Astral Cockroach

L8, a beginner-level warrior, with a body length exceeding 40, chose the Ma Bamboo seed as its destined seed for nurturing.

Awakening from slumber, it was the height of spring. The Iron Knife Tree seed nurtured by L7, which favors light and heat, should be able to withstand the summer heat in its sapling stage. Banbu planned to sow it.

Banbu crawled out of the nest chamber.

Putao, who was guarding outside the cave, exclaimed in surprise, "Banbu, you're awake! This molting only took 5 days?"

"5 days?" Banbu was taken aback, and said, "That's quite fast!"

Consistent physical training greatly aids molting and evolution. Upon waking, it only felt slightly weak and empty.

Concerned for Banbu's safety, during Banbu's slumber and advancement, besides the four senior warriors from Iron Knife Mountain who came to patrol the territory daily, Yan Cu Ban Mao and Putao also took time to watch over the cave entrance in shifts.

Mainly coming at night to help guard the destined seed seedlings during their vulnerable period.

Putao asked, "Banbu, are you hungry? I'll go get you something to eat."

Evolution requires food. Banbu replied, "Thank you, Putao."

Putao extended its front claws, pointed at the God-given Seed at the cave entrance, and then at the four destined seeds planted on the edge of the open space at the cave entrance, saying, "The growth of the God-given Seed is unique. Banbu, I suggest you move the ordinary destined seeds to another place to make enough room for the God-given Seed to develop."

Banbu said, "Putao, then I'm afraid I'll have to trouble you and Yan Cu Ban Mao."

Putao spread its wings and soared into the air, saying, "No trouble, it's a simple matter. Then you first consider where to move them. I'll go get you some food and come back."

"Okay, thank you."

Banbu watched Putao disappear into the mountain stream, its attention turning to the God-given Seed in the open space at the cave entrance.

As soon as it approached, it immediately received an emotion of "contempt" from the God-given Seed.

Plants have no brains. Weak souls cannot perform logical thinking, and even possess very limited memory abilities. The God-given Seed only remembers Banbu, and it holds grudges, not only holding grudges, but its desire for revenge is particularly strong.

Every time it transmitted "angry" emotions to Banbu, Banbu threatened to kill it. At some point, it learned a new emotion—contempt.

Banbu felt very helpless about this and was too lazy to argue with a dim-witted soul.

Regarding the growth of the God-given Seed, Banbu is now half happy and half worried.

Initially, in a little over ten days, the tender buds grew rapidly, sprouting 6 leaves. When the grass stalk reached a height of about 30, it suddenly stopped growing and no longer developed. The underground root system developed rhizomes, shifted sideways, and then a new bud emerged, which quickly grew and developed into a new 6-leaf grass stalk. When the height reached about 30, it stopped growing again.

Now, the height of the God-given Seed grass stalk has been far outstripped by the Xun Grass destined seed. This height is even inferior to ordinary Xun Grass. Banbu doubts whether it can bear seeds.

Banbu named the grass stalk where the Tree Spirit was located as the mother stalk, and the second grass stalk that grew out of the rhizome sideways was named Branch No. 1.

Before Banbu molted and evolved, it checked and found that the God-given Seed mother stalk had grown two more rhizomes, growing sideways.

Now, awakening from slumber, the two rhizomes have grown two tender buds, and unsurprisingly, they will develop into two grass stalks. Banbu named them Branch No. 2 and Branch No. 3 respectively.

Branch Nos. 1, 2, and 3 are distributed in an equilateral triangle, guarding the central position of the mother stalk.

At this time, Branch No. 1 is also deriving rhizomes sideways. Judging from the trend, it will soon grow new branches.

It is easy to predict that the growth pattern of the God-given Seed should be that the mother stalk produces 3 branches, each branch then derives 3 branches, and the branches' branches continue to derive branches.

One gives birth to three, three gives birth to nine, nine gives birth to twenty-seven, twenty-seven gives birth to eighty-one…

Approximately 20 days is a branch cycle.

The number of grass stalks increases geometrically. Continuing like this, hundreds or thousands of grass stalks will soon cover the entire open space in front of the cave, turning it into a lawn.

What is the limit of the God-given Seed's expansion? Unpredictable.

Putao saw clearly the development pattern of the God-given Seed, so it suggested that Banbu move the four ordinary destined seeds of Xun Grass, Yingri Fruit, White Jade Mulberry, and Cypress as soon as possible.

Banbu is worried that the grass stalks of the God-given Seed are slender and short, and in the future, the frequency of heading and flowering will be low, the number of seeds will be small, and the overall yield will be low.

Without yield, everything is in vain.

… …

Putao quickly returned with a small wild boar.

"How is it? Banbu, have you considered it clearly? In which direction are you going to open up the new cave?"

While eating, Putao asked Banbu again.

Banbu asked, "Putao, what do you think of the south side of the mountain? I remember there is a very suitable location, with steep cliffs and a large open space below, and the soil is also very good. You only need to cut down the naturally growing cypress and sawtooth oak, and clean it up a little."

"That location?" Putao thought for a while and said, "It's very good."

Banbu said, "Then it's settled."

Putao said, "Then I'll return to the Iron Knife Mountains and notify Yan Cu Ban Mao to come and help. Banbu, this may be the last time we help you. Understand? You are about to become an intermediate warrior and must start trying to survive independently."

Banbu said, "I understand, thank you, Putao."

… …

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Hearing that Banbu had molted and evolved again, the Iron Knife Mountain Lord continued to fulfill his promise, sending Banbu 50 mountain walnuts to help it grow.

This batch of Origin Power Fruits, reasonably allocated, should barely be enough to support Banbu in continuing to maintain the rate of molting and evolving once a month, quickly advancing to L9 beginner-level warrior.

Above L9 beginner-level warrior is another level, intermediate warrior.

This should be the last time Banbu asks Putao and Yan Cu Ban Mao for help.

Intermediate warriors operate independently, hunt independently, and survive independently. This is the tradition of the Red Ant Tribe. Excessive care from elders towards juniors will instead affect their future growth.

… …

South side of the mountain, a location was chosen.

Putao and Yan Cu Ban Mao helped together, opening mountains and felling trees, removing weeds, migrating destined seeds, sowing Iron Knife Tree destined seeds. A series of tedious tasks took a whole day.

There is also the matter of digging mountain rocks and opening up caves. Banbu was embarrassed to trouble Putao and Yan Cu Ban Mao to help again.

It's not too difficult. Currently, Banbu is small in size and plans to dig a smaller cave itself. The entrance passage can be dug deeper, and it can be gradually expanded in the future as its size increases.

… …

When moving to Li Zhu Peak, Yan Cu Ban Mao would run over to visit Banbu every two or three days, concerned about whether it was full, whether it had encountered danger, whether there were any problems with the growth of the destined seeds… As Banbu grew and possessed a certain degree of self-protection ability, and the destined seeds grew smoothly, the frequency of visits gradually decreased.

Banbu also enjoyed the peace and quiet, still living in the cave opened up by the Golden Bamboo Mountain Lord, focusing on deducing and cultivating the cultivation technique. It only went out twice every morning and evening to check the status of the destined seeds. Occasionally, if it did not rain for several consecutive days, it would use bamboo tubes to fetch water from the mountain reservoir and simply irrigate them.

The Xun Grass destined seed has grown to a height of 100, far ahead of all the destined seeds.

The Li Bamboo sapling closely followed, also reaching a height of about 40.

Yingri Fruit, White Jade Mulberry, and Cypress trees are arbors, so the growth rate of the seedlings is much slower. In more than a month, they have only grown to a height of about 30, and it is getting slower and slower. These arbors need to be cultivated for about 3 to 5 years to be considered initially grown, flowering and fruiting.

The Iron Knife Tree destined seed has just sprouted. Its growth will be even slower, with a growth period of nearly 10 years.

The Red Oak seeds promised to Banbu by the Iron Knife Mountain Lord will be delivered this autumn. The development of the Red Oak will be even slower, requiring more than 20 years to flower and bear fruit.

The speed of plant growth, in addition to the differences in the species itself, is also greatly related to external factors such as climate, soil, and sunlight.

The insects in this world still cultivate in the most primitive way, realizing that plants need loosening and fertilization, but the fertilization plan is extremely simple, simply burying rotten leaves and branches under the plants. In fact, everyone knows that animal manure is a better fertilizer, but few insect warriors are willing to do it.

Through human memories, Banbu still knows a plan to obtain natural fertilizer: using biogas digesters to ferment and accelerate the rotting of plant branches and leaves, obtaining a large amount of humus fertilizer.

Banbu decided to take some time to build a biogas digester and try it out.