#324 - Chapter 324: Growing Shoulder Pads

"Congratulations, you have successfully used your professional skill. Farmer profession experience +1. The effect of the skill on some crops that are about to mature has failed!"

When Shen Xingyan saw the word 'failed' appear again in the skill notification, he was only slightly surprised and didn't feel too disappointed.

After all, he had already broken two records this morning, and the rewards had far exceeded his expectations. He felt lucky enough and wouldn't demand a perfect outcome.

He could accept the failure of a skill.

Besides, he had three goals for breaking records this time. Even if his luck was bad, at least one of them should succeed, which would still be a significant gain.

While Shen Xingyan was thinking this, the crops affected by the skill began to react and entered a 'fast-forward' growth mode.

Especially the ginseng seeds that had just been planted. At this moment, they were like bamboo shoots after a rain, quickly adding a touch of new green to the black soil!

Sensing this, Shen Xingyan began to check the three targets one by one.

Keenly, he noticed that one mu of peony did not show any abnormal reaction and maintained its normal growth, while the other two mu were changing rapidly.

Seeing this, Shen Xingyan couldn't help but nod slightly. This phenomenon was much better than he had expected.

Originally, he thought that only one piece of farmland would succeed, and the probability of the ginseng farmland failing was very high, which would greatly reduce the money he earned today.

But seeing that the opposite was true, he felt relieved.

Having gotten this answer, he no longer paid much attention to it. Instead, he focused on the 'Longevity Tree' in the very center of the farmland.

He also signaled Wang Cai to send more skeletons to prepare, in case the 'Longevity Tree,' which was being upgraded to intermediate spirit rank, had any major accidents during maintenance. After all, this was an upgrade from primary to intermediate, and precautions had to be taken.

And the reality was just as he had worried. After the professional skill effect ended in a dozen seconds, various maintenance prompts appeared in the sky above the farmland one after another.

The farmland where the 'Longevity Tree' was located was even more alarming. Those prompts seemed to be going crazy, appearing at an unprecedented speed.

Even with the skeletons' all-around attributes reaching 35 points, it still required nearly 60 skeletons working together to barely achieve a balance.

"The intermediate spirit rank 'Longevity Tree' has a growth cycle of 800 days. Under the skill's 13.2% growth progress, it is equivalent to 105 days of maintenance tasks compressed into a few hours. It's truly terrifying!

Fortunately, Wang Cai and the others' attributes have increased. Otherwise, this maintenance task would have been quite difficult."

Shen Xingyan thought with some emotion, secretly feeling lucky. To be on the safe side, he had Wang Cai send 20 more skeletons to completely control the trend of 'double prompts' appearing on this mu of farmland.

Seeing that all the maintenance work was proceeding in an orderly manner, Shen Xingyan no longer paid much attention to it. He looked at the mature Bai Shao farmland and directly used 'Object Manipulation' to quickly harvest it.

During this period, Xing Yuan's harvest prompts also appeared as scheduled:

"Congratulations, you have planted 600 square meters of Bai Shao this time, and the harvest yield is 580 kilograms, gaining 43,500 farmer profession experience points."

Shen Xingyan only glanced at the Bai Shao yield this time and then withdrew his gaze. While quickly recovering his original energy with 'Origin Energy Condensation,' he stood quietly in place, waiting for the record-breaking prompts to appear, so that he could continue harvesting the next ginseng farmland.

A dozen seconds later, the record-breaking prompt appeared and echoed throughout the entire professional space:

"Congratulations, you have broken the record you have created so far of 560 kilograms of Bai Shao yield per mu, successfully reaching 580 kilograms.

You are specially rewarded with an Epic Primal Source Shoulder Guard (growable), 16 free attribute points. Xing Yuan will make a full-server announcement. Do you want to disclose the information?"

Seeing that the reward this time was another new part of the Primal Source set: the Primal Source Shoulder Guard, Shen Xingyan felt a burst of comfort in his heart.

"Now, I only need the last Primal Source Belt, and my Primal Source six-piece set will be complete. And this day probably won't make me wait too long. I'm really looking forward to what kind of attribute boost I will get after the set is complete.

After all, a single piece of equipment is already very powerful, so its epic set attributes certainly won't be too bad!"

While Shen Xingyan was thinking this, he directly took out 100 silver coins and paid them to the Xing Yuan world.

As a golden light flashed and disappeared into the backpack space, he naturally opened the backpack to check the attributes of the equipment he had obtained this time:

Item: Primal Source Shoulder Guard (Epic)

Attributes: Defense +90

Constitution +34

HP +680

Stamina +68

Origin Energy Recovery Speed +34%

Function: Disguise (can change its appearance)

Status: Bound

Remarks: Increases with the level of the Xing Yuan world's professional, current level: 34, can be extracted synchronously, after extraction, its attributes will be solidified, no level requirements, no durability limit.

Seeing that the Primal Source Shoulder Guard also focused on defense, Shen Xingyan couldn't help but feel relieved. After all, with 'Object Manipulation,' he didn't lack damage.

And the higher the defense, the safer he was, which was what he, who was always steady, needed at the moment.

After checking the attributes, Shen Xingyan happily equipped the Primal Source Shoulder Guard. Suddenly, eye-catching gold appeared on his left and right shoulders, filled with a sense of disharmony.

Seeing this, he naturally activated the disguise function and changed its appearance to that of a rag, and then his whole person became much more natural.

After finishing the appearance, he looked at the 16 free attribute points rewarded this time, and couldn't help but think in his heart:

"Free attribute points have appeared for two consecutive days, but there has been no reward for farmland. Is it the same as when I was in my twenties, that the farmland area has reached a threshold, and I will no longer be rewarded with farmland, but instead replaced with free attribute points?"

The lack of farmland rewards in several consecutive rewards made Shen Xingyan guess.

Feeling that the reason should not be much different from his guess, Shen Xingyan also knew the truth that you can't have both fish and bear's paw, and he couldn't control this thing, so he could only shake his head gently and throw this thought aside.

Then he looked at the mature ginseng farmland and directly used 'Object Manipulation' to carefully 'pull' it out of the black soil.

After learning the value of ginseng, he didn't dare to be too careless, to avoid any problems with the harvest due to his negligence.