Raising Ducks for Daily Rewards-Chapter 78: Huge Expense

The more Fengyu listened, the more he realised that the steward was trying to sell him something expensive yet with low use.

"Steward, just tell me the use directly and I will think about purchasing it," Fengyu said.

"Haha, fellow daoist knows me well.

First of all, totems are always built on a Totem Pole.

This means, this single totem spirit can be combined with other totems to enhance the effect.

As for the totem, its ability is ’Water Beast Blessing’.

This ability is to allow beasts with water affinity to cultivate faster and better, and it even has a slight effect on bloodline improvement.

To be honest, anywhere else this ability would find good use...

But our city is far from large lakes, so there are few beast tamers with water beasts.

And among beast tamers, to be honest, only Spiritual Herders have many beasts of one type. The rest have many different types, which is why they would only consider buying a totem with a general beast blessing.

Even then, there might still be buyers, but I snatched it and wanted to offer it to fellow daoist before considering giving it to others."

"Haha, steward, you know exactly what I need! This item, it’s indeed very useful to me!"

Fengyu smiled deeply. He didn’t care about the cultivation speed, it was the bloodline improvement that attracted him!

Even a single percent of bloodline improvement was extremely important, and over time, the single percent could achieve a lot.

And, while the cultivation speed wasn’t too important, it would allow his beasts with a higher bloodline to reach the limit of their bloodline earlier and start condensing it earlier too.

He looked at the totem piece with a whole new look!

"Then, how much does it cost?" Fengyu asked.

He waited but still didn’t hear the steward say anything, so he raised his head and looked at the somewhat hesitating steward.

"Hmm? Is it so pricey that even the steward doesn’t want to tell me?" Fengyu joked.

"Alas, fellow daoist... it’s indeed true that among individual cultivators, only Spiritual Herders buy it... but in fact, it’s extremely rare for an individual cultivator to buy it, because it simply costs too much!

The lowest price of a totem is 100.000 spirit stones, while the higher totems like those of general beast blessing can easily go for 1.000.000 spirit stones!

To be honest, these totems are usually wares that are only sold in auctions, for at least 300.000 spirit stones.

But there’s a deeper story behind this totem..."

Hearing this, Fengyu sighed.

When an extremely expensive item can suddenly be bought for cheaper and even in private, that usually means the item has an issue.

He looked at the steward and waited for this story, deliberating whether to still buy it.

"Our Green Plum Peak has a conflict with a different peak, the Blue Clam Peak.

That peak has a lake at the top of their peak in which various clams grow.

With this totem, they might directly increase their production by 10%.

If we put this totem onto auction, it will definitely be bought by them, even if they’d have to pay a million spirit stones!

So, while our peak master wants to sell this totem, he doesn’t want it to end up in the hands of others.

The stewards of various villages got the task to sell this item privately, and I directly said that I would be able to sell it, and that it would only take some time.

Hearing this, the peak master said that whoever can purchase it for 300.000 spirit stones can get it directly.

Of these spirit stones, 100.000 have to be paid in ten years, and the remaining 200.000 spirit stones can be paid in 50 years.

Fellow daoist, this might be a huge price, but it will definitely be worth it!"

The steward looked at Fengyu with fervent eyes, as if he had found a huge opportunity.

"Three hundred thousand?!" Fengyu looked at the man in shock.

Such a huge sum, how could he pay it?

Did he even dare have the thought of saying he could?

And even if he did, how could he lock away his whole income just to purchase this item?

He gained so many spirit stones because his expenses were extremely low currently –

But Fengyu knew that once his ducks reached the late stage, any minuscule advancement would be extremely slow.

By then, he would have to purchase many items just to allow their cultivation to go smoothly and progress faster.

After all, beasts are known to have twice the lifespan of humans, the only drawback is that their cultivation is extremely slow.

In the wild, a beast raises a fruit for fifty years and saves it for another fifty to get the best medicinal effect, just so it can advance a single stage in the late stage.

He could already imagine that his spending of spirit stones would explode –

While it’s true that Beast Tamers are extremely wealthy, and Spiritual Herders even more so... it’s even more true that their cost is several times higher than that of a normal cultivator.

If it wasn’t for that, why would Beast Tamers create the profession of Spiritual Herding?

Wasn’t it because every beast consumed as much as twice the resources of a cultivator, and that every Beast Tamer had three to five beasts?

But when Fengyu looked at the totem...

He was really unwilling!

Unwilling to not take this!

With his talent, earning spirit stones was easy...

Although he would stop raising so many ducks once his experiment was successful, in the future, after reaching the seventh stage and moving to the city, he would likely expand his field again.

"Junior brother, if you are thinking of the cost of raising beasts... then, this totem is actually very efficient!

It can improve your beasts’ cultivation by 10% - how many spirit stones would you have to expend to achieve this effect?

In just a few years, you’ll be able to earn this again!"

The steward even called him junior brother just to convince him...