Natural God's Gift

Throughout the entire year-end, the Flame Spider Kingdom was bustling with activity, everyone busy with their own tasks. The Flame Spider Lords oversaw the affairs of the kingdom, planning new merchant routes.

The Flame Spider Mountain Lords traded Origin Force foods with each other, arranging for the storage and release of these foods.

Some of the lower, middle, and high-level Flame Spiders within the kingdom accepted Dang Gui's employment. Starting in winter, they began crafting various tools needed for breeding shellfish, selecting the shellfish, clearing shellfish-eating fish from nearby waters, and collecting various shellfish foods.

Si Ye was not idle either. After inspecting its territory, it stayed near Tianya Reef with Dang Gui, directing the Flame Spider warriors in constructing shellfish farms.

This was their first time officially expanding shellfish farming on a large scale, initially planning a farm of 20,000 square meters.

Actually, when they say square meters, their spider silk ropes have already been lowered to a depth of 200-300 meters on the seabed. If you calculate it in cubic meters, it's nearly three million cubic meters, so the overall scale is still very large.

According to Dang Gui's many years of shellfish farming experience, every 100 square meters of shellfish can produce about 1000 kilograms of shellfish per year. After the second year, the growth rate of the shellfish will slow down. After five years, the weight of the shellfish will be about 1500 kilograms.

However, their main purpose in farming shellfish is to produce Origin Force pearls, not for the meat, so they need to be raised for at least three to five years. After five years, the shellfish will produce a pearl about the size of an Origin Stone.

A five-year-old shellfish weighs about half a kilogram. Roughly calculated, every 100 square meters can produce 3000 Origin Force pearls, so a 20,000 square meter farm can produce 600,000 Origin Force pearls every five years.

One Origin Force pearl is worth five Origin Stones, so this could yield 3 million Origin Stones. It sounds like a good output.

In reality, they also need to create pearl nuclei for the shellfish, and if the nuclei are not implanted in time, some shellfish will not grow pearls, plus there are natural environmental factors, etc.

Under various factors, Si Ye and the others would be satisfied if they could achieve even one percent of the surface data output.

They were busy until the beginning of spring, when everyone took a short break, returning to their respective territories to fertilize and pollinate their Life Seeds, and to search for God-Given Seeds.

Not only the Flame Spider warriors, but Si Ye and Dang Gui also stopped their shellfish farm work and returned to their territories to search for God-Given Seeds.

Si Ye was quite looking forward to this. If there was a suitable God-Given Seed for experimentation, maybe it could possess its own second Divine-Quality God-Given Life Seed.

Moreover, looking further ahead, if this method of experimentation is successful, could they cultivate Divine-Quality God-Given Seeds in this way in the future?

The kingdom has 300,000 square kilometers of land, and God-Given Seeds are born every year, it's just a matter of quantity.

With such a large area, even if they haven't fully developed it specifically for cultivating top-tier plant seeds, according to probability, even if one God-Given Seed is born every 100,000 square kilometers, that's still three God-Given Seeds every year.

It's just that most God-Given Seeds are born in the wild, making them difficult to discover, or there are many cases where they are not discovered in time.

In the wild, during the growth period of God-Given Seeds, they face problems such as being gnawed by ordinary insects, destroyed by wild animals, insufficient fertility leading to malnutrition and fruit drop, or premature death due to insufficient Origin Force.

The Flame Spider warriors can currently only search a small area each year.

Moreover, the flowering time of each plant is different.

Some flower in January, some in December. Plants flower and bear fruit every month, and they cannot be searching aimlessly outside all the time.

Even if they search every year, sometimes they can only find wild God-Given Seeds that have already sprouted. This is unavoidable.

Si Ye took the lead in searching its own territory, also using the Sea God Horn for assistance.

Now that it has advanced to the Mountain Lord level, with the assistance of the Sea God Horn, the range of its mental power is almost comparable to that of the Ginkgo Spider King.

The mental power range of an ordinary First-Age Insect King is 800 to 1000 meters.

The Ginkgo Spider King has consumed a large number of God-Given Sea Soul Fir seeds, and also consumed many God-Given Silver Fleece seeds that increase mental power, reaching the limit of ordinary Insect Kings. Its mental power can encompass a range of one thousand meters around it, which is a radius of 500 meters.

Si Ye reaching this level with the Sea God Horn at the Mountain Lord level is already very good.

However, it searched its territory back and forth twice, but did not find any traces of God-Given Seeds.

This isn't to say that you can find them just because you have strong mental power and have searched. It also depends on whether they have been born in the territory, which can be completely described as a matter of probability.

Moreover, even if you have carefully searched some places and determined that there are no God-Given Seeds here, it is possible that a God-Given Seed will appear here in March after you finish searching in February.

If you encounter this situation, no matter how careful you are, it's useless. You can only blame yourself for being unlucky.

And in the territories they have developed themselves, planting uniform plant seeds with the same flowering period,

they only need to patrol once during the flowering period, carefully check once, and confirm that there are no God-Given Seeds. This is definitely much easier in the long run.

The reason why everyone goes to the wild to search for God-Given Seeds in the spring is simply because more plants flower in the spring, and the probability of finding God-Given Seeds is higher.

After Si Ye searched its own territory, it also stayed in the wild for a while, but still without any results. However, a Primordial Flame Spider warrior in the kingdom found a Schefflera God-Given Seed, but when it found it,

this God-Given Seed had already begun to bear fruit, and the price of this God-Given Seed was also relatively expensive.

After careful consideration, for the sake of stability, Lord Qingfeng and Si Ye decided to wait, waiting for a God-Given Seed that is still in its flowering period, so that the possibility and plasticity of the Divine-Quality Wishing Fruit being absorbed would be stronger.

As for the Ginkgo Spider King, they went to the Yunji Continent to continue searching for wild God-Given Seeds.

May of the 207th year of the Origin Force Rebirth, Si Ye and the others finally waited for the news they wanted.

When Jin Kui was developing the kingdom's public territory, it found a God-Given Seed that was in bloom and was willing to contribute it.

Upon receiving this news, Lord Qingfeng and Si Ye immediately took the Divine-Quality Wishing Fruit to the public territory where Jin Kui was working.

They came to the place where Jin Kui was working and found it: "Jin Kui, where is the God-Given Seed you mentioned?"

Speaking of which, Jin Kui is quite lucky. It just found a God-Given Seed a few years ago, and now it has found another one.

However, it has been working in the wild all these years, so it is not surprising that it can find God-Given Seeds.

Jin Kui looked at Lord Qingfeng and Si Ye, and said calmly: "I'll take you there."

Walking through the empty mountains, with only some weeds and shrubs left, Jin Kui said as it walked: "I have already protected the plant that is nurturing the God-Given Seed. Speaking of which, I was quite lucky. I almost used my claws to dig it up, but I stopped when I noticed that a flower had a faint Origin Force fluctuation."

"What kind of plant is it?"

"It's a raspberry bush." Mallow led them to a protected, thorny shrub. The surrounding trees had been cleared, leaving only this small shrub standing alone.

"Raspberry?" Seeing the shrub protected by spiderwebs, Fourleaf was somewhat surprised.

Raspberry also has other names such as raspberry, thorn bubble, and Rubus. The Fate Seed of the Raspberry Lord is this.

Raspberry can only be considered a small shrub, with a common height of about half a meter to a meter. It is one of the common weeds. Its branches are very slender, looking like vines, and they also have thorns.

Its calyx is also very peculiar, being closed. It only opens as the fruit inside gradually grows larger.

Its fruit is an aggregate fruit, meaning that the fruits from one flower can be separated individually, with each small fruit having a seed in the center.

For example, the Divine Grade Five Elements Fruit, which the lords of the Flame Spider Kingdom are longing for, is a type of aggregate fruit.

After Fourleaf and Maple Leaf Lord had inspected it for a while,

Mallow asked: "How is it? Can this God-given Seed meet the requirements?

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The effect of raspberry seeds is to strengthen water affinity, but the yield and price are not high. After all, its seeds are only about the size of sesame seeds, no, they are even smaller than sesame seeds.

The yield is even less than some herbaceous God-given Seeds, so Mallow is willing to take it out to trade with the kingdom.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's too okay." Fourleaf was quite satisfied with this. It would be reluctant to use a too good God-given Seed for experiments. Other spiders would not be willing to take it out either. Having this is already very good. Goodrow is also a shrub.

"Then this—"

Mallow rubbed her two chelicerae together. Her and Fourleaf's eyes simultaneously looked at Maple Leaf Lord.

Maple Leaf Lord calculated for a moment and said: "Mallow, the yield of raspberries is not high. How about pricing this raspberry God-given Seed at 65 million Origin Stones?

The kingdom will compensate you with another 10 million Origin Stones, for a total of 75 million Origin Stones. Whether you want God-given Seeds, Origin Stones, God-given Origin Power food, or Divine Grade fruits, it's fine."

Mallow had already planned it and immediately said: "I want God-given Seeds."

Mallow herself received a God-given Seed from the kingdom. A few years ago, she searched for another God-given Seed. Now she has another God-given Seed. Advancing to the Lord level is already a certainty.

Among the younger generation in the kingdom, Mallow's evolutionary potential is second only to Fourleaf and Snowdrift. Now she is even richer than Angelica and Jade, who own two God-given Seeds.

Fourleaf goes without saying. As for Snowdrift, although she only has one God-given Seed, it is a top-tier God-given Seed, one that is worth ten herbaceous or shrubby God-given Seeds.

"Okay, the kingdom will select a God-given Seed worth about 75 million Origin Stones for you. And this raspberry God-given Seed will belong to Fourleaf. Whether it dies or becomes a Divine Grade God-given Seed, it has nothing to do with you."

"Alright," Mallow knew a little bit of the inside story and had no objections to this. Anyway, she didn't expect this God-given Seed to be a Divine Grade God-given Seed.

Maple Leaf Lord looked at Fourleaf again: "You pay for this. Remember to use walnut God-given Seeds to offset the debt."

"Okay." The price of 75 million Origin Stones was a bit high, but if there wasn't enough compensation, why would they contribute the God-given Seed?

Fourleaf was mentally prepared for this price.

"Maple Leaf Lord, shall we start burying the Divine Grade Wish Fruit under the tree now?" Since the money had been paid, the sooner the better. Of course, Fourleaf wanted to carry out the experiment as soon as possible.

"Wait a moment," Maple Leaf Lord took off the silk pouch on his carapace, opened it, and took out the Divine Grade Wish Fruit, which was stored in a Divine Restriction Box, and handed it to Fourleaf.

Fourleaf also took out a silk pouch containing some fertile soil. She stuffed the Divine Grade Wish Fruit into the fertile soil and packed it up in the silk pouch.

Under normal circumstances, without the protection of the Divine Restriction Box, the Divine Grade Wish Fruit packed in this way would slowly rot in the pouch. However, they wanted the Divine Grade Wish Fruit to rot, and it would be best if the Origin Power could be absorbed by the God-given Seed.

Fourleaf's Origin Power gathered on her eight spider legs, and she lightly tapped the ground with her feet. The surrounding soil rippled like water. Fourleaf's spider legs gently moved, like swimming in water, quietly disappearing into the soil with the silk pouch.

This was Fourleaf using her Earth Escape ability. When she used this ability in the soil, it was no different from a fish in water. The soil posed no obstacle to her.

She entered the ground, tidied up the raspberry's roots, and put most of them into the silk pouch, allowing it to draw nutrients from the fertile soil.

Then she tied the opening of the silk pouch to prevent the Origin Power in the fertile soil from spilling out.

Fourleaf emerged from the soil and breathed a sigh of relief, saying: "Done."

"Okay," Maple Leaf Lord said: "Remember to fertilize the raspberry and replenish Origin Power. Pay attention to its growth status." Although Fourleaf was funding the experiment to see if the God-given Seed could surpass its own level with the blessing of the Divine Grade Wish Fruit.

Its experimental results would also be very helpful for how the kingdom would use the Divine Grade Wish Fruit in the future.

If it could really make an ordinary God-given Seed advance to a Divine Grade God-given Seed, then every Divine Grade Wish Fruit in the future could be used on God-given Seeds in this way, and the kingdom's foundation could even rise to another level.

Fourleaf: "I will take good care of the God-given Seed."

Since the raspberry God-given Seed had been handed over to Fourleaf, of course she would take care of it herself. Otherwise, who would be responsible if something went wrong?

Maple Leaf Lord returned to the abyss, and Mallow also left here to open up land in the public territory, mainly to clear some tall trees to facilitate the future large-scale planting of top-tier plant seeds.

Fourleaf stayed by the raspberry God-given Seed, observing its growth status.

She plucked all the other flowers on the raspberry, leaving only the bud with Origin Power fluctuations.

Since the raspberry was only a small shrub and grew among weeds, its growth could only be described as average. Nurturing a God-given Seed required a lot of nutrients.

Fourleaf specially made a swamp pool. She had Angelica bring pig manure and other fertilizers to ferment and fertilize the raspberry.

With enough fertilizer to supply it, the surrounding trees were almost completely cut down, and with plenty of sunlight, the raspberry grew more and more luxuriantly at a visible rate.

The flower bud on the tree was also constantly absorbing natural Origin Power, and from time to time, Fourleaf needed to scrape Origin Stones to replenish its Origin Power.

Seeing this, Fourleaf's heart, which had been hanging, slowly relaxed. She was really afraid that something would happen to the raspberry God-given Seed. As the months went by, the flower bud tightly wrapped around the raspberry God-given Seed gradually opened. Fourleaf checked it three times a day. As she watched, she suddenly felt that something was wrong.