Dawn Spider

Chapter 134 I am still an immature vine

"Year 17?"

"17 years!"

Upon hearing this, the initially excited Lord Sikui and Yin's high spirits instantly cooled down.

You took 17 years to grow just one fruit?
This is way too slow!

When will we be able to eat it?
Jin, unwilling to give up, asked, "Golden Leaf Vine, are you sure it's 17?"

Jin Ye Teng replied leisurely, "This is certain, and I can also confirm that the fruit will ripen once every 3 years, and after 7 fruit-bearing cycles, the fruit will finally mature."

Jin Ye Teng thought for a moment, then said, "I also have a feeling that as the evolution level increases, the flowering and fruiting cycle will continue to shorten. The Golden Rain Tree you mentioned, it should be at the King level, right? Once it evolves to the King level, its flowering and fruiting cycle becomes very short."

"..."

Jin fell silent, hesitating.

Silver raised its paw and asked, "Fourth Brother, if the Golden Leaf Vine fruit takes 17 years to mature, doesn't that mean you and the Golden Leaf Vine won't be able to break through to the Mountain Lord level for another 17 years? So, should we... keep this fruit? Or get rid of it?"

"Let me think about it carefully..."

Jin was pondering this question, hesitant and uncertain.

From flowering and fruiting to fruit set and now the first fruit expansion, the total cost of the Golden Leaf Vine is less than 4 pieces.

Now that the harvest is done, it's not too late to cut losses; the loss of tens of thousands of rough stones is still within everyone's acceptable range.

but,

Jin plans to evolve at the Advanced Warrior stage by only consuming God-given Force food. Based on his current income from food processing and trade on the Twin Islands of Saluo, it will take him 12 to 13 years to break through to the Mountain Lord level.

All things considered, the time it takes for the golden vine to bear fruit is only four or five years.

There is another consideration for gold,

You can use these four or five years to meditate and improve your spatial abilities. It would be best to find a way to get more raw stones to accelerate your meditation and strengthen your spatial abilities as much as possible. If you are lucky, you will be able to comprehend spatial abilities on your own when you break through to the Mountain Lord level in the future.

However, this delayed the trade trip across the sea to the Kingdom of Ivory Coast...

Or, can it begin at the advanced warrior stage?

Jin hesitated for a moment, then said, "Let's keep the fruit for now."

Lord Sikui also agreed, saying, "We can keep the fruit for now."

Lord Sikui Mountain said, "Keep the mist beads as well."

"it is necessary."

"That's for sure."

Gold and Silver agreed.

The reserves of raw stones are less than 35.

This fog surge was unprecedented in scale and yielded a bountiful harvest, with a total of 2.2 fog droplets.

Just a few days ago, everyone was discussing whether to sell the mist beads and exchange them for raw stones to prepare for the God-given Seeds of Pokeweed for emergency use.

But now that the fruits produced by the Golden Leaf Vine can truly grant water elemental talents, these mist beads can no longer be sold. Everyone will need them sooner or later, and the demand will be huge.

A brief silence,

"There's something else..."

Silver suddenly remembered something, raised its paw and pointed in the direction where the seed of the god-given pokeweed had taken root, and said with difficulty:
"Lord of Sikui Mountain, Fourth Brother, if the fruit of the Golden Leaf Vine's divine gift takes 17 years to mature, how many years will it take for the fruit of the Pokeweed's divine gift to ripen?"

Lord Sikui Mountain said with certainty, "Without a doubt, it will only be longer, much longer."

"Whoa~ Whoa~"

As Taro listened to the conversation, it vigorously tapped its taro leaves, making a resounding affirmation.

The golden vine's mental energy swept restlessly around, questioning, "Spiders, are you discussing the fruit of the God-given Seed of Pokeweed?"

"You don't need to guess. According to my estimation, the flowering and fruiting cycle of the pokeweed seed is 3 to 5 times that of mine. Taking the middle value, 4 times? That would be around 70 years."

"Ch..."

Upon hearing this, Jin was instantly dismayed.

I am the strongest Force warrior in the universe, brave and diligent! You two divinely bestowed seeds take decades to flower and bear fruit. How am I supposed to progress?
Master Sikui continued, "Jin, there's another question. Now that the Golden Leaf Vine is flowering and bearing fruit, can it still freely switch between seed form and plant form? If it turns into seeds, will it destroy the fruit?"

"Let me ask..."

Jin tentatively asked, "Golden Leaf Vine, if you were to transform into a seed form now, what about the fruit on the tree...?"

"It's definitely gone."

The golden vine said dejectedly, "Once it flowers and bears fruit, I won't be able to move it around as I please."

The golden vine complained, "The world is so big, I should travel and see it all. I'm so miserable. I'm still an immature vine, and those shameless spiders are forcing me to flower and bear fruit to make money for them. When I'm powerful, I'm going to build a prison and arrest you all!"

"..."

Jin comforted her, saying, "Golden Leaf Vine, there's not much to see on the tropical islands of the north. You should bear a fruit for me to eat first. In the future, I'll take you to the southern continent to see the winter snowscape."

"Why don't you build the boat first?" Jin Ye Teng suggested. "Make the boat bigger, fill it with soil, and build a scaffold. That way, I can travel by boat and enjoy the ocean scenery."

You're dreaming!
Jin thought to himself, but readily agreed on the surface, "When I get rich in the future, I'll build a two-hundred-meter-long ship!"

Golden Leaf Vine: "Two hundred meters isn't enough! Not nearly enough! Five hundred meters!"

Jin agreed, "Five hundred meters it is..."

Jin and Jinye Teng were just spouting nonsense.

Yin pondered for a moment, then asked, "Fourth Brother, after all, Lord West Serpent invested 150 million primal stones in us. Should we tell him about the Golden Leaf Vine fruit granting him water elemental talent?"

Lord Sikui Mountain also said solemnly, "150 million raw stones is no small amount. This is not a question of whether it should or should not be done, but rather that we must announce it immediately."

Lord Sikui paused, then said, "If the Golden Leaf Vine Fruit truly possesses the effect of granting water elemental talent, its value is definitely more than 150 million Origin Stones. Even if it were from the same clan, even if it were worth 500 million Origin Stones, it would still be too cheap..."

"The West Serpent Lord isn't stupid; it will definitely understand."

"Won't the raw stones of the God-given Seed of Pokeweed run out quickly? Perhaps the Lord of the Western Serpent is willing to invest another batch."

The cost of the God-given seeds of pokeweed is too high. Maintaining normal growth costs as much as 16 per year, which would amount to more than 1100 million over 70 years. There are also massive costs during the fruit expansion period. Each expansion period is conservatively estimated to cost 35 to 50. Assuming there are 7 expansion periods, the cost would be estimated at 300 million.

To obtain the divinely bestowed pokeweed fruit, it is conservatively estimated that the total cost will be as high as 1400 million raw stones.

The actual cost will only be higher.

Space capabilities are too expensive.

Whether you borrow money from the kingdom or from the Wood Spider King, you will have to repay it.

The raw stones invested by Lord West Serpent were a real, direct investment that did not require repayment.

Jin raised his claw and said, "I know the way to Snake Mountain. I'll go and inform it!"

Lord Sikui Mountain agreed, "Let's go to Zitan Mountain first and find Lord Hongzhui Mountain to go with you."

During the last fog surge, Jin single-handedly killed over twenty Mountain Lord-level Fog Spirits, demonstrating his undeniable combat prowess. On these twin islands of Saro, there's no need to worry about his safety. Besides, it's time for high-level warriors to begin acting independently.

Master Sikui trusted Jin completely and simply instructed him, "Jin, go and come back quickly."

...

...

As Jin and the Lord of Red Cone Mountain rushed along, just as they approached the Snake Mountain area, the spiritual power of the Western Snake Lord drifted over.

"Purple-haired Golden, you're a high-level warrior now? Have you awakened your lightning-type talent? Coming here so late at night, is it urgent? Has the Golden Leaf Vine, the divinely bestowed seed, bloomed yet?"

The Red Cone Mountain Master strained its spiritual energy to reply, "Due to the fog and high humidity, the flowering period was brought forward; it bloomed a month ago, and now the fruits are all firmly set. After the first fruit expansion phase, the Golden Leaf Vine has gained some understanding of the effects of its fruits..."

"Oh?"

Lord West Serpent asked, "To grant water-based ice abilities?"

"Yes!"

The Lord of Red Cone Mountain said, "We suspect that the mutation of Jin's life sac is the reason for the superimposed enhancement of the Golden Leaf Vine. The fruit produced contains two powers, one of which grants water-type ice abilities, and the other, which seems to grant water-type elemental talents!"

"Water elemental talent!"

From the mountainside of Snake Mountain, crimson flames shot into the sky, then plummeted down, crashing with a thunderous roar right in front of Jin and the Red Cone Mountain Lord.

"Purple-haired Gold, Red Cone, are you sure? Can you really grant them water elemental talent?"

Jin and the Red Cone Mountain Lord were startled by the other party's overreaction and subconsciously took a few steps back.

"At present, it's just a feeling from the golden vine, so we can't be sure yet. We'll have to wait until the fruit is ripe, harvested, and we can eat one to confirm it before we know for sure."

"Is there still only one flower and one fruit?"

"Yes."

"The flowering and fruiting cycle shouldn't be long, right?"

"17."

"Crack!"

The West Serpent Lord's burning emotions cooled considerably in an instant. He choked back a sob, stared at Jin, and asked again, "Have you awakened your lightning-type talent?"

Kim replied, "Yes."

Lord West Serpent asked, "That must be accompanied by the awakening of an ability, but what specific ability?"

Jin looked around, but the snake-skin fruit trees made it difficult to use his abilities. He flashed and rose vertically into the air. He raised his claws, and with a hum, blue-purple tree-shaped lightning burst forth and disappeared in a flash. He then flashed back to his original position.

"Crack!"

"Very impressive ability!"

"You were born through a mutation influenced by the power of the divinely bestowed seed of Leilinan, possessing the exact same lightning-based primal energy!"

"A truly impressive ability, and when combined with other types of abilities, it's practically perfect!"

Lord West Serpent was amazed and full of praise, his heart burning with excitement. After thinking calmly for two seconds, he waved his claw and said, "Let's go, let's go take a look at Silk Sunflower Mountain!"

(End of this chapter)