Natural God's Gift

The late autumn Hundred Fruit Forest was slightly bleak. At this time of year, most fruit trees had completed their mission.

The fruits had been picked clean, leaving only a few unharvested remnants hanging on the branches or scattered on the ground.

The leaves began to change from green to yellow, then from yellow to red, eventually falling gently with the wind, covering the entire forest floor with a thick carpet of fallen leaves.

These fallen leaves shimmered with golden light under the sunlight, complementing the remaining fruits among the branches. Small flame spiders scurried through the forest, creating a warm and lonely scene.

The leaves of apple and pear trees had become sparse, revealing the outlines of their branches, while the tenacious fruits still clung to the branches, though lacking the plumpness and luster of summer, they appeared more resilient and weathered.

The fruits on the persimmon trees had turned a deep orange, like small lanterns, adorning the gradually withering leaves, emitting a sweet fragrance.

The leaves of peach, plum, and apricot trees had mostly fallen, leaving only bare branches, silently awaiting the arrival of winter, preparing to hibernate and accumulate strength to welcome the revival of the next spring.

Flame spider warriors moved back and forth in the fruit forest, searching for any God-given seeds in the forest. Although the probability was very small, what if they found one?

The Hundred Fruit Forest was considered the territory of Lord Hu Zhang, even if they found a God-given seed, it would belong to him, but Lord Hu Zhang would reward them, so they were quite active. After finishing their classes every morning, they would search the forest once.

Si Ye wandered through the forest with the other young warriors, after evolving to the fifth instar, it gestated the date palm God-given seed into its life sac.

After taking out the rapeseed God-given seed from its life sac, it did not immediately sow it. Rapeseed was not a plant of this season. Although God-given seeds were relatively strong in vitality and could ignore the season, Lord Hu Zhang said that sowing it when the weather was colder would result in better growth next year.

It also wanted Lord Zi Yun to get some fertile soil, so that its rapeseed would grow better in the future, so it followed Lord Hu Zhang's suggestion and did not sow it for the time being.

Bai Zhi had noticed that recently, apart from attending classes, she hadn't seen much of Si Ye: "Si Ye, what have you been doing recently? I haven't seen your spider shadow."

Si Ye: "I'm digging a small pond with Danggui!"

"Got it," Danggui chirped from the tree above them.

Bai Zhi was suspicious: "What are you digging a small pond for?"

Si Ye was surprised: "Aren't you digging a small pond? Aren't you going to plant your duckweed God-given seed?"

Bai Zhi: "Ahem, I'm digging, I'm digging too, but I'm digging in my own territory."

"I'm digging in my own territory too, I've been busy lately," Si Ye muttered.

"When will Lord Zi Yun be back?" Bai Zhi still couldn't forget the rapeseed God-given seed. It had evolved to the sixth instar, and it wouldn't be long before it could evolve to the seventh instar. It really wanted to gestate the rapeseed God-given seed into a life seed in the seventh instar.

"It should be back before winter!" It was around this time last year that they came back. This year, they said they were going to open up new trade routes, but they shouldn't go too far, right?

Si Ye: "Did Lord Qing Feng say how the rapeseed God-given seed will be distributed?"

Bai Zhi was full of joy: "He said that after Lord Zi Yun and the others come back, they will discuss it. If Lord Zi Yun and the others agree at that time, they will give me the rapeseed God-given seed to gestate into a life seed."

Spiders who are capable of being promoted to the mountain lord level are all qualified to apply for a God-given seed from the kingdom. Instead of letting Bai Zhi apply for another God-given seed in the future, it is better to directly allocate the rapeseed God-given seed to it, so that it can spend less raw stones.

Si Ye waved its chelicerae happily: "That's great, Bai Zhi, in this way, you will soon be able to have a God-given seed as your life seed."

"It still depends on whether Lord Zi Yun agrees." Although it said so, Bai Zhi had great expectations for this.

Bai Zhi fantasized: "It would be great if we could find another God-given seed."

"Stop dreaming," Si Ye directly interrupted its delusion: "The Hundred Fruit Forest is Lord Hu Zhang's territory, any God-given seeds will belong to him."

"Hehe," Bai Zhi grinned foolishly: "I also want to become a big spider like Lord Hu Zhang, so that I can have my own mountain as my territory and cultivate God-given seeds myself."

"Bless you." No matter which insect, they all have the desire to manage territory and obtain God-given seeds, otherwise, what are so many insects doing managing territory?

The young warriors wandered in the forest without a clear goal. As they walked, they came to the territory of Xuan Yu next door.

Bai Zhi: "It seems like I haven't seen Xuan Yu recently. Has the Life God Stone been given to it?"

"Lord Qing Feng gave it to it last time."

Bai Zhi took the lead and rushed forward: "Let's go, let's see how its God-given seed is growing."

"Wait for me," Si Ye struggled to catch up, while Danggui slowly flew down and landed on Bai Zhi's back.

Xuan Yu's territory was near the Hundred Fruit Forest. During its time as a high-level warrior, it only had a small territory area. When it is promoted to the mountain lord level in the future, Lord Qing Feng will allocate all the surrounding mountains and forests to it.

The two young warriors hopped and skipped to Xuan Yu's strawberry garden. Walking into the strawberry garden, the first thing that caught their eyes were the green leaves, densely arranged on the ridges, forming neat rows, stretching as far as the eye could see.

They turned their small bodies and looked around: "It seems like I don't see a spider."

Bai Zhi twisted a strawberry plant on the ground and looked at it: "The strawberries are not ripe yet either."

Si Ye had already guessed its purpose: "It's not that early to ripen, you have to wait at least half a month."

Bai Zhi's eight eyes sparkled: "Let's check for Xuan Yu to see if there are any newly born God-given seeds in the strawberry garden?"

Si Ye refused: "Didn't you say you were going to see how the God-given seed is growing? Let's go directly to see Xuan Yu."

"Okay," Bai Zhi regretfully picked a greenish strawberry and chewed it in its mouth.

Danggui, hanging on its back, said in disbelief: "This strawberry is still green, isn't it sour to eat?"

Bai Zhi: "It's okay!"

Si Ye raised its head slightly, proudly saying: "There is nothing that Bai Zhi can't eat."

Danggui: "Uh——"

What's so proud of about this?

"Follow me," Bai Zhi led Si Ye across the strawberry garden to the location of Xuan Yu's life seed.

Xuan Yu's life seed was planted next to the strawberry garden, or rather, the strawberry garden was what it relied on its life seed to expand to the surrounding area.

"Why are you here?" Xuan Yu was taking care of its life seed. It had been promoted to another instar this year, reaching the ninth instar high-level warrior. It would soon be able to break through to the mountain lord level. It wanted to replenish some origin power and nutrition to its life seed so that when it transformed to the mountain lord level, the life seed could evolve safely. Seeing the arrival of the two little spiders with the cicada race warrior, Xuan Yu was also a little puzzled.

"All my life seeds have rested from flowering and fruiting this year, so I don't have any origin power food for you, but Bai Zhi, you're not picky, I can let you go to the strawberry garden to eat strawberries."

The young warriors:

"....."

Si Ye: "Xuan Yu, we're not here to ask you for origin power food, we want to see how your strawberry God-given seed is growing."

"Want to see my strawberry God-given seed?" Xuan Yu said gently: "I remember, you brought back the Life God Stone, right?"

"Yes." Si Ye rubbed its small claws expectantly: "Is the strawberry God-given seed growing well now?"

"It's pretty good. The Life God Stone has helped me a lot. I'll take you to see it."

Due to the stubborn nature of God-given seeds, Xuan Yu planted it separately in an area, and all kinds of weeds and animals around it were cleaned up.

Xuan Yu carried the three young warriors to the location of the Xuan Yu strawberry God-given seed.

Strawberries are origin power plants that grow by dividing株, Xuan Yu's Xuan Yu strawberry God-given seed has divided into a total of three hundred and fifty strawberry株.

The leaves of each株 are very large, with one leaf reaching half a meter in size. Each株 occupies an area of four or five square meters. One of its God-given seeds is equivalent to a small strawberry garden.

At the top of these株, there are also God-given strawberries that are as bright as rubies and crystal clear. Each strawberry has a standard inverted cone shape and reaches four or five centimeters in size, making the spider's claws move.

The young warriors were quite surprised: "Xuan Yu, are your God-given strawberries ripe?"

It's not the season for strawberries to ripen now, and besides, how can God-given fruits ripen so quickly?

Most God-given fruits need to go through spring, summer, autumn and winter, a year of accumulation, and some even need to go through two or three years of origin power accumulation to ripen, but how long has it been?

Xuan Yu: "I used a lot of fertile soil for it. Under the abundant nutrition and the powerful life origin power supply of the Life God Stone, the ripening speed of the God-given strawberries seems to have accelerated a lot."

This is not just a lot faster? This is doubling the ripening speed, right?

"Do Lord Qing Feng and the others know?"

"I reported it to it a long time ago." The reason why it still has to gestate God-given strawberries now is to test the Life God Stone. How could it not report the experimental results?

Si Ye: "Then Xuan Yu, can you break through to the mountain lord level?"

Xuan Yu: "Almost, I'm basically ready."

"It seems that we will soon have to respectfully call you Lord Xuan Yu." Elementary warriors, intermediate warriors, and high-level warriors are not essentially much different, and all belong to the category of small warriors. Only when they are promoted to the mountain lord level are they the backbone of the kingdom.

"Let's talk about it after being promoted to the mountain lord level!"

Seeing the arrival of other young warriors, the God-given Xuan Yu strawberry released its mental thoughts impatiently: "Xuan Yu, what are you doing bringing these little bugs here? Let them stay away from me, don't affect my sunbathing."

"Okay, I'll take them away." The God-given seed has also been seen, Xuan Yu is afraid that it will be furious, and quickly took the young warriors away.

"I'm going to break through to the mountain lord level in a few days. Come and play again after I reach the mountain lord level."

"Okay," Si Ye and the others also felt the somewhat resistant mental thoughts of the God-given seed, and did not dare to stay here any longer.