Raising Ducks for Daily Rewards-Chapter 3: Breakthrough!

With these thoughts in his mind, Fengyu remained on the farm the whole day, doing his daily routine.

After clearing the pasture in the morning, he would start checking each duck and casting his spells on them.

First came the health check; once that was done, it was time for the spells.

"You’re healthy and will mature in approximately two days, good!" he said as he shook a duck in his lap, then told it to sit still.

Moving his hands and speaking an inaudible language, he finally cast the spell – "Spirit Absorption Spell, Absorb!"

Spiritual power gathered from all around, entering the body of the duck. After a few moments, the duck couldn’t take any more, quacking to Fengyu.

He stopped his spell and moved again, casting a different spell – "Bloodline Enhancing Spell, Enhance!"

The spiritual power entered the depths of the duck’s body, making its blood boil and move faster. Seconds passed as the blood moved all over the body, exhausting the duck several times.

This time he stopped before the duck said anything, then cast the final spell – "Vitality Recovering Spell, Recover!"

The residual spirit power in the blood spread all over the body, easing the pain of the duck and making it slightly stronger.

Raising its wings, the duck jumped off from his lap and returned to the small lake, seemingly forgetting the pain it was in just now.

"The combination of these three spells is quite taxing, but without it, I’d have to buy better feed to allow them to reach maturity in the intended time.

If I’m lucky, the bloodline spell might allow them to awaken, boosting them further.

Even if that doesn’t happen, without the bloodline spell, they would be very weak Spirited Ducks and their bloodline wouldn’t be passed on. The price I’m selling these ducks at – 10 spirit stones per duck – is based on their stable bloodline.

Even if one doesn’t want to breed ducks, with this bloodline and vitality recovering spell, the eggs of the mature duck will be spirited, which can be eaten by cultivators to slightly increase their cultivation."

He had thought about many things when he chose these ducks. It was only after he realized that he had talent in non-elemental cultivation spells, especially bloodline and vitality spells, that he thought of raising ducks.

If his wood root was any better, then farming would be a viable option. Unfortunately, with a mysterious root that had formed only 35%, barely reaching the minimum requirement to cultivate, he could only try to learn wood spells and other non-elemental spells.

"Alright, let’s do this!" he recovered his spiritual power and picked up the next duck. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

He saw that six of these ducks would mature the next day, while three more would mature in two days.

Turning to the mandarin duck, he shook his head, "You should reach maturity in at most three days too. But since you will advance further, I might have to give you some spirit stones to absorb."

"Quack? So much hassle? I’m talented! An extremely talented duck! Let me just reach maturity now!"

With a promise, the mandarin duck jumped to his lap, looking at him as if waiting for him to cast the spell.

Fengyu didn’t mind and used the absorption spell.

As the spiritual power gathered around, he saw that the duck actively absorbed it.

His spiritual power slowly dwindled – he had already cast the rotation nine times, expending 45% of his spiritual power!

The mandarin duck absorbed more than all of them. With each minute, he felt a percent of spiritual power leave the Qi Bowl in his dantian.

Finally, when it absorbed over 30%, he felt that the spiritual power around compensated... somehow, the duck was able to pull the spiritual power!

’It’s actually advancing!’ Fengyu exclaimed in shock. The duck didn’t joke at all but was ready to break through.

The absorption of his spiritual power became slower and slower, until in the end, he actually only held up the spell construct like a key to open the gate of the duck’s dantian.

Spiritual power rushed from all around and entered it!

Purple light shone from the duck’s beak, extending to its whole body!

Finally, the purple light exploded and spread all around, coloring the world purple for a second.

[You raised a Spiritual Mandarin Duck to maturity, +1 Beast Origin Essence Core]

[You aided a Spiritual Mandarin Duck to break through to the low-grade first stage, +1 Spiritual Absorption Spell Expertise!]

[Spiritual Mandarin Duck, low-grade first stage, use 10 Beast Origin Essence Strands to awaken Innate Ability? 1/10]

[Use 100 Beast Origin Essence Strands to fill the Essence Core? 1/100]

Several messages came one after another, surprising Fengyu.

He calmed down and looked at the duck.

Its eyes were closed as the spirituality all around flowed into its body.

He saw that its feathers were red, gold, and purple, a beautiful pattern.

Then he turned his attention to the notifications –

Focusing on the item called core, he hoped to get more information out of it. All that was left was that he could ’fill’ the core...

Yet after asking, nothing responded, leaving him clueless.

"Innate ability... only a rare few beasts awaken such an ability! Just ten strands and I can awaken its ability?"

Looking at the ten ducks... when they all reached maturity, couldn’t he directly allow this duck to awaken an ability?!

Finally, he landed on the most important yet also confusing matter, "What’s expertise?"

Instantly, a screen appeared in front of him.

[Expertise Overview]

[Spells: 1]

[Spiritual Absorption Spell: 3/100 (Entry)]

"What?!" he looked at it in shock.

Was this the famous progression panel?!

But looking at it, he saw that only the spell he got a notification for appeared.

"Wait, three points. When I learned the spell for the first time, I probably got one point. And after a month, I got another...

What the hell! So long and only one point?!"

When he thought of the fact he got a point just for helping a duck advance... why did it seem so unfair?

"The notification came when I aided it in its breakthrough. Does this mean that if I help a duck advance, I could get it again?"

Thinking of the transformation from a duckling to a young duck, that transformation was a progression from mortal beast to spirited beast. If he helped there, would he also gain something?