Raising Ducks for Daily Rewards-Chapter 34: Ordering a Spiritual Weapon

"Steward, I finally got my citizenship! Is it possible for me to see the products of the mid and high grade?" Fengyu entered the general store.

Seeing only the steward inside, looking at his notes, he shouted in greeting.

"Young Fengyu! You’re here so early, come in!

Hehe, you got this citizenship, isn’t it because your wares are high-quality and sought after?

Let me tell you, I’ll raise the price!

For every ten high-quality spiritual ducks you give me, I will add an additional 3 spirit stones!"

"Really?" Fengyu asked in surprise.

"Yes, haha, your ducks have been selling quite well on the mountainside. They’ve become the favourite daily meal of many young cultivators, those at the early and mid-stages. And your low-grade silver-feathered ducks are even bought by the late-stage Qi Refining cultivators!

They say your ducks are very nourishing and compare them with pills."

"Then I will have to make sure to grow them better!" a feeling of delight spread in Fengyu’s mind – just as a cook loved to hear their meal tasted good, so did a farmer love to hear his grain was good. And he, a herder, naturally loved hearing about his ducks being good too!

Curious, he asked, "But the high-quality ducks are of the Spirited stage, and even the Spiritual Duck is only of the low-grade. How come late-stage Qi Refining cultivators eat them?"

"Hmm? Haha, ducks are too expensive for most cultivators to eat daily. Only when you go one or two minor stages lower can you afford eating them regularly.

A low-grade Spiritual Duck is a banquet for an early-stage Qi Refining cultivator, and still a delicacy for a mid-stage cultivator. Only a late-stage cultivator can afford eating them regularly.

If you ever raise late-stage ducks, then you might sell them directly to Foundation Building seniors!

But at that time, you will probably be in the outer city!" the steward smiled and didn’t care, he knew this was the goal of all young cultivators.

Fengyu also didn’t comment and instead asked about his previous question.

"Oh, sure, we have them. Follow me into the inner room," the steward led him past the counter, opened a door and walked in.

Following, Fengyu saw a room just as large as the one outside.

But here, there were only a few rice bags and meat, all at least of the low grade!

To the left he once again saw the shelves with pills and weapons, this time they were filled with many items.

He looked across the pills and shook his head – there were those suitable for the cultivation of mid-stage and late-stage cultivators, but he was naturally not interested.

Besides cultivation and breakthrough, there were also some healing and spiritual recovery pills.

Considering he would soon learn the art of healing, there was no need to buy them either.

Looking over to the weapons, he saw the same low-grade weapons as before. Fire sword, earth shield and wood staff!

But besides them, he also saw a pair of daggers, a pearl and... a bundle of feathers!

"These, are they my silver-feathered duck’s feathers?" he asked curiously when he saw the feathers.

"Oh yeah! They’ve been refined into dart weapons. From a full duck they refined ten feathers.

These darts can be thrown out together to attack right away. Because they are consumable weapons, they’re sold cheaply, even cheaper than a talisman.

They have their own use. The other two bundles have already been sold, this one just arrived a few days ago and I was already contacted by a buyer. It’s only presented here as advertisement for future orders."

"Is it so popular even though it’s a consumable weapon?"

"Hunting in the mountains is difficult, and these feathers are quite sharp. In addition, they’re quiet and have a long range, which can be used perfectly when hunting.

Real hunters have bows and arrows, but how many beast hunters are real hunters? They all have their own paths, so they have to find various ways to make do with the higher difficulty of hunting for them."

"Five weapons, each one meant for an element..."

"Haha, this is a basic five-elements weapon set, sold in every general store.

We have five-elements weapon sets of every stage. Besides them, we only have a few unique weapons," he said, pointing at the other weapons on the shelf.

A different set of weapons – flame fan, wooden amulet, earth armour, wind boots and water whip.

Finally, at the top of the shelves, there was a set of high-grade weapons – fire sword, wood armour, earth shield, wind boots and water pearl.

"Hmm? It seems they repeat a bit..." Fengyu asked curiously when he saw that the weapons per set weren’t unique.

"The weapon refiners generally have a few weapons they specialise in and don’t refine many others. These weapons come from three different refiners, which is why a few of their items are the same across the stages.

Are you looking for something specific?"

"To be honest, I am looking for a weapon like the wooden staff – an auxiliary weapon for wood. But I see that there is only one such weapon of the wood element in the low grade..."

"Auxiliary weapons are very expensive and usually people only buy wood weapons like amulets that have recovery spells engraved.

But, if you want, I can ask for a mid-grade auxiliary weapon! The price starts at 500 spirit stones, if you are willing, I can look for it!"

"No, steward, I am looking for a high-grade weapon! When I reach the mid-stage, I should be able to use the weapon, right?" Fengyu corrected.

"High-grade? This..." the steward looked at Fengyu but didn’t ask why the requirement was so high.

He thought for a moment then nodded, "I can indeed look for such an auxiliary weapon, but the price will start at 1,500 spirit stones. Can you afford it?"

"So expensive!" Fengyu exclaimed, but then calmed down. Wasn’t this normal? Such weapons were used by late-stage Qi Refining cultivators!

"I agree to this, I just hope the steward can hold on to it for a bit until I have the money."

"Haha, don’t worry, this can’t be bought quickly. It might even take up to a year! You should just keep your spirit stones at hand.

Do you have any requirements?"

"It can be anything, as long as it increases my spell power.

By the way, I wanted to ask if I could convert my spirit stones into tokens?"

"That’s no problem, but the limit for a peripheral citizen is 1,000 spirit stones converted into 10 jade coins. I recommend you not do it for now and wait until after you have bought the weapon."

Fengyu nodded and talked about a few more things before returning.

As for the weapon? He didn’t care much about the effect, as long as it could increase his spell power.

After all, he had gained an attack spell and was somewhat experienced in healing.

What was left was either movement or protection, none of which wood was good at.

He mainly wanted the weapon to cast his own healing and farming spells better.