle, could simply be described as trash.

Whether it was in terms of companionship time or strength, their Flame Spider Kingdom could crush the Longhorn Beetle Kingdom.

To abandon the safe and prosperous Flame Spider Kingdom, return to this small kingdom, and then experience another Origin Power dormancy period after eighteen thousand years? How crazy would one have to be to make such a choice?

No matter what kind of creature it was, it was profit-driven. Emotion was only a temporary choice, while benefit was an eternal stance.

The Mango God-Given Seed Tree Heart became suspicious when it heard Ginkgo Lord's quick answer, but the Flame Spider Merchants seemed to have a decent reputation in the kingdom's history.

However, it was still a little uneasy: "Are you really a Flame Spider tribe that left the Dragon Bamboo Continent? Do you know Lye Ash?"

Ginkgo Lord chuckled: "Are you talking about the Lye Ash Spider King of the White-Legged Flame Spider tribe? Of course I know. Mango God-Given Seed, have you forgotten? Lye Ash Spider King even brought me to visit you before!"

"Visited me?" The Mango God-Given Seed Tree Heart thought carefully, and then its mental power vibrated violently:

"Is it you? That little spider?"

It remembered that at the end of the Origin Power cycle, Lye Ash did bring a primary Flame Spider warrior to their kingdom.

But at that time, everyone was trying to solve the problem of Origin Power dormancy, who would have the mind to pay attention to a primary little warrior?

At that time, everyone felt that this little warrior was very pitiful, born at the end of the Origin Power cycle, probably wouldn't live for a few years.

Who would remember a one-time encounter? They forgot about it as soon as they turned their heads.

Who would have thought that the little spider they thought was pitiful back then had now become a Ninth Age Lord and was about to be promoted to Spider King!