Astral Cockroach

Banbu used yellow bamboo, a medium-sized bamboo, to make a bamboo tube filled to the brim with the pulp of 50 thorn fruits.

Lord Huabai Mountain used its forelimbs to hold the bamboo tube, looked at it, shook its antennae, tilted its head, and poured everything into its mouth.

"Sweet, the taste is not bad!"

First, there was praise, followed by crawling down on the spot, silently digesting the origin force into its body, and using mental power to observe its own changes.

After a while, Lord Huabai Mountain stood up excitedly, its antennae shaking wildly, its arterial wings flapping, its divine sense low and filled with incredible surprise, and said to Banbu: "The rate of origin force dissipation has decreased! Can this improve the efficiency of origin force utilization?!"

Banbu said: "That's right!"

Lord Huabai Mountain instantly calmed down again, sensed carefully, and said: "The quality of the pulp is slightly inferior, and there are only 50, so the improvement is not significant. Banbu, does this improvement have an upper limit?"

"Yes."

Banbu said regretfully: "Currently, it seems that the maximum improvement is 3% to 5%, which can only be regarded as an incidental effect. In the future, when I advance to Mountain Lord, the Bloodthorn Divine-grade God-bestowed Seed may be improved to superior quality. I wonder if it can break through the limit at that time."

Lord Huabai Mountain thought for a while and said: "Not bad, it's already very good. Banbu, this is good for my injury recovery, you have to sell me more."

Banbu said: "Lord Huabai Mountain, I have already given you 50 blood thorn fruit pulp, which is almost close to the limit. How about selling you another 100 blood thorn seeds?"

Lord Huabai Mountain asked: "Can't you give me more?"

Banbu shook his antennae.

Lord Huabai Mountain asked: "What about the price?"

Banbu said: "I'll give you the same low price as the Red Ant Tribe, 4 origin stones per blood thorn seed."

Lord Huabai Mountain said: "The price is good, but the quantity is too small. Banbu, blood thorn seeds are very important for my molting and growth, you should take out more to sell."

Banbu shook his antennae and said: "Lord Huabai Mountain, if it's just for your own use, 100 seeds are more than enough."

Lord Huabai Mountain knew that Banbu was not easy to fool, so he stopped persuading and changed his words: "Blood thorn is a particularly fast-growing shrub. When the yield increases in the future, you have to save me a share."

"That's natural."

Banbu looked at Lord Huabai Mountain's already healed forelimbs and asked: "Lord Huabai Mountain, are you really planning to advance to the fifth instar?"

Lord Huabai Mountain said: "Of course."

Banbu asked: "Then what?"

"Then what?" Lord Huabai Mountain asked back.

"Are you still planning to advance to the sixth instar?" Banbu asked tentatively.

"It's not planning, it's a must," Lord Huabai Mountain said with emotion. "Only with a County Lord guarding it can Cliff Cypress Mountain Range truly prosper. I used to think it was hopeless, but now it's different. Don't I have you as a source of wealth?"

"Banbu, to be honest with you, I buy bamboo fruit from you at a price of 20 origin stones per fruit, and resell it to County Lord Qiufeng at the same price as the merchants. The profit in between is quite considerable. With this stable extra income every year, I have hope of trying to advance to County Lord."

The same price as the merchants?

Lord Huabai Mountain is famous for being insidious and cunning within their Black and White Flower Ant Tribe. This kind of personality is suitable for survival in the borderlands. It can be seen that County Lord Qiufeng appreciates it very much and intends to cultivate it.

In fact, the intention of cultivation is very obvious. Take the last time Lord Huabai Mountain was injured in battle as an example: County Lord Qiufeng is not a fool, and must have seen that it was a minor injury that could be healed, and there was no need to molt and grow, but she didn't expose it and compensated 30,000 origin stones.

County Lord Qiufeng is willing to support it, and Lord Huabai Mountain has hope of advancing to County Lord.

Looking at County Lord Chijian's attitude towards Mountain Lord Tiedao, it's not that she hates him, but it's certain that she doesn't value him that much.

Banbu could even feel that County Lord Chijian's attitude towards him was also not very close, probably because his carapace color was not pleasing.

Banbu didn't care much about this and continued to ask Lord Huabai Mountain tentatively: "Lord Huabai Mountain, I heard that your Black and White Flower Ant Tribe masters the ability to catalyze plants after advancing to Mountain Lord... Can it also catalyze plants that are not its own lifeblood plants?"

Upon hearing this, Lord Huabai Mountain's antennae suddenly stood upright, and its pulse wings spread out, which was a instinctive reaction only in times of crisis.

Lord Huabai Mountain stared at Banbu, and asked vigilantly: "Did that old guy County Lord Chuirong tell you? Banbu, let me tell you, don't get any ideas about me, I won't do that kind of thing."

Banbu asked strangely: "Isn't it just that kind of damage to the texture of the carapace surface, which can be restored after a month of rest?"

"Is it that simple?" Lord Huabai Mountain's divine sense became sharp, and he screamed: "This is a matter of life and death!"

"A matter of life and death?" Banbu asked.

"It's a matter of shortening your lifespan. Unless you're tired of living, you won't do it. I won't do it," Lord Huabai Mountain emphasized his position again.

"Shortening your lifespan?" Banbu continued to ask.

Lord Huabai Mountain calmed down a little and explained patiently: "Performing it once, accelerating the growth of a plant by 1 year, will shorten your own lifespan by 3 years. How many 3 years does an insect life have? It's not a worthwhile deal."

"3 years... The price is not generally high! No wonder it's so expensive," Banbu shook his antennae and gave up the idea.

Originally, I was thinking about whether I could ask Lord Huabai Mountain to help catalyze that wild Cliff Cypress God-bestowed Seed a few times at a low price, but after knowing the truth, I found that 10,000 origin stones for one catalysis is actually already a low price.

That's 3 years of life!

Don't mention a few times, I can't bear it even once.

Lord Huabai Mountain's mood became a little bad after being questioned by Banbu, and he asked impolitely: "Banbu, do you have anything else? I'm leaving if there's nothing."

Banbu said embarrassedly: "Nothing else, Lord Huabai Mountain, I'll see you off."

...

After seeing off Lord Huabai Mountain, Banbu returned to the mountain range.

The lively feast lasted until late at night, all the thorn fruits were ripe, and the pulp was eaten.

County Lord Chuirong, Great Yellow Banyan, and Cliff Cypress stayed, and the other warriors dispersed, and Lizhu Peak returned to calm.

Starting the next day, Banbu had to start getting busy: there were still more than 5,000 blood thorn seeds produced this year, of which 500 were purchased by County Lord Chuirong at a price of 4 origin stones per seed, which was a transaction using 2,000 origin stones.

Next year, the two parties will exchange goods, which is equivalent to bartering, with 1 Great Yellow Banyan exchanging for 10 blood thorn seeds. Each takes what they need, so there is no need to pay a deposit.

There are still 4,500 blood thorn seeds left, and Banbu plans to take out 2,000 to sell within the Red Ant Tribe.

Just right, Great Yellow Banyan also wants to continue promoting its banyan fruit, and everyone can travel together.

The main target customer is of course the famous County Lord Chijian, and Cliff Cypress knows the route, so it will lead the way.

County Lord Chuirong is sitting in Lizhu Peak, very stable.

The Purple Gold God-bestowed Seed will be ripe in about half a month, and the time is not very urgent, so you can also visit the Mountain Lords of the mountain ranges along the way.

...

Going north, passing Iron Saber Mountain Range is Red Tangerine Mountain Range.

Red Tangerine Mountain Range is dominated by Mountain Lord Kuji, and there is no God-bestowed Seed. It's similar to Iron Saber Mountain Range, very poor, with zero origin stone reserves. Of course, they avoid luxury goods like Great Yellow Banyan, but they are very interested in Banbu's blood thorn seeds.

After a simple discussion, using the silk bag woven by L4 Intermediate Flame Spider Warrior as the standard, Mountain Lord Kuji took out one bag each of two specialties, red tangerine and chestnut, and traded 100 blood thorn seeds from Banbu to try the effect first. If the growth-promoting effect is good, the other high-level warriors in the mountain range will take out more ordinary lifeblood plants to exchange with Banbu in the form of barter.

Lizhu Peak also has Big Head, Big Bear, and seven bamboo rat warriors. They all rely on Banbu to pay their wages to make a living. Banbu still has a high demand for origin force fruits condensed from ordinary lifeblood plants, the more the better.

Passing Red Tangerine Mountain Range, the next stop is Qinggang Mountain Range.