Raising Ducks for Daily Rewards-Chapter 32: Getting the Citizenship

"You’ve been in the village for a year now, and reportedly have had various businesses based on ducks, we can therefore confirm you are indeed a Spiritual Herder of the low-grade first-stage and hereby give you full citizenship," the clerk at the Village Hall told Fengyu, his smile more honest this time.

He handled the procedure and then gave Fengyu a small jade token, his proof of identity from now on.

"When you advance to the mid-stage whether in cultivation or in herding, please inform us to renew your information. The city needs to know about all cultivators that come in and out regularly," the clerk continued to explain some rules and privileges of the city.

They were quite basic, such as that he could now use the full three purchases for spells of the library, that he could order cultivation resources of the mid-stage in the general store, which wasn’t possible before. Some added regulations were that he had to update his living place every time he moved.

Moreover, he could now also use his own wooden hut at the village entrance, which was assigned from the start but which he couldn’t use until now.

Fengyu felt that it was rather normal to tell the city about his current power, ability, etc.

In the modern times, you would add various other information. They held your birth certificate and various other information, knowing your ins and outs from birth to your current age.

Compared to that, just having to tell them your current status was very normal.

After all, which city owner would like to have so many random cultivators with no information on them running around?

While it wasn’t forbidden for non-citizens of the seventh stage of Qi Refining and above to directly enter the city, those people wouldn’t have the same privileges as citizens who remained in the city and paid taxes all year round.

"Oh, right, and for every purchase from city-owned stores and halls you have a 5% discount." The clerk added lastly before sending him away, not even asking for a bribe this time.

Fengyu was surprised, somewhat because a corrupt clerk wouldn’t just stop taking money for no reason, but more so because of the 5% discount!

’It’s not much for now, but when making larger purchases, it’s quite a lot!’ – he naturally meant those purchases where he spent thousands of spirit stones.

Thinking of this, he went to the mission hall on the right of the village hall, walking in all the way to the library room.

He had paid off his debt after four months, paying 140 spirit stones.

Now his savings of the whole year were a shocking 1.200 spirit stones!

Cost and all removed – this was pure profit!

Naturally he knew best how difficult it was, but he felt that it was worth it in the end.

Walking into the library room, he saw some clerks going around. He simply stepped aside and waited for one of them to approach him.

A moment later, a clerk, one who had led him last time, came again, "Hey, you’re here again after a year? Seems like you got the full membership."

"Hmm?" Fengyu looked at the guy curiously.

He remembered that this guy didn’t tell him about the special rules of temporary citizens last time, and now he told him that he knew he was new?

"Don’t be surprised, most people who walk in confused are new citizens. It doesn’t make much of a difference, most people don’t buy something in the first year they’re here since the interest is quite high.

What are you looking for this time?"

The clerk explained shortly before asking directly.

Fengyu looked at him but didn’t refute, he was right. Normal people wouldn’t buy a spell right away... but he was confident in his abilities, so why wait just to save a few spirit stones?

He thought for a moment before replying, "I want to see cultivation arts, body arts and soul arts. Is that possible?"

The clerk raised an eyebrow and nodded, "We do indeed have them, but..."

He thought for a moment before shaking his head, "It’s not worth browsing. Besides spells, we only took the lowest of the lowest in everything else. It’s fine if you want control art, but the techniques and cultivation arts we have here aren’t worth buying.

It’s better to cultivate with your current art and switch to another art when you enter the outer city.

According to my information, there are even Transcendent Arts in that library!

Well, the price is extremely high and some say you need to do various tasks and the city has many requirements on you, but it’s definitely worth it!

Compared to that, everything else we sell here is just useless."

Hearing this, Fengyu was curious, "What are transcendent arts?"

"Arts directly pointing to the immortal realm!

Hehe, while they are extremely rare, our Spirit Beast City is said to have various lineages and those arts that don’t have a complete lineage can be found in the library for sale.

Of course I don’t know the specifics, nor do I know how difficult it is to practice them. But just knowing there are such arts is great, isn’t it?"

The clerk fantasised and Fengyu couldn’t help but follow.

Did such arts really exist? What were the requirements? Was the path to immortality open by following them?

Question after question popped up in his mind, but he couldn’t find an answer. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Sighing, he threw these things out of his mind, but his resolve to enter the outer area became stronger!

"Alright, then I don’t want them. Do you have any control arts targeting vitality?" out of his reverie, Fengyu naturally wanted to complete his second business.

The clerk thought for a moment again, walked to a shelf and pointed at one row, "This shelf contains uncommon control arts, and here you can find those related to vitality."

Fengyu nodded and saw that there were seven books in the row.

He read their covers one after another, "Wood Vitality Control Art, Life Vitality Control Art, Death Vitality Control Art, Thunder Vitality Control Art, Water Vitality Control Art, Blood Vitality Control Art, True Vitality Control Art."