Astral Cockroach

Banbu was managing the God-given seed and needed raw stones. This way, the raw stones obtained from Bishi Ridge wouldn't have to be exposed.

The Emerald raw stones had distinct color characteristics, making their origin easily identifiable. In the face of profit, trading caravans were often unreliable, and exposure would likely lead to trouble.

Hei Sang cleverly chose 20 Fire Oil Pine nuts and 40 Five-Needle Red Pine nuts. Instead of rushing to take them back, it asked Banbu to help store them, planning to use the excuse of "playing with Banbu" to come over and eat them when desired.

Banbu also asked Hei Sang for a favor, sending 5 Fire Oil Pine nuts and 10 Five-Needle Red Pine nuts to Yan Cu Ban Mao, 1 Fire Oil Pine nut to Pu Tao, and a symbolic gift of 1 Five-Needle Red Pine nut to the other elders in the Iron Blade Mountains.

After this round of payments and gifts, Banbu had 68 Fire Oil Pine nuts and 145 Five-Needle Red Pine nuts left at his disposal, and the 40 Snake Blood Apricot kernels remained untouched.

This batch of primal force food produced from the God-given seed was enough to support Banbu's advancement to an advanced warrior, and in a short period of time!

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Two days later, Banbu fell into a deep sleep.

He woke up after only one day, reaching the L5 intermediate warrior stage with a body length of about 150.

After consuming some dried meat to restore his strength, he took out the Fire Oil Tung life seed and planted it. After much deliberation, Banbu decided to choose the Fire Oil Pine seed that the trading caravan had gifted last year as the life seed to nurture.

The slow growth rate of the Fire Oil Pine was a drawback, making it a less than ideal choice.

After a round of large-scale trade, Banbu's horizons had broadened, and he looked down on ordinary plant varieties. Only precious tree species like Fire Oil Pine, Fire Oil Tung, and Red Ironwood were worthy of nurturing. Currently, there was only one Fire Oil Pine nut to choose from.

He went out to inspect the territory, fertilizing and watering.

Then, he went to the mountains to check on Feng Ling's progress.

Feng Ling was working hard and had already cut out a small mountain of stone strips.

Each stone strip was about 150 long, 50 wide, and 30 thick, with grooves carved into them. The pond was dug, and the stones were laid horizontally and vertically, with clay filling the gaps. The water storage effect should be good.

Banbu gave a few instructions, picked up the snake skin bag, and hurried northwest to find Da Tou and Da Xiong.

"Banbu, you've grown again."

Seeing Banbu, Da Tou couldn't suppress his joy and asked hopefully, "Banbu, has the trading caravan arrived? When can I move to Lizhu Peak?"

Banbu said, "You can move there today."

Da Xiong asked, "Banbu, what about me?"

Banbu said, "Da Xiong, you stay here for now. It won't be too long. You can live near Lizhu Peak after summer."

Da Xiong looked up at the sky and said, "Okay, summer is coming soon."

Banbu shook the snake skin bag and said, "Da Xiong, don't be discouraged. I brought you a gift."

Opening the bag, it was filled with 50 mountain walnuts and 100 Chinese arborvitae seeds, as well as two precious Five-Needle Red Pine nuts.

"Banbu, you're too good!" Da Xiong cheered at the sight.

Banbu took out the two pine nuts and handed them to Da Tou and Da Xiong respectively, saying, "Try them. This is the primal force food condensed from the God-given seed."

Without saying a word, Da Xiong cracked open the shell with a "crunch" and swallowed the kernel, smacking his lips. His bear eyes lit up, and he exclaimed, "Banbu, delicious! The primal force food condensed from the God-given seed is so delicious!"

Banbu looked at Da Tou.

Da Tou, however, lowered his antennae, looking puzzled and depressed.

Banbu asked, "Da Tou, how is it?"

Da Tou asked, "Banbu, why can't that burning primal force be absorbed? It's slowly dissipating."

This was just a small test by Banbu, and the result was as expected.

The Five-Needle Red Pine nut had the special effect of enhancing fire abilities, and only insect species with compatible talents could absorb it.

Da Tou was an insect, but not a "descendant of God," without any talent attributes, so it couldn't. He could only eat ordinary primal force food to strengthen his basic abilities.

Da Xiong's situation was special. It was a beast, and its body structure had meridians similar to those of humans. After the primal force contained in the Five-Needle Red Pine nut entered its body, it automatically entered the meridians.

Da Xiong didn't know how to cultivate, so most of the primal force stored in its meridians would dissipate, and only a small portion would naturally seep into its body cells, improving its genes.

Humans could efficiently absorb and utilize any kind of primal force food through cultivation techniques and specialized martial arts, developing corresponding abilities. In theory, Da Xiong could also do it, but without cultivation techniques and martial arts, the absorption efficiency depended entirely on its talent, with a utilization rate of about 5% to 20%.

Lacking cultivation techniques and corresponding martial arts, even top-notch talent would waste 80% of the primal force. Using such a precious thing on Da Xiong was too wasteful, so Banbu didn't plan to give it to him for now.

Da Xiong asked in confusion, "Banbu, why can I, but Da Tou can't?"

Banbu said, "Because he's an insect, and you're a beast. It's a species difference. Don't worry, I'll figure out a solution. Da Tou can still grow by eating ordinary primal force food, and I happen to have a lot of mountain walnuts and Chinese arborvitae seeds, enough for him to advance to an intermediate warrior. Da Tou, moving to Lizhu Peak, your primary goal is to advance to an intermediate warrior, understand?"

Da Tou replied dejectedly, "Understood, Banbu."

Banbu asked, "Da Tou, do you have any luggage to move?"

"Yes." Da Tou said, "Seeds, and ant eggs and pupae. Banbu, my ant colony has expanded."

Banbu said, "Put the seeds in the snake skin bag, and I'll help carry them."

Da Tou was clever and understood Banbu's meaning, interjecting, "The ant eggs and pupae will be carried by the soldier ants."

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Banbu put the snake skin bag on the ground and said, "That's right, quickly direct the worker ants to prepare, and let's set off early."

Da Tou waved his antennae, releasing pheromones.

The surrounding worker ants and soldier ants immediately took action, moving the seeds hidden in the ant nest and putting them into the snake skin bag.

Finally, Da Xiong carried Da Tou, Banbu carried the snake skin bag, and they walked side by side at the front, with the soldier ants carrying ant pupae and the worker ants carrying ant eggs, the team forming a long line and setting off in a mighty manner.

Da Xiong escorted the team to the vicinity of Lizhu Peak and returned alone.

Banbu led Da Tou up the mountain and arranged for him to live temporarily in a cave on the north side of the mountain.

Da Tou then began to direct the worker ants to dig an ant nest deep into the cave.

Currently, Da Tou's ant colony was small in size and number, so Banbu had him direct the ant colony to weed the life seed plants and harvest grass leaves on the mountain, doing some relatively easy but very tedious work.

Feng Ling didn't reject Da Tou, because the ant colony directed by Da Tou could also help him weed and manage the biogas digester, saving a lot of time, so he had more time each day to cut stone strips in the mountains. Banbu also told him that once he cut enough and transported them down the mountain, he could rest for a while.

During this time, Banbu only went out once to absorb the mental power overflowing from the metal core in the swamp. He was busy at other times, very busy, day and night, digging mud and opening up ponds, making sure to repair the ponds before the dry season.

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Late at night, Banbu was lying under the Lizhu life seed, absorbing the primal force fed back, when a strong mental power fluctuation suddenly came from the foot of the mountain:

"Is the Mountain Lord Banbu of Lizhu Peak there?"

"We are wandering merchants from the Illusory Flame Spider tribe!"

The second trading caravan had finally arrived!

Banbu stood up, mustered his mental power, and shouted, "I'm here!"

"Young Mountain Lord, hello! My name is Huang Jing, and I am the leader of the caravan."

"May I ask, can we enter your territory?"

Judging from the mental power, the other party was probably a County Lord level existence. Out of professional habit, he politely introduced himself and asked the lord for permission before going up the mountain.

Banbu flapped his wings and took to the air, looking down at the foot of the mountain. Huang Jing's size was comparable to Chonglou's, from which it could be judged that the evolution of the Illusory Flame Spider tribe was similar to that of the Red Cockroach tribe. After advancing to Mountain Lord, the size became fixed and no longer increased, but the talent abilities improved.

There were many Flame Spider warriors in the caravan. There were as many as 8 advanced warriors following behind, and the Flame Spider warrior closely following Huang Jing was almost the same size as him, so he should be an eighth-stage advanced warrior.

The caravan was also very wealthy. Huang Jing's carapace was loaded with goods, and each advanced warrior's back was also fully loaded.

More than ten times richer than Chonglou's caravan!

Of course, Banbu couldn't refuse such a caravan, so he shouted, "County Lord Huang Jing, please come up the mountain."

After shouting, he took the initiative to fly down the mountain to welcome them.