Inside the wooden house, Boss Zhao sat high on the chair in the very center. After hearing Ye Hao's reason for coming, he furrowed his brows slightly, then asked to confirm with a hint of doubt.
“Yes, Boss, I'm certain I want to rent a spirit field.”
Ye Hao nodded slightly.
With the boost of the tenfold yield, he had a premonition that his breakthrough to Second-Layer Qi Refinement would happen within these next few days.
With more spiritual energy, combined with the Lesser Spirit Rain Technique, he could naturally cultivate more spirit fields.
Hearing confirmation from him once again, Boss Zhao sank into deep thought. His right index finger tapped lightly on the wooden table before him. After remaining silent for a long time, he finally raised his head, looked at Ye Hao, and said to make sure:
“At most, I can only arrange one spirit field for you, and you must hand over 800 jin of white spirit rice to me before planting. What do you say?”
Boss Zhao spoke.
Among the other handymen who wanted to cultivate more spirit fields and came looking for him to rent them, not a single one had a lease period under three years.
Someone like Ye Hao, who had just registered their first crop of white spirit rice and immediately came to register to rent a second spirit field, was the first he had ever seen. However, the other party possessed the Lesser Spirit Rain Technique and had helped so many people increase their yields.
He indeed possessed the ability to rent a second spirit field.
As for having him pay the 800 jin of white spirit rice in advance, he wasn't trying to make things difficult for him; it was merely for the sake of safety.
After all, during this period, by casting the Lesser Spirit Rain Technique, the boy had reaped quite a few benefits from other spirit farmers.
A mere 800 jin of white spirit rice certainly wouldn't stump him.
“All right, I'll go prepare it right now and deliver the 800 jin of white spirit rice shortly.”
Seeing that he had agreed, a hint of joy surfaced on Ye Hao's face, and he cupped his hands in response.
“Go on.”
Boss Zhao nodded.
With that, Ye Hao left to prepare the white spirit rice.
A lackey at the side watched Ye Hao leave before looking toward Boss Zhao, a hint of greed emerging in his eyes. “Boss, he can pull out 800 jin of white spirit rice in one go. I'm afraid his net worth already exceeds mine.”
Boss Zhao naturally saw through the meaning behind his tone immediately. He slapped the man's head at once and scolded, “Don't get any ideas about him.”
The lackey hastily clutched his head and chuckled sheepishly, “Wasn't I just a bit envious?”
“Not just you—none of you get any ideas about him either.”
Boss Zhao looked around, fixing his gaze on these lackeys of his as he warned them.
A surge of aura bore down, forcing these lackeys to lower their heads, not daring to look him in the eye.
Only then did Boss Zhao nod in satisfaction and explain patiently, “Given his talent for farming, the white spirit rice he produces in the future will definitely only increase.”
“Right now, having merely two spirit fields can't satisfy him at all. In the future, he will come to me to rent even more spirit fields to cultivate.”
“When that time comes, we will be able to collect even more payment.”
“This way, not only can we tie ourselves to him, but we can also earn his favor, which is far better than offending him.”
“After all, as long as he remains in our handyman Area B, he can continuously provide us with white spirit rice, rather than this being a one-off deal.”
Having said that, he looked complacently at his lackeys below.
“Boss, we understand.”
“The boss is still the wisest.”
The lackeys, who had initially been somewhat unconvinced, suddenly saw the light after hearing Boss Zhao's explanation.
...
That afternoon, Ye Hao successfully completed the transaction with Boss Zhao, leasing a spirit field from his hands that wasn't too far from his own spirit field.
With this, Ye Hao successfully possessed two spirit fields.
He spent another two days clearing and tending to the entire spirit field, making preparations for planting the second crop of white spirit rice in early August.
“Second-Layer Qi Refinement.”
The breakthrough came a bit faster than Ye Hao had imagined.
He had already been just a sliver away from breaking through to Second-Layer Qi Refinement, and with the aid of the system's tenfold return in the early morning, he broke through in one fell swoop.
Early the next morning.
Ye Yu, who was washing up, looked at Ye Hao as he pushed the door open and walked out, initially intending to say something.
Yet he suddenly sensed that the aura on Ye Hao was somewhat abnormal.
After sensing it carefully, he suddenly realized something, and his face filled with astonishment: “You've reached Second-Layer Qi Refinement?”
Ye Hao had low-grade three-attribute spirit roots: water, fire, and wood.
Meanwhile, he had low-grade two-attribute spirit roots: metal and wood.
Logically speaking, his cultivation speed ought to be somewhat faster than Ye Hao's. Yet according to his estimations, it would take him at least half a year to cultivate to Second-Layer Qi Refinement.
Yet Ye Hao before him had managed to advance to Second-Layer Qi Refinement half a year ahead of him, which truly baffled him.
“My Verdant Wood Art has reached great perfection, so it's normal that I'm faster than you.”
“Besides, I eat three meals of white spirit rice a day, so having this kind of speed is only natural.”
Ye Hao looked at Ye Yu and explained with a smile.
The Verdant Wood Art was one of the introductory cultivation techniques the sect gave to handymen like them.
Back then, because Ye Hao chose to be a spirit farmer, and because he possessed a wood spirit root among his spirit roots, he had chosen this Verdant Wood Art.
He had already cultivated the Verdant Wood Art to minor accomplishment originally, and later, under the tenfold yield, pushed it to the great perfection realm before long.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have been so certain that he could raise his realm to Second-Layer Qi Refinement in just over twenty days.
“You filthy rich bastard.”
“You sure know how to splurge!”
Hearing that Ye Hao actually ate three meals of white spirit rice a day, Ye Yu wished he could take his place.
Back then, when he tried to give Ye Hao low-grade white spirit rice, Ye Hao hadn't accepted it and returned it all to him. But even he couldn't afford the luxury of eating three meals of white spirit rice a day, only having a meal occasionally.
After all, there were still several months before the harvest of the next crop of white spirit rice.
He had to use it sparingly.
Recently, Ye Hao had also earned quite a few spirit stones using the Lesser Spirit Rain Technique.
Spirit farmers who couldn't pay in spirit stones compensated him with white spirit rice instead.
Thinking about it this way, with Ye Hao possessing so many resources, it was only natural that he raised his realm to Second-Layer Qi Refinement so quickly.
Still, this Ye Hao was simply too infuriating.
He didn't even know to wait for him.
At this thought, Ye Yu's gaze toward Ye Hao couldn't help but carry an extra hint of resentment.
“Ahem, I'm heading off to collect the spirit rice seeds first.”
Unable to withstand his gaze, Ye Hao coughed lightly and hastily made his exit.
In a few days, it would be time to sow the next crop of white spirit rice.
He had to go to the steward to collect rice seeds.
Although he had a fair amount of mid-grade white spirit rice on him, using those as seeds for two mu of spirit fields certainly wouldn't be enough, so he naturally had to go to the steward to collect more.
“Senior Brother Ye, you've reached Second-Layer Qi Refinement!”
Liu Siyu was tilling her farmland. Raising her head, she saw Ye Hao walking over and quickly noticed that Ye Hao's aura was a bit different.
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