As Fengyu contracted all of them, he felt a subtle growth of his dantian, as if his dantian grew by 5% out of nowhere!

Of course this progression was horizontal - like expanding his dantian but not increasing his cultivation.

Although it wasn’t much, he was quite happy with it!

With more spiritual power, he couldn’t yet add a significant amount of ducks to his farm, but he could practice spells again.

...

Several days passed by as Fengyu adjusted to his best state.

Today, as he was cultivating, he saw the twins come into his field again.

"Ming, Ling, you two have been so busy these past few months, I rarely saw you. Did you break through?" he asked in delight, quite happy about seeing these two appear today.

"Senior brother, we did indeed breakthrough!" Ling announced proudly.

Fengyu looked curiously at them, not feeling any rise in their pressure, meaning they were still at the seventh stage. So, what was it that they broke through?

"Spiritual Inspirations! Brother, we both awakened our spiritual inspiration!" Ling said proudly, looking at Fengyu as if he wanted to be praised.

Ming also nodded on the side, his eyes equally bright.

"Ah? So soon?" Fengyu was surprised, but quickly regained his composure. He had known about it for a long time and thought they would awaken it in at most ten years, but awakening it earlier is even better!

"Yes, senior brother, last time, although you didn’t say much, you told us to simply focus on ourselves and ignore the outer distractions. After a long time, we didn’t even tell each other about this inspiration and simply focused on it ourselves - only later did we figure out the true meaning of your words, which led to us being even quieter about it and never saying anything.

But somehow, just today morning, we were fully focused on doing our respective things -

I was casting a rain cloud and Ming was plowing the field.

At an opportune moment, I saw not only the cloud, but the whole sky of clouds beyond..." Ling stopped, looking at Ming, waiting for him to speak.

"At that moment, I also looked deeply at the earth, and I saw a small worm digging deeply inside the earth..." Ming said as he lightly swung his hoe.

"That moment was when we both suddenly realised something -

I realised that clouds were a different form of water. They gathered in the sky and dropped water to the earth - the inspiration I awakened I named ’Cloud’ - using it, I can summon a cloud, and when I add my own water spiritual power, I can directly change the cloud to a rain cloud!" she said proudly, even doing as she said right away -

A cloud formed in front of her, and she shot a water gathering spell onto it. Instantly, the cloud started to swell and took on a darker colour.

Waving her hand, the cloud started raining, water falling on the ground.

This water... was actually spiritual water of the low-grade stage!

But the amount was minuscule...

Ling then turned to Ming again, asking him to show off too.

Ming didn’t mind at all and knelt on the ground, touching it softly as he said, "Looking at the worm, I remembered that only earth with worms was nourishing, while the other earth was rather barren and required a lot more effort. So I thought - Worms, are they the true planters of the earth?

In that moment, my inspiration awakened and I named it ’Earth Transformation’ - with a touch of my hand, I can transform the earth any way I want!" as he said this, the earth below them became darker, and the grass growing on it became greener.

"This is Fertile Earth - the perfect earth to grow anything!"

Fengyu looked at the earth, feeling a vast change in the earth - it had actually transformed into low-grade earth!

"You two-" Fengyu didn’t know what to say. What they achieved just now...

Others would have to learn the art of water making and earth changing for decades and still wouldn’t achieve it!

But more importantly, the focus wasn’t actually on water or specific earth - it was a change in weather and terrain!

"If you expand the range of the cloud, how much water could you produce?"

"Uh... I don’t know- I just came over after trying it out once!"

Looking at Ming, Fengyu saw him shake his head, the same situation being for both of them.

He nodded then asked them, "Could you perhaps try it out right here so I can see the limit of what you can achieve?"

"Yes senior brother, we can do that!" Ling nodded.

"Alright, then try to see how much spiritual water you can generate in an hour with your full effort, then try to see whether you can lower or raise the grade of the water, and finally try to see what happens if you pour in other elements.

Ming, you also try the same for the first two, and the last you will try is to see which kinds of earth you can transform." Fengyu directly made a testing plan and told them to follow it.

The twins nodded and walked to a larger space, then started their practice -

Ling’s cloud appeared and she poured all her spiritual power into using the water gathering spell. Having achieved the seventh stage, their spiritual power was abundant and wouldn’t go empty just after casting a spell, even if you cast the spell at its full power. At least the water gathering spell wasn’t enough to drain her spiritual power.

Ming also tried to use his spiritual power to transform the land in front of him into earth. Initially, it was rather easy, but with each passing minute, the range of the earth he transformed at once became more, but it also became slower until it finally settled at a speed that he could keep for a long duration.

After a full hour, Fengyu looked over it -

Ling’s cloud became 1 metre large in diameter, looking like a rather small cloud, but it was dark and seemingly heavy, so he assumed it was full of water. He asked Ling to let go of the water and allow it to fall onto a basin he placed below it.

The water fell into the basin and from the previous single drop of water, it gradually became a hundred drops of water.

"One hundred drops - a whole portion of water created in an hour!" Fengyu was surprised. As far as he knew, a portion of low-grade spiritual water would be used by water alchemists to make one potion, and a single portion cost around 5 to 10 spirit stones, depending on the water. Looking at this basic water, it would probably be 5 spirit stones...

He asked her to continue the experiment and also try to create different waters at the end after trying out different elements.

Looking over Ming, he inspected his work -

A whole diameter of spiritual earth, this was also a whole portion!

"Great! This is truly great! Planters love to use this, this earth is perfect to grow the best plants! And it’s such a high concentration, if it was split, one could even grow several plants from it!" Fengyu praised it for some time - this earth was also spiritual, its price also ranging from 5 to 10 - actually, all five elements spiritual materials of the low grade were around this price. If it was late-stage, it would be ten times more!

The key of these two is that they are raw materials. if they used the water and earth to grow plants... or if they added another profession, such as ’Weather Master’ or ’Terrain Master’, two of which he had seen in the inheritances previously, then their income would spike rapidly in just a few weeks!

Thinking of it now... ’In the past I thought that Ming would awaken something closer to Spiritual Guide, but it turned out to be a perfect fit for Terrain Master, a profession closely related to formations, earth alchemy and Fengshui!’

Fengyu couldn’t contain his excitement that his guess at the start, that these two were smart, was indeed correct!

Haha, he had found a bag of gold! No, a bag of high-grade spiritual stones!

He laughed internally for a while and watched them diligently complete their experiments, trying to change a few things and do a few other things.

They mostly followed his plan, but their own ideas popped up one by one, which led to them being completely immersed in their act...

As Fengyu looked at them, he thought of another matter -

Not only did his bet go up that these two would become geniuses, now, he could also complete the step he had hoped to do for over a year since he had been recruited by Shanqing...

That’s right, recruit these two, get two requests and... order the items he needs to reach the higher stages of his inspiration!