Raising Ducks for Daily Rewards-Chapter 90: Zimu’s Bloodline
Fengyu looked at the man across the formation, his eyes gleaming with curiosity.
Where did he come from?
Such a strong cultivator would have been known to him. It seems like he was attracted to the village from the city...
After a few moments, seeing the wolf wasn’t going to attack, the man pulled his heavily injured body away, asking for a healer along the way.
Fengyu saw this but made no effort to help, instead turning away and entering his field again.
...
The Beast Attack came and went, passing by rather fast.
After the attack, Fengyu went out to the wolf den, healing the injured wolves before leaving again.
Time passed as his own schedule returned to normal.
To his surprise, when he checked his ducks as usual, he saw that the female duck of the first couple, the mother of four of his Spiritual Ducks and the grandmother of the fifth Spiritual Duck, actually showed signs of transforming from a Wild Beast to a Spirit Beast!
Its intelligence rose and the bloodline was extremely close to the low-grade!
"Should I use a core to help it advance?" Fengyu couldn’t help but think about this.
In the past years he never used his cores – the curiosity of what he could gain when he got 100 cores was too high.
He wasn’t far from it either –
[Beast Origin Essence Cores: 111]
[Beast Origin Essence Strands: 7.640]
His cores had already surpassed the 100 count, but each core had to be filled by 100 strands, requiring a total of 10.000 strands.
Annually he gets 4 cores and 840 strands, it’s just that for a long time he gained only around 120 strands, creating such a gap between cores and strands.
But according to his calculations, the gap should close and then reverse after some time.
Looking back at the duck, he knew that using the cores now would allow it to advance earlier.
He might even get new insight into the duck image right away... but doing so would lower the potential of this duck according to his guesses.
Cores are better used to build up until the breakthrough rather than directly being used in the breakthrough.
He looked at the duck for a long time before shaking his head, deciding not to do it in the end.
It would be too big of a waste if the duck’s potential was lowered.
The loss on the other hand was just waiting a bit longer.
...
Months passed and soon another year ended.
Spring was about to start as Fengyu sat down in his hut, looking at the duck meditating on the futon.
’I am thirty now, it’s been 14 years since I came to this village... Zimu has been condensing his bloodline for over 10 years. Today is the day to break through!’
He moved his hands and spoke illusory words, casting the Spiritual Absorption and Vitality Recovery Spells several times, ensuring Zimu was in his best form to break through.
Time ticked, minutes passed and it was night once more.
Just as Fengyu thought the breakthrough might not happen today –
BOOOM!
A loud explosion sounded in the room!
When Fengyu looked over, he saw Zimu shaking as if he was about to implode, his body going up and down.
His eyes focused, his hands moving, continuing to cast the spells uninterrupted.
He had saved most of his spiritual power exactly for this moment –
"Fweeee-"
The flute sounded, enhancing not only his own concentration but also that of Zimu, pushing him further!
BOOOOM!
Another explosion sounded as Fengyu saw an illusory shackle form around Zimu –
It was a shackle of blood, binding Zimu from the outside in, as if trying to lock him!
BOOOM!
The shackle exploded as Zimu continued his breakthrough, paying no heed to it!
Crack
Just as Fengyu started panicking, he suddenly saw the shackle crack!
Thin lines formed and spread from the shackle –
Crack
Crack
Crack
Several cracks were heard as the shackle became weaker and weaker!
BOOOOOOM!
With a final explosion, the shackle was broken and slowly dissipated in the air, leaving Zimu’s body fully!
Fengyu looked deeply at this scene, a shocking sense of understanding dawning –
This was the Bloodline Shackle of beasts!
And even more shocking... beneath the broken and dissipating shackle, he saw more, countless, endless lines of shackles hidden beneath.
In less than a moment the shackle fully dissipated and the vision was hidden once more.
"Quack!" Zimu called out –
A sense of peace instantly spread around the room, calming Fengyu’s chaotic mind.
"Quack!" another quack followed, the peace disappearing as quickly as it came!
"This is an... Innate Spell?!" Fengyu looked in shock, and just as he did, he saw the text above Zimu change –
[Peace Seeking Purple Spiritual Duck, use 100 Beast Origin Essence Cores to upgrade bloodline to mid-grade second stage? 0/100]
[Peace Seeking Purple Spiritual Duck, use 10.000 Beast Origin Essence Strands to awaken Innate Spell?]
"100! Only 100!" Fengyu looked at the text in shock.
"No; wait! Second stage!? ZIMU! YOUR BLOODLINE REACHED THE SECOND STAGE!" Fengyu shouted in shock, taking Zimu into his arms and jumping in excitement.
He couldn’t stop himself!
Second stage bloodline!
From now on, he only needed to grow smoothly to reach the second stage with little effort!
Such was the bloodline of beasts – before they reached the limit, everything was rather easy.
Beasts with second stage bloodline in the wild would easily reach the peak of first stage and could attempt the second stage!
Tamed Beasts of the second-stage had a 90% chance to succeed if their master was in the second stage, and at least a 30% chance to succeed if their master was in the first stage!
The difference was huge – Fengyu could see everything clearly, his eyes bright, his heart beating extremely fast.
"Ten years of working hard with no results, finally!" Fengyu couldn’t help but shout again at his best friend’s success – he had accompanied him day and night, having experienced his hardships and worries.
Hard work is truly rewarding!
