Raising Ducks for Daily Rewards-Chapter 26: Second Spirit Duck!

In the blink of an eye, another two months have passed.

[Cultivation: 3rd Stage of Qi Refining]

[Progress: 3.5122%, + 0.0202 %]

In the month after the new ducklings hatched, he earned a total of 202 eggs, 121 from the Spirited Ducks and 81 from the Spiritual Duck, deducting the eggs of the first week.

There was no Essence to be gained this month since he didn’t get new ducks.

In the second month the gain was 225 eggs, 135 from Spirited Ducks and 90 from the Spiritual Duck.

Fengyu looked deeply at the duck in his arms – the first duck of the new generation, a female duck who always came to him to cultivate longer.

And now, it was naturally the first to reach maturity!

One after another, he cast the three spells –

Spiritual Absorption Spell, Vitality Recovering Spell and Bloodline Enhancement Spell!

Spiritual power gathered from all around, entering into the body of the duck.

Just as he observed her, he got a notification –

[You raised a Spirited Duck to maturity, +3 Beast Origin Essence Strand!]

"Quack!" at the same time, he heard a loud and resounding quack, echoing in his mind.

"What? You want to continue advancing?!" he looked shocked at the question of the duck!

"Quack, quack, quack!" It nodded humanely and told him that it could do it, and that he only needed to repeat the whole process a few times.

Fengyu didn’t hesitate and started casting spells again –

Spiritual Absorption Spell, Vitality Recovering Spell and Bloodline Enhancement Spell!

Once, twice, thrice... after five times, even his own spiritual power dwindled away, but looking at the duck in front of him, extremely focused, enduring the huge pressure of vitality and blood, he didn’t stop but continued.

Such a breakthrough depended on chance – if it was confident it could do so now, then it would have to do it right away. Waiting would waste the chance of breakthrough, and it’s unknown whether there will be another chance!

He didn’t stop, seven, nine, eleven, twelve... his spiritual power was truly dwindling, not far from depletion, but when he cast the thirteenth round of spells –

"Quaaaaack!" a loud quack resounded in his ears, but his focus was on the panel in front of him –

[You raised a Spiritual Duck to the low-grade first-stage, +3 Beast Origin Essence Core]

[You aided a Spirited Duck to break through to the low-grade first stage, +1 Spiritual Absorption Spell Expertise, +1 Vitality Recovering Spell Expertise, +1 Bloodline Enhancement Spell Expertise!]

[Spiritual Duck, low-grade first stage, use 10 Beast Origin Essence Strands to awaken Innate Ability? 5/104]

He looked in shock at the duck in front of him. She did it! She truly advanced!

"Quack, congratulations on advancing!" Zimu said on the side while looking at her, nodding deeply.

"Quack, quack, quack!" the duck thanked Fengyu repeatedly. Its intelligence was raised and Fengyu could understand it properly now.

"Quack, quack!" she then thanked Zimu for looking after it for the past two months, extremely thankful.

The two quacked too much, so Fengyu told them to talk about it outside.

Meanwhile he himself looked at the notifications and asked, ’Why is the reward so much? Three times that of Zimu!’

[Raising a duck for a month, +1 reward. Raising it for more than a month, +1 reward per month. Raising it from birth to maturity, +1 reward.]

This time there was an answer and Fengyu understood it right away.

"So, technically I get one reward per month I raise them, and an additional reward if I raise them from birth? In the end, I got even more because I raised them from the start!

It seems this business is profitable!

Unfortunately, the talent of this little duck isn’t as good as Zimu’s, requiring 104 strands, which isn’t something I can do right now.

For now I will have to save my strands for the core – I want to know what it does. If it’s useful, I should continue saving my strands for that. If it’s not useful, then I might as well just use the strands to awaken the abilities of these ducks."

Fengyu looked not only at the oldest female duck but also at the others.

He had some hope for them. Could they all reach that stage?

...

Another month passed and Fengyu was meant to be disappointed. In this month, the ducks finally matured one after another but not a single one of them broke through.

Only then did he consider that the motivation of the first duck of the new generation was quite strong, always asking to cultivate and absorb extra spiritual power.

Such motivation was extremely rare in the usual dull Spirited Ducks.

At least he got a lot of Beast Origin Essence Strands –

[Beast Origin Essence Strands: 32]

Three strands per beast, this was a lot more than before! An additional strand out of nowhere – such a reward was truly gratifying.

Looking at the next batch about to grow to maturity, with the first already nearing it... he was truly looking forward to it!

...

The months passed by and Fengyu’s initial optimism dwindled. In the next batches, there was no unique duck with great motivation.

In the third batch he even tried to motivate the ducks, talking about how great the world out there was.

But they would instantly be distracted and forget everything once it was time to eat!

His gains of the months were quite a lot!

Two and a half months of arduous cultivation... well, of raising ducks and feeding them, but he had finally achieved his long-awaited dream!

[Beast Origin Essence Strands: 100]

’Fill it!’ he commanded, looking at the strands and pointing at the core mentally –

[Use 100 Beast Origin Essence Strands to fill the Essence Core? 100/100]

’Yes!’

White spiritual light flowed and gathered from all around, entering the core one after another –

[Beast Origin Essence Core, 5/100]

[Beast Origin Essence Core, 23/100]

[Beast Origin Essence Core, 49/100]

[Beast Origin Essence Core, 82/100]

[Beast Origin Essence Core, 99/100]

[Beast Origin Essence Core, 100/100]!

The core glowed brightly, taking shape in the light – a bright white sphere with countless runes inscribed on the surface. It looked like the beast cores Fengyu had seen in various depictions!

Yet it was illusory, difficult to grasp.

Looking over to Zimu, he saw a different text –

[Spiritual Mandarin Duck, use Beast Origin Essence Core to upgrade Bloodline to mid-grade first stage? 1/1]