Natural God's Gift

With the business negotiations concluded, everyone dispersed to attend to their own matters. Just as Fourleaf was about to leave, the Ginkgo Spider King called out to it.

"Fourleaf and Ziyun, stay behind."

"Okay," Fourleaf and Ziyun obediently remained.

Once only a few spiders remained on the plaza, the Ginkgo Spider King said, "This time, you relied on the Myriad Insect Pearl to kill the insectoid warrior who attacked the caravan?"

Fourleaf proudly stated, "Why use a sledgehammer to crack a nut? It was just killing a first-stage Lord-level insectoid warrior. I accomplished it with my own abilities."

"Not bad," the Ginkgo Spider King praised, befitting a Flame Spider warrior cultivated by the kingdom at great cost.

"Fourleaf is becoming more and more impressive," Lord Ziyun and Lord Qingfeng looked at Fourleaf in astonishment. They had originally thought Fourleaf had relied on the Myriad Insect Pearl to kill the Lord-level insectoid warrior who attacked the Flame Spider merchant caravan.

If Fourleaf could kill a first-stage Lord-level insectoid warrior, wouldn't that mean that even they might be defeated or killed if they fought Fourleaf?

After a brief praise, the Ginkgo Spider King got down to business: "Fourleaf, using a Divine-grade Wish Fruit to bestow a second Divine Endowment upon a Divine Seed is just a theory. It hasn't been verified, and the possibility of failure is high.

Moreover, turning this Divine-grade Wish Fruit into fertilizer, hoping that the growing Divine Seed will absorb its power for a second leap, is even more unlikely.

If it fails, not only will a Divine-grade fruit worth four thousand Origin Stones be wasted, but it could also lead to the death of the Divine Seed. The loss could even reach over one hundred million Origin Stones. Have you thought it through carefully?"

Fourleaf: "Ginkgo Spider King, I've thought it through. Didn't you say the Walnut Divine Seed is worth six hundred million Origin Stones? Losing one hundred million Origin Stones still leaves five hundred million Origin Stones, enough to pay off most of the debt I owe."

"A Divine-grade Wish Fruit is currently worth forty million Origin Stones. Two and a half are worth one hundred million Origin Stones. Even if the experiment fails, I can recover the cost in just 15 years.

If the experiment succeeds, it would be an understatement to call it a highly profitable venture. With such high odds, I naturally want to take a gamble."

Well, this guy is indeed too rich.

"Since you've decided, I'll make arrangements to try to find a Divine Seed worth less than 60 million Origin Stones for the experiment."

Fourleaf is now a Mountain Lord, and its combat power is comparable to a Lord-level. Plus, it's wealthy. Since it can't be dissuaded,

the Ginkgo Spider King didn't say much more.

Young insects, how can they admit defeat without encountering setbacks? Besides, it can afford to lose.

The Ginkgo Spider King then looked at Ziyun: "Ziyun, in recent years, the number of Divine Seeds in the kingdom has increased significantly, and the demand for fertile soil is very high. You need to make more."

Ziyun had been whispering with Fourleaf earlier. It could roughly guess what they were talking about, but since Fourleaf had no objections,

it wouldn't say anything more.

"Alright, I'll go back and work overtime." A single unit of fertile soil is worth 50 Origin Stones. If it makes a thousand units,

that would be 50,000 Origin Stones.

Fortunately, the Green Fields have consecutively advanced several stages in the past two years, and their collaborative work efficiency is higher, and their output is also greater. It seems that it's still necessary to help the Green Fields advance to the Lord-level sooner.

It looked at Fourleaf. Originally, it thought the Ginkgo Spider King would mention the matter of using the Divine-grade Wish Fruit, but it didn't expect the Ginkgo Spider King to say anything.

In fact, the reason it suggested using the Divine-grade Wish Fruit for the experiment was Fourleaf's idea. Fourleaf promised it that

the fruit would be considered its investment, and it would compensate it with another one after the debt was repaid.

As for why Fourleaf didn't say it itself, it was because it still owed many Divine-grade Wish Fruits,

so it was naturally inconvenient to make any further requests.

After the Ginkgo Spider King said a few words, they separated.

Fourleaf handed over some matters of the Office Hall to Jixue and returned to its territory.

"Fourleaf," upon seeing Fourleaf's return, Danggui happily greeted it. Fourleaf had been in the kingdom before, and it had only been gone for a little over a month.

Usually, it would leave for a year or half a year at a time, and Danggui was used to it, so it didn't seem particularly happy.

"Yeah," Fourleaf responded, "Has anything happened in the territory in the past two months?"

Danggui: "It's okay, nothing major has happened. It's just that a few newly captured boars escaped, but we caught them back."

Fourleaf said, "Our Life Seeds are all planted on this mountain. Wild boars are still very destructive, so don't let them damage the Life Seeds."

Danggui nodded its antennae: "I'll pay attention. I've already added a layer of trees to the outer perimeter of the pigsty to reinforce it."

"As long as it's sturdy."

"How is the Dragon Bamboo Divine Seed growing?" Currently, the Dragon Bamboo Divine Seed is also an object that needs its attention, especially after Danggui used the time acceleration ability on the Dragon Bamboo Divine Seed, it really wants to know if there are any changes in its growth.

Danggui said, "It's growing very well. Although it hasn't branched yet, the culm of the Dragon Bamboo Divine Seed appears thicker,"

"Is the nutrition keeping up?"

Danggui said somewhat helplessly: "I've tried my best to collect manure. This year, when I went to the Star Sand Islands to trade, I specially found a wooden boat to load some bird droppings back.

However, the Dragon Bamboo Divine Seed is really too big. Without dozens of units of fertilizer, it won't have any effect.

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"Didn't we say before that we were going to build ships to transport fertilizer? Has it started yet?"

"Qingji can't handle this matter. It doesn't have similar experience. I gave the order to Boss Xiaoji, and it will invite the Mountain Lords of the Five Flame Spider Tribes to work together.

Boss Xiaoji promised us that it will try to draw a few Mountain Lords from powerful merchant caravans to work for us and make the ships as soon as possible. Drying the logs has already begun."

Fourleaf said, "These large ships definitely can't be built in a short time. Thank you for working hard with Yunshi to make a few more trips at sea.

Actually, there's no need to look for islands that are too far away. Some islands near the kingdom also have many seabirds, right? Just choose nearby."

Divine Seeds need more nutrition, and 30:1 bird droppings are mixed into one unit of soil to be enough, and the nutrition in it will be quickly absorbed, so they need a lot of it.

"Got it." After thinking about it, Danggui said, "Fourleaf, I saw that the ordinary Dragon Bamboo planted by Jin Kui in the kingdom's public territory is also quite large, reaching half a meter in diameter.

Can we cut down the Dragon Bamboo and open up the bamboo nodes in the middle to transport bird droppings?"

"When the time comes, we can make the Dragon Bamboo into rafts, which can directly transport goods back. This way, it will be convenient to transport in the sea or the big river, and we can even directly transport the bird droppings to the nearby tributaries."

"Open up the Dragon Bamboo nodes to make rafts?" Fourleaf pondered the feasibility of it.

The Dragon Bamboo has a huge diameter, and the bamboo nodes are also quite large. Cutting it down would be a natural bucket. If the central bamboo nodes of the Dragon Bamboo are opened up and the two ends are sealed, the buoyancy might even be greater than that of trees of the same volume.

The most important thing is that the speed of making rafts is much faster than making boats. Even if thousands of rafts are made, they can be pulled back in one trip with the help of ocean currents. Wasn't that how so many Divine Seed remnants were pulled back from the Dragon Bamboo Continent in one trip?

"That's a good idea," Fourleaf thought of the key to it and praised, "Danggui, you're very intelligent."

"Hehe," Danggui shyly made a cicada chirp.

"It's just that the Dragon Bamboo in the kingdom hasn't fully grown yet, so it's not suitable for felling. There's no rush. I'll think of other ways first." Si Ye thought of the Dragon Bamboo on Dragon Bamboo Island in the neighboring Dragon Bamboo Continent, those that had already withered.

They are very good materials.

It's just a bit far. It's impossible to ask the Ginkgo Spider King to specially dispatch a Cetacean bionic warrior for some bamboo, right?

Perhaps I can ask Lord Dragon Beard to make a trip, but the Starship is a secret of the kingdom and cannot be revealed to outsiders. Moreover, transporting Dragon Bamboo through the Starship is also a problem. This matter needs to be considered carefully.

"There's one more thing." Danggui took off a silk pouch hanging from its foreleg. It opened the silk pouch and took out a few Primal Force Pearls, slightly larger than camphor fruits, and handed them to Si Ye.

"I caught some shellfish this year and extracted some Primal Force Pearls from them. Take a look at the quality."

Si Ye looked over. The pearls that Danggui took out were white, cyan, black, purple, and blue, in various colors.

It twirled a cyan pearl and examined it. The pearl emitted a faint Wood-type Primal Energy fluctuation. This was a Wood-type Primal Force Pearl cultivated with fragments of Wood-type Emerald Gemstones as the nucleus.

It put the pearl into its mouth. With the opening and closing of its mandibles, the powerful force instantly crushed the pearl into powder.

A faint Wood-type Primal Energy was absorbed by its body.

Si Ye looked at Danggui: "What do you think?"

Danggui had already tasted the Primal Force Pearls. Its evaluation of them was already in its mind: "At first glance,

the function of Primal Force Pearls is similar to that of Primal Force Food and Primal Force Gemstones. They can all replenish Primal Force Energy.

It's just that Primal Force Pearls can only increase Primal Force. In this respect, they are far inferior to Primal Force Food. Primal Force Food, while increasing Primal Force, also optimizes physical fitness.

Primal Force Pearls do not have these effects. Their advantage is that they can be cultivated in large quantities and continuously without relying on Life Seeds."

How much does a Life Seed produce?

Low-quality ones only produce four or five hundred Primal Stones per year.

High-quality ones may produce tens of thousands of Primal Stones per year.

As for Primal Force Pearls, as long as they have the Horn of the Sea God, there is no problem for them to raise 100,000 or 1 million shellfish to produce pearls.

Not every Spider is as wealthy as Si Ye. If they can increase additional output, then the Flame Spider warriors who could only be promoted to Mountain Lord level before will have a high probability of being promoted to Lord level. This is a great qualitative change.

Si Ye: "As long as there is Primal Force, we can always think of ways to use them." It is not suitable for Insectoid warriors to eat Primal Force Pearls, so they can be used to replenish Primal Force to Life Seeds.

They can also be used for the bee colony under Ai Hao's command. Its bee colony is a semi-Primal Force creature without the potential for evolution. Eating Primal Force Pearls is just right.

Si Ye picked up another purple pearl: "Are they only this big?"

Danggui hurriedly said: "The Primal Force Pearls are currently a bit small and can grow longer. If they grow to the size of a Primal Stone, they should be worth two to five times the price of a Primal Stone."

"Among them, the price of Thunder-type Primal Force Pearls will definitely be the cheapest. The selling price of Earth, Wood, and Water-type Primal Force Pearls will probably be more expensive."

"How many shellfish are currently incubating pearls?"

"Because they are still in the cultivation stage, there are only less than a thousand shellfish incubating pearls."

This number is a bit small. Si Ye pondered for a moment: "In the future, let's cultivate Earth, Wood, and Water-type Primal Force Pearls on a large scale!"

"Now that it has been determined that Primal Force Pearls can be cultivated stably, can we start cultivating shellfish in large quantities?"

"We can, but," Danggui said with some distress, "the Insect Claws are not enough!"

"Then hire more Flame Spider warriors, the low-level Flame Spiders who have nothing to do all day, as well as the intermediate-level Flame Spiders who want to earn Primal Stones, and the high-level Original Species Flame Spiders who stay in the kingdom. Hire them all to work for us."

Hearing Si Ye say this, Danggui carefully said: "How much should the salary be?"

Si Ye: "I'll approve 20,000 Primal Stones for you. You can decide how to arrange it. I'll give you more when you run out."

It is willing to bet 100 million Primal Stones here, so naturally it will not take this little money seriously.

If Primal Force Pearls can really be produced on a large scale, this is equivalent to re-opening a new source of wealth.

For the Flame Spider Kingdom, this means that they have one more way to accumulate wealth, and the value is far from being comparable to tens of thousands of Primal Stones.

Under Si Ye's arrangement, Danggui began to get busy. It wanted to take advantage of the fact that all the Flame Spider warriors were celebrating the New Year in the kingdom to see if it could hire a sufficient number of Flame Spider warriors to help them work next year.

Si Ye, as usual, inspected the territory to see if any starving beasts had broken into the territory in winter and to chat with the God-given Life Seeds. Its many Life Seeds were taken care of by Ai Hao, but it could not say that it completely ignored them. It still had to take a look occasionally, add a wave of fertilizer to them, and let them know whose Life Seeds they were.

However, although Si Ye was free, the kingdom was not free. As the number of Flame Spider warriors in the kingdom increased, the entire kingdom became lively every year at the end of the year.

Then, at the end of this year, the Ginkgo Spider King issued another task, saying that from next year onwards, they should look for a suitable God-given Seed that was in bloom.

If any Flame Spider warrior finds a suitable God-given Seed, the kingdom will give generous compensation, such as giving a better God-given Seed.

This made the Flame Spider warriors who did not know the situation a little curious, but it did not cause too much disturbance.

They had been looking for God-given Seeds every year, and now they had only added a kingdom-designated task.

There was also one thing. Danggui hired the Flame Spider warriors in the kingdom to raise shellfish for it. This did not cause too much commotion in the kingdom either. After all, the lords of the kingdom were concerned about major events of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and millions of Primal Stones. How could they care about this little thing?

But this matter spread throughout the group of elementary, middle, and high-level Flame Spider warriors.

The elementary and middle-level Flame Spider warriors were provided with Primal Force Food by the kingdom for growth, so they had no worries about food and drink, but they also had no source of income. They could only weave silk pouches and sell them to caravans to exchange for some pocket money.

The middle-level Flame Spider warriors could also be hired by some kingdom Mountain Lords and high-level Flame Spiders to earn some income.

Among the high-level Flame Spiders, the five Flame Spiders followed the caravans and merchants, which was the norm, so let's not mention it for now.

The high-level Original Species Flame Spiders not only lost the kingdom's support, but also had to manage their own territory, and bear their own profits and losses from producing Primal Force Food. Relatively speaking, they were the most in need of Primal Stones.

Therefore, after Danggui said that it wanted to hire a large number of Flame Spider warriors to help raise shellfish through the Spider-to-Spider method, many high-level Original Species Flame Spider warriors were enthusiastically signing up.

After all, they did not guard their one-third of an acre all year round. If they could earn Primal Stones, they would naturally want to earn some extra money in the kingdom.

Moreover, the salary offered by Danggui was also quite generous. Elementary Flame Spider warriors, one Primal Stone a day, intermediate Flame Spider warriors, two Primal Stones a day, high-level Flame Spider warriors, five Primal Stones a day. If it was a thousand a year, it would be almost similar to the output of a Life Seed in the same period.

For a time, in Si Ye's initial territory, there were quite a few Flame Spider warriors who came to apply for the job.

The originally quiet winter seemed to be particularly lively again.