Natural God's Gift

The Bitter Pear Lord couldn't help but say, "Lord Tongquan, isn't this price a bit too expensive?"

"Expensive?" Lord Tongquan shook his antennae. "Not at all. You must understand that divine-grade fruits that grant wood-type abilities are the most expensive among all seven elemental divine-grade fruits.

Its effect is also very special, as it can create food for the insectoids, ensuring that the insect warriors will never go hungry under any circumstances."

"Moreover, ordinary wood-type abilities might still awaken further, but this kind of wood-type ability rarely has a chance to awaken."

"Think about it, this can turn anything into a mochi-like substance, not only eliminating obstacles,

but also creating food to feed ordinary mantises."

In fact, during the last Primal Force reincarnation period, more insect kings bought this ability before leaving the Star Realm. Abilities like those of the Mochi-Mochi Fruit are very popular among peak insect kings, but it's not appropriate to tell that to Lord Bitter Pear and the others.

"This—"

Lord Bitter Pear was somewhat tempted. If they could obtain a relatively rare ability suitable for managing their territory, it might not be unacceptable.

Most importantly, their tribe's output of divine-grade, divinely bestowed seeds indeed had a surplus. They couldn't finish eating them all themselves, and they couldn't possibly let the divine-grade, divinely bestowed seeds lie idle. In this situation, who wouldn't sell?

Its large compound eyes looked at Lord Fragrant Pear, wanting to see what it would say.

Lord Fragrant Pear pondered for a moment and said, "What price are your Flame Spider Merchants preparing to offer for the divine-grade Golden Luan Fruit?

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Lord Tongquan looked at Lord Fragrant Pear, then at Lord Bitter Pear, and cautiously quoted a price: "I heard the last divine-grade Golden Luan Fruit sold for 920,000 Primal Stones? I think that price is a bit too high. How about 900,000 Primal Stones?"

The divine-grade Golden Luan Fruit isn't a very good divine-grade fruit. The consumption conditions are harsh, the effect isn't very obvious, and it's not a very popular gold-type fruit. If possible, Lord Tongquan naturally wanted to haggle.

"900,000 Primal Stones..." The two lords silently calculated. That's 20,000 Primal Stones. Compared to the total amount of over 900,000, it doesn't sound like much, but when listed separately, it's a lot.

An ordinary mountain-lord-level insect warrior only produces about 30,000 Primal Stones per year. A discount of 20,000 per fruit,

seven fruits would be 140,000 Primal Stones cheaper. That's a lot of money.

Seeing their hesitant expressions, Lord Tongquan guessed what they were thinking, so he opened the Divine Forbidden Box and showed them the divine-grade Mochi-Mochi Fruit inside, proving that the divine-grade fruit was real.

Then, he pressed on: "Lord Fragrant Pear, Lord Bitter Pear, if possible, I would like to establish a long-term divine-grade fruit trading agreement with you."

"A long-term divine-grade fruit trading agreement?" The two lords saw the Divine Forbidden Box open and leaned over to examine the large mochi inside, feeling the rich wood-type Primal Energy fluctuations. Their emotions were stirred for a moment before they calmed down.

Lord Fragrant Pear asked doubtfully, "Lord Tongquan, do you mean trading divine-grade Primal Force food for divine-grade fruits, or trading divine-grade fruits for each other?"

Lord Tongquan said confidently, "Either way works."

Lord Bitter Pear's eyes lit up: "Lord Tongquan, could it be that this divine-grade Mochi-Mochi Fruit is produced in your kingdom's territory?"

"No, no, no. This isn't produced in our kingdom's territory. Our kingdom itself doesn't produce divine-grade fruits.

However, our kingdom's insect veins have extensive connections and can search for many divine-grade fruits. As long as you are willing, we can continuously offer various divine-grade fruits you desire for trade."

Their Flame Spider Kingdom wouldn't say that they had divine-grade, divinely bestowed seeds, not because they were afraid that other insect tribes would covet their divine-grade, divinely bestowed seeds.

The output of any divine-grade, divinely bestowed seed is limited. If they said their kingdom possessed divine-grade, divinely bestowed seeds, they would inevitably be like the current Saber Mantis Tribe, with waves of insect warriors demanding to buy divine-grade fruits.

For their Flame Spider Kingdom, the output wasn't even enough for them to eat themselves, so why would they take it out for trade?

Therefore, they usually boasted that their insect veins were extensive and could trade for divine-grade fruits from other places.

If they wanted to trade with you, it meant they happened to have a divine-grade fruit they traded for from someone else.

They would casually trade it to you. If they didn't want to trade with you, they would say they hadn't traded for a divine-grade fruit from other insect claws.

In this way, the choice was in the claws of the Flame Spider Merchant Guild.

Lord Bitter Pear was slightly disappointed when he first heard Lord Tongquan say that their Flame Spider Kingdom didn't have any divine-grade, divinely bestowed seeds, but his eyes lit up again when he heard Lord Tongquan say that they could obtain divine-grade fruits from other places.

"Lord Tongquan, are you saying that besides this divine-grade Mochi-Mochi Fruit, there are other divine-grade fruits?"

"That's natural. We Flame Spiders travel back and forth across the continent and can always learn about some divine-grade fruits."

"Oh? Are other divine-grade fruits also useful to us?" Lord Fragrant Pear didn't quite believe Lord Tongquan's words. These Flame Spider Merchants were always prone to bragging.

Lord Tongquan tapped his claws and said, "Coincidentally, there are indeed a few divine-grade fruits suitable for your Saber Mantis Tribe,

but the trading rights for most of them are in the claws of other Flame Spiders.

I won't mention the divine-grade fruits that don't have trading quotas in the short term. There's a divine-grade fruit called Flowing Gold Fruit,

which can liquefy metal, which is quite suitable for insects with gold-type talents."

"That ability sounds alright," Lord Fragrant Pear's eyes lit up. The Mochi-Mochi Fruit grants wood-type abilities, which would be useful for Lord Bitter Pear, who has awakened wood-type talent?

But it had awakened gold-type talent, so it couldn't use it. And judging from Lord Tongquan's tone, this ability called Flowing Gold was a gold-type ability.

Lord Bitter Pear, who was on the side, was also very moved. It also opened its mouth and said, "Lord Tongquan, since we have nothing to do, why don't you introduce the types and quantities of divine-grade fruits you know?"

Lord Tongquan didn't respond, but instead turned the topic back to the main point: "Let's settle the current transaction first. What do you two lords think of my proposal and price?"

At this moment, Lord Fragrant Pear and Lord Bitter Pear had also thought it through. Instead of arguing over those 20,000 Primal Stones, it would be better to build a good relationship with the Flame Spider Merchants.

Putting aside everything else, if they could trade with the other party for Flowing Gold Fruit, it would be like they suddenly had two more abilities, which was already a very good thing.

"We agree to this price. Divine-grade Golden Luan Fruit is 900,000 per fruit.

Divine-grade Mochi-Mochi Fruit is 2,400,000 Primal Stones per fruit. That is, one divine-grade Mochi-Mochi Fruit for two divine-grade Golden Luan Fruits,

and we'll give you an additional 600,000 Primal Stones worth of divinely bestowed Primal Force food?"

Lord Tongquan said, "If possible, I would like to trade for three divine-grade Golden Luan Fruits, and I'll give you an additional 300,000 Primal Stones worth of divinely bestowed Primal Force food."

"This..." The divine-grade Golden Luan Fruit only produces a batch every 17 years. Their tribe needs quite a few divine-grade fruits themselves. They originally wanted to spare one to trade to the Rhinoceros Beetle Merchant Guild, since they came first. Lord Tongquan now wants three at once, which is a bit difficult to explain to the Rhinoceros Beetle Merchant Guild!

Seeing their hesitation, Lord Tongquan glanced at Fourleaf, who immediately understood. It emitted mental thoughts: "How about this? Our Flame Spider Kingdom will use one divine-grade Mochi-Mochi Fruit, plus one divine-grade Flowing Gold Fruit, to trade for three divine-grade Golden Luan Fruits.

The price of a divine-grade Flowing Gold Fruit is 800,000 Primal Stones. You'll give us an additional 500,000 Primal Stones worth of divinely bestowed Primal Force food.

Or trade for four divine-grade Golden Luan Fruits, and we'll give you an additional 400,000 Primal Stones worth of divinely bestowed Primal Force food."

"This –" Exchanging three Divine-quality Golden Luan Fruits for two different Divine-quality fruits seems like a good deal?

It must be said that Si Ye's proposal did indeed make the two lords' hearts flutter.

As for the Rhinoceros Beetle Merchant Guild? When it came to actual benefits, they expressed, who is the Rhinoceros Beetle Merchant Guild? Get lost!

"Then let's go with the second option. We'll use three Divine-quality Golden Luan Fruits to exchange for a Divine-quality Sticky Rice Fruit and a Divine-quality Flowing Gold Fruit, and we'll also compensate your merchant guild with 500,000 origin stones worth of God-bestowed Origin Power food."

"Good, good, good." Getting this result, Lord Tongquan was extremely satisfied. Anyway, no matter what, he should be able to get one of the three Divine-quality Golden Luan Fruits, right?

It's just that the Blade Mantis Tribe has already used and sold all of the previous batch of Divine-quality Golden Luan Fruits, so this transaction will have to wait more than ten years to be completed.

As for the Divine-quality Sticky Rice Fruit that Si Ye and the others brought, it was actually just to show it to the Blade Mantis Tribe.

Otherwise, such a precious thing would definitely not be handed over to the other party so many years in advance based on their empty words. What if the other party goes back on their word and breaks the contract? Wouldn't they suffer a loss?

However, although it is a verbal agreement, unless there are special circumstances, neither party will easily break the contract.

Seeing that the deal was settled, everyone relaxed. Lord Fragrant Pear waved his claws, signaling the Mountain Lord-level Blade Mantis warriors waiting in the distance to bring over the hunted deer to entertain Si Ye and the others.

Lord Bitter Pear had always been very curious about the types of Divine-quality fruits mastered by the Flame Spider Kingdom. He directly asked: "Lord Tongquan, just now we were talking about the types of Divine-quality fruits you know. I wonder if you can introduce them one by one?"

"Yes, yes." Lord Fragrant Pear also said: "Just like you said before, if there are any Divine-quality fruits that we also need, we can continue to extend the transaction."

"Haha," Lord Tongquan said somewhat proudly: "Actually, we don't have too many Divine-quality fruit trading rights at the moment. I'll just casually tell you a few.

But let me make it clear in advance that different merchant guilds in our Flame Spider Kingdom have different Divine-quality fruit trading rights.

I only know a little information about these few Divine-quality fruits, and I don't have the trading rights. Even we ourselves have difficulty trading for them, so don't have too high expectations."

The two Blade Mantis Lords didn't mind and said: "It's okay, we'll just broaden our horizons."

Hearing them say this, Lord Tongquan boasted: "One of our kingdom's merchant guilds has also negotiated a Divine-quality fruit that grants mental abilities, priced at over 2 million origin stones."

"A Divine-quality fruit that grants mental abilities?" The two lords were overjoyed. The mental system is possessed by all Origin Power warriors.

It belongs to a subordinate branch derived from the Soul system, and its effect is very great.

"Lord Tongquan, the demand for this kind of Divine-quality fruit is very high among insect warriors. I wonder how many trading rights your kingdom has? Can you find a way to get two over here?"

Lord Tongquan said somewhat embarrassedly: "The two lords, it's not that I don't want to trade this Divine-quality fruit, it's just that the trading rights are not in my claws. I can't even eat it myself, let alone trade it to outsiders."

"Is that so!" Hearing Lord Tongquan say this, they were also quite disappointed.

However, Lord Tongquan also said before that he knew of these few Divine-quality fruits, but he himself did not have the trading rights, so they could not force anything at this moment.

He continued: "As for another kind of Divine-quality fruit, I might be able to get one or two in the future."

"What kind of fruit is it?"

"A Divine-quality fruit that grants Earth-type talent. There are no goods in my claws at the moment. If you need it, you might be able to get one in twenty or thirty years."

"Earth-type? That's not bad either. How many origin stones do you need?"

"As you also know, Divine-quality fruits that grant talent abilities are generally more expensive. It also comes with an effective ability. Cumulatively, if you pay with Divine-quality fruits, it will require 10 million origin stones."

"Hiss, so expensive?" The two Blade Mantis Lords gasped when they heard this price.

A Golden Luan Fruit is only 900,000 origin stones each, and there are only seven in a batch. This Divine-quality fruit that grants Earth-type talent costs almost the output of their two batches of Golden Luan Fruits. This spider is a bit too dark.

"There's no way," Lord Tongquan explained: "That's the price, and it's still in short supply."

The selling price of Divine-quality Amethyst Grapes among the original tribes on Dragon Bamboo Continent is 8 million origin stones.

When it comes to their Flame Spider Kingdom, if you eat the first one yourself, you can buy one at a 10% discount, but if you want to trade the second one and resell it to other insects, you can only buy it at a price of 8 million. In this process, you work so hard, you always have to earn something, so the price is raised to 10 million origin stones.

"This requires the output of 12 Divine-quality Golden Luan Fruits. Can't afford it, can't afford it." The two Blade Mantis Lords waved their antennae in a mess.

Before, when their Divine-quality God-bestowed seeds had no output, they felt very poor and couldn't afford anything. Now that the Divine-quality God-bestowed seeds have begun to produce, they still can't afford the Divine-quality fruits they want. It feels like the Divine-quality God-bestowed seeds have been produced in vain.

Lord Bitter Pear hopefully asked: "Lord Tongquan, are there any Divine-quality fruits that grant Metal-type talent or Wood-type talent?"

For their Blade Mantis Tribe, what they want most is a Divine-quality fruit that grants Wood-type talent or Metal-type talent.

They themselves have the potential for Wood-type talent and Metal-type talent. At the Mountain Lord level, they only awakened one of the systems. As long as they eat a Divine-quality fruit that grants these two types of talent, they will definitely be able to awaken the other talent.

In this way, they will be able to maximize the advantages of their race.

"Yes, but the price is even more expensive, requiring the output of 15 Divine-quality Golden Luan Fruits," Lord Tongquan replied to them.

Lord Bitter Pear: "..—"

Lord Fragrant Pear: "..—"

They originally thought that 7 Golden Luan Fruits could sell for 6.3 million origin stones, which would be enough for them to use. Why does it seem like they still don't have enough origin stones?

Lord Fragrant Pear said somewhat suspiciously: "Lord Tongquan, you're not just bragging, are you? Are there really so many kinds of Divine-quality fruits?"

It felt that this Flame Spider might be deliberately boasting about some expensive Divine-quality fruits to exaggerate the strength of their Flame Spider Kingdom.

"There are so many kinds of Divine-quality fruits that grant talent. Why don't you eat them yourselves?"

"Can't afford it!" Lord Tongquan said bitterly.

"However," Lord Tongquan changed the subject: "Just because I, an insect, am poor, doesn't mean our kingdom is poor."

At this moment, Si Ye also took a small step forward: "The strength of our kingdom is beyond doubt." As soon as the words fell, the origin power around him vibrated, and the seven elemental origin powers surrounded him, causing the surrounding environment to resonate.

Around him, the temperature rose, water vapor condensed, earth and stones vibrated, metal trembled, wind moved and clouds led, thunder faintly appeared, and vegetation flourished.

These situations almost appeared at the same time. The two Blade Mantis Lords widened their eyes. They had never seen an insect warrior with seven elemental talents before.

At this moment, they suddenly understood why Lord Tongquan would say that this Mountain Lord named Si Ye would be the next leader of the Flame Spider Kingdom.

At the same time, they also had a new understanding of the strength of the Flame Spider Kingdom.

Just then, the Blade Mantis warrior who was guarding the tribe's entrance came to report that the Rhinoceros Beetle Merchant Guild had also arrived.