Fearsome Farmer c1-60

by Lazy Bird

  Li Siwen embraced the sunshine for ten minutes with great enjoyment, which made him feel like he was in his hometown.

  “Let’s work, good luck!”

  Mumbling that, Li Siwen sealed the entrance to the treehouse and leaped down with his axe. The five meters height was not dangerous to him at all. His 4 points of Defense made him as strong as a black bear.

  His target was to the west, which was the closest to the treehouse. In this case, he could return any time.

  When he came to the flooded area, Li Siwen first checked if there were fishes in the flooded area. Then, he opened up the Attribute Bar, extracted 12 points of Spirit Points, and added it to his woodcutting skill, upgrading it to Level 4. He forgot about the Spirit Points he had wasted before. He must not waste the Spirit Points he would get from killing the big fishes.

  After that, he strode into the deep water. He still had his Level 4 Spirit Vision activated. Within a radius of 30 meters and a diameter of 60 meters, nothing could be hidden from him. Hence, he didn’t have to worry about what was in the water. His mountain axe had been starved from some action!

  chapter 53

  If the rainstorm was considered a kind of luck, then living near a river which constantly floods was definitely a kind of happiness.

  He couldn’t imagine how many fish and prawns there were in this river, but at least for now, in less than an hour’s time, Li Siwen had caught 15 fish weighing 50 kilograms and 29 smaller one’s weighing tens of kilograms too. He even caught a crab weighing a few kilograms.

  “It’s about enough.”

  He wasn’t greedy. When the Sun set, and he had already cleared the seafood in the nearby area, he caught and brought his labor back to the treehouse. Pierced with branches and hung on a tree, it looked quite spectacular from a distance.

  Next, Li Siwen didn’t stop to enjoy the excitement of his catch, but made use of the remaining daylight and dug a bunch of soil from the area near the valley. This soil wasn’t like the humus soil which was commonly found in forests, but washed down from the mountains by the water, and formed into a layer of soil after accumulating for long periods. It was slightly red in color and slightly sticky.

  He had noticed this detail previously, but he didn’t have enough water to make mud from it, and also not enough time for it.

  Now, at this stage, he wanted to try to make himself a bucket or water tank to cook and store water for daily uses. If not, depending on just the seven water gourds wasn’t enough. He had already suffered from this once. If he didn’t learn his lesson, it would be too dumb of him.

  Using the water from the flood, Li Siwen mixed and stirred with the soil evenly, and even placed it on the ground and stomped it with his feet until it became very fine, and there were no bubbles or particles, before he rolled all of them into a bundle again, about 50 kilograms.

  Carrying this mud slab back to the treehouse, he opened up the four skylights he had reserved and lighted up the fire for the two stoves. The dried meat was getting slightly moist, so he had to dry them again.

  As for the mud slab, Li Siwen didn’t rush to form it into shape, only using his palm to hammer it continuously, trying his best to make it more delicate. At the same time, he needed to control the humidity in the mud. After an entire hour, he finally moved over a flatter stone slab and washed it clean with rainwater. Then, he placed the mud slab with suitable humidity on it and forcefully activated Spirit Vision.

  That’s right, others relied on technical experience and machinery to knead pots, he relied on a hack, wasn’t it awesome?

  Under the secondary spirit force field of the level four Spirit Vision, he could sense all the changes in the mud slab, including the perfection of the shape, whether the thickness was uniform, whether there were bubbles inside, whether the particles were uniform, and so on.

  Of course, this wasn’t enough, he still needed a pair of stable hands. And coincidentally, having nine points of Agility, Li Siwen was the owner of such a pair of hands.

  There was only light from the fire in the dark. Li Siwen closed his eyes, listening to the surrounding noises, and using his hands to gently knead the mud. In his hands, the already fine soil constantly changed shape, constantly correcting its trajectory, shape, and thickness. There was no process that was more comfortable than this.

  Li Siwen felt that his hands were like dancers, while his Spirit Vision was the dance music.

  He didn’t intend for this to happen, but at this moment, he seemed to enter that magical realm he had experienced before in the logging hut. His mind seemed to soar into the sky, looking at the countless stars, feeling the night wind, and dancing in the air.

  Inside the yellow orb, Spirit Points were automatically extracted and added to the Spirit attribute. The entire process was silent.

  When he woke up, he almost banged his head against the wall in regret.

  Because he forcefully activated Spirit Vision just now, so he had directly used eight Spirit Points, and only six remained inside the yellow orb.

  Luckily, he wasn’t really in a loss, because he successfully molded a water tank with a diameter of one meter. From the appearance, this was really a work of art, with no flaws.

  In fact, there wasn’t a single flaw inside of it too. The secondary spirit force field enabled him to observe every single detail.

  He didn’t move the stone slab, but let the water tank slowly dry by itself. As for what effect it would have, he would need to wait a few days before roasting it and see the result.

  At this moment, because he had just entered that magical realm, Li Siwen wasn’t tired at all, and even his stamina was in a full state. Therefore, he didn’t rest, but jumped onto the treehouse and cut the fish into slices so they would dry faster.

  As for the crab, he ate it for a snack.

  After he finished with all these, Li Siwen carried his mountain ax and shovel and went to cultivate the land.

  With the hovel, plowing the land was much easier. If it wasn’t because he was afraid of damaging it, he could work as a pile driver and cultivate 10 acres of land in a single night.

  Even so, by daybreak, he had plowed about three acres of land. Plus the ones from before, he had five acres of farmland now.

  Actually, the most troublesome part of the process wasn’t plowing the soil, but to destroy the roots of the trees. There were dozens of tree roots in these farmlands which Li Siwen wasn’t confident of clearing quickly last time. But now, things were different. With 24 Strength, the mountain ax, and ample stamina, it wasn’t a problem now.

  What caused him to be even more surprised was that when he destroyed the roots, he even got Vitality Points too, and it wasn’t little.

  Normally, a bucket thick tree would provide him half a Vitality Point, while a tree needing two people to hug provided one Vitality Point, and a tree needing three people to hug would provide him two to three Vitality Points.

  But for the roots, on average, the Vitality Points obtained would double.

  Of course, it was quite troublesome to destroy the roots. He needed to both cut and dig, spending more than half an hour to clear the roots of one tree. But at the same time, he was also increasing the planting area of the farmland.

  “These five acres of farmland is enough for now, any more, and it will be just a waste.”

  Beside the farmland, Li Siwen stretched his body. The night’s workload wasn’t small, his full stamina of 50 points, plus the ten plus points that regenerated naturally, was left with only 15 points now, which was in the red zone.

  Keeping his tools and making his daily patrol of his territory, he found that the flooding water had basically retreated. There were only puddles of water left, the mountain torrents in the flooded valley were only a trickle now, and he didn’t notice any trace of wild beats. Speaking of which, although the beasts in this world were ferocious and cunning, their numbers weren’t a lot, and difficult to find too.

  However, Li Siwen had a faint feeling that there wer
e definitely things in this world that would be much more terrifying than wild beasts.

  “That’s why I shouldn’t be cocky or rash, but develop steadily, observe the changes, think before I act. If I want to live long, I must definitely remember to be careful in everything I do.”

  chapter 54

  10 anti-inflammatory grass, 10 blood stopping grass, five Iron Wolf Poison Grass, three Iron Dog Poisonous Grass, and three Iron Head Poisonous Grass.

  These were the other rewards of Li Siwen’s work during the night. He had ripened them using Vitality Points. If not, his green orb wouldn’t be able to accumulate all the Vitality Points from destroying the roots.

  In fact, by now, the primary use of the Vitality Points wasn’t to increase his attributes anymore. Under the restrictions from all kinds of short sticks, he wasn’t able to freely increase his attributes.

  Therefore, he was mostly using the Vitality Points to grow more resources now, making full use of its effect.

  It was about 7 AM now.

  Li Siwen collected three gourds of dew, ate a big fish for breakfast, then had a comfortable sleep. After that, he was fully invigorated and sowing his farmlands.

  He divided the almost five acres of farmland into nine smaller farmlands.

  Out of the nine, the anti-inflammatory grass and blood stopping grass occupied two of them. This was very important, it affected his life and death.

  As for the Iron Wolf Poison Grass, which causes dizziness and vomiting, it occupied one farmland too.

  The Iron Dog Poisonous Grass which causes numbness and caused wounds to rot occupied one.

  The Iron Head Poisonous Grass which caused profuse bleeding occupied one.

  Dog’s tail grass and the remaining weeds, bush berries, and the like occupied two farmlands.

  He left the two remaining farmlands with the largest size empty for now until he found something to add. He would use them when he bred some millets and plant them on a large-scale.

  Basically, everything was going according to his plan. Li Siwen didn’t do his work sloppily, planting each seed in the right depth.

  His farming skill still needed half a month before its cooldown finished. But it wasn’t very long, his hard work now could be considered in the participation rate too.

  He worked until noon and had completed sowing almost three acres of farmland. Then Li Siwen returned to the treehouse and checked the water tank. It didn’t have any cracks on it yet, which was good news. However, it wasn’t dry enough yet.

  Instead, the dried pork meat was almost 70% dried.

  Li Siwen hung the pork meat closer together, leaving space for the fish to dry. He placed all of this food inside the treehouse, constantly roasting them on the stove. Inside, the stove was also stacked with a certain number of dog’s tail grass to repel mosquitoes, flies, and insects, ensuring the quality of the food. This could be considered being another use of the Vitality Points.

  After resting for about an hour and his stamina restored to 50 points, Li Siwen went to the flooded valley with his mountain ax and shovel again to dig some more soil. This time, he would not make a water tank, but some tiles. This could avoid the water seepage in the treehouse to the greatest extent when the rainstorm comes.

  Li Siwen placed a lot of importance on the making of these tiles too. Making use of the water here, he made a mud slab like the one yesterday and brought it back to the treehouse.

  Laying a stone slab on the ground, he activated Spirit Vision and molded pieces of tiles with his steady hands.

  Because he needed to consider the waterproof component and the link between each tile, Li Siwen spent some time thinking before deciding on the simplest wave shape.

  That is, first use some mud to make a block of mud with a side length of 35 cm and a thickness of 5 cm on the stone, and then cut a half-moon shape on it with a strong grass stem, leaving room on the left and right sides. Cut out two smaller half-moon arcs. It looks like this (~). It’s ugly, but it ensured that it interlocks the left and right to the greatest extent to prevent rainwater penetration. That was if the roasting process didn’t cause problems.

  Li Siwen molded 500 of such tiles. After all, he needed to test it first, then learn from the experience.

  Next, he rushed to the flooded valley again and dug more soil, because he needed to mold more bricks.

  The technical skill needed for this was much lower than making tiles, but he needed to prepare some grass first, then crush the grass and mix them with the mud, to prevent cracking.

  Then, throwing a suitable amount of mixed mud on a patch of grass, and using his hands to mold it, a mud brick with a thickness of 10 cm, a width of 20 cm, and a length of 30 cm was formed, and it could be built into a simple furnace once it was dried.

  And so, Li Siwen did this all the way until evening, until the flowing trickles of water in the valley stopped flowing. By then, Li Siwen had made 2,000 plus mud bricks. Spread out on the grass, it looked quite spectacular.

  But it was lucky that he had already killed the wild boars. If not, they would destroy his hard work if they charged across it together.

  Li Siwen stared at the fiery setting sun after spitting out a foul breath. After a long time, he suddenly laughed. This kind of life wasn’t too bad either.

  Carrying his ax and making a round around his territory, he returned to the treehouse. He blocked the four skylights first. Then, after hesitating for a long while, he finally opened the attribute bar, extracted three Vitality Points, and added them to Agility.

  This time, he waited for an entire three minutes before the dizziness kicked in and he lost control of his body and surroundings. His muscles started convulsing, but unlike last time, there seemed to be a string being tightly stretched in his body. It was like he was a puppet tied to the end of this string, continuously being pulled and adjusted. The process was from an initial disorder to order, then to stability and balance.

  Suddenly, the string flicked. At this moment, Li Siwen felt that all the bones in his body were crisp from being flicked. He regained control of his body, except that there was an indescribable soreness in the bones. It’s like there were countless ants crawling in them.

  Therefore, even though his muscles had become normal and his sense of space became normal, he still couldn’t move, only able to lie there and tolerate it.

  After half an hour, Li Siwen climbed up. His expression was as if he had seen a ghost. He was only increasing his attribute by a bit. Was there a need to torture him like this?

  However—

  “Nice!”

  Seeing the new talent in the attribute bar, Li Siwen was really going to cry from joy.

  “Talent: Stable Level 1. Description: After improving the comprehensive physical fitness to a certain level, and there is no obvious shortcoming, there will be a certain opportunity to get this talent.”

  “Description: This talent is a passive talent and need not be activated.”

  “Description: When the overall physical fitness continues to improve, that is, on the original basis, for every point increase in Defense attribute, three points in Agility attribute, and six points in Strength attribute, this talent will have the opportunity to continue to improve.”

  —

  “This is great, I have two talents now. Does this mean I am going to have a huge growth now?”

  Li Siwen smiled triumphantly in the dark, but did not continue to increase his agility. Instead, he rushed out of the treehouse like a leopard cat and jumped to the ground. With just this series of simple actions, he knew how precious this Stable talent was.

  This didn’t directly increase his combat power and also didn’t make him become very formidable.

  This stableness was like there really was a string fused in his bones, muscles, nerves, veins, coordinating them to his breathing and movement.

  Therefore, even though his running or jumping speed wasn’t much faster than before, there was an extra sense of ease now.

  When
hacking with his ax, although he might not do more damage than before, he could better hack and stop as he wished now.

  This minor change was enough to affect the result of a battle.

  chapter 55

  Li Siwen left the treehouse around 3 or 4 AM, relying on the faint skylight to collect morning dew from the leaves. This should have been a very boring task, but he did it seriously.

  When the Sun came out, he had collected four water gourds of dew, slightly more than yesterday.

  After sending the precious water back to the treehouse, Li Siwen carried a back basket and did his patrol, checking that no beasts had come near. Also, he was thinking of finding a spot in his territory to dig a well.

  It was a major thing, not having water. It affected not only his daily life, but also affected the development of his territory, so it was very important.

  Firstly, he went to the flooded valley in the north and walked along the edge of the valley upwards. If he saw good-quality anti-inflammatory grass and blood stopping grass, he would even ripen them. Also, he picked some mushrooms that didn’t seem poisonous to dry them for later use.

  If he could make a pottery pot next, these mushrooms would come in handy.

  As for now, he didn’t plan on eating large numbers of raw mushrooms. He would rather eat things like grasshoppers, which were high in protein instead.

  After walking up for about one mile, Li Siwen changed to the southwards direction. This time, he would patrol for about one kilometer. The forest in this area was still very dense and obscured the sky, but Li Siwen was very familiar with this place from catching pastry rats and killing mosquitoes here. He could walk back from here even with his eyes closed.

  Therefore, normally, he only needed one look to see if there were any changes in details here.

  Everything in this direction was still normal.

  Until a patch of empty land about a few hundred square meters abruptly appeared in front. This was a low stone cliff with no grass growing on it. Li Siwen named it Bald Heights. This was a, well, a very famous landmark reference in his territory.