Chapter 2: My System, and a New Friend
One gold coin was enough for to buy a plot of land with a house on it. I had 50 of them, all thanks to Elder Ji.
For cultivators like , gold coins were useless, but for mortals they were a fortune.
I headed back to Riverside, the village where I had bought my land. It was only a five-minute walk. My land was not in the village center, but a little farther out, where it was quieter and more peaceful.
The only coins I had were gold ones, and with only one I got everything I needed: seeds, tools, and so villagers to help with repairs and construction. They agreed to build a cabin outside the house for storage, a stable for my horses, and two more buildings: one for cows and one for chickens.
Of course, none of these things were ready yet. The villagers would start working on them the next day.
Big T and I returned to our land with the seeds and the tools. Our first task was to clear the plot of wild grass that had taken over it. It was impossible to start a plantation otherwise.
I put all the tools on the ground and picked up the iron scythe. I swung it back and forth, cutting down the grass with ease. I wasn't very skilled with a scythe, but it didn't matter. Being a cultivator had its benefits.
The energy of a cultivator made all the difference. I spent the entire day clearing the land, with Big T cheering on.
"Croak. Croak."
He was lovely. Big T looked more human than most humans. Heck, based on the mories I had from the old Tian Li, Big T was better than the cultivators inside the Cloud Sect.
I stepped back and admired the result of my work.
The plot of land looked much cleaner after Big T and I had spent the whole day clearing it of wild grass. It had gone from an abandoned place to a decent farm, a place I could call ho.
Well, it would be a farm once I planted so crops, but the sun had already set and I was exhausted. I was only a third layer Qi Condensation cultivator. My energy was higher than normal folks, but it had its limits.
Big T didn't go inside the cabin with , but returned to the well where I had first found him. That was his ho. He was close enough that I could sleep peacefully, knowing he would be there for the next day.
The repairs and constructions on my land started the next morning. All the villagers working on them looked happy and excited. I bet it wasn't every day that they had such a job and a decent paynt.
My stomach roared around 9 am. Big T had plenty of mosquitoes and other insects to feed on, but I hadn't eaten anything yet.
"Big T, stay here and watch the construction, alright?" I said to him, tapping his head.
"Croak. Croak."
With soone to supervise the work and make sure none of the villagers slacked off, I went to the nearby river that gave Riverside its na. Among the many tools my gold coin had bought, a fishing rod was one of them.
I stopped by the river and dug up so worms with my bare hands to use as bait. The water was clear and I could see so fish jumping out of it.
All aspects of nature were better in this world. The only thing I still missed was my mom and a few friends.
The sun was shining brightly, so I looked for a shady spot under a tree to start fishing.
"I forgot a chair, tsk," I muttered, going back to my cabin and returning with one.
I had everything I needed: a chair, a fishing rod, and so bait.
"Oh, and a bucket with water to put the fish in…" I cursed again, making another trip to my cabin.
After going back and forth twice, it was finally ti to fish. I loved fishing, even before coming to this world. It was one of the few mories I had of my father before he passed away.
My story up to that point seed rather normal. A diocre cultivator in a weak sect. Nothing indicated that I would be anything more than that.
But when an unsuspecting fish bit the bait and I pulled it out of the water with my bamboo fishing rod, a strange text appeared before my eyes.
[Spiritual Farming System Unlocked]
[Fishing Level 1]
[Drop Rate: Chance of fishing a Spiritual Fish: 0.5% (The grade of said fish can vary)]
A system! It was not uncommon to see a protagonist with a system in a cultivation novel, but mine seed different from the usual ones!
Most of the novels tried to use different nas for their systems, but they were all the sa at their core: increase attributes or level up. Sothing along those lines.
But my system had all sorts of skills: fishing, cooking, carpentry, farming, taming, alchemy, and so on.
They were like many different life skills! That was exactly what I wanted!
Why should I follow the sa path as everyone else and ditate, study techniques, enter inheritances and all that nonsense?
The things I could do seed more fun!
"Maybe I can improve my cultivation while doing these things… That would be great!" I murmured to myself.
The only reason I even considered increasing my cultivation was to protect my farm, my ho, my animals, Big T from the evil cultivators.
Of course, reaching immortality sounded fun too, but that was not my primary goal. What if the only way for to find a way back ho was by increasing my power?
Anyway, I wanted to test out my system, so I fished for hours, trying to activate the passive skill and get myself a Spiritual Fish.
Honestly, I got annoyed by the percentage. It seed more like 0% to , just like when playing a ga and hoping for an item drop.
But the fish finally ca! I could tell it was different because of its aura. A faint wave of Qi emanated from its body.
I returned ho with a few fish for dinner and the Spiritual Fish as my new companion.
"Big T, this is our new friend, Big F!"
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