Chapter 17
“What took you so long to come.
Xu Zhong has come running to ask three times.”
Seeing tan san’s late arrival, Old Xu hurriedly greeted him and said.
“There was a bit of a delay.”
tan san answered, and seeing in the distance, Xu Zhong had likewise gone down to the field at this time, and was weeding with the help of the Spirit Hoe, but was not surprised.
Yesterday, he had already helped him to clear two mu of spirit field of spirit worms, if he didn’t take this time to weed, the growth of spirit harvests would really become a problem.
Afterwards, he himself also carried a spirit hoe down to the field.
Although removing insects could earn him spirit stones, he wouldn’t forget his own job.
His own spiritual field was what truly belonged to him, and the more bountiful the harvest, the more income he would receive.
He certainly wouldn’t lose out on a small amount of money.
After half an hour had passed, the weeds in the field were cleaned up by him, and he soon began to cast his Spiritual Rain Art.
After two consecutive Spirit Rain Arts, his mind snapped.
In an instant, countless techniques regarding the casting of the Spiritual Rain Art, the controlled operation of spiritual energy, and the streamlining and optimization of the runic structure surfaced in his mind one by one.
Spirit Rain Art, upgraded.
From the proficient level, it was formally promoted to a minor accomplishment.
Looking at the attribute panel.
Skill: Spiritual Rain Art (Minor Achievement 1/400)
Sure enough, minor accomplishment.
Moreover, the proficiency experience of this spell had also increased once again, reaching four hundred.
Four hundred proficiency experience was equivalent to needing him to cast the Spirit Rain Technique four hundred times before he was able to upgrade it again and reach the Grand Completion stage.
However, tan san knew that this was not much.
If it was an ordinary cultivator, even if he were to cast it thousands of times, it would still be extremely difficult to reach the Grand Completion stage.
Only he, with the help of the attribute panel, can cut down on a lot of practice time, and there is no bottleneck, ignoring the hurdles, able to improve all the way ……
After upgrading, tan san once again cast the Spirit Rain Art.
One breath, two breaths, three breaths ……
After three breaths, the spell took shape.
He made a point forward.
Between the wind and clouds, a dark cloud, quickly converged and formed, covering half of the mu of spirit field in front of him.
Subsequently, the pattering rain of spiritual rain fell from that dark cloud, evenly sprinkling down on all corners within the spiritual field.
“Worthy of being a minor accomplishment level Spiritual Rain Technique, not only is the casting speed faster and the coverage wider, even the Spiritual Qi contained in each drop of Spiritual Rain is a little more abundant.”
tan san felt the changes after the Spiritual Rain Art’s minor accomplishment and was also bursting with joy.
And next, he just cast four Spiritual Rain Techniques again, and irrigated all of his remaining two acres of spiritual fields.
“Fellow Daoist Zhou, this Spirit Rain Art of yours, it’s not simple.”
Xu Zhong, who had been waiting at the side, watched tan san skillfully perform the Spiritual Rain Technique and couldn’t help but say with emotion.
“It’s nothing, it’s just a matter of skill.”
tan san was not able to explain too much, and could only give a vague reply back.
“Then next, I would like to thank you, Fellow Daoist Zhou, for continuing to help me get rid of the insects.”
Xu Zhong did not look deeper into the matter, at best, he thought that tan san’s spellcasting talent was better, and hastily stated his purpose.
“No problem.”
tan san answered, and then once again walked towards Xu Zhong’s spiritual field.
As for Old Xu.
The weeding of the ten acres of spirit fields and the work of applying rain was enough to keep him busy.
Before noon, he didn’t have any free time at all.
After lunch.
Old Xu mysteriously came over, looked at tan san and said: “I asked Old He for you, just now he gave me a message back, saying that the Linji Restaurant, has indeed been acquiring spirit worms.
It’s the price, which is a bit lower than going to set up a stall in the scattered cultivator bazaar by yourself.”
“How much?”
tan san asked.
Yesterday, having a feeling that he had too many spirit worms in his pouch, he had entrusted Old Xu to help ask if anyone was acquiring spirit worm corpses. It just so happened that Old Xu knew of Old He among the Spirit Farmers, whose wife worked as a laborer in the kitchen of a restaurant, so he approached him and asked a few questions.
Now it was obvious that news had been passed back.
“Sixteen spirit worms for one lower grade spirit stone.
And it also has to be of good quality and not hurt the flesh of the insects, or else you’ll have to charge according to one lower grade spirit stone for eighteen spirit worms.
By the way, he did mention the bug king.
The bug king is precious and has even more aura, saying that one can be worth eighty broken spirits, and five of them can be exchanged for four lower grade spirit stones.”
As he spoke, Old Xu’s eyes also showed envy.
This has a skill, really good ah.
tan san’s skill in removing insects was exquisite, not only could he earn a lot of spirit stones from Xu Zhong’s hands, but he could also make a big profit from the corpses of the spirit insects he disposed of.
Unlike him, he could only earn spirit stones by farming honestly.
If there were spirit worms growing in the spirit fields, once they were not handled well, they would still have to spend spirit stones to hire someone ……
“This price is acceptable.
How about this, later on, you can tell Old He that I don’t care about quality or not, eighteen of them are only one lower grade spirit stone, I’ll pack it up for him and let him deal with it.
No matter how much or how little I earn, it’s all his.
I only need my own share.”
tan san knew that he was asking for a favor, so naturally he needed some indication before others would be on board.
Although this would result in some benefits being shared out, it would save himself a great deal of trouble, so why not?
“This ……”
When Old Xu heard this, his eyes turned and flashed with a glint, and he hurriedly said, “Changwang ah, we’re all so familiar with each other, if there’s a good thing like this you can just hand it over to me directly.
There’s no need to bother Old He right ……”
“What do you mean?”
tan san swept a glance at Old Xu.
“I’ll help you sell it.
Let’s calculate at one lower grade spirit stone for eighteen spirit worms, and when the time comes, I’ll give you the corresponding spirit stones, and then you don’t care if you sell more or less, how about it?”
Old Xu said with a shrewd face.
He was aware that the spirit worms that tan san got rid of were all those that hit the head straight and did not hurt the flesh of the worm.
In other words, most of them were up to the quality of sixteen for a lower grade spirit stone.
There was a profit to be made, so he was naturally on board.
“Of course.
I just need my spirit stones to be quite a few.”
tan san smiled and said without a care in the world.
In the afternoon, tan san once again appeared in Xu Zhong’s spirit field to get rid of the insects.
One by one, the spirit worms were powerless under his Gungjin Finger Point Kill.
Even if he encountered an insect king, with his caution and care, as well as the Gungjin Finger that was like an arm, pointing and hitting wherever it was needed, he was able to solve it with ease.
“Eighty-five it is.”
tan san swiftly pointed a finger to kill a Green Beetle, and his face couldn’t help but reveal a hint of a smile.
This was because at this time, he had already completely swept through Xu Zhong’s five acres of spirit field.
Almost getting rid of any of the Spirit Insects he had found, including two Insect Kings.
A Spirit Locust Insect King and a Green Beetle Insect King.
Though, there were bound to be leaks among them.
However, this five acres of spirit field was no longer the previous scene of spirit insects all over the place.
The next step was to only occasionally remove the insects at regular intervals, and it would not affect the growth of the spiritual harvests in the spiritual field.
Of course, to be able to continuously cast spells to get rid of the insects in such a continuous manner, the price tan san had paid was not small – that bottle of Yuan Qi Dan gifted by Xu Zhong only had one left now.
“However, it’s all worth it.”
tan san thought in his heart, but his gaze fell on top of the attribute panel.
Skill: Gung Jin Finger (Minor Achievement 13/400)
The Gungjin Finger had also become a minor accomplishment!