Farming Games are All About Grinding-Chapter 252 - 244: Thunder and Lightning Technique Upgrade! (Extra)

Chapter 252: Chapter 244: Thunder and Lightning Technique Upgrade! (Extra)

With his supplies packed, Han Qiwu leisurely rode his bike toward the secret realm, pondering over selling the fish later before heading to Yang Yangyang’s farm to build a duck coop.

The remaining money would be saved, and once there was enough wood and stone, he could upgrade the chicken coop to an intermediate level.

Watching the farm gradually grow larger and more prosperous always felt so fulfilling.

The sense of achievement from farming was unmatched by any other activity.

Upon reaching the entrance of the secret realm, Han Qiwu lightly touched the reef and stepped inside.

[Available duration for today: 2.5 hours]

The time was quite generous—two and a half hours. Now there was enough time to check the crab traps.

To be honest, after several days of not eating lobster, Han Qiwu found himself missing its fresh, sweet flavor.

"First, I encountered the early blooming of purple alfalfa today, and now the extended time in the secret realm. Could these be due to increased luck?" Han Qiwu thought as he walked toward the trading point in the realm to buy premium shark bait.

He’d need to get more good stuff from Mr. Tang to further boost his luck!

At the trading point, Han Qiwu bought ten premium shark baits. After hesitating for a moment, he also bought four crab trap baits, spending a total of 1700 gold.

It was drizzling lightly in the secret realm today, with circular ripples continually forming on the sea’s surface.

"Wouldn’t it be great if I could someday go diving here?" Han Qiwu mused by the shore. However, the "diving" he imagined involved some sort of system-enabled gameplay rather than purchasing diving equipment and going underwater himself.

What a joke—who knew what terrifying sea creatures lurked in these ancient waters? He wouldn’t even be enough for them to pick their teeth with!

Taking a deep breath, Han Qiwu donned a raincoat and a fisherman’s hat, sat on a reef, and cast his line.

"Whoosh."

The hook, equipped with premium shark bait, splashed into the sea, landing directly on a swordfish’s head.

Seeing this, Han Qiwu hurriedly tried to reel the hook back in.

Hey, buddy, don’t eat my 150-gold bait!

But the swordfish seemed already captivated by the bait. With a flick of its head, it chased the hook and swallowed it whole.

Fishing game triggered.

Han Qiwu: "... A loss, a total loss! You don’t even need bait to fish for swordfish!"

Oh well, let’s consider it a good start for the day.

[Swordfish: Movement pattern – smooth. Skill effect – self-acceleration for 3 seconds]

Recalling the swordfish’s sudden energetic burst in the past, Han Qiwu realized that it was actually using a skill.

Two minutes later, Han Qiwu effortlessly reeled in the swordfish. After replacing the hook with premium shark bait, he cautiously observed the drop point and cast the line again!

"Whoosh."

This time, with no swordfish in the way, merely ten seconds passed before a blue-black shadow swiftly darted through the water and chomped on the hook.

Judging from the shadow’s length, Han Qiwu estimated that this golden chef shark was about eight or nine meters long—a large one, no doubt.

Fishing game triggered!

[Golden Chef Shark: Movement pattern – mixed. Skill effect – damages buoys]

Mixed type?

It was Han Qiwu’s first time encountering this movement pattern, leading him to suspect it might involve a combination of other movement types.

As for the skill effect?

Who cares—I’ve got sturdy buoys! Bite all you want!

Upon entering the game, Han Qiwu’s eyes lit up. In the game’s interface, he spotted an ancient-looking treasure chest.

"Reel in the fish first, then grab the chest!"

As the golden chef shark thrashed about, Han Qiwu unleashed a lightning spell to subdue it.

In the screen, dozens of lightning snakes surged into the golden chef shark’s body, stunning it in an instant.

[Stun]

[Paralyze]

Han Qiwu: "???"

Something didn’t seem right. The basic lightning spell was supposed to stun—where did the paralysis come from?

And wasn’t this effect a bit too flashy?

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Whatever, let’s reel the fish in first.

Taking advantage of the shark’s stunned state, Han Qiwu quickly filled the treasure chest’s progress bar.

Three full seconds later, the golden chef shark regained its senses. Even though it was active again, there was still a [Slow] paralyzed status lingering above its head, and its icon looked charred black.

"This lightning spell is insanely powerful. Could it be the lightning fish’s effect?" While pondering, Han Qiwu efficiently reeled in the weakened golden chef shark.

Five minutes later, Han Qiwu successfully caught the massive golden chef shark!

After storing the shark, he quickly retrieved the antique-looking treasure chest from his inventory.

[Ancient Treasure Chest]

Judging by the name, it had to contain something amazing!

Placing it on the reef, Han Qiwu excitedly pried it open.

As soon as he opened a crack, dazzling golden light burst forth from the ancient treasure chest, causing Han Qiwu to instinctively turn away.

However, as he turned his head, he noticed the light was merging into the nearby red sun.

"What in the world? Stop merging into my red sun!" Han Qiwu exclaimed, shielding his eyes with one hand while peering into the chest with the other. Inside, he spotted a transparent stone radiating this brilliance.

[Sunstone]

[Use: Quality Enhancement]

[Special Effect – Light Focus: The sunstone automatically enhances nearby light-related objects until it is completely consumed]

[Note: Legend has it that this stone fell from the sun.]

Light Focus?

Han Qiwu withdrew his hand and sat nearby, patiently waiting for the sunstone to finish enhancing the red sun.

After some time, he recalled the odd behavior of his lightning spell earlier and opened the system log to investigate.

Scrolling back to entries from when the Kui Niu mutated the previous night, Han Qiwu finally figured it out.

[Your body sustained electrical damage from the stray currents during Kui Niu’s mutation.]

.....

After scrolling through over thirty similar messages, the log finally changed:

[Your body absorbed the stray currents from Kui Niu’s mutation. Basic Lightning Spell has been upgraded to Intermediate Lightning Spell.]

"A blessing in disguise!" Han Qiwu was overjoyed. He had initially thought he’d need to eat a dozen lightning fish to level up his lightning spell, but thanks to the Angus cattle’s mutation process, he had completed it ahead of time.

Truthfully, if Han Qiwu hadn’t absorbed some of the stray currents during Angus’s mutation, the creature might not have succeeded in evolving into a Kui Niu at all.

Helping others is truly helping oneself.

Delighted, Han Qiwu opened the attributes page to examine the upgraded Intermediate Lightning Spell.

[Intermediate Lightning Spell: Releases over ten streaks of lightning during fishing games, stunning fish and adding paralysis and slow effects.]

"More effects with upgraded lightning—paralysis, slow, and the stun duration has even changed from ’briefly stun’ to just ’stun.’" Satisfied, Han Qiwu nodded, estimating that the stun duration had more than doubled based on earlier observations.

Fishing just got a whole lot easier!

Frozen river fish, lightning fish?

You’re all coming home with me!

Braised, steamed, boiled, or spicy—they’d be cooked in every style imaginable!

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