Two-star Spiritual Apprentice

The afternoon sun shone on the farm. The fields were lush and green in the height of summer, with farmers working everywhere. Spirit Plant Masters could also be seen waving their hands in the breeze.

Unlike Arcane Mages who directly manipulated Spiritual Power, or Knights who cultivated powerful fighting spirit, Spirit Plant Masters themselves were weak, but they could synchronize their breathing with plants and then mobilize the power of nature surrounding the plants to help them grow.

Duke carried a wooden stick, with the body of a dog badger hanging from the end.

He swaggered along the farm road. Knights from the patrol guard passed by in groups, not even glancing at him, leaving behind clouds of dust kicked up by their horses.

Dust hit his face.

Duke held his breath and fanned the air in front of him.

When the dust settled, the farm road returned to its natural state. As Duke walked along the road, he looked at the scenery around him and suddenly felt a strange stirring in his heart.

He followed the feeling and walked to the side of the road.

He sat down cross-legged and took over the Field Meditation from Xiao Yi's idle mode, beginning to meditate skillfully.

Free-floating Spiritual Particles from the surroundings continuously poured into his body. Suddenly, Duke felt a different sensation from these free-floating Spiritual Particles.

It seemed that hidden within the large group of free-floating Spiritual Particles were some specific particles rising from the surrounding fields, mixing with the torrent of free-floating Spiritual Particles and being absorbed by his body.

"This is..."

As he noticed this, the specific particles in the torrent of Spiritual Particles joyfully surged towards him, slightly increasing the speed at which he absorbed free-floating Spirituality.

"So that's how it is!"

Duke suddenly understood.

The free-floating Spirituality in the air was not a single type of Spiritual Particle, but was composed of Spiritual Particles emitted by all things. By using Field Meditation, he had successfully sensed one type of Spiritual Particle, as if he had developed an affinity with it, thus increasing the speed at which his body absorbed that corresponding Spiritual Particle.

"No wonder Field Meditation is a meditation method suited for geniuses with high comprehension. The higher the comprehension, the more one understands, the more Spiritual Particles one develops an affinity with, and the faster the cultivation speed becomes!"

"And I have just comprehended it once!"

After understanding all this, Duke couldn't help but want to sense more things while meditating to develop affinities with more Spiritual Particles.

However, after holding his breath for a long time, he couldn't comprehend anything else.

"It seems that comprehension is a matter of chance... Never mind, let Xiao Yi go idle." Duke prepared to stand up, but the next moment, he felt a change occurring in his Spirit Sea.

The large expanse of Spirit Liquid, under the absorption and enhancement of the meditation method, seemed to have reached its limit in quantity.

The next moment.

Various understandings of energy circuits flashed through his mind, decomposing and recombining, displaying different trajectories.

"Arcane Trajectory!"

Duke was inspired and immediately understood these flashing energy circuit traces, learning the Arcane Trajectory.

The incredible wonders of Spiritual Arcana were hidden within these unpredictable Arcane Trajectories, which then manifested in the external form of energy circuits.

Instantly.

For the first time, Duke truly captured an Arcane Trajectory. The large expanse of Spirit Liquid in his Spirit Sea rapidly condensed into a thin, glowing, short line.

Energy line!

All the Spirit Liquid condensed and transformed into a thin, short energy line.

But he could clearly feel that although this energy line was thin, the Spiritual Power it contained was no less than that of the previous large expanse of Spirit Liquid. At the same time, his control over Spiritual Power also greatly increased with the formation of the energy line.

At this moment.

The quantitative change finally led to a qualitative change.

He opened his eyes, and the world before him was exceptionally bright. Duke smiled slightly, "Not bad, not bad. Condensing liquid into a line, I have now been promoted to a two-star Spiritual Apprentice!"

Essentially, one-star to five-star Spiritual Apprentices could not complete an independent Ring to construct the most basic spell model of the Spiritual Arcana system.

But.

After condensing liquid into a line, it represented a greatly increased control over Spiritual Power, and he could officially start card making.

Of course, Little Sam's Card Shop was already on the right track, and Duke didn't need to work hard on card making. After all, the income from card making was not as fast as buying and reselling goods by going to Chen Jiao City.

However, his goal was to become a Card Making Scholar among Arcane Mages.

Accumulating experience through card making would be very beneficial for future card making.

He stood up.

His peripheral vision suddenly caught sight of a notice board stuck on the ridge of the field by the roadside.

He walked over and saw a notice for lease and sale: "Uncultivated farmland for sale in Little River Bay, south of town. Can be purchased outright or leased for ten years. Interested parties please inquire at Snakehead Tower for purchase or lease."

"Farmland?"

Duke narrowed his eyes.

He had never thought about farmland before. After all, farms were located on the outskirts of town, and without self-preservation capabilities, the danger level would definitely be much higher than inside the town.

But now he had begun to cultivate fighting spirit, and his physical fitness had greatly improved.

He had been promoted to a two-star Spiritual Apprentice, and the Desert Eagle had been upgraded to version 1.0. His strength had soared, and he had more than enough self-preservation capabilities.

"I need to cultivate fighting spirit, practice gunmanship, and feed Little Dou. All of these require secrecy... Would it be better to have my own farm to conceal them?"

With this thought.

He hurried back to Little Sam's Card Shop, handed the dog badger carcass to Aunt Abby for processing, and then rushed towards the town center again.

The town center was surrounded by First Vertical Street, Second Vertical Street, First Horizontal Street, and Second Horizontal Street. Many tower-like buildings were constructed there, the tallest of which was Snakehead Tower.

It was the administrative center for the entire Snakehead Town.

With a wave of the green Spirit Card, Duke smoothly entered Snakehead Tower. After inquiring, he arrived at a window in the farthest corner on the first floor.

"Farm map of Little River Bay. Look at the prices yourself and choose which plot you want." The staff member wasn't very enthusiastic. He tossed a map out and then started cracking melon seeds.

Duke carefully scanned the map.

The farms in Little River Bay were divided into twenty plots, distributed along the bend of a small river. The map also showed irrigation channels, ensuring water supply for basically every farm.

Six of the plots were marked with red crosses, indicating they were already sold or rented.

Duke took a liking to a small farm on the south bank of Little River Bay. The farm area was 100 mu, about the size of eight or nine standard football fields, a typical family farm.

Many Spirit Plant Masters would buy a small farm to operate after saving enough money.

Duke's predecessor had often dreamed of this, but after failing to open his Qi Sea, he abandoned the idea.

"The rent for one mu for a ten-year term is 10 silver dragons. For 100 mu, the ten-year rent is 10 gold dragons... If buying, one mu costs 1 gold dragon, so 100 mu would be 100 gold dragons..."

"It's really not cheap!"

Duke definitely couldn't afford 100 gold dragons. He could scrape together 10 gold dragons, but it would take time.

"Forget it, I'll go back and think about it again..." Duke returned the blueprint, not yet decided on renting a farm. Besides, Little Sam's Card Shop couldn't do without him.