Astral Cockroach

Tata Tree was a glutton, having completely exhausted the remains of the Boundary Tree in the second warehouse. Now, only the last warehouse of remains was left.

It also grew rapidly, its trunk reaching a height of over 200 meters.

Banbu was more than once grateful that he had sown it at the foot of the mountain rather than on the mountain itself.

The Fire Oil Tea and Wild Cliff Cypress Divine Seeds planted on the mountain were quite eye-catching. Coupled with the deliberate promotion by Lizhu Peak, visitors generally focused their attention on these two unusually tall arbor-type Divine Seeds.

However, the growth of the Fire Oil Tea and Wild Cliff Cypress Divine Seeds was clearly not as fast as Tata's. If it continued, Tata's trunk would break through 300 meters sooner or later. At that time, it would be about time for its second metamorphosis and growth spurt, and its trunk height would soar again, eventually becoming impossible to hide.

Banbu had already begun to take action, planting a large row of Moso Bamboo on the mountain, planning to move the trading square further away, behind the bamboo forest, to shield it from view with the bamboo grove.

In fact, the Blood Thorn Divine Seed next to the trading square was also attracting attention.

Since Banbu's promotion to County Lord, it had been steadily growing. The 12 main branches were all about 200 meters long, with lateral branches sprouting, forming a vast expanse. There was also the longest branch, over 500 meters long, almost touching the foot of Lizhu Peak.

A single branch, single-mindedly trying to climb up the mountain, was quite unique and interesting.

Lizhu Peak was, of course, most famous for its bamboo. In addition to the Holy Bamboo Divine Seed, the Dusk Bamboo enhanced primordial force perception, and the Rain Bamboo had a soul-enhancing effect. These two Divine Seeds were also quite well-known.

Banbu stayed on Lizhu Peak, making a fixed round of inspections every morning, spending a little time communicating with the various Divine Seed tree spirits.

In the evening, after dinner, he would stroll around the ordinary Life Seed plants, absorbing the excess primordial force from their stored primordial force meridians and injecting it into the location of his first heart.

Banbu began to prepare to ignite the supernatural power patterns of the fused metal core.

He didn't plan to, nor did he need to, spend too many primordial stones.

Ordinary Life Seed plants could provide 100 primordial stones of primordial force every day.

After advancing to L4 County Lord, the second heart location could produce about 1,000 primordial stones of primordial force every day.

Combined, that was equivalent to 400,000 primordial stones of primordial force per year, a considerable income. Each supernatural power pattern of the metal core only required 20,000, so he could ignite 20 patterns a year, and all 300 patterns would be completed in 15 years.

… …

Leisurely and carefree, before he knew it, a new year had arrived.

Banbu, year 56, mid-February.

Chonglou and Yuzhu's merchant team arrived as scheduled.

That fellow Nanzhu had been waiting at the edge of the Bamboo Sea, leading the merchant team through the Bamboo Sea and directly to the mountain trading square.

This year, there were no Holy Bamboo fruits, and the transaction volume was greatly reduced, so he directly handed it over to the younger generation below to handle.

Banbu, Chonglou, and Yuzhu gathered together to discuss the most important matter at hand.

Chonglou said seriously: "County Lord Banbu, we've tried it. The Wolf Scorpion Tribe is not easy to fool!"

Yuzhu said: "They seem to have used Divine Seed remains before, and they seem to be even more adept than us."

Banbu asked: "Did you soak them in water?"

"No," Chonglou said. "What I mean is that when they were setting prices, they clearly knew more than our merchant team."

"That's because your merchant team doesn't manage territory and knows less," Banbu bluntly pointed out, and asked: "What's going on?"

Yuzhu said: "We met the Ice Snow Scorpion King, who was fierce and unreasonable, brooking no dissent. We had originally thought up a lot of ideas on the way there, but none of them came in handy when discussing prices."

Chonglou said: "After the Ice Snow Scorpion King looked at the remains, he only took a very short time to think before directly and decisively giving the purchase price, not allowing us to bargain."

"… …" Banbu was speechless: You two are too weak, aren't you? Isn't he just a Scorpion King? It's a fair deal, what are you afraid of?

Yuzhu said: "The Wolf Scorpion Tribe lives on the northern border, fighting with the Northern Wilderness beast tribes for generations. Each of them exudes a bloody aura, cold and cruel, and they are not easy to provoke."

Chonglou said: "The Ice Snow Scorpion King divided the remains into 6 types in detail and priced them separately."

"The outer layer of the trunk exposed on the surface is severely weathered and has lost its primordial force properties. According to your sales method, the price ratio of primordial stones to remains is 50 to 1."

"The dug-up layer of the trunk buried underground is petrified, heavy, and also has lost its primordial force properties. The price is 20 to 1."

"The relatively well-preserved inner core of the trunk has primordial force properties, so the selling price is set at 100 to 1."

"There are also the roots, which are more valuable than the trunk. Petrified roots are 30 to 1."

"The thick roots should have relatively well-preserved parts, with the highest price, 120 to 1."

"Finally, the Ice Snow Scorpion King proposed that the heartwood must be sent over, and they directly offered 2 million primordial stones, plus 3 portions of Scots Pine Divine Seed pine cones."

"Divided so detailed… very professional!" Banbu was overwhelmed.

Yuzhu added: "There is indeed a 'Divine Quality' Scots Pine Divine Seed in the Scots Pine tree sea. Banbu, is the heartwood still there? Chonglou and I have discussed it. For this transaction, we will only take two portions of pine cones as remuneration."

Chonglou said: "The remains should still be dried, preserved, and sent over. The Ice Snow Scorpion King is not a small mountain lord of those small mountain ranges. We can't afford to offend him."

Yuzhu said: "Banbu, think about it, how is this price?"

Not good.

The half of the Red Pine remains exposed on the surface were basically decayed and almost gone. The quantity itself was not very large, and most of the remaining buried underground had lost their primordial force activity, and were "worthless" remains.

Banbu was thinking of selling all of them at a price of 100 to 1. Calculated, he could sell about 150 million primordial stones, which would be divided equally with the other mountain ranges. He would take half, seventy to eighty million.

The price given by the Ice Snow Scorpion King was less than 100 million.

Banbu said: "The heartwood is on Lizhu Peak. We can agree to sell it to them, but raise the price slightly… 2 million primordial stones, plus 4 portions of pine cones."

"We Lizhu Peak only need 2 million primordial stones and 1 portion of pine cones. The other three portions, Yuzhu, Chonglou, and Xuemai, you three can divide them."

Relying on the Holy Bamboo fruits, Chonglou and Yuzhu were doing very well among the County Lord-level merchant teams. Both of them were planning to advance to Spider King. The Iridescent Flame Spider awakened the water element ability, and the "Divine Quality" Scots Pine pine cones would be beneficial to their future breakthroughs.

Banbu said: "The relatively well-preserved remains with primordial force properties can be sold at the price given by the Ice Snow Scorpion King. The remains that have lost their primordial force properties will not be sold. We Lizhu Peak will keep them for our own use."

Chonglou and Yuzhu were silent for a while, then agreed.

Banbu had Hongdao take down the most precious heartwood and hand it over to them to take it over first to complete the first transaction.

This year, the transportation team led by the Red Armor Roach King transported all the Oak Divine Seed remains back. The plan was to rest in the first half of next year and start transporting the Red Pine Divine Seed remains in the second half of the year, so the second transaction would have to wait until the year after next. The transportation capacity of the two merchant teams was limited, and it would take many times and many years to complete the transaction.

The income was divided equally. Banbu would receive about 20 million primordial stones. This batch of Dragon Bamboo fruits was ripening, so there was no need to worry about primordial stones. In addition, with the income from selling Holy Bamboo fruits, the next batch would also not be short of primordial stones.

The Nine-Leaf Red Lotus was almost fully grown. Selling lotus seeds to the outside world would eliminate the pressure of primordial stones from operating the Dragon Bamboo fruits, and the Dragon Bamboo fruits would no longer be sold to the outside world, only exchanged and not sold in the future.

… …

Banbu stayed on Lizhu Peak for another year, waiting for the results of the second round of price negotiations with the merchant team.

The Ice Snow Scorpion King was very tough and refused to raise the price.

Since he refused to raise the price, those Red Pine remains that had lost their primordial force activity would really not be sold and would be kept for his own use. Weren't there still two large warehouses empty on the mountain? If he couldn't use them all, he would hoard them. Now that Lizhu Peak itself also had earth and stone abilities, if the existing warehouses couldn't hold them, then he would build three more.

Banbu, year 57.

After the dry season, the transportation team led by the Red Armor Roach King set off again, and Banbu followed along.

According to the Nine-Leaf Red Lotus tree spirit, in the Northern Wilderness of Dragon Bamboo Continent, adjacent to the Frost Wolf Tribe, there were two large beast tribes: the Pine Sea Gray Bear Tribe and the Daqing Mountain Snow Leopard Tribe.

Similar to the Frost Wolf Tribe, they were inhabited by multiple beast races, united around the primordial stone mine to form a large force with a long heritage, knowing how to manage the tree sea, cultivate tree species, and possessing at least one "Divine Quality" Divine Seed.

Among them, the Daqing Mountain Snow Leopard Tribe possessed a thorny shrub-type "Divine Quality" Divine Seed, the specific plant species was unknown, but coincidentally, the enhancement effect was blood enhancement, which had many similarities with the Blood Thorn Divine Seed of Lizhu Peak.

He would focus on finding it and bringing it back to enhance the Blood Thorn Divine Seed.

Baba's so-called "Half-Divine Quality" was not so easy to achieve. Banbu didn't have high demands. It would be very good to raise it to "Excellent Quality". The quality of the Divine Seed was not only related to income, but also to future growth.