Dawn Spider

Chapter 124 Pokeweed Fruit Success
4 month 19 day,
Summer has arrived on the tropical islands.

On a rainy night, Jin returned to his cave to rest.

Whoosh~ Whoosh~ Whoosh~
The sound of taro leaves shaking could be heard coming from the entrance of the cave.

"?"

Jin awoke from his meditation and sent a questioning mental message.

"Wow~Wow~"

The taro leaves made a sound, and at the same time raised a root, pointing vigorously down the mountain, gesturing incessantly.

—What happened down the mountain?

Jin jumped up with a start, ran out of the nest, rushed down the mountain, and went straight to plot 01.

Even from a distance, I could sense unusual fluctuations in the primal force. It was the seed of the pokeweed, bestowed by the gods, rapidly absorbing the primal force of nature, which had already formed a small vortex of primal force.

"gold!"

The Golden Leaf Vine wanted to continue observing and learn from the experience of flowering and fruiting from the divinely bestowed seed of pokeweed, so it took root a hundred meters away from the divinely bestowed seed of pokeweed.

It's really just about having fun together, and also out of curiosity.

Jin Ye Teng calmly said, "The flowers of the divinely bestowed seed of pokeweed have withered, but the fruit has ripened. Quickly replenish its primal energy."

"Oh--"

"Hi!"

"I thought it was something serious."

"That Taro guy was in such a hurry, he gave me quite a fright."

Jin grumbled in dissatisfaction, but his heart relaxed as he ran closer. At the same time, he used his mental energy to scan and observe. The white flowers at the top of the pokeweed seed tree were gone. Only after carefully scanning and searching with his mental energy did he find the fruit-bearing branches.

On the branch, there is an oval green fruit, slightly smaller than a pea.

After nearly half a year, the flowering season has finally come to an end.

Judging from the color of the fruit alone, this one is clearly different from the one I had when I was a mid-level warrior. This one is the healthy and complete one.

"..."

Jin stood at the foot of the mound, tucked in his hind legs, stretched out his front legs, and looked around.

Through the rain, one could see a tiny fruit at the top of the tree, nestled among the branches and leaves. It had already developed a woody outer shell, shielding it from mental energy perception.

Fine, light-colored white Force patterns are forming on the surface of the fruit.

Jin calmed his mind and sensed that strands of familiar yet unfamiliar spatial energy flowed through the patterns.

Flowers fade, fruits ripen.

The fruit begins to develop Force patterns, which requires a large amount of Force.

Jin understood the situation and, without much thought, quickly climbed the mound and urgently used the Primal Stone to replenish his Primal Force.

Taro also went to live in a cave on the south side of the mountain and informed the master of the Silk Sunflower Mountain.

The Lord of Sikui Mountain transformed into a streak of crimson light and sped down the mountain.

"Gold? The fruit has been harvested?"

"It's done!"

"Huh, this is quite different from last time."

"It's definitely different. The fruit that hung last time didn't absorb enough Origin Force, so it was probably a deformed fruit, half-dead, and it would fall off if you touched it."

"should be……"

The Lord of Sikui Mountain fell silent, slowly approaching to observe at close range.

As the Primal Stones replenished, the Primal Force vortex slowly contracted.

At the same time, the faint white Force patterns on the surface of the fruit lit up with a layer of hazy white light.

With sufficient primal energy, the primal force patterns gradually became clearer from blurry.

"Wow~"

The taro wriggled its roots and quickly moved over.

Taro is becoming smarter and more sensible; it even helped carry two bags of raw stones along the way.

In contrast, the Lord of Silk Sunflower Mountain hid under a large banyan tree in the distance to avoid the rain, showing no intention of helping at all. He was extending his spiritual power to notify the silver tree guarding Plot 05, which was planted under the seed of life, to come and watch the commotion.

Upon receiving the notification, Yin rushed over.

Golden Leaf Vine's mental energy swept restlessly around, then suddenly prompted, "Gold, as a high-level divinely bestowed seed, I have a premonition that the fruit will undergo some kind of change after the primal force patterns are generated. I suggest you speed up and replenish the energy of the Pokeweed Divinely Bestowed Seed to its full potential, keeping it in a state of primal energy saturation."

"Crash! Crash!"

The taro shook its leaves vigorously, splashing rainwater, as if giving a resounding chord of approval.

Jin called Yin over to help, accelerating the input of raw stones.

...

Tianming,

The rain gradually subsided and stopped.

An exceptionally bright sunrise rose from the eastern horizon.

As if due to the increased sunlight, the generation speed of the energy patterns on the surface of the pokeweed fruit accelerated, and one by one, the straight lines began to give rise to hexagonal square pattern spots.

These speckled patterns are like force pumps, drawing in the surrounding natural forces at an extremely high rate.

The infusion of a large amount of Force accelerated the formation of new cube spots.

The fruit's absorption rate increased dramatically, and soon, square spots covered the entire fruit, causing the Force vortex to expand rapidly.

The change that the golden vine had foreseen has occurred.

Gold and Silver noticed the situation and accelerated their cutting of the raw stone, releasing the Force.

Some efforts were futile; the Force vortex quickly exceeded its 50-meter radius and continued to expand—60 meters, 70 meters, 80 meters…

100 meters, 200 meters, 300 meters...

Its frenzied absorption of primal force was no less than that of the divinely bestowed seed of pokeweed breaking through to a higher level of evolution.

"Gold! Taro! Retreat!" Seeing the situation was bad, the golden vine cried out in alarm, quickly flowering and bearing fruit, reverting to its seed form.

Jin put the seeds back into his life pouch, and followed Yin, Taro, and the Silk Sunflower Mountain Lord, rushing away to the water ditch at the boundary of plots 01 and 02.

The Lord of Silk Sunflower Mountain personally used his claws to manipulate two spider silk threads to grab the raw stone, wrap it around and crush it. Large clumps of pure primal force exploded, and the stones were immediately drawn into the vortex, dispersed, and disappeared into the vortex.

Jin and Yin found a suitable place, cleaned it up, and planted the golden vine.

It sprouted and regenerated, rapidly growing into a woody vine with a main vine 27 or 28 meters long, climbing up the locust tree next to it along the spider silk rope.

"..."

Jin asked, "Golden Leaf Vine, what's going on?"

Golden Leaf Vine replied, "The fruit of the Divine Seed of Pokeweed can only be considered to have successfully borne fruit once the Force patterns are fully formed. And now, the fruit should be entering... the fruit-expanding stage?"

"Fruit expansion period?"

"This is an inevitable stage, and I don't know what to call it. Anyway, the newly formed fruit needs to absorb a lot of primal energy and biological energy, and it will expand rapidly. If it succeeds, the fruit will be firmly established, and then there will be a long fruit growth period."

"On the contrary, if the fruit is not ripe, all your previous investment of raw stones will be wasted."

"I understand! I roughly understand what you mean."

Jin turned around and relayed Jin Ye Teng's words to Yin and the Lord of Si Kui Mountain.

It sounds easy to understand.
But in reality, things seem to be more complicated than that...

Starting in the morning when the sun was rising, and continuing until noon, the frantic absorption of the Force showed no signs of slowing down.

It continued until mid-afternoon.
The master of Sikui Mountain was starting to feel the strain.

Gold and Silver carried the raw stone storage box and the gene agent storage box down from the mountain, smashed the raw stone, and released the primal force.

The Lord of Silk Sunflower Mountain hurriedly set off to hunt for ordinary flame spiders.

into the night,

When the Lord of Silk Sunflower Mountain returned from his hunt, he discovered that it was not over yet, and the trend of the pokeweed fruit frantically absorbing the Force showed no signs of slowing down.

At midnight, after distributing the Force food,

It's still not over, and it hasn't slowed down.

The head of Sikui Mountain takes turns helping out.

Gold, silver, and taro are resting.

Tianming,

After resting, Gold, Silver, and Taro took over from the Lord of Silk Sunflower Mountain, smashing the shattered raw stone and releasing their primal force.

The pile of raw stones was less than two whole mountains, totaling 10 stones.

It's not enough,

One day, and then a whole night.

Another 10 raw stones were put in.

Not finished yet,
Another day and night passed, and another 10 rough stones were produced.

Until the morning of the fourth day,
Without warning, the continuous and frenzied Force fluctuations of the pokeweed fruit came to an abrupt halt, and the intense Force vortex collapsed instantly.

--it's over?

—Did it work?
The Gold, Silver, Taro, and Silk Sunflower Mountain Lords were all stunned. They looked at each other for a moment, then ran to the tree of the divine gift of the pokeweed.

A close-up look, a mental scan.

The fruit changed from a bluish-green to a deep dark green, and its size expanded from less than the size of a pea to an oval fruit about 2 centimeters long and 1.5 centimeters in diameter.

The fruit's surface is covered with white Force patterns, dense white square-shaped spots that continuously draw on natural Force, forming a Force vortex with a radius of two to three meters at the top of the tree.

"Crack!"

"Crack!"

"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!"

"It's obvious at a glance that it uses a lot of raw gems!"

"How many pills have you used in the past few days?"

"34 is gone."

Is this a one-off occurrence? Or will it happen again? Or perhaps it will happen every so often?

"It's hard to say!"

"What should we do? Find Lord West Serpent?"

"Such a big matter should be communicated to them."

Hearing the conversation between Jin and Yin, the Lord of Silk Sunflower Mountain hurriedly raised his claw to stop them, and said irritably, "You're still looking for Lord West Serpent? No matter how rich a spider is, it can't withstand your exploitation. Besides, those raw stones that Lord West Serpent has worked hard to accumulate and reserve for breaking through to Spider King in the future."

"Forehead……"

Jin said, feeling uneasy, "We've already spent 400,000 raw stones on this fruit. We can't give up halfway, can we?"

Lord Sikui said, "Of course not! But we also can't ask Lord Xishe for the raw stones."

"..."

Kim remained silent in agreement.

You really can't just grab a spider and tear it apart.
Silver raised its claw and said, "Head-Swapping Spider!"

Boom!
The Lord of Silk Sunflower Mountain raised his foreleg and smacked the silver head with his claw, saying irritably:

"Isn't one West Serpent Lord enough? Do you think the other spiders are fools? The God-given Seed of Pokeweed is an alien primal energy. Most likely, apart from gold, none of the other insects can eat the pokeweed fruits it produces. Let's see how you two clean up this mess and how you explain it to the West Serpent Lord."

"Don't get any funny ideas. I still have 1.5 Mist Beads from the last Mist Tide harvest in the mountain warehouse. I was planning to keep them for later use when I molt and evolve, and then exchange them for Primal Stones. It seems I can't keep them now, so I'll just exchange them all."

Lord Sikui sighed, "I'll go explain the situation to the Spider Kings of the Five Schools. We'll exchange the Mist Pearls for 15 Primal Stones, and borrow another batch of Primal Stones from the Kingdom's warehouse for emergency use. We'll pay them back when we have more money in the future."

Jin hesitated before saying, "That works too."

Silver hesitated and asked, "Do we have to return the raw stones we borrowed from the kingdom's warehouse? What will we use to exchange them for? Who will pay for them? I think it's better to attract investment. This time, let's find a Spider King Pit..."

Boom! Boom!
Jin raised his paw and smacked, scolding, "What do you mean by 'scam'? Who did you scam? Alright! Silver. Don't be reckless, just borrow from the kingdom's treasury."

(End of this chapter)