Chapter 8: One Only Realizes How Little Money One Has When Spending

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

The next day, Li Tianxiang was woken up by a quarrel.

Li Tianxiang walked out of the room with his sleepy eyes, yawned, and scratched his stomach.

“Are you guys done arguing?! What time is it? Don’t you have to sleep!”

When he looked closely, he realized that Siebel and Sal were arguing about something in front of the land that had just been sown yesterday.

“It’s already so late. Why are you still sleeping? You even said that you wanted to let everyone eat their fill. If the farmers sleep until such a late time like you, I think we might as well just drink the northwest wind to save ourselves the trouble.”

Li Tianxiang widened his eyes, unable to believe that this person, who had a venomous mouth and had spoken so much, was actually the cold Siebel from yesterday.

“Boss needs to rest because he was too busy yesterday. If you mess around here and kill the seeds later on, Boss will be heartbroken! Even then, you still have the face to argue!”

Sal was more than twice as loud as Siebel. Li Tianxiang was very sure that 70% of the reason why he had been woken up was because of Sal’s voice.

“Alright, alright. Aren’t I awake now?”

Li Tianxiang first thanked Siebel before turning to look at Sal.

“What exactly happened? Tell me.”

Seeing that Li Tianxiang wanted him to tell him what had happened, Sal looked at Siebel with slight mockery. His two canine teeth, which stuck out from his lips, were trembling up and down as if they were dancing.

This was the first time Li Tianxiang had seen Sal’s ultimate move. Thus, he was a little stunned.

“Stop showing off. Tell me!”

After Li Tianxiang urged him, Sal’s expression immediately turned into a respectful expression as he bowed slightly.

“It’s like this. I followed your orders today and brought my brothers to the new field at 6am to sow the seeds. In the end, I saw this fellow squatting beside the land that we planted yesterday and playing with some kind of magic. I didn’t want to care about it, but look.”

Li Tianxiang followed Sal’s thick fingers to look at the edge of the field that had just been sowed yesterday. A piece of land that was about the size of a person had sunken. This had probably been caused by Siebel’s magic.

Siebel blushed and looked away.

“I’m doing this to promote the germination of the seeds!”

This time, Li Tianxiang understood that Siebel wanted to test the effects of magic on the seeds. However, she had accidentally blown up Li Tianxiang’s field.

The corners of his mouth twitched because he saw the price of repairing the fields. This damage, which spanned an area of less than two square meters, actually cost 100,000 gold coins to repair. Furthermore, after the system repaired the field, it warned him to be careful and not to damage it.

Li Tianxiang sighed and said helplessly, “I know you want to try out your magic, but there has to be a gradual process. Furthermore, this piece of land was sown with great difficulty yesterday. You have to be careful.”

Siebel knew that it was her fault. It was just that Sal’s attitude was so bad that he quarreled with him.

“If you want to try out your magic, I have a bunch of new seeds for you to experiment with.”

Li Tianxiang waved his hand, and a bag of soybeans appeared out of thin air. He had chosen the soybean seed because it was a seed that made it easier to observe the effects of magic on it.

Although Siebel had seen Li Tianxiang produce a magical crystal out of thin air in the market yesterday, she only thought that Li Tianxiang was a Mage from Dalaran.

However, the spatial pockets of those Mages could only hold at most a few scrolls. If they wanted to store their wands, they would have to break them into pieces first.

However, at this moment, Li Tianxiang had taken out such a large bag of soybeans out of thin air. Thus, Siebel was stunned.

“You did well. Today, you will sow these seeds in these fields.” Li Tianxiang patted Sal’s shoulder and waved his hand again, producing a pile of rice seeds.

Rice was a crop that was engraved in Li Tianxiang’s DNA as a staple food. However, even though he had paddy fields, he still had to cultivate rice seedlings first.

“You guys, plant these seeds on this cultivated land first.”

Perhaps it was because the orcs lived as nomads and fishermen, but their planting skills were almost non-existent. Thus, Li Tianxiang had to tell them a few more things to take note of regarding seedlings. Only then did he bring Siebel to the edge of the field.

“How do you want to test the magic?” Siebel anxiously opened the woven bag. Then, she grabbed a handful of soybeans and spread them out on her palm.

“Er… Actually, the five kinds of elemental magic should be used to change the environment and promote the development of crops. Therefore, let’s see if your life magic can speed up the growth of crops today.”

Siebel nodded. Then, Li Tianxiang took a soybean from her hand and placed it on a plate filled with water.

She closed her eyes as an invisible magic power disturbed the surface of the water and gently wrapped around this small seed.

“Let’s try it out first…” Li Tianxiang rubbed his chin. “Try to increase its vitality.”

Siebel nodded and chanted an incantation in her heart. Then, the magic power that wrapped the soybean crawled into a small hole in the outer layer of the soybean seed.

“Can you feel a thin strip inside the seed?”

Siebel frowned and searched for a long time before nodding slightly.

“Stimulate it.”

This was the embryo of the seed, which would develop into the roots and the sprout of the plant.

Beads of sweat gradually appeared on Siebel’s forehead. After a long time, she suddenly opened her eyes and saw Li Tianxiang smiling.

When she looked down, the soybean seed had already grown into a soybean seedling.

However, she did not seem to have mastered the strength and precision needed for stimulation. Thus, the embryo had completely withered, as if the vitality of a man who had been forcibly awakened by a succubus had been overly exhausted.

However, the sprout and roots had already grown.

Li Tianxiang was overjoyed. As expected, his idea was correct. Under the stimulation of Siebel’s life magic, the germination that would have taken three to seven days was completed in a short ten minutes.

Although the embryo had dried up and such a seed would not survive after being planted, this was because this was the first time she had done this. If she practiced more…

Without waiting for Li Tianxiang’s orders, Siebel grabbed another soybean and began to experiment.

Li Tianxiang didn’t disturb her. Instead, he got up and went to the edge of the 100 acres of land that the system had given him.

“I want to upgrade my land.”

He was still thinking about the Peach of Immortality seed. Since the planting of ordinary seeds had begun, he would have to study this special seed.

[To upgrade the land, earth crystals are needed. The higher the rarity of the land, the more earth crystals are needed. Furthermore, the higher the level of the land, the more earth crystals are needed.]

[The land that you are currently preparing to upgrade is: Ladder Field (Rare). Level 1. Requires 20 earth crystals. Current number of earth crystals: 0]

Li Tianxiang raised his eyebrows and sent a message to the system.

“How do I obtain earth crystals?”

[You can spend gold coins to purchase them in the system shop. One earth crystal costs 500,000 gold coins.]

Gosh, this was daylight robbery. After all, he had only received two million gold coins from the two missions he had achieved first in yesterday. Thus, he could only exchange for at most four earth crystals, but he needed 20 earth crystals to level up a rare piece of land. He couldn’t afford it.

“I’ll buy one earth crystal.”

Li Tianxiang gritted his teeth as he made his purchase. He had to see what an earth crystal was in order to know if he could obtain it through other means..