The quest instructed Chu Fu to go outside the city to reclaim wasteland.
She could have used her Spirit Plant Satchel to plant seeds, but unfortunately, quests could be rather rigid sometimes.
With no other choice, Chu Fu followed the instructions and headed outside the city.
There were no goblins prowling around the outskirts just yet, and a few players were already planting crops.
The quest required planting a 25x25 area—roughly an acre of land.
When Chu Fu arrived, other players were already there.
"Earth Shock!" A warrior player raised his axe and slammed it into the ground, flipping the soil over in one go.
"Fireball!" Thud thud thud thud.
A mage released a spell, burning away all the grass on the surface, the ash serving as fertilizer.
"Scatter Shot!" An archer drew arrows and punched holes into the dirt.
None of them were actually farming properly.
Probably, anyone who couldn't use abilities to farm simply didn't pick this quest.
The surrounding players were all from the Thorn Guild—specifically the lifestyle players that Jiao Jiao Bu Jiao had painstakingly trained.
Seeing Chu Fu appear, they greeted her warmly.
Chu Fu received another wave of attention.
Even in just a town-level map, she already felt like a celebrity.
"Everyone, get back to your own work! I'm just here to finish a quest."
Chu Fu glanced at the quest instructions.
[Weed] [Till Soil] [Sow Seeds]
With a slight manipulation of her mental energy, every weed on the ground was ripped out by the roots.
Till the soil?
Chu Fu tossed out two dandelions, which buzzed and whirred as they spun, churning up the land.
Then, with a single toss of her Poison Scatter spell, she sowed all the seeds.
A system notification sounded.
[Your seeds have been planted. Please beware of weeding and pest control.
Vicious mutant rats may gnaw on your plants.
Goblin raids may destroy rice paddies and wheat fields, causing reduced yields.
Maturation time: 24 hours.]
Players couldn't realistically watch over their land for 24 hours, so most people just planted and waited until the next day to harvest.
To many players, this quest was basically like farming in a game—plant at your leisure, harvest at your leisure.
But Chu Fu wasn't interested in waiting.
She simply forced the seeds to mature.
[You have obtained 400 jin of wheat (Common).]
[You have obtained 500 jin of rice (Common).]
[Please proceed to Fengdu Town's granary to submit the quest.]
The quest was done.
After that, she looked at the empty land around her and felt a nagging discomfort—like she had to plant something in it.
"Sure, I don't have to plant here, but I can have my sprites do it for me!"
Chu Fu had a brilliant idea.
Soon, she reclaimed all the surrounding land.
Fifty-five dandelions, like harvesters, buzzed as they plowed a huge stretch of long, narrow land.
Chu Fu followed behind the chainsaw-dandelions, and before long, she had carved out a massive rice paddy—at least 300 acres.
Then, she pulled out ultra-high-yield rice seeds.
Using Plant Mutation, she forced the rice seed to mature and mutate.
In an instant, the rice plant grew as tall as a corn stalk, its ears full and heavy, bent over from the weight. Each grain was the size of a thumbnail.
[You have obtained Ultra-High-Yield Rice Seeds (3000 grains).]
Then, Chu Fu released every sprite stored in her Spirit Plant Satchel.
Instantly, a cloud like a purple mushroom—countless sprites—swarmed out.
Because she had been filling her staff [A Little Bit Toxic] with poison, Chu Fu had planted over ten million Charm Mushrooms.
With a 1% chance, the Charm Mushroom sprites numbered over 100,000.
Luckily, the Spirit Plant Satchel could store plants infinitely—even if they were sprites, they were technically wood-type companion lifeforms.
So they really were stored away.
Now, these little sprites had work to do.
"Plant all of these!" Chu Fu commanded.
The sprites were obedient, hugging the thumbnail-sized seeds.
But each sprite was only the size of a thumb, so the seeds felt like giant boulders to them. Chu Fu planted them with 25-centimeter spacing, and she quickly realized 3,000 seeds weren't enough.
A moment earlier, Chu Fu had thrown one seed into the Spirit Plant Satchel to mature, since the maturation time there was reduced by 20%, saving time.
Unexpectedly, it triggered the Satchel's 3% chance to improve quality.
[Ultra-High-Yield Nutrient Rice Seeds (Gold Grade): Long-term consumption increases Health. Food made from this rice slowly restores HP, and long-term consumption adds +1 Constitution.]
"Is this... spirit rice?"
Chu Fu instantly thought of the spirit rice from xianxia novels.
As soon as she said it, the seed's description changed to [Spirit Rice Seeds (Gold Grade)].
Chu Fu also realized that the plants she mutated could be named by her.
She focused on spawning more Spirit Rice Seeds, then released them for the sprites to plant.
Chu Fu was absorbed in her farming, and half a day passed in the blink of an eye.
Finally, the 300 acres were fully planted.
Luckily, they would be ready to harvest in 24 hours—after that, she'd have plenty of seeds and wouldn't need to force-grow them herself.
Once that was done, Chu Fu gave orders for the sprites to guard the rice paddies.
Anything like goblins or mutant rats—kill on sight.
Anything that tried to destroy the fields—slay them all.
After giving her orders, it was time for Chu Fu to log off and train in the real world.
Work hard in the game, but also recover her health in reality quickly.
And just as Chu Fu logged off...
In Fengdu Town, another guild, the Star Alliance, was also taking on guild quests.
Because they didn't have enough reputation points, the Star Alliance hadn't established their own guild territory.
But they could still accept quests from the quest hall—it was just more troublesome and time-consuming to travel back and forth.
The designated planting areas for quests were all in the same region.
When they saw the perfectly tilled, neatly lined fields, they all gaped in amazement.
Especially since wood-type sprites were fluttering over the land.
"Whose land is this? Did they whale out?"
"Wait, where do you buy those farming sprites?"
"You can't buy them? Is this some S-tier farming talent?"
Everyone started chattering on the map chat.
The Thorn Guild players couldn't help but show off.
"It's the Plant Master's talent—can't you tell?"
When Jiang Yixing heard this, his eyes turned red.
He'd contracted red-eye disease.
How could someone be so strong in combat and so outrageously good at life skills too?
He really wanted to wreck it!
Just as he was thinking that, he spotted a group of goblins suddenly appearing, heading straight for Chu Fu's land.
In an instant, Jiang Yixing harbored a vicious thought.
Smash all the land to bits!
He didn't stop them—he watched as the goblin squad charged toward the Plant Master's fields. The only thing that puzzled him was that the other Thorn Guild players didn't seem to care either.
The next moment, he saw countless purple mushroom-skirt sprites shoot out, casting skills at the goblins nearing the rice paddies.
The goblins, charmed into a dazed stupor, collapsed to the ground, their bodies sprouting mushrooms.
Dead.
Jiang Yixing's eyes snapped back into clarity.
Just then, a girl standing next to him let out a sly, gleeful laugh.
"Xingxing, this game is actually pretty fun—isn't this just a crop-stealing game? I'm a pro at this."
"Casual players won't harvest at the exact second the crops mature. We don't even need to plant anything—once the rice is ready, we just go straight in and steal it."
