Natural God's Gift

“Ginkgo Lord…” Feeling the surrounding Origin Power disappear, Clover was instantly alarmed. Origin Power was as important to them as oxygen.

They usually stored a portion of Origin Power within their bodies, and they also absorbed natural Origin Power through daily breathing to maintain their bodily functions.

Now that the Origin Power had disappeared, they couldn't rely on their own reserves for very long.

It wasn't just Clover; the semi-Origin Power bee swarm under the Honeycomb Bee Queen was also thrown into a panic, flying around haphazardly and disobeying orders. As semi-Origin Power creatures, they needed Origin Power even more.

The Ginkgo Lord calmly said, “Don't panic.”

It took out a cosmic crystal from a small spider silk pouch and crushed it with a slight effort. An extremely large mass of Origin Power erupted from the Ginkgo Lord's claws, quickly filling the space within the Origin Power barrier.

Seeing this, Clover was slightly stunned. The explosion of Origin Power equivalent to ten thousand Origin Stones filled the 50-meter diameter space. Although it wasn't a huge amount, it made the Origin Power concentration in the space nearly as high as that of the Fang Clan Continent.

The God-Given Bamboo Flower on the tree sensed the increased concentration of Origin Power in the air and instinctively accelerated its absorption rate.

However, this wasn't the end. The Ginkgo Lord successively took out ten more cosmic crystals from its spider silk pouch and crushed them.

The immense Origin Energy was confined within this small space, forming a wave of Origin Power that churned within the space for a few rounds before returning to calm.

“Ginkgo Lord, this is a bit extravagant!” Clover and the Honeycomb Bee Queen were both somewhat taken aback by the Ginkgo Lord's sudden burst of cosmic crystals. That was a hundred thousand Origin Stones, used up all at once?

“It's nothing,” Feeling that the Origin Power concentration in the air had reached more than ten times that of the Myriad Race Continent, the Ginkgo Lord was finally satisfied.

“Compared to the value of a God-Rank God-Given Seed, these expenses are just a drop in the bucket.”

For the sake of the God-Rank Dragon Bamboo God-Given Seed, it would not hesitate to empty the entire Flame Spider Kingdom's Abyss storage of Origin Stones if necessary.

In the rich Origin Power environment, the God-Given Dragon Bamboo Flower also accelerated its rate of absorption.

Clover and the Honeycomb Bee Queen approached to sense it, discovering that its absorption rate was more than five times that of ordinary God-Given Seeds.

“Ginkgo Lord, is this normal?” The Honeycomb Bee Queen felt that something was not quite right. Were all God-Rank God-Givens like this?

Clover muttered, “When the Lucky Clover bloomed, its absorption rate didn't seem to be this high!”

The Ginkgo Lord had never seen what it was like when a God-Rank flower bloomed, but it had the knowledge passed down from its elders: “Don't worry, it's not a bad thing as long as it can absorb Origin Power.”

It instructed, “Honeycomb, follow the bamboo stalk where the God-Given Bamboo Flower was born and pluck off all the other bamboo flowers. If there are any pests like bamboo worms, eliminate them all as well.”

Originally, it didn't care about the other bamboo flowers, but seeing how urgently this flower needed Origin Power, it was afraid that its nutrition would also be depleted. To be safe, it was best to pluck all the bamboo flowers and eliminate the pests along the way.

“Understood.” The Honeycomb Bee Queen directed the worker bees under her command to take action.

“Clover, don't be idle either. Go get some fertilizer to replenish the bamboo forest's nutrition.” Although the Dragon Bamboo had given birth to a God-Given Flower, it was not an Origin Power plant itself and could not absorb Origin Power. Otherwise, the Ginkgo Lord would have brought some fertile soil over.

“Okay.” Clover walked out of the Origin Power barrier. It discovered that the Origin Power concentration outside was still only a quarter of that of the Fang Clan Continent. The Origin Power generated by the Ginkgo Lord's crushing of the cosmic crystals was all confined within the Origin Power barrier.

Clover suddenly understood that this Origin Power barrier, in addition to confining Origin Power, did not affect the entry and exit of insectoid warriors.

No wonder it was called a 'chicken rib'; if it weren't for this special situation, it wouldn't have been needed at all.

Clover ran out of the Dragon Bamboo Forest and searched randomly on the island. It had previously seen many seabirds flying in the coastal area, and where there were seabirds, there was bound to be bird droppings.

Their insectoid warriors had always used various kinds of manure to fertilize plants. Seeing natural fertilizer, they naturally wouldn't waste time searching elsewhere.

It ran to the seaside, drove away all the seabirds flying in the sky, and found a place where bird droppings had accumulated thickly.

After thinking about it, it used its earth and stone solidification ability on the spot to make a five-meter-long and wide four-wheeled cart, and then used a large shovel made of earth and stone solidification to shovel a full cart of bird droppings back to the Dragon Bamboo Forest.

In the following days, it traveled back and forth between the seaside and the Dragon Bamboo Forest, pulling several carts of bird droppings every day to fertilize the bamboo forest, ensuring that the bamboo stalks had sufficient fertility.

Under their careful care, half a month passed in the blink of an eye. The bamboo flower withered, and fruits began to condense on the bamboo branches.

At the moment the fruit took shape, the rate of Origin Power absorption suddenly increased exponentially. The originally rich Origin Power within the Origin Power barrier was continuously and frantically absorbed by the fruit.

Previously, the Origin Power concentration within the barrier was more than ten times the normal level in the Natural Star Realm. As the Dragon Bamboo fruit continuously devoured it, the Origin Power concentration gradually dropped to nine times, eight times… Seeing the Origin Power concentration within the barrier decrease, the Ginkgo Lord decisively crushed two more cosmic crystals, allowing the Origin Power concentration to reach the standard of ten times again, and instructed the Honeycomb Bee Queen to direct the bee swarm to hold the Origin Stones and scrape them against the fruit, so that the fruit could absorb them more quickly.

After two days and two nights of frantic absorption, the fruit on the bamboo stalk swelled to the size of a soybean, and the rate of Origin Power absorption also slowly decreased, becoming similar to the rate of Origin Power absorption of a normal God-Given Seed.

“Ginkgo Lord, is this normal?” Clover and Honeycomb looked at the Ginkgo Lord again. Why was this God-Given Seed so unusual? Did God-Given Seeds need to absorb so much Origin Power during the green fruit stage?

In these two days, this fruit had absorbed at least fifty thousand Origin Stones' worth of Origin Power. If the green fruit stage required so much Origin Power, then no God-Given Seed could mature in the wild.

The Ginkgo Lord pondered, also wondering what the reason was.

In the end, based on its experience and speculation, it came to two possible conclusions: “I feel that there are two possible reasons for this God-Given Seed's situation.

The kingdom once had records of Flame Spider predecessors seeing that the amount of Origin Stones consumed by a Law-Rank God-Rank God-Given Seed during the fruiting period was extremely large.

However, this possibility is very small, because historically, there has already been a Law-Rank fruit called the God-Rank Giant Dragon Bamboo Fruit.

The probability of the same fruit tree producing two kinds of God-Rank fruits is very small, and the possibility of producing two kinds of Law-Rank fruits is almost zero, so this possibility can basically be ignored.”

“There is also a possibility that when this fruit initially gave birth to flowers, the thin Origin Power on the Dragon Bamboo Continent led to congenital deficiencies, so it has been doubling its absorption of Origin Power during this period, and is frantically absorbing Origin Power during the fruiting period to supplement those deficiencies.”

Clover and the others also basically believed that the first situation was unlikely to occur. On the other hand, the second situation seemed more reasonable.

The Ginkgo Lord estimated that the Dragon Bamboo God-Given Seed should mature in September or October. After the Honeycomb Bee Queen finished her busy period during the Dragon Bamboo fruit's flowering period, she was sent back to the kingdom by the Ginkgo Lord. There were many things that needed her to do in the kingdom, so she couldn't stay here for long.

As for Clover, it didn't have anything to do anyway, so it was left here by the Ginkgo Lord, and occasionally it could switch shifts with the Ginkgo Lord.

Of course, staying here, it wasn't like it had nothing to do. When it was idle, the Ginkgo Lord taught it how to control bionic warriors.

Clover originally thought that there were only a few buttons for up, down, forward, backward, left, right, flying, and landing, and thought that it would be easy to control. As a result, it realized that it was not so easy to control the buttons with multiple tasks in mind.

Simply controlling forward and backward was fine, but controlling flight speed, adjusting flight altitude, etc., was very troublesome.

Fortunately, Si Ye had plenty of time. It controlled the bionic warrior to learn how to fly near the island, spending several months to skillfully operate the bionic warrior.

What surprised Si Ye the most was that this bionic warrior not only possessed the flying and crawling abilities of ordinary insects but also had dual radar detection and mental detection functions, even possessing combat and defense skills.

It could be said that, apart from lacking a soul, this bionic warrior was not much different from a real Zerg warrior in other aspects.

They stayed on this island called Dragon Bamboo Island for five or six months. As Lord Ginkgo expected, the Dragon Bamboo God-given Seed was almost ripe in October.

When autumn arrived, with gentle sea breezes, most of the dragon bamboo leaves in the dragon bamboo forest were nearing yellow.

Bamboo is a perennial evergreen woody plant. Normally, even in winter, a large number of bamboo leaves can still remain on the tree and stay green, which should be even more so in the rather hot Southern Hemisphere.

However, once bamboo flowers and bears fruit, its life is destined to come to an end. At this time, its bamboo leaves will turn yellow and fall off, and the bamboo culms will also lose their vitality, gradually turning white from the tips.

Si Ye picked the fruits grown by other bamboo trees in the dragon bamboo forest, and incidentally cut down these bamboo culms, so that when the seeds were sown next year, large swathes of dragon bamboo forests could grow again.

The appearance of mature bamboo fruit is somewhat similar to a peach, and the size is about the same, with a diameter of about six or seven centimeters. The slight difference is that the bamboo fruit is emerald green and has a very hard shell, not much different from the bamboo culms.

This bamboo forest was very large. One bamboo seed could produce dozens or hundreds of bamboo culms, and each bamboo culm had two or three bamboo fruits. Si Ye collected more than two thousand bamboo fruits, drying them in the sun every day to keep them dry and prevent them from sprouting.

Lord Ginkgo said that these bamboo fruits would be taken back to the kingdom later, and after cultivating bamboo seedlings, they would be planted in public territory. Anyway, the public territory being prepared for expansion has 100,000 square kilometers, so there's no harm in planting some bamboo.

The main thing is that this thing takes too long to bear fruit, flowering only once every 50 years and bearing fruit once. Zerg warriors would be熬死, otherwise, it would be extremely good to nurture it into a Life Seed.

The Dragon Bamboo God-given Seed might need more nutrients than ordinary bamboo fruits. After all ordinary bamboo fruits matured, its fruit gradually matured.

The Dragon Bamboo Fruit God-given Seed entered the maturation stage and began to frantically absorb natural source power, its speed being even more violent than when it absorbed source power during the green fruit stage.

Fortunately, Lord Ginkgo and Si Ye were also used to it. In order to ensure a sufficient supply of source power, all the source stones brought by the two spider generals were crushed into powder. Puffs of pure source power exploded, filling the source power consumption within the source power barrier.

From the beginning until now, they had used more than 500,000 source stones to replenish the Dragon Bamboo God-given Seed, but they didn't care about it.

Compared to the value of a Divine-grade Dragon Bamboo Fruit, these investments were just a drop in the bucket. No, it should be the tip of a hair on a drop in the bucket.

According to the records of the Flame Spider Kingdom, the number of times that Divine-grade Dragon Bamboo God-given Seeds have appeared in history is 13.

The effects, yields, and production times of these Divine-grade Dragon Bamboo God-given Seeds are very similar. A King-level wild Divine-grade Dragon Bamboo God-given Seed produces fruit approximately once every 50-55 years, producing 10-12 Divine-grade Dragon Bamboo Fruits that grant power-based talents at a time. One Divine-grade Dragon Bamboo Fruit is worth 15-20 million source stones.

That is to say, one yield every 50 years is worth nearly 200 million source stones. Compared to this, let alone investing 500,000-600,000 source stones,

even investing 5-6 billion source stones would be worthwhile.

After the Dragon Bamboo Fruit God-given Seed frantically absorbed source power for three days during the fruit ripening period, it absorbed most of the source power within the barrier, reducing the concentration to ten times that of the outside world. Lord Ginkgo estimated that it might be because there was no replenishment of natural source power from the outside world, otherwise there wouldn't be such a large consumption, but all of this didn't matter.

After the Dragon Bamboo Fruit God-given Seed ripened, according to custom, Si Ye and the others waited for another two or three days. Then, Lord Ginkgo controlled the silk thread to pluck the Dragon Bamboo Fruit God-given Seed and put it into the God-forbidden Box for safekeeping.

"Si Ye, we can go back," Lord Ginkgo said, moving its mind and also collecting the Source Power Forbidden Bead. The source power that was originally bound within the space immediately scattered, increasing the source power concentration around it by one level.

"Okay," Si Ye put away the dried ordinary dragon bamboo fruits and controlled the bionic warrior to carry Lord Ginkgo across the starship and return to the Myriad Races Continent.

After so many months of learning, it could now control the bionic warrior as easily as using its own limbs. Its control skills were not much worse than Lord Ginkgo's.

They spent five or six hours returning to the Flame Spider Kingdom.

The bionic warrior flapped its wings, creating some noise. Si Ye looked at the kingdom below and asked, "Lord Ginkgo, where should we land?"

Lord Ginkgo directed, "Land on the plaza in front of the office hall on the Abyss Mountain of the kingdom!"

"Okay," Si Ye adjusted the flight angle and flew to the vast plaza halfway up the Abyss Mountain of the kingdom to land.

When the bionic warrior flew back within a hundred miles of the Abyss Mountain of the kingdom, the kingdom's radar detected its existence.

After it landed, Lord Qingfeng and Jixue, who was guarding the office hall, ran to the plaza to check.

"Lord Ginkgo, Si Ye, you're back?" When Si Ye and the others opened the front chest plate of the bionic warrior,

the two spiders couldn't wait to crawl onto the bionic warrior and greet them.

"Where's the stuff? Did you harvest it successfully? Is it really a Divine-grade God-given Seed?" Lord Ginkgo and Si Ye had been staying on the Myriad Races Continent this year, but Queen Bee Xiang had already been sent back by them.

As the Flame Spider whose status in the kingdom was second only to Lord Ginkgo, Lord Qingfeng, and the younger generation of Lord Ginkgo's juniors, and also a candidate for the future Spider King, Mountain Master Jixue.

Whether publicly or privately, Queen Bee Xiang would inform them of this news.

Lord Ginkgo crawled out and happily held up the God-forbidden Box, saying, "We harvested it successfully."

"Let me see," Lord Qingfeng and Jixue were now as rash as two elementary Flame Spider warrior spiders,

two heads squeezed in front of Lord Ginkgo, eager to see what the Divine-grade God-given Seed looked like.

This was a Divine-grade God-given Seed. Back then, the Divine-grade Lucky Clover that Si Ye nurtured, no one could tell that it was a Divine-grade God-given Seed.

And this God-given Seed, according to the kingdom's records, had a 99% chance of being a Divine-grade God-given Seed, and its value was the highest in the star realm. How could they not take a look and open their eyes?

Lord Ginkgo opened the God-forbidden Box, allowing the two spiders to feast their eyes before closing the God-forbidden Box again.

Lord Qingfeng looked at Ginkgo reluctantly as it closed the God-forbidden Box again. It asked, "Where are you planning to plant this Divine-grade God-given Seed? The territory it needs is not small."

Lord Ginkgo said, "Planting is not urgent. Will Cheqian and the others be back from the Myriad Kingdoms Continent this year? We still need to discuss how to arrange this God-given Seed."

"Because this is your first year going to the Dragon Bamboo Continent, everyone also wants to know what you have gained, so they should all come back."

"How to arrange it? Doesn't the kingdom always have conventions?" Lord Qingfeng didn't understand Lord Ginkgo's meaning.

Lord Ginkgo said, "I have a little idea and want to discuss it with a group of King-level wild God-given Seeds and lords."