Astral Cockroach

Finding a remnant of a "divine-grade" God-given seed put Banbu in a great mood.

As expected, near almost every forest, one could find the mountain caves where beastmen warriors resided, and correspondingly, there were usually remnants of wild God-given seeds.

It was certain that the beastmen warriors living in dependence on this mountain range were once extremely wealthy and prosperous.

They managed oak, maple, acer, and pine trees, possessed mineral veins, and cultivated a large number of God-given seeds.

Unfortunately, after inspecting three locations in a row, they didn't find any more well-preserved "divine-grade" God-given seed remnants.

Banbu was flying at low altitude, preparing to go to the next location when he suddenly spotted a black dot sprinting across the grassland, heading towards the mountain range.

It was King Rat, running very urgently.

Banbu landed in the mountain range, waiting for it to arrive.

"Banbu, Banbu, we have a major discovery…"

King Rat was running frantically while desperately using its mental power to shout, unusually excited and almost gesticulating wildly.

It probably swam from the island, crossing the lake, and encountered something, as it was soaking wet, not even having had time to shake off the lake water.

King Rat rarely got so agitated and lost its composure.

Banbu sensed that it was running very tiredly and with great effort, so he flapped his wings and landed at the foot of the mountain.

"What's wrong? Are there many primal stones on the island?"

"No, it's not primal stones… it's a seed…" King Rat opened its mouth, panting heavily, incoherent, simply stopping far away, resting for two seconds, reorganizing its words, and said: "It's a seed, a God-given seed, and it's still alive… it's just too big, it's this big…"

King Rat stretched out its claws to gesture, emphasizing: "A seed bigger than my head, shaped like a bird's egg, oval-shaped, I don't recognize what kind of plant it is."

"Judging from the aura, it's definitely not an ordinary God-given seed, it's a bit similar to the Dragon Bamboo God-given seed, but also different… and it's a bit like Tata back then… maybe it's… it can be determined that it's a fire ability."

"Jin Zhu and I don't dare to touch it recklessly, you should go and take a look."

What is it?!

A seed bigger than a head? What plant in the Northern Wilderness has such a large seed? A coconut? Nonsense! Usually, only tropical plants have such exaggeratedly large seeds.

A divine-grade God-given seed's seed? King Rat has seen many God-given seed seeds, its judgment should be correct.

This isn't the Myriad Race Continent, it's the Dragon Bamboo Continent, and it's the Western Regions, which are rich in strange plant species that aren't recorded in inherited memories.

Banbu's antennae twitched, unable to remain calm, he directly flapped his wings and flew towards the lake.

King Rat was exhausted and a little hungry, lowered its head, dug up grass roots on the spot, ate hastily, rested for a while, and then turned back and ran frantically towards the lake.

…

Jin Zhu was working hard to excavate, opening up a passage.

"Banbu, deep underground is a cavern, King Rat said it needs you to go down and take a look yourself."

The passage they had previously dug was very narrow, only able to accommodate the bodies of bamboo rat warriors.

"What's inside?" Banbu asked.

"It's very complicated… there are many things inside, King Rat won't let me touch anything, it says it can't be destroyed casually," Jin Zhu replied with some difficulty.

"Then let's dig."

Banbu was a little pained to see it.

When they came, they didn't even carry a spider silk bag, King Rat and Jin Zhu were both carrying backpacks, which contained some primal force food.

At this time, they dumped everything out, and used the backpacks to carry the excavated soil and rocks, transporting and dumping them out bag by bag.

The efficiency looked very low.

Activating his metal ability, he directly transformed the soil and rocks into metal, forming two round buckets. The soil and rocks were loaded into the buckets, and Banbu stepped forward to help, carrying them out bucket by bucket.

…

King Rat couldn't swim, but after all, it was a primal force creature, and it had eaten Tata fruit and Dragon Bamboo fruit, splashing around, barely crossing the lake and returning to the island.

Upon landing, without saying much, it shook off the lake water from its body and immediately stepped forward to help.

The passage had a spiral structure, circling downwards, with only the upper layer collapsed.

Digging along the passage for about 50 meters, continuing downwards was an excavated rock passage, relatively wide, barely able to accommodate Banbu.

Analyzing the rock material of the passage, Banbu had further guesses.

This place originally had no natural lake at all, on the contrary, it was likely a stone peak. The beastmen warriors mined primal stones, collecting rocks from here to backfill, slowly digging it into its current appearance.

The black rock island in the center of the lake should be the location of the original mountain peak.

Continuing downwards, all the way to the depths of the ground, Banbu estimated that the vertical depth exceeded 40 meters. The already very hard rock was later strengthened with earth and stone abilities, so it could withstand the water pressure of the lake.

The journey wasn't far, and soon they entered a circular underground cave with a diameter of about 10 meters.

Very elaborate, on the black rock, neatly and densely inlaid with blocks of primal stone with sides of about 30 centimeters, densely packed.

Crude lines were carved on the primal stones, forming somewhat abstract patterns, with bear-shaped, wolf-shaped, and fox-shaped beastmen warriors. They moved around the mountain range, busily cultivating.

There was also a lake, with an island, and lotus flowers growing in the lake with lotus leaves that were somewhat exaggeratedly large.

Overall, the pattern depicted the scenery of this place, the only difference was that the beastmen warriors were gone, and the lotus flowers in the lake were gone.

There was also a thick layer of primal stone powder on the ground, it could be inferred that they once crushed primal stones to replenish the primal force of the cave space, and the purpose of inlaying primal stones should be to block the loss of primal force.

There was also a gray-black bear-shaped skeleton, Banbu guessed that after this place was built, it was left behind to seal the passage. After too long, the passage opened, oxygen rushed in, and the skeleton immediately turned into black ash.

There was also a stone brazier inside, with traces of charcoal slag after burning in the basin.

The focus was on the central position of the cave, a rectangular primal stone about 1 meter long!

King Rat pointed at the primal stone and asked: "Banbu, the thing is inside, can you sense it?"

The newest and fastest novel is on 69shu.com!

"Yes."

Banbu was solemn, tapping his antennae.

The primal force induction was somewhat interfered with by the primal stone, however, with the distance close enough, through the primal stone, he could judge that there was a special primal force fluctuation inside, of the fire element type.

Primal force vein induction also felt the existence of the primal force veins of the God-given seed. Through the vein outline, he roughly judged that the thing was oval, very large, with a major axis of about 35 centimeters and a minor axis of about 20 centimeters, like a large python-patterned honeydew melon.

Soul induction also detected faint soul fluctuations within it. The heavenly eye on his forehead activated, looking at the cuboid primal stone, faintly seeing a faint red mass in the central position, like a candle flame in the wind, flickering and about to fall.

King Rat said: "Banbu, this thing is a bit like… Tata! It's very similar to Tata's aura and state back then."

Tata was condensed into a heartwood state at that time, and its shape and appearance were rather unsightly when it was dug out.

The thing inside the primal stone had a very regular shape, the shape of a seed.

Therefore, King Rat was still a little suspicious that it was heartwood, but it wasn't sure, unclear, not knowing what was going on. It instinctively felt that the thing was very fragile, not knowing how to deal with it, so it didn't dare to touch it randomly, waiting for Banbu to come and check it out himself.

"The shape is like a seed, but judging from the size and aura, it's definitely not."

Banbu was also unsure what it was, and said: "Probably, possibly, should be heartwood, a lotus-type God-given seed, condensed into a seed-shaped heartwood."

What was certain was that this was a still-living God-given seed.

Banbu tried to remain calm, analyzed calmly, and instructed: "King Rat, you and Jin Zhu use your earth and stone abilities to seal the cave entrance."

"Okay!"

"Understood!"

King Rat and Jin Zhu immediately activated their earth and stone abilities.

Banbu then began to dismantle the primal stones inlaid on the stone wall, and also used his metal ability to create a mechanical crusher.

King Rat and Jin Zhu understood Banbu's meaning, sealed the cave entrance, and quickly stepped forward to help dismantle the primal stones.

All the primal stones were dismantled and crushed one by one with machinery.

Primal force spread out.

Banbu then waved his claws, cutting the cuboid primal stone.

The primal stone should have originally been two pieces, hollowed out in the middle, put in something, merged up and down, and used some special earth and stone ability to perfectly seal the gap, without a single leak.

Opening the primal stone revealed a beautiful, translucent red "seed".

Looking closely, it really was a "seed", but definitely not condensed by a normal plant.

Examining it carefully, it looked like a lotus seed.

Contacting the air, feeling the oxygen and primal force in the closed cave, the soul in the seed immediately showed signs of recovery. On the surface of the "seed coat", primal force veins flickered, beginning to absorb frantically.

PS: Update one chapter first, I don't know if there will be more tonight. If there is, it should be 2 updates, the time will be a little later.