Natural God's Gift

Siye stood on Qingfeng Lord's carapace and handed the fruit to Ginkgo Lord: "Ginkgo Lord, do you need to preserve it?"

"No need," Ginkgo Lord took out a small spider silk bag to pack the fruit.

After obtaining the Divine-grade fruit, Ginkgo Lord immediately instructed: "Next, I will consume the Divine-grade fruit. Qingfeng will guard the Abyss in my place. The other spiders should attend to their own matters and I will tell everyone the effects of the fruit after I come out of seclusion."

"Okay," the spiders responded one after another.

A spider, it was unknown which one, excitedly said: "Congratulations to Ginkgo Lord for being one step closer to the Insect King!"

"Congratulations to Ginkgo Lord for being one step closer to the Insect King!" The other spiders, hearing this, also congratulated excitedly.

"Hahahaha, let us all strive together." Even as steady as Ginkgo Lord was, it still couldn't help but laugh heartily.

Reaching its level, having one more ability meant having many more possibilities for ability combinations to form Divine Runes, which also increased the chance of becoming an Insect King, so what everyone said was not wrong.

Seeing Ginkgo Lord taking the Divine-grade fruit into seclusion, everyone dispersed to busy themselves with their own affairs. Guarding here for so long, they had many things to do.

Siye also prepared to busy itself with its own affairs. Originally, after its Primal Energy food harvest was completed, it planned to personally go to the Star Sand Islands again, but the Divine-grade Lucky Fruit was about to ripen, so how could it leave?

If it were to delay the ripening of the Divine-grade Lucky Fruit for the sake of a little Divine-bestowed Tea Seed, wouldn't that be picking up sesame seeds and losing the watermelon?

Fortunately, Baizhi and Danggui had been to the Star Sand Islands before. Siye sent the two of them to take the Spider King Silk Scroll and top-grade plant seeds with Yunshi. With Baizhi there, knowing the importance of preventing the leakage of top-grade plant seeds, there shouldn't be any accidents.

With nothing else to do next, it would go ask Boss Xiaoji if it could hire spiders to make a boat, and what size would be best?

Seeing the group of spiders disperse, Ginkgo Lord and Qingfeng Lord also prepared to leave.

Ginkgo Lord's forehead Fang Insect Pearl became translucent. It handed the Fang Insect Pearl to Qingfeng Lord between its front claws: "I see that the Divine-grade Lucky Fruit contains quite a lot of Primal Energy. I estimate that I will be in seclusion for a while. You will handle the affairs of the kingdom next."

"Okay," Qingfeng Lord took the Myriad Insect Pearl and absorbed it into its body.

It said with some worry: "Ginkgo, are you confident in breaking through an age using this fruit?"

Ginkgo Lord chuckled: "Don't worry, I've been preparing for this day for five or six years.

I have eaten enough Wood-type Primal Energy food and am already close to the edge of evolution. After eating this Divine-grade fruit,

I will be able to smoothly break through to the eighth age, and be within reach of becoming an Insect King."

Seeing Ginkgo Lord so confident, Qingfeng Lord also felt relieved: "Then you can break through in peace, I will guard the kingdom well."

Ginkgo Lord carried the spider silk bag containing the Divine-grade fruit back to its territory. It didn't need any other spiders to guard it.

The core area of the kingdom was an absolutely safe zone. If other insects came to interfere with its evolution while it was in seclusion, then there would definitely be internal problems. If that were the case, having insects guarding it or not would be the same.

Ginkgo Lord's nest was built even better than Qingfeng Lord's, with metal doors as the nest entrance. Inside the nest were divided into small rooms, most of which were used as warehouses to store things.

In the very center of these rooms was a soft nest sewn with the softest spider silk as the outer layer and filled with velvet. The entire nest was about ten meters in size, and the surroundings were inlaid with densely packed primal stones and jade gemstones with Wood-type Primal Energy.

This nest was much more high-end than Qingfeng Lord's nest.

This nest, in a broad sense, belonged to Ginkgo Lord, but strictly speaking, it wasn't its.

This was the nest belonging to the kingdom's leader. Ginkgo Lord was currently the kingdom's leader, so it lived in this nest, but if another spider replaced it in the future, it would have to move out of this nest.

However, this probability was not high. Who in the kingdom could replace it as the leader?

The position of leader belonged to the original Flame Spider species. The five Flame Spider divisions naturally did not have the ability to succeed.

Qingfeng? It was just a younger brother. Not to mention replacing it as the kingdom's leader, it would be lucky to pay off the kingdom's debt and evolve to the King level.

Eight-Prism, Profound Jade? Their prospects of becoming lords were still distant, not to mention the other mountain lords.

And the smaller spiders below? Currently, only Siye and Jixue had this potential. Siye didn't need to be said, Jixue possessed a large tree Divine-bestowed Seed, so its potential to advance to the King level was still very high.

But they were too young. By the time they reached the King level, it would either have advanced to the ninth age Insect King and left the Star Realm, or retired, so there was no need to consider these things.

Lying prone in the soft nest, Ginkgo Lord ate some jerky to fill its stomach first, and then opened the spider silk bag, reverently pinching out the Divine-grade Lucky Fruit.

Carefully examining this fruit, the fruit was heart-shaped, with countless silver Primal Energy patterns of various shapes on its deep red surface.

This fruit took a year to flower and another six years to bear fruit. In the entire seven years, it was unknown how much Primal Energy it absorbed. The primal stones it consumed cost two hundred thousand.

Not to mention the Primal Energy effects of this fruit, just the Primal Energy contained within it was worth as much as two hundred thousand primal stones. All of this Primal Energy was concentrated on the silver-white patterns, which looked extraordinary, which was also why Ginkgo Lord was so confident.

After admiring it for a while, Ginkgo Lord didn't delay. It swallowed the entire fruit, skin and core together.

As it swallowed the fruit, and bit through the fruit, a pure and majestic Primal Energy instantly filled its mouth, and a steady stream of Primal Energy permeated its body, changing its body.

Under the support of the majestic Primal Energy, Ginkgo Lord felt a surge of drowsiness in its heart. It knew that it had reached the critical point of evolution and was able to break through the age.

It had been preparing for this day for many years, and now it could sleep peacefully.

After it fell asleep, the vast Primal Energy contained in the Divine-grade Lucky Fruit silently transformed into a part of Ginkgo Lord's power.

And the silver-white Primal Energy patterns on the Lucky Fruit did not disperse, but instead gathered in Ginkgo Lord's body, forming a four-leaf clover pattern Divine Rune on the skin of Ginkgo Lord's forehead.

Winter passed and spring came again. Under the expectation of all the informed spiders, Ginkgo Lord slept for more than half a month, until the ice melted and Ginkgo Lord slowly woke up in the second year.

Inside the nest, it shed its old carapace, and a new body emerged from the old carapace.

After adapting to the new body size, it took out some jerky to fill its stomach, and then it spat out the Water Coconut Life Seed that had been nurtured in its life sac, packed it in a spider silk bag, and waited a few days to plant it.

Then it took out a Prism Vine Seed and put it into its life sac to nurture it as an eighth-age Life Seed.

After getting everything done, it shifted its attention to its own body.

After the insect warriors advanced to the Mountain Lord level, they could awaken at least one ability every time they evolved an age.

Their original Flame Spiders possess a natural wood-type talent. After reaching the Mountain Lord level, they can awaken a wood-type ability with each age increase. With luck, they might awaken two. Some exceptional insects may even awaken life-type, strength-type, or soul-type abilities, but these are rare, perhaps only one in ten thousand. Ginkgo Lord didn't consider itself lucky enough to be one of those.

It circulated its original energy, sensing its newly awakened ability.

At the eighth age, it awakened a relatively common ability among original Flame Spider warriors: 'All Plants as Soldiers'.

This ability was quite powerful. Within the range of its mental will, all plants could become its weapons, making it a rare offensive ability within the wood-type.

However, Ginkgo Lord didn't focus its attention on this ability. Many spiders in the kingdom's history had obtained this ability. Although it was powerful, it was also considered common.

Currently, it was more concerned with another ability derived from the divine-grade fruit.

It examined its own condition and then focused its attention on its forehead, observing the four-leaf clover-shaped divine纹 (shenwen - divine mark/rune). Its heart trembled.

“This is a Law divine纹?”

“Could the Lucky Clover be a Law-grade, divinely bestowed seed?”

Perhaps ordinary insect warriors didn't understand what Law fruits were, but the Flame Spider Kingdom, as a race that had experienced countless original energy cycles, had far more accumulated knowledge than imagined. They were quite familiar with some of the secrets of the Star Realm.

As the Flame Spider Kingdom's Great Chieftain, Ginkgo Lord knew the most secrets. It knew that the kingdom's divine-grade fruit compendium recorded that above divine-grade fruits were even more exquisite fruits called Law fruits!

Lord-level insects, after reaching the ninth age, had to condense a divine纹 before they could advance to the Insect King realm. This single hurdle had killed countless ninth-age Lord-level insect warriors.

But consuming a Law fruit would allow them to rely on the Law fruit's ability to create a divine纹 out of thin air, essentially allowing an insect warrior to directly enter the Insect King realm.

Legend has it that even the divine纹 essential for Insect Kings were created by the Natural True God mimicking Law divine纹.

Throughout the entire Natural Star Realm, there were dozens or even hundreds of divine-grade fruits in each original energy cycle. However, in countless original energy cycles, the Flame Spider Kingdom had recorded no more than twenty types of Law-grade, divinely bestowed seeds.

On average, less than one plant was available for every 100 original energy cycles, demonstrating its preciousness.

The divine-grade fruit compendium recorded the various effects of Law fruits, and each one was an existence that defied the heavens.

Legend had it that their Flame Spider Merchants' Pokeweed Ancestral Tree was a Law-grade, divinely bestowed seed, granting an extremely heaven-defying spatial ability.

Unfortunately, in a certain era, the starship connecting to the divine power barrier was reclaimed by the Natural True God. Since then, they had been unable to connect with the Pokeweed Ancestral Land. Otherwise, it might have been able to obtain a Law-grade Pokeweed fruit!

Ginkgo Lord focused its attention on the four-leaf clover-shaped divine纹 on its forehead, feeling somewhat strange. It already had a divine纹 on its forehead. Could it directly become an Insect King after advancing to the ninth age in the future? If that were the case, that would be for the best, but it felt that things weren't that simple.

It sensed the ability contained within the four-leaf clover-shaped divine纹, and then its expression gradually changed, starting with joy, then disappointment, then strangeness, and finally shock and awe. “This—”

Ginkgo Lord discovered that the divine-grade Lucky Fruit was not quite what it had imagined. It could even be said that it was vastly different from its expectations.

In fact, it and Azure Maple and Purple Cloud had made some guesses about the fruit produced by the Lucky Clover based on Fourleaf's luck.

Although it wasn't explicitly stated, everyone believed that the divine-grade Lucky Fruit's ability was related to luck.

After all, who had luck as good as Fourleaf's?

Being born under a divinely bestowed flower was one thing, but it wasn't unheard of in the history of original energy cycles.

But encountering a divinely bestowed seed while passing by, having beast warriors send divinely bestowed seeds while playing by the sea, encountering divinely bestowed seeds while going out to play, and even having a divinely bestowed seed blown onto the seed tree at its doorstep while sheltering from a typhoon was just too much.

It had even heard that spiders within the kingdom were speculating about whether Fourleaf's next divinely bestowed seed would be washed over by the waves or carried over by a bird.

Although divine-grade fruits related to luck were rare, they weren't nonexistent. A Law-grade fruit called the Peach Blossom Fruit had appeared in history, and it could make an insect's luck worse.

Insects that ate the fruit and used the ability on other insects would cause them to experience various misfortunes. It had originally thought that Fourleaf's divine-grade Lucky Fruit's ability would be similar, but it was completely different.

Ginkgo Lord frowned. It crawled out of the main chamber and went to the adjacent room. Inside the room were rows of bookshelves filled with metal-made books. Each page of these books was not only as thin as a cicada's wing but also made of king-grade metal, so they could remain in their original state even after billions of years.

It walked to the divine-grade fruit compendium. It was already very familiar with the divine-grade fruit compendium and had read it countless times when bored. It was very familiar with the fruits in the book.

The divine-grade fruit compendium was divided into ten volumes, each with 1000 pages on both sides, each page recording the divine-grade fruit's tree species, production years, effects, and the insect race it belonged to.

It pulled out the third volume and flipped through it. After seeing the record of one of the divine-grade fruits,

it immediately understood and then put this volume of the divine-grade fruit compendium into its silk pouch, carrying it and leaving the nest chamber.

Ginkgo Lord had emerged from seclusion. It summoned the lords to gather under the Sea Soul Fir divinely bestowed seed, saying that there was a major event concerning the kingdom's future development to discuss. This news was quickly conveyed to several lords by Tiger Cane Mountain Lord.

Many knowledgeable lords and Purple Cloud Mountain Lord and the others also rushed to the Abyss.

Fourleaf followed Purple Cloud Mountain Lord and the others to the Abyss.

Fourleaf followed behind Purple Cloud Mountain Lord and the others, asking, “Purple Cloud Mountain Lord, Tiger Cane Mountain Lord informed everyone that Ginkgo Lord has emerged from seclusion. Ginkgo Lord should be announcing the fruit's effect, right?”

Purple Cloud Mountain Lord: “Probably. Otherwise, it wouldn't have summoned everyone to gather under the Sea Soul Fir divinely bestowed seed.”

Although Purple Cloud Mountain Lord and the others found it a little strange to gather under the divinely bestowed seed tree, they didn't care much, since the Sea Soul Fir divinely bestowed seed grew on the great mountain of the Abyss.

“Then Purple Cloud Mountain Lord, do you think Ginkgo Lord will awaken the Dragon Scale skill?” If Ginkgo Lord awakened the Dragon Scale skill, it would benefit everyone. If it couldn't awaken the Dragon Scale skill, then the Purple Cloud Merchant Guild's losses would be a bit large.

“I don't know,” Purple Cloud Mountain Lord shook its antennae. It didn't have much confidence in this matter itself. After all, half a square of Dragon Scale Soil was somewhat rare compared to a divine-grade, divinely bestowed seed. If they could find more than half a square of Dragon Scale Soil, it might be a sure thing to add another skill to the divine-grade fruit.

The group chatted and met up with Azure Maple Lord and the others halfway, and then they went to the kingdom's Abyss together. Everyone gathered under the Sea Soul Fir divinely bestowed seed tree with anticipation and determination.