Natural God's Gift

Four-Leaf took a step back, not understanding what Lord Qingfeng meant.

Lord Qingfeng pushed the Jue Ming God-given Seed forward again: "Take it."

"Ah?" Four-Leaf stammered: "Qing, Lord Qingfeng, this is a God-given Seed that you obtained with great difficulty, what are you giving it to me for?"

Lord Qingfeng said: "You can use it as a ninth-stage intermediate Life Seed."

Four-Leaf was shocked, strange, and surprised: "Why don't you nurture it into a Life Seed yourself?"

Lord Qingfeng: "Because I don't have Origin Stones!"

"No Origin Stones?" Four-Leaf was even more puzzled: "Is there any connection between having Origin Stones and nurturing a God-given Seed into a Life Seed?"

"Heh heh, of course, there's a connection." In fact, over the years, not only did the other Spiders think Lord Qingfeng was unlucky, but even Lord Qingfeng himself felt that his luck wasn't very good.

Its territory consisted of 400 square kilometers of forest and 800 square kilometers of land, yet for hundreds of years, not a single God-given Seed had been born.

Who knew that while completing a mission for the kingdom, while guarding two God-given Seeds, it idly strolled around the wild God-given Seeds within a range of hundreds of miles, searching for God-given Seeds at the same time,

it actually discovered a God-given Seed.

When it first obtained this God-given Seed, Lord Qingfeng had also thought about nurturing it into its own Life Seed, but thinking about its own debts, it felt somewhat discouraged.

It still owed the kingdom more than 200 million Origin Stones, which was a heavy debt. It was fine while it was just a Lord-level, this debt could be repaid slowly without delaying its evolution.

But if it were to advance to the King-level in the future, then after reaching the King-level, it would have to use at least two-thirds of its output to repay the debt.

The Flame Spider Kingdom didn't allow owing debts without repayment. If it couldn't pay off its debts after advancing to the King-level, even if it advanced to the eighth stage of the King-level, it would be restricted and unable to exchange for Origin Energy food for further evolution.

The kingdom didn't allow them to leave the Origin Energy Starfield while owing Origin Stones, unless they had extremely wealthy direct descendants, like Four-Leaf, and agreed to transfer the debt to the descendants, then it would be allowed to leave.

Lord Qingfeng couldn't count on having such descendants, after all, Four-Leaf wasn't its direct descendant and couldn't inherit its forest, so naturally it had no obligation to repay its debt.

It had calculated that this Jue Ming God-given Seed could produce 120,000 to 130,000 Origin Stones annually after reaching the King-level.

Even if it nurtured this God-given Seed into a Life Seed, and its annual output was so many Origin Stones in the future, it would only be a drop in the bucket in the face of the huge debt of more than 200 million.

It was already over a hundred years old. Even if it didn't evolve after advancing to the King-level, it would take two or three hundred years to repay the debt.

But it was unwilling to limit itself to the King-level, otherwise, it wouldn't have sought the divine-grade fruit on Four-Leaf's lucky clover.

After thinking about it for a long time, it decided to learn from Ginkgo and hand over this God-given Seed.

The kingdom estimated the value of this God-given Seed to be 68 million Origin Stones. If it were to hand it over like this, it could immediately offset 68 million Origin Stones.

However, it planned to give this God-given Seed to Four-Leaf because giving it to Four-Leaf was more cost-effective.

With the kingdom as guarantor, giving the God-given Seed to Four-Leaf was equivalent to transferring 68 million of its debt to Four-Leaf, and Four-Leaf would also have to pay 6.8 million in interest and 6.8 million in security deposit to it and the kingdom, which meant it would earn an extra 6.8 million Origin Stones for nothing.

Of course, Four-Leaf wouldn't be at a loss either. With one more God-given Seed as a Life Seed, it wouldn't lack evolution resources before reaching the King-level.

After reaching the King-level, with the combined power of many God-given Seeds, the debt of a mere one or two hundred million Origin Stones could be repaid in twenty or thirty years, and the rest would be profit.

Hearing Lord Qingfeng say that this God-given Seed was valued at 68 million Origin Stones and given to it, Four-Leaf hesitated for a moment before holding the God-given Seed in its claw: "Lord Qingfeng, I already owe several hundred million Origin Stones, will I really be able to repay it by then?"

Lord Qingfeng asked back: "Four-Leaf, how many Origin Stones worth of Origin Energy food does your Life Seed produce this year?"

"I estimated it, there's a total of 30,000 Origin Stones worth of Origin Energy food produced, but after paying wages to Peony and the others, there should be more than 20,000 Origin Stones left at the end of the year."

Lord Qingfeng was stunned. So much? A mid-level warrior's Life Seed was comparable to a senior warrior's territory. Lord Qingfeng naturally wouldn't tell it that it would be able to pay off all its debts in thirty or forty years after reaching the King-level, as that would easily demotivate the little Spider.

It raised its claw and gently stroked Four-Leaf's head: "Little Four-Leaf, you've also seen the kingdom's current situation. The number of Flame Spider warriors within the kingdom is increasing, and other insect races outside the kingdom are eyeing us covetously. We are facing both internal and external troubles.

The reason why we're giving you so many God-given Seeds to nurture as Life Seeds is that we hope to cultivate you into a top-tier Insect King capable of suppressing the myriad races of the mainland.

You carry the kingdom's expectations, so you must grow up quickly and stand alone!"

"Yes," Four-Leaf nodded its chelicerae heavily. Adding this God-given Seed, it owed more than 200 million Origin Stones. It had to be said that it was indeed under a lot of pressure now.

Lord Qingfeng: "You've just evolved, right? If you don't need the God-given Seed for the time being, you can store it in my warehouse built with extraterrestrial civilization creations, which can guarantee the vitality of the God-given Seed."

"Then please store the God-given Seed in the warehouse, Lord Qingfeng. I estimate that I won't advance again until mid-to-late next year."

"You'll advance to the ninth-stage intermediate level next year, and you should be able to advance to a senior warrior the year after that. Then you must remember to let your Life Seed rest and bear fruit next year."

Four-Leaf replied: "I know, Lord Huzhang has taught me about this."

Although advancing from a mid-level warrior to a senior warrior wasn't as dangerous as advancing from a senior warrior to a Mountain Lord-level warrior, it was impossible to say that there was no risk at all.

Lord Qingfeng thought for a while and said: "The evolution of insect warriors at major stages involves three aspects: body, soul, and Origin Energy.

Life Seeds are closely related to insect warriors, and their evolution is nothing more than related to soil nutrition and Origin Energy concentration.

If it's a God-given Seed, it also involves the soul aspect. If the soul of the God-given Life Seed is too weak,

there's also a possibility of failure."

"Most of your current Life Seeds are God-given Seeds, so you don't have to worry too much about Origin Energy and nutrition, but you must pay attention to the soul aspect."

Hearing Lord Qingfeng say this, Four-Leaf also became a little worried: "But Lord Huzhang didn't teach us what to do in this situation?"

Lord Qingfeng: "Your situation is different from other Spiders and cannot be judged by common sense. There aren't many things that Huzhang can teach."

It instructed: "Now that you have money, you can purchase a batch of soul-type Origin Energy food and life-type Origin Energy food and bury them under the God-given Seeds to strengthen the vitality and soul consciousness of the God-given Seeds."

Four-Leaf was extremely surprised: "Is that useful?"

Lord Qingfeng: "You should know the difference between Origin Stones and Origin Energy food, right?"

Si Ye honestly said, "There is only primal force in the primal stones, but primal energy properties are also present in primal force food. The effects and systems of primal energy properties in primal force food are different, some are violent, some are gentle. Therefore, these primal energy properties are also divided into eleven types of primal energy."

"That's right then," Lord Qingfeng chuckled, "The difference between primal force food and primal stones lies in the fact that primal force food possesses primal energy properties.

Whether it's a Zerg warrior or a Beast Clan warrior, they can consume primal force food, absorb the primal force and primal energy properties within to strengthen themselves, and also shatter primal stones to absorb the primal force within.

Have you ever considered whether the life seeds, which are also primal force creatures, can also absorb the primal energy properties in primal force food?"

"That's right," after Lord Qingfeng's analysis, Si Ye suddenly understood and realized the connection between them. If primal force warriors can consume primal force food, why can't primal force plants consume primal force food?

Thinking of this, Si Ye continued to ask for advice, "Then should I directly buy soul-type primal force food and bury it under the life seed tree?"

Lord Qingfeng thought for a moment, "Doing so is possible, but the rate at which plants normally absorb primal force is definitely not that fast, which would waste a large amount of primal stone and primal energy in the primal force food.

In fact, I'm not the first to come up with this idea. When Zerg warriors with God-given seeds are preparing to advance to a higher realm, they will supplement their God-given life seeds with a little life primal energy or soul-type primal energy.

I remember that Ziyun has an earth-type ability called 'Fertile'. You can let it try to break up the primal force food and mix it into the fertile soil, which may preserve the primal energy for longer."

Si Ye: "Didn't I hear that Mountain Lord Ziyun went to the Myriad Nations Continent? Has it returned?

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It returned some time ago. You can go and ask them when you have time. They should have done this kind of thing outside."

"Okay, have Mountain Lord Torch and the others returned to the kingdom too?" Hearing that Mountain Lord Ziyun had returned, Si Ye was overjoyed. It really wanted to ask Mountain Lord Ziyun what the Myriad Nations Continent was like, and whether Mountain Lord Torch and the others had been robbed by the Zerg and injured.

Lord Qingfeng reminded, "As for primal force food, ask Ziyun and then come to me to buy it."

Si Ye said happily, "Okay, then I'll go find Mountain Lord Ziyun."

"Go ahead," Lord Qingfeng also knew Ziyun's position in Si Ye's heart, which might not be worse than his own as an elder.

In the territory of the Watase Flame Spider tribe, Mountain Lord Ziyun, along with Mountain Lord Torch and Mountain Lord Green Field, were making fertile soil. It went to the Myriad Nations Continent last year and only returned at the end of this year. The fertile soil originally sold at Lord Qingfeng's place had already been sold out, and the number of spiders in the kingdom needing fertile soil had greatly increased.

Mountain Lord Torch asked while working, "Ziyun, are you going to the Myriad Nations Continent again next year?"

Mountain Lord Ziyun frowned. As a spider, it wanted to go to the Myriad Nations Continent to open up trade routes, but when it returned to the Myriad Races Continent, it actually heard that their caravan had been robbed, which made it hesitate, fearing that Torch and Green Field would not be able to handle things here.

Although the Zerg leaders who robbed them had already been hung on the gate of the starship passage, greatly shocking the Zerg of the Myriad Races Continent, it could not be guaranteed that other Zerg would not dare to rob them again.

Mountain Lord Green Field seemed to see through Mountain Lord Ziyun's thoughts: "Ziyun, are there many Zerg on the Myriad Nations Continent?"

Mountain Lord Ziyun nodded its pedipalps: "There are not many ant tribes and bee tribes on the Myriad Nations Continent, but each ant king or bee queen is a kingdom.

The nests and territories built by the Zerg are relatively obvious and easy to search for. In this regard, solitary Zerg warriors are more difficult to find.

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"Oh, did you negotiate a lot of deals there?"

"Not a lot, but not a few either. More than a dozen ant and bee kingdoms have pre-ordered primal force food from me."

'That's good, then you should go over again next year!

Mountain Lord Ziyun was still a little worried: "But you two spiders were robbed last year. The Myriad Races Continent is so chaotic now, I'm a little worried about your safety."

"It's okay," Mountain Lord Green Field said with a relaxed smile, "Last year, Lord Qingfeng, along with Lord Rockwind and the others, gave the Zerg on the Fang Continent a severe blow.

This year, our traveling merchants have not encountered any chaotic events. Even if there are disputes between Zerg warriors, they try to avoid our Flame Spider traveling merchants, which shows that they are afraid of our Flame Spider Kingdom moving its claws.

Besides, this year Torch and I have also spent a lot of primal force food to evolve another instar, which has greatly increased our ability to protect ourselves, so nothing will happen.

On the other hand, I heard that there are many battles on the Fang Continent. Can your safety as a spider be guaranteed?"

Ziyun said calmly: "It's okay, there were no Flame Spider traveling merchants on the Myriad Nations Continent before. Only ant tribes and bee tribes conducted basic bartering there. Most of the ant kings and bee queens in the kingdoms are only at the mid- to high-level warrior stage, and even Mountain Lord-level Zerg are rare."

Just as Mountain Lord Ziyun was about to say something more, Si Ye ran over from afar, cheering happily: "Mountain Lord Ziyun, Mountain Lord Torch, Mountain Lord Green Field, you're finally back!"

"Si Ye?"

Looking at the spider, the mountain lords were a little surprised. Of course, they wouldn't not recognize Si Ye, but they were surprised that Si Ye had grown so big in two years.

When they left the Flame Spider Kingdom at the beginning of the year before last, Si Ye's leg span was only a little over one meter, but now Si Ye's leg span is almost two meters. Its size has doubled in just two years, so they were naturally a little surprised.

"Hehe," Si Ye happily came to the mountain lords' side, boasting like a child: "Mountain Lord Ziyun, I am now a mid-level warrior in the eighth instar, oh, I will soon be promoted to a high-level warrior."

"Well, you're growing very fast."

Watching Si Ye grow from a small spider less than the size of a bottle cap to nearly two meters in size, they also felt quite accomplished in their hearts. Si Ye kept sending out mental thoughts: "Mountain Lord Ziyun, was your trip to the Myriad Nations Continent smooth? Are there many Zerg warriors there? Which kind of Zerg warriors are more numerous? The inherited memory says that ant tribes and bee tribes are very fierce. Were you in danger there? Would they rob Flame Spider traveling merchants?"

"Uh," Si Ye suddenly threw out so many questions that Mountain Lord Ziyun didn't know how to respond for a moment.

Mountain Lord Green Field interrupted Si Ye's mental thoughts: "We are also talking to Ziyun about these things. If you want to listen, just listen quietly to the side!"

"Okay," Si Ye really wanted to hear the story of what happened to the Ziyun caravan in the past two years.