Fearsome Farmer c1-60

by Lazy Bird

  “Hemostasis, anti-inflammatory, refreshing the mind and spirit, good! These two herbs can be planted in the farmland too.”

  Li Siwen wounds had been fully cured and were even starting to scar. Even his Health Points recovered by two points.

  Overall speaking, he was very satisfied. However, he couldn’t go woodcutting for now and even had to tolerate the hunger in his stomach. Everything needed to wait until the next day.

  Smelling the bitter and refreshing scent in the air, Li Siwen laid down with his blade in his right hand and closed his eyes, quickly falling asleep. He didn’t sleep well last night.

  This sleep was quite comfortable, and he slept all the way into the night. Not even a single fly came to disturb him.

  Looking at his wounds, they had recovered by a lot. Other than his grumbling stomach, Li Siwen felt that his condition was almost perfect.

  He opened the Attribute Bar.

  Name: Li Siwen

  Occupation: Farmer/Woodcutter

  Health: 25 (18/25)

  Stamina: 22 (16/22)

  Strength: 16

  Agility: 6

  Defense: 3

  Spirit: Grey (Development 20%)

  Talent: Spirit Vision Level 2

  Skill: Farming Level 3, Woodcutting Level 3

  Green Orb: Vitality Point 1/15

  Yellow Orb: Spirit Point 7/15

  Blue Orb: Heavenly Workmanship Point 3/15

  “Should I increase my Agility, or make use of the time now to increase Spirit?”

  Li Siwen pondered, but then shook his head. He mustn’t change his principle, he must save some Vitality Points and Spirit Points for times of need.

  “Why not go fish for a few more breakfast snakes?”

  Li Siwen moved aside a stone blocking one gap and stretched out one arm, quietly waiting for a breakfast snake.

  However, just as he was imagining the delicious taste of barbeque snake meat, a great sense of danger descended. Then, his head felt as if a hammer hit it, instantly seeing stars and feeling dizzy.

  When he finally caught a breath, he saw his attribute bar automatically appearing in front of him. It was covered in cracks, looking really shocking.

  And there were some small cracks that were extending further and further.

  In the attribute bar, behind the ‘Name: Li Siwen’, the completeness level was quickly dropping, already reaching 11%.

  This shock was really extraordinary, with little time to think, Li Siwen instantly extracted the Spirit Points in the yellow orb to repair it.

  One point was added, and it recovered 50% of the completeness level. But the next second, even more cracks appeared, bringing down the completeness level to below 20% again.

  At this moment, Li Siwen instead calmed down. Staring at the progress of the cracks, he orderly extracted the Spirit Points and maintained the completeness level at a high level.

  At the same time, he had time to check the flashing message in the attribute bar.

  “Warning, you left the Feudal Lord’s territory for an entire day and night without his approval, you shall be punished for this. From now on, you have been expelled and wanted from the territory, and cursed by a supreme unknown being, the entire map will be red-named!”

  “Red-name curse coming into effect now, your body and any root material got from the territory will become the source of the red-name curse.”

  “Your body is being cursed, but it was unsuccessful.”

  “Your weapon and tools are being cursed, but they were unsuccessful.”

  “The clothes and water gourd you robbed from others are becoming a source of the curse. The curse succeeded but didn’t hurt you!”

  “A demonized wheat seed you stole from the territory is becoming a source of the curse, its distance from you is only 15 meters, curse succeeded! One Health Point has been deducted from you.”

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  Li Siwen was astonished. When he saw the last line, he finally couldn’t help but laugh softly.

  “Haha! Red-name curse, looks like only now am I counted as a real creep? But luckily, I ate all the wheat seeds yesterday. If not, I would have died for sure today, wouldn’t I? Wait, there’s also one more seed that was dropped in some bush.”

  “That was really close, luckily I was crazy from hunger yesterday. If I had any rationality left at that moment and left even a few grams of wheat seeds, oh my! The power behind that statue is indeed deep and evil!”

  Li Siwen was finally fully relieved now. Before he went solo, he was already curious about what restrictions the statue would have on the citizens in the territory. Now, the answer was finally out.

  Next, he extracted another four Spirit Points and finally repaired fully the attribute bar full of cracks and almost destroyed.

  “Did I eliminate the red-name curse?”

  Maintaining his posture of fishing for breakfast snakes, Li Siwen frowned and pondered. The appearance of this red-name curse signified that he would be in hostile relations with the Feudal Lord’s territory from now on.

  Of course, he wasn’t afraid of the Feudal Lord. His current position was over 20 miles away from the Feudal Lord’s territory, calculated in a straight line, and forests blocked them in between. Unless he was really unlucky, it was unlikely he would bump into the Feudal Lord here. However, there weren’t any ferocious beasts that were worth hunting here, so this possibility was very low.

  “However, I mustn’t drop my guard. Whether this red-name curse has been removed or not, I have built the debt between that statue and me.”

  “Also, in order to be prepared, I must save up 10 Vitality Points and 10 Spirit Points at all times from now on, to prevent that Feudal Lord or Statue from doing anything funny again. I am not interested in finding out what will happen if it destroys the attribute bar.”

  “Oh my, what the heck, what hatred is this, its bite is so painful?”

  Li Siwen suddenly jumped up and dragged something into the treehouse. Then, he was dazed. He didn’t fish a breakfast snake but instead fished a big squeaking rat.

  It was very fat!

  Damn, roast it!

  chapter 40

  It was another long night, but Li Siwen was living comfortably.

  Through fishing for breakfast snake and pastry rat, he made himself a sumptuous dinner and breakfast.

  He had also accumulated 12 Spirit Points.

  It was also worth mentioning that even killing the fat mouse provided him with one Spirit Point. This was very intriguing, proving that the animals on land were smarter than those in water.

  Of course, even so, he still felt puzzled about whether obtaining two Spirit Points from killing just an Iron Ring Black Snake was actually a bug?

  After all, a grey wolf only gave four Spirit Points.

  Other than that, the wounds on Li Siwen’s arm had scarred and wouldn’t affect his movement too much. However, his Health maintained at 18 points. After all, fishing for breakfast snakes comes with consequences.

  After breakfast, he went out and did his patrol of his palm-sized territory. He was mainly checking for threats so he could remove them as early as possible.

  However, his territory was silent. It seemed to be the hunting territory of that leopard from before, so there weren’t any large-sized beasts here. Also, that wild boar on the other side of the valley didn’t seem interested in crossing the flooded valley for now.

  After making his round, Li Siwen used his blade to cut a stick and installed the steel hoe on it. Then, in the area where he had cut down the trees, he started weeding, plowing, and making it ready for sowing.

  As for those large tree roots, he didn’t have the energy to handle them yet. Also, he only needed a small amount of farmland for now.

  For the entire morning, he made five small fields in this empty area, adding up to about half an acre of land or so. This speed was already quite shocking. After all, with that 16 Strength Points of his, compared to a bullock—alright, he was probably still weaker.


  Basically, the farmland had been prepared, and Li Siwen even obtained one Vitality Point from weeding.

  When he was resting at noon, seeing that the woodcutting skill had finished cooldown and his wounds weren’t a problem anymore, he picked a tree that required at least three people to hug and would normally provide two Vitality Points.

  Using his level three woodcutting skill on it, Li Siwen hacked at it and finished the battle in 15 minutes, successfully obtaining 6 Vitality Points.

  But for some unknown reason, when he cut down the tree, he felt a sense of unease in his heart. But when he tried to discern it carefully, it disappeared.

  “It can’t be that the trees have intellect too, right?”

  Li Siwen jokingly thought to himself. Then, he suddenly thought of the twisted trees on the east of the river ditch. Thinking back on it now, it was actually quite scary.

  But he wondered what hid in the snow mountain on the east?

  “I must make my preparations before winter arrives. This winter will definitely be hard to endure.”

  He secretly became cautious and continued to hack at the trees, accumulating 15 Vitality Points in one breath before he returned to the treehouse.

  After resting for a while, he opened the attribute bar.

  As usual, add five Vitality Points to Health, bringing it to 30 points.

  Then, three points to Stamina, making it 25 points.

  Next, add two points to strength so it became 18 points. Actually, Li Siwen wanted to add it until it became 20 points, but it had reached its limit.

  Lastly, he looked at Defense which was still dimmed and Agility which had lighted up, then added one point to Agility, making it seven points.

  Next, he extracted another two Vitality Points and continued to add them to Agility, increasing it to nine points.

  “That’s about enough, Agility will be reaching its limit too.”

  Li Siwen stopped extracting more Vitality Points. By now, he had already summed up the previous experience. The limit for Health and Stamina was still unknown, but there was a pattern for the limit on Strength, Agility, and Defense.

  When his Defense was zero, he could only unlock six Agility and 15 Strength. This was about the potential limit for a normal person.

  And when his Defense became three points, he had broken past a normal person’s limit, unlocking nine Agility and 18 Strength.

  Defense was the short stick for Agility and Strength. Each Defense point corresponds to three Agility and six Strength.

  But so far, he still didn’t know what requirement he needed to unlock the Defense attribute. Could it be more Health and Stamina?

  Taking in a deep breath, Li Siwen laid on the ground. Because he knew the negative consequences of adding Agility, he didn’t want to fall on his front.

  As expected, after about a minute, the muscles in his entire body suddenly convulsed violently without warning, and he also lost control of the sense of space around him. Even though he had gotten ready by lying on the ground in advance, he was still completely out of control of his body and couldn’t even sense his limbs.

  This time, he didn’t activate Spirit Vision, he only wanted to quietly feel the space disorder happening to him now.

  But he had thought too simple of it. This time, the strength of the convulsion of his muscles was beyond imagination, even a large part of his joints was undergoing some unknown change.

  Therefore, the result was excruciating pain.

  Yet, he couldn’t talk, couldn’t move his body, couldn’t relax his nerves, but only let the sense of pain envelope him.

  But when the pain became extreme, and he wanted to die from it, Li Siwen opened the attribute bar and extracted one Spirit Point from the yellow orb, directly adding it onto the Spirit attribute.

  He only wanted to try and ease the pain, even if it was to drink poison.

  The one point on Spirit didn’t reduce his pain, but the sense of coolness and refreshingness at that instance still gave him faith to fight against the waves of pain.

  As for the side effect of increasing the Spirit attributes, it was a good thing. He wished for nothing more now than to faint and become unconscious.

  Unfortunately, this wasn’t the case.

  The side effect of the developing Spirit was instantly neutralized. Because under the immerse pain, nothing else mattered.

  On the contrary, he had a clearer, more three-dimensional understanding of every muscle spasm, the smallest changes, and the most extreme pain caused by every joint change.

  Until a few minutes later, that pain that almost caused him to bite his tongue and suicide suddenly vanished. In its place was a new sense, a new sense of touch. Or maybe one phrase could describe it, which was what the eye sees, he could feel.

  “A deeper and more three-dimensional sense of space, faster and more precise neural response speed, and stronger muscle burst strength. I may still be weaker than the boorish Feudal Lord, but against his subordinates such as Sun Tieshi, Zhang Ye, and Qin Fen, there is absolutely no pressure to defeat them. If that previous leopard comes again, without using Spirit Vision, I can also kill it with one stroke of the ax.”

  Slowly standing up, Li Siwen looked at his surroundings. He had a mystical feeling of being able to hit where he wanted to. Or maybe he could define it more accurately as spatial judgment.

  Next, he took out a piece of cloth and blindfolded himself. Then, he leaped into the air and accurately grabbed the log above him, swinging himself seven to eight meters away into a sizeable gap and leaving the treehouse. In the process, the sides of his clothes didn’t touch the logs at the edges too.

  When he landed steadily on the ground, Li Siwen took off the cloth, his expression delighted.

  He was testing his body’s sense of space that nine points of Agility gave him and also the burst strength of his muscles.

  Although the movements he did just now flowed like water, it actually required a strong body burst strength, being able to accumulate an extensive amount of strength during the leap in order to send his body flying seven to eight meters.

  At the same time, he must complete his judgment of the surrounding space at the instant he jumped.

  This kind of spatial judgment meant that when he used his eyes to record the location of the object in space, then his body could reproduce perfectly the location, without the need to use his eyes to continuously correct himself.

  Also, this kind of spatial judgment gave the body the maximum response authority, with no need for the brain to make a decision, the body could respond instinctively.

  Lastly, another benefit was precision, extreme precision.

  Whatever he saw with his eyes, his body could judge the space where it was instantly.

  For example, if a fly flew past him, as long as he could see or hear the fly, he only needed 0.1 seconds to stretch his hand and pinch it to death.

  Similarly, this kind of precision could be passed on to whatever tool he was using too.

  This was the benefit of enhancing the sense of space.

  chapter 41

  During the noon of a hot summer day, if he could also take a nap, that would be the most comfortable thing.

  Li Siwen yawned as he sat up in the tree house. Look, this was the benefit of going solo, except that he was missing the plump cook a little——Bah, what the hell?

  “I can’t afford the side effects of adding to Strength, it’s worse than increasing Agility and Defense. What was this, they cannot destroy my integrity just like that?”

  While being extremely vigilant, Li Siwen carried the axe and jumped out of the tree house. Under the scorching sun he felled a dozen gigantic trees at one go, only after accumulating his Vitality Points to 10 points did the testiness in his heart disappear.

  “I shall add to Spirit tonight, otherwise this coffin board of mine won’t be able to be held down any longer[1]. Increasing Spirit Development should be able to resolve such awkwardness.”

  L
i Siwen thought, after all, before he had added his Strength to 15 points, such an unexpected restlessness was never so strong.

  Next, he used the hoe to continue doing a deep dig of the farmland that he’d cultivated in the morning, digging out all the grassroots and scattered tree roots. Even the soil was carefully sifted.

  Finally he merged five pieces of farmland into three, the total area increased to about 0.7 acres.

  He then moved stones over for the perimeters of the farmland, stacking them to form a stone wall half the height of a human to prevent some small beasts from destroying the land.

  He busied all the way till the evening.

  As a matter of fact, this kind of work was relatively more time-consuming and also rather tiring, but it does not provide any Vitality Points at all. In the short term, it really wasn’t more worthwhile than felling trees.

  Given Li Siwen’s current condition, he could gain 30 Vitality Points per day. Wouldn’t it be nice to use all of that to add to his attributes?

  However, he had his own plan, felling trees in the morning, working on the farmland in the afternoon. This was his principle.

  While the sky had yet to darken, Li Siwen made another trip to the bank of the river and refilled eight water gourds with river water and also tested the effect of nine points of Agility while he was at it.

  Not too bad. Even in such complicated terrain like a forest, he could run at a speed of a hundred meters in ten seconds. In addition, he could do challenging actions such as leaping over, making sharp turns and climbing pretty well too.

  And on his way back, Li Siwen intentionally memorized the route, vegetation, structure of the ground and more. He wanted to come back a few days later to do a test, whether he could walk back to the tree house with his eyes closed. This would be very effective in increasing his chances of survival when moving in the night.

  Back in his lair, Li Siwen sped up the maturation of two stalks of anti-inflammatory herb, two stalks of hemostatic herb, and planted half of their seeds in two fields, respectively. 20 more days later, when the cooldown of his farming skills have ended, he could get to business.