46: Chapter 46 Another Reward

"Are you even worthy?"

"Look at your current state, neither human nor ghost?"

"If not for leaning on the Liu Family as your backer, I fear you would have been taken away for Alchemy long ago. Yet you dare to clamor here?"

"There is no need to try and provoke us."

"The Ghost Cultivation Technique and this Soul Returning Liquid have both been given to you."

"Want to take revenge and wipe away your shame? Then work hard yourself; the Family will not intervene again."

"At least not until the Old Ancestor makes a Breakthrough."

After speaking, the entire secret chamber fell into silence, leaving only a jade bottle emitting white light and a Golden Core floating and sinking in the green liquid.

"Ah, Zhao Mo, if I do not avenge this, I swear I will not be a human."

...

"Achoo."

"Who is talking about me behind my back?"

"Could it be Ding Xin?"

Zhao Mo lay on the clouds, a long fishing rod placed beside him, his eyes fixed on the lake surface.

Snowflakes began to drift in the sky; it was another lonely winter.

Looking back at the ox shed, Ox Martial was radiating a yellow aura, Cultivating without moving.

"This ox has actually started to Cultivate."

"How strange."

Zhao Mo shook his head; regarding Ox Martial's strength at the Qi Refining Stage, he had no other thoughts besides finding it strange.

After all, the stronger Ox Martial's strength was, the easier it would be to plow the fields, completely unaware of whether Ox Martial might usurp the master in the future.

【You have completed sowing, Experience + 20.】

In the spirit field, Zhao Mo was drenched in sweat; even with a ninth-grade Magical Artifact and Golden Core Stage cultivation, planting these golden gang fruit still exhausted him to death.

This was Zhao Mo's first time planting golden gang fruit; before planting, he had also gone to the Scripture Pavilion to learn about it.

golden gang fruit, a metal-attribute spirit fruit, if consumed directly, can only increase the metal-attribute mana within the body. If refined into a Medicinal Pill, it can not only increase metal-attribute mana but also assist in comprehending the Dao of the sword; it is definitely a Golden Core Stage spirit fruit, and its market price is over one High-Grade Spirit Stone.

Unlike white orchid fruit, the fruit of this golden gang fruit grows underground, similar to potatoes and peanuts from Zhao Mo's previous life.

"Water Spirit Art."

【You have completed watering the spirit field, Experience + 20.】

After sowing the seeds, Zhao Mo immediately began to cast the Water Spirit Art, extracting water spirits from the lake to water the spirit field.

Otherwise, if this spirit field were to harden, let alone the golden gang fruit sprouting, even Zhao Mo would find it difficult to dig through the soil in the field.

A month passed in a flash.

The spirit field was already lush and green.

Zhao Mo, holding the Iron Shovel, was shoveling the weeds at the edge of the spirit field.

These weeds were of an unknown variety; even with Ox Martial's teeth, it couldn't bite through them.

This caused Zhao Mo to nag Ox Martial quite a bit.

"You useless thing, you can't even bite through a piece of grass; what use are you to me?"

Ox Martial felt bitter inside; as the dignified Holy Son of the Ox Clan, when did it become a weeder?

Furthermore, not to mention that the grass was bitter, the edges of the grass also had sharp thorns; couldn't he see that its tongue was full of injuries now?

Anyway, after suffering a loss once, Ox Martial refused to open its mouth even if it died.

When Zhao Mo took out the ox-driving whip, it stared straight at Zhao Mo, and began to shed large tears.

In order not to be tortured, Ox Martial was desperate; whatever Holy Son of the Ox Clan, whatever dignity, screw that, as long as it didn't have to eat grass, it didn't want anything.

Then, Zhao Mo was defeated, as expected.

He could only take the Iron Shovel himself and start shoveling with a huff and a puff.

【You have completed clearing weeds from the spirit field ridges, Experience + 20.】

After shoveling the weeds, Zhao Mo rested his hands on the handle of the Iron Shovel, and the System's virtual panel appeared in his eyes.

【Farmer: Zhao Mo】

【Cultivation: Golden Core First Layer (Insufficient Experience, cannot upgrade.)】

【Experience: 360 / 1500】

【Rewards: None】

Since promoting to the Golden Core Stage, the Experience required for leveling up naturally rose, and now it had reached 1500 points.

Although the Experience for working in the spirit field hadn't doubled to twenty, Zhao Mo was actually working harder than before.

"If the rewards after harvesting the golden gang fruit aren't rich, I might as well rent more second-grade spirit fields to plant; it's just a matter of spending more time."

"Anyway, I can live for at least another six or seven hundred years, so wasting some time is not unacceptable."

Looking at the golden gang fruit seedlings in the spirit field, Zhao Mo's belief in planting this third-grade spirit field wavered for the first time.

...

【You have completed weeding the spirit field, Experience + 20.】

"Damn it."

"This is really haunted; what kind of ghost field is this?"

Zhao Mo cursed while digging; this golden gang fruit was already half a person tall.

What was annoying was that as long as Zhao Mo watered it, weeds would definitely appear in this spirit field the next day.

If not dealt with, these weeds could cover the entire spirit field within three days.

With no other choice, Zhao Mo could only shoulder his Iron Shovel and get back to work.

Truly, water for one day, weed for five days, gain 20 Experience.

It would be strange if Zhao Mo was in a good mood.

Time passed in this busyness.

The leaves had fallen, and frost had begun to form in the morning when Zhao Mo officially harvested the golden gang fruit.

With a bang.

The Iron Shovel, infused with mana, made a loud sound against the soil.

"Get up for me."

Zhao Mo, using all his strength, finally dug up the golden gang fruit in front of him.

Actually, this should be called a golden gang fruit tree; after all, this thing grew nearly two meters tall, whether looked at from afar or up close, wasn't it a tree?

On the roots of the golden gang fruit tree that Zhao Mo dug up, three or four golden fruits were growing, looking about the size of an egg.

Zhao Mo hurriedly picked them and placed them in his specially made jade box.

This golden gang fruit rots upon touching water and turns to ash upon touching fire; it is more than a hundred times more delicate than that white orchid fruit. Fortunately, the price is also expensive, making it worth it for Zhao Mo to make a special jade box for it.

In the thirty-six mu of spirit fields, Zhao Mo spent half a month harvesting 1113 catties of golden gang fruit, which was 33 catties more than the weight agreed upon with Tong Weiping, just enough to use as seeds.

【You have harvested golden gang fruit, Experience + 20.】

【Rewards: After two hundred and seventy-one days of meticulous care, your spirit field has achieved a bumper harvest, Experience + 900, special reward: ten catties of golden marrow fruit seeds and their planting method.】

The 900 Experience points were within Zhao Mo's expectations; after all, the evaluation of this year's golden gang fruit harvest in the System was only "Bumper Harvest," not even "Great Bumper Harvest."

The golden marrow fruit seeds were quite a surprise to Zhao Mo; this was the first time the System had directly rewarded spirit plants; previously, it had always rewarded improvement methods and techniques for spirit plants.

The only exception for a physical object was the ox-driving whip and the ox tether, which were for the ox.

"System."

【Farmer: Zhao Mo】

【Cultivation: Golden Core First Layer (Insufficient Experience, cannot upgrade.)】

【Experience: 1300 / 1500】

【Rewards: golden marrow fruit seeds (ten catties) and their planting method.】

This was Zhao Mo's harvest this year.

"Claim rewards."

A gray cloth bag appeared in Zhao Mo's hand, and the planting method for the golden marrow fruit also appeared in his mind.

"This?"

"Boil with high heat for twenty-four hours, then freeze for twenty-four hours, then take out the green core and Cultivate it with golden jade marrow for seven to ten days before it can be planted into the spirit field."

What kind of bizarre planting method is this? What seed could sprout after being tortured like this?

With doubts, Zhao Mo opened the cloth bag in his hand and grabbed a handful of golden marrow fruit seeds.

When he saw these seeds, Zhao Mo was stunned.