Raising Ducks for Daily Rewards

"What if I stop the duck birthing business? If I only focused on eggs?" Fengyu suddenly asked, a thought that had been on his mind for a long time.

"Then you wouldn’t get any strands anymore..." Zimu said, looking weirdly at Fengyu.

"Right, right..." Fengyu shook his head.

"Then, taking care of 50 is indeed too much. Ignoring the feed and all, I need to cast the rotation of spells every day for them to keep their quality up and their reproduction speed going.

That would be the same as raising 50 additional ducks –the 30 I am raising every month is a lot already.

With the added 5 I had before, I always thought I had reached my limit.

Now... if I really ignore the rest who need the spell only one in three days, and if I add what I can do now with my higher spiritual power and recovery, then...

30, that’s about how much I could do if I strain myself a bit...

The result should be that I can get a bit less than 50% in ten years, which is still too little..."

"What if you give up the Vitality Recovery Spell and let Soft Breeze constantly cast his innate spell? Wouldn’t the result be quite good? It’s just that your... expertise?" Zimu suggested, piecing together the little information he had.

"This would indeed reduce my expertise gain in Vitality Recovery... but having two spells of the same type isn’t too necessary, I can make up for this deficit later.

Reducing my workload by 15%, I should be able to add five more.

No, this is still not enough. I have to... also give up my Wood Recovery Spell.

Maybe in the future I can try to find a way to heal people again, I got a lot more spell expertise by doing that rather than using it to recover the vitality." Fengyu realised that his previous methods were the best for those situations, but they weren’t the most efficient.

It was just that in the village his options were limited.

Now in the city he could look for different options.

"With forty ducks producing 135 eggs each month I should be able to gain over 60% in ten years, which is just about what I can do!

In addition, the income should rise quite a bit even without a bonus.

But even then... it’s not enough to cultivate, give all ducks their cultivation resources and also save up enough to repay the loan in sixteen years..." Fengyu suddenly felt a headache again.

Looking at the totem, he suddenly felt like it was a burden.

"Quack, this totem, it’s good. Fengyu, there is no need to buy us any resources.

How about you only buy Zimu resources?

To be honest, you’re too kind, too kind.

We beasts are special – at the early stage, we’re just a bit more spiritual than Spirited Beasts, who also are just a bit fatter than normal beasts.

In the mid stage most beasts usually develop their innate power.

It’s only when we reach the late stage that we start developing our body properly, which is why our late stage takes many years.

This developing..." Mother Duck tried explaining, then quacked a few things that were difficult for Fengyu to explain. It was beast knowledge that was too foreign for him.

Zimu on the side listened and then explained somewhat roughly, "It’s what humans call lifespan.

We Spiritual Beasts only really develop it further in the late stage.

This means that while you humans have a set lifespan once you enter the stage, us beasts’ lifespan is nearly the same as that of mortal beasts until we reach the late stage, which is why we reach the late stage so fast.

A normal duck usually lives up to 10 years, and when we reached the mid stage, our lifespan was basically around 30, a quarter of yours...

But now at the late stage, I can feel that every year I gain three years of lifespan, and I can feel that this situation will last for at least the next ten years.

I don’t know how long this lasts, but Mother Duck has a better intuition for vitality, and even she says hers will last more than 15 years.

She’s trying to say..."

"I’m saying that our lifespan in the end will be longer than that of you! And we also decline later.

So, don’t worry about feeding all of us to the peak of the first stage just yet.

Focus on feeding Zimu first, and we will follow later." Mother Duck reasoned again, scolding Fengyu for thinking too much about them.

"This..." Fengyu smiled wryly when he heard this.

"Quack, quack, quack!" Silver Feather said.

"Quack quack!"

"Quack!"

One after another the ducks all agreed to this arrangement, telling him to not focus any income on them, for their own cultivation was doing well enough with the help of the totem and this field.

"Is the totem really that good? I thought the improvement was only 10%..."

"Quack, this is because you’re a human so you don’t know how good it is. We can all feel very deeply that it’s extremely good, even better than the environment here. The two together are extremely good, enough for us to cultivate twice or three times our usual cultivation speed.

For you humans it might seem slow if we advance in fifty to sixty years, but that’s a good speed. With the totem our speed is even faster than that!"

Mother Duck scolded him again, saying he wasn’t a duck in the end, so he couldn’t enjoy the buff this totem gave him.

Fengyu looked at them, nodding in the end in agreement. If it was as they said, then any further concern would only be superficial, for he too knew that some things don’t have simple solutions...

’It’s just that... even if everything goes according to my plans, I will still be short...’