Dawn Spider

Jin Yuan planned to use a total of 240 to 280 Primal Crystals to assist in accelerating meditation during the advanced warrior stage of the 9th year.

However, since the Golden Leaf Vine Fruit carries water-type genetic energy equivalent to 2 Primal Stones worth of divinely bestowed Primal Energy food, only 220 Primal Crystals were actually used.

2 month 22 day,
Jin sensed signs of an evolutionary breakthrough.

Take a two-day break to adjust your condition.

2 month 24 day,
At midnight, after finishing feeding the common flame spiders on and around the mountain,

Jin entered the cave where he lived, made some simple preparations, and fell into a deep sleep.

...

...

Wake up from deep sleep.

It quickly sheds its old shell, inflating like a balloon, its body rapidly expanding, its spider legs lengthening, and one can clearly feel the division of somatic cells and the growth of muscles.

Accompanying this was excruciating pain from tearing and straining.

It lasted for quite a while before ending, and simultaneously, the carapace hardened.

A 1-year-old mountain lord!

He scanned himself with his mental energy, his body freezing at a span of 4 meters.

At just over 4 meters tall, this size is only average among the Flame Spider tribe, not particularly strong.

The reason is simple: throughout the advanced stage, Jin used most of his evolution quota to enhance the Space type, a small portion to enhance the Thunder type, and did not invest much in enhancing his overall physique.

"During the first year of mountaineering, I need to further strengthen my overall physical condition."

Jin muttered to himself, calmed his mind, and focused on comprehending the mystery. His eight spider eyes lit up with a tinkling sound.

"It's done!"

"Spatial abilities!"

"Attack type!"

Jin's thoughts shifted, and he put away the meditation cushion.

Its figure flashed as it emerged from the nest.

……

It was late at night.
Copper stood alone at the cave entrance, half asleep, when he was startled awake by the sudden burst of primal energy.

"gold……"

"Are the Silk Mist Mountain Lords distributing food to the ordinary Flame Spiders?"

"Yes."

Copper asked, "Gold, is it the mountain lord?"

"Of course!"

Jin replied, then asked, "Tong, how many days did it take me to break through this time?"

Six days!

Copper replied, pointing with its paw to the wooden bucket beside the cave, and asked, "Um, have you successfully mastered the water-based freezing ability?"

"Of course!"

With a flick of its claws, a wisp of water-based frost energy shot out, instantly freezing the water in the wooden bucket into ice.

"Wow!"

Tong ran forward quickly, rummaged through the bucket, poked at the ice inside with his paw, and exclaimed, "Boss Jin is amazing!"

"Mr. Jin, I heard from the old spiders that if you use your freezing ability to freeze the thawed food, but not into a block of ice, then sucking it out will have a completely different and wonderful taste..."

As Tong spoke, he raised his claw and pointed to the spider silk sac containing food, which was prepared on the other side of the cave entrance, his eyes flashing in acknowledgment.

"..."

"Stupid spider! All you do is eat!" Jin was furious. After thinking for a moment, he raised his claw and unleashed a wisp of icy energy, which landed on the spider silk sac.

"Wow~"

Tong rushed forward to check. The force was just right; it was icy cold, reaching the freezing point, but not frozen solid.

I tried a sip and exclaimed, "Delicious!"
"..."

Jin ignored Tong, turned around, faced the open space, calmed his mind and briefly prepared himself before slowly raising his left forefoot. The lightning and space-based primal energies within his body surged simultaneously and condensed at the tip of his toe.

A faint, purplish-red light appeared.

Silently, a tiny flash of lightning disappeared in an instant.

"?"

Copper leaned closer, "Gold, what kind of ability is this?"

"Newly acquired abilities."

"Is it awesome?"

"It's awesome!"

"Uh……"

The copper transmitted a perplexing spiritual force.

Jin raised his claws, unleashing a wisp of blue-purple lightning that crackled through the air with a buzzing sound.

"This is a normal, simple lightning-type ability, fission purple lightning."

After Jin finished speaking, he raised his claw, and another extremely thin beam of purple lightning flashed and disappeared.

"This is a newly acquired ability, a dual attack power of spatial and lightning elements, a sharp attack that can penetrate space."

"Oh……"

Copper still didn't understand and asked again, "Is it very powerful?"

Jin thought for a moment and gestured for Tong to stand back and move away from him.

Aim at the ground.

A beam of blue-purple lightning shot out.

Lord Huang Qi used his enhanced abilities to spread the fission purple lightning along the ground of the courtyard, leaving only a tree-like scorch mark.

Gold is simply brewing,
It aimed at the ground again, and with a flash of purple-red lightning, it plunged straight into the ground.

The lord-level warrior pierced a flat hole nearly a meter deep in the ground, which had been enhanced by his abilities. Jin briefly explained, "This newly acquired dual-elemental ability has a penetrating and destructive power a hundred times greater than that of pure lightning-elemental fission purple lightning."

"Oh……"

Tong walked slowly forward, examined the hole in the ground, and said suspiciously, "It's a bit weak. Can it even kill insects? Couldn't it be a little bigger?"

"This is the best we can do for now."

Jin replied, gesturing for Tong to move further away. He then gathered his spatial and lightning primal energies at his toe and thrust his claws forward with a sudden jab.

A flash of purplish-red lightning disappeared in an instant.

"..."

Jin pondered.

The destructive power of this ability is undeniable, but it consumes too much primal energy. Moreover, despite consuming a large amount of primal energy, it can only unleash a wisp of purple lightning thinner than the bristles on the body's surface, and even with its best efforts, it can only penetrate forward 1.5 meters.

—My lightning and spatial powers are unevenly developed, and my lightning power is severely insufficient.

Jin Yuan's original plan was to continue to strengthen his spatial abilities after reaching the Mountain Lord level, striving to comprehend more and more powerful spatial skills.

However, the mountain lord who broke through the barrier actually comprehended a dual ability of space and lightning.

Lightning power is also key to determining the strength of this ability.

Having finally mastered a spatial attack ability, I certainly can't give it up; I need to increase the enhancement and improvement of my lightning-based abilities.

"gold……"

Tong asked, "Anything else? Is this the only ability you have?"

"..."

Jin focused his mind and carefully sensed the surroundings.

This breakthrough to the Mountain Lord only allowed me to comprehend two abilities: one is water-based freezing, an ability granted by the Golden Leaf Vine fruit; the other is this purplish-red lightning that can pierce through space.

"Gone."

Jin waved its paw and said, "Tong, run faster and go tell the Silk Sunflower Mountain Lord that I have successfully broken through and been promoted to Mountain Lord."

"OK……"

Copper agreed, but refused to move, suggesting, "Gold, there's no need to trouble the little flame spider to run away. You can use your blink ability and get there in no time."

Jin was furious and raised his claws as if to strike.

"Okay. I'll go."

Copper ran away quickly.

...

The advanced warrior broke through to the Mountain Lord level in just six days, but his size increased dramatically and his body energy was almost completely depleted.

Jin walked to the prepared food pouch, took a deep breath, and lay still to recover.

His mental energy expanded linearly, reaching a maximum detection range of 800 meters.

Withdrawing his spiritual power and focusing his mind inward, he found that the golden-leafed vine, a divinely bestowed seed in the form of a seed within his life sac, had undergone a significant change in aura, reaching the 'Half-Mountain Master Level'.

Upon careful sensing, the advanced warrior's breakthrough to the Mountain Lord realm, a major breakthrough from the Primal Realm to the Origin Force Realm, and the subsequent enhancement of its Life Pouch, still did not significantly improve its life level, by less than one-tenth.

Scan again to check for changes in the body...

Jin Xin's heart stirred slightly, and he pulled out two spider silk threads from his abdomen...

One white, one black.
Upon careful examination, it was found that the entire system consisted of waterways.

My heart stirred again, and I pulled out another one...

Purple-red spider silk!
Space and lightning dual systems.

The spider silk has become more colorful!
And it adds three colors at once.

The colors of the spider silk suddenly expanded to five: transparent white, pure white, black, blue-purple, and purplish-red.

It is now possible to weave colorful, high-security tokens and bonds.

However, for making banknotes, currency, and bonds, transparent white and blue-purple spider silk is sufficient. No spider can imitate it. Adding three more colors would only make the production more exquisite and refined.

Aside from that, the colorful spider silk seems to serve no other purpose.

Jin extracted a thick, purplish-red spider silk thread and carefully sensed it. The strength was acceptable. He tried to inject both spatial and lightning-based primal energy into it, and both could be successfully transmitted.

For combat, the purplish-red spider silk is superior to the other four colors.

But now that you've mastered the dual attack abilities of super space and lightning, you don't need to use spider silk to fight anymore, right?

After pondering it over, Jin's initial excitement vanished.

"gold!"

Upon receiving the news, Lord Sikui rushed over, asking as she ran, "I heard from Tong that you've mastered a hybrid attack ability combining alien and lightning elements?"

"Yes!"

Jin replied, "It's an incredibly powerful ability, but it also consumes an extremely high amount of energy..."

Jin explained in detail and demonstrated it again.

Upon receiving the news, Xiangjiao and Yutou from the foot of the mountain rushed up, and Jin explained and demonstrated it to them again.

After some discussion, it was officially named 'Sky-Splitting Purple Lightning'.

People were more interested in the freezing ability granted by the Golden Leaf Vine Fruit, which was explained and demonstrated. This ability is not particularly special; it simply releases a burst of frost energy that instantly freezes water into ice.

Golden Leaf Vine had already given this ability a name: Extreme Cold Freezing.
Jin then briefly tested the blink and banish abilities.

The maximum teleportation distance for the blinking ability reaches 160 meters.

In total, it consumed 220 primal crystals and increased the distance by 35 meters. If we take into account the daily meditation over the years, it averages out to 6.3 primal crystals for an increase of 1 meter.

This breakthrough resulted in a dramatic increase in size and a doubling of the amount of primal energy stored within the body. The ability to blink was pushed to its limit, with the number of consecutive releases increasing from 14 for a 9-year-old advanced warrior to 23.

It can instantly teleport three or four kilometers away, possessing the ability to escape from the mental lock of most lord-level warriors.

During the first-year mountain lord stage, if you further strengthen your spatial abilities, by the second-year stage, you will be basically not afraid of lord-level warriors. If you can't beat them head-on, you can definitely run away.

At age 2, you can consider joining a trading team to travel to the southern continent and broaden your horizons.

...

After discussing it for a while, Jin and the master of the Sunflower Mountain went down the mountain together to prepare to water and fertilize the mound where the golden vine seed of the gods had taken root in plot 02.

Jin stepped forward and spat out the seeds to plant them. (End of Chapter)