Astral Cockroach

On the way back, Banbu flew very slowly, not because the cattail and its less than one hundred worker bees were heavy, but mainly because he was worried that flying too fast would blow them away with the strong wind.

From time to time, he had to use his mental power to check if they were still there.

Flying all the way was tiring.

Passing through the Qinggang Mountains, Banbu made a detour to visit the Iron Tallow Mountain Lord.

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On the mountain, the Iron Tallow Mountain Lord was leading the ant colony to work—cutting down trees and clearing open spaces, presumably planning to plant more pear trees.

The Iron Tallow Mountain Lord was naturally fond of pear trees, planting many in its territory, and its life seed choice was also mainly various pear trees.

"Iron Tallow Mountain Lord, I am Banbu from the Jinping Mountains, may I come down and visit you?" Banbu hovered at low altitude.

"You may," the Iron Tallow Mountain Lord replied.

The little ant king named Zhuang was frightened and, under the protection of the ant colony, ran up the mountain in a panic.

"Banbu!" Xiangpu was also somewhat afraid of the Iron Tallow Mountain Lord's aura, waving its antennae nervously, the bee colony swirling around Banbu and flying haphazardly, making a chaotic "buzzing" sound of flapping wings.

"Red-ringed acid bee, this is a newly born little queen bee!" The Iron Tallow Mountain Lord lived alone, disliked communicating with its own kind, and was ill-informed, unaware that a little queen bee had been born in Chijian County, its tone sounding somewhat surprised, noticing that Xiangpu was somewhat afraid of itself, constantly backing away, and asked:

"Why are you here again?"

Banbu raised the spider silk bag, opened it, revealing the raw stones inside, and said, "Iron Tallow Mountain Lord, are your iron tallow fruits ripe? I would like to purchase a batch."

The Iron Tallow Mountain Lord's mental power swept over Banbu's body, sensing that Banbu also possessed metal abilities, without asking any further questions, it directly said, "I can give you a cheaper price, 5 raw stones for one iron tallow fruit, how many do you need?"

Banbu said, "That's great, I want 200."

The Iron Tallow Mountain Lord stirred its mental power and shouted to the little ant king who was running away in a panic, "Zhuang, send 200 iron tallow fruits down."

That little ant king did not respond, but instead fled even faster, running up the mountain in a puff of smoke, burrowing into the ant nest, and hiding.

Xiangpu was much braver, sensing that the Iron Tallow Mountain Lord had no malice, it slowly became less nervous, vibrating its wings, landing on Banbu's head, curiously staring at the Iron Tallow Mountain Lord, surprised by the other party's unusually large size.

Banbu introduced, "It's called Xiangpu, a little queen bee born this year, it will possess a Xiangpu God-given seed. Lizhu Peak cultivates bamboo, it will help me manage the bamboo sea in the future."

The Iron Tallow Mountain Lord asked, "It was born in the Fire Lotus Queen Bee's territory?"

Banbu replied, "Yes."

"Oh." The Iron Tallow Mountain Lord suddenly fell silent.

Silently looking at each other, that little ant king's efficiency was particularly low, and there was no movement for a long time.

Banbu found it somewhat unbearable, breaking the silence, and said, "Iron Tallow Mountain Lord, may I ask, at what price do you sell your iron tallow fruits to the merchant teams?"

The Iron Tallow Mountain Lord did not shy away from it, truthfully saying, "8 raw stones, they can sell them for at least 10 raw stones in other kingdoms."

Banbu calculated silently, secretly rejoicing in his heart: Buying from the Iron Tallow Mountain Lord, this is a huge profit!

However, the matter of buying origin power food from the same race at a low price cannot be overdone, just enough for oneself to eat, and even more so, it cannot be resold to merchant teams, this is a basic principle.

Banbu then proactively suggested, "The fruit produced by Xiangpu's God-given seed is approximately to strengthen fire abilities, Iron Tallow Mountain Lord, if you need it, you can also sell it at a low price in the future, but the quality may be lower."

"You may," the Iron Tallow Mountain Lord's reply was concise.

With this kind of temperament, it really was impossible to communicate, no wonder the warriors of the Qinggang Mountains did not like to look for it, even Princess Huagang was unwilling to come over.

Banbu really could not find a topic, simply waiting in silence.

Finally, the ant colony carried the iron tallow fruits down the mountain.

The fruit particles were very small, slightly larger than soybeans, the outer shell smooth and shiny black, with a metallic luster. Mental power swept over, preliminary judgment, the quality was upper-middle grade, and it was also discovered that the fruit shell was thin, perhaps the storage time could not be too long.

The price of origin power fruits that strengthen elemental abilities was relatively constant, 8 raw stones sold to the merchant teams, and the merchant teams then sold them at a price of 10 raw stones, which was considered the going rate.

Banbu neatly paid the raw stones, packed up the things, and the transaction was considered complete.

The Iron Tallow Mountain Lord had no intention of retaining or entertaining, and even showed a hint of expelling the insect.

Banbu also did not want to stay any longer, leaving directly.

Turning around to visit Princess Huagang again, taking the opportunity to freeload some food and drink to fill his stomach, and continue on his way.

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Not hurried, walking and stopping, after seven days, he finally returned to Lizhu Peak.

The first thing to do was to choose a territory for Xiangpu, and after another half a day of busy work, it was finally decided on the southern side of the mountain, at the lower layer of the mountain peak near the foot of the mountain. In the future, as Xiangpu grows, it will open up a honeycomb towards the depths of the mountain, so enough space must be reserved in advance.

Red-ringed acid bees are accustomed to using thorns as camouflage for their honeycombs, and coincidentally, a lot of blood thorn seeds were hidden in the Big Head's ant nest, so they were all moved out to help sow them around Xiangpu's territory.

Food was another problem.

Xiangpu and the bee colony both fed on nectar, and at the very least, they needed fresh fruit with a very high sweetness.

In the middle of winter, fresh fruit was definitely not available.

Banbu then arranged for Big Bear to go to the jungle to find a few wild honeycombs and bring back some honey.

After working busily for two days, Xiangpu's housing and food problems were properly arranged.

Banbu took Big Bear and continued to dig ponds and open up open spaces at the foot of the mountain.

The seven bamboo rat warriors set off again, searching for the old nest of the Gouju Mountain Python along the mountain range in a northwesterly direction. They were allowed to return to Lizhu Peak once every half month to report the situation if they did not find it after a dispersed investigation.

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This year, the Purple-Gold God-given Seed produced 9837 Purple-Gold Bamboo Rice, 6000 of which were pre-sold to the Chonglou Merchant Team, and Banbu could still keep 3837.

This part of the surplus was not for Banbu to eat alone.

Big Bear had already confirmed that it strengthened metal abilities, and was currently an L7 advanced warrior, with a strong ability to swallow origin power food, so Banbu distributed 1500 of them to it in one go.

Rat King also decided to strengthen metal abilities, and after careful consideration, Banbu gave it 300 Purple-Gold Bamboo Rice per month as wages. The reason was very simple, Rat King's age was a bit old, but its strength was only at L3 advanced warrior, if it did not quickly grow and advance to Mountain Lord, it was likely to end up with the tragic fate of aging and death.

Banbu himself grew, the demand for origin power food was also quite large, and he was in a hurry to evolve and grow, Purple-Gold Bamboo Rice was definitely not enough to eat, so he purchased a batch of iron tallow fruits from the Iron Tallow Mountain Lord.

Being origin power fruits that strengthen metal abilities, produced by different plants, the strengthening direction also had some differences. Diversified eating was very necessary, it could complement deficiencies and comprehensively promote the genetic evolution related to metal energy, the metal abilities obtained would be more complete and powerful.

The same was true for fire abilities, eating various God-given seeds that condensed origin power food that strengthened fire abilities, the genes related to fire were comprehensively evolved, and the power of the flames released in the future would be stronger.

The wandering merchants of the Phantom Flame Spider tribe were popular, every lord hoped to attract more merchant teams to their territory for trade, the main reason was that different merchant teams traveled different routes, and could bring more kinds of origin power food.