Raising Ducks for Daily Rewards-Chapter 11: Spiritual Duck

Time passed; the spring was long but already about to end.

[You raised a Spirited Duck to maturity, +1 Beast Origin Essence Strand!]

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

"The last notification has popped up, I have eleven strands and ten eggs!" Fengyu looked at the ducks in front of him while holding a small basket of eggs.

He felt a sense of accomplishment – in just a month, he regained the field he thought was the most important to him.

Now... he felt that compared to spiritual farmers who were very closely bound to fields, his own spiritual herding was very free.

This time, if he had to leave, as long as it wasn’t a disaster, he could just take the ducks with him and he would lose barely anything.

"But the egg production is a bit too slow. A duck lays one egg every second day, which means in ten days, I only get five eggs.

This is half as many as chickens lay. While duck eggs are better than chicken eggs, they’re at most worth 20–30% more than a chicken egg; the price difference isn’t that large.

It’s just that the chicken market is saturated, so even if you sell your eggs, there’s the danger that no one’s buying them, while for me, there will always be people who buy my eggs."

He thought about it and realised that the duck egg market was quite good, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t find a way to optimise it.

Looking all over the ducks, he saw words appearing above them –

[Spirited Duck, use 10 Beast Origin Essence Strands to advance to low-grade first-stage beast? 11/10]

"Should I just try it out and see if it’s possible?"

He inspected the female ducks before choosing the duck he thought was the calmest among them.

Pointing his finger, his thoughts intertwined, and strands of white power flew out, rapidly flying to the duck and entering it!

Unlike the last time, where they wandered around, this time, the strands seemed to dissipate in the body of the duck.

Fengyu saw right in front of him how the duck grew one and a half times, and with it, its spiritual pressure also grew quite a lot.

In just moments, it grew from a Spirited Duck to a –

[Spiritual Duck, use 100 Beast Origin Essence to advance to low-grade first-stage beast? 1/100]

"Huh? Just like that?" Fengyu looked in astonishment!

Although the spiritual pressure was of the low grade, it barely reached the stage of Spiritual, not a single step further.

And looking at the duck, it barely changed.

"Quack?" The duck seemed quite surprised at its growth, moving left and right with its little webbed feet, wobbling slightly but getting used to it.

"Is that really it?" Fengyu asked again, comparing the duck to Zimu –

But the difference was too strong!

It was like one was simply a larger duck, while the other was a mythical spiritual beast!

"Quack?" The duck looked at its companions, as if asking whether it was normal.

Although the ducks were perplexed, they all quacked normally, as if nothing major had happened.

"Quack! Go away, go eat and play!" Zimu commanded them.

Hearing this, the ducks quacked away, most of them going to the pool to play.

"Hey," Zimu looked at Fengyu. It thought for a moment but didn’t ask what it wanted to ask, knowing it would simply be reprimanded that it was a special ability of humans – even though it had never seen another human with such an ability.

Instead, it talked about the duck. "It looks like a Wild Beast! I told you, we Spiritual Beasts are smart and intelligent, no different than you humans, while Wild Beasts are stupid, just like how you view monkeys.

Do you believe me now?"

"But it advanced to the low grade..." Fengyu was still confused.

"A monkey can be as strong as a human; does this mean it’s also human?"

"No, no! Bah, you’re stupid! How can you be smart? Hmm?

Tell me again, what’s 100*100? What’s 25/5? What’s 1772 + 3?"

"QUACK! QUACK! You’re bullying me again! QUACK!" Zimu ran away when it heard the mathematic questions. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Just a week after settling in, Fengyu suddenly started teaching it language and math. Bah! How it hated math! Why did it, a small duck, have to learn math?

At the start, it was so easy; how come it became so difficult all of a sudden?

Fengyu smiled, not caring.

’Every child has to learn how to speak and how to calculate simply.

As they say, a first-stage spiritual beast has the intelligence of a toddler, a second-stage spiritual beast has the intelligence of a human child, and a third-stage is equivalent to an adult human.’

Naturally, there are smart beasts like foxes and cats who are as smart as children at the first stage!

Although ducks aren’t as smart, they are still quite high in the intelligence ranking.

Fengyu thought that his own mandarin duck was equivalent to a human child at the first stage, with high intelligence and deeply hidden talent. If it learned quickly and early on, then it might actually learn how to cultivate on its own!

Spiritual Beasts, besides everything else, have the ability of independent cultivation at the first stage. Because of this, their cultivation usually rises a lot faster than that of wild beasts who rely on instinct to absorb the power of the sun and moon.

There is a saying in the beast world – Wild Beasts gain the power of the sun and moon, while Spiritual Beasts can use their wisdom to additionally gain the power of the stars!

Just as Fengyu was contemplating the difference in ducks, suddenly, a notification popped up –

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

"Huh? How is this possible? Didn’t they all just lay eggs?" According to his calculations, the next egg laying would only be tomorrow!

He rushed to the field and looked all over.

Finally, in a corner, hidden behind a tree, he saw the Spiritual Duck!