Raising Ducks for Daily Rewards-Chapter 24: Progress in Cultivation

Fengyu looked at the ducks in his yard and pointed at one of them, the youngest female duck –

White light escaped his body and the duck became a Spiritual Duck.

Ten Beast Origin Essence Strand were used, leaving him 2.

"You go back and do your business." Fengyu shooed the larger duck away, not caring much.

Having completed his work for the day, he had time to cast spells again.

"Mu- Qi- ChongYing- Ru- Ti- Er- Zh---" he pronounced one word after another, yet stumped at the second last.

Repeating it again, he tried it several times but found it difficult.

"The last two are Zhu Fu, how do I pronounce them properly?" speaking them aloud in the common tongue, without any deeper meaning, he tried to find a connection but found none.

"Zhu Fu, it means... to assist the body in its recovery? No, this is too long of a description. The direct translation..." he thought about it several times, but it didn’t come to his mind.

"Let’s take a break from this spell. Zhu, zhu, it sounds weird and I can’t even understand its meaning properly.

This new spell, tell me, what is your dao language?"

He glanced at the newly delivered spell page and saw a large incantation of the Dao Language written in the centre –

Gong Bu Fan Cun, Hua Wei Yuan Qi, Yang Yu Qi Shen!

It was a lot longer than the wood recovery spell! And most of the words were new to him, not those he had read before.

"How am I supposed to learn it in a month?" he looked at it, a slight annoyance appearing on his face.

If he could learn it in a month, fine. He could use it right away.

As said, the Dao Language was the most difficult for him to learn. But after that, he still had to learn Dao Moves and Dao Thought!

It wasn’t something he could do right away, at least Dao Moves required a bit of learning.

Only by learning all three could he enter the stage of Entry.

The refining afterwards would be more difficult, but the entry isn’t easy either!

"This spell... even if I put my all into it, I simply can’t learn it quickly. It would take me a month just to learn the first four characters. The next characters are easier since I know a few of them, but it would still take me at least a month!

Learning the Dao Language in two months... this is too much."

Based on his learning speed, he guessed that he could master the Wood Recovery in just a few more days.

The difference of one month and a week and a guess of at least two months is too much, but it also reflects the difference in difficulty between a lower spell and a higher spell.

Spells are generally graded as the same in each stage, with no minor stages such as low and high.

But old mainstream spells have been refined by countless individuals so that the general spell incantation has achieved a level of refinement.

Sighing, Fengyu didn’t attempt this new spell but returned to the Wood Recovery spell.

Learning two spells at the same time wouldn’t be productive.

...

Time passed and soon it was a week, Fengyu looked over his progress in cultivation –

[Cultivation: 3rd Stage of Qi Refining]

[Progress: 3.492%, + 0.042%]

He tried out various commands whenever he had time and found out that he could look into his cultivation.

Based on his gains, before he started cultivating ducks, his cultivation was already at 3.45%, which is just 0.05% short of reaching the middle of the third stage of Qi Refining.

In two months, his gain was different – the Spiritual Duck laid eggs for a whole month, giving him 90 eggs. Starting from the second month, a fertilised egg would be born every three days. He didn’t gain anything from a fertilised egg.

He didn’t know whether there was no reward for their birth, or whether the reward would only come later.

’In the past, only once a product was ’complete’ would I get a reward. A normal egg is a finished product, and a mature duck is also a complete product. A fertilised egg isn’t complete, and a newborn isn’t a complete product either.

The reward should be gained once they reach maturity!’

Although he guessed so, in fact, he hoped deeply that there would be a reward.

If there was none, then raising ducks from the start would add cost and time spent but bring no rewards. How could this be profitable?

In that case, it would be better to get less profit from selling duck meat and only focus on selling duck eggs.

’Besides the 0.009% I got from the eggs, there’s an additional 0.027% for the eggs nine ducks laid, four and a half eggs daily on average. In addition, this week the Spirited Ducks laid 31 eggs and the new Spiritual Duck laid 21 eggs. This leads to a total gain of 0.042%.

If my calculation is right, then from tomorrow on, my monthly gain would be 0.0225%.

This stems from the 90 eggs a Spiritual Duck lays monthly, and the 135 eggs nine Spirited Ducks lay monthly, for a total of 225 eggs.’

While the eggs had different worth when sold, the panel seemed to see it as one unified grade. Or maybe it’s because both eggs are still in the rank of Spirited Eggs, not yet entering the rank of low-grade first stage Spiritual Egg.

He had various guesses but couldn’t confirm them.

The system only answered some questions when asked, but even then, they were brief and didn’t properly explain anything.

While thinking of this, he turned to Zimu.

Zimu was cultivating in the evening sun, gathering the power of the sun. His purple feather glowed in the setting sunlight, becoming deeper.

[Spiritual Mandarin Duck, use 100 Beast Origin Essence Strands to upgrade to the mid-grade first stage? 2/100]

This had hovered over his head for some time... but after turning the oldest female duck into a low-grade first stage Spiritual Duck, he didn’t dare do so.

What if he transformed Zimu into a Wild Beast?

And in addition... it seemed like the cost was higher than the benefit.

A Wild Beast was merely a beast of slaughter or production in herding, outside it would be a beast to be hunted.

Its intelligence is low and its instincts outweigh its wisdom.

Without accompanying power, he didn’t dare to create such a beast.

Beasts are stronger than humans.

Only by either having products of creation arts, or by being a battle artist, could one fight a beast evenly.

Under such circumstances, how could Fengyu dare upgrade a beast?

And... there was still another thing in the depths of his being – a white empty core.