Natural God's Gift

Several large spiders were hiding in the woods, resting and sheltering from the scorching sun. Only when dusk approached and the sun began to set, gradually lowering the ground temperature, did the large spiders slowly awaken and emerge from the forest.

However, they didn't immediately continue their journey. Having just woken up, they needed to fill their bellies. Large spiders could go without food or drink for half a year in a dormant state, but constantly traveling across the continent would expend a lot of energy.

Lord Ziyun Mountain began instructing the spiders: "Greenland, take Longya and Tiexian to hunt."

"Okay," The spiders, relieved of the primal energy food on their backs, moved very quickly. Lord Greenland Mountain, along with Longya and Tiexian, vanished into the vast mountains and forests in an instant.

Lord Ziyun Mountain: "Torch, go fetch some water and search the mountains and forests for any good plant seeds."

Spiders also need to drink water, and when they don't come across streams or rivers, they have to send spiders to fetch water.

"Okay." As Flame Spider merchants, they wouldn't miss any opportunity to increase their profits. Occasionally, some plants of good quality could be found in nature, and they would collect the seeds of these plants.

The top-quality plant seeds would be brought back to the kingdom for cultivation, while those of slightly lower quality, but not needed by them, would be sold to other tribes at high prices.

Siyue quickly climbed onto Lord Torch Mountain's carapace: "Lord Torch Mountain, I'll go with you."

"Me too, me too," Baizhi hurriedly followed suit, scrambling onto Lord Torch Mountain's carapace.

Lord Torch Mountain said grumpily, "What are you two little spiders doing following me?"

Baizhi: "We want to help too."

Siyue: "Help too."

Lord Torch Mountain: "You want to help? It would be good enough if you didn't cause trouble."

Having said that, it didn't shake the two little spiders off. The weight of the two little spiders was almost nothing to it. Having unloaded the goods from its carapace, it could easily carry a hundred such little spiders.

Standing on Lord Torch Mountain's carapace, Baizhi cheerfully waved its small pedipalps to bid farewell to Shaoyao and Mudan: "Shaoyao, Mudan, you must stay here obediently. We're going to find God-given seeds!"

"God-given, God-given." Siyue, carrying the large conch shell, looked like a silly hippopotamus, still jumping on Lord Torch Mountain's head.

"You childish fellow." Shaoyao and Mudan secretly rolled their eyes. They had followed merchant caravans before and knew that the process of searching for plant seeds was very boring, so they preferred to stay here obediently.

"You stupid spider, your broken conch shell hit my head." Lord Torch Mountain fell into deep contemplation about its spider life. Siyue didn't seem this stupid before. How did it become so much dumber after spending a few months in the kingdom?

Was this a problem with the brains of the original Flame Spider clan, or had it become stupid from spending too much time with other stupid spiders?

Lord Torch Mountain swept its mental energy across the smug Baizhi, and immediately had the answer in its heart.

Siyue was scolded and immediately became obedient.

"Hold on tight, we're leaving." Lord Torch Mountain moved its eight legs and plunged into the mountains and forests.

Now was the time when vegetation was flourishing, and entire mountains and forests were soaked in greenery. Standing in the mountains, it was difficult to find direction for a time.

Siyue and Baizhi looked at the green mountains and seemed a little excited: "Lord Torch Mountain, where should we go first? Are we going to find God-given seeds?"

"Let's see where there is a water source first." Lord Torch Mountain didn't hold any hope for finding God-given seeds.

This mountain forest was very close to the Flower Mosquito tribe. They had the ability to fly, and it only took them two or three hours to get here from Bloodvine Lake. Every autumn and winter, they would definitely search these mountains once, without giving up any detail.

Perhaps the Venus flytrap God-given seed was found in this area.

Moreover, it was still spring, and even if there were God-given seeds, they should have fallen to the ground and sprouted.

Being able to find some high-yielding large trees would already be a good choice, but the Flower Mosquito warriors weren't stupid.

If there really were high-yielding trees, they would have collected and cultivated them long ago. Would they still leak out to the outside world? So, they most likely wouldn't find anything.

Every time Lord Torch Mountain passed a mountain, it would roughly scan the mountain's situation with its mental energy.

But even if it occasionally encountered some prey, it wouldn't move its claws. Catching prey was Greenland's business, and it wouldn't do anything superfluous to interfere. It only needed to complete its own task.

It took Siyue and Baizhi around seven or eight mountains, centered on the forest where they had rested before. As expected, there were no large trees worth cultivating in this area. Fortunately, it finally found a large lake.

Lord Torch Mountain ran to the lakeside, and Siyue couldn't wait to ask: "Lord Torch Mountain, did you find the God-given seed?"

Lord Torch Mountain: "...— —"

"There is no God-given seed, I'm going to fetch water and go back."

"Ah?" The two little spiders' sixteen big eyes were full of disappointment. They thought the process of searching for plant seeds would be very interesting, requiring inch-by-inch exploration like an adventure. They didn't expect it to end after just passing by, without any sense of anticipation or mystery.

Baizhi asked unwillingly: "Lord Torch Mountain, shouldn't we look more carefully?"

"No time." The nearby tribes had spent two seasons, autumn and winter, searching the mountains. It would be stupid for it to search carefully. This vast mountain forest, even if it used its mental energy to explore inch by inch, it wouldn't be able to finish in a year. If it were so easy to find God-given seeds, why would they do business? They would directly trade in God-given seeds.

Lord Torch Mountain's primal energy surged between its claws, and it gently tapped the soil on the ground. A stone vat the size of one meter slowly took shape in the eyes of Siyue and Baizhi.

Lord Torch Mountain walked to the lakeside. It was spring, and the lake surface was covered with rapidly multiplying duckweed. Layers of duckweed occupied two-thirds of the water area.

Lord Torch Mountain lifted the stone vat and pushed aside the duckweed on the surface of the lake, pouring the clear lake water into the stone vat.

Siyue and Baizhi quietly watched Lord Torch Mountain fill the vat to eighty percent full, preparing to carry it on its back and take it back.

Baizhi looked at the lake surface thoughtfully. It suddenly emitted a strong mental thought: "Lord Torch Mountain!"

"What's wrong?" Lord Torch Mountain was almost startled by it. It looked around, but didn't find any danger.

Baizhi: "I remember Lord Qingfeng once said that God-given seeds are very rare, and there may not be one in a million plants, right?"

"That's right, God-given seeds are extremely rare. They are a gift from the God of Nature, and only insects favored by the God of Nature have a chance to obtain them." Lord Torch Mountain was puzzled, why was it bringing this up?

Baizhi, hearing Lord Torch Mountain's affirmative words, excitedly raised its claws and pointed to the lake surface: "Lord Torch Mountain, then how many duckweed plants do you think are on this lake surface? Fifty million plants, eighty million plants? Or one hundred million plants?

Even if one God-given seed appears in ten million ordinary plants, then in theory, there should be ten God-given seeds being bred here, right?"

Lord Torch Mountain was stunned. It had never thought about this question before. No, duckweed only grows to be one or two millimeters in size. Even knotgrass is ten times better than it. Who would pay attention to it?

"This—"

"That what— —."

"There should be some possibility, right— — — —" Lord Torch Mountain answered hesitantly. What is duckweed good for? Even if there is a God-given seed, so what?

With its pitiful and weak branches and leaves, the value of the fruit produced is probably not even as good as a slightly better herbaceous plant life seed, no, probably not even as good as an ordinary morning glory life seed, let alone compared to the many top-quality plant seeds in their kingdom.

"Should we go look?" Siyue and Baizhi were excited. They felt that this world had opened up a new world for them.

"Ziyun is waiting for us to go back." Lord Torch Mountain didn't want to go looking. The Venus flytrap God-given seed could at least be considered a little useful, but duckweed was really useless. Even if it was a God-given seed, it wouldn't be as good as the worst plant life seed on the ground. It had traveled the continent for so many years and had never heard of any insect tribe using duckweed as a life seed.

"Shall we stay here to look for it?" Since learning that Siyue had three God-given seeds, Baizhi was very eager to obtain a God-given seed. Now that the opportunity was in front of it, how could it bear to give up? It really wanted to improve.

"That won't do," It was late in the evening, and if the two little spiders stayed here, they might be eaten by some animal without even knowing it.

Lord Torch Mountain: "Let's go back first and discuss it with Ziyun. If we stay here for too long, it will be worried."

"Okay, let's go, let's go." Baizhi was already a little impatient. Siyue was relatively better,

After all, it already had three God-given life seeds and had seen transactions of Venus flytrap God-given seeds worth millions of primal stones. The insect that had seen the world was still a little different.