Raising Ducks for Daily Rewards-Chapter 54: Expertise and Bad news

Di-ding

Di-ding

Di-ding

Di-ding

The sound of small stones hitting ceramic spread around Fengyu.

It became rapid, faster than ever before, the sounds overlapping –

Di-ding Di-ding Di-ding

Di-ding Di-ding

Just as it became rapid, an overlapping sound spread from the centre –

DI-DINGGGGG!

Spiritual power gathered from all around as the bowl took true shape. It was only a third of the section of the wall and with two spiritual power sources, it was rapidly refined and completed!

"Four years of cultivation, three months of refinement. Because I have two bowls, even if the second one is under construction, it still gives me the ability to use two spiritual power weights to hit the bowl and manifest it fully!

Well, let’s quickly stabilise my foundation and clear up any issues," Fengyu said with a bright smile, his cultivation having advanced by leaps and bounds according to his calculations.

Time quickly passed and when he took a moment to relax, he looked up at his cultivation progression and expertise, feeling a true sense of accomplishment while also being slightly exhausted at the great expense it came from.

His cultivation seemed free, but every second of his time, he spent either using spells to raise his ducks, experiment with the ducks, learn spells and techniques, using his knowledge on one point to develop another point...

It was an extremely difficult journey, yet it was very, very worth it –

[Expertise Overview]

-[Spells: 7]

[Spiritual Absorption Spell: 1.459/10.000 (Major)]

[Vitality Recovery Spell: 786/1.000 (Minor)]

[Wood Recovery Spell: 731/1.000 (Minor)]

[Bloodline Enhancement Spell: 786/1.000 (Minor)]

[Reproduction Organ Dissolving Spell: 731/1.000 (Minor)]

-[Inherited Spells: 3]

[Silver Feather Spell: 2.900/10.000 (Major)]

[Spring Rain Cloud Spell: 682/1.000 (Minor)]

[Wind Step Spell: 380/1.000 (Minor)]

In these four years, he only added one inherited spell. Initially he thought of adding more spells by getting them into the process of refinement, but he had used up his three slots to get spells and techniques.

His other spells weren’t really fitting –

Among his saved spells, he only thought of learning the Egg-Inducing spell, but he hadn’t had the time to learn that just yet. Once he did have it, he would fully focus on improving it by leaps and bounds!

Of his current spells, two broke through to the Major Accomplishment stage – the Spiritual Absorption Spell, an extremely basic spell which he has extreme comprehension in, allowing him to refine it clearly throughout these years. Now it had reached a point where he didn’t even have to do many moves, just nudging slightly with his hand and saying the casting incantation was enough, only his thoughts were still complicatedly constructing a dao thought.

The second spell reaching that is the Silver Feather Spell which he still didn’t really understand. But now his understanding was high enough to cast it faster, making it suitable for battle.

Since he still only raised 20 high-quality Spirited Ducks, his monthly income of expertise was still only 60. One third would directly go to Spiritual Absorption, the other two thirds evenly split among the four spells. Over 51 months, he had gained a total of more than 3.000 expertise!

In addition, he gained 3 more rewards because he raised Silver Shadow for 6 months instead of the usual 3.

"Among my inherited spells, only the Spring Rain Cloud Spell is a proper spell with a deeper foundation, but I have neglected using it as much in the past few months because Spring Rain would do it anyways.

From now on, I will have to do it regularly to refine it and comprehend it, not allowing the spell to slip out of my hands and become like the Wind Step Spell and Silver Feather Spell."

Looking over it, he then turned to the second panel –

[Cultivation: 5th stage of Qi Refining]

[Cultivation progress: 10.47%, +5.73%!]

"Four years and three months with a cultivation speed of 1.125 eggs monthly. Fortunately, after breaking through, the extra three months became my cultivation like before. My cultivation speed is progressing rapidly, I can see that even when trying to achieve the sixth stage and then seventh, it will take a lot longer!

It’s strange, even though I have more spiritual power, I don’t think I can handle taking care of more ducks.

Raising 20 Spirited Ducks costs a lot of time daily, and while it seems like 50 egg-laying ducks are easy to care for, in the past years the resulting quality of the eggs dropped.

The steward... he always looks at me like I’m stealing from him."

Fengyu shook his head and knew that now wasn’t the time to expand.

It would be better to focus on stability for now.

His quality was the reason for the high profit he made – a monthly income of 350 spirit stones, minus the 500 rent yearly, my savings now have been amassed to over 15.000 spirit stones, a great wealth for my current cultivation... even, a bit too much.

After I attacked that middle-aged man who wanted to borrow money last time, the attempts of others trying to borrow my money have been reduced by a lot...

But a new issue popped up again."

Fengyu looked at the information slips he had ordered.

He had a new habit – to buy the latest news every end of the year to gain a general understanding of what was happening.

The carrier system was extremely developed, allowing news from several peaks away to reach this place.

After all, the core of the whole peripheral area was the city, which made a connection rather easy.

While such a thing should make people happy, the information Fengyu got made him solemn instead.

"It seems... it’s been over eight years since I entered this village, hasn’t it?

Time truly flies.

It feels like I just met Ming and Ling outside their formation yesterday, and yet just a few months ago, I had my twenty-fourth birthday..."

He sighed but quickly returned to the topic at hand, "They said the beast tide was around a year before I arrived, adding my stay, it’s been nine years since the last beast tide.

Common information says that in the first decade after the beast tide, there are usually very few beasts in the peripheral area.

They slowly appear and spread their territories in the second decade, and in the third decade they prepare and possibly start a beast tide.

Now, the second decade is about to arrive..."