Astral Cockroach

In the beginning, Banbu insisted on keeping the camellia oleifera trees for another purpose: to attract beast warriors to settle down.

Once enough beast warriors gathered, he would then muster his strength and wipe them out in one fell swoop.

Now, it really came in handy!

However, Banbu was in no hurry to startle the snake. He had just killed a batch of beast warriors and could wait a couple more months, until more gathered, before killing again!

The leopard cat warrior settled down on Lizhu Peak, living on the south side of the mountain, but refusing to get close to Daxie, preferring to hide in the dense blood bramble thickets. Its wild survival instincts were hard to erase; it was solitary, disliked communication, and remained wary of Banbu and the other members of the mountain.

Banbu named it "Camellia." It took a great deal of effort and several days of coaxing before Camellia allowed Banbu to use his psychic power to examine its body structure.

Banbu spent time deducing cultivation methods for it, and taught it the "Phantom Traceless Steps" and the "Azure Shadow Secret Technique." These two martial skills were a complete waste on the bamboo rat warriors, but were more suitable for the naturally swift and agile leopard cat warrior.

… …

Baizhu had been enjoying unlimited glory recently. It was the first warrior on Lizhu Peak to cultivate a martial skill to the Minor Accomplishment realm.

Although Daxie’s Iron Sand Palm had seen a surge in power, strictly speaking, it was still only at the Introductory level, far from the Minor Accomplishment realm.

The Introductory and Minor Accomplishment realms of martial skills were worlds apart, a fundamental transformation.

Baizhu discovered that Shudawang's movements now seemed slow and sluggish in its eyes.

Several times, Shudawang tried to teach it a lesson, but Baizhu found that it could easily escape. Even when Shudawang brought Mazhu, Shuizhu, and the other five to surround it, it could still escape with ease.

Amazing martial skill!

Baizhu also tried it out on Daxie and Hongdao, but they couldn't catch it either.

Then it tried it out on Banbu, and only Banbu's speed could match its own. However, Banbu was getting bigger and bigger, and if it were to burrow into those small bushes or dense forests, Banbu definitely wouldn't be able to catch it.

Invincible!

Baizhu felt that its position on Lizhu Peak was now second only to Banbu and Daxie.

In the past, when the seven bamboo rat warriors walked side by side, Shudawang always walked in the front, followed by Mazhu in second place, arranged in order from largest to smallest. Now, no way. Baizhu wanted to walk in the first position alongside Shudawang. Its position was being challenged, and Shudawang was very angry, but it couldn't catch this little rascal.

Hongdao was nice and always gifted it Primordial Energy food, so Baizhu often went to play with Hongdao and hid in Hongdao’s cave to sleep at night.

Shudawang and the others didn't dare to cause trouble in Hongdao's territory, afraid of being caught while sleeping. In this way, it no longer had to listen to Shudawang's commands and could do whatever it wanted.

… …

Banbu planned to nurture Camellia, personally guiding its martial skill cultivation every day, and also selecting a batch of high-quality Primordial Energy food from his own supply to help strengthen its overall physique.

The season for ripe fresh fruit was approaching, and he also ordered a batch of fresh fruit from Tiedao Peak using Primordial Stones, mainly for Camellia to eat, to help it advance to become a High-level warrior as soon as possible.

Camellia's body length was only one meter. Banbu didn't expect it to fight; it would be good enough to be a scout, helping to find the various hidden beast warriors in the Jinping Mountains and Tiedao Mountains.

Baizhu was getting bolder and bolder. Discovering that Banbu gave Camellia a lot of Primordial Energy food, it began to try to become friends with Camellia.

Camellia's reaction to Baizhu was lukewarm, but it was okay with Baizhu, not as wary as it was of Daxie and Banbu.

Seeing this, Banbu gave Baizhu a new task: teaching Camellia various knowledge, mainly elementary mathematical knowledge, plant knowledge, and animal knowledge.

… …

Time came to another year of high summer.

Banbu had a relatively happy summer: the number of Sun Reflection Fruit and White Jade Mulberry seeds bearing fruit increased. The Eugenia seeds flowered and fruited for the first time, condensing a total of 11 fruits.

In this primitive insectoid world with zero entertainment, tasting various fresh fruits each season was a kind of life pleasure.

In mid-May, Yuzhu and Cuizhu's God-bestowed seeds took the lead in bearing spikes.

Various bamboo seeds also successively produced flower spikes.

The dry season arrived as scheduled.

Lizhu Peak was unprecedentedly busy.

Xiangpu was the busiest, directing the bee colony to collect pollen and pollinate the designated bamboo species.

Ordinary bamboo only flowered for a few days, and Xiangpu's energy was limited, so the production of hybrid bamboo species was destined to be limited. The sales of Cuizhu and Yuzhu seeds were not a problem, but on the contrary, production far could not keep up with demand.

The hybridization work that Banbu carried out this year was very cumbersome, increasing the pollination experiment of Guixian Bamboo on Zizhu, Wuzhu, and five other bamboo species.

Among them, the pollination experiment on Xiaoye Gang Bamboo failed. The other 4 bamboo species were all successful.

Banbu then used these 4 bamboo species to cross each other, conducting another type of hybridization experiment.

Various permutations and combinations were too complicated, and Xiangpu's little head couldn't turn around, dizzy and disoriented. It simply stopped thinking and waited for Banbu's instructions. It did whatever Banbu told it to do.

Banbu himself was also a little dizzy and had to use bamboo slips as an auxiliary tool, using words to describe, listing sub-items, and recording each experiment.

… …

On the north side of Lizhu Peak, in the Xuefeng Jinlan melon field, the fresh melons began to ripen.

The melon vines were very good at spreading, and the number of fruits was also high, with one plant able to bear 20 to 30 fruits.

The skin of the ripe Xuefeng Jinlan melon was green with white patterns, not much different in appearance from common watermelons.

The shape was slightly different, and the size was smaller, belonging to the small watermelon category, oval, very oval, with a long diameter close to 15 centimeters, but a diameter of only about 8 centimeters, looking slender.

The whole melon weighed a little more than 1 kilogram, and there were melon seeds inside.

After cutting it open, the flesh of the melon was a golden color that made your appetite open, juicy, sweet, and delicious.

In the hot summer, putting the melon on the top of the mountain to chill, and then moving it down the mountain to eat in the hot sun, one cold and one hot, was definitely a wonderful enjoyment.

Overall, Xuefeng Jinlan was a high-yielding, easy-to-grow, and quite good plant species.

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The fresh melons condensed by ordinary Xuefeng Jinlan tasted good, but unfortunately did not contain Primordial Energy, and did not help with growth and evolution. After tasting them, the members of the mountain did not like to eat them very much.

Banbu smashed open the ripe melons and threw them on the mountain to feed those ordinary little cockroaches, and then Datou sent worker ants to collect the seeds.

The seeds were dried, and the plump seeds were selected and stored, planning to expand the melon field area and increase the planting scale next year.

Banbu himself first decided that the next time he advanced, he would definitely choose a Xuefeng Jinlan melon seed to nurture into a seed of life.

Xiangpu, Duzhu, Hongmi, and Hongdao also followed suit and made the same decision.

Fengling felt that it was not worth wasting a seed of life spot and did not participate in this matter.

… …

In the evening, Banbu had just finished eating and was preparing to use his cultivation method to absorb Primordial Energy.

Suddenly, the sound of gnashing teeth, "squeak squeak squeak," rang out from the bottom of the mountain.

It was a warning from the bamboo rat warriors.

"Shudawang!" Banbu called out.

Shudawang lived nearby. Hearing the call, he strolled over and said, "Banbu, don't be nervous. It's Baizhu conveying a call for help."

Don't be nervous?

It seemed like it wasn't a big deal.

Banbu asked, "Baizhu? It's with Camellia."

Shudawang said a little gloatingly, "It said Camellia wants to eat it."

"… …" Banbu flapped his wings and flew down the mountain.

Baizhu was pinned to the ground by Camellia, its cat paws waving like shadows, hitting its head hard, making muffled "thump thump thump" sounds.

Daxie was sitting on the side, grinning, watching the fun with relish.

Seeing Banbu arrive, Camellia gave it two final heavy punches, released Baizhu, and burrowed into the blood bramble thicket.

"Banbu, Camellia bullied me!" Baizhu climbed up from the ground, made an accusation, and without waiting for a reply, ran up the mountain in a puff of smoke.

Banbu asked, "Daxie, what's going on?"

Daxie shook his head and said, "I don't know."

Banbu asked again, "Camellia, what's going on?"

Camellia replied, "It wanted to trick me out of my Primordial Energy food."

"Oh." Banbu understood what was going on and said, "Camellia, be gentler next time."

Baizhu's personality was very sturdy. It had been bullied by Shudawang and the others since it was young, and slowly became very cunning. It had a good relationship with Hongdao and often tricked Hongdao into giving it food and drink.

Hongdao was generous by nature and didn't lack Primordial Energy food, so it didn't bother to argue over a few that were tricked away.

Since Baizhu's Phantom Traceless Steps had reached Minor Accomplishment, it had become more and more cocky. Recently, it had become overly bold and had even set its sights on Camellia's stash.

Camellia had wandered in the jungle and survived independently for many years. Its wild nature had not faded, and it was very protective of its food. It didn't talk much and simply took action.