Raising Ducks for Daily Rewards-Chapter 4: Peace Seeking

Evening broke as Fengyu focused all his attention on these ducks, not letting any of them go.

When he was about to go and check them again, another notification came!

[Your tamed beast Spirited Duck has laid an egg, Cultivation +0.0001%!]

He suddenly felt a surge in his dantian!

Spiritual power flew over from a position in the pasture, entering it right away.

The Qi Bowl, which was 9% formed, suddenly had an extremely small, minuscule growth.

"Huh? What’s happening? Is this another reward?" he looked shocked. So many rewards just because the duck laid an egg?

Following the spiritual power trail, he did indeed find that duck laying an egg.

"Quack!" it told him to move away quickly and not bother her.

"Hey hey, do what you want." He didn’t push it and left the scene.

...

In the next two days, one duck after another reached maturity, and they also laid eggs. Though since the basic egg-laying speed of ducks was one every two days, he basically only got five.

At this moment, he was looking at the mandarin duck.

[Spiritual Mandarin Duck, use 10 Beast Origin Essence Strands to awaken Innate Ability? 10/10]

He didn’t think for long, or rather he had thought about it for two days already – "Yes, awaken!"

"Quack? Awaken what? I’m-" just as the mandarin duck was about to answer, suddenly, it felt a weird energy gather in its body!

At the same time, Fengyu saw several small strands of inexplicable power leave his body.

When they fully entered the duck’s body, they traveled from the bottom to the top, trying to find an entry, a place to awaken!

Finally, they flew to the purple beak!

The beak’s color became deeper in just a few moments, then the gathered energy dissipated again.

Fengyu saw nothing else, as if everything came to an end.

Looking at the duck, he asked, "And? What ability did you gain?"

"Quack? Was that your doing? How did you do it?"

"Hmph, we humans have many special abilities, of course we can do it! It’s just that you have extremely high bloodline density and talent, which is why it was easier on you!"

He didn’t lie – when he checked the other ducks, the strands required to allow them to awaken were astronomical!

At least one thousand, and some even reached two thousand.

He realized that talent also played a role.

You can use the strands to awaken it, but if there’s nothing to awaken, then the strands would have to dig deep into the beast to finally awaken something.

"QUAACKK! Arghhh! What’s this!" suddenly, the mandarin duck exclaimed.

"Why are you yelling? Calm down!" Fengyu patted the duck several times, trying to calm it down. When he did so, he saw that the beak was vibrating extremely strongly, even looking like it was about to break off!

"Quack! Leave! We have to leave here! Now!" the duck said after finally calming down, though the vibrations didn’t stop.

"Hey! Explain why you’re like this." Fengyu asked again.

"Quack! My Innate Ability is called – Peace Seeking – I can sense the Qi in the environment and determine whether a place is peaceful or not.

And this place... it’s not peaceful at all! East – west – north – south – above and even below!

Everything is screaming that this place isn’t peaceful. You have to leave here now!"

Fengyu was shocked. What did it mean it wasn’t peaceful? Was it dangerous? But how could that be?

"Are you sure? This is a cultivation market with a Foundation Building expert at the top! The danger you speak of!"

"I don’t know about danger, I just know that this place isn’t peaceful!"

Fengyu then understood. The duck wasn’t able to calculate fortune and misfortune, but rather, it was able to see whether a place was peaceful or not. Whether that misfortune would befall him or not was a different matter – but then he thought, with his cultivation at the third stage of Qi Refining, could he truly survive in a non-peaceful area? 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

"But what should I do with my field? What about my ducks?"

He had paid three months of rent for this pasture, and yet only one month had passed. In addition, these ducks... they were important!

Now that he knew they could allow him to cultivate, why would he stay?

But when he saw the desperate look in the purple mandarin duck, he realized that it wasn’t time to be clingy to things.

"I- I have to sell them then! Fuck it, I’ll just do it."

He chose to believe this duck! In the past few weeks, it had been mostly honest and always walked with him; he even started thinking of it as a friend. If it wasn’t because the place was really bad, then the duck wouldn’t tell him to leave as soon as possible.

"Come here, you little ducks, come here now!" he shouted, causing the ducks to come forward.

"Quack?"

"Quack?"

"Quack."

Their quacks drowned his voice slightly, even causing two to turn, about to leave.

"It’s time you guys get sold! Don’t worry, your next owners will likely have male ducks who want to mate, so you will be able to get ducklings!" his words tempted the ducks, causing them to gather while also looking at the mandarin duck resentfully.

When all the ducks gathered, Fengyu took out small cages, then pulled a small cart from the side.

He put all the cages into the cart and used his spiritual control, leading the cart with spiritual power.

"Quack! Hurry up! Let’s leave quickly!" the mandarin duck followed behind him.

They went down the road and saw a small market up front. It wasn’t grand, but there were many shops left and right, and at the end of the road, he also saw stalls with cultivators selling their things.

Thinking that he didn’t have time to relax, he hurriedly walked to a small shop on the side.

"Shopkeeper! All my ducks reached maturity. As we agreed, I’ll sell them for ten spirit stones. How about it?"

If he sold them at the stalls, he might get one or two more...

The shopkeeper looked over and used a spell to inspect the ducks. He saw that they were all well fed and full of vitality.

Still, normally the purchase price was nine spirit stones... but thinking of the talent and that this guy would likely have more in the future, he decided to invest and buy them.

"Sure, come here, let me give you the spirit stones."

He gestured to one of the servants to take the cart while he went inside.

Taking out a large cloth bag, he handed it over, "Exactly one hundred spirit stones."

Fengyu looked at the cloth bag and saw that it was mostly right.

"By the way, the mandarin duck you’re holding..." the shopkeeper suddenly turned to the duck in his arms.

"Not for sale!" Fengyu didn’t bother and took away the duck.

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