vncnus Chapter 50: Evolution, Evolution!
Chapter 50: Evolution, Evolution!
"Little fellow, after listening to your conversation with that Lord of Chuixu Mountain, what is your impression of the Flame Spider Merchant?"
Ye Zhi had just cut the ant silk and was about to rest for a while on Wu Yuan's back when Wu Yuan's question came to her mind.
"Like a network connecting the continent, exchanging goods and resources, like injecting a new source into a stagnant pool, they are a very important race." Ye Zhi pondered for a moment and gave a relatively positive evaluation.
"Like a web? Very apt." Wu Yuan tapped his antennae lightly. "But don't forget, spiders spin webs to hunt, and the Flame Spider's trade routes are also webs, collecting the continent's wealth and giving it to the Flame Spider Kingdom of the Cloud Continent."
Ye Zhi tapped his antennae. Having lived a previous life, he naturally knew the saying, "No merchant is honest." Without the production of life seeds, the Flame Spider Merchant, who relied entirely on this trade for a living, would certainly try his best to plunder profits for his own growth and evolution.
"Little fellow, you have a divinely bestowed seed. Although it's somewhat special, you've still entered the circle of trading divinely bestowed primal force food." Wu Yuan swayed its tentacles, slowly transmitting its mental energy, as if speaking earnestly, "Try to release the news appropriately and attract as many caravans as possible to trade."
"Let the itinerant merchants compete with each other and offer a relatively favorable price?" Ye Zhi understood immediately.
"That's right, clever little fellow. The God-given Seed is in high demand, attracting many caravans, preferably from different Spider King lineages, to allocate the sales share of the God-given Seed based on their bids..."
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Time always flies by. This year's divinely bestowed citron fruits have been fully harvested, and most of the pulp has been thrown into the "Chimera's" insect traps to be transformed into Force nutrients for harvesting.
After testing, it was found that putting about ten pieces of fruit into each insect trap resulted in the highest efficiency in converting them into nutrient bodies. Basically, each fruit could be converted into a nutrient body, which covered the area under the vines connecting the insect traps.
The insect traps, each the size of a human head, were always crammed full. Within five days, all four or five hundred fruits were transformed into primal energy nutrients and stored in individual spider silk bags.
It seems that transforming the divinely bestowed fruit pulp was quite difficult for the "Chimera," and it was unable to absorb much of the useful components. It no longer had the excitement it had when absorbing the flesh and blood of the giant toothed ant; instead, it was somewhat listless and even aggrieved.
Fortunately, the constant supply of flesh and blood provided by King Zuo Qingyuan every morning and evening brought some comfort to the tree spirit of "Chimera".
The yield and quality of wild Wumai citron (a type of citron) are not particularly high, but it is good because it bears fruit steadily every year, unlike some wild Wumai citron varieties that only bear fruit once every few years according to traditional memory.
After a busy harvest season, there are relatively leisurely days. Ye Zhi puts the "Chimera" divine seed back into his life pouch, and he should prepare for the next growth and evolution.
During this time, another caravan visited, and Wu Yuan used the remaining divinely bestowed citron seeds to exchange for some precious divinely bestowed primal force foods that would enhance Ye Zhi's overall physique, preparing for Ye Zhi's further evolution.
The Force Food obtained this time is just as precious as the Azure Persimmon, and is called the [Black Emperor Peach]. Its enhancement effect is overall muscle strength, which is also a top-level enhancement effect that is beneficial for muscle growth and body expansion after molting.
Even the peach pits, which are easy to transport, are quite large and valuable. In the end, only fifty were obtained, which were intended to be used in combination with some other Force foods.
Having just seized the ore vein, Wu Yuan was indeed quite wealthy and powerful. He arranged for Ye Zhi to consume top-tier primal energy food, preparing him for the most stable and rapid growth and evolution.
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Three days later, Ye Zhi lay quietly in her old nest, which she jokingly called "Spider Cave," with two small spider silk bags and neatly sliced pieces of flesh in front of her.
The "Chimera" has transformed back into its seed form and been retrieved into its life sac, fully prepared to continue absorbing Force food to grow and evolve.
Zuo Wang Qingyuan stood guard at the entrance with two combat worker ants. Ye Zhi's antennae swayed, and its forelimbs tore open the mouth of a spider silk bag. A strand of ant silk was pulled out from its abdomen, and it picked up a grain of primal food with the agile tentacle, just like the Flame Spider.
After swallowing a grapefruit seed that enhances absorption, Ye Zhi looked at the most precious Force food in front of her—a sky-blue persimmon seed.
Given his current level of evolution, he could probably evolve to the fourth age stage directly by consuming only a few of these high-quality divine-given primal force foods.
Therefore, Wu Yuan limited his intake to one top-grade divinely bestowed primal force food every two days, and he would undergo the fourth-age evolution in about ten days. As for the larger and more precious Black Emperor Peach Pit, that would be decided after the fourth-age evolution.
Ye Zhiyi picked up the flat, azure persimmon seed, held it between her jaws, and bit a small opening with her sharp teeth. An alluring aura of primal force wafted out and quickly dissipated into the air.
"Holy crap, that's powerful!"
Ye Zhi let out a sigh from the depths of her soul, then quickly chewed it slightly with her jaws and put it in her mouth, feeling the powerful life force bursting within her body, and quickly absorbed it.
The absorption capacity of the fused body remained formidable. The immense primal force contained within a divinely bestowed azure persimmon seed surged into the six limbs and bones, as if countless tiny particles were seeping into the cells beneath the exoskeleton, beginning to transform them.
This is genuine divinely bestowed food containing three to five times the amount of Force compared to ordinary food, with an added enhancement effect that is almost a qualitative leap.
The specific strengthening effect of the exoskeleton will only become apparent when the exoskeleton is newly formed in the next age. Ye Zhi ate two bites of the fresh flesh and blood placed aside, then picked up a few ordinary Force food and ate them, thus completing her Force food intake for the day.
He stretched out his six limbs, shook his abdomen, and a very fine ant thread was drawn out, whipping out like a whip as his abdomen swayed. He took advantage of the fact that the effects of the Force food had not completely dissipated to practice his familiar physical conditioning, maximizing its effects.
Two days passed, and another divinely bestowed azure persimmon seed and some ordinary primal food were consumed. All of them were absorbed by Ye Zhi and the "Chimera" that was superimposed and strengthened in her life sac, and transformed into resources for Ye Zhi's own growth and evolution and for strengthening the divinely bestowed seed "Chimera" of the two-toothed pitcher plant in her life sac.
After consuming some Force food every other day, Ye Zhi quickly felt the signs of wanting to go into a dormant evolution state. On the tenth day, after eating the last God-given Heavenly Blue Persimmon Seed and the other Force food as planned, this feeling reached its peak.
Under the protection of Qingyuan and two fighting worker ants, Yezhi ate a large amount of ordinary food until her normal digestive system and social stomach were full and bloated, accumulating enough energy before she once again crawled into her "spider hole".
With her body slightly curled up, Ye Zhi lay on the ant-silk cushion that she hadn't taken with her when she moved. Thus, Ye Zhi's main body once again fell into a deep sleep, undergoing evolution towards the early stage of the fourth instar.