Natural God's Gift

After Four-Leaf arrived on the Zhi Bai Continent, its color changed back to iridescent. Carrying a full load of goods on its back, it arrived at the Flat Stag Beetle tribe it had encountered during its first visit to the Zhi Bai Continent.

It emitted a mental message, calling out to the Flat Stag Beetle warriors inside: "Za Li, Mountain Lord Wei Sui, are you there?"

Unlike last time, this time the mental response from the valley inside the Flat Stag Beetle tribe was very quick.

"Is that Mountain Lord Four-Leaf?"

From the valley, a Flat Stag Beetle warrior with a body reaching over two meters clumsily flew out of the valley.

"Za Li," Four-Leaf greeted, "I'm here again."

"Welcome, welcome, Mountain Lord Four-Leaf, please come in quickly." Za Li warmly invited it in.

Four-Leaf proceeded unhurriedly, elegantly striding forward on its eight spider legs like a gentleman.

Walking alongside Za Li, Four-Leaf took the initiative to chat with it: "Za Li, this season, haven't you gone to look for the God-Given Seeds yet?"

Za Li said dejectedly: "I searched for a while, but there are too many flowers on the mountain.

In spring, the wood and water elemental energy is relatively strong. Even if there are God-Given Seeds, they are difficult to find under the intense suppression of the water and wood elemental energy.

It's better to wait until the fruits ripen in autumn before searching. That way, the probability of finding them will be higher."

"—" After hearing Za Li's words, Four-Leaf was speechless, but it wouldn't argue with him about whether this reasoning was correct. Every insect has its own thoughts and ideas, as long as it's willing to be responsible for its own ideas.

At this moment, Za Li said again: "Mountain Lord Four-Leaf, why did you come so quickly? Usually, the fastest caravans don't arrive until April or May. You're two or three months earlier than the other caravans."

Four-Leaf said without batting an eye: "I'm pioneering new trade routes, so I came a bit faster."

"Oh, oh," Hearing Four-Leaf say this, Za Li no longer suspected anything. Flame Spider merchants were known to run around the continent anyway, so it wouldn't be surprising to see them anywhere.

Four-Leaf entered the interior of the Flat Stag Beetle tribe. It didn't see many Flat Stag Beetle warriors last time, but this time it saw quite a few.

Flat Stag Beetle warriors of all sizes were busily working inside the tribe.

When Four-Leaf arrived, they curiously surrounded it for a while.

Mountain Lord Wei Sui came out to greet it: "Mountain Lord Four-Leaf, what kind of primal force food did you bring this year? Do you have any good stuff?"

"Yes, I have very good things. I wonder if Mountain Lord Wei Sui wants them?"

Four-Leaf took out a spider silk bag from its back armor, opened it, and it was filled with cone chestnuts. It twisted out two, giving one to Za Li and Wei Sui each to taste.

"This is a power-type primal force food produced in a mountain lord-level territory, called Cone Chestnut. Its effect is to permanently strengthen power. One mountain lord-level cone chestnut can permanently increase 10 ke of strength. For insect warriors, it is the most effective primal force food for increasing strength."

"Directly increase strength?" The two insects ate the cone chestnuts with some skepticism. When they ate the cone chestnuts, they also felt the primal energy in their bodies vibrate slightly, but this power was too weak and not obvious, but they could indeed feel that it had increased their strength.

Mountain Lord Wei Sui's eyes lit up: "Mountain Lord Four-Leaf, how many primal stones does each cone chestnut cost?"

Four-Leaf: "This is a bit expensive, the unit price is 6 primal stones per chestnut."

"That's so expensive?" Mountain Lord Wei Sui clicked his tongue. 6 primal stones could buy some lower-quality God-Given primal force food, but the effect of this was indeed good.

"I also obtained a better primal force food."

Four-Leaf took out the Sea Soul Fir Seeds from the spider silk bag on its back and showed them: "Soul-type primal force food, the effect is to strengthen the soul and increase the probability of awakening soul-type abilities. Would you like some?"

"Strengthen the soul?" The two Flat Stag Beetle warriors widened their eyes: "Mountain Lord Four-Leaf, you can even get your hands on such good things?"

Compared to power-type primal force food, soul-type primal force food is even rarer. Only occasionally do plants mutate into soul-type God-Given Seeds.

Very few can be cultivated into ordinary plants to continue, forming large-scale planting, and be able to be bred into life seeds.

"Haha," Four-Leaf laughed, "Mountain Lord Wei Sui, don't underestimate the insect vein relationships of us Flame Spider Merchants. As long as you have primal stones, you can trade for anything from us."

"Yes, yes, yes!" Mountain Lord Wei Sui indeed felt at this moment that the Flame Spider Merchants had wide insect veins, and could even get soul-type primal force food.

Za Li looked around and found that no insect was paying attention to it, so it said: "Mountain Lord Four-Leaf, do you have primal force food for elementary and intermediate young warriors to eat? We want to buy some for the tribe's young warriors to eat."

Four-Leaf said somewhat awkwardly: "No, I only trade in high-end primal force food and God-Given primal force food, and my main customers are usually lord-level insect warriors.

If you want primal force food for elementary and intermediate young warriors to eat, wait for my other clansmen to come over and trade with them!"

"Oh, oh," Wei Sui and Za Li were even more afraid to underestimate it when they heard Four-Leaf's boastful words. The spiders that could independently trade on the continent were indeed extraordinarily wealthy.

Four-Leaf continued: "If you have God-Given primal force food, you can also trade with me."

"This . —"

"Mountain Lord Four-Leaf, do you also have power-type and soul-type God-Given primal force food?" Za Li asked respectfully.

"I don't have that, but I have God-Given primal force food that is no worse than them and suitable for your tribe to eat.

Wood-type, produced from lord-level God-Given Seeds, do you want God-Given Green Maple Seeds?

And metal-type, produced from mountain lord-level God-Given Seeds, God-Given Large Fruit Iron Knife Wood, God-Given Iron Pine Cone.

Life-type, produced from mountain lord-level territory, the effect is pain-weakening God-Given Soapberry — — —"

"Yes, yes, we want them all." Hearing Four-Leaf report various God-Given primal force foods that they needed, they responded excitedly.

Four-Leaf reminded: "Ordinary primal force food is traded for ordinary primal force food, and God-Given primal force food must be traded for God-Given primal force food. I don't know if you have enough God-Given primal force food?"

Mountain Lord Wei Sui hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Mountain Lord Four-Leaf, I'll take you to see our tribe's God-Given Seed."

"Then I'll trouble you." Four-Leaf took out so many God-Given primal force foods, and naturally wanted to show the Flat Stag Beetles its financial resources, otherwise how could this transaction proceed?

Mountain Lord Wei Sui led Four-Leaf deeper into the valley, introducing as he walked: "Our tribe's God-Given Seed is a bit special, Mountain Lord Four-Leaf, you may not have seen it before, and the things it produces are also a bit special."

"Hehe," Four-Leaf chuckled. It had crossed two continents, and traveled through three or four continents. It wouldn't dare to say that it had seen all the God-Given Seeds, but there were very few God-Given Seeds that could really surprise it.

They walked for a while and came to the depths of the valley. On this fertile land in the valley, dense "bamboo poles" rose from the ground, the whole being thick and growing to tens of meters high, appearing very vigorous.

"Bamboo-type God-Given Seed?" At first glance, Four-Leaf thought it was bamboo, but it quickly reacted: "Not bamboo?"

"Mountain Lord Four-Leaf is right," Mountain Lord Wei Sui said: "This is not a bamboo God-Given Seed, but a sugarcane God-Given Seed."

"Sugarcane?" Four-Leaf stepped forward in confusion, looking at the blue-green plant that resembled a bamboo pole. Although these plants were twenty or thirty meters high and had a diameter of forty or fifty centimeters, at first glance it thought it was a Dragon Bamboo God-Given Seed, but it didn't expect it to really be sugarcane.

Sugarcane belongs to the grass family, which is similar to bamboo, but unlike bamboo, sugarcane does not bear fruit.

Its cane is considered its fruit.

Sugarcane juice is juicy and watery, and is a good thing for producing sucrose, but — — ·

Sugarcane is eaten by juicing it. Of course, many insect warriors can also eat the sugarcane residue together, but most of the nutrients in sugarcane are in the juice, right?

Four-Leaf looked at the vast sugarcane forest in front of it. There were thousands of sugarcane stalks in this sugarcane forest. Did they have to cut down all the sugarcane stalks to juice them?

Four-Leaf asked this question: "Mountain Lord Wei Sui, how do you harvest this sugarcane? Do you cut down the sugarcane stalks?"

"No need," Mountain Lord Wei Sui said with a slight sense of pride: "This sugarcane God-Given Seed is my life seed. It has a total of 2353 sugarcane stalks at the mountain lord level."

"These sugarcane tillers can secrete sucrose from the sugarcane stalks. The effect of sucrose is similar to God-Given honey, or even better."

“God-given honey only has two uses: deliciousness and never spoiling for ten thousand years. But my God-given sucrose is not only delicious and won't spoil for ten thousand years, but it can also increase the stamina of insect warriors.”

“Sucrose flowing from sugarcane!” Four-leaf said thoughtfully.

“Yes,” Mountain Master Tailspike took out a metal jar and placed it in front of Four-leaf. The jar was filled with light red honey, exuding a strong aura of God-given primal energy. Mountain Master Tailspike generously motioned for Four-leaf to taste it.

Four-leaf manipulated a strand of spider silk, dipped it in the God-given sucrose, and tasted it. It was indeed a delicious flavor no less than God-given honey, and the God-given sucrose contained even more life-type primal energy than God-given honey.

Mountain Master Tailspike said with considerable pride, “Mountain Master Four-leaf, have you ever seen a similar God-given seed?”

“I have seen a few,” Four-leaf said modestly, “but the products are different.”

Syrup flowing from trees is actually a common occurrence in ordinary plants, due to excess nutrients or a characteristic of the tree itself.

But with God-given seeds, this becomes a controllable behavior.

Four-leaf wasn't lying to Mountain Master Tailspike. It had indeed seen similar God-given seeds. The most familiar was Leader Green Maple's God-given Green Maple Tree seed.

It could produce a maple syrup that could strengthen the lungs, but after the God-given Green Maple Tree seed produced maple syrup, its God-given Green Maple seeds would decrease in production and quantity. Therefore, Leader Green Maple generally wouldn't allow it to produce maple syrup.

There was also the God-given Rubber Tree seed, whose God-given rubber could enhance the elasticity of spider silk when consumed by flame spiders.

Similarly, God-given peach tree seeds and God-given pine tree seeds have similar functions.

“Oh,” Mountain Master Tailspike said upon hearing Four-leaf's words, immediately less smug. So its God-given seed wasn't unique after all?

“Mountain Master Tailspike, how much God-given sucrose can your sugarcane God-given seed produce each year?”

Mountain Master Tailspike said, “The God-given sucrose from my sugarcane God-given seed is not produced annually.”

“If I need it, I can make the sugarcane God-given seed's offshoots produce God-given sucrose. You can have as much as you want, but after the offshoots produce God-given sucrose, they won't produce anything for several years.”

“If you don't let the offshoots produce God-given sucrose, the sucrose inside their sugarcane stalks will accumulate more and more.”

“Understood, understood.” That is to say, the sugarcane God-given seed can accumulate sucrose for production. Each of its offshoots is equivalent to a sugar jar, and you can take sucrose from it whenever you want.

Four-leaf asked, “Then what is the price of your sucrose?”

“Not expensive, not expensive,” Mountain Master Tailspike rubbed its forelegs. “God-given sucrose with the same concentration as God-given honey is a bit more expensive than God-given honey. The price for one kilogram is ten thousand origin stones.”

“That's not expensive?” Four-leaf's forehead was covered in black lines. Converting that, one gram of God-given sucrose costs ten origin stones. Even the unit price of its God-given sea date seeds wasn't that high.

“Mountain Master Four-leaf, you can't say it like that. Compared to other God-given primal force foods, my God-given sucrose won't spoil even after ten thousand years.”

“Moreover, my sucrose production is also low. A dozen sugarcane stalks accumulate for ten years to produce only one kilogram of God-given sucrose.”

“It's in short supply on the Zhibai Continent.”

Four-leaf questioned, “Aren't there other sugarcane God-given seeds on the Zhibai Continent?”

Mountain Master Tailspike chuckled. “Your flame spider merchants travel to many places, so you might know where there are any.”

“Anyway, I haven't heard of any other sugarcane God-given seeds.”

“Alright,” Four-leaf said, “Then how much God-given primal force food do you need?”

Mountain Master Tailspike asked in return, “Mountain Master Four-leaf, how much God-given sucrose do you need?”

Four-leaf said, “I can take as much as you can produce.”

This kind of God-given sucrose doesn't exist yet on the Myriad Race Continent and the Myriad Kingdom Continent. Not to mention the production of one God-given seed, even the production of ten wouldn't be enough to distribute among everyone. Most importantly, God-given sucrose doesn't lose its primal force over time, making it suitable as a long-term reserve commodity.

Four-leaf unloaded the goods from its carapace and placed them one by one in front of Mountain Master Tailspike. “Mountain Master Tailspike, choose whatever you want and I'll give you a quote.”

Four-leaf brought top-quality primal force foods and God-given primal force foods, each deeply attracting Mountain Master Tailspike.

It picked and chose, selecting God-given primal force foods worth forty to fifty thousand origin stones. “Mountain Master Four-leaf, I'll just take this much God-given primal force food.”

“Okay!” Four-leaf calculated and found it was a little less than forty-five thousand origin stones. “Do you want to make it an even forty-five thousand origin stones? It's still two hundred origin stones short.”

“Sure,” Mountain Master Tailspike readily replied. “Mountain Master Four-leaf, I'll have the sugarcane God-given seed produce sucrose now.”

Four-leaf said, “There's no need to rush. How about this? I'll take half a jar first, and the rest, I'll come back next autumn, and you can give me the God-given sucrose then.”

A hint of doubt flashed in Mountain Master Tailspike's eyes. Could it be that Mountain Master Four-leaf wasn't going to sell the sucrose?

However, as long as Four-leaf gave the God-given primal force food, it could do whatever it wanted. If it wasn't in a hurry, why should it be?

Four-leaf added, “Don't you want ordinary primal force food?”

Mountain Master Tailspike asked, “Can I pay for ordinary primal force food with Spider King Notes?”

Four-leaf said, “Let me see them.”

“Okay,” Mountain Master Tailspike took out several Spider King Notes for Four-leaf to inspect. “These are Spider King Notes issued by the Sunflower Spider King of the Watanabe Flame Spider Tribe, with denominations of one thousand origin stones and ten thousand origin stones respectively.”

Four-leaf took the Spider King Notes and inspected them. The style of these Spider King Notes was exactly the same as those on the Fang Tribe Continent. The only two differences were that the primal energy aura on them was very unfamiliar, and the symbol on the Spider King Notes was not a ginkgo leaf, but a blooming sunflower.

Mountain Master Tailspike said, “Silkworm and the others said during their transactions that Spider King Notes can be used to purchase any primal force food.”

“Yes.” Whether it was the Spider King Notes of the Myriad Race Continent or the Spider King Notes of the Zhibai Continent, or even the Spider King Notes from the previous primal force cycle, as long as an insect warrior could produce them, their flame spider merchants had to accept them.

This concerned the reputation of their flame spider merchants for countless primal force cycles.

Moreover, Four-leaf wanted to take a few Spider King Notes for convenience. Four-leaf asked, “Are there God-given Spider King Notes?”

“God-given Spider King Notes?” Mountain Master Tailspike asked in confusion, “Are there such Spider King Notes?”

A thought flashed through Four-leaf's mind. Could it be that there were no God-given Spider King Notes on the Zhibai Continent? Was it because there was an insufficient quantity of God-given primal force food? Or was it deliberately not being used?

Four-leaf chuckled and said, “Maybe I remembered wrongly. It's something our kingdom is preparing to issue, but it hasn't been traded externally yet.”

“Oh.” Mountain Master Tailspike didn't doubt Four-leaf's words. “Then I'll choose another twenty thousand origin stones worth of ordinary primal force food.” Ordinary primal force food was much more abundant than God-given primal force food for the same value. By the time it finished choosing, a small area of Four-leaf's carapace was empty, and Four-leaf had also received Spider King Notes with a face value of twenty thousand origin stones.

It had to be said that the tribes on the Zhibai Continent were much wealthier than the tribes on the Fang Tribe Continent. Any small tribe could easily purchase sixty to seventy thousand origin stones worth of various primal force foods.

On the Myriad Race Continent, tribes like Blood Vine Lake, which had some scale, were very stingy when spending money, far less generous than these tribes.

Mountain Master Tailspike took 45,000 origin stones worth of God-given primal force food and 20,000 origin stones worth of ordinary primal force food. It paid for the ordinary primal force food with Spider King Notes with a face value of 20,000 origin stones.

As for the 45,000 origin stones worth of God-given primal force food, of course, it couldn't just be based on its word. Four-leaf took half a jar of God-given sucrose to eat on the road.

For the remaining 40,000 origin stones, it wove a contract with spider silk, stating that it would come back here after the autumn harvest at the end of next year to purchase the remaining 4 kilograms of God-given sucrose.

Then, Mountain Master Tailspike and Four-leaf left their respective primal energy auras, which were like fingerprints, unique to each insect and very easy to identify.

After completing the transaction with Mountain Master Tailspike, Four-leaf left the Flat Stag Beetle Tribe and headed to the next tribe.