Natural God's Gift

Regarding the Blood Vine Lord's complaints, Mountain Lord Ziyun and Mountain Lord Torch politely kept silent and did not respond.

If the Blood Vine Lord wasn't a valued customer, Mountain Lord Torch might have already started cursing. What was he thinking all day? Trying to exchange a weed-level God-Given Seed for the cultivation rights of the most top-tier plant species in the Primal Force Starfield?

These top-tier plant species were accumulated and cultivated by their Flame Spider Kingdom over countless years. Don't even think about exchanging them for a Venus flytrap God-Given Seed that no insect wants. Even if you brought out a soul-type divine-grade God-Given Seed, it would be impossible to give you the cultivation rights, unless you offered the legendary Fruit of Law, which would be closer to acceptable.

Seeing the Blood Vine Lord's attitude, it was clear that he wouldn't choose to exchange the God-Given Seed for ordinary seeds. Mountain Lord Ziyun hadn't had much hope to begin with, so he didn't dwell on this option.

"Blood Vine Lord, we have a second option. We can use the annual Primal Stone production of a King-level God-Given Seed as the standard, and over a period of five hundred years, send you fixed amounts of Primal Stones or Primal Force food in batches each year."

Blood Vine Lord: "Explain in detail."

Mountain Lord Ziyun: "Usually, the output of a God-Given Seed is about twenty times that of a life seed of the same plant species. We can first calculate how much a King-level ordinary Venus flytrap life seed produces in a year.

Then, multiply that base by twenty to get the value of Primal Force food that a Venus flytrap God-Given Seed can produce in a year. We will then use a five-hundred-year period to calculate the price to buy out this God-Given Seed."

"Calculate the price based on a five-hundred-year period?" The Blood Vine Lord hesitated. Mountain Lord-level beings can live for over two hundred years, Lord-level beings can live for four to five hundred years, and Insect King-level beings can live for around a thousand years. It was currently only a first-stage Lord, and reaching the Insect King level seemed impossibly distant.

Whether it could even gather enough resources to evolve was a question. If it could trade away this God-Given Seed, not only itself, but the entire tribe might be able to develop rapidly.

"Mountain Lord Ziyun, can you calculate how many Primal Stones that would be?"

Mountain Lord Ziyun searched through its inherited memories and calculated the approximate output: "The ability of the Venus flytrap fruit is not strong. A King-level Venus flytrap life seed produces about 4,000 Primal Stones per year. The Primal Force fruit of a God-Given Venus flytrap should produce 80,000 Primal Stones per year. Calculated over five hundred years, we would pay you a total of 40 million Primal Stones."

"Forty million Primal Stones?" Hearing this number, Mountain Lord Hanxiu felt a little dizzy. How much did their tribe earn in a year? Piecing everything together, it was less than 600,000 Primal Stones. Forty million Primal Stones was equivalent to nearly seventy years of their entire tribe's income.

The Blood Vine Lord was also shaken by this number, but it was, after all, a Lord-level being and had seen some of the world. It asked, "If I exchange it for forty million Primal Stones, can you send it all at once?"

Mountain Lord Ziyun shook its antennae: "Blood Vine Lord, you probably don't understand what 40 million Primal Stones worth of Primal Force food means. Even our Flame Spider Kingdom couldn't produce that much Primal Force food in one go.

Moreover, even if we gave you that much Primal Force food, you wouldn't be able to consume it all in a short period of time, and a large portion would likely be wasted in the end.

If you are really willing to mortgage the God-Given Seed to our Flame Spider Kingdom, we can deliver Primal Force food to you regularly every year, based on a timeline of one hundred years, two hundred years, or five hundred years."

The Blood Vine Lord hesitated, torn between wanting to exchange for a new God-Given Seed and wanting to use the God-Given Seed to exchange for a batch of resources to help the tribe's members grow and evolve.

"Mountain Lord Ziyun, what price would it take to exchange for other God-Given Seeds?"

Mountain Lord Ziyun said frankly: "I haven't traded God-Given Seeds before. If I can find an insect race willing to exchange God-Given Seeds, I will charge a commission of one-tenth."

Mountain Lord Hanxiu: "How much is this one-tenth commission?"

"Calculated based on the five-hundred-year output of a King-level God-Given Seed."

"You damn profiteer!" The Blood Vine Lord and Mountain Lord Hanxiu cursed inwardly in unison, but there was no other choice. They also knew that traveling merchants were the cheapest race to hire. If they took the God-Given Seed to other tribes to inquire, let alone Primal Stones, they might not even be able to return.

Mountain Lord Ziyun: "Which option does the Blood Vine Lord think is more suitable?"

Blood Vine Lord: "Mountain Lord Ziyun, can you let me discuss it with the warriors in the tribe?"

Mountain Lord Ziyun: "It doesn't matter. Blood Vine Lord, didn't you discuss the order for fertile soil with me last year?

How much do you need? I can make it here. Just let me know the result before my order is completed."

"Okay, I plan to order twenty cubic meters of fertile soil. Is it still the original price?"

Mountain Lord Ziyun: "The original price."

Now that the transaction was complete, they didn't plan to stay here for long. After all, this was the location of another insect's God-Given life seed. If something happened, they wouldn't be able to explain themselves. Mountain Lord Torch gathered Primal Energy between its claws and gently tapped the stone platform, instantly turning it into a soft clay embryo.

Then, Mountain Lord Hanxiu led the two spiders from the Ziyun merchant caravan to the mountain dedicated to making fertile soil. This mountain was not far from the trading square, and they could go there at any time. The mountain was filled with various materials for making fertile soil, such as animal bones, rotten wood, swamp water, moist soil, bird droppings, and so on. They had clearly prepared in advance and were just waiting for Mountain Lord Ziyun to start working.

Seeing that the materials were complete, the two spiders began to concentrate on making fertile soil on the mountain to save time, while waiting for the Blood Vine Lord's reply.

On the mountain, after Mountain Lord Hanxiu left, Mountain Lord Torch dropped the tool in its claws, ran to Mountain Lord Ziyun, and sent a mental message anxiously: "Ziyun, why did you offer such a high price for that Venus flytrap God-Given Seed? Even if we send it back to the kingdom, the Primal Points it can be exchanged for might not be that high. Forty million Primal Stones? Can we even make a profit?"

Mountain Lord Ziyun saw that Mountain Lord Torch hadn't seen through the profit in this and said helplessly: "The God-Given Seeds in the kingdom are sold at half-price, so the price is naturally cheap. We are buying this for another insect, so the price will naturally be higher."

Torch was very worried: "Then we buy it and send it back to the kingdom? The survival rate of wild seeding of herbaceous plants is not high. They have to be nurtured into life seeds. Can we make a profit?"

"Yes," Mountain Lord Ziyun said slyly, "Don't forget that the output of God-Given life seeds nurtured by ordinary insect races is indeed about twenty times that of ordinary life seeds of the same type, but our Flame Spider Kingdom has special methods to increase the output of life seeds by nearly half.

The output of that God-Given life seed would be 25-30 times that of ordinary life seeds of other insect races.

Moreover, we are the terminal and can get goods at the lowest price. There is absolutely no problem in selling them at a 30% premium."

Torch was speechless. As a member of the Flame Spider Kingdom, even if it was confused, it knew these most basic things. Without calculating the investment, according to Ziyun's algorithm, planting Venus flytraps in the Flame Spider Kingdom could yield 60 million Primal Stones. If they resold it, they could still earn 18 million, making a profit of 38 million.

But the cost is not calculated this way. It takes at least two to three hundred years for a small spider to advance from the initial level to the King level. If the situation is not good, it is possible to spend five to six hundred years.

This is still assuming that it can advance to the Spider King. No one knows how many insects have God-Given Seeds but cannot advance to the King level.

If a spider pays a high price for nurturing a Venus flytrap God-Given Seed but cannot advance to the King level, then the Ziyun caravan and the spider itself will probably be burdened to death.

Moreover, looking at the income, there is no profit at all. Even the income from nurturing top-tier plant species is higher than this. Who would spend a life seed quota to earn Primal Stones for other insects?