Raising Ducks for Daily Rewards-Chapter 47: The Path is Revealed

The array master came again and expanded Fengyu’s field, he was quite surprised the expansion happened so soon again.

Fengyu thanked him and handed him a basket of eggs again, still normal eggs.

When he saw him leave, he entered his field and saw that the expanded three acres didn’t contain anything special.

"Let’s make a big shack in the middle acre, a shack looking like a villa for ducks, possibly holding a thousand ducks," Fengyu smiled at the project.

Although he doubted he would ever have a thousand ducks, at least not in this peripheral area.

But having more space is better than not having enough.

He looked over to his eight female ducks and shook his head, "I neglected something this whole time, the high-quality female Spirited Ducks all possibly have better eggs, even if they don’t lay more eggs. In that case, couldn’t I possibly be missing out on bonus spirit stones?

At the third stage, through straining myself, I was able to raise twenty high-quality Spirited Ducks and take care of 10 egg-laying ducks.

Now that I broke through, I feel like taking care of 20 would be fine.

Adding Spring Rain’s help and my own Wood Nourishment Spell and the Three Tunes Flute, I should be able to take care of these five acres. Although I will be straining myself again, I should be able to raise 20 high-quality Spirited Ducks and 50 egg-laying ducks.

Considering this amount, five of these 50 egg-laying ducks can be Spiritual Ducks, the rest should be normal ducks.

But this time, I will directly take these normal ducks from my high-quality Spirited Ducks!"

Fengyu made a goal, striving to achieve it quickly and efficiently, to build a duck merchant emporium!

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Time passed, spring turned into summer, autumn wasn’t far away.

Fengyu’s ambitious goal had achieved a few things –

"This month’s income was really good.

After five months of only selling 10 high-quality Spirited Ducks, I was finally able to gain my full potential of income in the sixth month.

Now I make a lot more –

For 20 high-quality Spirited Ducks, I get 200 spirit stones and an additional 10 spirit stones because the steward raised the bonuses this time. Then there are 450 high-quality Spirited Eggs, giving me 75 spirit stones, plus 23 bonus spirit stones which the steward rounded up from 22 and a half. Then there are 675 higher quality Spirited Eggs, the steward still bought them at one spirit stone per 8 eggs, for a total of 85 spirit stones, but he gave me a bonus of 18 spirit stones, 3 extra per 100 eggs.

This results in my monthly income being – 441 spirit stones!"

Looking at the spirit stones in front of him, he couldn’t help but be shocked.

This income was huge, a lot more than he had anticipated!

"My income for the past 5 months has been swaying low and high, first being only 250, then it got to 280 for two months, 330 on average for another two months, and now it had reached its peak at 441!

My total spirit stones right now are – my savings of 5,160, plus the income of these six months, a bit over 1,900, bringing my total to... over 7,000 spirit stones!"

Stunned, he wasn’t able to think straight for a minute before he returned.

"Alas, I have to refine my dao mind, refine it, refine it," he kept repeating, for the number of spirit stones was simply too huge!

But feeling his dantian, he knew that this was beyond his limit.

Even if he reached the fifth stage, he wouldn’t be able to expand his field at all.

Maybe at the sixth stage he could do it again, but that’s too far away so he didn’t want to plan too far ahead.

The world is moving, thinking you can make plans for many years ahead isn’t smart. It’s good to have an outline and expectations, but it’s even better to be able to go with the flow and act according to the situation.

After thinking so much, his thoughts returned to the panel in front of him –

[Cultivation: 4th stage of Qi Refining]

[Cultivation progress: 4.734%, +0.405%!]

In six months, his cultivation rose faster than in a year previously.

Now, his ducks laid 1.125 eggs monthly, and his cultivation progress was expected to rise by 0.1125% monthly, for a yearly cultivation of 1.35%!

"With such an increase, in just four years, I might directly reach the fifth stage!"

Though shocked, this time, he was more composed.

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While his face tried to stay calm, his heartbeat didn’t slow down at all.

It became extremely fast, as if in danger of jumping out the next second...

"Alas, my acting is too bad, I can’t even force my body to follow my will," Fengyu sighed and exhaled deeply several times.

Although he thought it was a bit of a shame, he could understand his own dilemma.

He had cultivated from the age of nine with his father, reaching the mid-point of the third stage after seven years at the age of sixteen. Those years he followed his father’s advice to not take any pills, not that they had enough spirit stones left over to buy any.

His father died and he used the last savings to build a small duck farm, which only lasted for a month.

Then he fled and arrived at the village in early spring.

Cultivating for over two years and a half years, he finally reached the fourth stage!

"Nearly ten years, I spent nearly ten years in the early stage, often called the easiest stage. Now the path is revealed in front of me, in just four years, I can cross to the fifth stage, expanding my dantian by 6%, which is over half of what I did in those ten years.

The path is open, I see clearly and my future is endless.

Only with hard effort and some chance can I, a simple cultivator, reach the greatest heights of immortality!"