Immortality: Raising an Ant Queen to Cultivate by increasing stat points - Chapter 8

8 Chapter 8 Intermediate Farmer Stage Fertilization_1
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The following day, when he bought up within the morning, he checked his cultivation degree, “Mortal Onefold 22/100.”

It rose by 0.8, so exhilarating certainly.

It felt as if he had absorbed all of the dietary essence the outdated wolf had gathered over many years.

With this pattern, he ought to be capable of attain the energy of an grownup male with the assistance of the wolf’s carcass with out a lot drawback.

After checking his personal cultivation, he seemed into the Ant Queen’s situation.

The power dropped from 131 to 126.5.

This charge was reasonably horrifying.

He actually apprehensive whether or not it might final till the ultimate second.

Primarily based on expertise, it took about twenty-one days for ant eggs to hatch and turn into Employee Ants able to foraging.

It was a really prolonged course of.

Its personal power consumption was 2 factors per day, and for spitting saliva to expedite the hatching of the ant eggs, every egg consumed 0.5 factors of its power each day.

In complete, that got here to 4.5 power factors per day.

Because the ant larvae have been born, the power consumption would additional improve.

If it couldn’t final till the Employee Ants matured, it might exhaust its power and starve to dying.

Qin Niu’s dream of turning into an Insect Grasp was all entrusted to it, and he actually hoped it might not fail.

Yesterday, coping with the wolf carcass took an entire day, and he simply couldn’t get round to working the land.

He went to examine on the corn sprouts within the area.

“Wow, the inexperienced sprouts lastly broke via the soil!”

The primary batch of corn seeds had sprouted, and though there was just one cotyledon, they nonetheless crammed Qin Niu with immense pleasure as they dotted the soil.

After checking, he had planted a complete of 210 corn seeds throughout three plots, with a 100% germination charge.

This excessive germination charge astonished Qin Niu.

Primarily based on previous planting expertise, the germination charge for corn was solely round eighty %.

The speed of maturing into seedlings was lower than seventy %.

After his sowing and watering expertise reached proficiency, the germination charge elevated to 100%, indicating that his plant cultivation methods have been no worse than these of skilled farmers.

Germination was simply the primary hurdle; subsequent was to see the speed at which they matured into seedlings.

Some seeds would possibly germinate however then produce weak, faulty, or deformed seedlings.

These needed to be cleared away.

Such problematic seedlings have been of no use, irrespective of how nicely they have been nurtured; they couldn’t produce corn or would produce very small corn cobs. Mainly, it was a waste of fertilizer, labor, and land.

Because the corn seedlings had grown, so had the weeds’ seedlings.

A number of them, which was only a headache to see.

His weeding ability was barely achieved and will clear them up neatly, but it surely was extraordinarily time-consuming.

Now that the corn seedlings had grown, it was time to fertilize.

This world had no chemical fertilizers.

The fertilizers for crops got here from three sources.

The primary kind was human feces and urine, often known as home fertilizer.

The second kind was livestock manure, particularly cow dung and pig manure, which have been thought of top-quality fertilizers.

Solely landlords and rich folks might afford to maintain livestock; an atypical household might at most elevate one or two fats pigs. Any extra could be unaffordable since pigs consumed extra meals each day than folks.

Manure from poultry like chickens and geese was additionally excellent fertilizer, and most households would elevate them.

The third kind was wooden ash and humus.

This might be obtained from the forest on the mountain or by piling up tree leaves and crop roots to decompose and ferment.

It, too, was excellent fertilizer.

Qin Niu was on his personal and had gathered some home fertilizer, however not a lot.

It was nowhere close to sufficient for one mu of crops.

He often collected cow dung and canine excrement from the street to make use of as fertilizer. Nevertheless, the quantity he might acquire was equally small.

Many shepherds from landlord households would carry a basket when herding cattle and would instantly shovel it in upon seeing the cows defecate. It might be offered for cash—returning it to the owner would earn additional rewards.

Each home fertilizer and livestock manure weren’t simple for Qin Niu to acquire, so he might solely go for the third kind, humus.

If all goes nicely, the opposite corn seeds he planted would additionally germinate and develop in succession.

He wanted to organize early and accumulate sufficient fertilizer for them.

He wore a big bamboo basket on his again and hurried to the mountains, planning to gather some humus.

It was additionally a great alternative to examine on the Ant Queen.

As he handed by the entrance of Wang Furen’s home, Wang Wanyan’s delicate face emerged from the window on the second ground.

Her smile was radiant.

“Ah Niu, thanks for the wolf meat you dropped at my home yesterday, it tasted nice!”

“Then eat extra of it!”

Qin Niu seemed up at her and earnestly mentioned.

“Hmm, I felt loads stronger after consuming, and it stored me from getting sleepy whereas studying. Right now, I requested the kitchen to make braised meat for me. Are you heading into the mountains once more?”

Earlier than Qin Niu might reply, Wang Furen’s voice was heard.

“You lady, simply focus in your research. Are you not afraid folks will gossip in case you shout out like this? Should you dare do it once more, I’ll have somebody nail this window shut!”

Wang Furen wouldn’t enable his daughter to have an excessive amount of contact with Ah Niu.

His daughter was destined to rise excessive and turn into a Phoenix, to not marry a poor boy.

Wang Wanyan caught her tongue out at Qin Niu, winked, after which withdrew her head again in.

Qin Niu lowered his head and continued on his method, heading straight into the mountain.

He is perhaps poor now, however that didn’t imply he could be poor ceaselessly.

Life and destiny have been altering little by little along with his efforts; he believed that in the future he would stand out and look down upon his friends with delight.

It didn’t matter if Wang Furen seemed down on him now.

Given the present charge of ability enchancment, it would simply be a matter of a few years earlier than it was Wang Furen’s flip to look as much as him.

After a short time, he arrived on the Ant Queen’s nest; all the things was as traditional.

He didn’t disturb the Ant Queen, who was targeted on incubating the eggs, and began on the lookout for appropriate humus to gather.

Having been attacked by the wild wolf yesterday made him proceed with additional warning at present.

His elevated cultivation allowed him to do that bodily labor a lot sooner than earlier than.

“Fertilizing +0.01! Labor Level +0.01!”

He had simply collected a small pile of humus and reaped two varieties of attribute factors.

“The enhancements within the expertise of sowing, watering, weeding, and loosening the soil have introduced large advantages. If I improve my fertilizing ability, might I acquire fertilizers extra effectively?”

His eyes brightened involuntarily, as he had now gathered fairly a number of labor factors.

He tried including 9.9 labor factors to his fertilizing ability, and it superior from newbie to proficient.

With this ability improve, he was delighted to discover a important enchancment in his understanding of the right way to fertilize crops, which fertilizers have been extra enduring and appropriate for corn, and when to use them, together with many different methods and experiences.

The humus he collected appeared free and darkish, showing to be very fertile, however as his fertilizing ability improved, he realized their fertility was really fairly restricted.

Most of it had already been washed away by rain.

If he went via the difficulty of carrying it again to the sector, it might solely present restricted assist to the crops’ progress.

“Thank goodness I upgraded my fertilizing ability; in any other case, I’d have labored arduous for over ten days, solely to have a poor fertilizing impact.”

Qin Niu, seeing the significance of the fertilizing ability, gritted his enamel and spent one other 90 labor factors to improve it a degree.

Fertilizing Barely Proficiency 100/1000.

To succeed in the subsequent proficiency degree, he would want 900 labor factors.

He now had solely 170 labor factors left, not sufficient to degree up once more.

However for simply planting corn, having such a excessive fertilizing ability was fully ample.

In accordance with his understanding, the proficiency degree of fertilizing ability was equal to the highest degree of a low-tier farmer.

Barely Proficiency ought to have already reached the extent of a mid-tier farmer.

A mid-tier farmer already had the power to domesticate some delicate money crops, not simply atypical grains and greens.

A powerful mid-tier farmer might even assist rich households handle these flowers and crops grown of their courtyards.

Most of those flowers and crops are often very delicate, and to make them blossom superbly requires a really excessive cultivation degree.

The rich households have excessive calls for too; their aesthetic ranges, the shaping and structure of the flowers and bushes, and so on., are all particular.

Not simply anybody is certified for this sort of job.

In fact, if executed nicely, the revenue is actually not low, and the rewards from the employer are beneficiant.

And it’s a lot much less strenuous than farming.

So, don’t look down on farming as a lowly occupation; so long as you grasp the talents, you’ll be able to benefit from the good issues in life and stay comfortably.

After Qin Niu’s fertilizing ability reached Barely Proficiency, he seemed on the small pile of humus he had collected earlier than, and it felt fully like a pile of ‘rubbish’.

Such fertilizer was merely not well worth the effort of carrying down the mountain to unfold within the area.

Moreover, there have been many weed seeds within the humus, which wanted to be deactivated earlier than use.

In any other case, as soon as unfold on the sector, the seeds of the weeds would quickly sprout; earlier than lengthy, the sector could be overrun with weeds competing with the crops for vitamins and water.

Moderately than aiding the expansion of the crops, it might introduce a number of ‘highly effective opponents’ competing for diet, which might hurt them.

Regarding the right way to deactivate these weed seeds, Qin Niu had a strong weeding ability that might be put to make use of.

He had no less than three strategies to deactivate them.

He decisively deserted the small pile of humus he had beforehand collected and began wanting round within the mountains, rapidly making new discoveries.

Moreover, as he traveled, he discovered that some soils have been naturally superior fertilizers.

Bringing them again, even when simply mixing a bit on the base of the crops, would protect moisture and vitamins and now have a pure degrading impact.

The fertilizing strategy of a mid-tier farmer is really excellent, nothing {that a} low-tier farmer might examine with.

Qin Niu started to assemble the fertilizer that caught his eye.

“Sorghum is at present within the seedling stage, and it requires two varieties of fertilizer. One is for leaf progress, which wants humus wealthy in nitrogen. One other is for serving to the basis system to develop quickly, which is phosphate fertilizer,” he mentioned.

The humus shaped from the rotting leaves and fruits of those dwarf pines completely met these two necessities.

Then, contemplating that the sorghum seedlings wanted to develop robust with the intention to produce bigger sorghum heads and improve yield, bettering their lodging resistance,

he additionally selected some humus wealthy in potassium fertilizer to combine in.

This was already akin to creating his personal ‘historic model of chemical fertilizer’.

He believed that so long as it was utilized to the sector, these sorghum seedlings would absolutely develop vigorously.

Potassium fertilizer can promote photosynthesis in crops, assist them to kind extra chlorophyll and make their leaves and branches stronger. It additionally improves the crops’ resistance to chilly and illness.

Qin Niu rapidly collected a big pile of humus and carried it down the mountain on his again.

As a result of he drank wolf blood yesterday, and the meals since then had all been wolf meat, his energy was inexhaustible.

With this high-intensity train, the physique’s absorption of the vitamins from the wolf meat and wolf blood he had consumed accelerated considerably. Many cells that had been in a semi-dormant state have been activated, voraciously absorbing the power provided by the abdomen and intestines.

His cultivation degree gave the impression to be rising quickly.

Even he might really feel it.

This sense of getting stronger was simply too nice.

A basket of humus weighed seventy to eighty catties, which might require a powerful, grown man to relaxation seven or eight instances whereas carrying it down the mountain.

But, Qin Niu carried it on to the sector with out stopping to relaxation even as soon as.

He didn’t rush to fertilize, however first carried out a sterilization course of.

For this, he wanted to make use of his weeding ability.

He discovered that every of the 5 primary planting expertise had its personal goal, they usually have been interconnected with one another.

When a ability reached a minor degree of feat, this interconnection grew to become much more obvious.

Days handed by, one after one other.

Wang Haikun had forcibly taken the wolf pores and skin and had not disturbed him since.

This type of individual solely will get up early for revenue.

With none profit that might pique his curiosity, he couldn’t be bothered to go to Qin Niu’s shabby home.

The sorghum planted within the area grew at an astonishing charge after being fertilized.

Certainly, it was completely different each day.

The high-level fertilizing ability was genuinely spectacular.

Primarily based on the present progress pattern of the sorghum, this yr’s mid-year harvest wouldn’t be inferior to others’ fertile fields.

Within the blink of an eye fixed, twenty days had handed.

Qin Niu had completed consuming your complete outdated wolf. He didn’t waste the interior organs and ate them too.

Even the wolf bones have been made into bone soup to drink for strengthening sinews and bones.

His cultivation degree elevated as if it had wings.

From a frail physique, he now had a little bit of muscle, and his six-pack abs have been significantly outstanding.