Farming Games are All About Grinding

After stepping out of the house, Han Qiwu continued checking the floating items.

The Flame Crystal looked somewhat like a small diamond—three-dimensional hexagonal shape with a hollow recess in the center.

[Flame Crystal (Silver Star Quality)]

[Function: Flame Storage]

[Flame Capacity: 2 types]

[Note: Different flames have different capacity limits]

Han Qiwu: "???"

This thing can actually store flames?

When he first saw the name, he thought it might contain fire already and could be used as crafting material.

"If it can be used during battle, then it'd be a treasure gourd when adventuring in the lava mines."

Your flame's pretty nice, but later it'll be mine!

These 50 points were well spent!

As for the remaining item, [Fireproof Coating ×1], it had quite good effects. It looked just like a small spray can, heavy when picked up, and had a transparent indicator strip on the side.

[Fireproof Coating]

[Function: Spray Paint]

[Special Effect - Fireproof: Applying to the surface of equipment significantly reduces the rate of flame heating and scorching.]

[Note: Limited quantity of coating available, use with caution.]

This thing was meant for temperature reduction.

Han Qiwu hadn't figured out exactly how to use it yet.

Might as well keep it for now.

Then there were Mint Seeds—they resembled black sesame seeds, small and dark, emitting a faint minty fragrance.

[Mint Seeds: Plant in spring, mature in 5 days, each seed grows multiple mint leaves]

"Five days to mature? That's way too effortless," Han Qiwu thought happily. Judging by the description, the mint harvest quantity calculation seemed different from others.

These are calculated based on the number of mint leaves.

With all the bonuses at home, how many mint leaves would a single seedling produce?

Looks like summer is going to be delicious.

Han Qiwu took the mint seeds and planted them in a patch of soil.

Unfortunately, the watering can wouldn't be ready until tomorrow, and it had already rained in the morning today.

So the mint seeds would only start growing from tomorrow onwards.

After tidying everything up, Han Qiwu was so sleepy his eyes were barely staying open.

Alright, off to bed! Goodnight!

Even though he wasn't wearing the Gardenia Hairpin when he climbed into bed, he still fell asleep instantly.

This level of sleep quality is the envy of everyone.

March 21 - Daily Log

Planting experience +422

Foraging experience +1965

Fishing experience +0

Combat experience +1201

Mining experience +0

Character Favorability Changes:

Zuo Yu: ❤

Current Money: 61,450 Gold

Historical Earnings: 408,817 Gold

[Congratulations, your Foraging skill has been upgraded to Level 5]

[Your physical coordination has been improved]

"Woo-hoo-hoo!"

The meat chicken tied to the tree crowed loudly all night. Even while being hung upside down, it flirted with the little hens in Wutong!

I, Meat Chicken, am irresistible! Come to me!

"Shut it." Han Qiwu didn't even open his eyes, simply controlled the tree branch to tighten its hold around the meat chicken.

"Chhr-chhr-chhr!"

The meat chicken stopped crowing.

The world was finally quiet.

Still lying in bed, Han Qiwu checked yesterday's log. The experience points were average, and the favorability changes were as expected.

But the upgrade in Foraging skill was a pleasant surprise.

Just then, a row of notifications popped up in his field of view.

[Level 5 Foraging Bonus: Choose one specialization for permanent job change]

[Profession: Junior Forester]

[Specialization - Nature's Gift: Gain 20% additional wood during lumbering]

[Profession Skill: Sapling Catalyst (Consuming some HP accelerates sapling growth)]

[Profession: Junior Mountain Spirit]

[Specialization - Mountain Spirit's Instinct: Gain +1 extra item during foraging]

[Profession Skill: Mountain Spirit's Call (While in mountainous areas, reveals the location of high-quality items)]

Without hesitation, Han Qiwu directly chose Junior Forester.

Any method that increases wood yield is a good method!

Not to mention Foresters can even trade health for more saplings!

Considering the current situation, he hardly visits mountainous areas—choosing Mountain Spirit would be a waste.

[Congratulations, you've successfully advanced to Junior Forester]

[You've gained the specialization - Nature's Gift]

[You've learned the profession skill: Sapling Catalyst]

After the system notification faded, Han Qiwu vaguely felt a new connection to nature.

It was very magical.

Having two professions now, was he really that far from five?

Time to get up and hustle!

Equipped with Sapling Catalyst, Han Qiwu specifically ran into the yard to use the skill on a sapling before eating breakfast.

If only Sapling Catalyst didn't require lumbering to recharge, he'd want to speed-grow all the saplings in one go.

Watching the saplings growing tenfold faster was almost hypnotic.

After breakfast, Han Qiwu routinely visited each animal shelter. The little hens in Wutong seemed a bit melancholic.

Maybe it was because the meat chicken hadn't come home for several days.

Giving a glance at their mood levels, Han Qiwu sighed inwardly. If the meat chicken wasn't let back soon, they might stop laying eggs tomorrow.

If he fried up the meat chicken, would these hens hold a funeral or something?

Standing up straight, Han Qiwu glanced out the window at the meat chicken.

Immediately, his anger boiled over.

That meat chicken was pulling some kind of fish-out-of-the-water stunt!

Swinging back and forth energetically, completely ignoring the branch tied around its neck.

It looked ecstatic.

"If you don't want your neck, I'll just chop it off and make braised chicken neck tonight!" Han Qiwu said cheerfully, peering through the window.

Upon hearing this, the meat chicken instantly felt a chill down its neck, hurriedly shook its head, stopped flailing around, and looked utterly bored.

Officer, hanging here all the time is so dull! Couldn't you put me out of my misery?

Ignoring it, Han Qiwu headed straight into Hongyan Tower.

As soon as he walked in, he noticed two surprises.

Both the Spot-billed Duck and Muscovy Duck had laid eggs!

Upon discovering this, Han Qiwu grabbed two bags of feed and fed them to the Spot-billed Duck and Muscovy Duck. Only after feeding them did he pick up the duck eggs.

From their appearance, the two duck eggs looked identical—both oval white duck eggs, clean and neat.

Kangkang's Attributes:

[Spot-billed Duck Egg]

[Stamina +35]

[Health +35]

[Note: Spot-billed Duck Eggs don't start arguments!]

[Muscovy Duck Egg]

[Stamina +40]

[Health +35]

[Note: Muscovy Duck Eggs make excellent preserved eggs]

From the stats, Han Qiwu noticed duck eggs provide more recovery than chicken eggs.

Silver Star quality green-shell chicken eggs had the same recovery as regular quality Muscovy Duck eggs.

Could it be due to the size of the duck eggs?

Or maybe the taste?

Whatever, he'd boil them later to find out.

As for the two Gaoyou Ducks, their size seemed very similar to the Spot-billed and Muscovy Ducks, so they were likely to start laying eggs in just a day or two.

Han Qiwu wasn't bothered, leisurely fed them by hand one by one.

Come on, Gaoyou Ducks, I'm counting on you for salted duck eggs!