Chapter 75

After handling the matters at the Affairs Bureau, Mu Huiyue rented a quiet little apartment near Jingzhou University.

She planned to live here once the semester began; the dormitory was crowded, noisy, and filled with people who each had different habits and pets. She preferred living alone.

With Ellen’s shadow space, moving became much easier.

Mu Huiyue arranged all the home supplies she had purchased, using the layout from her apartment in Changning City as a reference.

After spending two days cleaning and decorating, she finally had a place to settle down in Jingjiang City.

Starting with the unexpected events from the ranking matches, and then a series of unforeseen situations after arriving in the capital, she had only now found time to properly rest.

Mu Huiyue reclined on the soft sofa, watching as the tall skeleton, wearing an apron and a dust mask, elegantly cleaned the hard-to-reach spots on the ceiling with a feather duster.

Ellen was meticulous and careful when doing housework, just like his cooking, which could move Beast Masters to tears.

Baiya had been wandering around, trying to help, but after leaving small paw prints on the freshly cleaned tabletop, the skeleton disdainfully grabbed it and brought it to the Beast Master’s side.

Two good-for-nothing helpers. Just sit there.

Mu Huiyue petted the white-furred little dog that was whining in grievance beside her and smiled as she picked it up.

Baiya was already quite capable! It had tidied up its bed and toys.

After tidying up the room, Mu Huiyue also took the time to adjust her condition.

She closed her eyes, and her consciousness sank into the Beast Master Space.

There had been so many unexpected events recently that she hadn’t had the time to properly sort out her gains within the Beast Master Space.

This time, in the assessment ranking match, her gains included not only experience and the understanding of new skills, but also something even more important.

After a series of high-quality battles, exploring new secret realms, and encountering previously unseen wild extraordinary creatures, the system panel of Spirit Ranch Story had accumulated a long list of completed tasks.

Counting the numbers, along with some scattered pulls she had accumulated previously, Mu Huiyue had gathered enough for two ten-pulls.

Since there were no other special event banners in the current card pool, Mu Huiyue simply couldn’t resist using up her resources. Two ten-pulls were enough for her to eagerly anticipate and get excited.

She called Ellen and Baiya back into the Beast Master Space.

The white-furred puppy lazily yawned, squatting down on the ground and staring at the card pool interface, where clear spring water flowed.

The tall skeleton thoughtfully stroked its jawbone, understanding that the Beast Master was about to engage in the mysterious activity of testing her luck to acquire resources.

Mu Huiyue opened the card draw interface, feeling a little nervous. She glanced at her partner, Baiya.

“Click-clack, click-clack-clack.” (This time, let Huiyue draw herself. She just took first place in the ranking match, maybe she’ll get a lucky bonus.)

The Beast Master, who instinctively relied on Ellen when it came to drawing cards, paused slightly, then smiled and nodded.

Ellen was right; today, she would do it herself!

Mu Huiyue took a deep breath and gently tapped the ten-pull icon.

Spirit spring water poured into the temple, and the clear fountain’s base rippled in layers—

Boom!

Rainbow-colored light!

Mu Huiyue widened her eyes slightly in surprise. She had drawn an SSR herself!

It seemed that, just as Ellen said, getting first place would bring a lucky blessing.

Taking advantage of the good luck buff, Mu Huiyue didn’t rush to check her first pull’s results. Instead, she quickly tapped for the second ten-pull.

The same scene unfolded once again. As the ripples spread, about to burst with light, Mu Huiyue held her breath nervously.

Golden light!

This time, she didn’t draw any rare items of the SSR tier.

Mu Huiyue’s heart, which had been anxiously hanging in the air, finally relaxed. After all, drawing two ten-pulls in a row with good results was a slim chance. Just the fact that she managed to pull an SSR herself was already quite satisfying.

She began happily counting the results of her draws.

The white N-tier items were mostly various types of constitution and attribute fruits. This time, she didn’t pull any small items that increase intimacy.

The blue R-tier items included five familiar experience fruits and a C-level Earth system skill book: Mud Bomb.

The golden SR-tier items were two. One was a Space Fruit used to increase Beast Master level.

Mu Huiyue had already used two Space Fruits. The effect was much more refined than the space stones she had found in the secret realms.

Based on her current meditation progress, with one more Space Fruit, she would be able to reach the mid-level of 3rd-tier Beast Master before school started in a month.

The other SR-tier item was a new type she hadn’t seen before.

[Tree Seed: Experience Fruit]

[Attribute: None]

[Description: A tree seed that produces Experience Fruits of different qualities once matured.]

[Status: Cannot be planted]

This was a different type of cultivable resource from the Dark Crystal Grass seeds. It seemed to be able to grow a fruit tree that would periodically produce various Experience Fruits.

Like before, the status was “Cannot be planted,” implying that it could only be used after unlocking something like a Farm Field facility.

Mu Huiyue set the tree seed aside and looked at the final and most important harvest.

To her delight, there were actually two rainbow-colored SSR-tier small boxes.

Mu Huiyue froze for a moment. Not only had her first ten-pull yielded results, but it had even included two SSRs—an incredibly lucky double yellow!

“Click-clack, click-clack.” (See, Huiyue really does have a lucky bonus.)

Ellen made a gentle clicking sound.

He and the Beast Master opened the precious rainbow-colored small boxes together.

The first SSR-tier item was Holy Spirit Crystal, something Mu Huiyue was already very familiar with.

It was an important item used to unlock or upgrade facilities within the ranch system.

The second SSR-tier item was a glowing high-level skill book.

[A-tier Skill Book: Harvest]

[Attribute: Wood]

[Description: A Wood-type enhancement skill. After learning it, you can significantly increase your own latent energy and mental energy, and it can also affect the energy prosperity of living beings other than yourself.]

[Status: Cannot be taught]

An A-tier skill book!

A-tier skills are on par with the combat power of imperial races. This is the highest-grade skill book ever pulled from the card pool so far.

Mu Huiyue carefully studied the skill description and realized that this was a high-level skill she was already familiar with.

One of the guardian deities of Dayan, a mythical race with dual Wood and Earth attributes—the Ultimate Form Withered Glory Spirit Deer—possesses a famous Wood-type SSS-level domain skill: Wide-area Prosperity.

This skill can apply a Blessing of Harvest to an entire region, making it protected by the Withered Glory Spirit Deer and creating an environment conducive to the growth of specific plants, resulting in smooth weather and a bountiful harvest.

Everything within the domain is subtly influenced by the Blessing of Harvest, including the climate, environment, soil, water sources, species, and even the mental state of the residents…

And all the energy and emotional prosperity brought by the harvest will, in turn, nourish the Withered Glory Spirit Deer, making it one of the most powerful guardian deities of Dayan, even surpassing the Sun God Phoenix in latent energy.

The A-tier Wood-type enhancement skill Harvest is the precursor to the ultra-SSS-level skill Wide-area Prosperity.

Although only the mythical race Withered Glory Spirit Deer, which possesses both Wood and Earth attributes, currently masters Wide-area Prosperity, several high-tier imperial races related to it have mastered the Harvest skill.

In terms of skill effects, Harvest is roughly equivalent to a smaller-scale Wide-area Prosperity. While it can’t protect an entire region, it can certainly affect a specific area of land.

Looking at the skill book in her hand, Mu Huiyue suddenly had an idea. She wondered if Harvest could accelerate the growth of the crops in the Beast Master Space.

She already had Holy Spirit Crystals, which were required to unlock facilities, as well as several Crystal Seedlings and the recently drawn Experience Fruit Tree Seed.

All she needed now was a contracted beast that could master Harvest, and she could test it right away.

Unfortunately, the skill book indicated that Harvest couldn’t be taught. Neither Ellen nor Baiya had any Wood-type abilities, and their growth stages weren’t high enough yet.

The B-tier skill book Moonlight still couldn’t be taught, so Mu Huiyue speculated that to learn an A-tier skill, she would need to at least reach the maturity stage or meet some other specific conditions.

Before that, she needed to become a level 5 Beast Master, which would allow her contracted beasts the possibility of advancing to maturity.

After considering it carefully for a moment, Mu Huiyue decided to use this Holy Spirit Crystal to unlock the Farm Field facility.

The Beast Master Space had accumulated quite a few seed resources, and it was time to put them to use.

Moreover, she was very interested in the Experience Fruit Tree Seed.

If she could grow fruit trees that bore fruit regularly, she could obtain a large amount of experience fruit without needing to draw cards, allowing her to quickly level up her contracted beasts.

If the trees could even produce enhanced experience fruit, it would also increase their skill potential, significantly improving the chances of evolution.

This was her first time pulling SSR items in a double-yellow lucky draw, and coincidentally, she had received both the Harvest skill book and the Holy Spirit Crystal, which was required to unlock a facility.

It was as if her lucky buff had guided her toward this outcome.

After making the decision, Mu Huiyue opened the Spirit Ranch Story system panel.

[Farm Field]

[Lv. 1]

[A farming facility that can plant various types of plants, improving the yield and quality of harvests.]

[Confirm to unlock the Farm Field?]

[Yes/No]

Mu Huiyue consumed one Holy Spirit Crystal and unlocked the new Farm Field facility.

A beam of light fell from the sky, and on the other side of the World Tree’s central area, a large, organized area of cultivated land appeared.

The entire area was filled with loose, nutrient-rich black soil, bordered by small bamboo fences. The size appeared to be at least a thousand square meters, equivalent to two acres of land.

Mu Huiyue was a bit surprised. She hadn’t expected the Lv. 1 farm field to be this large, even surpassing the size of the standard Training Ground.

“Woof woo~!”

Baiya was very excited about the newly appeared, wide open area, happily running toward the farm field.

Just as the white-haired puppy was about to jump over the bamboo fence, the skeleton’s long finger bones grabbed it by the back of its neck, pulling Baiya back.

“Click click.”

Ellen shook his head seriously. He couldn’t allow the puppy to leave four muddy paw prints and mess up the room he had just cleaned after they returned to reality.

“Woof woo…” Baiya’s ears and tail drooped in disappointment.

Mu Huiyue smiled and patted her knees, signaling the puppy to come to her side.

She carefully checked the farm field’s instructions, then planted the seeds she had previously accumulated—Dark Crystal Grass, Ice Crystal Grass, Fire Crystal Grass, and the Experience Fruit Tree Seed—into the soil.

Fortunately, the system’s [Farm Field] facility doesn’t require actual farming. In the operation panel, you can just click on the target seeds to plant them.

The crystal grass seeds quickly covered a small portion of the farm field, looking quite impressive, while the Experience Fruit Tree seed transformed into a small sapling in the adjacent area.

A countdown displayed above the farm field showed the time until the crops would mature.

The countdown for the crystal grass seeds was 2160:00:00, which, when converted to 24-hour days, was about three months.

The countdown above the sapling was 43800:00:00.

Mu Huiyue stared at the exaggerated five-digit number, and after conversion, the tree seed would take five years to mature.

Five years…?!

Although, in terms of real-world tree species, five years from seedling to maturity isn’t particularly long, this was her Beast Taming Space.

In five years, just with the resources accumulated from card draws, she might even become a legendary Beast Tamer. Her pets would at least start at full maturity—no need for regular Experience Fruits.

But judging by the countdown format and the description of the [Farm Field] facility, the growth time should be something that can be accelerated with external forces.

For example, upgrading the [Farm Field] facility with Holy Spirit Crystals.

And then there was the [Harvest] skill she just drew…

Mu Huiyue was thinking to herself, after reaching level 4 Beast Tamer, maybe she should consider contracting a wood-type pet as her third partner?