“Got it!”
Holding a Sky Vanilla in his hand, Ling Xiao felt a surge of excitement.The price of this herb was not cheap. On the market, a single one could cost 10 taels of silvers.
He needed 20 Sky Vanillas to refine a vein-guarding pill!
Fortunately, there were a lot of Sky Vanillas nearby, so he didn’t waste any time. He harvested several mature Sky Vanillas before descending from the cliff.
Then, he entered his Landscape Painting.
He hadn’t forgotten his original purpose.
Herbs like Sky Vanillas would only have maximum efficacy when used within two hours of their harvesting.
Although they would maintain some effects, their efficacy would be much worse.
If they could truly be planted in the Landscape Painting, he could avoid this.
“Welcome to the Landscape Painting again, Master Landscape. This is the world of the Landscape Martial Soul where the landscape residents reside. These residents have all kinds of skills. Some are good at planting, some are good at raising animals, some are good at concocting pills…”
After entering the small village of the Landscape Painting, Ling Xiao suddenly heard a voice.
However, he couldn’t see anyone talking to him.
“In short, it is only that you cannot think of things; there are no impossible things! Along with the continuous upgrade of the Landscape Painting, you will receive ever great help. At present, Landscape Painting is at level-two, so you can only recruit level-two farmers and level-two herdsmen!”
“In addition, after the Landscape Painting rises to level-two, a store will appear. Master Landscape can purchase items there including weapons, pills, treasures, tools, and so on.”
“All goods are divided into five grades—Common, Excellent, Rare, Immortal and Divine. Each successive grade has better effects!”
“At present, Landscape Painting is level-two, so the store is open. When opening the store for the first time, you will receive a chance to draw a lot!”
“With an increase in a martial artist’s rank, the Landscape Martial Soul will grow stronger, and the level of the Landscape Painting will also rise! Under normal circumstances, they correspond to each other! For instance, when Master Landscape’s cultivation reached Rank Two Martial Vein, the Landscape Painting upgraded to level-two!”
“The higher the level of the Landscape Painting, the better and more various the items that can be purchased. In addition, the landscape residents available for recruitment will also be more powerful! In the end, you will even have the chance to recruit apex existences of all trades and professions. For example, Martial Gods, Medicine Gods, Craftsman Gods, and so on!”
Ling Xiao was stupefied by this series of prompts. Only after a long time did he return to his senses and hastily open the Landscape Painting Store.
There were only 12 items, but they refreshed every four hours.
At the moment, the items were mainly farm tools.
For instance, there was a common grade hoe—increase weeding efficiency by 10%; increase working life by 10%!
Another example was excellent grade sickle—double the harvesting efficiency; double the working life; reduce the effort by half!
They could all be used inside the Landscape Painting. By giving them to the farmers here, he could get twice the results with half the effort.
However, this matter was not yet over.
“Master Landscape, when using the recruitment function for the first time, you can recruit level-two farmers and level-two herdsmen. You can also purchase some common grade items!”
“Your first-time recruitment will not cost anything, but you can only recruit two people. Please choose!”
Ling Xiao saw two decorated cards appear above the Landscape Painting on which a farmer and a herdsman were drawn in a landscape painting style.
Above them, the special effects brought by a level-two farmer and a level-two herdsman were displayed.
Level-two farmer—increase agricultural products’ efficiency by 10%; increase the quality of agricultural products by 10%.
Level-two herdsman—increase animal husbandry products’ efficiency by 10%; increase the quality of animal husbandry products by 10%.
In other words, if the herbs were grown in the Landscape Painting, not only would their output be increased, but also their quality.
Animal breeding had the same benefits.
Ling Xiao excitedly chose one of each card.
He planned to plant some herbs while breeding some animals. He would slowly familiarize himself with these functions. If they were truly easy to use, he could increase his investment in them later.
“We pay our respects to Master Landscape. Please assign us our task!”
After selecting recruitment, a burst of white smoke appeared in front of him. Soon, two people appeared. One was dressed like a farmer and looked roughly 30 years old. The other was dressed as a herdsman and similarly looked to be around 30.
However, the farmer was a human while the herdsman looked like those bull-headkin that Ling Xiao had seen before in the Landscape Painting.
Naturally, regardless of their species, Ling Xiao could understand them, but he didn’t know if the other party could understand him.
Ling Xiao instructed the bull-head herdsman to rest for the time being. In any case, he had yet to catch any young demonic beasts.
Then, he gave the Sky Vanillas that he had already gathered to that human farmer and warned, “Plant these Sky Vanillas. Remember that you must not ruin them. These herbs are very valuable.”
“Understood, Master Landscape!”
The farmer accepted his orders and went to work.
Ling Xiao was somewhat worried, so he followed the farmer to observe him in action.
After a short moment, he felt completely at ease.
A professional was truly a professional. If he had been the one to grow these Sky Vanillas, no more than half of these Sky Vanillas would have survived.
Nevertheless, in the hands of this level-two farmer, all of them survived. Moreover, they grew much faster than normal.
Now, Ling Xiao looked even more eagerly toward his future. If things continued like this, he might one day directly recruit alchemy masters in the Landscape Painting.
In that case, he would no longer need to seek other people to concoct pills or refinine medicines.
Even forging weapons, tools, and so on: everything could be accomplished in the Landscape Painting.
He wasn’t anxious to leave the Landscape Painting because he still had to carefully comprehend certain matters.
Apparently, recruiting manpower and purchasing goods needed landscape currency.
This currency could actually be exchanged with real money.
For instance, Ling Xiao had 100 taels of silvers in reality and could use them himself or exchange them for landscape currency.
According to the rates, 10 taels of silvers equaled one landscape currency, and recruiting a level-two farmer or a level-two herdsman needed 10 landscape currency or 100 taels of silver. This truly was not cheap.
However, their effects were correspondingly amazing. Ling Xiao didn’t fear suffering a loss.
Now, because of the relatively low level of the Landscape Painting, he could only recruit two types of residents, and their grades were also limited to level-two.
Once his cultivation rose, the Landscape Painting’s level would also increase, so both the types and maximum levels of his recruitable residents would increase.
At that time, the efficiency of their work would naturally be better.
Thinking this, Ling Xiao became more motivated. Now, he had another reason to improve his strength.
“Oh, that’s right! I almost forgot that I can draw a lot when opening the store for the first time. Let’s see what good things I can draw. If I can draw some pills, that would be truly wonderful. At this moment, I need them the most!”
The method of drawing lots was just a simple spinning disk. On the disk were all kinds of items, including farm tools, craft tools, weapons, merit laws, pills, and so on.
There were even several mysterious consumable rewards.
