Raising Ducks for Daily Rewards-Chapter 41: Surprise

"Fwoooo," a soft sound spread in the air.

With a whirlwind, several small leaves rose and circled the flute, seemingly a coincidence.

Yet with the passage of time, the leaves remained, moving fluidly in the wind, pushing away even the smallest of insects.

"Such a protective barrier does indeed seem good," Fengyu nodded.

Instead of having an all-rounder weak barrier, this barrier focused on protecting precisely against attacks.

If one attack is too strong, several leaves could come up and deflect it.

And since the main element of the protection is wood, the protective ability might be slightly weaker, but it will continuously regenerate. If one can’t directly pierce and destroy it, then it will be difficult to achieve in a prolonged fight.

Fengyu nodded in delight at the spell’s capabilities, then he switched the tune.

A melodious sound was heard in the field – "Fwuuuuuu"

The leaves fell and instead, from the flute to its surroundings, a green aura became stronger.

Fengyu looked at Zimu on the side and cast a spell – hand symbols came one after another while he said, "Wood Recovery, Recover!"

A green beam shot out of his finger, but the moment it left his body, it suddenly changed its direction and entered the flute’s body!

Momentarily shrinking, it then shot out again like a bullet, transforming into a beam in mid air – this time at least 50% larger, even the green becoming greener.

When it landed on Zimu, it quickly formed a thin veil around him.

"True Vitality Control Art, accept the vitality!" Fengyu cast another spell, allowing the Wood Recovery Spell to more easily enter Zimu’s body and cure his injuries!

But the green light outside didn’t enter. Instead, it remained in position and slowly dissipated.

Fengyu smiled and shook his head, "Without an injury to cure, how could the recovery spell enter the body and fulfil its mission?

Regardless, I saw the effect of the spell!

It seems when I just passively use the effect of enhancement, then it’s not spectacular. The spell simply just becomes more colourful and larger.

But when I use the Tune of the Wild Spirit, then the flute directly absorbs the spell!

The enhancement is indeed notable – with only one rune, the effect can top that of three runes.

Well, the consumption isn’t low either.

Although it’s only 30% more consuming to cast the spell and use the flute at the same time, the tune is a continuous melody. So my spiritual power is consumed before and after the spell.

The correct way to use this is to time my spells extremely well and have a high control over the weapon, only using the spell for those short seconds.

That way, I might be able to reduce the spiritual power consumption to 10% or even less!"

Fengyu knew that this was the best case possible, but he didn’t mind it.

He had enough time to experiment and perfect his use of the weapon.

For now at least he was sure that the flute was definitely worth the cost!

Just as he was experimenting, he heard quacking from deep inside his field.

"What are they saying?" Fengyu asked Zimu, the quacking too frantic for him to properly understand.

"An egg, they laid a weird looking egg and are asking you to come and see."

"Who is they?"

"The first couple of Spiritual Ducks," Zimu replied.

"A weird egg? Are those two blessed or how come they’re giving me one surprise after another!" Fengyu was surprised and delighted as he hurried to the origin of the quacking.

Arriving there quickly, he saw what made the two parent ducks so frantic –

Duck eggs have a wide variety of colours, but the ones laid by these two have always been slightly grey with no other colour.

But now in front of Fengyu appeared an egg with weird patterns –

A white egg yet with blue flowing patterns!

He looked at it several times but couldn’t make out what it meant.

His panel also didn’t see anything before the duck was born.

Knowing he couldn’t determine what was what currently, he only asked them to take care of it and put more attention on it.

The two ducks nodded frantically and returned to taking care of it, thinking that Fengyu, the big duck, should know the reason for the duck’s appearance best!

Seeing this, Fengyu calmed down and left the two ducks to do their own routine.

He went to his hut and sat down, concentrating on his cultivation.

When he started, his flute started playing.

"Fweeeee," it resounded quietly in the room.

His mind concentrated and his cultivation became smoother.

Ding

Ding

Ding

The sound of spiritual power hitting a bowl could also be heard...

After twenty minutes, the flute sound ceased and Fengyu’s cultivation became slower.

But nowadays, after having gained deeper focus with the help of the flute, he learned how to concentrate on his cultivation better.

The rest of the forty minutes were smooth, his focus only dwindling slightly at the end.

"Hmm, this flute is truly good! Now my cultivation speed has become twice as fast as previously on average, and I think I could boost it by another 50% if I gain the ability to fully concentrate on cultivation.

Heh, in the past I always thought I concentrated deeply and that I already did as much as others, I even talked with others and their progress seemed to be the same.

Only now that I know there is something better can I really see the difference.

It’s really better to feel than to see."

After thinking for a moment, he called forth information of the panel.

[Beast Origin Essence Strands: 720]

The number looked extremely impressive, a lot more than what he had ever seen before.

In addition, there was also the other resource –

[Beast Origin Essence Cores: 15]

Looking at it that way, he knew he could artificially create another bloodline with a duck that has slightly better talents.

But he didn’t do so –

If the duck can’t even reach the low-grade through its own efforts, then the resulting talent will be too low.

Awakening a talent isn’t a guarantee.

In that case, when the talent is low, then the cost of awakening a talent might be too high!

And he also knew that once he did so, he wouldn’t get a spell connected with the innate power!

In that case, what would be the use of raising such a duck?

But looking at the strands and cores, he felt that there should be another function.

How could he make that function appear?

"Hmm, wait... I never tried asking..."