Natural God's Gift

Watarase Flame Spider Tribe—

These days, the entire tribe has been in a frenzy of activity, because with the arrival of spring, the spiders within the tribe must go out for trade. From the lowliest warriors to the Flame Spider Lords, all are preparing the goods they will trade. Those with primal stones prepare more goods, and those without prepare less.

Logically, the small warriors wouldn't need to go out for trade. After the five Flame Spider Lords leave for trade, the small warriors would be uniformly taught by the Original Flame Spiders, and evolution resources would also be distributed uniformly.

But because the Original Flame Spiders don't have enough claws, they have to take care of hundreds of millions of small Flame Spiders, manage their own territories, and also look after the small warriors. They are simply too busy.

Some spiders feel more at ease with their juniors following them, which also makes it easier to teach them, so they don't become estranged after growing up. Under safe circumstances, they will bring their juniors along for trade.

Purple Cloud Merchant Team. In front of their nest's earthen plaza, several Purple Cloud Mountain Lords are counting various goods. They need to calculate the original total price of the goods on their backs, and also record how much each item should increase in price based on its value, ensuring that their quotations can generate profit.

Purple Cloud Mountain Lord held a spread-out spider silk scroll with both claws, counting according to the price list written in the unique script of the Flame Spider Kingdom: "Two jars of honey, 60 primal stones."

Greenland Mountain Lord was counting goods, and upon hearing Purple Cloud Mountain Lord's voice, immediately responded: "Present."

Then, the canned honey was listed separately.

Purple Cloud Mountain Lord continued to quote: "Fifty bags of vacuum-packed black plums, produced in the territory of Clear Spring Mountain Lord, 500 primal stones."

"Present." Torch Mountain Lord checked the quantity and put all the goods into Spider Silk Bag No. 3.

"Two golden jars, 30 primal stones."

"Present."

"Two artifacts from an extraterrestrial civilization, lighters, 200 primal stones."

"Present…"

The three spiders have been together for many years and cooperate very tacitly, counting the goods in an orderly manner.

At this time, several small spiders ran over from outside to greet them: "Purple Cloud Mountain Lord, Torch Mountain Lord, Greenland Mountain Lord."

Purple Cloud Mountain Lord was slightly surprised: "Fourleaf, Bai Zhi, Ze Xie, what are you doing here?"

Fourleaf stood on top of Ze Xie's head, still wearing a teapot lid: "Everyone has been very busy recently. We small warriors have nothing to do, so we came to see you."

"Oh," Purple Cloud Mountain Lord knew that the five Flame Spider Lords were about to go out for trade, and a large number of small Flame Spiders in the kingdom needed insect care. These things could only be done by the Original Flame Spider warriors. Even Ginkgo Lord and Green Maple Lord had rotated duties with other spiders to take on hunting tasks. These small warriors had no insect to manage them, so they would naturally run around.

Torch Mountain Lord used its claws to push them aside: "Don't run around. Stay here quietly. We are very busy these days and don't have time to play with you."

"Oh," the three small spiders with bad intentions rolled their eyes.

Bai Zhi, wearing the teapot lid, looked left and right, and saw a large pile of goods piled aside. With sharp eyes, she found two golden jars inside. She was overjoyed and pretended to ask casually: "Torch Mountain Lord, I see there are two golden jars in your goods. Can this also be sold for money?"

"Yes," Torch Mountain Lord responded casually while busy: "Some insect races have needs in this regard, so we occasionally bring some of these goods."

"Then how many primal stones can it be sold for?"

"Not many, a few dozen."

"Is that so." Bai Zhi raised the golden teapot in her claw: "Torch Mountain Lord, can our teapot also be sold for primal stones?"

"Why?" Torch Mountain Lord was puzzled: "Who gave you the teapot? Itadori or Hyun-Ok? Aren't you supposed to play with it?"

Bai Zhi cleverly said: "Hyun-Ok gave it to us. Can this be exchanged for primal stones? We want to exchange it for primal force food to eat."

Fourleaf and Ze Xie nodded in agreement: "Yes, yes, we want to eat delicious food."

Torch Mountain Lord looked at Purple Cloud Mountain Lord to see what it would say.

Purple Cloud Mountain Lord: "…"

Originally, Purple Cloud Mountain Lord was too lazy to pay attention to the small warriors, thinking of giving them some snacks to send them away, but after thinking about it, it couldn't dampen the small warriors' enthusiasm for doing business, so it said: "Your teapot can only be exchanged for ten or so primal stones. How about this, I'll take your teapot to sell. If it can be sold, then you'll get however many primal stones it sells for, okay?"

"Okay, okay." The small warriors' eyes lit up. Purple Cloud Mountain Lord's idea was exactly what they wanted.

"Then you put the golden teapot in the pile of goods."

"Okay." Bai Zhi put the teapot into the pile of goods, and Fourleaf also put the teapot lid on it. Then, they ran to the side and quietly watched Purple Cloud Mountain Lord count the goods. Ze Xie said that they would go to a meeting in the few days before departure, and they were waiting for this opportunity.

Sure enough, not long after, a high-level Watarase Flame Spider ran over to deliver a message: "Purple Cloud Mountain Lord, Torch Mountain Lord, Greenland Mountain Lord, Front Wheel Lord wants you to go to a meeting."

"Understood," Purple Cloud Mountain Lord and the others were not surprised about the meeting.

In a tribe, Flame Spider Lords need to control the general trade routes, carefully plan which tribes are on the route, what talents these tribes have, what goods they need, what goods to bring back, and which goods can be resold once or twice along the way, and then purchase goods that can be sold as needed.

Front Wheel Lord was running around in circles. As one of the few Mountain Lord-level Flame Spiders in the Watarase Flame Spider tribe, although the spiders of the Purple Cloud Merchant Team did not travel the same trade route as Front Wheel Lord, they still had to discuss countermeasures together frequently.

Purple Cloud Mountain Lord looked at the almost counted goods, and then looked at the seemingly well-behaved small spiders on the side, and said: "Dragon Bud, we are going to a meeting. You stay here and watch the goods for us."

It wasn't worried that the small warriors would steal. The most valuable God-given primal force food was on its back, and there was nothing else to steal. Moreover, it also believed in the small warriors' insect character. It was afraid that after they left, the small warriors would mess up the place, and they would have to clean up again.

"Understood." The high-level Watarase Flame Spider warrior named Dragon Bud responded steadily. Purple Cloud Mountain Lord had told Front Wheel Lord to let it and Clematis follow Purple Cloud Mountain Lord and the others for trade. From now on, it would be a spider of the Purple Cloud Merchant Team.

Purple Cloud Mountain Lord greeted Torch Mountain Lord and the others: "Let's go, let's not keep Front Wheel Lord waiting."

Looking at Dragon Bud guarding the goods, Fourleaf and Bai Zhi looked at each other. Purple Cloud Mountain Lord left for a meeting as they had expected, but they didn't expect that it would leave a spider to guard here. How were they supposed to do this? Could they hide in the teapot in front of the spider? Wouldn't Purple Cloud Mountain Lord hang them up and beat them to death?

"Dragon Bud? I've heard Purple Cloud Mountain Lord mention you. Are you going to trade with the Purple Cloud Merchant Team this year?" The three small spiders surrounded Dragon Bud, curiously sizing it up. As a high-level warrior, it was nearly two meters long when fully extended, and it was a proper big spider in front of the small warriors.

"Who are you?" Dragon Bud was puzzled. What were these little ruffian-like spiders doing? And they seemed to be very familiar with Purple Cloud Mountain Lord.

"I'm called Ze Xie."

"I'm called Bai Zhi."

"I'm Fourleaf."

"Oh," Hearing the name Fourleaf, Dragon Bud suddenly understood: "Little Fourleaf, I've heard Torch Mountain Lord mention you. You're the small warrior it brought back from outside."

Fourleaf: "…"

Torch Mountain Lord was really a big mouth, and it clearly came back to the kingdom with Purple Cloud Mountain Lord.