Immortality: Raising an Ant Queen to Cultivate by increasing stat points - Chapter 46

Chapter 41 Changes of the Treasured Sword_1

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Qin Niu came to Wang Haikun’s fields with a basket of humus on his back, noticing that the sorghum and wheat were not growing well.

Even though it was a B-grade fertile field, the sorghum seedlings had yellowing leaves and thin stalks.

In some places, there were just bare patches, where only weeds could be seen.

This man was lazy and gluttonous, never putting much effort into farming or fertilizing, so it was no wonder the crops were poor.

Last year, Qin Niu didn’t farm well either, and a lack of fertilization was a big part of the reason.

At five coins a basket, the cow dung wasn’t expensive, but back then he was intent on becoming an Insect Master to change his fate, spending all his money on low-grade Contract Charms.

He simply had no money for fertilizer.

There was an old man working in the fields, but just by looking at his lazy manner of resting twice as long after working for just fifteen minutes, one could tell he was even more ‘outstanding’ than Wang Haikun.

This old man was Wang Yuzhu, a farmer from the village. It was said that when he was born, the rain had just stopped, so his illiterate father named him Yuzhu.

Because of a lack of education, the character for ‘stop,’ as in stopping rain, was mistaken for ‘pillar.’

When someone later tried to correct him, Wang Yuzhu’s father, concerned about saving face, insisted it was indeed ‘pillar.’

And so, Wang Yuzhu lived his whole life with the wrong character in his name.

Speaking of Wang Yuzhu, he was not a bachelor; he was related to Wang Haikun within three generations.

Wang Haikun called him uncle.

Wang Yuzhu wasn’t always lazy—quite the contrary, he was known in the village as a skilled planter. It was said he even passed the intermediate farmer’s assessment and evaluation at the official residence in Black Tiger City. But whenever someone asked why his plaque wasn’t updated, he would fall silent.

Many thought he was just bragging, but no one ever exposed him to his face.

That said, Wang Yuzhu did indeed lease land from the Yan Family and had bumper harvests year after year. Back then, Xu Zhenchang was still young, and the most famous tenant in the village was Wang Yuzhu.

He later married a rather attractive wife, first having a daughter, and two years later, a son.

By all accounts, this should have been a very happy and fulfilling family.

However, Wang Yuzhu had a strong preference for sons over daughters, giving all the good food to his boy. When his son grew a bit older and argued with his sister, he would, without any questions, mercilessly beat his daughter.

As the children grew up, people heard that Wang Yuzhu married off his daughter when she was only thirteen to quickly secure a dowry for his son.

He didn’t hesitate in collecting the bride price from the groom’s family.

Plainly put, it was almost like selling his daughter.

Perhaps it’s true that as one sows, so shall one reap; not two years after marrying off his daughter, Wang Yuzhu’s son reportedly contracted a sexually transmitted disease.

This kind of disgraceful matter, Wang Yuzhu certainly tried to cover up.

But not long after, his son died.

Less than six months after the death of his son, his wife passed away in sorrow. After enduring the pain of losing his son and wife, Wang Yuzhu’s whole attitude changed.

Approaching fifty, he began to think of his daughter.

Because he needed someone to take care of him in his old age, right!

It was said that when he went to see his daughter, he wasn’t even allowed past the door.

In fact, after his wife died, his daughter never had any contact with him again.

Nowadays, he lived even more miserably than a bachelor.

Wang Haikun probably couldn’t find anyone else to work, so he hired this uncle. It wasn’t clear how much he paid him, but he did provide meals.

When it came to planting skills, Wang Yuzhu should have been competent.

After multiple setbacks and being in his late forties, with the only daughter he was still alive to him having cut off contact, he probably felt he had no purpose left in life. He had adopted a defeatist attitude, living each day as it came, working lazily as now, working for a second, resting for three.

“Uncle Yuzhu, this is the fertilizer Mr. Kun wanted; I’ve dumped it here!”

Qin Niu emptied a basket of humus from the mountains onto an empty spot in the field.

“Why dump it there? Just apply it directly under the crops!”

Wang Yuzhu grumbled.

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He wanted Qin Niu to apply the fertilizer, then he could slack off.

Qin Niu pretended not to hear and turned around with the basket on his back to leave.

That is, he temporarily did not want to tear his face with Wang Haikun, waiting for his Termite to advance to Grade Three, then he would have the ability to go to the officials for Insect Master certification.

By then, not to mention Wang Haikun, even Wang Haikun’s brother would probably have to stand aside.

“Hey, think I’m finished and don’t take me seriously? I’ll make sure Haikun deals with you.”

Wang Yuzhu had become particularly sensitive, even a bit neurotic.

Qin Niu ignored him, which immediately made him feel greatly discriminated against.

To such people, Qin Niu’s attitude was to be too lazy to bother with them.

He went back home by himself.

In the evening, when it was deep and quiet, he ate two pounds of bear meat before he started cultivating in the backyard.

The clump of foxtail grass by the well looked even more lush and robust.

He, wanting to verify whether the Everlasting Spring Technique could help plants grow rapidly, specifically chose a spot where there were many weeds. As usual, he first applied the Ancient Banyan Tree Blood to the Treasured Sword.

After he was done, he laid the sword in front of him, then closed his eyes to adjust his attitude, and began to cultivate.

Not until dawn, when the jade rabbit sank in the west, did Qin Niu open his bright, star-like eyes.

After a night of cultivation, his cultivation level had improved quite a bit.

Now, he was making steady progress of about 2 points each day.

He felt that the effect of Black Bear blood and bear meat on the increase of cultivation was not as good as that of the old wolf.

After he drank the Wolf Blood and finished the entire wolf, his cultivation rose by nearly twenty points. At that time, he had not yet practiced any Cultivation Technique, and he even gave a large hind leg to Wang Wanyan.

But consuming this Black Bear, the growth in cultivation was significantly slower.

He wondered if the higher your cultivation, the weaker the effect of ordinary blood food?

Stuck in a secluded valley with no teacher to guide him, he had to grope for many cultivation secrets by himself.

The first thing he did was check the weeds around him.

“Wow, it really is almost as I had guessed, cultivating the Everlasting Spring Technique is beneficial to the growth of plants.”

Qin Niu found that with the spot where he sat as the center, the weeds around him had noticeably grown overnight. The closer the weeds were to him, the greater the benefits they received.

One meter away, there was basically no change.

Armed with this discovery, his mind suddenly became much more active.

Later on, he should be able to use the cultivation of Everlasting Spring Technique to help important plants grow.

This additional effect must have great potential for exploration and improvement.

Its value could be huge beyond imagination.

Spending five silver money on the Everlasting Spring Technique was like picking up a treasure.

As for being only an incomplete copy, not suitable for combat, these were all unimportant. He wasn’t fond of fighting and killing in the first place.

The Green Demon Bee Raising Manual was also like finding a huge bargain.

Once he got the location of Hundred Leaf Town’s Black Stone Village, he could find the treasure according to the map left by the Green Demon.

Whether it’s the Secret Technique for cultivating Green Demon Bees left by the Green Demon or some other treasure, he couldn’t know for now.

Qin Niu picked up the Treasured Sword that lay on the ground.

“My God… Why did all the grass under this sword wither?”

The weeds within a meter and a half radius around him had all grown a lot overnight, but the few weeds underneath the Treasured Sword had all withered.

Was this the influence of the Ancient Banyan Tree Blood, or had the Treasured Sword developed a special ability after being nourished for a few days?

He felt that the Treasured Sword probably had not developed a special ability so quickly.

Because according to his understanding, it would take at least three to five years to possibly let the Treasured Sword undergo some changes.