Natural God's Gift

The territory of the Original Flame Spiders is currently divided into two major areas: the Ginkgo Forest Sea and the Maple Forest Sea. These two territories are dominated by the ginkgo trees and maple trees that the Ginkgo Lord and Maple Lord have cultivated for many years.

Beneath the Maple Forest Sea lies the Hundred Fruit Forest, dedicated to nurturing young warriors and providing food for the young Flame Spiders, as well as the individual peaks of the various Mountain Lords. For example, if Xuan Yu can successfully advance to become a Mountain Lord, it can independently develop its own peak on the edge of the Maple Forest Sea. If it can advance to become a Lord in the future, it can expand outwards again, planting its favorite plants to form a Forest Sea.

Great spiders like the Ginkgo Lord and Maple Lord will also continue to expand the scale of their Forest Seas. When they advance to become Spider Kings in the future, they will divide the Forest Sea among the potential spiders below them.

Fourleaf is in a similar situation. Because its first life seed and second life seed are both God-given seeds, which require a relatively large area, the Maple Lord directly allocated a piece of land that it originally intended to expand into a Forest Sea to it. Now that the Maple Lord is preparing to choose another place for Fourleaf to plant mangrove trees, it naturally cannot allow the two God-given seeds to be too far apart.

Mangrove trees have specific requirements for their growing environment and need to be planted in locations close to the sea. There are three intertidal zones relatively close to Fourleaf's territory. Mountain Lord Torchwood is leading Ziyun and the others to inspect the locations one by one.

The first intertidal zone is closest to the territory that the Maple Lord has allocated to Fourleaf. Torchwood and Ziyun first arrived at the first intertidal zone to investigate.

Torchwood and the Ziyun trading party walked on the mudflat, carefully observing the surrounding terrain. This mudflat area is quite large, with a long coastline and an open view. The seawater is blue-green, the soil is fertile, and vegetation is lush. There are also entire coconut groves along the shore, making for a very beautiful scene.

Mountain Lord Ziyun observed for a while and concluded: "This place should have been one of the beaches used to raise young Flame Spiders in the past, but after nearly 20,000 years, seawater and silt have flooded and abandoned it."

Mountain Lord Torchwood said: "This place is closest to Fourleaf's territory, the terrain is open, and there are coconut groves to resist typhoons. It's quite suitable for planting the life seed here."

Mountain Lord Ziyun looked at Mountain Lord Torchwood, wanting to hear its opinion.

Mountain Lord Torchwood thought for a while. Although everything here seemed suitable, it still rejected the idea: "Currently, the number of Origin Power warriors in the kingdom is limited, so this place has not been redeveloped yet. When the number of warriors and young Flame Spiders in the kingdom increases in the future, this place can also be developed into a free-range area for young Flame Spiders. For the sake of the kingdom's long-term plan, it's best to leave this place as it is."

"Okay," Hearing Mountain Lord Torchwood say that there were other plans for this place, the group of spiders followed it to the second intertidal zone. The second intertidal zone was full of rocky beaches, and the soil was very barren, so it was directly rejected by all the spiders.

They then ran to the third intertidal zone. The third intertidal zone was shaped like an inverted gourd, with the mouth of the gourd facing the sea. The mouth was only a hundred meters wide, and the sides of the mouth were cliffs tens of meters high. Walking in from the mouth, there were two connected mudflats, one large and one small. The small mudflat was about ten square kilometers, and the large mudflat was nearly twenty square kilometers. The area was overgrown with weeds and scattered with sand and stones. As Mountain Lord-level warriors proficient in earth-based abilities, Ziyun and the others immediately saw the difference here.

Mountain Lord Green Land climbed onto the cliff at the mouth of the gourd and surveyed the environment of the mudflat: "Why does this place feel like it was developed by insects?"

Mountain Lord Ziyun affirmed: "It doesn't just feel like it, this should be an environment created by insects."

"But this place is all sandy, barren soil."

Mountain Lord Ziyun speculated: "This should be a site that the Flame Spider Kingdom developed during the previous Origin Power cycle to plant coastal plants. However, due to more than 10,000 years of tides, without insect maintenance, sand and stones from the sea have constantly flooded this place, causing sand and stones to accumulate here, and the soil has become barren. If I'm not mistaken, the soil beneath these sand and stones should be quite fertile."

Mountain Lord Torchwood used its earth-based abilities, and its eight spider legs continuously dug into the ground. It wasn't until it had dug more than a meter deep that it dug through the sand and stones and saw the soil. It clicked its mandibles and said, "There really is soil under the sand and stones."

"Does that mean this place used to be one of the kingdom's bases for planting coastal trees?"

Several spiders from the Ziyun trading party looked at Mountain Lord Torchwood: "Should we plant the God-given seed of the mangrove tree here?"

Mountain Lord Torchwood asked: "If we plant the life seed here, will this place still need to be modified?"

Mountain Lord Ziyun replied: "A major modification won't be necessary, but a minor modification will still need to be done. However, the biggest trouble with planting here isn't modifying this place, but the fact that this place originally had a terrain that was low on the inside and high on the outside. Now, after tens of thousands of years of wave impact, the entire mudflat has a layer of sand and stones that is more than a meter high. The sand and stone layer is loose and barren. If we want to plant the God-given seed of the mangrove tree here, we have to clear all the sand and stone layer out of the mudflat."

"Clear all the sand and stones from the entire mudflat?" Mountain Lord Torchwood raised its head and looked at the surrounding terrain. The mudflat was at least thirty square kilometers in size, right? This project would be too large.

Mountain Lord Torchwood wondered: "I'm afraid even the Spider King wouldn't be able to complete such a large project in a short amount of time, right?"

"That's right, it definitely won't be possible in a short amount of time. But mangrove trees have developed root systems, and the root systems of ordinary mangrove trees can grow to a range of tens of meters. The God-given mangrove tree will only grow farther. We also need to consider the sea breeze factor and plant a forest on the mudflat in front of the gourd mouth to shelter from the wind and rain."

"However, no insect can complete such a large project in the short term. I suggest that we can focus on the God-given seed and first enclose a small area within the mudflat to improve the soil. In the future, according to the growth scale of the God-given seed, we can appropriately expand the growing area every winter when we return. Torchwood, what do you think?"

Torchwood thought for a moment and said, "Okay."

There are only a few mudflats suitable for planting mangrove forests around the Maple Lord's territory, so it didn't have many choices. Moreover, this place was originally a management point of the Flame Spider Kingdom during the previous Origin Power cycle, so redeveloping it would allow it to be managed again.

Seeing Mountain Lord Torchwood agree, Mountain Lord Ziyun began to plan the scope of the first phase of land that needed to be improved according to the terrain on the mudflat.

It directly used its claws as a pen on the mudflat to draw the approximate shape of the mudflat, and then told the other spiders about its plan.

It first drew a shape resembling a large gourd, and then drew a small, fish-scale-like arc at the bottom of the large gourd to introduce to everyone: "My preliminary plan is to first use earth and stone abilities to divide the mudflat into small areas of about one hundred square meters each. The first small area will be reserved to improve the soil and plant the God-given seed, and the other small areas will be appropriately planted with some ordinary mangrove trees to resist the strong winds from the sea and increase the wind resistance of the God-given seed…"