Dawn Spider

Both the Mist Spirit and the Wood Spirit are derived from the combination of the immortal will and the undying laws of the Sovereign Realm experts. The Mist Bead and the Wood Bead can be regarded as fragments derived from these laws.

By absorbing the special primal energy contained within, one can absorb a wisp of the power of the laws.

The effect is to gain a deep understanding of an elemental power, increasing the chance of gaining the corresponding ability. If you have already gained the corresponding ability, you can enhance that ability.

……

During the last disaster at the Cyathea Mountain ruins, Ivory Island and the Twin Islands of Saluo collected tens of millions of mist droplets.

Over the years, Taro has earned no less than a million raw stones from Jin, which he exchanged for wooden beads and stored in raw crystal storage boxes. He filled four large boxes and buried them next to the ditch at the junction of plot 01 and plot 02.

Let's return to the canal together.

Taro dug out a box, opened it, and took out a bag of green wooden beads. He rooted himself in the soil, and his roots curled up, pulling a wooden bead into the soil.

Jin manipulated a meditation cushion with frost effects, levitating it 30 meters in the air, casting a Force shield, releasing ordinary Force, and raising the Force concentration to level 2.1.

The results came quickly.

Taro, wielding its spiritual power, announced, "You can now absorb the wood-elemental energy contained within the wooden bead!"

"This force also resonates with my growth ability, but it's too weak..."

As he spoke, Taro pulled out two taro roots, their fine roots wriggling, and in one go he wrapped up 20 taro roots and pulled them into the soil.

After a short wait, the results came back.

"It can enhance my growth ability, increase its strength, and make it more complete. However, the original power of the wooden bead will not directly accelerate my growth and evolution."

"Trading 10 raw stones for one wooden bead seems a bit of a bad deal."

Taro explained and commented, then fell silent, as if carefully sensing something. After a long while, it pulled out two more roots, rummaged through the original crystal storage box, and pulled out a bag of dark green wooden beads. It then rolled up 20 beads and shoved them into the soil.

After a moment, the result came out.

Taro explained, "These wooden beads of this color correspond to my newly acquired illusion ability. Similarly, they can enhance the strength of the ability, making the disguise more perfect and harder to detect."

Lord Sikui pondered for a moment and said, "Taro, there is a rather serious problem now. When you break through to the Evolution King level in the future, will you also need to comprehend six abilities? If so, that might be troublesome."

"You don't have the early-age evolution. The next time you can comprehend an ability is when the Mountain Lord breaks through to the Lord level, and you only have this one chance. Therefore, you must try your best to comprehend as many abilities as possible."

The Lord of Sikui Mountain raised his paw and pointed to the original crystal storage box, instructing, "The use of wooden beads requires specialization. It is most taboo to mix different types together. You should first use the light green wooden beads, and when you have used them all, then use the dark green ones, and then use other colors, such as the emerald green ones."

"When using wooden beads of a certain color, you should immerse yourself in the moment, calm your mind and feel the power, try to understand it, get close to it, and let it become one with you."

After speaking, Lord Sikui thought for a moment and then said, "If it were our Zerg warriors, when we use, for example, fire-type flame orbs, we would simultaneously use divinely bestowed primal force food of similar attributes, and the effect would usually be quite good."

"Taro is a bit special. You can try using it in combination with different types of granular fertilizers."

"Got it~"

"Are there really these techniques and considerations involved in the evolution and growth of a Mountain Lord level cultivator?" Taro said happily, "Thank you for your guidance, Mountain Lord Sikui!"

"It's just a few little tricks I've accumulated over the years."

The Lord of Silk Sunflower Mountain didn't care at all. He waved his paw lightly, pondered for a moment, and then said, "I have another question. The taro's true form is ultimately a wild sea taro, a divinely bestowed seed. Since it has awakened a complete soul, does that mean it also has a 'tree heart'?"

"Or, to put it another way, do you remember where the name 'taro' came from? Back then, when Jin returned from Ivory Island, he brought back a taro, which is called 'taro'..."

"At that time, taro possessed a similar ability to the tree king to gather its 'heart' and concentrate all its primal and biological energy into the tuber, thus entering a dormant state."

"Could this be the key reason why Taro awakened his complete soul ahead of schedule?"

Gold, silver, and banana all instantly understood.

Yin said, "Wood King's Heart Armor!"

Jin asked, "Taro, have you sensed your 'tree heart'?"

"..."

Taro hesitated for two seconds, then tentatively asked, "Tuber? I've always had it. After breaking through to the Mountain Lord level, it did become much harder, and its ability to store primal energy and bio-energy has also greatly improved..."

The master of Sikui Mountain interrupted, "The most crucial question is whether the soul resides within the 'rhizome'?"

Taro said, "Of course. It's always been like this."

Doesn't this fulfill all the conditions for the Tree King's 'Tree Heart'?

"Try it!"

Jin left a sentence, removed the Force shield from the meditation cushion, and disappeared on the spot. In a flash, he teleported up the mountain.

The Wood King's Heart Armor is an immortal treasure, but the blinking ability couldn't carry it, so he instead rushed down the mountain.

"Taro, you give it a try! It's similar to the Force Convergence Shield. Use your mental energy to scan inwards and sense that there's a contract node inside. Just inject your mental energy."

"OK……"

Taro agreed, raised a root and wrapped it around the object, attempting a contract. With a thought, the dark green bead wrapped by the root melted away like ice and snow, turning into a viscous metallic liquid that merged into the root.

Immediately afterwards, dense, dark green vine-like patterns appeared on the tuber, and between the patterns, bright red flowers slowly bloomed.

The flowers are oval-shaped like eyes, with unopened purplish-black petals in the center, resembling lifelike purplish-black eyes gazing in all directions.

"..."

As Si Kui Mountain Lord, Jin, Yin, and Xiang Jiao watched, their heightened sense of crisis, ingrained in their divine bloodline, triggered a chill in their hearts, and they subconsciously moved further away.

"Success!"

"I can use the Wood King's Heart Armor!"

Taro habitually shakes its leaves, making a rustling, cheerful sound.

Xiang Jiao eagerly asked, "Taro, I heard that the Wood King's Heart Armor can grant three abilities?"

"Yes! I can feel it."

Taro answered affirmatively, carefully sensing and pondering, and said, "My own primal energy is almost exhausted, and the Wood King Heart Armor also needs to be injected with primal energy. I need some time to recover."

Jin said, "It's not just about primal energy. The first ability, 'Scattering Beans to Create Soldiers,' also requires legumes as a medium. Do we have any legume seeds stored on the mountain?"

Yin asked uncertainly, "Gemu? Sea Red Bean? Will that work?"

Jin said, "The scope is very broad; most legumes should be included."

"I've collected some."

After Yin finished speaking, he transformed into a crimson streak of light and rushed towards the cave where he lived.

quickly,

Then he ran down carrying two more bags of spider silk.

Jin manipulated a meditation cushion with frost effects to float 30 meters in the air, then dropped a spherical shield with a radius of 30 meters and infused it with the Force.

After a long time,

Taro tried to extract 5 seeds of the wood tree and 5 seeds of the sea red bean, controlling their attachment to the petiole of the taro leaf, and infusing the seeds with a special woody energy.

From late at night until midnight... Taro said, "My original energy has been fully restored, and the Wood King Heart Armor is also at full power, but the ability to 'scatter beans to create soldiers' will still take a long time."

Yin asked, "How long is a long time?"

Taro said, "Maybe we'll have to wait until tomorrow."

"..."

Jin removed the meditation cushion.

Ordinary flame spiders on and off the mountain were frantically fighting for food. Silk Sunflower Mountain Master, Silver, and Elephant Banana quickly stepped forward to maintain order and oversee the distribution.

They were busy until the early hours of the morning, when the spiders gathered to rest by the ditch.

The next day,

Until noon,

Taro suddenly said, "It's ready."

After he finished speaking, 10 seeds flew to the ground and quickly took root and sprouted.

The taro leaves extend out 10 green energy threads that connect to each other, continuously inputting energy.

Ten bean seedlings are growing rapidly.

It lasted for about an hour.
It grew into 10 saplings, each about a meter tall.

"Perhaps my evolutionary level is too low, and this is all I can do for now."

After Taro finished speaking, he manipulated the situation with his mind.

Ten saplings were pulled from their roots.

One main root, dozens of lateral roots, and countless fine roots, resembling a centipede, with the root hairs wriggling and crawling.

Ten saplings lined up in a neat row, crossing the ditch and climbing towards the golden vine.

Jin Ye Teng asked doubtfully, "Is this a combat ability?"

Jin said, "Normally, the starting condition for using the Wood King Heart Armor Contract is the King level. Taro is an exception. He meets the usage condition at the Mountain Lord level, but since he only has the original power of the Mountain Lord level, it's already quite good that he can unleash the power granted by the Wood King Heart Armor."

After explaining, Jin asked, "Taro, can these 'bean soldiers' grow?"

Taro thought for a moment and said uncertainly, "It seems so. I feel that they are somewhat similar to evil spirits. They can absorb primal force and improve their life level relatively quickly, up to the level of mine, which is the level of a mountain lord."

"I'll tell you again that the ant race is somewhat similar. When you reach the Mountain Lord level, you can inherit some of my abilities, namely the ability to grow or the ability to transform."

"Can it inherit your growth ability?"

"That's still impressive!"

"This ability to conjure soldiers from beans is amazing! It can help in managing your territory!"

"Do they have their own consciousness? Can they handle their daily territorial tasks automatically, or do they need your constant command?"

"They are too weak now, not even at the primary level. I feel that after they grow a bit, they will develop some self-awareness and be able to act autonomously like soldier ants and worker ants. However, they will still need to be commanded for slightly more complex tasks. Moreover, my soul is too weak right now; I can probably only control about a dozen of them."

"Understood!"

Lord Sikui asked, "Taro, what about the other two abilities granted by the Wood King's Heart Armor?"

Taro thought for a moment, its primal energy surged, its leaves swayed, and its wood-elemental energy overflowed, causing emerald green light spots to shimmer and form a dazzling spherical light shield with a radius of seven or eight meters.

Taro said, "I have just evolved into a mountain lord, and I can only protect myself."

"Moreover, of the three abilities granted by the Wood King's Heart Armor, I can only use two of them at present. I cannot use the third ability, which is called 'Eye of Azure Wood'."

Silver raised its claws and poked the shield formed by the emerald green light spots with its toes.

The shield remained completely still.

With silver hair, he thrust forcefully.

The shield swayed slightly.

"Fourth Brother, this ability is called 'Jupiter Shield'? It seems pretty good!"

"I see..."

Jin was greatly intrigued and raised his claw, unleashing a beam of blue-purple lightning.

The lightning struck the 'Jupiter Shield', causing it to explode instantly. Blue-purple currents split, split, and split again, engulfing the entire spherical shield.

The attack vanished in a flash.

The emerald green light spots still shimmered brightly.

Seeing that Jin was raising his claws to gather strength, Taro quickly said, "Defending against attacks consumes primal energy, Jin, don't waste primal stones."

Jin thought for a moment, then retracted its claws and commented, "A very good defensive ability."

Yes. Yes.

The taro withdrew its power, and the emerald green spots, like flowing water, disappeared into the taro leaves.

Taro added, "This armor has levels. I'm a Mountain Lord level, and after the contract, it's also a Mountain Lord level. I feel that it can continuously advance in level as I evolve and grow, which is amazing!"

This is not surprising; most Type III civilizations in the universe possess this type of bio-armor technology.

"That's what they said during the previous test of the King of Thorn Hedges."

Jin simply said one sentence and asked, "Taro, did you gain anything else from this evolution?"

Taro thought about it carefully and replied, "It seems there aren't any."

Jin said, "This set of Wooden King Heart Armor was originally reserved for you. Since you can use it now, you can take it and use it."

Jin then said, "Taro, from now on, you are a formal employee of our Shanglu Company, employee number 3, ranked only after Yin and the Lord of Red Cone Mountain. From now on, Yin will follow me to Ivory Island to expand our business, while you will be responsible for managing the territories on the south and east sides of the mountain. I will give you a salary of 15 raw stones every year."

"Whoa! Whoa!"

"Ok!"

The taro shook its leaves and cheered in agreement.

Jin continued, "The original plan was for Yin and Tianlan to come with me to Ivory Island this year to explore, broaden our horizons, familiarize ourselves with the environment, and get to know the Zerg warriors. Next year, when the fog tide breaks out, Yin will stay at Silk Sunflower Mountain to help. But now it seems that with Taro around, Yin doesn't need to stay. Starting this year, Yin will officially enter Ivory Island to develop the loan business."

Sikui Mountain Master: "..."

The Lord of Sikui Mountain warned, "This is no easy task. Be careful, or you'll lose your lives."

Yin hurriedly replied, "No! No! So far, the loan customers on the Twin Islands of Saluo are very satisfied and highly approve of our service."

Jin said, "Don't worry, Lord Sikui, I'll take Yin with me for two years first. Once we've gotten to know each other well, we'll gradually start the loan business. There shouldn't be any major problems..."

After a brief discussion, everyone went about their own business. (End of Chapter)