I Can Upgrade My Talent Infinitely-Chapter 43: New Planting
"He’s already at the Qi Refining Fifth Layer."
The Steward checked Fang Yun’s aura and found it was different from what he had expected.
He checked Fang Yun’s mission records. The first time he took a mission, he was at the Qi Refining Third Layer, and the second time, at the Qi Refining Fourth Layer.
Now, on his third time, he was already at the Qi Refining Fifth Layer.
Having never performed any missions before that, it meant Fang Yun was a disciple recruited into the sect for his Planting Talent.
These types of disciples all had Mixed Spirit Roots—either Four Spirit Roots or Five Spirit Roots.
The Steward was briefly surprised but didn’t pay it much mind.
It was a matter of personality. He just needed to do his job well; as for this disciple, Fang Yun, he couldn’t be bothered to get to know him.
"The sect now needs Qi Nourishing Grass to be planted. Will you be tending to five mu or six mu?"
"Six mu," Fang Yun chose without hesitation.
He always chose the larger amount.
"Alright."
The Steward began to record it.
For planting six mu of Qi Nourishing Grass, he would need to hand over four hundred and twenty stalks after one year. Any shortfall would be deducted from his Spirit Stones and Contribution Points.
Upon handing over the required amount of Qi Nourishing Grass and completing the mission, he would receive ninety Lower Grade Spirit Stones and ninety Sect Contribution Points.
After accepting the mission, Fang Yun checked and saw that the Spirit Field the sect had assigned him was no longer in the same location as before.
The Spirit Field area where he was before was mainly for growing Purple Corn. The Celestial Cloud Sect had organized these assignments neatly, with the main purpose of making it convenient for disciples planting the same Spirit Medicine to communicate with each other.
When the sect issued planting missions, it always hoped the disciples could complete them successfully without having their Spirit Stones and Contribution Points deducted.
Six mu required a handover of four hundred and twenty stalks of Qi Nourishing Grass, which came out to seventy stalks per mu.
For a one-mu, Tier One Lower Grade Spirit Field, it was recommended to plant one hundred stalks of Qi Nourishing Grass, with the absolute limit being one hundred and twenty.
The more one planted, the more troublesome it was to care for. If the care wasn’t meticulous enough, or if small problems arose, it could easily cause the Spirit Medicine to wither and die.
Faced with the sect’s missions, many disciples would choose to plant ninety stalks of Qi Nourishing Grass on a one-mu, Tier One Lower Grade Spirit Field.
Some disciples would even choose a safer route, planting only eighty stalks of Qi Nourishing Grass per mu.
"How many Qi Nourishing Grass seeds do you want?"
"Six hundred," Fang Yun replied.
He answered quickly. He had already decided when he accepted the mission.
If he didn’t have other things to do and could focus solely on planting the Qi Nourishing Grass, he would have definitely asked for seven hundred and twenty seeds to plant one hundred and twenty per mu.
With the Qi Nourishing Grass seeds in hand, Fang Yun left the Spirit Field Institute.
Now, he needed to go back and cultivate. He would go plant the Qi Nourishing Grass first thing in the morning.
This cultivation session was very long. He refined and absorbed a full three Upper Grade Cyan Jade Pills, which took ten and a half hours.
After he finished cultivating, there was still some time left before his Talent Points were to be tallied.
He used the remaining time to take out his books on Artifact Refining and started flipping through them.
’It’s almost time.’
Fang Yun closed his book and, in the final moments, waited for the tally to arrive.
—— 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶
Detailed Reading · Artifact Refining, Talent Points +31.
Discussion · Artifact Refining, Talent Points +15.
Refining Lower Grade Magical Artifact Yellow Iron Sword x3, Talent Points +62.
Refining Lower Grade Magical Artifact Profound Iron Shield x1, Talent Points +18.
Refining Lower Grade Cyan Jade Pill x78, Talent Points +234.
Refining Middle Grade Cyan Jade Pill x26, Talent Points +117.
Refining Upper Grade Cyan Jade Pill x52, Talent Points +312.
Harvesting Purple Corn x587 jin, Talent Points +1468.
Perfect Rainmaking x35, Talent Points +105.
Perfect Pest Removal x28, Talent Points +84.
Perfect Weeding x4, Talent Points +12.
Standard Weeding x32, Talent Points +32.
Affiliated Faction: [Celestial Cloud Sect]
Sect Level: 3
Sect Position: Outer Sect Disciple +20%
Sect Influence: 5%
Regional Influence: [Not Unlocked]
Talent Point Bonus: 75%
Tally: Talent Points +4358.
——
The light screen appeared, and Fang Yun looked over the tally for September, reading from top to bottom.
In addition to Detailed Reading, Artifact Refining now included Discussion, which had contributed 15 Talent Points.
Seeing this, Fang Yun thought of his conversation with Steward Cai. A discussion only awarded Talent Points if you truly learned something from it. If you talked for half a day and learned nothing new because the other person only repeated things you already knew, you wouldn’t get a single Talent Point.
The next line showed the Talent Points gained from refining Lower Grade Magical Artifacts.
In late September, Fang Yun had gone to refine another Yellow Iron Sword.
’The quality of the Yellow Iron Swords I refine is different, and it seems the Talent Points awarded are different too.’
Looking closer, Fang Yun noticed that the 62 Talent Points gained from refining three Lower Grade Yellow Iron Swords couldn’t be divided evenly by three.
Once he noticed this, he understood.
Further down was the Alchemy section.
He had earned fewer Talent Points from Alchemy this month compared to the previous two. He had only gone to the intermediate Alchemy Rooms on Dan Cloud Peak thirteen times, refining twenty-six batches of Cyan Jade Pills.
With the Purple Corn harvested, the bulk of his Talent Points undoubtedly came from Planting.
’Just a few hundred more and I would have hit five thousand Talent Points in this tally.’
Looking at this month’s Talent Point tally, Fang Yun felt a sense of satisfaction. Although five thousand was only half of ten thousand, it was still a significant number and would be his next milestone.
This month’s tally was 4,358 Talent Points. Adding the 522 he already had saved up, his total was 4,880.
He could still only draw for a Combat Talent four times.
However, with the Talent Points left over from this month, he should be able to draw for a Combat Talent twice next month.
He went to the Combat Talent draw interface and did four consecutive draws.
Shield Talent Fragment x3
Shoe Talent Fragment x1
’What is this?’
When the results appeared, Fang Yun’s face fell.
Then, as his talents upgraded, a wondrous sensation washed over his entire body.
This feeling came twice.
Unlike upgrading a Life Talent, when a Combat Talent upgraded, besides the wondrous sensation, there was also an inexplicable feeling of heat.
His Combat Talents changed as follows:
[Weapon] Shield Talent ★ (1/6)
[Weapon] Shoe Talent ★ (0/6)
[Weapon] Sword Talent (1/2)
After the feeling faded, Fang Yun looked at the changes on his Combat Talent interface, and his earlier question surfaced again.
’What is this?’
He did four consecutive draws and didn’t get a single Sword Talent Fragment, but got three Shield Talent Fragments all at once.
"This luck..."
After closing the light screen, Fang Yun was speechless at his luck this time.
He had refined more sword-type magical artifacts than anything else. He was even planning to refine Middle Grade sword-type magical artifacts in October, yet his Sword Talent was the one Combat Talent that didn’t upgrade.
He had wanted to see what kind of changes there would be when using a Yellow Iron Sword after upgrading his Sword Talent to one star.
Well, so much for that. There was no need to try now.
He could only try the others.
With this in mind, Fang Yun took out a jet-black shield.
This was the Profound Iron Shield he had refined last month. The main material he used was Lower Grade Profound Iron, which was why he had given the shield that name.
Based on the properties of the materials, Yellow Iron was suitable for refining offensive magical artifacts, while Profound Iron was suited for defensive ones.
