Raising Ducks for Daily Rewards-Chapter 30: Selling Ducks again

Fengyu spent the next few days trying to understand why this duck, which wasn’t forcefully upgraded, still turned out to be a Wild Beast.

Finally, he couldn’t understand it.

But when he looked at the way Silver Feather distanced itself, he understood that for Silver Feather, the duck had already matured and was no longer in its care.

Ducks are like that – when you’re an egg, they will do their best to protect you. As a duckling, you will enjoy its care.

Once you’re a fully grown duck, it will send you away, forgetting you completely by the time the next egg was hatching.

In the case of Silver Feather, it had many ducklings to care for and really stopped caring.

Fengyu asked several times before taking the duck, putting it in his cart and driving into the village’s general store, the Green Plum Store.

"Lord Fengyu, should we take care of the cart?"

"No, this duck is too strong, you’re not capable enough." Fengyu shook his head, telling the guards in front of the store to simply inform the steward of his appearance.

A minute later, a laughing steward came out, "Haha, Fengyu, you got me ducks again?"

"Indeed, and I even have a surprise for you! But I want to ask a question too...

Well, let’s first do the usual business.

Ten high-quality Spirited Ducks, 90 high-quality eggs, and 135 normal eggs."

The steward nodded, taking out a small notebook and wrote down the delivery, "10 spirit stones per high-quality duck, one spirit stone per 6 high-quality ducks, which is 15. And one spirit stone per normal egg, which is 16 spirit stones and 87 spirit sand. Let’s round the total to 132 spirit stones." 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

Fengyu nodded, not in a haste to take the money, he instead pointed at the silver-feathered duck, "And what about this?"

"Hmm?!" the steward was shocked and came forward, inspecting the duck in front of him –

"A low-grade first stage duck! The starting price of this is... 50 spirit stones! And its feathers, hmm, an innate spell’s manifestation? Truly a great find, a great find!

Duck feathers are usually used as decorations and aren’t worth much, but these feathers... I’ll add another 10 spirit stones for their feathers!"

The steward nodded repeatedly as he assessed the price.

"Since it’s you and I know you’re delivering on time, how about a final price of 65 spirit stones?"

The steward naturally knew that the usual price when sold directly to butchers would be 70–80 spirit stones. To make profit, he couldn’t offer such a high price. But considering the business is a continuous one, and not just one-time, he decided to raise the price he was initially willing to offer by 5 spirit stones.

As for whether this was a one-time or repeatable business? He, a steward, knew the ins and outs of these herders best. If they didn’t create a stable channel, then they wouldn’t sell away their uniquely bred beasts.

"Steward, my question was actually about this duck. Why isn’t it a Spirit Beast but a Wild Beast?"

"Hmm? Is one of the parents a Spirit Beast?" the steward looked at him, surprised.

"Hehe, I’m just asking casually," Fengyu didn’t admit to it and just waved his hand.

"Actually, this is quite common for duck-like beasts who give birth to many eggs. Even when fertilised, the born beasts only inherit a part of the parent’s bloodline.

To give birth to a Spirit Beast is extremely difficult for such beasts. Maybe they can achieve it once, at most twice in their lifetime.

This isn’t because they don’t lay enough eggs, but because it’s a unique qi.

Just like how for humans, we only have our Yuan Qi once. If it’s lost, then it’s lost.

Other beasts might have it easier, but even they can’t be sure their offspring are Spirit Beasts.

To create the best chances, they usually mate with other Spirit Beasts and use their Beast Yuan Qi and vitality in one go. Afterward, the reproductive organs of the female beasts are likely to be damaged.

Because of that, beasts usually only have a few offspring, usually all coming from one birth. After that, there are rarely more offspring.

In comparison, even though the birthed offspring have an extremely low chance to become Spirit Beasts, at least ducks and other beasts that give birth to many offspring can stably produce offspring for herders.

Isn’t this why you herders love herding them?"

Fengyu was surprised but understood after a moment.

Silver Feather was a Spirit Beast, but her mate was a Wild Beast.

Her offspring will have a deeper bloodline concentration because her own is quite high, but the chance they become Spirit Beasts is extremely low.

As for awakening the innate spell?

That’s natural. Wild Beasts could also awaken them, this wasn’t a question of intelligence but of bloodline. As long as the bloodline degree reached the first stage, then a beast could awaken an ability.

"Alright, sell them for 65 spirit stones," Fengyu nodded, agreeing with it.

He knew the general price and knew that the real price was likely higher, but so what?

Since selling to the store could earn him some trust, he might as well just sell it to the store.

"Here are your spirit stones, a total of 197! You’re very welcome to visit us again!" the steward gave him the stones with a great smile, already calculating his own profit from it.

Although it was less, it would still be a big sum!

...

In the next months, Fengyu raised his ducks normally, slowly advancing in cultivation while observing the ducks.

When he returned from selling the first silver-feathered duck, he used his strands to push another duck to the low-grade first stage duck.

Two ducks would be safe for now, any more would be a bit dangerous, since his income exploded.

Silver Feather’s offspring turned out to be mostly high-quality Spirited Ducks.

Besides the first one, he only got another silver-feathered Spiritual Duck every three months on average, which was a lot less than he had anticipated.

Regardless, his income exploded –

20 high-quality Spirited Ducks, 180 high-quality eggs, and 120 normal eggs!