Chapter 385 - 370 Just Making Up the Numbers

White Ivy gave a look.

Red Peach thought for a moment, organized her wording, and spoke slowly: "White Ivy Mountain Lord heard an extremely important piece of information from Lord Heartwing! The origins of Purple Back Mountain and the Banded Assassin Bug Tribe trace back to an unknown-named Divine God-Given Seed on Cloud Crown Mountain. Their Waterwood System hallucination ability actually comes from this Divine God-Given Seed..."

Red Peach briefly recounted the connection between the Banded Assassin Bug and Cloud Crown Mountain.

"Oh!"

"Wow!"

Before she finished, Grass Dragon and Silvergrass already understood.

Red Peach skipped introductions and analyzed one by one: "The Dragon Cypress Ant King already possesses a Water System talent, and coincidentally, the Divine-Grade Kunlun Seed grants a Wood Element talent. With Water and Wood systems combined, it’s complete."

"The Orchid Mantis Warriors have Earth, Wood, Water, and Wind elemental potential. After Ink Orchid uses the Kunlun Seed, she awakens the Wood Element talent and can also use the Divine-Grade fruit that grants the Waterwood System hallucination ability."

Red Peach: "The Dragon Cypress Ant King must be very interested in the Divine God-Given Seed on Cloud Crown Mountain!"

Red Peach: "The Shield Grasshopper Tribe Warriors have Earth and Water elemental potential. There’s a fifty percent chance the Shield Grasshopper Tribe Warrior from Huagi Mountain also needs the Divine-Grade fruit from Cloud Crown Mountain. If luck is good, Huagi Mountain could even give birth to new Little Warriors, right?"

Red Peach: "We use the Divine-Grade Night Fragrance Fruit to trade for the Waterwood Divine Dual System Divine-Grade fruit from Cloud Crown Mountain, then, in reverse, exchange it with the Dragon Cypress Ant King for the Divine-Grade Kunlun Seed..."

Red Peach: "Using the same method as when we fought over the Divine-Grade Baihe Fruit—after two or three exchanges, naturally, we’ll have a share of the Divine-Grade Kunlun Seed."

Grass Dragon and Silvergrass thought it over and, simultaneously, jumped three feet high.

Silvergrass: "White Ivy Mountain Lord, you... you..."

Grass Dragon: "Brilliant! Truly brilliant! Marvelous, it’s indescribable!"

If this round of transactions succeeds as envisioned, it would mean White Ivy, having bought the Divine-Grade Night Fragrance Fruit at a low price, can, through back-and-forth exchange, gain trading rights to two ridiculously valuable Divine-Grade fruits at the same time.

Red Peach waved her antennae up and down, signaling for quiet, and continued analyzing: "The Quandong Divine Tree and Linnan Divine Tree both belong to Huagi Mountain. The Dragon Cypress Ant King can decide who gets the Divine-Grade Soul-Stabilizing Fruit and the Kunlun Seed, but can’t decide what to trade for it. Essentially, the Dragon Cypress Ant King is also playing the roving merchant, earning a profit margin and helping Huagi Mountain collect resources."

Red Peach: "So what does Huagi Mountain need? First and foremost, real Source Stones! Huagi Mountain needs unlimited Source Stones to keep its three Divine Trees alive and maintain the Tribe’s legacy."

"That’s right!"

"Makes sense!"

Grass Dragon and Silvergrass echoed.

Red Peach: "During my chat with Areca, I learned something else extremely important. Underground Huagi Mountain, there’s also a treasury that can extend the preservation period of Origin Force Food to a hundred years, even several centuries. It’s huge in capacity!"

Silvergrass: "I heard about that too..."

Red Peach continued: "It’s not hard to deduce, Huagi Mountain also needs to purchase massive amounts of high-quality Origin Force Honey, as well as Bee King Honey, amounting to Source Stones in numbers probably counted in billions. High-quality Origin Force Honey is easy—that’s what the White Ivy Trade Caravan excels at. Huagi Mountain has demand, and we can meet it, so from a long-term perspective, White Ivy Mountain Lord also has the strength to secure a trading quota for a Divine-Grade Kunlun Seed."

Grass Dragon: "So, there’s a big chance then!"

Grass Dragon quickly thought and asked: "Then what about me, Silvergrass, and Lupine...?"

White Ivy: "Top-ranked Tribes like Huagi Mountain are very strict about Origin Force Food quality. You all just follow along, blend into Cloud Crown Mountain, and try to snatch some high-quality Origin Force Food, especially Divine-Given Origin Force Food."

Grass Dragon: "And what’s our benefit...?"

White Ivy: "Letting you blend into Cloud Crown Mountain is a huge benefit itself!"

Red Peach: "With or without you, the deal can still be done."

Grass Dragon: "You can’t say that—we can help boost the Trade Caravan’s reputation."

Red Peach: "Just making up the numbers."

Grass Dragon: "..."

White Ivy: "Dragon Cypress probably took the bad advice of the Aconite Spider King. In a year or two, once the Purple Tung Insect Nation stabilizes, he’ll revisit talks with Huagi Mountain about sowing the Linnan Divine Tree, and as collateral, put up a Life Seed Plant so negotiations wrap up quickly. Time is tight, so we must act fast. Grass Dragon, Silvergrass, this autumn you’ll come with me, make up the numbers."

Grass Dragon: "..."

Silvergrass: "..."

White Ivy explained: "Cloud Crown Mountain is different from Hidden Wing Mountain. The Beautiful Ji Bug Tribe consolidates all Origin Force Food and, according to the needs of every warrior’s evolutionary growth, sells, purchases, and distributes resources in a unified way."

"The caravans trading with Cloud Crown Mountain are almost always the same. Every fourteen years, there’s a change-over period. They reevaluate each caravan’s comprehensive strength and adjust the distribution of trading quotas. If you blend in, it counts as joining the Cloud Crown Mountain trading system. Even without immediate profit, just having that name—walking the Ten-thousand Tribes Continent—means no insect dares look down on you."

White Ivy: "It’s just like the Aconite Spider King at Six Peaks Mountain trading with the Six-Spiked Cloud Ants Kingdom. Think about it—just how famous is the Aconite Spider King? He doesn’t even walk the Ten-thousand Tribes Continent, but every Insect King across the land wishes to be his friend."

Grass Dragon: "..."

Silvergrass: "..."

Silvergrass: "Thank you, White Ivy Mountain Lord!"

Grass Dragon stammered: "You can’t count it like that... Isn’t it just White Ivy Mountain Lord getting all the glory?"

White Ivy, displeased, shot back: "If I get the glory, doesn’t it mean you get the glory too?"

Not really~

Your glory only makes me, the junior, look weak and frail~

Grass Dragon was quite helpless.

With Red Peach around, White Ivy had stopped relying on her own wits.

White Ivy lowered her telekinesis and said: "Everyone work hard, grab as many Source Stones as possible. When we get the Divine-Grade Kunlun Seed, we’ll eat it ourselves—an extra Elemental Talent; it means not only more abilities and strength, but also a bigger future, especially for evolution after the Spider King."

"Oh!"

"Wow!"

"My most, most, most respected White Ivy Mountain Lord!"

"White Ivy Mountain Lord is generous!"

Grass Dragon and Silvergrass cheered.

White Ivy said seriously: "Nothing’s done yet, don’t get happy too soon."

White Ivy warned: "Silvergrass, you must not tell Wormwood Spider King, or else..."

White Ivy: "And you too, Grass Dragon, keep your mouth shut! If you dare ruin my plans, I’ll find somewhere with no insects and bury you both alive!"

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Huagi Mountain.

On a spring-rained morning, golden-red sunrise, azure sky, floating white clouds.

The Dominating Throne carried Areca and Red Moonseed, loaded with ten giant pouches of metal gravel, four Specialized Blue Ants with bulging bellies, trailing a long blue Primordial Energy tail, and slanted down toward the spot where the Quandong Divine Tree took root.

A busy Yellow Stem among the mountains sensed something odd, dropped his work, and rushed toward the ridge.

"Dragon Cypress Ant King?!"

The Quandong Divine Tree called out in surprise.

The Dominating Throne slowed, gliding gently.

Dragon Cypress called out from over three hundred meters away: "Quandong Divine Tree!"

Quandong Divine Tree: "Your soul..."

Dragon Cypress, modest, replied: "I’ve obtained the Divine-Grade Six Paths Fruit. After eating it, it immediately provides some effect. After one sleep, my soul sublimated, and I broke through to Lord-Level."

The Dominating Throne slowly descended, docking along the ridge.

Dragon Cypress shook his antennae to greet Yellow Stem, and continued: "In earlier years, I ate many ordinary Six Paths Fruits, so my soul was already stronger than most Mountain Lord Level Insect Clan Warriors. There’s a lot of room for improvement. I estimate, after my next Age Period Evolution and the Divine-Grade Six Paths Fruit’s full strengthening effects come out, my soul will reach peak Lord-Level strength."

Yellow Stem was shocked and incredulous. "That strong?!"

Quandong Divine Tree sighed with envy: "That Six Paths Wood Divine-Given Seed counts among the top Divine-Grade in the Natural Star Realm. Looking throughout the ages, few can compare."

Dragon Cypress agreed in admiration: "Indeed! That’s why the Six-Spiked Cloud Ants at Six Peaks Mountain are one of the strongest Ant Clans on Ten Thousand Nations Continent."

Yellow Stem said wistfully: "If I have the chance, I’ll swap for one too..."

Dragon Cypress readily replied: "Of course, no problem!"

Yellow Stem asked: "What happened to the White Poplar Divine-Given Seed?"

Dragon Cypress: "I’m just dropping by to report on that. Just as we predicted, it went smoothly—it sprouted into a two-meter-tall little tree in less than a month after being sown."

Yellow Stem: "That’s good!"

Yellow Stem reminded: "Dragon Cypress Ant King, you mustn’t be careless."

Dragon Cypress: "I never dare let down my guard when it comes to matters of life and death."

This trip, Dragon Cypress mainly came to show Yellow Stem and the Quandong Divine Tree the powerful effect of the Divine-Grade Six Paths Fruit.

After showing, chatting a few words, he hurriedly took his leave.