Natural God's Gift

Lord Qingfeng lay beneath the Qingfeng God-given Seed, silently comprehending its abilities. According to the spider kings of past generations, the Insect King needed to deeply understand its abilities, or combine various abilities to create new ones, in order to condense divine patterns. Only after condensing divine patterns could the Insect King evolve further.

The Insect King had nine age stages, each requiring the condensation of at least one divine pattern. Ordinary insectoids, starting from the Mountain Master level, could awaken abilities. The more attributes they possessed, the greater the possibility and number of abilities they could awaken in each age stage.

For example, an insect like Lord Qingfeng, with only one elemental talent, would most likely only awaken wood-type talents. There was only a very small chance it could awaken strength or life-type talents.

A Mountain Master-level insectoid has nine age stages, and a Lord-level insectoid has nine age stages. If each age stage only awakens one wood-type ability, then they can only awaken a maximum of eighteen abilities. Some insects with abundant resources might comprehend one or two abilities during the advanced warrior stage, but that would not exceed twenty.

The number of these abilities that can synergize with each other is very small. To reach the point of condensing divine patterns after perfecting the synergy is even more difficult.

Conversely, if an insectoid possesses two elemental talents, it can awaken at least one talent ability in each element for each evolutionary stage, and even have the hope of awakening abilities that combine the two elements.

On average, across the two major realms and eighteen age stages, they can awaken at least thirty-six skills.

By analogy, the more talents an insectoid possesses, the more abilities it will awaken, and the greater the probability of condensing divine patterns through synergy. If an insectoid has ten elemental talents, it can awaken at least one hundred and eighty skills in eighteen age stages.

With mutual cooperation, they can easily condense the divine patterns required by the Insect King, but such insects are rare.

Lord Qingfeng, however, only has wood-type talent. From the Mountain Master level to its current first age stage as a Lord, it only has eleven skills. It is an elite insect cultivated by the kingdom, having comprehended one ability during the advanced warrior stage, but it is still far behind other insects with multiple elemental talents.

Therefore, when it has nothing else to do, it dedicates itself to studying its skills in its territory.

Its Qingfeng God-given Seed grows very well, with a trunk reaching nearly a hundred meters in height and a diameter of six to seven meters. As a Lord-level God-given Seed coexisting with Lord Qingfeng, its mental power is no less than Lord Qingfeng's, and even greater due to its nature as a large tree, allowing its mental power to spread over a wider area.

At this moment, the Qingfeng God-given Seed, idly emitting mental power in all directions, suddenly said to Lord Qingfeng, who was intently studying skills, "Qingfeng, it seems like one of your junior spiderlings has come to find you."

Lord Qingfeng raised its head in puzzlement, "Junior spiderling? Huzhang?

Qingfeng God-given Seed: "Not Huzhang, I know that stupid spider. It's a very small spider."

"A very small spider?" Lord Qingfeng stood up and spread its mental power around, just in time to 'see' Siye running desperately towards here on its eight short legs.

Qingfeng God-given Seed: "Take the little spider away."

Due to the instinct of plants, it did not like other living things staying near it.

Lord Qingfeng actively went to meet it, intercepting Siye outside: "What's wrong, Siye?"

"Lord Qingfeng," Siye looked up at the large spider. It didn't waste any words and said directly, "When I went to patrol the island today, I discovered that the date palm God-given Seed is about to mature. I want to replenish it with a wave of Primal Force, but my Primal Stones are not enough."

"The date palm God-given Seed is about to mature? Wait a moment, I'll take you to discuss it with Lord Ginkgo." This matter also gave Lord Qingfeng a headache. It also wanted to generously say it would support Siye with ten thousand or twenty thousand Primal Stones, but from it downwards, it, Mountain Master Huzhang, Mountain Master Baleng, and even Lord Ginkgo, still owed the kingdom Primal Stones.

The kingdom was not their Primal Flame Spider's sole domain. There were many wild King-level God-given Seeds watching, and five Primal Flame Spider merchants audited the accounts at the end of each year. All the accounts were recorded in the office hall's computer, and not a single Primal Stone would be missed.

Siye climbed onto Lord Qingfeng's carapace, and it carried Siye to find Lord Ginkgo.

Still in the office hall, but this time only Lord Ginkgo and Mountain Master Baleng were present. After listening to Siye's story, Lord Ginkgo also had a bit of a headache.

The matter of Primal Stones was not something they could decide. Their allocation of Primal Stones needed to be approved by many wild God-given Seeds, and then reconciled with the other Primal Flame Spider Lords at the end of the year to ensure that bad debts would not form.

Otherwise, if the Primal Flame Spider merchants earned Primal Stones outside, and they emptied their coffers behind them, how could the kingdom remain united?

Fortunately, the Sea Soul Fir God-given Seed had been paying attention to this. It suggested, "Since the little spider already has five God-given Seeds, according to past experience, its resources are already severely overflowing.

Ginkgo, you can apply for a kingdom loan for it."

Lord Ginkgo: "Kingdom loan? Siye is still so young, is it necessary?"

In previous years, the kingdom provided various resources for free to help intermediate and lower-level warriors grow. To apply for a kingdom loan now would mean that Siye would have to pay back a sum of Primal Stones in the future. Is that fair to it?

Sea Soul Fir God-given Seed: "You can also see that the little spider Siye is different from other spiders, and different from you.

What you need to consider is how to pay off the Primal Stones you owe the kingdom, while what it needs to consider in the future is how to ensure that the resources it possesses do not overflow excessively. Pre-allocating a portion of resources is nothing to it."

"Alright," Lord Ginkgo was persuaded. If it wasn't persuaded, there was nothing it could do. They didn't have Primal Stones in their claws, and small warriors didn't have the right to take Primal Stones from the kingdom out of thin air.

"Then Siye will borrow ten thousand Primal Stones. According to kingdom regulations, it will be at an interest rate of ten percent, and it can plan to repay the money after it is promoted to Mountain Master."

Fortunately, the interest rates within the kingdom do not double annually. Otherwise, if they borrowed Primal Stones like other insectoids, they would have to pay 20% interest per year, and it would double if they couldn't pay it back.

Mountain Master Baleng specially opened an account for Siye, and the scarlet number instantly placed its name on the kingdom's list of indebted insectoids.

Siye asked worriedly: "Lord Ginkgo, is it necessary to borrow so many Primal Stones?"

A loan of ten thousand Primal Stones meant an interest of one thousand Primal Stones. So many Primal Stones were heavier than it! It couldn't even drag them.

Lord Ginkgo explained: "The most Primal Stone-consuming stage for a God-given Seed is the fruit ripening period. If the Primal Force absorbed during the fruit ripening period is insufficient, it will result in malnutrition, affecting the future survival rate and growth, or even directly forming a dead embryo.

As a large tree, it is not much for the date palm tree to spend several thousand to tens of thousands of Primal Stones to replenish Primal Force."

"Alright," Lord Ginkgo, as a large spider, had eaten more God-given Primal Force food than it had seen. What it said must be correct.

Fortunately, on the kingdom's list, it was not just itself that owed the kingdom Primal Stones. Most of the spiders behind it showed a deficit.

In fact, in the early days of Primal Force recovery, in essence, all spiders relied on owing the kingdom Primal Stones to grow smoothly, and the Primal Stones owed to the kingdom were usually spread among many wild God-given Seeds in order to make up for the deficit.

It was equal to the wild God-given Seeds subsidizing the kingdom's many spiders. As for these debts, there were generally two methods of repayment. The first was to use the remaining time in their lives to produce Primal Force food to repay the debt after there was no hope of evolution.

The second was to owe it and have their descendants repay it after leaving the Primal Force Star Domain. If no spider within three generations had the ability to repay the debt, then the debt would be cleared upon the spider's death.

In this way, even if there were bad debts, there would not be too many.

Ten thousand Primal Stones packed into a spider silk bag was already full.

Siye looked innocently at the spider silk bag, then looked at Lord Ginkgo and Lord Qingfeng. So many, enough to crush it to death.

Lord Ginkgo: ".

Qingfeng, help it carry the spider silk bag back. Also, go and take a look later. I'm a little worried about the little spider over there."

If it didn't have to guard the abyss, it would have gone to watch over it itself.

"Understood, I will go." It knew these things without Lord Ginkgo saying them.