After leaving the stall, Ye Hao was in no hurry to return to the sect. Instead, he went to other shops and bought five First-Tier high-grade Fireball Talismans, which were powerful enough to threaten a Seventh-Layer Qi Refinement cultivator.
If all five were thrown together, even a cultivator at Qi Refinement Great Perfection wouldn't dare take them head-on. This was his true trump card.
However, each of these five First-Tier high-grade Fireball Talismans cost 100 low-grade spirit stones, which meant Ye Hao had spent 500 low-grade spirit stones in one go.
Yet to preserve his own life, these 500 low-grade spirit stones were well worth spending.
“Huh, why is no one following me?”
“I clearly sensed that someone had targeted me.”
After leaving the market and returning to the sect, Ye Hao still hadn't encountered anyone blocking his path.
Back at the market, he had clearly felt malice lingering around him; someone had definitely set their sights on him.
Yet those people had vanished without a trace, leaving him puzzled.
Little did he know, this was all because the stallholder had sensed beforehand that someone was going to make a move against him, and thus issued a warning.
Otherwise, the Fireball Talismans in his possession would certainly have been expended.
After returning to his wooden house, Ye Hao cooked another bowl of white spirit rice.
After finishing his meal, Ye Hao began cultivating the newly acquired Turtle Breath Technique.
“This Turtle Breath Technique isn't simple.”
Ye Hao cultivated until midnight, yet there was still no sign of initiating it.
This meant that with his current comprehension, it would take him a long time to grasp the basics of this Turtle Breath Technique.
From this, it was evident that the grade of this Turtle Breath Technique was definitely higher than that of the Lesser Spirit Rain Technique.
“No rush, take it slow.”
Having figured this out, Ye Hao calmed his emotions.
He was no longer in a hurry.
After all, such things couldn't be rushed.
At midnight, the system prompt sounded.
【Today's harvest: five Fireball Talismans, Fire Snake Technique.】
【Twentyfold Yield settlement.】
【Congratulations, you have obtained one hundred Fireball Talismans, twenty copies of the Fire Snake Technique.】
“I didn't expect the system's settlement multiplier to really increase with my realm, going from the original 10 times to 20 times now.”
“Moreover, the space provided by the system has also expanded from the original 10 slots to 20 slots.”
“Only, why weren't the Lesser Spirit Rain Technique and the Turtle Breath Technique boosted?”
Ye Hao muttered to himself upon hearing the system prompt.
However, Ye Hao quickly understood why this was the case.
Because the Fire Snake Technique was complete, whereas the Lesser Spirit Rain Technique bought previously from the stallholder and the recently purchased Turtle Breath Technique were neither complete techniques.
It was likely precisely because of this that the system hadn't multiplied and returned them.
“Still, having the experience settlement is enough.”
But the corresponding experience had indeed been solidly settled.
The insights regarding the Turtle Breath Technique surged into Ye Hao's mind multiplied by twenty times, smoothly allowing him to initiate this cultivation technique.
This could be considered solving one of Ye Hao's worries.
...
Time flew by in the blink of an eye.
Early August arrived.
The day for sowing the second crop of white spirit rice had arrived.
Ye Hao transplanted the seedlings he had nurtured long ago into the spirit field.
It took him nearly half a day to finish one spirit field.
In the afternoon, he had to go plant the other spirit field.
Normal white spirit rice took four months to mature.
However, if one mastered a great-perfection-level Spirit Rain Technique or Lesser Spirit Rain Technique, the maturation time of white spirit rice would be shortened to three and a half months.
Ever since Ye Hao learned from Wan Bao last time that after casting the Spirit Rain Technique, one could also cast the Lesser Spirit Rain Technique and that the effects of both could even stack, Ye Hao had gone to the Scripture Pavilion to purchase the Spirit Rain Technique and Ear-Gathering Technique.
Casting the Spirit Rain Technique and Lesser Spirit Rain Technique in combination could cause his white spirit rice yield to surge explosively.
The Ear-Gathering Technique would allow him to swiftly harvest the white spirit rice without needing to spend excessive time.
These First-Tier low-grade spirit plant auxiliary techniques were arguably the simplest of techniques, exceptionally easy to learn.
Coupled with Ye Hao possessing the 20-fold yield feedback, he could very easily push them to great perfection proficiency.
“Ye Hao, I accepted a task. Do you want to come try it with me?”
Suddenly, Ye Yu sidled up and whispered in a low voice.
Ye Hao looked at him curiously. “What task? Tell me about it.”
“An outer senior brother from the Beast Spirit Garden raises Black-Edged Oxen, and what they love eating most is fresh clover. For every ten jin of clover, he gives one spirit shard.”
“As long as we cut 100 jin a day, we'll earn one spirit stone.”
“I've only told you about this task.”
“If you don't go, I'll have to find someone else.”
Ye Yu's voice remained very low, terrified that someone might overhear their conversation. After all, he truly meant well for Ye Hao, which was why he hadn't told anyone else about this task yet.
Otherwise, with an income of one spirit stone a day, countless people would scramble over one another to take it.
“With such a good task, why would it come to you?”
Ye Hao looked at him full of suspicion.
Hearing this, a look of embarrassment surfaced on Ye Yu's face, but in the end, he still chose to speak up and reply, “That outer disciple knows my grandfather.”
After saying this, an extra hint of awkwardness appeared on his face.
After all, obtaining a task by relying on connections from an elder was somewhat embarrassing no matter how one looked at it.
“So that's how it is.” Hearing this, Ye Hao finally understood why such a good task had fallen into the other's lap.
It turned out to be because of his grandfather in the Qi Refinement stage again.
Now it seemed Ye Yu's grandfather truly doted on him, passing on such great connections as well as contribution points to him.
If not for having a golden finger, his future growth might not even match Ye Yu before him.
After all, just the task an outer disciple assigned to him was extraordinary; 100 jin of fresh clover was nothing to a Qi Refinement cultivator, practically as easy as could be.
It could be easily accomplished simply by spending time.
And for doing so, one could receive a reward of one spirit stone, which amounted to 30 low-grade spirit stones a month.
Converted into white spirit rice, that was equivalent to gaining an extra 900 jin of white spirit rice for nothing.
Ye Yu looked at Ye Hao and asked again, “So, are you going?”
“You go ahead. This task was given to you by your grandfather in the first place, so it wouldn't feel right for me to go. Besides, I have other things to do.”
Ye Hao declined.
First, this task had indeed fallen upon Ye Yu only through his grandfather's help, making it improper for an outsider like him to go.
Second, it was because Ye Hao didn't care for this meager income in the slightest.
Even if the daily spirit stones were multiplied tenfold, he still wouldn't think twice about it.
“You're really not going?”
Ye Yu looked at Ye Hao with a trace of disappointment.
He had originally wanted to use this to lend Ye Hao a hand, but he hadn't expected that Ye Hao didn't need it at all.
“Ask Liu Siyu if she wants to go. She probably needs spirit stones quite a bit.”
Seeing the disappointment on his face, Ye Hao suggested.
As for why he chose Liu Siyu, it was because he could see that she was very diligent, and moreover, Liu Siyu was someone they both knew.
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