Natural God's Gift

Torch Mountain Master was running quickly towards the forest carrying a large water tank on its back. Four Leaf and Bai Zhi stood on its head, waving their little claws in unison, like triumphant generals returning from victory. If the large tank on Torch Mountain Master's back didn't have a stone lid tightly secured with spider silk, they would have been drenched.

“Purple Cloud Mountain Master—”

“Purple Cloud Mountain Master—” The two little spiders started calling out from afar, not caring whether their weak mental strength could be sensed by other spiders.

“Purple Cloud,” Torch Mountain Master's mental strength was stronger, allowing it to communicate with Purple Cloud Mountain Master from a great distance.

Purple Cloud Mountain Master stood calmly in place: “What's the rush? Are you being chased by dogs?”

“No,” Torch Mountain Master said, setting down the water tank in front of Purple Cloud Mountain Master. Green Field Mountain Master and Dragon Bud Iron Thread had already returned with their hunted food.

Torch Mountain Master cut to the chase: “When we were collecting water from a large lake, we discovered that two-thirds of the lake's surface was covered in duckweed, with a quantity exceeding a hundred million plants. We suspect there might be a chance of a God-Given Seed of duckweed being born there.

We came to ask if you want to search it once?”

“God-Given Seed of duckweed?” Purple Cloud Mountain Master straightened up slightly, carefully considering the matter in its mind.

“Here, this.” Bai Zhi held a small duckweed plant in its claw for Purple Cloud Mountain Master and Green Field Mountain Master to see.

The spiders, who had originally planned to search for inherited memories, took a closer look. It was a green plant about two to three millimeters in size,

with leaves that were nearly elliptical, with two indistinct veins on the leaf surface, and a three- to four-millimeter-long thread-like root. They had never paid much attention to such a small plant before.

Green Field Mountain Master and the others were dumbfounded: “Such a small plant can also give birth to a God-Given Seed? Impossible, right?”

Bai Zhi couldn't wait to say: “Purple Cloud Mountain Master, let's go look for it, a God-Given Seed.”

Purple Cloud Mountain Master thought for a moment, then corrected the mistake in Torch Mountain Master's words: “Torch, you're wrong.

First of all, God-Given Seeds are gifts from the gods of nature, and they don't necessarily appear just because there are a lot of them.

Secondly, it is spring now, which is the growing season for duckweed. Even if there is a God-Given Seed, it has probably already begun to sprout and grow.

Moreover, duckweed is the smallest flowering plant in the Star Realm, and the Origin Power food it produces is small and scarce. The value of ordinary plant seeds is not as good, so it is not worth the effort to find it.”

“Okay,” Torch Mountain Master wasn't actually disappointed. The most disappointed was Bai Zhi. Purple Cloud Mountain Master's words made it clear that it didn't want to waste time in this mountain forest, and it also felt that duckweed was indeed a bit too small.

Seeing Bai Zhi's dejected appearance, Four Leaf couldn't bear it and asked: “Purple Cloud Mountain Master, even the worst God-Given Seed is still a God-Given Seed, right? Isn't it really worth searching for?

What if there is a divine-grade one among them?”

Hearing Four Leaf's words, Purple Cloud Mountain Master's heart stirred. When Four Leaf said this, it couldn't help but think of Four Leaf's God-Given Seed of lucky grass. Who would have thought that a divine-grade one would appear among the most common weed-type God-Given Seeds?

At this moment, Green Field Mountain Master emitted mental energy: “Purple Cloud, didn't the Blood Vine Lord say that it would trade for any God-Given Seed? Do you think it would work if we found a duckweed God-Given Seed and took it to trade?

？”

Purple Cloud Mountain Master looked at Green Field Mountain Master as if it were an idiot: “It's not like the deal hasn't been finalized yet, even if the Venus flytrap is the worst God-Given Seed, it's still more than ten times better than the duckweed God-Given Seed. If you were me, would you trade it?”

“Uh,” Green Field Mountain Master thought about it from another perspective: “I wouldn't trade it either!”

Torch Mountain Master couldn't help but say: “Purple Cloud, let's go look for it. If we really find a God-Given Seed, even if no one wants it, we can still exchange it for a sum of Origin Points in the kingdom, right?”

“Yes, yes.” Dragon Bud, Iron Thread, including Peony and Paeonia, echoed. They all saw that Bai Zhi wanted a God-Given Seed, but they could only offer support. Even Torch Mountain Master and Green Field Mountain Master could only make suggestions. The final decision still had to be made by the caravan leader, Purple Cloud Mountain Master.

Seeing everyone's expectant gazes, Purple Cloud Mountain Master couldn't bear to be the bad spider that disappointed the little spider: “Then we can only search for one hour. If we don't find anything in one hour, we'll set off again, and we'll have to travel an extra hour tonight until tomorrow morning to catch up.”

It wasn't that Purple Cloud Mountain Master was unkind, but as the caravan leader, it couldn't be too sentimental. It needed to consider how much distance it could cover each day, how far it was from other tribes, how long it would take to arrive, and whether the Origin Power in the Origin Power food on its back would be lost.

It couldn't stay in one place every few days for the sake of that small probability and worthless plant seeds.

It had to be responsible for the six or seven large and small Watarase Flame Spiders in the caravan that didn't produce Life Seeds. Even if it agreed to search for the God-Given Seed, it made it clear to everyone that they would have to travel an extra hour tomorrow.

“Yay,” the little spiders cheered, and the big spiders also revealed a hint of a smile in their mental thoughts.

Purple Cloud Mountain Master ordered: “Green Field and Dragon Bud stay here. Torch, Iron Thread, and I will take the prey to the lake and eat while searching.”

“Understood.” Everyone answered in unison.

Torch Mountain Master left the large water tank here and led the way towards the lake, carrying the brown bear hunted by Green Field Mountain Master.

Iron Thread stretched out its legs to allow Paeonia and Peony to climb onto its back, and closely followed Purple Cloud Mountain Master towards the lake.

When the group of spiders arrived at the lake, a crescent moon was already hanging high in the deep sky. The crescent moon was reflected in the water, as if the entire lake was emitting silver light.

The duckweed that occupied most of the lake's surface had water vapor and dewdrops rolling on it, shining brightly under the refraction of the moonlight.

However, the spider caravan didn't have time to appreciate it. They cut the brown bear into pieces by the lake, devoured the cut pieces of meat, and drank a little lake water to make do with a full meal.

After eating, Purple Cloud Mountain Master began to assign tasks: “Torch, you go to the west side of the lake and search carefully for any God-Given Origin Power plants.

Iron Thread, you go to the south side of the lake and search carefully.

Four Leaf, Bai Zhi, Paeonia, and Peony, you search the lake surface, but be careful, there may be large fish under the lake, don't get eaten.”

“Uh, understood.” Purple Cloud Mountain Master's words were quite scary.

The seven spiders scattered around the lake to check whether there were any duckweed with Origin Power fluctuations on the lake surface.

In fact, this kind of inspection is very troublesome. You know, since the Origin Power of the Myriad Races Continent was revived, there has been a continuous flow of Origin Power overflowing in the air. At this moment, every inch of space in the Star Realm contains Origin Power. Finding a God-Given Seed means sensing the difference between the Origin Power on the God-Given Seed and the Origin Power in the air.

The Origin Power contained in the God-Given Seeds of trees is strong and powerful, so they are relatively easy to find. The God-Given Seeds of herbaceous plants are so inconspicuous and small that they are particularly difficult to find.

This is like looking for a diamond hidden among a vast beach. It is naturally easy to find a diamond the size of a fist on the beach. You can find it just by walking around once.

But if you lose a crushed diamond about the size of a grain of sand on the beach, you can only grope for it inch by inch. The main thing is that you are not sure whether there are diamonds on the beach. You may carefully search it once, but it is just in vain and the loss outweighs the gain. This is also the reason why Purple Cloud Mountain Master is unwilling to waste too much time here. The income and return are not proportional at all.

“Found it!” On the lake, a little spider picked up a duckweed containing Origin Power and happily held it up for everyone to see.