Huh? Isn't this an adventure kingdom building game?!-Chapter 150 Feeding (Fifth Update)

The beginner livestock pen can only accommodate eight animals, but the unlocked varieties in the mall include dairy cows, beef cattle, dairy goats, grassland sheep, wool sheep, and black pigs. How to allocate space efficiently to achieve maximum profit in the shortest time is a challenge every farm simulation player faces.

Fortunately, Jiang Yuan is experienced. Although the task at hand requires collecting three buckets of milk and each cow can only produce one bucket a day, it’s not feasible to raise three cows, taking up too many spots just to finish the task early.

Milk is certainly a basic ingredient, so keeping two cows is more suitable.

In the future, kitchen production or other workshops will definitely need goat’s milk too. Currently, without any tasks, it’s better to start accumulating it slowly, so just buy one goat; wool sheep produce wool every two days, with lower efficiency than goat’s milk, so two are needed to balance production.

The remaining beef cattle, grassland sheep, and black pigs are ingredients. Once they grow up, they go to the slaughterhouse to make space for more, so one of each will suffice.

Similarly, the beginner poultry coop can only accommodate eight birds. After consideration, he chose to keep two egg-laying chickens, ducks, and geese each. The remaining slots are for one meat chicken and one large goose each.

After the procurement, a group of little animals chirped and bounced around in the poultry coop and livestock pen, full of energy.

Jiang Yuan considerately locked all the animal exits of the two houses to prevent them from running out and ruining the crops. Then he took advantage of the discount to buy shearing scissors for the sheep and milking buckets from the mall.

"Oh? This newly unlocked item can actually make animals grow up directly?!" After a speedy purchase, he wanted to see if there was anything else useful to buy during the discount, only to find that the privileges mall, which initially only unlocked Butterfly Demon Scale Powder, had unlocked a new ripening tool after he purchased poultry and livestock seedlings.

[Jade Marrow Spirit Liquid: Refined from the rhizome of the Wilderness Jade Marrow Tree Demon; sprinkling it on will allow poultry and livestock to grow up and enter the harvest period in ten seconds. Materials can be collected for processing in the Alchemy Room.]

The Spirit Liquid is evidently rarer than the scale powder for ripening crops, with a base price of two hundred Spirit Stones per portion.

Jiang Yuan hesitated for two seconds before clicking to purchase eleven portions, instantly maturing the egg-laying, milk-producing, and wool-producing animals, while letting the meat-producing ones grow up slowly, since the slaughterhouse isn’t complete yet. Spending Spirit Stones to mature them now without being able to harvest them would just mean feeding them free of charge.

After finishing the work and waiting for the Bait Workshop to complete its feed production, he filled the feed troughs in the poultry and livestock pens, stretched, and realized dawn was about to break.

In the Wilderness World, there is always something to handle every minute and second, making him feel like a busy top, driven by tasks with no moment to relax.

The intense excitement from paying to speed up poultry and livestock growth and harvest gradually faded, and Jiang Yuan started to feel a bit tired.

With some time left before the Wilderness Ascension, he simply put down his work and cleared his mind, sitting quietly at the intersection of the light shield, gazing up at the sky of the Wilderness.

The thick clouds seemed to be brewing a storm.

Exceptionally tall and lush trees stood between heaven and earth, striving to stretch their branches and leaves to claim more living space. The world was silent, but at this moment, birds nesting in the trees flapped their wings, ready to take off, and insects devouring leaves rustled and curled up to hide, as every creature in the world worked hard for survival.

In the darkness before dawn, Jiang Yuan closed his eyes and actually slept a little until the system prompted the Wilderness Ascension.

It felt like the overlay layer was instantly clicked to hide, and the sky became bright immediately. Rivers gurgled, leaves in the forest gently swayed, and all the crops in the field behind him sprouted, full of vitality.

"Moo~"

"Cluck cluck cluck, cluck cluck!"

Even though all the doors were closed, the sounds of animals could still be faintly heard from the adjacent poultry coop and livestock pen, adding a rustic atmosphere to the yard.

Bai Yunqi had just finished refining the energy contained in the elixir he took last night. As he opened his eyes, he heard the noises of chickens, ducks, cows, and sheep, and looked up bewilderedly to see Jiang Yuan emerging from the poultry coop with warm eggs in his hands. The whole snake was stunned, "Venerable Family, you really raised the livestock inside?"

"Yes, there are cows and sheep in the livestock pen too. I’ve got fresh cow’s milk, do you want some for breakfast?" He wasn’t even considering how to explain anymore, as it’s inexplicable anyway.

Last night, when buying the milk bucket, Jiang Yuan was a bit worried because he had grown up drinking milk but had never milked a cow. Just moments ago, when he entered the livestock pen to collect, he realized he had been overly worried. Simply placing the bucket there allows the system to complete all the collection, and it’s ready to be stored in the warehouse.

However, collecting eggs is relatively more troublesome; you have to pick them from the nest yourself. Fortunately, the Lu Hua chicken bought from the system mall is very docile, so there’s no worry about being pecked.

Furthermore, there’s no need to fret about hygiene issues in the poultry coop and livestock pen as the system handles these directly. You can click to recycle and even load it for fertilizing farmland with one click, perfectly self-sufficient and environmentally friendly.

Bai Yunqi was greatly astonished but was too concerned about the dignity of a Great Demon to ask further questions.

Otherwise, already being surpassed by the Venerable Family in many ways, if he were to ask curious questions, it would make him appear ignorant and unworthy of the Great Demon’s stature, giving Wan Mingchuan a reason to compare him unfavorably with the Venerable Family. Therefore, he feigned indifference while waiting to enjoy the benefits.

When Wan Mingchuan finished freshening up, he saw the previously empty chicken coop and cow pens now full from last night and wasn’t at all surprised, having long grown accustomed to his master’s mysterious ways. He cheerfully offered to help feed the chickens and tend the cows.

After hearing that it wasn’t necessary and that once the pig grows up it could be slaughtered for meat, his attention was focused entirely on what meat to have for breakfast.

Only Yun Mo was curiously scratching his head, but everyone in the courtyard seemed indifferent, and he wasn’t in a position to ask questions. He could only occasionally stroll around the poultry coop and livestock pen, trying to uncover some clue.

Jiang Yuan’s gaze at him carried a hint of suspicion, and by Yun Mo’s fourth round, Jiang Yuan couldn’t hold back anymore, standing by the dining table and asking, "Yun Mo, you wouldn’t happen to have a taste for squeezing chicks at your age, would you? My chickens, ducks, and geese are very precious. If you want to eat them, just tell me and I’ll buy some ready-made roast chicken and duck, but don’t mess with the ones I raised!"

Yun Mo: ...

What? Squeeze what?!

I’m a dignified Demon Cultivator! How could I have a taste for squeezing chicks?!

He was speechless and flustered for a moment, yet Wan Mingchuan chimed in, "You can’t tackle the lambs either. Master said the sheep are of a good breed, and once grown up, they’ll be slaughtered to eat a whole roasted lamb!"

"I was just looking!" Yun Mo flapped his wings a few times and, eventually resigned, quietly explained, "Mr. Jiang, I just haven’t learned the Transformation Technique yet, so I can’t change into a human. I’ve long since shed my eagle’s wild nature. Besides, I’m really curious; last night, I clearly didn’t hear a sound, and by early morning, there were flocks of chickens and ducks, and herds of cattle and sheep. Where did they all come from?"

Wan Mingchuan and Bai Yunqi both pricked up their ears waiting for the answer, but Jiang Yuan, while preparing food and handing his apprentice a boiled egg, seriously replied with nonsense, "Bought from the market; it’s not like they blew in with the wind."

"The market is selling these now?" Yun Mo thought to himself, how come he hasn’t seen any? Is it possible that the market has opened a new shop recently? But chickens, ducks, and geese, which demon cultivator would buy them?

He frowned and pondered for a moment, suddenly recalling that he had once offered a bounty to acquire a mining pickaxe used by humans. It dawned on him that Mr. Jiang had placed a bounty too!

Everything started to make sense, and no one asked more questions. After finishing breakfast and organizing them to continue collecting mushrooms and herbs, Jiang Yuan headed straight for the Riverfront Village dungeon.

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